Exhibit 4.9
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
among
DPL INC., as Depositor,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Property Trustee,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee,
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
and
THE SEVERAL HOLDERS, AS HEREIN DEFINED
Dated as of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇, ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ CAPITAL TRUST II
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DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
Certain Sections of the Trust Agreement relating to Sections 310 through
318 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Trust Agreement
Act Section Section
(S) 310(a)(1)................................................................8.1
(a)(2)..............................................................8.1
(a)(3)..............................................................8.9
(a)(4).......................................................2.7(a)(ii)
(b) .............................................................8.8
(S) 311(a) ............................................................8.13
(b) ............................................................8.13
(S) 312(a) .............................................................5.7
(b) .............................................................5.7
(c) .............................................................5.7
(S) 313(a) .........................................................8.14(a)
(a)(4)..........................................................8.14(a)
(b) .........................................................8.14(b)
(c) ............................................................10.8
(d) .........................................................8.14(c)
(S) 314(a) ............................................................8.15
(b) ..................................................Not Applicable
(c)(1).............................................................8.16
(c)(2).............................................................8.16
(c)(3)...................................................Not Applicable
(d) ..................................................Not Applicable
(e) .......................................................1.1, 8.16
(S) 315(a) ..................................................8.2(a), 8.4(a)
(b) .......................................................8.3, 10.8
(c) ..........................................................8.2(a)
(d) ........................................................8.2, 8.4
(e) ..................................................Not Applicable
(S) 316(a) ............................................................5.14
(a)(1)(A).......................................................5.14(c)
(a)(1)(B).......................................................5.14(b)
(a)(2)...................................................Not Applicable
(b) ............................................................5.14
(c) .............................................................6.7
(S) 317(a)(1).....................................................Not Applicable
(a)(2)...................................................Not Applicable
(b) .............................................................5.9
(S) 318(a) ...........................................................10.10
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Note: This reconciliation and tie sheet shall not, for any purpose, be deemed
to be a part of the Trust Agreement.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
Section 1.1. Definitions......................................................1
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE TRUST
Section 2.1. Name............................................................11
Section 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place
of Business.....................................................11
Section 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational
Expenses........................................................12
Section 2.4. Issuance of the Capital Securities..............................12
Section 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and
Purchase of Debentures..........................................12
Section 2.6. Declaration of Trust............................................13
Section 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions................13
Section 2.8. Assets of Trust.................................................17
Section 2.9. Title to Trust Property.........................................17
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
Section 3.1. Payment Account.................................................17
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ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
Section 4.1. Distributions...................................................17
Section 4.2. Redemption......................................................18
Section 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities..............................20
Section 4.4. Payment Procedures..............................................20
Section 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.........................................21
Section 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust.....................21
Section 4.7. Reduction for Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to
Direct Actions..................................................21
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
Section 5.1. Initial Ownership...............................................21
Section 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates; Execution and
Delivery Thereof................................................21
Section 5.3. Form of Trust Securities Certificates...........................22
Section 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Capital
Securities Certificates.........................................23
Section 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates....................................................24
Section 5.6. Persons Deemed Securityholders..................................24
Section 5.7. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses..........24
Section 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency for Transfers...................24
Section 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent.....................................25
Section 5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.....................25
Section 5.11. Book-Entry Interests............................................25
Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency......................................28
Section 5.13. Procedures for Issuance of Definitive Capital Securities
Certificates....................................................28
Section 5.14. Rights of Securityholders.......................................29
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
Section 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights....................................31
Section 6.2. Notice of Meetings..............................................32
Section 6.3. Meetings of Capital Securityholders.............................32
Section 6.4. Voting Rights...................................................32
Section 6.5. Proxies, etc....................................................33
Section 6.6. Securityholder Action by Written Consent........................33
Section 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.......................33
Section 6.8. Acts of Securityholders.........................................33
Section 6.9. Inspection of Records...........................................34
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Bank, the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee................................34
Section 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor.....................36
ARTICLE VIII
THE TRUSTEES
Section 8.1. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees....36
Section 8.2. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.............................36
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Section 8.3. Certain Notices.................................................39
Section 8.4. Certain Rights of Property Trustee..............................39
Section 8.5. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Trust Securities....42
Section 8.6. May Hold Securities.............................................42
Section 8.7. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees...................................42
Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests...........................................44
Section 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee................................44
Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor...............45
Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor..........................47
Section 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.....47
Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust....47
Section 8.14. Reports by Property Trustee.....................................48
Section 8.15. Reports to the Property Trustee.................................48
Section 8.16. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent................49
Section 8.17. Number of Trustees..............................................49
Section 8.18. Delegation of Power.............................................49
Section 8.19. Fiduciary Duty..................................................50
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
Section 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date................................50
Section 9.2. Early Termination...............................................51
Section 9.3. Termination.....................................................51
Section 9.4. Liquidation.....................................................51
Section 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of
the Trust.......................................................53
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders to Terminate
Trust...........................................................54
Section 10.2. Amendment.......................................................54
Section 10.3. Separability....................................................55
Section 10.4. Governing Law...................................................55
Section 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day................................56
Section 10.6. Successors......................................................56
Section 10.7. Headings........................................................56
Section 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands....................................56
Section 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.......................................57
Section ▇▇.▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇ Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act..........57
Section 10.11.Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and
Indenture.......................................................57
Section 10.12.Counterparts....................................................58
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EXHIBIT A Certificate of Trust..........................................A-1
EXHIBIT B Form of 144A Global Security..................................B-1
EXHIBIT C Form of Regulation S Global Security..........................C-1
EXHIBIT D Form of Definitive Capital Security Certificate...............D-1
EXHIBIT E Form of Common Security Certificate...........................E-1
EXHIBIT F Form of Letter to be Delivered by Institutional
Accredited Investors..........................................F-1
EXHIBIT G Form of Transfer Certificate - 144A Global Security
to Regulation S Global Security...............................G-1
EXHIBIT H Form of Transfer Certificate - Regulation S Global
Security to 144A Global Security..............................H-1
EXHIBIT I Form of Private Placement Legend..............................I-1
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of August 31, 2001, among
(i) DPL INC., an Ohio corporation (including any successors or assigns, the
"DEPOSITOR"), (ii) The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as
property trustee (in such capacity, the "PROPERTY TRUSTEE" and, in its separate
corporate capacity and not in its capacity as Property Trustee, the "BANK"),
(iii) The Bank of New York (Delaware), a banking corporation that maintains its
principal place of business in Delaware, as Delaware trustee (the "DELAWARE
TRUSTEE"), (iv) ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇, an individual, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇., an
individual, each of whose address is c/o DPL Inc., ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (each, an "ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEE" and collectively, the
"ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES") and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Delaware Trustee and an Administrative Trustee
have heretofore duly declared and created a business trust pursuant to the
Delaware Business Trust Act by entering into that certain Trust Agreement, dated
as of August 23, 2001 (the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution and
filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of a Certificate of
Trust, filed on August 23, 2001, substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit A;
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WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Trustees desire to amend and restate the
Original Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for,
among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Trust to
the Depositor, (ii) the issuance and sale of the Capital Securities by the Trust
pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, (iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the
Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in the Debentures, and (iv)
the mandatory exchange by the Property Trustee with the Depositor of the Private
Debentures for the Exchange Debentures, and the exchange by the Trust with the
Securityholders of the Private Capital Securities for the Exchange Capital
Securities, each such exchange registered under the Securities Act; and
WHEREAS, upon the effectiveness of the exchange registration statement
referred to in the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement, this Trust
Agreement shall be subject to, and shall be governed by, the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of and to govern indentures
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth
herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which
is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties and for
the benefit of the Securityholders, hereby amends and restates the Original
Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
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Section 1.1. Definitions. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except
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as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to
an "Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may
be, of this Trust Agreement; and
(d) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
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words of similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"ACT" has the meaning specified in SECTION 6.8.
"ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a
given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional
Interest (as defined in the Indenture) paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of
Debentures for such period.
"ADDITIONAL TAX SUMS" has the meaning specified in SECTION 4.08 of the
Indenture.
"ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEE" means a Person satisfying the eligibility
requirements set forth in SECTION 8.1(b) and initially means each of ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇.
▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇., solely in such Person's capacity as
Administrative Trustee of the Trust heretofore created and continued hereunder
and not in such Person's individual capacity, or such Administrative Trustee's
successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as
herein provided.
"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.
"BANK" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.
"BANKRUPTCY EVENT" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises judging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjudication or composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
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(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of such Person 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
and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate
action by such Person in furtherance of any such action.
"BANKRUPTCY LAWS" has the meaning specified in SECTION 10.9.
"BUSINESS DAY" means any day that is not a Saturday or Sunday and that is
neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in The City of
New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to close or a day
on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee or the Debenture
Trustee is closed for business.
"CAPITAL SECURITIES CERTIFICATE" means a certificate evidencing ownership
of Private Capital Securities, which certificate shall initially be
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B, Exhibit C or Exhibit D, or
Exchange Capital Securities.
"CAPITAL SECURITY" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided
therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions
and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein. Unless the context otherwise
requires, the term "Capital Securities" shall include (a) any Exchange Capital
Securities to be issued and exchanged for any Private Capital Securities and (b)
in each case, any Tranche of Capital Securities.
"CERTIFICATE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT" means the agreement among the Trust, the
Property Trustee and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the
initial Closing Date, relating to the Capital Securities Certificates, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"CLEARING AGENCY" means an organization registered as a "clearing agency"
pursuant to SECTION 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC will be the initial Clearing
Agency.
"CLEARING AGENCY PARTICIPANT" means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing
Agency.
"CLEARSTREAM" means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme.
"CLOSING DATE" means the date or dates on which the Capital Securities are
issued and sold.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act.
"COMMON SECURITY" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided
therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions
and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein, and shall include any Tranche
of Common Securities.
"COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE" means a certificate evidencing ownership of
Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means (i) when used with respect to the Property
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Property Trustee located in
New York, New York, and (ii) when used with respect to the Debenture Trustee,
the principal corporate trust office of the Debenture Trustee located in New
York, New York, which office at the date hereof in each of cases (i) and (ii) is
located at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ 21 West, New York, New York 10286,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
"COVERED PERSON" means (a) any officer, director, shareholder, partner,
member, representative, employee or agent of the Trust or the Trust's
Affiliates; and (b) any Holder of the Trust Securities.
"DEBENTURE EVENT OF DEFAULT" means an "Event of Default" as defined in the
Indenture.
"DEBENTURE REDEMPTION DATE" means, with respect to any Debentures to be
redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption under the Indenture.
"DEBENTURE TRUSTEE" means The Bank of New York, and any successor thereto
under the Indenture.
"DEBENTURES" means the Depositor's 8 1/8% Junior Subordinated Deferrable
Interest Debentures due September 1, 2031, to be issued from time to time
pursuant to the Indenture. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term
"Debentures" shall include any Exchange Debentures to be issued and exchanged
for any Private Debentures.
"DEFINITIVE CAPITAL SECURITIES CERTIFICATES" means Capital Securities
Certificates issued in definitive, fully registered form.
"DELAWARE BUSINESS TRUST ACT" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware
Code, 12 Del. C. ((S)) 3801, et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.
"DELAWARE TRUSTEE" means the corporation identified as the "Delaware
Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as
Delaware Trustee of the Trust heretofore created and continued hereunder and not
in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or
any Delaware Trustee appointed as herein provided.
"DEPOSITOR" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
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"DIRECT ACTION" has the meaning specified in SECTION 5.14(c).
"DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD" means the period of 40 consecutive days
beginning on and including the later of (x) the day on which the offering of the
Capital Securities commences or (y) the initial Closing Date.
"DISTRIBUTION DATE" has the meaning specified in SECTION 4.1(a).
"DISTRIBUTIONS" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as
provided in SECTION 4.1 and shall include, if applicable, Additional
Distributions, Special Distributions and Additional Tax Sums.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York.
"EARLY TERMINATION EVENT" has the meaning specified in SECTION 9.2.
"EUROCLEAR" means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Guaranty Trust Company of New York in its capacity
as operator of The Euroclear System.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or
is effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of
any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body):
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
(b) default by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution
when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a period
of 30 days; or
(c) default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption
Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material
respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement
(other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance or breach of
which is addressed in clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default
or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the defaulting Trustee or Trustees by the Holders of at least
25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Capital 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
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the
Property Trustee and the failure to appoint a successor Property Trustee within
60 days thereof.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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"EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT" means an agreement dated as of
August 24, 2001 among the Depositor, the Trust and the Initial Purchaser.
"EXCHANGE CAPITAL SECURITIES" means Capital Securities representing
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust, issued by the Trust
in an exchange offer for the Private Capital Securities, such exchange offer
being registered under the Securities Act, all pursuant to the Exchange and
Registration Rights Agreement.
"EXCHANGE DEBENTURES" means a new series of junior subordinated debentures
issued by the Depositor in a mandatory exchange offer for the Private
Debentures, such exchange offer being registered under the Securities Act, all
pursuant to the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement.
"EXCHANGE GUARANTEE" means the Exchange Guarantee extended by the Depositor
for the benefit of the Holders of Capital Securities pursuant to the Exchange
Guarantee Agreement, and registered under the Securities Act pursuant to the
Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement.
"EXCHANGE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT" means the Guarantee Agreement to be entered
into by the Depositor, as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Guarantee
Trustee, pursuant to the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement.
"EXCHANGE OFFER" means an exchange offer of the Exchange Capital Securities
for the Private Capital Securities, which is to be registered under the
Securities Act pursuant to the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement.
"EXPENSE AGREEMENT" means the Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities
between the Depositor and the Trust, as amended from time to time.
"EXPIRATION DATE" has the meaning specified in SECTION 9.1.
"GLOBAL CAPITAL SECURITIES CERTIFICATE" or "GLOBAL CAPITAL SECURITY" means
any Capital Securities Certificate in the form of a 144A Global Security, a
Regulation S Global Security and, if applicable, any Exchange Capital Security
represented in global form and deposited with the Clearing Agency or the
Property Trustee as custodian for the Clearing Agency.
"GUARANTEE" means the Private Guarantee with respect to the Private Capital
Securities and the Exchange Guarantee with respect to the Exchange Capital
Securities.
"GUARANTEE AGREEMENT" means the Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement
dated as of August 31, 2001 between the Depositor, as Guarantor, and The Bank of
New York, as Guarantee Trustee.
"HOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities
is registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be a beneficial
owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
"INDEMNIFIED PERSON" has the meaning specified in SECTION 8.7(c).
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"INDENTURE" means the Indenture, dated as of August 31, 2001, between the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as supplemented by the First
Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 31, 2001, and as may be further
amended or supplemented from time to time.
"INITIAL PURCHASER" means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co. Incorporated.
"INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR" means an institutional investor that is
an "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7)
under the Securities Act.
"LIEN" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of
trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest
or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement
of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"LIKE AMOUNT" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust Securities,
Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of
Debentures to be contemporaneously repaid or redeemed in accordance with the
Indenture the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such
Trust Securities, and (b) with respect to a distribution of Debentures to
Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution, termination or
liquidation of the Trust, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Debentures
are distributed.
"LIQUIDATION AMOUNT" means the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.
"LIQUIDATION DATE" means the date on which Debentures are to be distributed
to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution, termination and
liquidation of the Trust pursuant to SECTION 9.4(a).
"LIQUIDATION DISTRIBUTION" has the meaning specified in SECTION 9.4(d).
"1940 ACT" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the
President, any Vice Chairman or any Vice President of the Depositor (whether or
not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title
Vice President) and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller,
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Depositor and delivered to the
appropriate Trustee. Any Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement
shall include:
(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers'
Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating
thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the
Officers' Certificate;
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(c) a statement that each such officer has made such
examination or investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to
enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"144A GLOBAL SECURITY" has the meaning specified in SECTION 5.3(b).
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel
for the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Depositor (including counsel who is
an employee of the Depositor), who is experienced in matters related to the
substance of the opinion; provided however, that for purposes of
SECTIONS 6.1(b), 9.2(d), 9.5 and 10.2(b), such opinion shall be by nationally
recognized independent legal counsel experienced in the matters related to the
substance of the opinion.
"ORIGINAL TRUST AGREEMENT" has the meaning specified in the recitals to
this Trust Agreement.
"OUTSTANDING", when used with respect to Trust Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered
under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Trust Securities theretofore cancelled by the Securities
Registrar or delivered to the Securities Registrar for cancellation;
(b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money
in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee
or any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Trust Securities; provided, however,
that, if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has
been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c) Trust Securities which have been paid or in exchange for
or in lieu of which other Trust Securities have been executed and delivered
pursuant to SECTIONS 5.4, 5.5, 5.11 and 5.13;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Capital Securities have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Capital
Securities owned by the Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor
or any Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that (a) in determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon
any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver,
only Capital Securities that such Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be
so disregarded and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the
outstanding Capital Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of the
Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Capital Securities so owned that have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes
to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Capital Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
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"OWNER" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of a Global Capital
Securities Certificate as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if
a Clearing Agency Participant is not the Owner, then as reflected in the records
of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly or
indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"PAYING AGENT" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant
to SECTION 5.9 and shall initially be the Bank.
"PAYMENT ACCOUNT" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust
account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its trust department
for the benefit of the Securityholders in which all amounts paid in respect of
the Debentures will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the
Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Securityholders in accordance with
SECTIONS 4.1 and 4.2.
"PERSON" means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint stock company, limited liability company, trust,
unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.
"PRIVATE CAPITAL SECURITIES" means the Trust's 8 1/8% Capital Securities
issued pursuant to this Agreement in the initial aggregate Liquidation Amount of
$300,000,000 on the initial Closing Date.
"PRIVATE DEBENTURES" means the Depositor's 8 1/8% Junior Subordinated
Deferrable Interest Debentures due September 1, 2031, issued pursuant to the
Indenture in the initial aggregate principal amount of $309,300,000 on the
initial Closing Date.
"PRIVATE GUARANTEE" means the Guarantee extended by the Depositor for the
benefit of the Holders of Private Capital Securities pursuant to the Guarantee
Agreement.
"PRIVATE PLACEMENT LEGEND" means the legend substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit I.
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"PROPERTY TRUSTEE" means the commercial bank or trust company identified as
the "Property Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its
capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust heretofore created and continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in
such capacity, or any successor Property Trustee appointed as herein provided.
"PURCHASE AGREEMENT" means the Purchase Agreement, dated August 24, 2001,
among the Trust, the Depositor and the Initial Purchaser.
"QIB" means a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A.
"REDEMPTION DATE" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed,
the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement;
provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated maturity of the
Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust Securities.
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"REDEMPTION PRICE" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to but excluding the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of
the premium, if any, paid by the Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a
Like Amount of Debentures, allocated on a pro rata basis (based on Liquidation
Amounts) among the Trust Securities.
"REGULATION S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act or any successor
provision.
"REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY" has the meaning specified in SECTION 5.3(c).
"RELEVANT TRUSTEE" has the meaning specified in SECTION 8.10.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER," when used with respect to the Property Trustee,
means any officer of the Property Trustee with direct responsibility for the
administration of this Trust Agreement and also means with respect to a
particular corporate trust matter, any other officer of the Property Trustee to
whom such matter is referred by the Property Trustee because of his knowledge
of, and familiarity with, a particular subject.
"RULE 144" means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act, or any
successor rule.
"RULE 144A" means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act, or any
successor rule.
"RULE 144(k)" means Rule 144(k) as promulgated under the Securities Act, or
any successor rule.
"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"SECURITIES REGISTER" and "SECURITIES REGISTRAR" have the respective
meanings specified in SECTION 5.4.
"SECURITYHOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust
Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be a
beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
"SPECIAL DISTRIBUTIONS" has the meaning specified in the Exchange and
Registration Rights Agreement.
"SPECIAL INTEREST" has the meaning specified in the Exchange and
Registration Rights Agreement.
"SUCCESSOR SECURITIES" has the meaning specified in SECTION 9.5.
"TRANCHE" means Trust Securities issued after the initial Closing Date
which are of the same series as the Trust Securities and have identical terms as
the Trust Securities, except for aggregate Liquidation Amount, the price at
which such Trust Securities are sold to the public and the date of issuance.
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"TRANSFER RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE" means the first day in which
the Capital Securities (other than Capital Securities acquired by the Trust or
any Affiliate thereof) may be sold pursuant to Rule 144(k).
"TRUST" means the Delaware business trust created under the Original Trust
Agreement and continued hereby and identified on the cover page to this Trust
Agreement.
"TRUST AGREEMENT" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the
same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable
provisions hereof, including (i) all exhibits hereto, and (ii) for all purposes
of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement, the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern
this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement,
respectively.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at
the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in
the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust
Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"TRUST PROPERTY" means (a) the Debentures, (b) any cash on deposit in, or
owing to, the Payment Account and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the
foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to
be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.
"TRUST SECURITY" or "TRUST SECURITIES" means any of the Common Securities
and the Capital Securities. The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial
interests in the Trust Property.
"TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATE" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificates or the Capital Securities Certificates.
"TRUSTEES" means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee
and the Administrative Trustees.
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE TRUST
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Section 2.1. Name. The Trust continued hereby shall be known as "DPL
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CAPITAL TRUST II," as such name may be modified from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Securityholders and the
other Trustees, in which name the Trustees may conduct the business of the
Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust
and ▇▇▇ and be sued.
Section 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.
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The name and address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is The
Bank of New York (Delaware), ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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19711, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such other address in the State
of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the
Securityholders and the Depositor. The principal executive office of the Trust
is ▇/▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇., ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
Section 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational
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Expenses. The Property Trustee acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor
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in connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which
constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Trustee,
promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Trustee. The
Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such
expenses.
Section 2.4. Issuance of the Capital Securities. (a) The Depositor, on
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behalf of the Trust and pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed and
delivered the Purchase Agreement. Contemporaneously with the execution and
delivery of this Trust Agreement, on the initial Closing Date, an Administrative
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance with SECTION 5.2
and deliver to the Initial Purchaser Capital Securities Certificates in an
initial aggregate amount of 300,000 Capital Securities having an initial
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $300,000,000, against payment by the Initial
Purchaser of $292,287,000, which amount the Administrative Trustee shall
promptly deliver to the Trust. Pursuant to the procedures set forth in an
Officers' Certificate, without the consent of the Holders of the then
Outstanding Capital Securities, the Trust may subsequently issue from time to
time Tranches of Capital Securities.
(b) Contemporaneously with the exchange of Exchange Capital
Securities pursuant to the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement, an
Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance with
SECTION 5.2, and deliver in accordance with any then applicable delivery
instructions, Capital Securities Certificates in an aggregate amount having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Private Capital Securities then being exchanged.
Section 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase
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of Debentures. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
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Agreement, on the initial Closing Date, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of
the Trust, shall execute in accordance with SECTION 5.2 and deliver to the
Depositor Common Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the
Depositor, in an initial aggregate amount of 9,300 Common Securities having an
initial aggregate Liquidation Amount of $9,300,000 against payment by the
Depositor of $9,060,897, which amount such Administrative Trustee shall promptly
deliver to the Trust. Pursuant to the procedures set forth in an Officers'
Certificate, the Trust may subsequently issue from time to time Tranches of
Common Securities.
Contemporaneously therewith, on the initial Closing Date, an Administrative
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe for and purchase from the
Depositor Debentures, registered in the name of the Property Trustee, on behalf
of the Trust, and having an initial aggregate principal amount equal to
$309,300,000, and, in satisfaction of the purchase price for such Debentures,
the Trust shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of $301,347,897 (such sum being
the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee pursuant to (i) the
second sentence of SECTION 2.4(a)and (ii) the first sentence of this
SECTION 2.5). To the extent subsequent Tranches of Trust Securities are issued,
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an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe to and
purchase from the Depositor on subsequent Closing Dates additional Debentures,
registered in the name of the Trust having an aggregate principal amount equal
to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of such Tranches of Trust Securities.
Section 2.6. Declaration of Trust. The exclusive purposes and functions of
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the Trust are (a) to issue and sell Trust Securities (including the Exchange
Capital Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer), (b) to use the proceeds from
the sale of Trust Securities to acquire the Private Debentures, (c) to exchange
the Private Debentures for the Exchange Debentures pursuant to the Indenture and
(d) to engage in those activities necessary, convenient or incidental thereto.
The Depositor hereby appoints the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees as trustees of the Trust, to have all the rights, powers
and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the Property Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees hereby accept such appointment.
The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in
trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the
Trust and the Securityholders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all
rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law
with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Delaware Trustee
shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee
have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of
the Trustees of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the
requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act and accepting
service of process on the Trust in the State of Delaware.
Section 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions. (a) The
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Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance with the terms of
this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of
this Section, and in accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the
Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements
determined by the Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority,
express or implied, otherwise granted to the Trustees under this Trust
Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including without
limitation, the following:
(i) As among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee shall have
the power and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to
the following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities including
any agreements necessary with respect to such issuance and sale;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute,
deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the Exchange and
Registration Rights Agreement, the Expense Agreement and the
Certificate Depository Agreement and such other agreements as may
be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and
function of the Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Exchange Offer and
the Exchange Capital Securities under the Securities Act, and
under the state securities or blue sky laws, and the
qualification of this Trust Agreement as a trust indenture under
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the Trust Indenture Act, all in accordance with the Exchange and
Registration Rights Agreement;
(D) assisting in any listing of the Exchange Capital
Securities upon such securities exchange or exchanges as shall be
determined by the Depositor and the registration of the Exchange
Capital Securities under the Exchange Act and the preparation and
filing of all periodic and other reports and other documents
pursuant to the foregoing;
(E) the sending of notices (other than notices of default)
and other information regarding the Trust Securities and the
Debentures to the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent and Securities
Registrar in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) executing the Trust Securities in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the
winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust and the
preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware;
(I) unless otherwise determined by the Depositor, the
Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, or as otherwise
required by the Delaware Business Trust Act or the Trust
Indenture Act, to execute on behalf of the Trust (either acting
alone or together with any or all of the Administrative Trustees)
any documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power to
execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(J) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing
as the Trustees may from time to time determine is necessary or
advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement for
the benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration of the
effect of any such action on any particular Securityholder).
(ii) As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the
power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect
to the following ministerial matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the deposit of interest, principal and any other
payments made in respect of the Debentures in the Payment
Account;
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(D) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts
owed to the Securityholders in respect of the Trust Securities in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(E) the sending of notices of default and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the
Securityholders in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement;
(F) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance
with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(G) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the
winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust and the
execution of the certificate of cancellation to be filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware;
(H) to exchange the Private Guarantee for the Exchange
Guarantee in an exchange in connection with the Exchange Offer
pursuant to the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement;
(I) to exchange the Private Debentures for the Exchange
Debentures in an exchange in connection with the Exchange Offer
pursuant to the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement; and
(J) after an Event of Default (other than under
paragraph (d) or (e) of the definition of such term if such Event
of Default is by or with respect to the Property Trustee), the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Property
Trustee may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable
to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement and protect
and conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of the
Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any such
action on any particular Securityholder) and, within 90 days
after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a
Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee assigned to its
Corporate Trust Office, to give notice thereof to the
Securityholders.
Except as otherwise provided in this SECTION 2.7(a)(ii), or in the Trust
Indenture Act (regardless of whether applicable or not), the Property Trustee
shall have none of the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of the
Administrative Trustees set forth in SECTION 2.7(a)(i). The Property Trustee
shall have the power and authority to exercise all of the rights, powers and
privileges of a holder of the Debentures in accordance with the terms of this
Trust Agreement.
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the
Trust (or the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any
business, activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or
contemplated hereby. In particular, the Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall
not (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by
this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge,
set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein,
including to Securityholders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) take
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any action that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify as a "grantor
trust" for United States federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any
indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt or (v) take or consent
to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust
Property. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of all
Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to
the interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in their capacity as
Securityholders.
(c) In connection with the issuance and sale of the Capital
Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the
Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any
actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date
of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):
(i) negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery
of, the Purchase Agreement providing for the sale of the Capital
Securities;
(ii) the preparation of an offering memorandum and the
preparation and filing by the Trust with the Commission and the
execution on behalf of the Trust of a registration statement on the
appropriate form in relation to the Exchange Offer, including any
amendments thereto and/or a "shelf" registration statement to register
the Private Capital Securities, the Private Guarantee and the Private
Debentures, in each case in accordance with the provisions of the
Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement;
(iii) the determination of the states, if any, in which to take
appropriate action to qualify or register for sale all or part of the
Capital Securities, the Debentures and the Guarantee and the
determination of any and all such acts, other than actions that must
be taken by or on behalf of the Trust, and the advice to the Trustees
of actions they must take on behalf of the Trust, and the preparation
for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and filed by
the Trust or on behalf of the Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary
or advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such
state; and
(iv) any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any
of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of
the Trust and to operate the Trust so that the Trust will not be deemed to be an
"investment company" required to be registered under the 1940 Act or fail or
cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes and so that the Debentures will be treated as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. In this connection, the
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any action, not
inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Trust
Agreement, that each of the Depositor and any Administrative Trustee determines
in its discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as
such action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of
the Holders of the Capital Securities.
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Section 2.8. Assets of Trust. The assets of the Trust shall consist of the
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Trust Property.
Section 2.9. Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all Trust Property
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shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such)
and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee for the benefit of
the Trust and the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
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Section 3.1. Payment Account. (a) On or prior to the initial Closing Date,
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the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee
and any agent of the Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole
right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of
making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with
this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held from time
to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the
Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for
distribution as herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of
payments provided for herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment
Account, promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and
any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in
the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending
distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
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Section 4.1. Distributions. (a) Distributions will be made on the Trust
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Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest are made on
the Debentures. Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and
will accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Trust available for the
payment of Distributions. Distributions shall accumulate from August 31, 2001
and, except in the event (and to the extent) that the Depositor exercises its
right to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures pursuant to the
Indenture, shall be payable semiannually in arrears on March 1 and September 1
of each year, commencing on March 1, 2002. If any date on which a Distribution
is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the
payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay), in each case, with the same force and effect as if made on such date
(each date on which Distributions are payable in accordance with this
SECTION 4.1(a), a "DISTRIBUTION DATE").
(b) Assuming payments of interest on the Debentures are made
when due and assuming compliance by the Depositor and the Trust with their
obligations under the Exchange and Registration Rights Agreement (and before
giving effect to any Additional Distributions, Special Distributions and
Additional Tax Sums, if applicable), Distributions on the Trust Securities shall
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be payable at a rate of 8 1/8% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities. The amount of Distributions payable for any full period shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The amount of
Distributions for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the
number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The amount of
Distributions payable for any period shall include the Additional Distributions,
Special Distributions and Additional Tax Sums, if any.
(c) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by
the Property Trustee from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each
Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and
available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Distributions.
(d) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on the
Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which
shall be the 15th day of the month immediately prior to the month in which the
relevant Distribution Date occurs or if such 15th day of the month is not a
Business Day, then the Business Day next preceding such day.
Section 4.2. Redemption. (a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the
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stated maturity of the Debentures, the Trust will be required to redeem a Like
Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property
Trustee by first- class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to
be redeemed, at such Holder's address appearing in the Security Register. All
notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price, or if the Redemption Price cannot be
calculated prior to the time the notice of redemption is required to
be sent, the manner of calculation thereof;
(iii) the CUSIP number;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification and the total Liquidation Amount of the
particular Trust Securities to be redeemed; and
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that
Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after said date.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date
shall be redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the
contemporaneous redemption of Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities
shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date
only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
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(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption
in respect of any Capital Securities, then, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time,
on the Redemption Date, the Depositor shall deposit sufficient funds with the
Property Trustee to pay the Redemption Price. If such deposit has been made,
then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to
SECTION 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with respect to Capital Securities
evidenced by one or more Global Capital Securities Certificates, irrevocably
deposit with the Clearing Agency for such Capital Securities funds sufficient to
pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the
Holders thereof. With respect to Capital Securities evidenced by one or more
Definitive Capital Securities Certificates, the Property Trustee, subject to
SECTION 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent funds sufficient
to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price with respect
to such Capital Securities to the Holders thereof upon surrender of their
Definitive Capital Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust
Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust
Securities as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on
the relevant record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of
redemption has been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of
such deposit, all rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities so called
for redemption will cease, except the right of such Securityholders to receive
the Redemption Price and any Distribution payable on or prior to the Redemption
Date, but without interest, and such Trust Securities will cease to be
outstanding. In the event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable
is not a Business Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date
will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any
interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), in each case, with the
same force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the
Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is
improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Trust or by the
Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee, Distributions on such Trust Securities will
continue to accumulate, at the then applicable distribution rate, from the
Redemption Date originally established by the Trust for such Trust Securities to
the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual
payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating
the Redemption Price.
(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust
Securities shall be made to the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities
Register for the Trust Securities on a date to be established as the record date
for the distribution by the Property Trustee, which date shall be not more than
45 days nor less than 15 days prior to the relevant Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to SECTION 4.3(a), if less than all the
Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be
allocated on a pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common
Securities and the Capital Securities. The particular Capital Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Capital Securities
not previously called for redemption, by such method (including, without
limitation, on a pro rata basis or by lot) as the Property Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof)
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of the Liquidation Amount of Capital Securities of a denomination larger than
$1,000; provided, however, that redemption must be pro rata on the basis of the
Outstanding Capital Securities held by each Holder unless the Property Trustee
advised by Opinion of Counsel determines that non-pro rata redemption will not
cause the Trust to fail or cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes or, if the Trust might fail or cease to be
classified as a grantor trust, will not cause the Trust to be classified as an
association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax
purposes. In any such proration the Property Trustee may make such adjustments
so that any Capital Security to be redeemed shall, after such redemption, be in
an authorized denomination. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the
Securities Registrar in writing of the Capital Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Capital Securities selected for partial
redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of
this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Capital Securities shall relate, in the case of
any Capital Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the Liquidation Amount of Capital Securities that has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities. (a) Payment of
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Distributions on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made, subject to SECTION 4.2(f), pro rata among the Common
Securities and the Capital Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date or
Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, no payment of any Distribution on, or the
Redemption Price of, any Common Security, and no other payment on account of the
redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made
unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions on
all Outstanding Capital Securities for all Distribution periods terminating on
or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full
amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Capital Securities, has been
made or provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property
Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all
Distributions on, or the Redemption Price of, Capital Securities then due and
payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default
resulting from any Debenture Event of Default, the Holder of Common Securities
will be deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of
Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of
Default with respect to the Capital Securities have been cured, waived or
otherwise eliminated. Until any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement
with respect to the Capital Securities has been so cured, waived or otherwise
eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of
the Capital Securities and not the Holder of the Common Securities, and only the
Holders of the Capital Securities will have the right to direct the Property
Trustee to act on their behalf.
Section 4.4. Payment Procedures. Payments of Distributions in respect of
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the Capital Securities shall be made by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register
or, if the Capital Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions
shall be made in immediately available funds to the Clearing Agency, which shall
credit the relevant Persons' accounts at such Clearing Agency on the applicable
Distribution Dates. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made
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in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the
Holder of the Common Securities.
Section 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports. The Administrative Trustees shall
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prepare (or cause to be prepared), at the Depositor's expense, and file all
United States federal, state and local tax and information returns and reports
required to be filed by or in respect of the Trust. In this regard, the
Administrative Trustees shall (a) prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and
filed) the appropriate Internal Revenue Service Form required to be filed in
respect of the Trust in each taxable year of the Trust and (b) prepare and
furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to each Securityholder the
appropriate Internal Revenue Service form required to be provided on such form.
The Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee
with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or
furnishing. The Trustees shall comply with United States federal withholding and
backup withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements with respect
to any payments to Securityholders under the Trust Securities.
Section 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust. Upon receipt
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under the Debentures of Additional Tax Sums and the written direction of any of
the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee shall promptly pay, solely out
of monies on deposit pursuant to this Trust Agreement, any taxes, duties or
governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed
on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.
Section 4.7. Reduction for Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct
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Actions. Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Capital Securities shall
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be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or an Owner
with respect to the Holder's Capital Securities) has directly received pursuant
to Section 6.05 of the Indenture or SECTION 5.14. Notwithstanding any such
payments, the Depositor shall remain obligated to pay the principal of or
interest on the Debentures and the Depositor shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holder (and Owner) of such Capital Securities with respect to payments on
the Capital Securities to the extent of any payments made by the Depositor to
such Holder (and Owner) pursuant to either of such Sections.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
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Section 5.1. Initial Ownership. Upon the creation of the Trust and the
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contribution by the Depositor referred to SECTION 2.3 and until the issuance of
the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are
outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
Section 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates; Execution and Delivery
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Thereof. The Capital Securities Certificates shall be issued in denominations of
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$1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof,
and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in denominations of
$1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by
manual signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities
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Certificates bearing the manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time
when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of
the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust
Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust
Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall
become a Securityholder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the
obligations of a Securityholder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust
Securities Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to SECTIONS 5.4, 5.11
and 5.13.
At the initial Closing Date, the Administrative Trustees, or any of them,
shall cause Trust Securities Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as
provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the Trust and
delivered (i) with respect to the Capital Securities Certificates to the Initial
Purchaser, against payment therefor, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and (ii)
with respect to the Common Securities Certificates, to the Depositor, in each
case, without further corporate action by the Depositor, in authorized
denominations. To the extent subsequent Tranches of Securities are issued on
subsequent Closing Dates, as provided in SECTIONS 2.4 and 2.5 an Administrative
Trustee shall cause Trust Securities Certificates in the applicable aggregate
Liquidation Amount to be executed and delivered on behalf of the Trust pursuant
to the procedures set forth in an Officers' Certificate.
Section 5.3. Form of Trust Securities Certificates. (a) A single Common
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Securities Certificate representing the Common Securities shall be issued to the
Depositor in the form of a definitive Common Securities Certificate.
(b) Capital Securities offered and sold in reliance on
Rule 144A shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global
Capital Securities, substantially in the form of Exhibit B (a "144A GLOBAL
SECURITY"), deposited with the Clearing Agency or the Property Trustee as
custodian for the Clearing Agency. Transfers of beneficial interests in the 144A
Global Security will be subject to the restrictions on transfer contained in the
Private Placement Legend. Transfers of beneficial interests in the 144A Global
Security will be made in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures of the Clearing Agency.
(c) Capital Securities offered and sold in offshore
transactions in reliance on Regulation S shall be issued initially in the form
of one or more permanent global Capital Securities, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C (a "REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY"), deposited with the Clearing Agency
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or the Property Trustee as custodian for the Clearing Agency. Prior to the
expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial interests in the
Regulation S Global Security may only be held by Clearing Agency Participants in
the name of a nominee of Euroclear or Clearstream. After the expiration of the
Distribution Compliance Period, transfers of beneficial interests in the
Regulation S Global Security will not be subject to any restrictions and may be
held by Clearing Agency Participants other than in the name of a nominee of
Euroclear or Clearstream. Transfers of beneficial interests in the Regulation S
Global Security will be made in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures of the Clearing Agency.
(d) Capital Securities offered and sold to Institutional
Accredited Investors in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act shall be
issued initially in the form of one or more Definitive Capital Securities
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Certificates, substantially in the form of Exhibit D. Transfers of Definitive
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Capital Securities Certificates will be subject to the Private Placement Legend
and the requirements contained in SECTION 5.11(d)(1) or 5.11(d)(2).
(e) All Trust Securities shall be dated the date of their
execution.
(f) Exchange Capital Securities shall be issued in global
form deposited with the Clearing Agency or the Property Trustee as custodian for
the Clearing Agency or in such other form as the Administrative Trustees may
direct.
Section 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Capital Securities
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Certificates. (a) The Depositor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or
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agency maintained pursuant to SECTION 5.8, a register for the purpose of
registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Capital
Securities Certificates (the "SECURITIES REGISTER") in which the registrar
designated by the Depositor (the "SECURITIES REGISTRAR"), subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration
of Capital Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates and
registration of transfers and exchanges of Capital Securities Certificates,
subject to SECTION 5.10, SECTION 5.11 and as may otherwise be provided herein.
The Bank shall be the initial Securities Registrar. The Securities Registrar
shall not be required to register the transfer or exchange of any Capital
Securities (x) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Capital Securities
and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing or (y) that have
been selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion
of any Capital Security redeemed in part.
(b) Capital Securities Certificate at the office or agency
maintained pursuant to SECTION 5.8 and subject to compliance with SECTION 5.11,
the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and deliver, in the
name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Capital
Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate
Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or
Trustees. Subject to SECTION 5.11, at the option of a Holder, Capital Securities
Certificates may be exchanged for other Capital Securities Certificates in
authorized denominations of the same class and of a like aggregate Liquidation
Amount upon surrender of the Capital Securities Certificates to be exchanged at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to SECTION 5.8.
(c) Every Capital Securities Certificate presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an Administrative Trustee
and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly
authorized in writing. Each Capital Securities Certificate surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently
disposed of by an Administrative Trustee or the Securities Registrar in
accordance with such Person's customary practice; provided that no exchanges of
Private Capital Securities for Exchange Capital Securities shall occur until a
registration statement has been declared effective by the Commission and that
any Private Capital Securities that are exchanged for Exchange Capital
Securities shall be canceled by the Property Trustee.
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(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration
of transfer or exchange of Capital Securities Certificates, but the Securities
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Capital Securities Certificates.
Section 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
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Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate is surrendered
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to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar receives evidence to
its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities
Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Securities Registrar and the
Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust
Securities Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the
Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Trust shall
execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust
Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with
the issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section, the
Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued
pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided
beneficial interest in the Trust Property, as if originally issued, whether or
not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate is found at any
time.
Section 5.6. Persons Deemed Securityholders. The Trustees or the
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Securities Registrar shall treat the Person in whose name any Trust Securities
Certificate is registered in the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust
Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all
other purposes whatsoever (subject to the record date provisions hereof), and
neither the Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice
to the contrary.
Section 5.7. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses. At
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any time when the Property Trustee is not also acting as the Securities
Registrar, the Depositor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Property
Trustee promptly after receipt by an Administrative Trustee of a request
therefor from the Property Trustee in writing, a list, in such form as the
Property Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the
Securityholders as of the most recent record date. The rights of Securityholders
to communicate with other Securityholders with respect to their rights under
this Trust Agreement or under the Trust Securities, and the corresponding
obligations and rights of the Property Trustee, shall be as provided in the
Trust Indenture Act. Each Holder, by receiving and holding a Trust Securities
Certificate, and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the
Depositor, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees accountable by
reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from
which such information was derived.
Section 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency for Transfers. The
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Administrative Trustees shall maintain an office or offices or agency or
agencies where Capital Securities Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The
Administrative Trustees initially designate the Corporate Trust Office of the
Property Trustee, as the principal corporate trust office for such purposes. The
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Administrative Trustees shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor and to
the Securityholders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or
any such office or agency.
Section 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
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Distributions to Securityholders from the Payment Account and shall report the
amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from
the Payment Account for the purpose of making the Distributions referred to
above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying
Agent if such Trustees determine in their sole discretion that the Paying Agent
has failed to perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement in any material
respect. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Bank, and any co-paying agent
chosen by the Bank, and acceptable to the Administrative Trustees and the
Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as
Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Administrative Trustees, the
Property Trustee and the Depositor. In the event that the Bank is no longer the
Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent resigns or its authority to act
revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor that is
acceptable to the Property Trustee and the Depositor to act as Paying Agent
(which shall be a bank or trust company). The Administrative Trustees shall
cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by
the Administrative Trustees to execute and deliver to the Trustees an instrument
in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with
the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional
Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the
Securityholders in trust for the benefit of the Securityholders entitled thereto
until such sums are paid to such Securityholders. The Paying Agent shall return
all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent
such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property
Trustee. The provisions of SECTIONS 8.2, 8.4 and 8.6 herein shall apply to the
Bank also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Bank acts as Paying
Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed
hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any
co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
Section 5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor. At the initial
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Closing Date, and at any subsequent Closing Dates, the Depositor shall acquire
and retain beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the
fullest extent permitted by law, other than a transfer in connection with a
consolidation, conversion or merger of the Depositor into another Person, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to Article Eleven of the
Indenture, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities shall be void. The
Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to
the Depositor to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE."
Section 5.11. Book-Entry Interests. (a) So long as the Private Capital
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Securities are eligible for book-entry settlement in the Clearing Agency or
unless otherwise required by law, all Private Capital Securities that are so
eligible will be represented by one or more Global Capital Securities
Certificates deposited with the Clearing Agency or the Property Trustee as
custodian for the Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Trust. No Owner of a
beneficial interest in a Global Capital Securities Certificate will receive a
Definitive Capital Securities Certificate representing such Owner's beneficial
interest in the Private Capital Securities, except as provided in
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SECTION 5.11(f) below; provided, however, that the Trust shall issue a
Definitive Capital Securities Certificate upon any transfer of a beneficial
interest in a Global Capital Security to the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company and no Definitive Capital Securities Certificate, or portion thereof, in
respect of which the Company or an Affiliate of the Company held any beneficial
interest shall be resold, retransferred or included in any Global Capital
Security until such Private Capital Security is freely tradeable in accordance
with Rule 144(k) or exchanged for an Exchange Capital Security.
(b) 144A Global Securities shall initially be registered
in the name of a nominee of the Clearing Agency and Regulation S Global
Securities shall initially be registered in the name of a nominee for the
Clearing Agency for the accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream.
(c) Transfers of interests in Private Capital Securities
between any 144A Global Security and any Regulation S Global Security will be
made in accordance with this Trust Agreement (including SECTION 5.11(d)(3) and
(4), as applicable) and in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures of the Clearing Agency. The Property Trustee shall make appropriate
endorsements to reflect increases or decreases in the amount of such Global
Capital Securities.
(d) Unless and until the earlier of (i) the date upon
which Private Capital Securities are exchanged for Exchange Capital Securities
in connection with an effective registration statement pursuant to the Exchange
and Registration Rights Agreement or (ii) the Transfer Restriction Termination
Date:
(1) Definitive to Definitive Transfers. Any transfer of
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a Definitive Capital Securities Certificate shall be
registered on the Securities Register only upon receipt by
the Property Trustee of such Definitive Capital Securities
Certificate accompanied by a duly completed and executed
assignment in the form attached to Exhibit D and, in the
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case of a transfer to an Institutional Accredited Investor,
upon receipt by the Property Trustee of a written
certificate in the form of Exhibit F (or other
certifications, legal opinions or other information as the
Depositor may reasonably request to confirm that such
transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act);
(2) Definitive into a Global Capital Security. So long
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as Private Capital Securities are eligible for book-entry
settlement with the Clearing Agency or unless otherwise
required by law, upon any transfer of a Definitive Capital
Securities Certificate to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A
or to a non-U.S. Person in accordance with Regulation S, and
upon receipt of the Definitive Capital Securities
Certificate being so transferred accompanied by a duly
completed and executed assignment in the form attached to
Exhibit D, the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall
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make an endorsement on any 144A Global Security or any
Regulation S Global Security, as the case may be, to reflect
an increase in such Global Capital Security and the Property
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall cancel such
Definitive Capital Securities Certificates;
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(3) 144A Global Security into Regulation S Global
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Security. Any transfer in accordance with Rule 904 of
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Regulation S of a beneficial interest in a 144A Global
Security shall be reflected by an increase in the Regulation
S Global Security and a corresponding decrease in the 144A
Global Security, in each case by the Property Trustee on
behalf of the Trust making an endorsement on such Global
Capital Security, only upon receipt by the Property Trustee
of a written certificate in the form of Exhibit G (or such
other certifications, legal opinions or other information as
the Depositor may reasonably require to confirm that such
transfer is being made pursuant to such Rule 904); and
(4) Regulation S Global Security into 144A Global
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Security. Any transfer of a beneficial interest in a
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Regulation S Global Security to a transferee that takes
delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in the 144A
Global Security shall be reflected by an increase in the
144A Global Security and a corresponding decrease in the
Regulation S Global Security, in each case by the Property
Trustee on behalf of the Trust making an endorsement on such
Global Capital Security and, prior to the expiration of the
Distribution Compliance Period, only upon receipt by the
Property Trustee of a written certificate in the form of
Exhibit H (or such other certifications, legal opinions or
other information as the Depositor may reasonably require).
(e) Any Global Capital Security may be endorsed with or
have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Trust Agreement as may be required by
the Clearing Agency, by any national securities exchange or by the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or as may be required for the Private
Capital Securities to be tradeable on any other market developed for trading of
securities pursuant to Rule 144A or required to comply with any applicable law
or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities
exchange upon which the Capital Securities may be listed or traded or to conform
with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or
restrictions to which any particular Capital Securities are subject.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust
Agreement (other than the provisions set forth in this SECTION 5.11(f)), a
Global Capital Security may not be exchanged in whole or in part for Definitive
Capital Securities Certificates, and no transfer of a Global Capital Security
may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Clearing Agency or a
nominee thereof unless (i) such Clearing Agency (A) has notified the Property
Trustee and the Depositor that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Clearing
Agency for such Global Capital Security or (B) has ceased to be a clearing
agency registered as such under the Exchange Act and no successor Clearing
Agency has been appointed by the Depositor within 90 days after its receipt of
such notice or its becoming aware of such cessation of registration, (ii) there
has occurred and is continuing an Event of Default, or any event that after
notice or lapse of time or both would be an Event of Default under the Trust
Agreement, with respect to such Capital Security or (iii) the Depositor in its
discretion instructs the Property Trustee to exchange such Global Capital
Security for Definitive Capital Securities Certificates (in which case such
exchange shall be effected by the Property Trustee).
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(g) Unless and until Definitive Capital Securities
Certificates have been issued to Owners pursuant to SECTION 5.13, the following
provisions of this SECTION 5.11(g) shall be in full force and effect:
(i) the Securities Registrar and the Trustees shall be entitled
to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Trust
Agreement relating to the Global Capital Securities (including the
payment of the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Capital
Securities evidenced by Global Capital Securities Certificates and the
giving of instructions or directions to Owners of Capital Securities
evidenced by Global Capital Securities) as the sole Holder of Capital
Securities evidenced by Global Capital Securities and shall have no
obligations to the Owners thereof; and
(ii) the rights of the Owners of the Global Capital Securities
shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be
limited to those established by law and agreements between such Owners
and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants.
Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and until
Definitive Capital Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to this
SECTION 5.11 or SECTION 5.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make
book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and
receive and transmit payments on the Capital Securities to such
Clearing Agency Participants.
(h) The Administrative Trustees shall inform the Property
Trustee in writing of the effective date of any registration statement
registering the Exchange Capital Securities under the Securities Act. Upon the
receipt of a certificate from the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee
will take such actions as shall be necessary to effectuate the exchange of any
of the Private Capital Securities for Exchange Capital Securities, including but
not limited to the issuance of Exchange Capital Securities in the form requested
by the Administrative Trustees, the entry of decreases in the Regulation S
Global Security and the 144A Global Security or, if applicable, the cancellation
of Definitive Capital Securities Certificates.
(i) Any beneficial interest in one of the Global Capital
Securities that is transferred to an Owner who takes delivery in the form of an
interest in the other Global Capital Securities will, upon transfer, cease to be
an interest in the former Global Capital Security and will become an interest in
the latter Global Capital Security and, accordingly, will thereafter be subject
to all transfer restrictions and other procedures applicable to beneficial
interests in such latter Global Capital Security for so long as it remains such
an interest.
Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. To the extent that a notice or
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other communication to the Owners is required under this Trust Agreement, unless
and until Definitive Capital Securities Certificates shall have been issued to
Owners pursuant to SECTION 5.13, the Trustees shall give all such notices and
communications specified herein to be given to Owners to the Clearing Agency,
and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
Section 5.13. Procedures for Issuance of Definitive Capital Securities
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Certificates. Upon surrender to the Securities Registrar of the typewritten
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Capital Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Global Capital
Securities Certificates by the Clearing Agency upon occurrence of any of the
events described in SECTION 5.11(f), accompanied by registration instructions,
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the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute and the
Securities Registrar shall register the Definitive Capital Securities
Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither
the Securities Registrar nor the Trustees shall be liable for any delay in
delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be
protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive
Capital Securities Certificates, the Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the
Definitive Capital Securities Certificates as Securityholders. The Definitive
Capital Securities Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Trustees, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them.
Section 5.14. Rights of Securityholders. (a) The legal title to the Trust
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Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such)
in accordance with SECTION 2.9, and the Securityholders shall not have any right
or title therein other than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to
call for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Trust
except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property
giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust
Agreement. The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights. When
issued and delivered to Securityholders against payment of the purchase price
therefor, the Capital Securities will be fully paid and nonassessable undivided
beneficial interests in the Trust Property. The Holders of the Capital
Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same
limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware.
(b) For so long as any Capital Securities remain
Outstanding, if, upon a Debenture Event of Default, the Debenture Trustee fails
or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
Debentures fail to declare the principal of all of the Debentures to be
immediately due and payable, the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount
of the Capital Securities then Outstanding shall have such right by a notice in
writing to the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee; and upon any such
declaration such principal amount of and the accrued interest on all of the
Debentures shall become immediately due and payable; provided that the payment
of principal and interest on such Debentures shall remain subordinated to the
extent provided in the Indenture. At any time after such a declaration of
acceleration with respect to the Debentures has been made and before a judgment
or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Debenture
Trustee as provided in the Indenture, the Holders of a majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Capital Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences if:
(i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Debenture
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest (including any
Additional Interest, as defined in the Indenture) on all of the
Debentures,
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(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Debentures that have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate
borne by the Debentures, and
(C) ___ all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture Trustee
under the Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Debenture Trustee and the
Property Trustee, their agents and counsel and all amounts
payable to the Debenture Trustee under Section 7.06 of the
Indenture; and
(ii) all Debenture Events of Default, other than the non-payment
of the principal of the Debentures that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Article Six of
the Indenture.
The holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Capital Securities, waive
any past default under the Indenture, except a default in the payment of
principal or interest (unless such default has been cured and a sum sufficient
to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by
acceleration has been deposited with the Debenture Trustee) or a default in
respect of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture cannot be modified
or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Debenture. No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an
acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of the Capital
Securities all or part of which are represented by Global Capital Securities
Certificates, a record date shall be established for determining Holders of
Outstanding Capital Securities entitled to join in such notice, which record
date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee receives
such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies,
and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not
such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that, unless such
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
has become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such
notice prior to the day that is 90 days after such record date, such notice of
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of
no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy
of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written
notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as
the case may be, that is identical to a written notice that has been canceled
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record
date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this SECTION 5.14(b).
(c) For so long as any Capital Securities remain
Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of
this Trust Agreement and the Indenture, upon a Debenture Event of Default
specified in Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b) of the Indenture, any Holder of Capital
Securities shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the
Depositor, pursuant to Article Six of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment
to such Holder of the principal amount of or interest on Debentures having a
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principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities of
such Holder (a "DIRECT ACTION"). Except as set forth in SECTION 5.14(b) and this
SECTION 5.14(c), the Holders of Capital Securities shall have no right to
exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect
of, the Debentures.
The Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities
at the time Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method, and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Property Trustee with
respect to such Capital Securities; provided, however, that the Property Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Property
Trustee being advised by an Opinion of Counsel determines that the action so
directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Property Trustee in good faith
determines that the proceedings so directed would be illegal or involve it in
personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Holders of Capital
Securities not parties to such direction, and provided further that nothing in
the Trust Agreement shall impair the right of the Property Trustee to take any
action deemed proper by the Property Trustee and which is not inconsistent with
such direction by such Securityholders.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
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Section 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights. (a) Except as provided in this
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Section, in SECTIONS 5.14, 8.10 and 10.2 and in the Indenture and as otherwise
required by law, no Holder of Capital Securities shall have any right to vote or
in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management of
the Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein
set forth, or contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be
construed so as to constitute the Securityholders from time to time as partners
or members of an association.
(b) So long as any Debentures are held by the Property
Trustee, the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture Trustee, or
executing any trust or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to
such Debentures, (ii) waive any past default that is waivable under the
Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the
principal of all the Debentures shall be due and payable or (iv) consent to any
amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Debentures, where
the consent of the holders of Debentures shall be required, without, in each
case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a majority in
Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Capital Securities; provided, however,
that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each
holder of Debentures affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the
Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Capital
Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or
approved by a vote of the Holders of Capital Securities, except by a subsequent
vote of the Holders of Capital Securities. Subject to SECTION 8.3, the Property
Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Capital Securities of any notice of
default received from the Debenture Trustee with respect to the Debentures. In
addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Capital
Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Trustees shall, at
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the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
such action shall not cause the Trust to fail or cease to be classified as a
grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
(c) If any proposed amendment to this Trust Agreement
provides for, or the Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that
would adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or
special rights of the Capital Securities, whether by way of amendment to this
Trust Agreement or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination
of the Trust, other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the
Holders of Outstanding Capital Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on
such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective
except with the approval of the Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Outstanding Capital Securities, except as otherwise provided in
SECTION 10.2(c). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no
amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result of such amendment,
it would cause the Trust to fail or cease to be classified as a grantor trust
for United States Federal income tax purposes.
Section 6.2. Notice of Meetings. Notice of all meetings of the Capital
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Securityholders, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be
given by the Property Trustee pursuant to SECTION 10.8 to each Capital
Securityholder of record, at his or her registered address, at least 15 days and
not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business
properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the
notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without
further notice.
Section 6.3. Meetings of Capital Securityholders. No annual meeting of
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Securityholders is required to be held. The Administrative Trustees, however,
shall call a meeting of Capital Securityholders to vote on any matter upon the
written request of the Holders of Capital Securities of record of at least 25%
of the Capital Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount) and the
Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their
discretion, call a meeting of Capital Securities to vote on any matters as to
which Holder of Capital Securities are entitled to vote.
Holders of Capital Securities of record of at least 50% of the Outstanding
Capital Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount), present in person or
by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Holders of Capital
Securities.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders of
Capital Securities of record present, in person or by proxy, holding more than a
majority of the Capital Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount) held by
the Holders of Capital Securities of record present, either in person or by
proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of Capital
Securities, unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative
votes.
Section 6.4. Voting Rights. Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote
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for each $1,000 of Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities in
respect of any matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
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Section 6.5. Proxies, etc. At any meeting of Securityholders, any
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Securityholder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy; provided that no
proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it has been placed on file with the
Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the
Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at which
such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee,
proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more
officers of the Property Trustee. Only Securityholders of record shall be
entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any
one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such
Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting
in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present
disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect
of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a
Securityholder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its
exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No
proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution.
Section 6.6. Securityholder Action by Written Consent. Any action that may
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be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if
Securityholders holding a majority of all Outstanding Trust Securities (based
upon their Liquidation Amount) entitled to vote in respect of such action (or
such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any express provision of
this Trust Agreement) consent to the action in writing.
Section 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes. For the purposes
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of determining the Securityholders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at
any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any Distribution on the
Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for
in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other action, the
Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days
prior to the date of any meeting of Securityholders or the payment of a
Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the
determination of the identity of the Securityholders of record for such
purposes.
Section 6.8. Acts of Securityholders. Any request, demand, authorization,
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direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this
Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken by Securityholders may be embodied in
and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed
by such Securityholders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and,
except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to an Administrative
Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "ACT" of the
Securityholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of
any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to SECTION 8.2)
conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this
Section.
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
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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 that any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient. The ownership
of Capital Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act of the Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind every future
Securityholder of the same Trust Security and the Securityholder of every Trust
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 Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled hereunder to take
any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with
regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by
one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.
If any dispute arises between the Securityholders and the Administrative
Trustees or among such Securityholders or Trustees with respect to the
authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization,
direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Securityholder or Trustee under
this Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee
shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.
Section 6.9. Inspection of Records. Upon reasonable notice to the
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Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee, the records of the Trust shall
be open to inspection by Securityholders during normal business hours for any
purpose reasonably related to such Securityholder's interest as a
Securityholder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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Section 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Bank, the Property
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Trustee and the Delaware Trustee. The initial Property Trustee and the initial
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Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to itself, hereby
represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and the Securityholders
that:
(a) the Property Trustee is a New York banking corporation;
(b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power,
authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under
this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
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(c) the Delaware Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing with its principal place
of business in the State of Delaware;
(d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power,
authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under
this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and
constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in accordance
with its terms;
(f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Trust
Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action
on the part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and do not require
any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee
and such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the charter or
By-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any
provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default
under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any properties
included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture,
mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which
the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound,
or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States,
the State of New York or the State of Delaware, as the case may be, governing
the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order, judgment or decree applicable
to the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee;
(g) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by
the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the
consummation of any of the transactions by the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee (as appropriate in context) contemplated herein requires the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any
other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any
existing State of New York or State of Delaware law governing the banking, trust
or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case
may be; and
(h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of
each of the Property Trustee's and the Delaware Trustee's knowledge, threatened
against or affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court
or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal
that, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect
the Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, to enter into or perform
its obligations as one of the Trustees under this Trust Agreement.
Any successor Property Trustee and Delaware Trustee shall make similar
representations and warranties as contained in this SECTION 7.1 for the benefit
of the Depositor and the Securityholders.
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Section 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor. The Depositor
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hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Securityholders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at any
Closing Date on behalf of the Trust have been duly authorized and will have been
duly and validly executed, issued and delivered by the Trustees pursuant to the
terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust
Agreement and the Securityholders will be, as of each such date, entitled to the
benefits of this Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges
payable by the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf of the Trust) under the laws of
the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with
the execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
THE TRUSTEES
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Section 8.1. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees.
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(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the
Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital
and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of its
supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this
SECTION 8.1(a), the combined capital and surplus of such Person 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 Property Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities ceases 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.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative
Trustees hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative
Trustee shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a
legal entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity. No natural person shall be eligible to act as an Administrative Trustee
hereunder unless such person is an employee or officer of, or affiliated with,
the Depositor.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a
natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of
Delaware or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the
State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable
Delaware law that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such
entity.
Section 8.2. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) The duties and
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responsibilities of the Trustees shall be restricted to those set forth in the
express provisions of this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property
Trustee, as provided in the Trust Indenture Act in respect of an indenture
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trustee under that Act, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. For purposes of
Sections 315(a) and 315(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, the term "default" is
hereby an "Event of Default" which has occurred and is continuing.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust Agreement shall
require any of the Trustees 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. Notwithstanding anything
contained in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, the duties and
responsibilities of the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement shall
subject to the protections, exculpations and limitations on liability afforded
to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement, the Delaware Business Trust
Act, to the extent applicable, Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act or any
successor rule thereunder, and to an indenture trustee under the Trust Indenture
Act. For the purposes of Section 315(d)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act, the term
"responsible officer" is hereby defined as "Responsible Officer". Whether or not
therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating
to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the
Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. Nothing in this
Trust Agreement shall be construed to release an Administrative Trustee from
liability for his or her or its own negligence or willful misconduct. To the
extent that, at law or in equity, an Administrative Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto
to the Trust, to any other Trustee or to the Securityholders, such
Administrative Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall not be liable to the Trust,
to any other Trustee or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's good faith
reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust
Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the
Administrative Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by
the Depositor, the Trustees and the Securityholders to replace such other duties
and liabilities of the Administrative Trustees and the Delaware Trustee.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying
Agent in respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and
proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there is sufficient
revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a
Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each
Securityholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look
solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally
available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are
not personally liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust
Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This
Section 8.2(b) does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth
elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be
construed to relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except
that:
(i) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) the Property Trustee undertakes to perform such duties
and only such duties as are specifically set forth in
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this Trust Agreement and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Trust Agreement
against the Property Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Property
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 Property Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Trust Agreement; but in the case
of any such certificates or opinions which by any
provision hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee
shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Trust Agreement.
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the Property
Trustee, unless it is proved that the Property Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made;
(iii) Property 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 not less than a majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
(iv) no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require the
Property 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.
(v) Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the custody,
safe keeping and physical preservation of the Debentures and the
Payment Account shall be to deal with such property in a similar
manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property for its own
account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability
afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement, the
Delaware Business Trust Act and the Trust Indenture Act;
(vi) Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any
money received by it except as it may otherwise agree in writing with
the Depositor; and money held by the Property Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the
Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to
Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law; and
(vii) Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring
the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with
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their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the
Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor.
Section 8.3. Certain Notices. Within 90 days after the occurrence of any
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Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee
assigned to its Corporate Trust Office, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in
the manner and to the extent provided in SECTION 10.8, notice of such Event of
Default to the Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor,
unless such Event of Default has been cured or waived.
Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor's
exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures
pursuant to the Indenture, the Administrative Trustee shall transmit, in the
manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such exercise to
the Securityholders and the Property Trustee, unless such exercise has been
revoked.
Section 8.4. Certain Rights of Property Trustee. Subject to the provisions
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of SECTION 8.2:
(a) the Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall
be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
opinion, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee,
certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, appraisal, bond,
debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document
reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or
presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust
Agreement the Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses
of action or (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement
the Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other
provisions contained herein or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the
application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any
matter as to which the Holders of Capital Securities are entitled to vote under
the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice
to the Depositor requesting written instructions of the Depositor as to the
course of action to be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or
refrain from taking such action, as the Property Trustee is instructed in
writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided, however,
that if the Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor
within ten Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably
shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable
shall not be less than two Business Days), it may, but shall be under no duty
to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust
Agreement as it deems advisable and in the best interests of the
Securityholders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability
except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the
Administrative Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate or an instrument signed by
the requisite number of Administrative Trustees, as the case may be;
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(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust
Agreement, the Property Trustee deems it desirable that a matter be proved or
established before taking, suffering or omitting to take any action hereunder,
the Property Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed)
may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon
an Officers' Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly
delivered by the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees;
(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any
recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or
continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any
re-recording, refiling or reregistration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its
selection (which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its
Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice or opinion of
such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect
of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good
faith and in reliance thereon; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any
time to seek instructions concerning the administration of the Trust or
interpretation of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the
request or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust
Agreement, unless such Securityholders have offered to the Property Trustee such
adequate security or indemnity against the costs, expenses (including attorney's
fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying
with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be
requested by the Property Trustee;
(h) the Property 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, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or
other paper or document, but the Property Trustee, in its discretion, may make
such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see
fit;
(i) the Property 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 Property 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;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement
the Property Trustee deems it desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property
Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of the Trust Securities
which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the
Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such
remedy, right or action, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or
taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall
be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions;
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(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust
Agreement, the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any
action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement;
(l) the Property Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of an Event of Default unless either (i) a Responsible Officer of the
Property Trustee assigned to its Corporate Trust Department (or any successor
department or division of the Property Trustee) located at the Corporate Trust
Office shall have actual knowledge of such Event of Default or (ii) the Property
Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office written notice of such event from
the Depositor, any other Trustee or Securityholders holding a majority or more
of Capital Securities (based upon Liquidation Amount) and such notice references
the Trust Securities and this Trust Agreement;
(m) no provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed
to impose any duty or obligation on the Property Trustee to perform any act or
acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on
it, in any jurisdiction in which it is illegal, or in which the Property Trustee
is unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any
such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation;
(n) no permissive or discretionary power or authority
available to the Property Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to act in
accordance with such power and authority;
(o) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the
request of direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust
Agreement, unless such Securityholders shall have offered the Property Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(p) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any
recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or
continuation statement or any tax or securities) (or any re-recording, refiling
or registration thereof);
(q) the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time
to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from
any court of competent jurisdiction;
(r) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement
the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with
respect to enforcing any remedies or right or taking any other action hereunder,
the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of the
Trust Securities, which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the
same Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the
Property Trustee under the terms of this Trust Agreement in respect of such
remedies, right or action, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right
or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and
(iii) shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with such instructions;
(s) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities, and
benefits given to the Property Trustee, including, without limitation, its right
to be indemnified , are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Property
Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and
other Person employed to act hereunder;
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(t) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any
action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and
reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or
powers conferred upon by this Trust Agreement; and
(u) the Property Trustee may request that the Depositor
deliver an Officers' Certificate setting forth the names of officers authorized
at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Trust Agreement, which
Officers' Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an
Officers' Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any
such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
Section 8.5. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Trust Securities.
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The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be
taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Trustees do not assume any
responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustees make no representations and shall have no duty or liability
for, or with respect to, the validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement or
of the Trust Securities, the value, genuineness, existence or sufficiency of the
Trust Property or the payment of any taxes or assessments levied thereon or in
connection therewith.
The Trustees shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Depositor of the proceeds of the Debentures.
Section 8.6. May Hold Securities. Any Trustee or any other agent of any
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Trustee or the Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to SECTIONS 8.8 and 8.13 and
except as provided in the definition of the term "OUTSTANDING" in Article I, may
otherwise deal with the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not
a Trustee or such other agent.
Section 8.7. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees. The Depositor agrees:
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(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time such
compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Depositor and the
respective Trustees for all services rendered by them hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the
compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision
of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to their willful misconduct or
negligence;
(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to
indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Trustee,
(iii) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of
any Trustee, and (iv) any employee or agent of the Trust or its Affiliates
(referred to herein as an "INDEMNIFIED PERSON") from and against any loss,
damage, liability, tax, penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature
whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of the creation,
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operation or termination of the Trust or any act or omission performed or
omitted by such Indemnified Person on behalf of the Trust and in a manner such
Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority
conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except that no
Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss,
damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of negligence or
willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions; and
(d) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to
advance expenses (including legal fees and expenses) incurred by an Indemnified
Person in defending any claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding which expenses
shall be advanced, from time to time, prior to the final disposition of such
claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding upon receipt by the Depositor of (i) a
written affirmation by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person of its, his or her
good faith belief that it he or she has met the standard of conduct set forth in
this Section 8.7 and (ii) an undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnified
Person to repay such amount if it becomes determined that the Indemnified Person
is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in the preceding subsection.
"Trustee" for the purpose of this Section shall include any predecessor
Trustee; provided, however, that the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith
of any Trustee hereunder shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee
hereunder.
In addition to the rights provided to each Trustee herein and not by way of
prejudice, when a Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with
an Event of Default resulting from a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Trust,
the expenses (including reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law.
The provisions of this SECTION 8.7 shall survive the termination of this
Trust Agreement and the resignation or removal of any Trustee.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Depositor under
this Section, each of the Trustees shall have a lien prior to the Trust
Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by such Trustee as
such, except funds held in trust for the payment of Distributions on, or any
other payments in respect of, particular Trust Securities.
The Depositor and any Trustee (in the case of the Property Trustee, subject
to SECTION 8.8 hereof) may engage in or possess an interest in other business
ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or
dissimilar to the business of the Trust, and the Trust and the Holders of Trust
Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such
independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit
of any such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Trust, shall
not be deemed wrongful or improper. Neither the Depositor, nor any Trustee,
shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to
the Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the
Trust, could be taken by the Trust, and the Depositor or any Trustee shall have
the right to take for its own account (individually or as a partner or
fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other
opportunity. Any Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other
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transaction with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as
depository for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders
of, securities or other obligations of the Depositor or its Affiliates.
Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests. If the Property Trustee has or
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acquires a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act,
the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the
extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the
Trust Indenture Act and this Trust Agreement. The Indenture and the Guarantee
Agreement shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Trust Agreement
for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b)
of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee. Unless an Event of Default
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has occurred and is continuing, at any time or times, for the purpose of
conforming to the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any
jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located,
the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees, except in such instances as set
forth in the following sentence, by agreed action of the majority of such
Trustees, shall have power to appoint, and upon the written request of the
Administrative Trustees, the Depositor shall for such purpose join with the
Administrative Trustees in the execution, delivery, and performance of all
instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, one or more Persons
approved by the Property Trustee either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the
Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent
required by law to act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case
with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to
vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title,
right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of
this Section. If the Depositor does not join in such appointment within 15 days
after the receipt by it of a request so to do, or in case a Debenture Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee alone shall have
power to make such appointment. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed
pursuant to this Section shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21
years of age and a resident of the United States or (ii) a legal entity with its
principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or
more persons authorized to bind such entity.
If any written instrument from the Depositor is required by any co-trustee
or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such co- trustee
or separate trustee such property, title, right or power, any and all such
instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the
Depositor; provided, however, that, if a Debenture Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Property Trustee may execute any such instrument on
behalf of the Depositor as its agent and attorney-in-fact therefor.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law,
but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms, namely:
(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered
and all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the
custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to
be deposited or pledged with, the Trustees specified hereunder, shall be
exercised, solely by such Trustees and not by such co-trustee or separate
trustee.
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(b) The rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby
conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any property
covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee
or separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing
such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of
any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the Property
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event
such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by
such co- trustee or separate trustee.
(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in
writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor, may
accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed
under this Section, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation
of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence
of the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the
Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and
performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate
such resignation or removal; provided, however, that, if a Debenture Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee may execute any
such instruments or agreements on behalf of the Depositor as its agent and
attorney- in-fact therefor. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so
resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section.
(d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property Trustee or
any other trustee hereunder.
(e) Except as otherwise provided therein, the Property
Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a co-trustee or separate
trustee.
(f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee
shall be deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate
trustee.
Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. No
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resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "RELEVANT TRUSTEE") and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of SECTION 8.11.
Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee may
resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Securityholders and
the Depositor. Upon giving such notice, a successor to the Relevant Trustee
shall be appointed in accordance with the second succeeding paragraph. If a
successor is not so appointed within a reasonable time not to exceed thirty days
from the date of the Relevant Trustee's notice of resignation, or if for any
reason the instrument of acceptance by the successor Trustee required by Section
8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within thirty days
after giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition,
at the expense of the Trust, a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of
Delaware to appoint a successor.
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Unless a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any
Trustee may be removed for cause at any time by the Holder of the Common
Securities. If a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be removed with or without cause
at such time by Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Capital Securities. In no event will the Holders of the Capital Securities have
the right to vote to appoint, remove or replace the Administrative Trustees,
which voting rights are vested exclusively in the Depositor, as Holder of the
Common Securities.
After removal by the Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities, the successor to the Relevant Trustee may be appointed in
accordance with the next paragraph. If a successor is not so appointed within a
reasonable time not to exceed thirty days from the date of the Relevant
Trustee's removal, or if for any reason the instrument of acceptance by the
successor Trustee required by Section 8.11 has not been delivered to the
Relevant Trustee within thirty days of such removal, the Relevant Trustee may
petition, at the expense of the Trust, a court of competent jurisdiction in the
State of Delaware to appoint a successor.
If any Trustee resigns, removed or becomes incapable of acting as Trustee,
or if a vacancy occurs in the office of any Trustee for any cause, at a time
when no Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Common
Securityholder, by Act of the Holder of Common Securities delivered to the
retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees, and
the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of
SECTION 8.11. If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee resigns, removed
or becomes incapable of continuing to act as the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, at a time when a Debenture Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Holders of Capital Securities, by
Act of the Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities then Outstanding delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall
promptly appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees, and such successor
Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of SECTION 8.11. If an
Administrative Trustee resigns, removed or becomes incapable of acting as
Administrative Trustee, the Holders of Common Securities by Act of the Holders
of Common Securities delivered to the Administrative Trustee shall promptly
appoint a successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees and such
successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees shall comply with
the applicable requirements of SECTION 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee
has been so appointed by the Holders of Common Securities or the Holders of
Capital Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by
SECTION 8.11, any Securityholder who has been a Securityholder of Trust
Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of himself or herself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of a Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all Securityholders
in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give notice to the Depositor.
Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, if any Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural
person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Depositor, incompetent or
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incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may
be filled by (a) the unanimous act of remaining Administrative Trustees if there
are at least two of them or (b) otherwise by the Depositor (with the successor
in each case being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for
Administrative Trustees or Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, set forth in
SECTION 8.1).
Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. In case of the
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appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, the successor Relevant
Trustee shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein such successor
Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which shall contain such
provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Trust, subject to the lien provided for in SECTION 8.7.
Upon the execution and delivery of such amendment, the resignation or
removal of the Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance by any Person, shall become vested with the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the former Relevant Trustee; but, on request of the Trust or any
successor Relevant Trustee such former Relevant Trustee shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all
proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.
Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Trust shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee is qualified and
eligible under this Article.
Section 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
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Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged
or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from
any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be
a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate
trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant
Trustee hereunder; provided such Person 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.
Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust.
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In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
similar judicial proceeding relative to the Trust or any other obligor upon the
Trust Securities or the property of the Trust or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions or
other amounts due on the Trust Securities are then due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the
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Property Trustee has made any demand on the Trust for the payment of any past
due Distributions or such other amounts) shall be entitled and empowered, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any
Distributions and other amounts owing and unpaid in respect of the Trust
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any
claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such
judicial proceeding, and
(b) 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 Property Trustee and, if the Property
Trustee consents to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay
to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and
counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee under SECTION 8.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property 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 Trust
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Property
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 8.14. Reports by Property Trustee. (a) Not later than March 15 of
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each year commencing March 15, 2002, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all
Securityholders in accordance with SECTION 10.8, and to the Depositor, a brief
report dated as of the immediately preceding December 31 concerning the Property
Trustee and its actions under this Trust Agreement if and as may be required
pursuant to Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) In addition the Property Trustee shall transmit to
Securityholders such other reports concerning the Property Trustee and its
actions under this Trust Agreement as would be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act were this Trust Agreement to be qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with any interdealer
quotation system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Trust Securities
are designated for trading, with the Commission and with the Depositor.
Section 8.15. Reports to the Property Trustee. The Depositor and the
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Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide to the Property
Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of
the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance certificate required by
Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at
the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, such compliance
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certificate to be delivered annually on or before March 15 of each year
beginning in 2002. Delivery of such reports, information and documents by the
Depositor to the Property Trustee is for informational purposes only and the
Property Trustee's receipt of such reports, information and documents shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Depositor's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Property Trustee
is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates.)
Section 8.16. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. Each of the
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Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide
to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with such conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that relate to any of
the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any
certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section
314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers'
Certificate.
Section 8.17. Number of Trustees. (a) The number of Trustees shall be four;
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provided that the Holder of all of the Common Securities by written instrument
may increase or decrease the number of Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.
(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and
the number of Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to
SECTION 8.17(a), or if the number of Trustees is increased pursuant to
SECTION 8.17(a), a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a
Trustee appointed in accordance with the provisions of SECTION 8.10 relating to
appointment of a successor Trustee upon resignation of a Trustee.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal,
bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall
not operate to dissolve, terminate or annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the
number of Administrative Trustees occurs, until such vacancy is filled by the
appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with SECTION 8.10, the
Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the
powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all duties
imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
Section 8.18. Delegation of Power. (a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by
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power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to any other natural
person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of executing any
documents contemplated in SECTION 2.7(a) or making any other governmental
filing; and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to
delegate from time to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing
of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the
Trust or the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the
Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not
prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust
Agreement, as set forth herein.
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Section 8.19. Fiduciary Duty. (a) To the extent that, at law or in equity,
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an Indemnified Person has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities
relating thereto to the Trust or to any other Covered Person, an Indemnified
Person acting under this Trust Agreement shall not be liable to the Trust or to
any other Covered Person for its good faith reliance on the provisions of this
Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they
restrict the duties and liabilities of an Indemnified Person otherwise existing
at law or in equity (other than the duties imposed on the Property Trustee under
the Trust Indenture Act), are agreed by the parties hereto to replace such other
duties and liabilities of such Indemnified Person;
(b) Unless otherwise expressly provided herein:
(i) whenever a conflict of interest exists or arises between an
Indemnified Person and any Covered Person; or
(ii) whenever this Trust Agreement or any other agreement
contemplated herein or therein provides that an Indemnified Person
shall act in a manner that is, or provides terms that are, fair and
reasonable to the Trust or any Holder of Trust Securities,
the Indemnified Person shall resolve such conflict of interest, take such action
or provide such terms, considering in each case the relative interest of each
party (including its own interest) to such conflict, agreement, transaction or
situation and the benefits and burdens relating to such interests, any customary
or accepted industry practices, and any applicable generally accepted accounting
practices or principles. In the absence of bad faith by the Indemnified Person,
the resolution, action or term so made, taken or provided by the Indemnified
Person shall not constitute a breach of this Trust Agreement or any other
agreement contemplated herein or of any duty or obligation of the Indemnified
Person at law or in equity or otherwise; and
(c) Whenever in this Trust Agreement an Indemnified Person
is permitted or required to make a decision
(i) in its "discretion" or under a grant of similar authority,
the Indemnified Person shall be entitled to consider such interests
and factors as it desires, including its own interests, and shall have
no duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of or
factors affecting the Trust or any other Person; or
(ii) in its "good faith" or under another express standard, the
Indemnified Person shall act under such express standard and shall not
be subject to any other or different standard imposed by this Trust
Agreement or by applicable law.
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
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Section 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date. Unless earlier terminated,
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the Trust shall automatically terminate on September 1, 2032 (the "EXPIRATION
DATE"), following the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with
SECTION 9.4.
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Section 9.2. Early Termination. The first to occur of any of the following
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events is an "EARLY TERMINATION EVENT":
(a) the commencement by the Depositor of a voluntary case
under Chapter 7 or Chapter 8 of the federal Bankruptcy Code or any other similar
state or federal law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Depositor
to the entry of a decree or order for relief in an involuntary case under any
such law, or the consent by the Depositor to the appointment of a liquidating
agent or committee, conservator or receiver;
(b) the entry of a decree or order for relief by a court
having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Depositor in an
involuntary case under Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code or
any other similar state or federal law now or hereafter in effect, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of
90 days, or the appointment of a liquidating agent or committee, conservator or
receiver for the Depositor and the continuance of any such appointment unstayed
and in effect for a period of 90 days;
(c) the dissolution or liquidation of the Depositor;
(d) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the
Depositor at any time to dissolve the Trust and distribute Debentures to
Securityholders in exchange for the Like Amount of the Trust Securities (which
direction is optional and wholly within the discretion of the Depositor),
subject to the Depositor having received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that such distribution will not constitute a taxable exchange of the Capital
Securities for United States federal income tax purposes;
(e) the redemption of all of the Capital Securities in
connection with the redemption or other repayment (at stated maturity or
otherwise) of all of the Debentures; and
(f) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Trust by a
court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 9.3. Termination. The respective obligations and responsibilities
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of the Trustees and the Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon
the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property
Trustee to Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to
SECTION 9.4, or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to
SECTION 4.2, of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the final
payment of the Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the
Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative
Trustees, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with
respect to the Trust or the Securityholders.
Section 9.4. Liquidation. (a) If an Early Termination Event specified in
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clause (a), (b), (c), (d) or (f) of SECTION 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration
Date, the Trust shall be liquidated by the Trustees as expeditiously as the
Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of
liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, to each
Securityholder a Like Amount of Debentures, subject to SECTION 9.4(d). Notice of
liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage
prepaid mailed not later than 15 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation
Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder's address appearing in
the Securities Register. All notices of liquidation shall:
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(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust
Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Debentures; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by
which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates for
Debentures, or if SECTION 9.4(d) applies, receive a Liquidation
Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees or the Property Common
Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where SECTION 9.2(e) or 9.4(d) applies, in
order to effect the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Debentures
to Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days nor less than 15 days prior
to the Liquidation Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through
the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as
it deems appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for
the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where SECTION 9.2(e) or 9.4(d) applies, after
the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be
Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Debentures will be
issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such
certificates to the Property Trustee or its agent for exchange, (iii) the
Depositor shall use its best efforts to have the Debentures listed on the New
York Stock Exchange or on such other exchange, interdealer quotation system or
self-regulatory organization as the Capital Securities are then listed, (iv) any
Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Debentures, accruing interest at the rate provided
for in the Debentures from the last Distribution Date on which a Distribution
was made on such Trust Securities Certificates until such certificates are so
surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of
interest or principal will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates
with respect to such Debentures) and (v) all rights of Securityholders holding
Trust Securities will cease, except the right of such Securityholders to receive
the Like Amount of Debentures upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.
(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other
provisions of this SECTION 9.4, whether because of an order for dissolution
entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the
Debentures in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee
not to be practicable, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Trust
shall be dissolved, wound-up and terminated, by the Property Trustee in such
manner as the Property Trustee determines. In such event, on the date of the
dissolution of the Trust, Securityholders will be entitled to receive out of the
assets of the Trust available for distribution to Securityholders, after
satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable
law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus
accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount
being the "LIQUIDATION DISTRIBUTION"). If, upon any such dissolution, winding up
or termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because
the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate
Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the
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amounts payable directly by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a
pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common
Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such
dissolution, winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with
Holders of Capital Securities, except that, if a Debenture Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Capital Securities shall have a priority over
the Common Securities.
Section 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the
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Trust. The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be
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replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, except pursuant to this Article IX.
At the request of the Depositor, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees
and without the consent of the Holders of the Capital Securities, the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, the Trust may merge with or into, consolidate,
amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws
of any State; provided, however, that (i) such successor entity either (a)
expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust with respect to the
Capital Securities or (b) substitutes for the Capital Securities other
securities having substantially the same terms as the Capital Securities (the
"SUCCESSOR SECURITIES") so long as the Successor Securities rank the same as the
Capital Securities rank in priority with respect to distributions and payments
upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) the Depositor expressly
appoints a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and
duties as the Property Trustee as the holder of the Debentures, (iii) the
Successor Securities are listed or traded, or any Successor Securities will be
listed upon notification of issuance, on any national securities exchange or
other organization on which the Capital Securities are then listed or traded, if
any, (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease does not cause the Capital Securities (including any Successor
Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating
organization, (v) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences
and privileges of the Holders of the Capital Securities (including any Successor
Securities) in any material respect, (vi) such successor entity has a purpose
substantially identical to that of the Trust, (vii) prior to such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the
Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not
adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the
Capital Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect,
and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor entity will
be required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act and (viii)
the Depositor or any permitted successor or assignee owns all of the common
securities of such successor entity and guarantees the obligations of such
successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided
by the Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except
with the consent of Holders of 100% in Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to any other Person or permit any other Person to consolidate, amalgamate, merge
with or into, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Trust or the
successor entity to be classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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Section 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders to Terminate Trust.
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Subject to SECTION 9.2, the death, incapacity, dissolution, liquidation,
termination or bankruptcy of any Person having an interest, beneficial or
otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust
Agreement, dissolve, terminate or annul the Trust, nor entitle the legal
representatives, successors or heirs of such Person or any Securityholder for
such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in
any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby,
nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties
hereto or any of them.
Section 10.2. Amendment. (a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time
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to time by the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative
Trustees and the Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) to
cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions
with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which
shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement,
(ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to
such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust will be classified
for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust at all times
that any Trust Securities are outstanding or to ensure that the Trust will not
be required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act; provided,
however, that with respect to clause (i) any such action shall not adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Securityholder or the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, and any amendments of this Trust
Agreement shall become effective when notice thereof is given to the
Securityholders or (iii) to provide the Property Trustee with the authority to
execute on behalf of the Administrative Trustees Definitive Capital Securities
Certificates.
(b) Except as provided in SECTION 10.2(c) hereof, any
provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trustees and the
Depositor with (i) the consent of Trust Securityholders representing not less
than a majority (based upon Liquidation Amounts) of the Trust Securities then
Outstanding and (ii) receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Trustees
in accordance with such amendment will not affect the Trust's status as a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or the Trust's
exemption from status of an investment company under the 1940 Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision
in this Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder
(such consent being obtained in accordance with SECTION 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this
Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of
any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a
specified date or (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; notwithstanding
any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Securityholders
(such consent being obtained in accordance with SECTION 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this
paragraph (c) of this SECTION 10.2 may not be amended.
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(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust
Agreement, no Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust
Agreement that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status of an investment company under the 1940 Act or fail or
cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to
the contrary, without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not
be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust
Agreement is made, the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the
Depositor a copy of such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee
shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement that
affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The
Property Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers' Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in
compliance with this Trust Agreement.
Section 10.3. Separability. In case any provision in this Trust Agreement
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or in the Trust Securities Certificates is invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 10.4. Governing Law. THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS OF THE
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PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE AND ALL RIGHTS AND REMEDIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY
SUCH LAWS WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION THAT WOULD CALL FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE
LAW OF ANY JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF DELAWARE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE APPLICABLE TO THE PARTIES HEREUNDER OR THIS TRUST
AGREEMENT ANY PROVISION OF THE LAWS (STATUTORY OR COMMON) OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE PERTAINING TO TRUSTS THAT RELATE TO OR REGULATE, IN A MANNER
INCONSISTENT WITH THE TERMS HEREOF (A) THE FILING WITH ANY COURT OR GOVERNMENTAL
BODY OR AGENCY OF TRUSTEE ACCOUNTS OR SCHEDULES OF TRUSTEE FILES AND CHARGES,
(B) AFFIRMATIVE REQUIREMENTS TO POST BONDS FOR TRUSTEES, OFFICERS, AGENTS OR
EMPLOYEES OF A TRUST, (C) THE NECESSITY FOR OBTAINING COURT OR OTHER
GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL CONCERNING THE ACQUISITION, HOLDING OR DISPOSITION OF REAL
OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, (D) FEES OR OTHER SUMS PAYABLE TO TRUSTEES, OFFICERS,
AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF A TRUST, (E) THE ALLOCATION OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
TO INCOME OR PRINCIPAL, (F) RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS ON THE PERMISSIBLE
NATURE, AMOUNT OR CONCENTRATION OF THE TRUST INVESTMENTS OR REQUIREMENTS
RELATING TO THE TITLING, STORAGE OR OTHER MANNER OF HOLDING OR INVESTING TRUST
ASSETS OR (G) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FIDUCIARY OR OTHER STANDARDS OF
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RESPONSIBILITY OR LIMITATIONS ON THE ACTS OR POWERS OF TRUSTEES THAT ARE
INCONSISTENT WITH THE LIMITATIONS OR LIABILITIES OR AUTHORITIES AND POWERS OF
THE TRUSTEES HEREUNDER AS SET FORTH OR REFERENCED IN THIS DECLARATION.
SECTION 3540 OF TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE TRUST.
Section 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day. If the date fixed for any
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payment on any Trust Security is a day that is not a Business Day, then such
payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day
that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the
date fixed for such payment, and no interest shall accrue thereon for the period
after such date.
Section 10.6. Successors. This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and
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shall inure to the benefit of any successor to the Depositor, the Trust or the
Relevant Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in
connection with a consolidation, merger, conversion or sale involving the
Depositor that is permitted under Article Eleven of the Indenture and pursuant
to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor's obligations
hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.
Section 10.7. Headings. The Article and Section headings are for
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convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
Section 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands. Any report, notice, demand or
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other communication that by any provision of this Trust Agreement is required or
permitted to be given or served to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor
may be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage
prepaid, in the United States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in
each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a Holders of Capital Securities, to
such Capital Securityholder as such Securityholder's name and address may appear
on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of Common
Securities or the Depositor, to DPL Inc., ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Treasurer, facsimile no.: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇. Such notice,
demand or other communication to or upon a Securityholder shall be deemed to
have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery,
mailing or transmission.
Any notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this
Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the
Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or the Administrative Trustees
shall be given in writing addressed (until another address is published by the
Trust) as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee to The Bank of New
York, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ 21 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration, (b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to The
Bank of New York (Delaware), ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: Corporate Trust Department, with a copy to the Property Trustee
at the address in (a) above for notice to the Property Trustee, and (c) with
respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at the address above for notices
to the Depositor, marked "Attention: Administrative Trustees of DPL Capital
Trust II." Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Trust or
the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall be deemed to have been
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sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Trust
or the Property Trustee (whether given to the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee).
Section 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition. Each of the Trustees and the
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Depositor agree for the benefit of the Securityholders that, until at least one
year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance with Article
IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Trust
under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law
(including, without limitation, the United States Bankruptcy Code)
(collectively, "BANKRUPTCY LAWS") or otherwise join in the commencement of any
proceeding against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event the
Depositor takes action in violation of this SECTION 10.9, the Property Trustee
agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders, that at the expense of the
Depositor, it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise
properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against the Trust
or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Depositor has
agreed in writing not to take such action and should be stopped and precluded
therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Trustee or the
Trust may assert. The provisions of this SECTION 10.9 shall survive the
termination of this Trust Agreement.
Section 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
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(a) This Trust Agreement is intended to be in conformity with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act that would be required to be part of this Trust
Agreement if this Trust Agreement were qualified under the Trust Indenture Act
and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee that is
a trustee for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts
with the duties imposed under Sections 310 through 318 of the Trust Indenture
Act if this Trust Agreement were qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, such
duties shall control. If any provision of this Trust Agreement modifies or
excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or
excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement
as so modified or excluded, as the case may be.
(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this
Trust Agreement shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity
securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the
Trust.
Section 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and
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Indenture. THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
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THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY
SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL
ACCEPTANCE BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND
AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND
THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE TRUST, SUCH
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SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST
AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND
SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
Section 10.12. Counterparts. This Trust Agreement may be executed in any
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number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an
original; but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement of DPL Capital Trust II as of the date first above written.
DPL INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Property Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Title:
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
as Administrative Trustee
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
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▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
as Administrative Trustee
EXHIBIT A
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST
OF
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
THIS Certificate of Trust of DPL Capital Trust II (the "Trust"), dated as
of August 23, 2001, is being duly executed and filed by the undersigned, as
trustees, to form a business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12
Del. C. (S)3801, et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby is DPL Capital
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Trust II.
2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the
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Trust in the State of Delaware are The Bank of New York (Delaware), ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: Corporate Trust
Department.
3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon
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filing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being all of the trustees of the
Trust, have executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first-above
written.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE)
not in its individual capacity
but solely as trustee of the Trust
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Senior Vice President
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
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not in his individual capacity
but solely as trustee of the Trust
A-1
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF 144A GLOBAL SECURITY
This Capital Security is a 144A Global Security within the meaning of the
Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The
Depository Trust Company (the "DEPOSITORY") or a nominee of the Depository. This
Capital Security is exchangeable for Capital Securities registered in the name
of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and no transfer of this Capital
Security (other than a transfer of this Capital Security as a whole by the
Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to
the Depository or another nominee of the Depository) may be registered except in
limited circumstances.
Unless this Capital Security is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), a New York corporation (▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇), to DPL Capital Trust II or its agent for registration of
transfer, exchange or payment, and any Capital Security issued is registered in
the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC (and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co. or to such
other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest
herein.
THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED,
SOLD, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO,
OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET
FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF,
EACH HOLDER OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY, AND
EACH PERSON THAT ACQUIRES A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH
CAPITAL SECURITIES, (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED
INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501 (a)(1),(2),(3) OR (7) UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT) ("INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR
(C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THE CAPITAL
SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION, (2)
AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE
HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES
EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
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(OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION), OFFER, RESELL OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFER SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES EXCEPT (A) TO DPL INC. OR A
SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED
STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) INSIDE THE UNITED
STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO
SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS PROPERTY
TRUSTEE, A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS
AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF
SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE
OBTAINED FROM SUCH TRUSTEE), (E) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN
COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F)
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY
RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) AND (G) IN EACH
CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE
STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
JURISDICTION AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH
PERSON TO WHOM THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY ARE
TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS
LEGEND. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL
ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A PURCHASER WHO IS NOT A U.S. PERSON,
THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE BANK
OF NEW YORK, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE, SUCH CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER
INFORMATION AS DPL INC. MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT
SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR
IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED AFTER THE
EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE
CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(k) UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OR SUCH EARLIER TIME AS A TRANSFER OF SUCH
CAPITAL SECURITIES IS MADE PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED
HEREIN, THE TERMS "OFFSHORE TRANSACTION" "UNITED STATES" AND
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"U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY
OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES, THE
HOLDER OF, AND ANY PERSON THAT ACQUIRES A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
IN, SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE
PROVISIONS OF THE EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT,
DATED AS OF AUGUST 24, 2001, AND RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF (1) CAPITAL SECURITIES
EXCHANGEABLE FOR THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY AND
REGISTRATION OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY, (2)
THE GUARANTEE BY DPL INC. IN RESPECT OF SUCH CAPITAL
SECURITIES AND (3) THE 8 1/8% JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEFERRABLE
INTEREST DEBENTURES DUE SEPTEMBER 1, 2031 ISSUED BY DPL INC.
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CERTIFICATE NUMBER R-1 CUSIP ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇
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CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING CAPITAL SECURITIES
OF
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
8 1/8% CAPITAL SECURITIES,
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $1,000 PER CAPITAL SECURITY)
DPL Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust created under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "TRUST"), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the
"HOLDER") is the registered owner of the number of Capital Securities of the
Trust specified in Schedule I hereto representing an undivided beneficial
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interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the DPL Capital Trust II
8 1/8% Capital Securities (Liquidation Amount $1,000 per Capital Security) (the
"CAPITAL SECURITIES"). The Capital Securities are transferable on the books and
records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender
of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in
Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the
Capital Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to
the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust dated as of August 31, 2001, as the same may be amended from time to time
(the "TRUST AGREEMENT"), including the designation of the terms of Capital
Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the
Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement entered into by DPL Inc., an Ohio
corporation, and The Bank of New York, as guarantee trustee, dated as of
August 31, 2001 (the "GUARANTEE"), to the extent provided therein. The Trust
will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee to the Holder
without charge upon written request to the Trust at its principal place of
business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
By its acceptance of this certificate representing Capital Securities or a
beneficial interest in such Capital Securities, the owner of, and any person
that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Capital Securities, agrees to treat
the Debentures described in the Trust Agreement as indebtedness and the Capital
Securities as evidence of indirect beneficial ownership in such indebtedness for
tax purposes.
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In Witness Whereof, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate as of this ___ day of __________, ______.
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
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Name:
Administrative Trustee
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SCHEDULE I
144A GLOBAL SECURITY
The initial number of Capital Securities evidenced by this 144A Global
Security is ____________________.
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144A Global Security is to
be Reduced or Increased, Remaining Capital
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY
This Capital Security is a Regulation S Global Security within the meaning
of the Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of
The Depository Trust Company (the "DEPOSITORY") or a nominee of the Depository.
This Capital Security is exchangeable for Capital Securities registered in the
name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and no transfer of this Capital
Security (other than a transfer of this Capital Security as a whole by the
Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to
the Depository or another nominee of the Depository) may be registered except in
limited circumstances.
Unless this Capital Security is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), a New York Corporation (55 ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇), to DPL Capital Trust II or its agent for registration of
transfer, exchange or payment, and any Capital Security issued is registered in
the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC (and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co. or to such
other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest
herein.
BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY
OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES, THE
HOLDER OF, AND ANY PERSON THAT ACQUIRES A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
IN, SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES AGREES (A) THAT PRIOR TO THE
EXPIRATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD (AS DEFINED
IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT), BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THIS SECURITY
MAY ONLY BE HELD BY CLEARING AGENCY PARTICIPANTS (AS DEFINED
IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT) IN THE NAME OF A NOMINEE OF EUROCLEAR
OR CLEARSTREAM (IN EACH CASE AS DEFINED IN THE TRUST
AGREEMENT) AND (B) TO BE BOUND BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE
EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF
AUGUST 24, 2001, AND RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF (1) CAPITAL SECURITIES EXCHANGEABLE FOR THE
CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY AND REGISTRATION OF THE
CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY, (2) THE GUARANTEE BY DPL
INC. IN RESPECT OF SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES AND (3) THE 8 1/8%
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEFERRABLE INTEREST DEBENTURES DUE
SEPTEMBER 1, 2031 ISSUED BY DPL INC.
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CERTIFICATE NUMBER S-1 CUSIP NO. U26057 AA ▇
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CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING CAPITAL SECURITIES
OF
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
8 1/8% CAPITAL SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $1,000 PER CAPITAL SECURITY)
DPL Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust created under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "TRUST"), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the
"HOLDER") is the registered owner of the number of Capital Securities of the
Trust specified in Schedule I hereto representing an undivided beneficial
interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the DPL Capital Trust II
8 1/8% Capital Securities (Liquidation Amount $1,000 per Capital Security) (the
"CAPITAL SECURITIES"). The Capital Securities are transferable on the books and
records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender
of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in
Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the
Capital Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to
the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust dated as of August 31, 2001, as the same may be amended from time to time
(the "TRUST AGREEMENT"), including the designation of the terms of Capital
Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the
Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement entered into by DPL Inc., an Ohio
corporation, and The Bank of New York, as guarantee trustee, dated as of
August 31, 2001 (the "GUARANTEE"), to the extent provided therein. The Trust
will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee to the Holder
without charge upon written request to the Trust at its principal place of
business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
By its acceptance of this certificate representing Capital Securities or a
beneficial interest in such Capital Securities, the owner of, and any person
that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Capital Securities, agrees to treat
the Debentures described in the Trust Agreement as indebtedness and the Capital
Securities as evidence of indirect beneficial ownership in such indebtedness for
tax purposes.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate.
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
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Name:
Administrative Trustee
Dated: ________________
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SCHEDULE I
REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY
The initial number of Capital Securities evidenced by this Regulation S
Global Security is __________.
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GLOBAL SECURITY
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ecurities by which this
Regulation S Global Remaining Capital
Security is to be Reduced Securities Represented by
or Increased, and Reason this Regulation S Notation
Date for Reduction or Increase Global Security Made by
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF DEFINITIVE CAPITAL SECURITY CERTIFICATE
THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED WITHIN THE
UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS
SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, EACH HOLDER OF
THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY, AND EACH PERSON THAT ACQUIRES A
BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES, (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A
"QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN
RULE 501 (a)(1),(2),(3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) ("INSTITUTIONAL
ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THE
CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION, (2) AGREES THAT
IT WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES
OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(k) UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION), OFFER, RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER
SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES EXCEPT (A) TO DPL INC. OR A SUBSIDIARY THEREOF,
(B) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE
WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE
BANK OF NEW YORK, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE, A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN
REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF SUCH
CAPITAL SECURITIES (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM SUCH TRUSTEE),
(E) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) AND (G) IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY
APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO
WHOM THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY ARE TRANSFERRED A NOTICE
SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A PURCHASER WHO IS NOT A U.S. PERSON, THE
HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS
PROPERTY TRUSTEE, SUCH CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS DPL INC. MAY
REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED AFTER THE
EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES
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EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR SUCH EARLIER TIME
AS A TRANSFER OF SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES IS MADE PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS
"OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE MEANINGS
GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY OR A
BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES, THE HOLDER OF, AND ANY PERSON
THAT ACQUIRES A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN, SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES, AGREES TO BE
BOUND BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE EXCHANGE AND REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, DATED
AS OF AUGUST 24, 2001, AND RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF (1) CAPITAL SECURITIES EXCHANGEABLE FOR THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED
HEREBY AND REGISTRATION OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY, (2) THE
GUARANTEE BY DPL INC. IN RESPECT OF SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES AND (3) THE 8 1/8%
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEFERRABLE INTEREST DEBENTURES DUE SEPTEMBER 1, 2031 ISSUED
BY DPL INC.
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CERTIFICATE NUMBER AI-1 NUMBER OF CAPITAL SECURITIES
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CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING CAPITAL SECURITIES
OF
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
8 1/8% CAPITAL SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $1,000 PER CAPITAL SECURITY)
DPL Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust created under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "TRUST"), hereby certifies that _____________________
(the "HOLDER") is the registered owner of ____________________________ of the
Trust representing an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust
and designated the DPL Capital Trust II 8 1/8% Capital Securities (Liquidation
Amount $1,000 per Capital Security) (the "CAPITAL SECURITIES"). The Capital
Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or
by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed
and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust
Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges,
restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Capital
Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital Securities
represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms
and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated
as of August 31, 2001, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "TRUST
AGREEMENT"), including the designation of the terms of Capital Securities as set
forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement
entered into by DPL Inc., an Ohio corporation, and The Bank of New York, as
guarantee trustee, dated as of August 31, 2001 (the "GUARANTEE"), to the extent
provided therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the
Guarantee to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at its
principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
By its acceptance of this certificate representing Capital Securities or a
beneficial interest in such Capital Securities, the owner of, and any person
that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Capital Securities, agrees to treat
the Debentures described in the Trust Agreement as indebtedness and the Capital
Securities as evidence of indirect beneficial ownership in such indebtedness for
tax purposes.
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In Witness Whereof, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate as of this ___ day of __________, _____.
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
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Name:
Administrative Trustee
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FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
For value received ________________ hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s)
unto
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(Please insert social security or other
taxpayer identification number of assignee.)
the within security and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
_________________________ attorney to transfer the said security on the books of
the Trust, with full power of substitution in the premises.
In connection with any transfer of the within security occurring prior to such
date as restrictions on the transfer of such security imposed by the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the rules and regulations
thereunder, are terminated in accordance with the Trust Agreement, the
undersigned confirms that such security is being transferred:
[ ] To DPL Inc. or a subsidiary thereof; or
[ ] Pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act; or
[ ] Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities
Act; or
[ ] To an Institutional Accredited Investor pursuant to and in
compliance with the Securities Act; or
[ ] Pursuant to and in compliance with Regulation S under the
Securities Act; or
[ ] Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities
Act;
and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such security
is not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Trust as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act (an "AFFILIATE"):
[ ] The transferee is an Affiliate of the Trust.
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[IF CAPITAL SECURITY IS AN EXCHANGE CAPITAL SECURITY, INSERT -
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
For Value Received, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Capital Security
to:__________________________________________________________ (Insert assignee's
social security or tax identification number)
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(Insert address and zip code of assignee)
and irrevocably appoints _____________________________ agent to transfer this
Capital Security Certificate on the books of the Trust. The agent may substitute
another to act for him or her.
Date:
Signature(s):
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(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other
side of this Capital Security Certificate)
NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR
INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT
UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM),
PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17AD-15.
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Dated: ___________________
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Signature(s)
Signature(s) must be
guaranteed by a commercial
bank or trust company or a
member firm of a major
stock exchange.
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Signature Guarantee
NOTICE: The above signatures of the holder(s) hereof must correspond with the
name as written upon the face of this Security in every particular, without
alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
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EXHIBIT E
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE
CERTIFICATE NUMBER C-____ NUMBER OF COMMON SECURITIES
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CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING COMMON SECURITIES
OF
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $1,000 PER COMMON SECURITY)
DPL Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust created under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "TRUST"), hereby certifies that DPL Inc., an Ohio
corporation, (the "HOLDER") is the registered owner of
___________________________ Common Securities of the Trust representing an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the
Common Securities (Liquidation Amount $1,000 per Common Security) (the "COMMON
SECURITIES"). In accordance with Section 5.10 of the Trust Agreement (as defined
below) the Common Securities are not transferable and any attempted transfer
hereof shall be void. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions,
preferences and other terms and provisions of the Common Securities are set
forth in, and this certificate and the Common Securities represented hereby are
issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of August 31, 2001,
as the same may be amended from time to time (the "TRUST AGREEMENT"), including
the designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The
Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without charge
upon written request to the Trust at its principal place of business or
registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
By its acceptance of this certificate representing Common Securities or a
beneficial interest in such Common Securities, the owner of, and any person that
acquires a beneficial interest in, such Common Securities, agrees to treat the
Debentures described in the Trust Agreement as indebtedness and the Common
Securities as evidence of indirect beneficial ownership in such indebtedness for
tax purposes.
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In WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate as of this ___ day of _______, _____.
DPL CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
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Name:
Administrative Trustee
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF LETTER TO BE DELIVERED
BY INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS
DPL Inc.
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DPL Capital Trust ▇▇
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
We understand that the 8 1/8% Capital Securities, (Liquidation Amount
$1,000 per Capital Security) (the "CAPITAL SECURITIES"), of DPL Capital
Trust II, a Delaware business trust (including the guarantee (the "GUARANTEE")
of DPL Inc. ("DPL") executed in connection therewith), and the 8 1/8% Junior
Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due September 1, 2031 of DPL (the
"DEBENTURES," and, together with the Capital Securities and the Guarantee, the
"SECURITIES") are being offered in a transaction not involving any public
offering within the United States within the meaning of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "SECURITIES ACT"), and that the Securities have not been
registered under the Securities Act, and we agree, on our own behalf and on
behalf of each account for which we acquire any Capital Securities, that if,
prior to the expiration of the holding period applicable to sales of any
Security under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act, we decide to offer, resell
or otherwise transfer such Security, such Security may be offered, resold or
otherwise transferred only (i) to DPL or a subsidiary thereof, (ii) pursuant to
an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, (iii) inside the
United States to a person who is a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined
in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in compliance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act, (iv) inside the United States to an Institutional Accredited
Investor (as defined below) that, prior to such transfer, furnishes to the
Property Trustee a signed letter in the form hereof, and such other opinions and
certifications that the Property Trustee may request, (v) outside the United
States in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act or (vi) pursuant to
the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act
(if available) and (vii) in each case, in accordance with any applicable
securities laws of the States of the United States or any other applicable
jurisdiction and in accordance with the legend set forth on the Capital
Securities and the Debentures. We further agree to provide any person purchasing
any of the Capital Securities or the Debentures from us a notice advising such
purchaser that resales of such securities are restricted as stated herein. We
understand that any Capital Securities will bear a legend reflecting the
substance of this paragraph.
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We confirm that:
(i) we are an "accredited investor" within the meaning of
Rule 501(a)(1), (2) or (3) under the Securities Act or an entity in which
all of the equity owners are accredited investors within the meaning of
Rule 501(a)(1), (2) or (3) under the Securities Act (an "Institutional
Accredited Investor");
(ii) (A) any purchase of Capital Securities by us will be for our own
account or for the account of one or more other Institutional Accredited
Investors or as fiduciary for the account of one or more trusts, each of
which is an "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(7)
under the Securities Act and for each of which we exercise sole investment
discretion or (B) we are a "bank," within the meaning of Section 3(a)(2) of
the Securities Act, or a "savings and loan association" or other
institution described in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act that is
acquiring Capital Securities as fiduciary for the account of one or more
institutions for which we exercise sole investment discretion;
(iii) we have such knowledge and experience in financial and business
matters that we are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an
investment in the Capital Securities;
(iv) we are not acquiring Capital Securities with a view to resale or
distribution thereof or with any present intention of offering or selling
Capital Securities, except as permitted above; provided that the
disposition of our property and property of any accounts for which we are
acting as fiduciary shall remain at all times within our control; and
(v) we have had access to such financial and other information and
have been afforded the opportunity to ask such questions of representatives
of DPL Inc. and receive answers thereto, as we deem necessary in connection
with our decision to purchase Capital Securities.
We acknowledge that you and others will rely upon our confirmations,
acknowledgments and agreements set forth herein, and we agree to notify you
promptly in writing if any of our representations or warranties herein ceases to
be accurate and complete.
THIS LETTER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(Name of Purchaser)
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Name:
Title:
Address:
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EXHIBIT G
FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
144A GLOBAL SECURITY TO REGULATION S GLOBAL SECURITY
The Bank of New York
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Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Re: DPL Capital Trust II
Private Capital Securities
Reference is hereby made to the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated
as of August 31, 2001 (the "TRUST AGREEMENT"), among DPL Inc., The Bank of New
York, as Property Trustee, The Bank of New York (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee,
the Administrative Trustees named therein and the holders, from time to time, of
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of DPL Capital Trust II.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Trust Agreement.
This letter relates to _________________ Private Capital Securities which
are evidenced by a 144A Global Security (CUSIP ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ 8) and held with
the Clearing Agency indirectly in the name of [_________________] (the
"Transferor"). The Transferor has requested a transfer of such beneficial
interest in such Private Capital Securities to a Person that will take delivery
thereof in a transaction effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 904
under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"), and, accordingly, the Transferor does hereby further certify that:
The offer of such Private Capital Securities was not made to a person in
the United States;
(A) either:
(i) at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside
the United States or the Transferor and any person acting on its behalf
reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States, or
(ii) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of
a designated offshore securities market and neither the Transferor nor any
person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a
buyer in the United States;
(B) no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the
requirements of 904(b) under the Securities Act, as applicable;
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(C) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
registration requirements of the Securities Act; and
(D) we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions applicable
to such Private Capital Securities.
You, the Trust and the Initial Purchaser are entitled to rely upon this
letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to
any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official
inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this
certificate and not otherwise defined herein or in the Trust Agreement have the
meanings set forth in Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Dated:__________________
[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:
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Name:
Title:
(If the registered owner is
a corporation, partnership
or fiduciary, the title of
the Person signing on
behalf of such registered
owner must be stated.)
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EXHIBIT H
FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
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Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Re: DPL Capital Trust II
Private Capital Securities
Reference is hereby made to the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated
as of August 31, 2001 (the "TRUST AGREEMENT"), among DPL Inc., The Bank of New
York, as Property Trustee, The Bank of New York (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee,
the Administrative Trustees named therein and the holders, from time to time, of
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of DPL Capital Trust II.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Trust Agreement.
This letter relates to _________________ Private Capital Securities which
are evidenced by a Regulation S Global Security (CUSIP No. U26057 AA 4) and held
with the Clearing Agency indirectly in the name of [_________________] (the
"TRANSFEROR"). The Transferor has requested a transfer of such beneficial
interest in such Private Capital Securities to a Person that will take delivery
thereof in a transaction effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144A
under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "SECURITIES
ACT"), and, accordingly, the Transferor does hereby certify that (i) the
Transferor's interest in such Private Capital Securities is being transferred in
accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Trust Agreement; and
(ii) the transferee is a person who the Transferor reasonably believes is a
"qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the
Securities Act, purchasing for its own account or the account of a qualified
institutional buyer in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, in
accordance with all applicable securities laws of the states of the United
States and other jurisdictions.
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You, the Trust and the Initial Purchaser are entitled to rely upon this
letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to
any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official
inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
Dated:__________________
[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:
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Name:
Title:
(If the registered owner is
a corporation, partnership
or fiduciary, the title of
the Person signing on
behalf of such registered
owner must be stated.)
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EXHIBIT I
FORM OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT LEGEND
THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S.
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY
NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR
FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, EACH HOLDER OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES
EVIDENCED HEREBY, AND EACH PERSON THAT ACQUIRES A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH
CAPITAL SECURITIES, (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN
INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501 (a)(1),(2),(3) OR
(7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) ("INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS
NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY IN AN
OFFSHORE TRANSACTION, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF
THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED
HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION),
OFFER, RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES EXCEPT (A) TO DPL
INC. OR A SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (D)
INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO
SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE, A SIGNED
LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE
RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER
CAN BE OBTAINED FROM SUCH TRUSTEE), (E) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE
WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) AND
(G) IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE
STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, AND (3) AGREES
THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE CAPITAL SECURITIES EVIDENCED
HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IF
THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A PURCHASER
WHO IS NOT A U.S. PERSON, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE, SUCH CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER
INFORMATION AS DPL INC. MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS
BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO,
THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED
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AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE HOLDING PERIOD APPLICABLE TO SALES OF THE CAPITAL
SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY UNDER RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR SUCH
EARLIER TIME AS A TRANSFER OF SUCH CAPITAL SECURITIES IS MADE PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE
TERMS "OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE
MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
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