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DRAFT 11/6/95
ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
AND
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of November __, 1995
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$200,000,000
(With an Over-Allotment option for an
Additional $30,000,000)
__% Convertible Subordinated Notes due December 1, 2000
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Analog Devices, Inc.
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Indenture,
dated as of November __, 1995
Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section
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310(a)(1) ............................ 6.9
(a)(2) ............................ 6.9
(a)(3) ............................ Not Applicable
(a)(4) ............................ Not Applicable
(b) ............................ 6.8
6.1
311(a) ............................ 6.13
(b) ............................ 6.13
312(a) ............................ 7.1
7.2(a)
(b) ............................ 7.2(b)
(c) ............................ 7.2(c)
313(a) ............................ 7.3(a)
(b) ............................ 7.3(a)
(c) ............................ 7.3(a)
(d) ............................ 7.3(b)
314(a) ............................ 7.4
(b) ............................ Not Applicable
(c)(1) ............................ 1.2
(c)(2) ............................ 1.2
(c)(3) ............................ Not Applicable
(d) ............................ Not Applicable
(e) ............................ 1.2
315(a) ............................ 6.1(a)
(b) ............................ 6.2
7.3(a)(6)
(c) ............................ 6.1(b)
(d) ............................ 6.1(c)
(d)(1) ............................ 6.1(a)(1)
(d)(2) ............................ 6.1(c)(2)
(d)(3) ............................ 6.1(c)(3)
(e) ............................ 5.14
316(a)(1)(A) ............................ 5.12
(a)(1)(B) ............................ 5.13
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(a)(2) ............................ Not Applicable
(b) ............................ 5.8
317(a)(1) ............................ 5.3
(a)(2) ............................ 5.4
(b) ............................ 10.3
318(a) ............................ 1.7
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
be a part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS*
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Parties.................................................... 1
Recitals of the Company.................................... 1
ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION................. 1
Section 1.1 Definitions............................ 1
Act.............................................. 2
Affiliate........................................ 2
Authenticating Agent............................. 2
Board of Directors............................... 2
Board Resolution................................. 2
Business Day..................................... 2
Closing Price.................................... 3
Commission....................................... 3
Common Stock..................................... 3
Company.......................................... 4
Company Request or Company Order................. 4
Corporate Trust Office........................... 4
Corporation...................................... 4
Defaulted Interest............................... 4
Event of Default................................. 4
Holder........................................... 4
Indenture........................................ 4
Interest Payment Date............................ 4
Maturity......................................... 4
Officers' Certificate............................ 4
Opinion of Counsel............................... 5
Outstanding...................................... 5
Paying Agent..................................... 6
Person........................................... 6
Predecessor Security............................. 6
Redemption Date.................................. 6
Redemption Price................................. 6
Regular Record Date.............................. 6
Responsible Officer.............................. 6
Security Register and Security Registrar......... 6
Senior Indebtedness.............................. 6
Special Record Date.............................. 7
Stated Maturity.................................. 7
Subsidiary....................................... 7
Trading Day...................................... 7
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* Note: This table of contents shall not, for any
purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
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Trustee.......................................... 7
Trust Indenture Act.............................. 7
Vice President................................... 7
Section 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions... 7
Section 1.3 Form of Documents Delivered to
Trustee................................ 8
Section 1.4 Acts of Holders........................ 9
Section 1.5 Notices, Etc., to Trustee and
Company................................ 11
Section 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver.............. 11
Section 1.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act...... 12
Section 1.8 Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents............................... 12
Section 1.9 Successors and Assigns................. 12
Section 1.10 Separability Clause.................... 12
Section 1.11 Benefits of Indenture.................. 12
Section 1.12 Governing Law.......................... 12
Section 1.13 Legal Holidays......................... 12
ARTICLE 2 SECURITY FORMS.............................. 13
Section 2.1 Forms Generally........................ 13
Section 2.2 Form of Face of Security............... 13
Section 2.3 Form of Reverse of Security............ 15
Section 2.4 Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication......................... 19
Section 2.5 Form of Conversion Notice.............. 19
ARTICLE 3 THE SECURITIES.............................. 21
Section 3.1 Title and Terms........................ 21
Section 3.2 Denominations.......................... 22
Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery
and Dating............................. 22
Section 3.4 Temporary Securities................... 22
Section 3.5 Registration; Registration of
Transfer and Exchange.................. 23
Section 3.6 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities...................... 24
Section 3.7 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved.............................. 25
Section 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners.................. 27
Section 3.9 Cancellation........................... 27
Section 3.10 Computation of Interest................ 27
ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE.................. 27
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture.............................. 27
Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money............. 29
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ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES.................................... 29
Section 5.1 Events of Default...................... 29
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission
and Annulment.......................... 31
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustee............. 32
Section 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim....... 33
Section 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims
Without Possession of Securities....... 34
Section 5.6 Application of Money Collected......... 34
Section 5.7 Limitation on Suits.................... 34
Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest and to Convert................ 35
Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies..... 35
Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative......... 36
Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver........... 36
Section 5.12 Control by Holders..................... 36
Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults................ 37
Section 5.14 Undertaking for Costs.................. 37
Section 5.15 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws....... 38
ARTICLE 6 THE TRUSTEE................................. 38
Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.... 38
Section 6.2 Notice of Defaults..................... 39
Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee.............. 40
Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals
or Issuance of Securities.............. 41
Section 6.5 May Hold Securities.................... 41
Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust.................... 41
Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement......... 42
Section 6.8 Disqualification; Conflicting
Interests.............................. 42
Section 6.9 Corporate Trustee Required;
Eligibility............................ 42
Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor........................... 43
Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor.............................. 44
Section 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business................. 45
Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company........................ 45
Section 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.... 45
ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE
AND COMPANY................................. 47
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Section 7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders................... 47
Section 7.2 Preservation of Information;
Communications to Holders.............. 48
Section 7.3 Reports by Trustee..................... 48
Section 7.4 Reports by Company..................... 48
ARTICLE 8 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE........................... 49
Section 8.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms....................... 49
Section 8.2 Successor Substituted.................. 50
ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..................... 50
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Holders..................... 50
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent
of Holders............................. 51
Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures... 52
Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures...... 52
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.... 52
Section 9.6 Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures................ 52
ARTICLE 10 COVENANTS................................... 53
Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium and
Interest............................... 53
Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency........ 53
Section 10.3 Money for Security Payments to be
Held in Trust.......................... 53
Section 10.4 Existence.............................. 55
Section 10.5 Maintenance of Properties.............. 55
Section 10.6 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims...... 56
Section 10.7 Statement by Officers as to Default.... 56
Section 10.8 Waiver of Certain Covenants............ 56
ARTICLE 11 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.................... 57
Section 11.1 Right of Redemption.................... 57
Section 11.2 Applicability of Article............... 57
Section 11.3 Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee................................ 57
Section 11.4 Selection by Trustee of Securities to
Be Redeemed............................ 57
Section 11.5 Notice of Redemption................... 58
Section 11.6 Deposit of Redemption Price............ 59
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Section 11.7 Securities Payable on Redemption
Date................................... 59
Section 11.8 Securities Redeemed in Part............ 59
ARTICLE 12 CONVERSION OF SECURITIES.................... 60
Section 12.1 Conversion Privilege and Conversion
Price.................................. 60
Section 12.2 Exercise of Conversion Privilege....... 60
Section 12.3 Fractions of Shares.................... 62
Section 12.4 Adjustment of Conversion Price......... 62
Section 12.5 Notice of Adjustments of Conversion
Price.................................. 67
Section 12.6 Notice of Certain Corporate Action..... 67
Section 12.7 Company to Reserve Common Stock........ 68
Section 12.8 Taxes on Conversions................... 69
Section 12.9 Covenant as to Common Stock............ 69
Section 12.10 Cancellation of Converted Securities... 69
Section 12.11 Provisions in Case of
Consolidation, Merger or Sale of
Assets................................. 69
ARTICLE 13 SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES................. 70
Section 13.1 Securities Subordinated to Senior
Indebtedness........................... 70
Section 13.2 No Payments in Certain
Circumstances; Payment Over of
Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc......... 71
Section 13.3 Notice to Trustee of Specified
Events; Reliance on Certificate of
Liquidating Agent...................... 73
Section 13.4 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.... 74
Section 13.5 Trustee Not Charged with Knowledge
of Prohibition......................... 74
Section 13.6 Rights of Trustee as Holder of
Senior Indebtedness.................... 75
Section 13.7 Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders
of Senior Indebtedness................. 75
Section 13.8 Article Applicable to Paying Agent..... 75
ARTICLE 14 REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT THE OPTION
OF THE HOLDER UPON A CHANGE IN CONTROL...... 76
Section 14.1 Right to Require Repurchase............ 76
Section 14.2 Notices; Method of Exercising
Repurchase Right, Etc.................. 76
Section 14.3 Certain Definitions.................... 78
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TESTIMONIUM................................................ 81
SIGNATURES AND SEALS....................................... 81
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................ 82
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INDENTURE, dated as of November __, 1995, between Analog Devices, Inc.,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, and State Street Bank and Trust
Company, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its __%
Convertible Subordinated Notes due December 1, 2000 (herein called the
"Securities") of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and
to provide therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery
of this Indenture.
All things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the
Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms, have
been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
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(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and, 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 at the date of this instrument; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Articles Six, Twelve and Fourteen,
are defined in that Article.
"ACT", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.4.
"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
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"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 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in the City of New York
or the city in which the
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Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located are authorized or
obligated by law or executive order to close.
"CLOSING PRICE" for any security for any day means the last reported
sale price of such security regular way on such day or, in case no such
reported sale takes place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid
and asked prices regular way on such day, in either case on the New York Stock
Exchange or, if the security is not listed or admitted to trading on such
exchange, on the principal national securities exchange on which the security
is listed or admitted to trading or, if not listed or admitted to trading on
any national securities exchange, on the Nasdaq National Market or Nasdaq or,
if the security is not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities
exchange or quoted on such National Market or Nasdaq, the average of the
closing bid and asked prices in the over-the-counter market as furnished by any
New York Stock Exchange member firm selected from time to time by the Company
for that purpose. If the security is not listed or admitted to trading on any
national securities exchange, quoted on such National Market or Nasdaq or
listed in any list of bid and asked prices in the over-the-counter market,
"Closing Price" shall mean the fair market value of the security as determined
in good faith by the Board of Directors and evidenced by a Board Resolution.
"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 duties at such time.
"COMMON STOCK" includes any stock of any class of the Company which has
no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company
and which is not subject to redemption by the Company. However, subject to the
provisions of Section 12.11, shares issuable on conversion of Securities and
shares used to pay the Repurchase Price pursuant to Section 14.1 shall include
only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of the Company at the date
of this instrument or shares of any class or classes resulting from any
reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in
respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and which are
not subject to redemption by the Company; provided that if at any time there
shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then
so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of
shares of such class resulting from all such
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reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes
resulting from all such reclassifications.
"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"COMPANY REQUEST" or "COMPANY ORDER" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President
or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the principal office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered. Initially, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located
at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attn: Corporate Trust
Department.
"CORPORATION" means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock
company or business trust.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"HOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means the Stated Maturity of an installment of
interest on the Securities.
"MATURITY", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption, obligation to repurchase or otherwise.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, the President or a Vice President, and
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by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"OUTSTANDING", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
Paying Agent) 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) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6
or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a
bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only securities which the Trustee knows
to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes
to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect
to such securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
The Trustee may require, and
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may conclusively rely upon, an Officers' Certificate as to whether or not
any Securities are so owned.
"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, joint venture,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITY" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"REDEMPTION DATE", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REDEMPTION PRICE", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date means the May 15 or November 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the
case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER", when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer assigned to and working in the corporate trust department of the
Trustee, 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 or her knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"SECURITY REGISTER" and "SECURITY REGISTRAR" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.1.
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"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.
"STATED MATURITY", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
interest is due and payable.
"SUBSIDIARY" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding
voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by
one or more other subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other
subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock
which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by
reason of any contingency.
"TRADING DAY" means, with respect to any security, each Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, other than any day on which securities
are not traded on the exchange or market on which such security is traded.
"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 such successor Trustee.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force
at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as provided in
Section 9.5.
"VICE PRESIDENT", when used with respect to 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".
Section 1.2 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, 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
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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 shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express
an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3 FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company 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 stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company,
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unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 1.4 ACTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the
Company
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in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
(e) Except for matters arising under Article V (in which event any
record date shall be set by the Trustee), the Company may set any day as a
record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities
entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture
to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities. If any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record
date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action,
whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that
no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the
applicable Expiration Date (as defined below) by Holders of the requisite
principal amounts of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in
this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities on the date such action is taken. Promptly after receiving written
notice of a record date set by the Company pursuant to this paragraph, the
Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the
proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the
Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 1.4(e), the
party hereto which sets such record date may designate any day as the
"Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any
earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless
notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in
writing, and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section
1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not
designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 1.4(e),
the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
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Section 1.5 NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with
the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: 1995 Analog Devices, Inc.
Indenture, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it
at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this
instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.6 NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at 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 Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive
such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the
Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason
of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then
such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
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Section 1.7 CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
Section 1.8 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 effect the construction hereof.
Section 1.9 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.10 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.11 BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of Securities, any
benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.12 GOVERNING LAW.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Section 1.13 LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any security or the last date on which a Holder has the right to
convert his Securities shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or
principal (and premium, if any) or conversion of the Securities need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business
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Day with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or
Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, or on such last day for
conversion, provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and
after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the
case may be.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1 FORMS GENERALLY.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificates of authentication shall
be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
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 permitted by the rules of any Securities
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
Section 2.2 FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY.
Analog Devices, Inc.
__% Convertible Subordinated Note
due December 1, 2000
No. $
Analog Devices, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of Massachusetts (herein called the "Company", which term includes any
successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value
received hereby promises to pay to _____________, or registered assigns, the
principal sum of _______________ Dollars on December 1, 2000, and to pay
interest thereon from November __, 1995 or from the most recent Interest
Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually
on June 1_ and December 1_ in each
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year, commencing June 1, 1996, at the rate of __% per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so
payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
will be as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the
May 15 or November 15_ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be,
next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually
paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on
such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name
this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders
of Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture. Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for that purpose in The Borough of Manhattan, the City of
New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is
located, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts;
provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be
made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this
Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid
or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
Attest:__________________ By:________________________
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Section 2.3 FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company designated as its __% Convertible Subordinated Notes due December 1,
2000 (herein called the "Securities"), limited in aggregate principal amount to
$200,000,000 (except for such additional principal amounts, not to exceed
$30,000,000, of Securities issued to cover over-allotments in the initial
public offering of the Securities) issued and to be issued under an Indenture,
dated as of November __, 1995 (herein called the "Indenture"), between the
Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby
made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties
and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, the holders of Senior
Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the
Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Indenture,
the Holder of this Security is entitled, at his option, at any time after 60
days from the latest date of original issuance of the Securities and on or
before the close of business on December 1, 2000, or in case this Security or a
portion hereof is called for redemption, then in respect of this Security or
such portion hereof until and including, but (unless the Company defaults in
making the payment due upon redemption) not after, the close of business on the
fifth Business Day prior to the Redemption Date, to convert this Security (or
any portion of the principal amount hereof which is $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof), at the principal amount hereof, or of such portion, into
fully paid and non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the
nearest 1/100 of a share) of Common Stock of the Company at a conversion price
equal to $_____ for each share of Common Stock (or at the current adjusted
conversion price if an adjustment has been made as provided in the Indenture)
by surrender of this Security, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in
blank, to the Company at its office or agency in The Borough of Manhattan, the
City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee
is located, accompanied by written notice to the Company that the Holder hereof
elects to convert this Security, or if less than the entire principal amount
hereof is to be converted, the portion hereof to be converted, and, in case
such surrender shall be made during the period from the close of business on
any Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening
of business on such Interest Payment Date (the "Interest Period"), also
accompanied by
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payment in New York Clearing House Funds or other funds acceptable to the
Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment
Date on the principal amount of this Security then being converted; except
that in the case of Securities or portions thereof that have been called for
redemption and, pursuant to Section 12.1 of the Indenture, as a result of such
redemption the right to convert such Securities terminates during the Interest
Period, any such Securities surrendered for conversion during such Interest
Period need not be accompanied by payment in an amount equal to such interest.
Subject to the aforesaid requirement for payment and, in the case of a
conversion after the Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment
Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, to the right of the Holder of
Record of this Security (or any Predecessor Security) at such Regular Record
Date to receive an installment of interest (with certain exceptions provided in
the Indenture), no payment or adjustment is to be made on conversion for
interest accrued hereon or for dividends on the Common Stock issued on
conversion. No fractions of shares or scrip representing fractions of shares
will be issued on conversion, but instead of any fractional interest the
Company shall pay a cash adjustment as provided in the Indenture. The
conversion price is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In
addition, the Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or
mergers to which the Company is a party or the transfer of substantially all of
the assets of the Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent
of any Holders of Securities, so that this Security, if then outstanding, will
be convertible thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible
as specified above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other
property receivable upon the consolidation, merger or transfer by a holder of
the number of shares of Common stock into which this Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or transfer (assuming
such holder of Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election and
received per share the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of
non-electing shares).
The Securities are subject to redemption upon not less than 20 days'
nor more than 60 days' notice by mail, at any time on or after December 1,
1998, as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company. The Redemption
Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) beginning December 1
of the years indicated are as follows:
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Redemption
Year Price
1998 %
1999 %
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior
to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or
one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.
Upon a Change in Control (as defined in the Indenture), the Company
will be required to offer to repurchase all or part of the Securities at 100%
of their principal amount plus accrued interest. The Company shall pay the
repurchase price in cash.
In the event of redemption or conversion of this Security in part only,
a new Security or Securities for the unredeemed or unconverted portion hereof
will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided
in the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each holder of this
Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so
provided and (c) appoints the Trustee as his attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes.
If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of
all the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the
effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities under the Indenture at
any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the
time outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding, on behalf of the
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Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of
transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not
notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed or to convert this Security as provided in the
Indenture.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located,
duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the
Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate
principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different
authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any such registration
of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for
all purposes, whether or not
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this Security is overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any
such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Section 2.4 FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
State Street Bank and Trust Company
as Trustee
By
----------------------------------
Authorized signatory
Section 2.5 FORM OF CONVERSION NOTICE.
To Analog Devices, Inc.:
The undersigned owner of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the
option to convert this Security, or portion hereof (which is $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof) below designated, into shares of Common Stock of
Analog Devices, Inc., in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to
in this Security, and directs that the certificate or certificates for the
shares issuable and deliverable upon the conversion, together with any check in
payment for fractional shares and any Securities representing any unconverted
principal amount hereof, be issued in the name of and delivered to the
undersigned, unless a different name has been indicated below. If shares are
to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the
undersigned will pay any transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Any
amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest
accompanies this Security.
Principal Amount to be converted
(in an integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all):
$_______________________
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FILL IN FOR REGISTRATION OF SHARES:
Name ____________________________________________
Address__________________________________________
please print name and address (including zip code)
Please Insert Social Security or
Other Taxpayer Identifying
Number
_________________________
_________________________
Dated: ________________ Signature __________________________________
(must conform in all
respects to name of ▇▇▇▇▇▇
appearing on face hereof)
Fill in for registration of shares of Common stock and
Securities if to be issued otherwise than to the Holder:
Social Security or Other
(Name) Taxpayer Identifying Number:
(Name)
Signature Guaranteed
By:
Member Signature Guaranty
please print name and address Medallion Program
(including zip code)
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ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1 TITLE AND TERMS.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $200,000,000 (except for such
additional principal amounts, not to exceed $30,000,000, of Securities issued
to cover over-allotments in the initial public offering of the Securities),
except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Section
3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6 or 12.2.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "__% Convertible
Subordinated Notes due December 1, 2000" of the Company. Their final Stated
Maturity shall be December 1, 2000, and they shall bear interest at the rate of
__% per annum, from November __, 1995 or from the most recent Interest Payment
Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be,
payable semi-annually on June 1 and December 1, commencing June 1, 1996 until
the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment.
The principal of (and premiums if any) and interest on the Securities
shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in The Borough of
Manhattan, the City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office
of the Trustee is located maintained for such purpose and at any other office
or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose; provided, however, that
at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to
the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the
Security Register.
The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article 11.
The Securities shall be convertible as provided in Article 12.
The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness as provided in Article 13.
The Securities shall be subject to repurchase at the option of the
Holder as provided in Article 14.
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Section 3.2 DENOMINATIONS.
The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without
coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.3 EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, under its
corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its
Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the
Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance
with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as in
this Indenture provided and not otherwise.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 3.4 TEMPORARY SECURITIES.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may
execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed
or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
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variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at any office
or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 10.2, without charge to
the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities
of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities.
Section 3.5 REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agent designated pursuant to Section 10.2 being herein sometimes
collectively 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 and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is
hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities
and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at an
office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 10.2 for such
purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other
Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same
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benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for 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.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4, 9.6, 11.8 or 12.2 not
involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange any Security during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Securities selected for redemption under Section 11.4 and ending at the close
of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or
exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except
the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
Section 3.6 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the
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Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay
such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 3.7 PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
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 Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in clause (l) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest
proposed to be paid on each Security and the date of the proposed
payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be
paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
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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 days and not
less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of
such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the
Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder 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 so mailed, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon
such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given
by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
In the case of any Security which is converted after any Regular Record
Date but on or before the next Interest Payment Date, interest whose Stated
Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest
Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion, and such interest (whether or not
punctually paid or duly provided for) 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 such Regular Record Date.
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Section 3.8 PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such
Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if
any) and (subject to Section 3.7) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 3.9 CANCELLATION.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or conversion shall, if surrendered to any Person other
than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled
by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered
shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as
provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All
cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance
with the Trustee's usual document destruction procedures.
Section 3.10 COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a year of
twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any
surviving rights of conversion, registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on demand of and at
the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
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(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed,
lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided
in Section 3.6 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has
theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one
year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption
by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense,
of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as
trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to
pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities
not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of
such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due
and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as
the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under
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Section 6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant
to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee
under Section 4.2 and the last paragraph of Section 10.3 shall survive.
Except as specifically agreed in writing, the Trustee shall not be respponsible
for the payment of interest upon money deposited with it under this Indenture.
Section 4.2 APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if
any) and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the
Trustee. All moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 (and
held by it or any Paying Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently
converted shall be returned to the Company upon Company Request.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
Section 5.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article 13 or be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security when it
becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of
30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty
of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a
default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a
period
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of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder;
or
(4) A failure by the Company or any Subsidiary to make any payment at
maturity in respect of any obligations (other than non-recourse
obligations) of, or guaranteed or assumed by, the Company or any
Subsidiary for borrowed money ("Indebtedness") in an amount in excess of
$25,000,000 and continuance of such failure for 180 days, or a default by
the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to any Indebtedness, which
default results in the acceleration or such acceleration having been
cured, waived, rescinded or annulled within 30 days after there shall have
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee
or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 10% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying
such default and requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness to be
discharged or cause such default to be cured or waived or such
acceleration to be rescinded or annulled and stating that such notice is a
"Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order
adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly
filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable Federal
or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any
substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or
order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding
under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to
be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry
of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
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involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the
commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or state law, or the
consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or
taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Company 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 in substantial furtherance of any such action.
Section 5.2 ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then and in every such
case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities may declare the principal of all the Securities to be
due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal
shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made and
before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by
the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice to
the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Securities, and
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(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
(2) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal
of Securities which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 5.3 COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if
(l) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for
a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, and, to the
extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on
any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the
rate borne by the Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as
shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute
a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, wherever
situated.
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If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 5.4 TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, 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 for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities and take such other actions, including
participating as a member, voting or otherwise, of any official
committee of creditors appointed in such matter and to file such other
papers or documents as may be necessary or 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 of the Holders 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;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that
the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the
Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7.
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Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 5.5 TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto,
and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.6 APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Subject to Article 13, any money collected by the Trustee 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 and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and
upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 6.7; and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities 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.
Section 5.7 LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Security shall have any right to institute any action,
suit or 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
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(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities 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 action,
suit or proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the
Holders.
Section 5.8 UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL,
PREMIUM AND INTEREST AND TO CONVERT.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, but subject to
the provisions of Article 13, the Holder of any Security shall have the right,
which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.7) interest on such Security on
the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to convert such Security in accordance
with Article 12 and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment
and right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent
of such Holder.
Section 5.9 RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
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proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been
determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such
case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the
Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their
former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
Section 5.10 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of
Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every 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 5.11 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 Article or by law
to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case
may be.
Section 5.12 CONTROL BY HOLDERS.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
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Section 5.13 WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities waive
any past default hereunder and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article 9 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security affected; provided however that no
such waiver shall be effected until all amounts then due to the Trustee
under Section 6.7 have been paid.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14 UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in
its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may
in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys'
fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits
and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
or to any suit instituted by any Holder 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, on or after the Redemption Date) or for the enforcement of the
right to convert any Security in accordance with Article 12.
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Section 5.15 WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions
which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished
to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same
to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture, but need not verify the accuracy of the contents thereof.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his
own affairs.
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(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 wilful 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 relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture; and
(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.
(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 6.2 NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, 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, 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 or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such
notice is in the interest of the Holders; and provided, further, that in the
case of any default of the character specified in Section 5.1(3), no such
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notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence
thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any
event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event
of Default.
Section 6.3 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel 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 Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(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, note, other evidence of indebtedness
or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may
make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
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matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make
such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to
examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or
by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain
from taking any actions enumerated in this Indenture shall not be
construed as a duty and the Trustee shall not be answerable in such
actions other than for its own negligence or bad faith; and
(i) the Trustee shall not be deemed to know of any fact or
event upon the occurence of which it may be required to take action
hereunder unless one of its Responsible Officers shall have actual
knowledge thereof.
Section 6.4 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the
use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.5 MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to
Sections 6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights
it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.6 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
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received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company in
writing.
Section 6.7 COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (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,
expenses and reasonable attorneys' fees of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder.
Section 6.8 DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest,
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, it shall, within 90 days after
ascertaining that it has such conflicting interest, either eliminate such
conflicting interest or resign in accordance with the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section, the Trustee shall, within 10 days
after the expiration of such 90-day period, transmit by mail to all Holders, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such
failure.
Section 6.9 CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall 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 exercise corporate trust
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powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia
authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 6.10 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee
shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of
such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the
Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8(a) after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation
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then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and
all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the
Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.
If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the
successor Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the
Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee by mailing written
notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders 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 Corporate
Trust Office.
Section 6.11 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or
the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its
charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall
duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of
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any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments
for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
Section 6.12 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all 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 6.13 PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
If the Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor, directly or
indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities, the Trustee shall be subject to and comply with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company
or such other obligor.
Section 6.14 APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents which shall
be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities issued
upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer, partial
conversion or partial redemption or pursuant to Section 3.6, 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
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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 subject to acceptance
by 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 Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time
an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to 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 Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be subject to acceptance by the Company and shall mail
written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all
Holders 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.
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The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent 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 6.7.
If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities 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 described in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
State Street Bank and Trust Company
As Trustee
By
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As Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Officer
ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.1 COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular
Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular
Record Date, and9
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
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Section 7.2 PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of the Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 7.3 REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
(a) On or about each July 15, the Trustee shall transmit to the
Holders such reports, if any, dated as of May 15, concerning the Trustee and
its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 7.4 REPORTS BY COMPANY.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and
transmit to the Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and
such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act
at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act;
provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so
required to be filed with the Commission.
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ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.1 COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to
consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into
another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which
acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases the properties and
assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a
corporation, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly
existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee,
in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the
Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on
the part of the Company to be performed or observed and shall have
provided for conversion rights in accordance with Article 12 hereof;
(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) the Company has delivered (except in the case of the
conveyance, transfer or lease by any Person of its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to the Company) to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction,
such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
have been complied with.
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Section 8.2 SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company
into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties
and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with
Section 8.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made
shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except
in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Company; or
(3) to secure the Securities; or
(4) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of
Holders pursuant to the requirements of Article 12; or
(5) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, provided such action pursuant
to this clause (5) shall not adversely affect the interests of the
Holders.
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Section 9.2 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders
delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable
upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount payable upon an
optional redemption or the consideration payable to any Holder
converting after a notice of redemption has been given or modify the
provisions of Article 14 in a manner adverse to the Holders, or change
the place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any
Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on
or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date), or adversely affect the right to convert
any Security as provided in Article 12 (except as permitted by Section
9.1(4)), or modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the
subordination of the Securities in a manner adverse to the Holders, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for
any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
provided for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13
or Section 10.8, 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.
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It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it
shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.3 EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture
is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which, in the
Trustee's sole discretion, affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.4 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every
Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.5 CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.6 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 Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities.
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ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
Section 10.1 PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the
Securities and this Indenture.
Section 10.2 MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company will maintain in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York or in the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is
located, an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered
for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer
or exchange, where Securities may be surrendered for conversion 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 written notice to
the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the
Trustee and BancBoston Trust Company as its agents to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies (in or outside The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York) where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided,
however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in The Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York or in the city in which the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee is located for such purposes. The Company will give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and
of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Section 10.3 MONEY FOR SECURITY PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it will,
on or before each due date of the principal of (and
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premium, if any) or interest on any of the securities, 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 so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will,
prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the
principal (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,
premium 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 to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of
principal (and premium, if any) or interest; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held
in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the
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principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest
has become due and payable shall, subject to applicable escheat and abandoned
property law, be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by
the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such
Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in the city
in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located, notice that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall
not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
Section 10.4 EXISTENCE.
Subject to Article 8, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence,
rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the
Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer
desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 10.5 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES.
The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in
good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary
equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals,
replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of
the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection
therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided,
however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from
discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such
discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of
its business or the business of any subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any
material respect to the Holders.
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Section 10.6 PAYMENT OF TAXES AND OTHER CLAIMS.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and
governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or
upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2)
all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by
law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to
be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount,
applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings.
Section 10.7 STATEMENT BY OFFICERS AS TO DEFAULT.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers
thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of
the terms, provisions and conditions of Sections 10.1 to 10.8, inclusive, and
if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature
and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
Section 10.8 WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant or condition set forth in Sections 10.1 to 10.6, inclusive, if before
the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities shall, by Act of such Holders, either
waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such
covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such
waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of
the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full
force and effect.
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ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.1 RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
The Securities may be redeemed otherwise than at the option of the
Holder as provided in Article 14 at the election of the Company, as a whole or
from time to time in part, at any time on or after December 1, 1998, at the
Redemption Prices specified in the form of Security hereinbefore set forth,
together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date.
Section 11.2 APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company or otherwise,
as permitted or required by any provision of this Indenture, shall be made in
accordance with such provision and this Article.
Section 11.3 ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities pursuant to
Section 11.1 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any
redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities, 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
to be redeemed.
Section 11.4 SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 30 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities not previously
called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions
(equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of
Securities of a denomination larger than $1,000.
If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part
before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the
Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed
(so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which
have been converted
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during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the
Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and each Security
Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case
of any Securities 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 Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 11.5 NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 20 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his latest 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 the Outstanding Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption,
the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and that
interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the conversion price, the date on which the right to
convert the principal of the Securities to be redeemed will terminate
and the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for
conversion, and
(6) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price.
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.
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Section 11.6 DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
Not less than one Business Day prior to any Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date
other than any Securities called for redemption on that date which have been
converted prior to the date of such deposit.
If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited
with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust
for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to any right of the Holder
of such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in
the last paragraph of Section 3.7) be paid to the Company upon Company Request
or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
Section 11.7 SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security
shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of
interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the
Security.
Section 11.8 SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered
at an office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose pursuant to
Section 10.2 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement
by, or a written instrument
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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 any authorized denomination as requested by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇, in aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE 12
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
Section 12.1 CONVERSION PRIVILEGE AND CONVERSION PRICE.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article, at
the option of the Holder thereof, at any time after 60 days from the latest
date of original issuance of the Notes, any Security or any portion of the
principal amount thereof which is $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 may
be converted at the principal amount thereof, or of such portion thereof, into
fully paid and nonassessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the
nearest 1/100 of a share) of Common Stock of the Company, at the conversion
price, determined as hereinafter provided, in effect at the time of conversion.
Such conversion right shall expire at the close of business on December 1,
2000. In case a Security or portion thereof is called for redemption or is
delivered for repurchase, such conversion right in respect of the Security or
portion so called shall expire at the close of business on the fifth Business
Day prior to the Redemption Date, or the second Trading Day preceding the
Repurchase Date (as defined in Article 14), as the case may be, unless the
Company defaults in making the payment due upon redemption.
The price at which shares of Common Stock shall be delivered upon
conversion (herein called the "conversion price") shall be initially $_____ per
share of Common Stock. The conversion price shall be adjusted in certain
instances as provided in Section 12.4.
Section 12.2 EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of any
Security to be converted shall surrender such Security, duly endorsed or
assigned to the Company or in blank, at any office or agency of the Company
maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 10.2, accompanied by written
notice to the Company at such office or agency that the Holder elects to
convert such Security
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or, if less than the entire principal amount thereof is to be converted, the
portion thereof to be converted. In the case of any Security that has been
converted during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record
Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on
such Interest Payment Date, interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest
Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding
such conversion and such interest shall be paid to the Holder of such Security
on such Regular Record Date. Securities surrendered for conversion during the
period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding any
Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date
(the "Interest Period") shall be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to
the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of
Securities being surrendered for conversion; except that in the case of
Securities or portions thereof that have been called for redemption and,
pursuant to Section 12.1 hereof, as a result of such redemption, the right to
convert such Securities terminates during the Interest Period, any such
Securities surrendered for conversion during such Interest Period need not be
accompanied by payment of an amount equal to such interest. Except as provided
in the second preceding sentence and subject to the fourth paragraph of Section
3.7, no payment or adjustment shall be made upon any conversion on account of
any interest accrued on the Securities surrendered for conversion or on account
of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon conversion. All payments
required by this paragraph to be made by the Holder upon the surrender of
Securities for conversion shall be made in New York Clearing House Funds or
other funds acceptable to the Company.
Securities shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to
the close of business on the day of surrender of such Securities for conversion
in accordance with the foregoing provisions, and at such time the rights of the
Holders of such Securities as Holders shall cease, and the Person or Persons
entitled to receive the Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be treated
for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such Common Stock at such
time. As promptly as practicable on or after the conversion date, the Company
shall issue and shall deliver at such office or agency a certificate or
certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as
provided in Section 12.3.
In the case of any Security which is converted in part only, upon such
conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or
Securities of authorized
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denominations in aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted
portion of the principal amount of such Security.
Section 12.3 FRACTIONS OF SHARES.
No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of
Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion at
one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable
upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof) so
surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock which would
otherwise be issuable upon conversion of any Security or Securities (or
specified portions thereof), the Company shall pay a cash adjustment in respect
of such fraction in an amount equal to the same fraction of the market price
per share of Common Stock (as determined by the Board of Directors or in any
manner prescribed by the Board of Directors) at the close of business on the
day of conversion.
Section 12.4 ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE.
(1) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on any class of capital stock of the Company in Common Stock, the
conversion price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such conversion
price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and
the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution,
such reduction to become effective immediately after the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of
this paragraph (1), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time
outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but
shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu
of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend
or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the
Company.
(2) In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to all
holders of its Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares
of Common Stock at a price per share less than the current market price per
share (determined as provided in paragraph (8) of this Section) of the Common
Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to
receive such rights or warrants, the conversion price in effect at
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the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such
determination shall be reduced by multiplying such conversion price by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate of
the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered for
subscription or purchase would purchase at such current market price and the
denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the
close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of
shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase, such reduction
to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day
following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this
paragraph (2), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding
shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include
shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of
shares of Common Stock. The Company will not issue any rights, options or
warrants in respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the
Company.
(3) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided
into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and,
conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined
into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
combination becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, such
reduction or increase, as the case may be, to become effective immediately
after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision or combination becomes effective.
(4) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to
all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness, shares of any
class of capital stock, cash or assets (including Securities, but excluding any
(i) rights, options or warrants referred to in paragraph (2) of this Section,
(ii) any dividend or distribution paid exclusively in cash, (iii) any dividend
or distribution referred to in paragraph (1) of this Section and (iv) any
merger or consolidation to which Section 12.11 applies), the conversion price
shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the close of
business on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to
receive such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the
current market price per share (determined
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as provided in paragraph (8) of this Section) of the Common Stock on the date
fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as determined by
the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described
in a Board Resolution filed with the Trustee) of the portion of the assets,
shares or evidences of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock and the denominator shall be such current market price per share
of the Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to
the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company shall distribute
rights or warrants (other than those referred to in paragraph (2) of this
Section) ("Rights") pro rata to holders of Common Stock, the Company shall make
proper provision so that each Holder of a Security who converts such Security
(or any portion thereof) after the record date for such distribution and prior
to the expiration or redemption of the Rights shall be entitled to receive upon
such conversion, in addition to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such
conversion (the "Conversion Shares"), a number of Rights to be determined as
follows: (i) if such conversion occurs on or prior to the date for the
distribution to the holders of Rights of separate certificates evidencing such
Rights (the "Distribution Date"), the same number of Rights to which a holder
of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Conversion Shares
is entitled at the time of such conversion in accordance with the terms and
provisions of and applicable to the Rights; and (ii) if such conversion occurs
after the Distribution Date, the same number of Rights to which a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock into which the principal amount of the
Security so converted was convertible immediately prior to the Distribution
Date would have been entitled on the Distribution Date in accordance with the
terms and provisions of and applicable to the Rights.
(5) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to
all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding any cash that is distributed
upon a merger or consolidation to which Section 12.11 applies or as part of a
distribution referred to in paragraph (4) of this Section) in an aggregate
amount that, combined together with (I) the aggregate amount of any other
distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in cash
within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in
respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (5) has been made and
(II) the aggregate of any cash plus the fair market value (as determined by the
Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a
Board Resolution) of consideration payable in respect of any tender offer by
the Company or any of its subsidiaries for all or any portion of the Common
Stock concluded within the 12 months
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preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in respect of which no
adjustment pursuant to paragraph (6) of this Section has been made, exceeds
12.5% of the product of the current market price per share of the Common
Stock on the date for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock
entitled to receive such distribution times the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding on such date, then, and in each such case, immediately after
the close of business on such date for determination, the conversion price
shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the close of
business on the date fixed for determination of the stockholders entitled to
receive such distribution by a fraction (i) the numerator of which shall be
equal to the current market price per share (determined as provided in
paragraph (8) of this Section) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such
determination less an amount equal to the quotient of (x) the excess of such
combined amount over such 12.5% and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on such date for determination and (ii) the denominator of which
shall be equal to the current market price per share (determined as provided in
paragraph (8) of this Section) of the Common Stock on such date for
determination.
(6) In case a tender offer made by the Company or any Subsidiary for
all or any portion of the Common Stock shall expire and such tender offer (as
amended upon the expiration thereof) shall require the payment to stockholders
(based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the
tender offer) of Purchased Shares (as defined below)) of an aggregate
consideration having a fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board
Resolution) that combined together with (I) the aggregate of the cash plus the
fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution), as of the expiration
of such tender offer, of consideration payable in respect of any other tender
offer by the Company or any Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common
Stock expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such tender
offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (6) has
been made and (II) the aggregate amount of any distributions to all holders of
the Company's Common Stock made exclusively in cash within 12 months preceding
the expiration of such tender offer and in respect of which no adjustment
pursuant to paragraph (5) of this Section has been made, exceeds 15% of the
product of the current market price per share of the Common Stock (determined
as provided in paragraph (8) of this Section) as of the last time (the
"Expiration Time") tenders could have been made pursuant to such tender offer
(as it may be amended) times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
(including any tendered shares) as of the
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Expiration Time, then, and in each such case, immediately prior to the opening
of business on the day after the date of the Expiration Time, the conversion
price shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the conversion price immediately prior to close of business on the
date of the Expiration Time by a fraction (i) the numerator of which shall be
equal to (A) the product of (I) the current market price per share of the
Common Stock (determined as provided in paragraph (8) of this Section) on the
date of the Expiration Time and (II) the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding (including any tendered shares) on the Expiration Time less (B) the
amount of cash plus the fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the
aggregate consideration payable to stockholders based on the acceptance (up to
any maximum specified in the terms of the tender offer) of Purchased Shares,
and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the product of (A) the
current market price per share of the Common Stock (determined as provided in
paragraph (8) of this Section) as of the Expiration Time and (B) the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) as of the
Expiration Time less the number of all shares validly tendered and not
withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed so accepted up to any
such maximum, being referred to as the "Purchased Shares").
(7) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including
other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a consolidation
or merger to which Section 12.11 applies) shall be deemed to involve (a) a
distribution of such Securities other than Common Stock to all holders of
Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed
to be "the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive
such distribution" and "the date fixed for such determination" within the
meaning of paragraph (4) of this Section), and (b) a subdivision or
combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective
date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be "the day upon which such
subdivision becomes effective" or "the day upon which such combination becomes
effective," as the case may be, and "the day upon which such subdivision or
combination becomes effective" within the meaning of paragraph (3) of this
Section).
(8) For the purpose of any computation under paragraphs (2), (4), (5)
and (6) of this Section, the current market price per share of Common Stock on
any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily Closing Prices for the
five consecutive Business Days selected by the Company commencing not more than
ten Business Days before the day in question.
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(9) The Company may make such reductions in the conversion price, in
addition to those required by paragraphs (l), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of
this Section, as it considers to be advisable in order that any event treated
for Federal income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights shall
not be taxable to the recipients.
(10) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 12.4, the
Company shall not be required to make any adjustment of the conversion price
unless such adjustment (together with any prior adjustments that were not made
as a result of this clause (10)) would require an increase or decrease of at
least 1% of such conversion price.
Section 12.5 NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENTS OF CONVERSION PRICE.
Whenever the conversion price is adjusted as herein provided:
(a) the Company shall compute the adjusted conversion price in
accordance with Section 12.4 and shall prepare a certificate signed by
the Treasurer of the Company setting forth the adjusted conversion
price and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such
adjustment is based, and such certificate shall forthwith be filed with
the Trustee and at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of
conversion of Securities pursuant to Section 10.2; and
(b) a notice stating that the conversion price has been
adjusted and setting forth the adjusted conversion price shall
forthwith be required, and as soon as practicable after it is required,
such notice shall be mailed by the Company to all Holders at their last
addresses as they shall appear in the Security Register.
The Trustee may conclusively rely upon the last Treasurer's certificate
filed with it pursuant to paragraph (a) hereof as to the conversion price then
in effect.
Section 12.6 NOTICE OF CERTAIN CORPORATE ACTION.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other
distribution) on its Common Stock payable (i) otherwise than
exclusively in cash or (ii) exclusively in cash in an amount that would
require any adjustment pursuant to Section 12.4; or
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(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of
its Common Stock of rights, options or warrants to subscribe for or
purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any other
rights; or
(c) of any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company
(other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of
Common Stock), or of any consolidation or merger to which the Company
is a party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Company is
required, or of the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation
or winding up of the Company; or
(e) the Company or any Subsidiary shall commence a tender
offer for all or a portion of the Company's outstanding shares of
Common Stock (or shall amend any such tender offer);
then the Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained
for the purpose of conversion of Securities pursuant to Section 10.2, and shall
cause to be mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear
in the Security Register, at least 20 days (or 10 days in any case specified in
clause (a) or (b) above) prior to the applicable record or effective date
hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be
taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, rights, options or
warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders
of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution,
rights, options or warrants are to be determined, or (y) the date on which such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the date as of
which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled
to exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer,
dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
Section 12.7 COMPANY TO RESERVE COMMON STOCK.
The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from
pre-emptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the
purpose of effecting the conversion of Securities, the full number of shares of
Common Stock then issuable upon the conversion of all Outstanding Securities.
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Section 12.8 TAXES ON CONVERSIONS.
The Company will pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect
of the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of Securities
pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax
which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and
delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of
the Security or Securities to be converted, and no such issue or delivery shall
be made unless and until the Person requesting such issue has paid to the
Company the amount of any such tax, or has established to the satisfaction of
the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 12.9 COVENANT AS TO COMMON STOCK.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be
issued upon conversion of Securities will upon issue be fully paid and
nonassessable and, except as provided in Section 12.8, the Company will pay all
taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
Section 12.10 CANCELLATION OF CONVERTED SECURITIES.
All Securities delivered for conversion shall be delivered to the
Trustee to be cancelled by or at the direction of the Trustee, which shall
dispose of the same as provided in Section 3.9.
Section 12.11 PROVISIONS IN CASE OF CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE OF
ASSETS.
In case of any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the
Company into, any other Person, any merger of another Person into the Company
(other than a merger which does not result in any reclassification, conversion,
exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company)
or any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company, the Person formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger
or which acquires such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to
the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security
then outstanding shall have the right thereafter, during the period such
Security shall be convertible as specified in Section 12.1, to convert such
Security only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock of the Company into which such Security might
have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or
transfer, assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Company (i) is not a
Person with which the Company consolidated or into which the
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Company merged or which merged into the Company or to which such sale or
transfer was made, as the case may be ("Constituent Person"), or an Affiliate
of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise his rights of election, if
any, as to the kind or amount of Securities, cash and other property receivable
upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer (provided that if the kind
or amount of Securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer is not the same for each share of
Common Stock of the Company held immediately prior to such consolidation,
merger, sale or transfer by others than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate
thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been
exercised ("non-electing share"), then for the purpose of this Section the kind
and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by each non-electing share shall be
deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the
non-electing shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments
which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental
indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Article. The above provisions of this Section
shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales or
transfers.
ARTICLE 13
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 13.1 SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
All Securities issued under this Indenture shall be issued subject to
the following provisions and each Holder of any Security whether upon original
issue or upon transfer or assignment thereof accepts and agrees to be bound by
such provisions.
All Securities issued hereunder shall, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and subject in right of payment to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness as defined in this Section.
The term "Senior Indebtedness" shall mean (a) all indebtedness of the Company,
including the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on such
indebtedness whether outstanding on the date of this Indenture or thereafter
created, (i) for borrowed money, (ii) for money borrowed by others and
guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by the Company, (iii) constituting purchase
money indebtedness for the payment of which the Company is directly or
contingently liable, (iv) constituting reimbursement obligations under bank
letters of credit, (v) under interest rate and currency swaps,
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caps, floors, collars or similar agreements or arrangements intended to protect
the Company against fluctuations in interest or currency rates, (vi) under any
lease of any real or personal property, whether outstanding on the date of
execution of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred or assumed,
which obligations are capitalized on the books of the Company in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles, unless, in any such case, by the
terms of the instrument creating or evidencing such indebtedness it is provided
that such indebtedness is not superior in right of payment to the Securities or
to other indebtedness which is pari passu with, or subordinated to, the
Securities, or (vi) all obligations of others of the kind described in the
preceding clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) assumed by or guaranteed
by the Company, and (b) any modifications, refundings, deferrals, renewals or
extensions of any such Senior Indebtedness, or securities, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness issued in exchange for such Senior Indebtedness. As
used in the preceding sentence the term "purchase money indebtedness" shall
mean indebtedness evidenced by a note, debenture, bond or other similar
instrument (whether or not secured by any lien or other security interest)
given in connection with the acquisition of any business, properties or assets
of any kind acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such term shall not include
any conditional sale contract or any account payable or any other indebtedness
created or assumed by the Company in the ordinary course of business in
connection with the obtaining of inventories or services.
Section 13.2 NO PAYMENTS IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; PAYMENT OVER OF
PROCEEDS UPON DISSOLUTION, ETC.
No payment on account of principal, premium, if any, or interest on, or
redemption or repurchase of, the Securities shall be made if, at the time of
such payment or immediately after giving effect thereto: (i) there shall exist
a default in the payment of principal, premium, if any, sinking funds or
interest (including a default under any purchase or redemption obligations)
with respect to any Senior Indebtedness, or (ii) there shall have occurred an
event of default (other than a default in the payment of principal, premium, if
any, sinking funds or interest) with respect to any Senior Indebtedness, as
defined therein or in the instrument under which the same is outstanding,
permitting the holders thereof to accelerate the maturity thereof and written
notice of such occurrence shall have been given to the Company and to the
Trustee under this Indenture by the holder or holders of such Senior
Indebtedness and such event of default shall not have been cured or waived or
shall not have ceased to exist. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may
make and the Trustee may receive and shall apply any payment in respect of the
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Securities (for principal, premium, if any, or interest or repurchase) if such
payment was made prior to the occurrence of any of the contingencies specified
in clauses (i) and (ii) above. In addition, nothing in this paragraph shall
prevent the Company from making or the Trustee from receiving or applying
any payment in connection with the redemption of Securities if the first
publication of notice of such redemption (whether by mail or otherwise in
accordance with this Indenture) has been made prior to the occurrence of any of
the contingencies specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above.
Upon (i) any acceleration of the principal amount due on the Securities
or (ii) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon any
dissolution or winding up or total or partial liquidation or reorganization of
the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all principal, premium, if any, and interest
due or to become due upon all Senior Indebtedness (including interest thereon
accruing after the commencement of any such proceedings) shall first be paid in
full, or payment thereof provided for in money or money's worth in accordance
with its terms, before any payment is made on account of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on, or repurchase of, the indebtedness evidenced
by the Securities, and upon any such dissolution or winding up or liquidation
or reorganization 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 Trustee under this Indenture would be
entitled, except for the provisions hereof, shall be paid by the Company or by
any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person
making such payment or distribution, or by the Holders of the Securities or by
the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them or it, as the case may be,
directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata to each such holder on
the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such holder)
or their representatives, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior
Indebtedness in full, in money or money's worth, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution is made to the Holders of the
Securities or to the Trustee under this Indenture.
In the event that, contrary to the foregoing, 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 before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full or provision
made for such payment, in accordance with its terms, such payment or
distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over
or
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delivered to, the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or their representative
or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant
to which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness have been
issued, as their respective interests may appear, for application to the
payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent necessary
to pay all such Senior Indebtedness in full in accordance with its terms, after
giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Holders
of the Securities (together with the holders of any other indebtedness of the
Company which is subordinated in right of payment to the payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness, which is not subordinated in right of payment to the
Securities and which by its terms grants such right of subrogation to the
holders thereof) shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Company made
on the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on, or repurchase of, the Securities shall be paid in full; and, for
the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders
of Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders
of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness by the Holders of the Securities or the
Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of Securities, be deemed to be a payment
by the Company to the Holders of or on account of the Securities, it being
understood that the provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for
the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities,
on the one hand, and the holders of Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
Section 13.3 NOTICE TO TRUSTEE OF SPECIFIED EVENTS; RELIANCE ON
CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding in respect of the Company, of any
proceedings for voluntary liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the
Company (whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy), of the declaration
of any Security as due and payable before its expressed maturity, and of any
event which pursuant to Section 13.2 would prevent payment by the Company on
account of the principal, premium, if any, or interest on, or repurchase of,
the Securities. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, shall
be entitled to assume that no
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such event has occurred unless the Company, or a holder of Senior
Indebtedness, or any trustee therefor, has given such notice.
Upon any distribution of assets of the Company or payment by or on
behalf of the Company referred to in this Article, the Trustee and the Holders
of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree of a court
of competent jurisdiction in which any proceedings of the nature referred to in
Section 13.2 are pending, and the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section
6.1, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon 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. In the event
that the Trustee determines, in good faith, that further evidence is required
with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness to
participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article, the
Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness held by
such Person, as to the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution, and as to other facts pertinent to the rights
of such Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not furnished, the
Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 13.4 TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.
The Holder of each Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee in his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination as provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee as attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
Section 13.5 TRUSTEE NOT CHARGED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PROHIBITION.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other provision
of this Indenture, but subject to the provisions of Section 6.1 as between the
Holders of Securities and the Trustee, neither the Trustee nor any Paying Agent
shall be charged with knowledge of any facts which would prohibit the making of
any payment of moneys to or by the Trustee or any such Paying Agent, unless and
until the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall have
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received written notice thereof at its Corporate Trust Office from the Company
or any holder of Senior Indebtedness or the trustee or representative of the
holder of such Senior Indebtedness on his behalf; and, prior to the receipt of
any such written notice, the Trustee and any such Paying Agent shall be
entitled to assume that no such facts exist. If the Trustee or Paying Agent,
as the case may be, shall not have received, at least three Business Days prior
to the date upon which by the terms hereof any such moneys may become payable
for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of
or premium, if any, or the interest on any Security) with respect to such
moneys, the notice provided for in this Section, then, anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee and such Paying Agent as
the case may be, shall have full power and authority to receive such moneys and
to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and shall not be
affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it within three
Business Days prior to such date.
Section 13.6 RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this
Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which may be at any time held
by it to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness; and
nothing in Section 6.13, or elsewhere in this Indenture, shall deprive the
Trustee of any of its rights as such holder. Nothing in this Article shall
apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section
6.7.
Section 13.7 TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if
it shall mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or the
Company or any other Person moneys or assets to which any holders of Senior
Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
Section 13.8 ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENT.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context shall otherwise
require) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were
named in this Article in addition to or in place
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of the Trustee; provided, however, that Section 13.5, 13.6 and 13.7 shall not
apply to the Company if it acts as Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 14
REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT THE OPTION
OF THE HOLDER UPON A CHANGE IN CONTROL
Section 14.1 RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE.
In the event that a Change in Control (as hereinafter defined) shall
occur, then each Holder shall have the right, at the Holder's option, to
require the Company to repurchase, and upon the exercise of such right the
Company shall repurchase, all of such Holder's Securities, or any portion of
the principal amount thereof that is an integral multiple of $1,000, on the
date (the "Repurchase Date") that is 45 days after the date of the Company
Notice (as defined in Section 14.2) at a purchase price equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased (the "Repurchase Price"),
together in each case with accrued interest to the Repurchase Date. Such right
to require the repurchase of the Securities shall not continue after a
discharge of the Company from its obligations with respect to the Securities in
accordance with Article 4, unless a Change in Control shall have occurred prior
to such discharge. The Repurchase Price shall be paid in cash.
Section 14.2 NOTICES; METHOD OF EXERCISING REPURCHASE RIGHT, ETC.
(a) Unless the Company shall have theretofore called for redemption
all the outstanding Securities, on or before the 30th day after the occurrence
of a Change in Control, the Company or, at the written request of the Company,
the Trustee, shall mail to all Holders a notice (the "Company Notice") as
prepared by the Company of the occurrence of the Change in Control and of the
repurchase right set forth herein arising as a result thereof. The Company
shall also deliver a copy of such notice of a repurchase right to the Trustee
and cause a copy of such notice of a repurchase right, or a summary of the
information contained therein, to be published in a newspaper of general
circulation in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and the County of
Suffolk, The City of Boston, Massachusetts.
Each notice of a repurchase right shall state:
(1) the Repurchase Date,
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(2) the date by which the repurchase right must be exercised,
(3) the Repurchase Price,
(4) a description of the procedure which a Holder must follow
to exercise a repurchase right, and
(5) the conversion price then in effect, the date on which the
right to convert the principal amount of the Securities to be
repurchased will terminate and the place or places where such
Securities may be surrendered for conversion or repurchase.
In addition, at least two Business Days preceding the Repurchase Date,
the Company shall cause to be published, in a newspaper of general circulation
in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and the County of Suffolk,
The City of Boston, Massachusetts a notice specifying whether the Repurchase
Price will be payable in cash.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices or defect
therein shall limit any Holder's right to exercise a repurchase right or affect
the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of Securities.
If any of the foregoing provisions are inconsistent with applicable
law, such law shall govern.
(b) To exercise a repurchase right, a Holder shall deliver to the
Trustee on or before the 30th day after the date of the Company Notice (i)
written notice of the Holder's exercise of such right, which notice shall set
forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Securities to be
repurchased, a statement that an election to exercise the repurchase right is
being made thereby, and (ii) the Securities with respect to which the
repurchase right is being exercised, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company.
Such written notice shall be executed by the Holder and shall be irrevocable,
except that the right of the Holder to convert the Securities with respect to
which the repurchase right is being exercised shall continue until the close of
business on the second Trading Day preceding the Repurchase Date.
(c) In the event a repurchase right shall be exercised in accordance
with the terms hereof, the Company shall pay or cause to be paid the Repurchase
Price in cash as provided above, to the Holder on the Repurchase Date as
promptly after the Repurchase Date as practicable, together with accrued and
unpaid interest to the Repurchase Date payable with respect to the Securities
as to which the repurchase right has been exercised; provided, however,
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that installments of interest that mature on or prior to the Repurchase Date
shall be payable in cash to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
relevant Regular Record Date according to the terms and provisions of Article
3.
(d) If any Security surrendered for repurchase shall not be so paid on
the Repurchase Date, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest to the
extent permitted by applicable law from the Repurchase Date at the rate borne
by the Security and each Security shall remain convertible into Common Stock
until the principal of such Security shall have been paid or duly provided for.
(e) Any Security which is to be repurchased only in part shall be
surrendered to the Trustee (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 any authorized denomination as
requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange
for the unrepurchased portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
Section 14.3 CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Article:
(a) the term "beneficial owner" shall be determined in accordance with
Rule 13d-3, as in effect on the date of the original execution of this
Indenture, promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
(b) the term "Common Stock" shall mean capital stock of the Company
that does not rank prior, as to the payment of dividends or as to the
distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Company, to shares of capital stock of any
other class of the Company;
(c) a "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred at such
time after the original issuance of the Securities as there shall occur:
(i) the acquisition by any Person of beneficial ownership,
directly or indirectly, through a purchase, merger or other
acquisition transaction or series of transactions,
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of shares of capital stock of the Company entitling such Person
to exercise 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares
of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the
elections of directors (any shares of voting stock of which such
Person is the beneficial owner that are not then outstanding
being deemed outstanding for purposes of calculating such
percentage); or
(ii) any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the
Company into, any other Person, any merger of another Person into
the Company, or any sales or transfer of all or substantially all
of the assets of the Company to another Person (other than a
merger (x) which does not result in any reclassification,
conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of
Common Stock or (y) which is effected solely to change the
jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company and results in a
reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of
Common Stock into solely shares of common stock); or
(iii) a change in the Board of Directors of the Company in which the
individuals who constituted the Board of Directors of the Company
at the beginning of the 24-month period immediately preceding
such change (together with any other director whose election by
the Board of Directors of the Company or whose nomination for
election by the stockholders of the Company was approved by a
vote of at least a majority of the directors then in office
either who were directors at the beginning of such period or
whose election or nomination for election was previously so
approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the
directors then in office;
provided, however, that a Change in Control shall not be deemed to have
occurred if either (x) the Closing Price on any five Trading Days within the
period of 10 consecutive Trading Days ending immediately after the later of the
date of the Change in Control or the date of the public announcement of the
Change in Control (in the case of a Change in Control under clause (i)
above) or the period of 10 consecutive Trading Days ending immediately prior to
the date of the Change in Control (in the case of a Change in Control under
clause (ii) above) shall equal or exceed 105% of the conversion price in effect
on each such Trading Day or (y) (i) all the consideration (excluding cash
payments for fractional shares) to be paid for the Common Stock in the
transaction or transactions constituting the Change in Control consists of
shares of common stock traded on a national securities exchange or quoted on
the
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Nasdaq National Market and as a result of such transaction or transactions the
Securities become convertible solely into such common stock, and (ii) after
giving effect to such transaction or transactions and for a period of 12 months
thereafter, the Notes have a rating of " " or better (or equivalent ratings
under successor ratings classificaton systems) by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Services,
Inc. or Standard & Poor's Corporation, respectively; and
(d) the term "Person" shall include any syndicate or group which would
be deemed to be a "person" under Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, as in effect on the date of the original execution of
this Indenture.
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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.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
Attestation as to ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
the Corporate Seal:
BY
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Name:
Title:
Attest:
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STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY
As Trustee
BY
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Name:
Title:
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ) ss.:
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK )
On the ____ day of November, 1995, before me personally came
__________________________ to me known, who, being by me duly
sworn, did depose and say that he is __________________________ of
Analog Devices, Inc., one of the corporations described in and
which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of
said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such
corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board
of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name
thereto by like authority.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ) ss.:
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK )
On the ____ day of November, 1995, before me personally came
__________________________ to me known, who, being by me duly
sworn, did depose and say that he/she is ________________________
of [______________________], a Massachusetts banking corporation
described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he/
she knows the seal of said association; that the seal affixed to
said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the Board of Directors of said association, and that
he/she signed his/her name thereto by like authority.
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