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TRIMAS CORPORATION
AND EACH OF THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN
SERIES A AND SERIES B
9-7/8% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2012
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INDENTURE
DATED AS OF JUNE 6, 2002
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK
TRUSTEE
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*
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Trust Indenture
Act Section Indenture Section
310(a)(1)............................................................................. 7.10
(a)(2)............................................................................. 7.10
(a)(3)............................................................................. N.A.
(a)(4)............................................................................. N.A.
(a)(5)............................................................................. 7.08; 7.10
(b)................................................................................ 7.03; 7.08; 7.10; 13.02
(c)................................................................................ N.A.
311(a)................................................................................ 7.11
(b)................................................................................ 7.11
(c)................................................................................ N.A.
312(a)................................................................................ 2.05
(b)................................................................................ 13.03
(c)................................................................................ 13.03
313(a)................................................................................ 7.06
(b)(1)............................................................................. N.A.
(b)(2)............................................................................. 7.06; 7.07
(c)................................................................................ 7.06; 13.02
(d)................................................................................ 7.06
314(a)................................................................................ 4.03; 4.04; 13.02; 13.05
(b)................................................................................ N.A.
(c)(1)............................................................................. 13.04
(c)(2)............................................................................. 13.04
(c)(3)............................................................................. N.A.
(d)................................................................................ N.A.
(e)................................................................................ 13.04; 13.05
(f)................................................................................ N.A.
315(a)................................................................................ 7.01
(b)................................................................................ 7.05; 13.02
(c)................................................................................ 7.01
(d)................................................................................ 7.01
(e)................................................................................ 6.11
316(a)(last sentence)................................................................. 2.09
(a)(1)(A).......................................................................... 6.05
(a)(1)(B).......................................................................... 6.04
(a)(2)............................................................................. N.A.
(b) ............................................................................... 6.07
(c) ............................................................................... N.A.
317(a)(1) ............................................................................ 6.08
(a)(2) ............................................................................ 6.09
(b) ............................................................................... 2.04
318(a) ............................................................................... 13.01
N.A. means not applicable
* This Cross Reference Table is not part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01 Definitions......................................................1
Section 1.02 Other Definitions...............................................26
Section 1.03 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act...............27
Section 1.04 Rules of Construction...........................................27
ARTICLE 2
THE NOTES
Section 2.01 Form and Dating.................................................28
Section 2.02 Execution and Authentication....................................29
Section 2.03 Registrar and Paying Agent......................................30
Section 2.04 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.............................30
Section 2.05 Holder Lists....................................................30
Section 2.06 Transfer and Exchange...........................................31
Section 2.07 Replacement Notes...............................................45
Section 2.08 Outstanding Notes...............................................46
Section 2.09 Treasury Notes..................................................46
Section 2.10 Temporary Notes.................................................46
Section 2.11 Cancellation....................................................47
Section 2.12 Defaulted Interest..............................................47
Section 2.13 CUSIP Numbers...................................................47
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT
Section 3.01 Notices to Trustee..............................................47
Section 3.02 Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased..................48
Section 3.03 Notice of Redemption............................................48
Section 3.04 Effect of Notice of Redemption..................................49
Section 3.05 Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price.........................49
Section 3.06 Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part.............................50
Section 3.07 Optional Redemption.............................................50
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Section 3.08 Mandatory Redemption............................................51
Section 3.09 Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds.............51
ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
Section 4.01 Payment of Notes................................................53
Section 4.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency.................................53
Section 4.03 Reports.........................................................54
Section 4.04 Compliance Certificate..........................................54
Section 4.05 Taxes...........................................................55
Section 4.06 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws..................................55
Section 4.07 Restricted Payments.............................................56
Section 4.08 Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting
Subsidiaries..................................................59
Section 4.09 Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock......61
Section 4.10 Asset Sales.....................................................65
Section 4.11 Transactions with Affiliates....................................67
Section 4.12 Liens...........................................................69
Section 4.13 Corporate Existence.............................................69
Section 4.14 Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control......................69
Section 4.15 Anti-Layering...................................................71
Section 4.16 Additional Note Guarantees......................................72
Section 4.17 Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.........72
ARTICLE 5
SUCCESSORS
Section 5.01 Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets........................72
Section 5.02 Successor Corporation Substituted...............................73
ARTICLE 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 6.01 Events of Default...............................................74
Section 6.02 Acceleration....................................................76
Section 6.03 Other Remedies..................................................76
Section 6.04 Waiver of Past Defaults.........................................77
Section 6.05 Control by Majority.............................................77
Section 6.06 Limitation on Suits.............................................77
Section 6.07 Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment...................78
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Section 6.08 Collection Suit by Trustee......................................78
Section 6.09 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................78
Section 6.10 Priorities......................................................79
Section 6.11 Undertaking for Costs...........................................79
ARTICLE 7
TRUSTEE
Section 7.01 Duties of Trustee...............................................79
Section 7.02 Rights of Trustee...............................................80
Section 7.03 Individual Rights of Trustee....................................81
Section 7.04 Trustee's Disclaimer............................................82
Section 7.05 Notice of Defaults..............................................82
Section 7.06 Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes......................82
Section 7.07 Compensation and Indemnity......................................82
Section 7.08 Replacement of Trustee..........................................83
Section 7.09 Successor Trustee by Merger, etc................................84
Section 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification...................................85
Section 7.11 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company...............85
ARTICLE 8
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 8.01 Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance........85
Section 8.02 Legal Defeasance and Discharge..................................85
Section 8.03 Covenant Defeasance.............................................86
Section 8.04 Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance......................86
Section 8.05 Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions........................88
Section 8.06 Repayment to Company............................................88
Section 8.07 Reinstatement...................................................89
ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
Section 9.01 Without Consent of Holders of Notes.............................89
Section 9.02 With Consent of Holders of Notes................................90
Section 9.03 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.............................92
Section 9.04 Revocation and Effect of Consents...............................92
Section 9.05 Notation on or Exchange of Notes................................92
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Section 9.06 Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.................................92
ARTICLE 10
SUBORDINATION
Section 10.01 Agreement to Subordinate........................................93
Section 10.02 Certain Definitions.............................................93
Section 10.03 Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy............................94
Section 10.04 Default on Designated Senior Debt...............................95
Section 10.05 Acceleration of Notes...........................................95
Section 10.06 When Distribution Must Be Paid Over.............................96
Section 10.07 Notice by Company...............................................96
Section 10.08 Subrogation.....................................................96
Section 10.09 Relative Rights.................................................96
Section 10.10 Subordination May Not Be Impaired by Company....................97
Section 10.11 Distribution or Notice to Representative........................97
Section 10.12 Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent..............................97
Section 10.13 Authorization to Effect Subordination...........................98
Section 10.14 Amendments......................................................98
ARTICLE 11
NOTE GUARANTEES
Section 11.01 Guarantee.......................................................98
Section 11.02 Subordination of Note Guarantee.................................99
Section 11.03 Limitation on Guarantor Liability...............................99
Section 11.04 Execution and Delivery of Note Guarantee.......................100
Section 11.05 Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.............100
Section 11.06 Releases Following Sale of Assets..............................101
ARTICLE 12
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 12.01 Satisfaction and Discharge.....................................102
Section 12.02 Application of Trust Money.....................................103
ARTICLE 13
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 13.01 Trust Indenture Act Controls...................................103
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Section 13.02 Notices........................................................104
Section 13.03 Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders
of Notes....................................................105
Section 13.04 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.............105
Section 13.05 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion..................105
Section 13.06 Rules by Trustee and Agents....................................106
Section 13.07 No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees
and Stockholders............................................106
Section 13.08 Governing Law..................................................106
Section 13.09 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements..................106
Section 13.10 Successors.....................................................106
Section 13.11 Severability...................................................107
Section 13.12 Counterpart Originals..........................................107
Section 13.13 Table of Contents, Headings, etc...............................107
EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A1 FORM OF NOTE
Exhibit A2 FORM OF REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE
Exhibit B FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER
Exhibit C FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF EXCHANGE
Exhibit D FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF ACQUIRING INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED
INVESTOR
Exhibit E FORM OF NOTE GUARANTEE
Exhibit F FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
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INDENTURE dated as of June 6, 2002 among TriMas Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), the Guarantors (as defined) and The Bank of New
York, as trustee (the "Trustee").
The Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee agree as follows for the
benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders (as
defined) of the 9-7/8% Series A Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 (the "Series
A Notes") and the 9-7/8% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 (the
"Series B Notes" and, together with the Series A Notes, the "Notes"):
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01 Definitions.
"144A Global Note" means a Global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit
A1 hereto bearing the Global Note Legend and the Private Placement Legend and
deposited with or on behalf of, and registered in the name of, the Depositary or
its nominee that will be issued in a denomination equal to the outstanding
principal amount of the Notes sold in reliance on Rule 144A.
"Acquired Debt" means, with respect to any specified Person:
(1) Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other
Person is merged with or into or became a Subsidiary of such specified
Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is incurred in connection with, or
in contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into, or becoming a
Subsidiary of, such specified Person; and
(2) Indebtedness secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by
such specified Person.
"Additional Notes" means additional notes (other than the Initial Notes)
issued from time to time under this Indenture in accordance with Sections 2.02
and 4.09 hereof, as part of the same series as the Initial Notes.
"Advisory Agreement" means that certain advisory agreement between the
Company and Heartland, dated on or before the date of this Indenture, or any
amendment or supplement thereto that, taken in its entirety, is no less
favorable to the Company than such agreement as in effect on the date of this
Indenture.
"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 purposes of this definition, "control,"
as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
agreement or otherwise. For purposes of this
definition, the terms "controlling," "controlled by" and "under common control
with" have correlative meanings. No Person (other than the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company) in whom a Receivables Subsidiary makes an Investment
in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction will be deemed to be an
Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries solely by reason of such
Investment.
"Agent" means any Registrar, co-registrar, Paying Agent or additional
paying agent.
"Applicable Procedures" means, with respect to any transfer or exchange of
or for beneficial interests in any Global Note, the rules and procedures of the
Depositary, Euroclear and Clearstream that apply to such transfer or exchange.
"Asset Sale" means:
(1) the sale, lease conveyance or other disposition of any assets or
rights, other than dispositions in the ordinary course of business;
provided that the sale, conveyance or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries taken as a whole will be governed by Section 4.14 hereof
and/or Section 5.01 hereof and not by Section 4.10 hereof; and
(2) the issuance of Equity Interests in any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries or the sale of Equity Interests in any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries.
Notwithstanding the preceding, none of the following items will be deemed to be
an Asset Sale:
(1) any single transaction or series of related transactions that
involves assets having a fair market value of less than $2.5 million;
(2) a transfer of assets between or among the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries;
(3) an issuance of Equity Interests by a Subsidiary to the Company or
to another Restricted Subsidiary or any issuance of directors' qualifying
shares;
(4) the sale or other disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents;
(5) sales of accounts receivable and related assets of the type
specified in the definition of "Qualified Receivables Transaction" to a
Receivables Subsidiary;
(6) the surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement,
release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind;
(7) the grant in the ordinary course of business of licenses of
patents, trademarks and similar intellectual property;
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(8) a disposition of obsolete or worn out equipment or equipment that
is no longer useful in the conduct of the business of the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries and that is disposed of in each case in the
ordinary course of business;
(9) a Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted by
Section 4.07 hereof; and
(10) any issuance or sale of Equity Interests of any Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state
law for the relief of debtors.
"Beneficial Owner" has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and
Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial
ownership of any particular "person" (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3)
of the Exchange Act), such "person" will be deemed to have beneficial ownership
of all securities that such "person" has the right to acquire by conversion or
exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is
exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The terms
"Beneficially Owns" and "Beneficially Owned" have a corresponding meaning.
"Board of Directors" means:
(1) with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the
corporation;
(2) with respect to a partnership, the board of directors of the
general partner of the partnership; and
(3) with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such
Person serving a similar function.
"Broker-Dealer" has the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
"Business Day" means any day other than a Legal Holiday.
"Capital Lease Obligation" means, at the time any determination is to be
made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at
that time be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet in accordance with
GAAP.
"Capital Stock" means:
(1) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;
(2) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all
shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however
designated) of corporate stock;
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(3) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company,
partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and
(4) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the
right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of
assets of, the issuing Person.
"Cash Equivalents" means:
(1) cash;
(2) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by
the United States, British or European Union government or any agency or
instrumentality of the United States, British or European Union government
(provided that the full faith and credit of the United States, British or
European Union, as applicable, is pledged in support of those securities)
having maturities of not more than six months from the date of acquisition;
(3) certificates of deposit and eurodollar time deposits with
maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition, bankers'
acceptances with maturities not exceeding six months and overnight bank
deposits, in each case, with any lender party to the Credit Agreement or
with any domestic, British or European Union commercial bank having capital
and surplus in excess of $150.0 million;
(4) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for
underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2) and (3) above
entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications
specified in clause (3) above;
(5) commercial paper with a maturity of 365 days or less from the date
of acquisition issued by a corporation organized under the laws of any
state of the United States of America or the District of Columbia or any
foreign country recognized by the United States of America whose debt
rating, at the time as of which such investment is made, is at least "A-1"
by Standard & Poor's Corporation or at least "P-1" by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors
Service, Inc. or rated at least an equivalent rating category of another
nationally recognized securities rating agency;
(6) any security, maturing not more than 365 days after the date of
acquisition, backed by standby or direct pay letters of credit issued by a
bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (3) above;
(7) any security, maturing not more than 365 days after the date of
acquisition, issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth, or
territory of the United States of America, or by any political subdivision
thereof, and rated at least "A" by Standard & Poor's Corporation or at
least "A" by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc. or rated at least an
equivalent rating category of another nationally recognized securities
rating agency; and
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(8) money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute
Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (1) through (7) of this
definition.
"Clearstream" means Clearstream Banking, S.A.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following:
(1) the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other
disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a
series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the
properties or assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, to any "person" (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of
the Exchange Act) other than a Principal;
(2) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution
of the Company;
(3) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation,
any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any "person" (as
defined above), other than the Principals or a Permitted Group, becomes the
Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting
Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of
shares; or
(4) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of
Directors of the Company are not Continuing Directors.
"Company" means TriMas Corporation, and any and all successors thereto.
"Consolidated Assets" of any Person as of any date of determination means
the total assets of such Person as reflected on the most recently prepared
balance sheet of such Person, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP.
"Consolidated Cash Flow" means, with respect to any specified Person for
any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus:
(1) an amount equal to any extraordinary loss plus any net loss
realized by such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection
with an Asset Sale, to the extent such losses were deducted in computing
such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(2) provision for taxes based on income or profits of such Person and
its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such
provision for taxes was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income;
plus
(3) consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued and whether or not
capitalized (including, without
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limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue
discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any
deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments
associated with Capital Lease Obligations, commissions, discounts and other
fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers'
acceptance financings, and net of the effect of all payments made or
received pursuant to Hedging Obligations), to the extent that any such
expense was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(4) the loss on Qualified Receivables Transactions; plus
(5) dividends on preferred stock or accretion of discount on preferred
stock to the extent reducing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(6) depreciation, amortization (including amortization of goodwill and
other intangibles but excluding amortization of prepaid cash expenses that
were paid in a prior period) and other non-cash items (excluding any such
non-cash expense to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve
for cash expenses in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash
expense that was paid in a prior period) of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period to the extent that such depreciation,
amortization and other non-cash items were deducted in computing such
Consolidated Net Income; minus
(7) non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such
period, other than the accrual of revenue in the ordinary course of
business; plus
(8) non-cash gains or losses resulting from fluctuations in currency
exchange rates will be excluded; plus
(9) the disposition of any securities or the extinguishment of any
Indebtedness will be excluded;
in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with GAAP;
provided, however, that the provision for taxes based on the income or profits
of, the consolidated depreciation and amortization expense and such items of
expense or income attributable to, a Restricted Subsidiary shall be added to or
subtracted from Consolidated Net Income to compute Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
only to the extent (and in the same proportion) that the net income of such
Restricted Subsidiary was included in calculating Consolidated Net Income.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, with respect to any specified Person for
any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance
with GAAP; provided that:
(1) the Net Income of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or
that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting will be included
only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid in cash
to the specified Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Person;
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(2) the Net Income of any Restricted Subsidiary will be excluded to the
extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar
distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that Net Income is not at
the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval
(that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by operation of
the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree,
order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that
Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders;
(3) the Net Income of any Person acquired in a pooling of interests
transaction for any period prior to the date of such acquisition will be
excluded; and
(4) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles will be
excluded.
"Continuing Directors" means, as of any date of determination, any member
of the Board of Directors of the Company who:
(1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of this
Indenture; or
(2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors
with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were
members of such Board at the time of such nomination or election or
designated as a Director under the Shareholders Agreement.
"Corporate Services Agreement" means that certain corporate services
agreement by and between the Company and Metaldyne Corporation pursuant to which
Metaldyne Corporation and its subsidiaries will provide management information
systems, legal, tax, accounting, human resources and other support services to
the Company.
"Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee" means the principal office of the
Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
which office at the date hereof is located at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such other address as the
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the
Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or
such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by
notice to the Holders and the Company).
"Credit Agreement" means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the
date hereof, by and among the Company, certain of its subsidiaries and The Chase
Manhattan Bank, as administrative agent and collateral agent, Credit Suisse
First Boston Corporation, as syndication agent, Comerica Bank, as documentation
agent, National City Bank, as documentation agent, Wachovia National
Association, as documentation agent, and the other lenders party thereto, as
amended, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced from time to time.
"Credit Facilities" means, one or more debt facilities (including, without
limitation, the Credit Agreement) or commercial paper facilities, in each case
with banks or other institutional lenders providing for revolving credit loans,
term loans, receivables financing (including through the
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sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to
borrow from such lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit, in each
case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced
in whole or in part from time to time.
"Custodian" means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the Notes in
global form, or any successor entity thereto.
"Default" means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the
giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.
"Definitive Note" means a certificated Note registered in the name of the
Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.06 hereof, substantially
in the form of Exhibit A1 hereto except that such Note shall not bear the Global
Note Legend and shall not have the "Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the
Global Note" attached thereto.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole
or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.03 hereof as the
Depositary with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto
appointed as depositary hereunder and having become such pursuant to the
applicable provision of this Indenture.
"Disqualified Stock" means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock), or
upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant
to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the
holder of the Capital Stock, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date on
which the Notes mature. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Capital
Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders of the
Capital Stock have the right to require the Company to repurchase such Capital
Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale shall not
constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of such Capital Stock provide that
the Company may not repurchase or redeem any such Capital Stock pursuant to such
provisions unless such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 4.07
hereof.
"Domestic Subsidiary" means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that
was formed under the laws of the United States or any state of the United States
or the District of Columbia or that guarantees or otherwise provides direct
credit support for any Indebtedness of the Company.
"Equity Interests" means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other
rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is
convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).
"Equity Offering" means a primary sale of Capital Stock of the Company or,
to the extent the net cash proceeds thereof are paid to the Company as a capital
contribution, Capital Stock for cash to a Person or Persons other than a
Subsidiary of the Company.
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"Euroclear" means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear
system.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Exchange Notes" means the Notes issued in the Exchange Offer pursuant to
Section 2.06(f) hereof.
"Exchange Offer" has the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
"Exchange Offer Registration Statement" has the meaning set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
"Existing Indebtedness" means the Indebtedness of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement) in existence
on the date of this Indenture, until such amounts are repaid.
"Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" means with respect to any specified Person
for any period, the ratio of the Consolidated Cash Flow of such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries for such period to the Fixed Charges of such Person and
its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period. In the event that the specified
Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurs, repays, repurchases,
redeems, defeases or otherwise retires any Indebtedness (other than ordinary
working capital borrowings) or issues, repurchases or redeems preferred stock
subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio is being calculated and on or prior to the date on which the event for
which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the
"Calculation Date"), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio will be calculated
giving pro forma effect to such incurrence, repayment, repurchase, redemption,
defeasance or other retirement of Indebtedness, or such issuance, repurchase or
redemption of preferred stock, and the use of the proceeds therefrom as if the
same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter reference
period.
In addition, for purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio:
(1) acquisitions of a business or operations that have been made by the
specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including through
mergers or consolidations and including any related financing transactions,
during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference
period and on or prior to the Calculation Date will be given pro forma
effect as if they had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter
reference period and Consolidated Cash Flow for such reference period will
be calculated on a pro forma basis determined in good faith by a
responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company (and such
calculations may include such pro forma adjustments for non-recurring items
that the Company considers reasonable in order to reflect the ongoing
impact of any such transaction on the Company's results of operations), but
without giving effect to clause (3) of the proviso set forth in the
definition of Consolidated Net Income;
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(2) the Consolidated Cash Flow attributable to discontinued operations,
as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses
disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded; and
(3) the Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as
determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses disposed
of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded but only to the extent
that the obligations giving rise to such Fixed Charges will not be
obligations of the specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
following the Calculation Date.
"Fixed Charges" means, with respect to any specified Person for any period,
the sum, without duplication, of:
(1) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued, including, without
limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue
discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any
deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments
associated with Capital Lease Obligations, commissions, discounts and other
fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers'
acceptance financings, and net of the effect of all payments made or
received pursuant to Hedging Obligations, to the extent deducted in
computing Consolidated Net Income; provided, however, that with respect to
any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, if the
Consolidated Cash Flow of such Restricted Subsidiary for such period is
greater than or equal to such consolidated interest expense of such
Restricted Subsidiary for such period, then such Person shall only include
the consolidated interest expense of such Restricted Subsidiary to the
extent of the equity ownership of such Person in such Restricted Subsidiary
(calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act); plus
(2) the consolidated interest of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period, to the extent
deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(3) any interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is
Guaranteed by such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or secured
by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
whether or not such Guarantee or Lien is called upon; plus
(4) the loss on Qualified Receivables Transactions; plus
(5) all dividends, whether paid in cash, assets or securities on any
series of preferred stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary,
other than dividends on Equity Interests payable solely in Equity Interests
of the Company or a Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock) or to the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;
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excluding, to the extent included in such consolidated interest expense, any of
the foregoing items of any Person acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary of the
Company in a pooling-of-interests transaction for any period prior to the date
of such transaction.
"Foreign Subsidiary" means a Restricted Subsidiary that is organized under
the laws of any country other than the United States and substantially all the
assets of which are located outside the United States.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession, which are in effect from time to time.
"Global Notes" means, individually and collectively, each of the Restricted
Global Notes and the Unrestricted Global Notes, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A hereto issued in accordance with Section 2.01, 2.06(b)(3), 2.06(b)(4),
2.06(d)(2) or 2.06(f) hereof.
"Global Note Legend" means the legend set forth in Section 2.06(g)(2),
which is required to be placed on all Global Notes issued under this Indenture.
"Government Securities" means direct obligations of, or obligations
guaranteed by, the United States of America, and the payment for which the
United States pledges its full faith and credit.
"Guarantee" means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business, direct or
indirect, in any manner including, without limitation, by way of a pledge of
assets or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect
thereof, of all or any part of any Indebtedness.
"Guarantors" means each of:
(1) the Domestic Subsidiaries of the Company as of the date of this
Indenture, other than the Receivables Subsidiary; and
(2) any other subsidiary that executes a Note Guarantee in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture;
and their respective successors and assigns.
"Heartland" means Heartland Industrial Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership, and its successors.
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"Hedging Obligations" means, with respect to any specified Person, the
obligations of such Person under:
(1) interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap agreements and
interest rate collar agreements; and
(2) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person
against fluctuations in interest rates, commodity prices or currency risks
incurred in the ordinary course of business.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Note is registered.
"IAI Global Note" means a Global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit
A1 hereto bearing the Global Note Legend and the Private Placement Legend and
deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or
its nominee that will be issued in a denomination equal to the outstanding
principal amount of the Notes sold to Institutional Accredited Investors.
"Indebtedness" means, with respect to any specified Person, any
indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent:
(1) in respect of borrowed money;
(2) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or
letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof);
(3) in respect of banker's acceptances;
(4) representing Capital Lease Obligations;
(5) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price
of any property, except any such balance that constitutes an accrued
expense or trade payable or non-competition or trade name licensing
arrangements on customary terms entered into in connection with an
acquisition; or
(6) representing any Hedging Obligations,
if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit
and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of the
specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, the term
"Indebtedness" includes all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any
asset of the specified Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by
the specified Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the Guarantee
by the specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person.
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The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:
(1) the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any
Indebtedness issued with original issue discount; and
(2) the principal amount of the Indebtedness, together with any
interest on the Indebtedness that is more than 30 days past due, in the
case of any other Indebtedness.
"Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
"Indirect Participant" means a Person who holds a beneficial interest in a
Global Note through a Participant.
"Initial Notes" means the first $352,773,000 aggregate principal amount of
Notes issued under this Indenture on the date hereof.
"Initial Purchasers" means Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation, ▇.▇.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Securities Inc., First Union Securities, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., Comerica Securities, Inc. and NatCity Investments, Inc.
"Institutional Accredited Investor" means an institution that is an
"accredited investor" as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the
Securities Act, who are not also QIBs.
"Investments" means, with respect to any Person, all direct or indirect
investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms
of loans (including Guarantees or other obligations), advances or capital
contributions (excluding commission, travel and similar advances to officers and
employees made in the ordinary course of business), purchases or other
acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other
securities, together with all items that are or would be classified as
investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP If the Company
or any Subsidiary of the Company sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity
Interests of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company such that, after
giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a
Subsidiary of the Company, the Company will be deemed to have made an Investment
on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the fair market value of
the Company's Investments in such Subsidiary that were not sold or disposed of
in an amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.07. The
acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of a Person that
holds an Investment in a third Person will be deemed to be an Investment by the
Company or such Subsidiary in such third Person in an amount equal to the fair
market value of the Investments held by the acquired Person in such third Person
in an amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.07.
"Legal Holiday" means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York or at a place of payment are authorized by
law, regulation or executive order to remain closed. If a payment date is a
Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at
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that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no
interest shall accrue on such payment for the intervening period.
"Letter of Transmittal" means the letter of transmittal to be prepared by
the Company and sent to all Holders of the Notes for use by such Holders in
connection with the Exchange Offer.
"Lien" means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset,
whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law,
including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in
the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security
interest in and, except in connection with any Qualified Receivables
Transaction, any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under
the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction.
"Liquidated Damages" means all liquidated damages then owing pursuant to
Section 2(d) of the Registration Rights Agreement.
"Net Income" means, with respect to any specified Person, the net income
(loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any
reduction in respect of preferred stock dividends, excluding, however:
(1) any gain or loss, together with any related provision for taxes on
such gain or loss, realized in connection with:
(a) any Asset Sale; or
(b) the disposition of any securities by such Person or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries or the extinguishment of any Indebtedness
of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; and
(2) any extraordinary gain or loss, together with any related provision
for taxes on such extraordinary gain or loss.
"Net Proceeds" means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale (including,
without limitation, any cash received upon the sale or other disposition of any
non-cash consideration received in any Asset Sale), net of the direct costs
relating to such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, legal, accounting
and investment banking fees, and sales commissions, and any relocation expenses
incurred as a result of the Asset Sale, taxes paid or payable as a result of the
Asset Sale, in each case, after taking into account any available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, and amounts required to be applied
to the repayment of Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness under a Credit
Facility, secured by a Lien on the asset or assets that were the subject of such
Asset Sale and any reserve for adjustment in respect of the sale price of such
asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP.
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"Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries" means TSPC, Inc. and any other Receivables
Subsidiary, each non-Domestic Subsidiary and Domestic Subsidiary not required to
provide Guarantees under the Credit Agreement.
"Non-Recourse Debt" means Indebtedness:
(1) as to which neither the Company nor any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries (a) provides credit support of any kind (including any
undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness),
(b) is directly or indirectly liable as a guarantor or otherwise, or (c)
constitutes the lender;
(2) no default with respect to which (including any rights that the
holders of the Indebtedness may have to take enforcement action against an
Unrestricted Subsidiary) would permit upon notice, lapse of time or both
any holder of any other Indebtedness (other than the Notes) of the Company
or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to declare a default on such other
Indebtedness or cause the payment of the Indebtedness to be accelerated or
payable prior to its stated maturity; and
(3) as to which the lenders have been notified in writing that they
will not have any recourse to the stock or assets of the Company or any of
the Restricted Subsidiaries.
"Non-U.S. Person" means a Person who is not a U.S. Person.
"Note Guarantee" means the Guarantee by each Guarantor of the Company's
payment obligations under this Indenture and on the Notes, executed pursuant to
the provisions of this Indenture.
"Notes" has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble to this Indenture.
The Initial Notes and the Additional Notes shall be treated as a single class
for all purposes under this Indenture, and unless the context otherwise
requires, all references to the Notes shall include the Initial Notes and any
Additional Notes.
"Obligations" means any principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under
the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
"Officer" means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board, the
Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the
Secretary or any Vice President of such Person.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed on behalf of the Company
by two Officers of the Company, one of whom must be the principal executive
officer, the principal financial officer, the treasurer or the principal
accounting officer of the Company, that meets the requirements of Section 13.05
hereof.
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"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion from legal counsel who is reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee, that meets the requirements of Section 13.05 hereof.
The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, any Subsidiary of
the Company or the Trustee.
"Participant" means, with respect to the Depositary, Euroclear or
Clearstream, a Person who has an account with the Depositary, Euroclear or
Clearstream, respectively (and, with respect to DTC, shall include Euroclear and
Clearstream).
"Permitted Acquired Investment" means any Investment by any Person (the
"Subject Person") in another Person made prior to the time:
(1) the Subject Person became a Restricted Subsidiary,
(2) the Subject Person merged into or consolidated with a Restricted
Subsidiary, or
(3) another Restricted Subsidiary merged into or was consolidated with
the Subject Person (in a transaction in which the Subject Person became a
Restricted Subsidiary),
provided, that such Investment was not made in anticipation of any such
transaction and was outstanding prior to such transaction; provided, further,
that the book value of such Investments (excluding all Permitted Investments
(other than those referred to in clause (14) of the definition thereof)) do not
exceed 5% of the Consolidated Assets of the Subject Person immediately prior to
the Subject Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary.
"Permitted Group" means any group of investors that is deemed to be a
"person" (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) at any
time prior to an underwritten initial public offering of common stock of the
Company, by virtue of the Stockholders Agreement, as the same may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, provided that no single Person
(other than the Principals) Beneficially Owns (together with its Affiliates)
more of the Voting Stock of the Company that is Beneficially Owned by such group
of investors than is then collectively Beneficially Owned by the Principals in
the aggregate.
"Permitted Investments" means:
(1) any Investment in the Company or in a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company;
(2) any Investment in Cash Equivalents;
(3) any Investment by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in a
Person, if as a result of such Investment:
(a) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
or
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(b) such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or
into, or transfers or conveys substantially all of its assets to, or is
liquidated into, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
(4) any Investment made as a result of the receipt of non-cash
consideration from an Asset Sale that was made pursuant to and in
compliance with Section 4.10 hereof;
(5) any acquisition of assets to the extent in exchange for the
issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the
Company;
(6) any Investments received in compromise of obligations of such
persons incurred in the ordinary course of trade creditors or customers
that were incurred in the ordinary course of business, including pursuant
to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or
insolvency of any trade creditor or customer;
(7) Hedging Obligations;
(8) lease, utility and other similar deposits in the ordinary course of
business;
(9) Investments existing on the date of this Indenture;
(10) loans or advances to employees for purposes of purchasing Capital
Stock of the Company in an aggregate amount outstanding at any one time not
to exceed $5.0 million and other loans and advances to employees of the
Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and on
terms consistent with practices in effect prior to the date of this
Indenture, including travel, moving and other like advances;
(11) loans or advances to vendors or contractors of the Company in the
ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices;
(12) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries, partnerships or joint
ventures involving the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, if the
amount of such Investment (after taking into account the amount of all
other Investments made pursuant to this clause (12), less any return of
capital realized or any repayment of principal received on such Permitted
Investments, or any release or other cancellation of any Guarantee
constituting such Permitted Investment, which has not at such time been
reinvested in Permitted Investments made pursuant to this clause (12)),
does not exceed 2.5% of the Company's Consolidated Assets);
(13) the acquisition by a Receivables Subsidiary in connection with a
Qualified Receivables Transaction of Equity Interests of a trust or other
Person established by such Receivables Subsidiary to effect such Qualified
Receivables Transaction; and any other Investment by the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company in a Receivables Subsidiary or any Investment by
a Receivables Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with a Qualified
Receivables Transaction; and
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(14) Permitted Acquired Investments.
"Permitted Liens" means:
(1) Liens to secure Senior Debt of the Company and any Guarantor or to
secure Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor,
including, without limitation, Indebtedness and other Obligations under
Credit Facilities;
(2) Liens in favor of the Company or the Guarantors;
(3) Liens on property of a Person existing at the time such Person is
merged with or into or consolidated with the Company or any Subsidiary of
the Company; provided that such Liens were in existence prior to the
contemplation of such merger or consolidation and do not extend to any
assets other than those of the Person merged into or consolidated with the
Company or the Subsidiary;
(4) Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of the
property by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, provided that
such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such
acquisition;
(5) Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, surety or
appeal bonds, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature
incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(6) Liens to secure Indebtedness (including Capital Lease Obligations)
permitted by clause (4) of the second paragraph of Section 4.09 hereof
covering only the assets acquired with such Indebtedness;
(7) Liens existing on the date of this Indenture;
(8) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that
are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently concluded,
provided that any reserve or other appropriate provision as is required in
conformity with GAAP has been made therefor;
(9) Liens on assets of the Company or a Receivables Subsidiary incurred
in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction;
(10) Liens replacing any of the items set forth in clauses (1), (3),
(4) and (7) above, provided, that (A) the principal amount of the
Indebtedness secured by such Liens shall not be increased (except with
respect to premiums or other payments paid in connection with a concurrent
Refinancing of such Indebtedness and the expenses incurred in connection
therewith), (B) the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured by such
Liens, determined as of the date of incurrence, has a Weighted Average Life
to Maturity at least equal to the
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remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being
Refinanced or repaid, (C) the maturity of the Indebtedness secured by such
Liens is not earlier than that of the Indebtedness to be Refinanced, (D)
such Liens have the same or a lower ranking and priority as the Liens being
replaced, and (E) such Liens shall be limited to the property or assets
encumbered by the Lien so replaced;
(11) Liens encumbering cash proceeds (or securities purchased
therewith) from Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section
4.09 hereof which are set aside at the time of such incurrence in order to
secure an escrow arrangement pursuant to which such cash proceeds (or
securities purchased therewith) are contemplated to ultimately be released
to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or returned to the lenders of
such Indebtedness, provided, that such Liens are automatically released
concurrently with the release of such cash proceeds (or securities
purchased therewith) from such escrow arrangement;
(12) Liens (including extensions, renewals and replacements thereof)
upon property or assets created for the purpose of securing Indebtedness
incurred to finance or Refinance the cost (including the cost of
construction) of such property or assets, provided, that (A) the principal
amount of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien does not exceed 100% of the
cost of such property or assets, (B) such Lien does not extend to or cover
any property or assets other than the property or assets being financed or
Refinanced by such Indebtedness and any improvements thereon, and (C) the
incurrence of such Indebtedness is permitted by Section 4.09 hereof;
(13) Liens securing Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries permitted to
be incurred under Section 4.09 hereof;
(14) Liens (other than Liens securing subordinated Indebtedness) which,
when the Indebtedness relating to those Liens is added to all other then
outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
secured by Liens and not listed in clauses (1) through (13) above or (15)
through (26) below, does not exceed 5% of the Consolidated Assets of the
Company;
(15) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business
in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other
types of social security or similar obligations, including any Lien
securing letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice in connection therewith, or to secure the
performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds,
bids, leases, government contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds
and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of
borrowed money);
(16) judgment Liens not accompanied by an Event of Default of the type
described in clause (6) under Section 6.01 hereof arising from such
judgment;
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(17) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions, minor defects or
irregularities in title and other similar charges or encumbrances in
respect of real property not interfering in any material respect with the
ordinary conduct of business of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(18) any interest or title of a lessor under any lease, whether or not
characterized as capital or operating; provided, that such Liens do not
extend to any property or assets which is not leased property subject to
such lease;
(19) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds
of any Person securing such Person's obligations in respect of bankers'
acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate
the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;
(20) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to letters
of credit which encumber documents and other property relating to such
letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof,
(21) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations arising from
statutory, regulatory, contractual, or warranty requirements of the Company
or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, including rights of offset and
set-off;
(22) leases or subleases granted to others not interfering in any
material respect with the business of the Company or the Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(23) Liens securing Hedging Obligations;
(24) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a
matter of law to secure payment of custom duties in connection with
importation of goods;
(25) Liens encumbering initial deposits and margin deposits, and other
Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business and that are within the
general parameters customary in the industry; and
(26) Liens arising from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing
statements regarding leases.
"Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness" means any Indebtedness of the Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net
proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or
refund other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
(other than intercompany Indebtedness); provided that:
(1) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or
accreted value, if
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applicable) of the Indebtedness extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced,
defeased or refunded (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness and the
amount of all expenses and premiums incurred in connection therewith);
(2) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date
later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to
Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of,
the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or
refunded;
(3) if the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced,
defeased or refunded is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, such
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date later than the
final maturity date of, and is subordinated in right of payment to, the
Notes on terms at least as favorable to the Holders of Notes as those
contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being extended,
refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; and
(4) such Indebtedness is incurred either by the Company, a Guarantor or
by the Restricted Subsidiary who is the obligor on the Indebtedness being
extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited
liability company or government or other entity.
"Principals" means Heartland and any of its affiliates.
"Private Placement Legend" means the legend set forth in Section 2.06(g)(1)
to be placed on all Notes issued under this Indenture except where otherwise
permitted by the provisions of this Indenture.
"QIB" means a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A.
"Qualified Receivables Transaction" means any transaction or series of
transactions entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries sells, conveys or otherwise
transfers to (i) a Receivables Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries) and (ii) any other Person (in the case of a
transfer by a Receivables Subsidiary), or grants a security interest in, any
accounts receivable (whether now existing or arising in the future) of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto including,
without limitation, all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all
contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts
receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and other assets which are
customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are
customarily granted in connection with asset securitization transactions
involving accounts receivable.
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"Receivables" means receivables, chattel paper, instruments, documents or
intangibles evidencing or relating to the right to payment of money.
"Receivables" shall include the indebtedness and payment obligations of any
Person to the Company or a Subsidiary arising from a sale of merchandise or
services by the Company or such Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its
business, including any right to payment for goods sold or for services
rendered, and including the right to payment of any interest, finance charges,
returned check or late charges and other obligations of such Person with respect
thereto. Receivables shall also include (a) all of the Company's or such
Subsidiary's interest in the merchandise (including returned merchandise), if
any, relating to the sale which gave rise to such Receivable, (b) all other
security interests or Liens and property subject thereto from time to time
purporting to secure payment of such Receivable, whether pursuant to the
contract related to such Receivable or otherwise, together with all financing
statements signed by an Obligor describing any collateral securing such
Receivable, and (c) all guarantees, insurance, letters of credit and other
agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or
securing payment of such Receivable whether pursuant to the contract related to
such Receivable or otherwise.
"Receivables Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary of the Company which engages in
no activities other than in connection with the financing of accounts receivable
and which is designated by the Board of Directors of the Company (as provided
below) as a Receivables Subsidiary (a) no portion of the Indebtedness or any
other Obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (excluding guarantees of Obligations
(other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to
representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into in the
ordinary course of business in connection with a Qualified Receivables
Transaction), (ii) is recourse to or obligates the Company or any Subsidiary of
the Company in any way other than pursuant to representations, warranties,
covenants and indemnities entered into in the ordinary course of business in
connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction or (iii) subjects any
property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than
accounts receivable and related assets as provided in the definition of
"Qualified Receivables Transaction"), directly or indirectly, contingently or
otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to representations,
warranties, covenants, limited repurchase obligations and indemnities entered
into in the ordinary course of business in connection with a Qualified
Receivables Transaction, (b) with which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
of the Company has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or
understanding other than on terms no less favorable to the Company or such
Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons who are
not Affiliates of the Company, other than fees payable in the ordinary course of
business in connection with servicing accounts receivable and (c) with which
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company has any obligation to
maintain or preserve such Subsidiary's financial condition or cause such
Subsidiary to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any such designation
by the Board of Directors of the Company will be evidenced to the Trustee by
filing with the Trustee a certified copy of the resolution of the Board of
Directors (which resolution shall be conclusive) of the Company giving effect to
such designation and an Officers' Certificate certifying that such designation
complied with the foregoing conditions.
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"Refinance" means, with respect to any Indebtedness, a renewal, extension,
refinancing, replacement, amendment, restatement or refunding of such
Indebtedness, and shall include any successive Refinancing of any of the
foregoing.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof, among the Company, the Guarantors and the other
parties named on the signature pages thereof, as such agreement may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, and with respect to any Additional
Notes, one or more registration rights agreements among the Company, the
Guarantors and the other parties thereto, as such agreement(s) may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, relating to rights given by the
Company to the purchasers of Additional Notes to register such Additional Notes
under the Securities Act.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.
"Regulation S Global Note" means a Regulation S Temporary Global Note or
Regulation S Permanent Global Note, as appropriate.
"Regulation S Permanent Global Note" means a permanent Global Note in the
form of Exhibit A1 hereto bearing the Global Note Legend and the Private
Placement Legend and deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name
of the Depositary or its nominee, issued in a denomination equal to the
outstanding principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Note upon
expiration of the Restricted Period.
"Regulation S Temporary Global Note" means a temporary Global Note in the
form of Exhibit A2 hereto deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the
name of the Depositary or its nominee, issued in a denomination equal to the
outstanding principal amount of the Notes initially sold in reliance on Rule 903
of Regulation S.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means any
officer within the Corporate Trust Administration of the Trustee (or any
successor group of the Trustee), including any vice president, assistant vice
president, assistant secretary, trust officer or any other officer of the
Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of
the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred
because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Definitive Note" means a Definitive Note bearing the Private
Placement Legend.
"Restricted Global Note" means a Global Note bearing the Private Placement
Legend.
"Restricted Investment" means an Investment other than a Permitted
Investment.
"Restricted Period" means the 40-day distribution compliance period as
defined in Regulation S.
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"Restricted Subsidiary" of a Person means any Subsidiary of the referent
Person that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"Rule 144" means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.
"Rule 144A" means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.
"Rule 903" means Rule 903 promulgated under the Securities Act.
"Rule 904" means Rule 904 promulgated the Securities Act.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Shareholders Agreement" means certain shareholders agreement by and among
Heartland, Metaldyne Company LLC and other investors party thereto relating to
their ownership in the Company.
"Shelf Registration Statement" means the Shelf Registration Statement as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement.
"Significant Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary that would be a "significant
subsidiary" as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated
pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Regulation is in effect on the date of
this Indenture.
"Stated Maturity" means, with respect to any installment of interest or
principal on any series of Indebtedness, the date on which the payment of
interest or principal was scheduled to be paid in the original documentation
governing such Indebtedness, and shall not include any contingent obligations to
repay, redeem or repurchase any such interest or principal prior to the date
originally scheduled for the payment thereof.
"Stock Purchase Agreement" means that certain stock purchase agreement,
dated May 17, 2002, by and among the Company, Metaldyne Corporation and
Heartland under which Heartland and other investors will acquire a majority of
the common stock of the Company.
"Sublease Agreement" means that certain lease by and between the Company
and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Capital, L.L.C. relating to the Company's headquarters in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any specified Person:
(1) any corporation, association or other business entity of which more
than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled
(without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the
election of directors, managers or trustees of the
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corporation, association or other business entity is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the
other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof); and
(2) any partnership (a) the sole general partner or the managing
general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person or
(b) the only general partners of which are that Person or one or more
Subsidiaries of that Person (or any combination thereof).
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (Sections)
77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date on which this Indenture is qualified
under the TIA.
"Transactions" means collectively, the transactions pursuant to the Stock
Purchase Agreement and the related financings.
"Trustee" means the party named as such in the preamble to this Indenture
until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of
this Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving hereunder.
"Unrestricted Global Note" means a permanent global Note substantially in
the form of Exhibit A1 attached hereto that bears the Global Note Legend and
that has the "Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note" attached
thereto, and that is deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name
of the Depositary, representing a series of Notes that do not bear the Private
Placement Legend.
"Unrestricted Definitive Note" means one or more Definitive Notes that do
not bear and are not required to bear the Private Placement Legend.
"Unrestricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Company that is
designated by the Board of Directors as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a
Board Resolution, but only to the extent that such Subsidiary is not party to
any agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding with the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company unless the terms of all such agreements,
contracts, arrangements or understandings are no less favorable to the Company
or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from
Persons who are not Affiliates of the Company.
Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a
certified copy of the Board Resolution giving effect to such designation and an
officers' certificate certifying that such designation complied with the
preceding conditions and was permitted by Section 4.07 hereof. If, at any time,
any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an
Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted
Subsidiary for purposes of the indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary
will be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as of
such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be incurred as of such
date under Section 4.09
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hereof, the Company will be in default of such covenant. The Board of Directors
of the Company may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a
Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such designation will be deemed to be an
incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of any
outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and such designation
will only be permitted if (1) such Indebtedness is permitted under the Section
4.09 hereof, calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred
at the beginning of the four-quarter reference period; and (2) no Default or
Event of Default would be in existence following such designation.
"U.S. Person" means a U.S. Person as defined in Rule 902(o) under the
Securities Act.
"Voting Stock" of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such
Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of
Directors of such Person.
"Weighted Average Life to Maturity" means, when applied to any Indebtedness
at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing:
(1) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of
each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other
required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in
respect of the Indebtedness, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the
nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of
such payment; by
(2) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" of any specified Person means a Subsidiary of
such Person all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of
which (other than directors' qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by
such Person or by one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by
such Person and one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
Section 1.02 Other Definitions.
Defined in
Term Section
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"Affiliate Transaction"...................................... 4.11
"Asset Sale Offer"........................................... 3.09
"Authentication Order"....................................... 2.02
"Capital Spending"........................................... 4.09
"Change of Control Offer".................................... 4.14
"Change of Control Payment".................................. 4.14
"Change of Control Payment Date"............................. 4.14
"Covenant Defeasance"........................................ 8.03
"Designated Senior Debt"..................................... 10.02
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Defined in
Term Section
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"DTC"........................................................ 2.03
"Event of Default"........................................... 6.01
"Excess Proceeds"............................................ 4.10
"incur"...................................................... 4.09
"Legal Defeasance"........................................... 8.02
"Offer Amount"............................................... 3.09
"Offer Period"............................................... 3.09
"Paying Agent"............................................... 2.03
"Permitted Debt"............................................. 4.09
"Permitted Junior Securities"................................ 10.02
"Purchase Date".............................................. 3.09
"Registrar".................................................. 2.03
"Representative"............................................. 10.02
"Restricted Payments"........................................ 4.07
"Senior Debt"................................................ 10.02
Section 1.03 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"indenture securities" means the Notes;
"indenture security Holder" means a Holder of a Note;
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture;
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee; and
"obligor" on the Notes and the Note Guarantees means the Company and the
Guarantors, respectively, and any successor obligor upon the Notes and the Note
Guarantees, respectively.
All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined
by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA have
the meanings so assigned to them.
Section 1.04 Rules of Construction.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
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(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned
to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include
the singular;
(5) "will" shall be interpreted to express a command;
(6) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and
(7) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act will be
deemed to include substitute, replacement of successor sections or rules
adopted by the SEC from time to time.
ARTICLE 2
THE NOTES
Section 2.01 Form and Dating.
(a) General. The Notes and the Trustee's certificate of authentication will
be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The Notes may have notations,
legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note
will be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes will constitute, and are
hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and the Company, the Guarantors
and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly
agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the
extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of this
Indenture, the provisions of this Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
(b) Global Notes. Notes issued in global form will be substantially in the
form of Exhibits A1 or A2 attached hereto (including the Global Note Legend
thereon and the "Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note" attached
thereto). Notes issued in definitive form will be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A1 attached hereto (but without the Global Note Legend thereon and
without the "Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note" attached
thereto). Each Global Note will represent such of the outstanding Notes as will
be specified therein and each shall provide that it represents the aggregate
principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may
from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges
and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any
increase or decrease in the aggregate
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principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby will be made by the
Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in accordance with
instructions given by the Holder thereof as required by Section 2.06 hereof.
(c) Temporary Global Notes. Notes offered and sold in reliance on
Regulation S will be issued initially in the form of the Regulation S Temporary
Global Note, which will be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes
represented thereby with the Trustee, at its New York office, as custodian for
the Depositary, and registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of
the Depositary for the accounts of designated agents holding on behalf of
Euroclear or Clearstream Bank, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by
the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The Restricted Period will be terminated
upon the receipt by the Trustee of:
(1) a written certificate from the Depositary, together with copies of
certificates from Euroclear and Clearstream Bank certifying that they have
received certification of non-United States beneficial ownership of 100% of
the aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Note
(except to the extent of any beneficial owners thereof who acquired an
interest therein during the Restricted Period pursuant to another exemption
from registration under the Securities Act and who will take delivery of a
beneficial ownership interest in a 144A Global Note or an IAI Global Note
bearing a Private Placement Legend, all as contemplated by Section 2.06(b)
hereof); and
(2) an Officers' Certificate from the Company.
Following the termination of the Restricted Period, beneficial interests in
the Regulation S Temporary Global Note will be exchanged for beneficial
interests in Regulation S Permanent Global Notes pursuant to the Applicable
Procedures. Simultaneously with the authentication of Regulation S Permanent
Global Notes, the Trustee will cancel the Regulation S Temporary Global Note.
The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Note and the
Regulation S Permanent Global Notes may from time to time be increased or
decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary
or its nominee, as the case may be, in connection with transfers of interest as
hereinafter provided.
(d) Euroclear and Clearstream Procedures Applicable. The provisions of the
"Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System" and "Terms and Conditions
Governing Use of Euroclear" and the "General Terms and Conditions of Clearstream
Banking" and "Customer Handbook" of Clearstream will be applicable to transfers
of beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note and the
Regulation S Permanent Global Notes that are held by Participants through
Euroclear or Clearstream.
Section 2.02 Execution and Authentication.
One Officer must sign the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile
signature.
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If an Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at
the time a Note is authenticated, the Note will nevertheless be valid.
A Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the
Trustee. The signature will be conclusive evidence that the Note has been
authenticated under this Indenture.
On the Issue Date, the Trustee shall, upon written order of the Company
signed by an Officer (an "Authentication Order"), authenticate the Initial Notes
for original issue up to $352,773,000 in aggregate principal amount and, upon
delivery of any Authentication Order at any time and from time to time
thereafter, the Trustee shall authenticate Additional Notes and Exchange Notes
for original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified in such
Authentication Order.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company
to authenticate Notes. An authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever
the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as an Agent to deal with Holders or an Affiliate of the Company.
Section 2.03 Registrar and Paying Agent.
The Company will maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented
for registration of transfer or for exchange ("Registrar") and an office or
agency where Notes may be presented for payment ("Paying Agent"). The Registrar
will keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange. The
Company may appoint one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying
agents. The term "Registrar" includes any co-registrar and the term "Paying
Agent" includes any additional paying agent. The Company may change any Paying
Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company will notify the
Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this
Indenture. If the Company fails to appoint or maintain another entity as
Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or any of
its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") to act
as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Registrar and
Paying Agent and to act as Custodian with respect to the Global Notes.
Section 2.04 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.
The Company will require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree
in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust for the benefit of Holders
or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal,
premium or Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest on the Notes, and will notify
the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any
such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money
held by it to the
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Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money
held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent
(if other than the Company or a Subsidiary) will have no further liability for
the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it will
segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all
money held by it as Paying Agent. Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization
proceedings relating to the Company, the Trustee will serve as Paying Agent for
the Notes.
Section 2.05 Holder Lists.
The Trustee will preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable
the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of all Holders
and shall otherwise comply with TIA (Section) 312(a). If the Trustee is not the
Registrar, the Company will furnish to the Trustee at least seven Business Days
before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may
request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may
reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes and the
Company shall otherwise comply with TIA (Section) 312(a).
Section 2.06 Transfer and Exchange.
(a) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. A Global Note may not be
transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary,
by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or to another nominee of the
Depositary, or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary
or a nominee of such successor Depositary. All Global Notes will be exchanged by
the Company for Definitive Notes if:
(1) the Company delivers to the Trustee notice from the Depositary that
it is unwilling or unable to continue to act as Depositary or that it is no
longer a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either
case, a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 120
days after the date of such notice from the Depositary; or
(2) the Company in its sole discretion determines that the Global Notes
(in whole but not in part) should be exchanged for Definitive Notes and
delivers a written notice to such effect to the Trustee; provided that in
no event shall the Regulation S Temporary Global Note be exchanged by the
Company for Definitive Notes prior to (x) the expiration of the Restricted
Period and (y) the receipt by the Registrar of any certificates required
pursuant to Rule 903(b)(3)(ii)(B) under the Securities Act.
Upon the occurrence of either of the preceding events in (1) or (2) above,
Definitive Notes shall be issued in such names as the Depositary shall instruct
the Trustee. Global Notes also may be exchanged or replaced, in whole or in
part, as provided in Sections 2.07 and 2.10 hereof. Every Note authenticated and
delivered in exchange for, or in lieu of, a Global Note or any portion thereof,
pursuant to this Section 2.06 or Section 2.07 or 2.10 hereof, shall be
authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Note. A
Global Note may not be exchanged for another Note other
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than as provided in this Section 2.06(a), however, beneficial interests in a
Global Note may be transferred and exchanged as provided in Section 2.06(b), (c)
or (f) hereof.
(b) Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in the Global Notes. The
transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in the Global Notes will be
effected through the Depositary, in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture and the Applicable Procedures. Beneficial interests in the Restricted
Global Notes will be subject to restrictions on transfer comparable to those set
forth herein to the extent required by the Securities Act. Transfers of
beneficial interests in the Global Notes also will require compliance with
either subparagraph (1) or (2) below, as applicable, as well as one or more of
the other following subparagraphs, as applicable:
(1) Transfer of Beneficial Interests in the Same Global Note.
Beneficial interests in any Restricted Global Note may be transferred to
Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in
the same Restricted Global Note in accordance with the transfer
restrictions set forth in the Private Placement Legend; provided, however,
that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of
beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note may not be
made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (other
than an Initial Purchaser). Beneficial interests in any Unrestricted Global
Note may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of
a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note. No written orders or
instructions shall be required to be delivered to the Registrar to effect
the transfers described in this Section 2.06(b)(1).
(2) All Other Transfers and Exchanges of Beneficial Interests in Global
Notes. In connection with all transfers and exchanges of beneficial
interests that are not subject to Section 2.06(b)(1) above, the transferor
of such beneficial interest must deliver to the Registrar either:
(A) both:
(i) a written order from a Participant or an Indirect
Participant given to the Depositary in accordance with the
Applicable Procedures directing the Depositary to credit or cause
to be credited a beneficial interest in another Global Note in an
amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred or
exchanged; and
(ii) instructions given in accordance with the Applicable
Procedures containing information regarding the Participant
account to be credited with such increase; or
(B) both:
(i) a written order from a Participant or an Indirect
Participant given to the Depositary in accordance with the
Applicable Procedures
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directing the Depositary to cause to be issued a Definitive Note
in an amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred
or exchanged; and
(ii) instructions given by the Depositary to the Registrar
containing information regarding the Person in whose name such
Definitive Note shall be registered to effect the transfer or
exchange referred to in (1) above; provided that in no event
shall Definitive Notes be issued upon the transfer or exchange of
beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note
prior to (A) the expiration of the Restricted Period and (B) the
receipt by the Registrar of any certificates required pursuant to
Rule 903 under the Securities Act. Upon consummation of an
Exchange Offer by the Company in accordance with Section 2.06(f)
hereof, the requirements of this Section 2.06(b)(2) shall be
deemed to have been satisfied upon receipt by the Registrar of
the instructions contained in the Letter of Transmittal delivered
by the Holder of such beneficial interests in the Restricted
Global Notes. Upon satisfaction of all of the requirements for
transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in Global Notes
contained in this Indenture and the Notes or otherwise applicable
under the Securities Act, the Trustee shall adjust the principal
amount of the relevant Global Note(s) pursuant to Section 2.06(h)
hereof.
(3) Transfer of Beneficial Interests to Another Restricted Global Note.
A beneficial interest in any Restricted Global Note may be transferred to a
Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in
another Restricted Global Note if the transfer complies with the
requirements of Section 2.06(b)(2) above and the Registrar receives the
following:
(A) if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a
beneficial interest in the 144A Global Note, then the transferor must
deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit B hereto, including the
certifications in item (1) thereof;
(B) if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a
beneficial interest in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note or the
Regulation S Global Note, then the transferor must deliver a
certificate in the form of Exhibit B hereto, including the
certifications in item (2) thereof; and
(C) if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a
beneficial interest in the IAI Global Note, then the transferor must
deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit B hereto, including the
certifications, certificates and Opinion of Counsel required by item
(3) thereof, if applicable.
(4) Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in a Restricted
Global Note for Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Note. A
beneficial interest in any Restricted
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Global Note may be exchanged by any holder thereof for a beneficial
interest in an Unrestricted Global Note or transferred to a Person who
takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an
Unrestricted Global Note if the exchange or transfer complies with the
requirements of Section 2.06(b)(2) above and:
(A) such exchange or transfer is effected pursuant to the
Exchange Offer in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement and
the holder of the beneficial interest to be transferred, in the case of
an exchange, or the transferee, in the case of a transfer, certifies in
the applicable Letter of Transmittal that it is not (i) a
Broker-Dealer, (ii) a Person participating in the distribution of the
Exchange Notes or (iii) a Person who is an affiliate (as defined in
Rule 144) of the Company;
(B) such transfer is effected pursuant to the Shelf Registration
Statement in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement;
(C) such transfer is effected by a Broker-Dealer pursuant to the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement in accordance with the
Registration Rights Agreement; or
(D) the Registrar receives the following:
(i) if the holder of such beneficial interest in a
Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial
interest for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global
Note, a certificate from such holder in the form of Exhibit C
hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(a) thereof; or
(ii) if the holder of such beneficial interest in a
Restricted Global Note proposes to transfer such beneficial
interest to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form
of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note, a
certificate from such holder in the form of Exhibit B hereto,
including the certifications in item (4) thereof;
and, in each such case set forth in this subparagraph (D), if the
Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an
Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to
the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the
Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein
and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to
maintain compliance with the Securities Act.
If any such transfer is effected pursuant to subparagraph (B) or (D) above
at a time when an Unrestricted Global Note has not yet been issued, the Company
shall issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with
Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted
Global Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to
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the aggregate principal amount of beneficial interests transferred pursuant to
subparagraph (B) or (D) above.
Beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note cannot be exchanged
for, or transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of, a
beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note.
(c) Transfer or Exchange of Beneficial Interests for Definitive Notes.
(1) Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Notes to Restricted
Definitive Notes. If any holder of a beneficial interest in a Restricted
Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a Restricted
Definitive Note or to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who
takes delivery thereof in the form of a Restricted Definitive Note, then,
upon receipt by the Registrar of the following documentation:
(A) if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted
Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a
Restricted Definitive Note, a certificate from such holder in the form
of Exhibit C hereto, including the certifications in item (2)(a)
thereof;
(B) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to a QIB in
accordance with Rule 144A, a certificate to the effect set forth in
Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof;
(C) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to a
Non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 903
or Rule 904, a certificate to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto,
including the certifications in item (2) thereof;
(D) if such beneficial interest is being transferred pursuant to
an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
in accordance with Rule 144, a certificate to the effect set forth in
Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(a) thereof;
(E) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to an
Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance on an exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act other than those listed
in subparagraphs (B) through (D) above, a certificate to the effect set
forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications, certificates
and Opinion of Counsel required by item (3) thereof, if applicable;
(F) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, a certificate to the effect set
forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(b)
thereof; or
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(G) if such beneficial interest is being transferred pursuant to
an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, a
certificate to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the
certifications in item (3)(c) thereof,
the Trustee shall cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable
Global Note to be reduced accordingly pursuant to Section 2.06(h) hereof,
and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Person designated in the instructions a Definitive Note in
the appropriate principal amount. Any Definitive Note issued in exchange
for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note pursuant to this
Section 2.06(c) shall be registered in such name or names and in such
authorized denomination or denominations as the holder of such beneficial
interest shall instruct the Registrar through instructions from the
Depositary and the Participant or Indirect Participant. The Trustee shall
deliver such Definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such Notes are
so registered. Any Definitive Note issued in exchange for a beneficial
interest in a Restricted Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.06(c)(1)
shall bear the Private Placement Legend and shall be subject to all
restrictions on transfer contained therein.
(2) Beneficial Interests in Regulation S Temporary Global Note to
Definitive Notes. Notwithstanding Sections 2.06(c)(1)(A) and (C) hereof, a
beneficial interest in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note may not be
exchanged for a Definitive Note or transferred to a Person who takes
delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Note prior to (A) the
expiration of the Restricted Period and (B) the receipt by the Registrar of
any certificates required pursuant to Rule 903(b)(3)(ii)(B) under the
Securities Act, except in the case of a transfer pursuant to an exemption
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than Rule
903 or Rule 904.
(3) Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Notes to Unrestricted
Definitive Notes. A holder of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global
Note may exchange such beneficial interest for an Unrestricted Definitive
Note or may transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who takes
delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note only if:
(A) such exchange or transfer is effected pursuant to the
Exchange Offer in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement and
the holder of such beneficial interest, in the case of an exchange, or
the transferee, in the case of a transfer, certifies in the applicable
Letter of Transmittal that it is not (i) a Broker-Dealer, (ii) a Person
participating in the distribution of the Exchange Notes or (iii) a
Person who is an affiliate (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company;
(B) such transfer is effected pursuant to the Shelf Registration
Statement in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement;
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(C) such transfer is effected by a Broker-Dealer pursuant to the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement in accordance with the
Registration Rights Agreement; or
(D) the Registrar receives the following:
(i) if the holder of such beneficial interest in a
Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial
interest for a Definitive Note that does not bear the Private
Placement Legend, a certificate from such holder in the form of
Exhibit C hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(b)
thereof; or
(ii) if the holder of such beneficial interest in a
Restricted Global Note proposes to transfer such beneficial
interest to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form
of a Definitive Note that does not bear the Private Placement
Legend, a certificate from such holder in the form of Exhibit B
hereto, including the certifications in item (4) thereof;
and, in each such case set forth in this subparagraph (D), if the
Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an
Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to
the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the
Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein
and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to
maintain compliance with the Securities Act.
(4) Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Notes to Unrestricted
Definitive Notes. If any holder of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted
Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a Definitive
Note or to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who takes delivery
thereof in the form of a Definitive Note, then, upon satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 2.06(b)(2) hereof, the Trustee will cause
the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Global Note to be reduced
accordingly pursuant to Section 2.06(h) hereof, and the Company will
execute and the Trustee will authenticate and deliver to the Person
designated in the instructions a Definitive Note in the appropriate
principal amount. Any Definitive Note issued in exchange for a beneficial
interest pursuant to this Section 2.06(c)(3) will be registered in such
name or names and in such authorized denomination or denominations as the
holder of such beneficial interest requests through instructions to the
Registrar from or through the Depositary and the Participant or Indirect
Participant. The Trustee will deliver such Definitive Notes to the Persons
in whose names such Notes are so registered. Any Definitive Note issued in
exchange for a beneficial interest pursuant to this Section 2.06(c)(3) will
not bear the Private Placement Legend.
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(d) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Beneficial Interests.
(1) Restricted Definitive Notes to Beneficial Interests in Restricted
Global Notes. If any Holder of a Restricted Definitive Note proposes to
exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note or
to transfer such Restricted Definitive Notes to a Person who takes delivery
thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note,
then, upon receipt by the Registrar of the following documentation:
(A) if the Holder of such Restricted Definitive Note proposes to
exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global
Note, a certificate from such Holder in the form of Exhibit C hereto,
including the certifications in item (2)(b) thereof;
(B) if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to a
QIB in accordance with Rule 144A, a certificate to the effect set forth
in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof;
(C) if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to a
Non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 903
or Rule 904, a certificate to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto,
including the certifications in item (2) thereof;
(D) if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred
pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144, a certificate to the effect
set forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item
(3)(a) thereof;
(E) if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to an
Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance on an exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act other than those listed
in subparagraphs (B) through (D) above, a certificate to the effect set
forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications, certificates
and Opinion of Counsel required by item (3) thereof, if applicable;
(F) if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, a certificate to the effect set
forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(b)
thereof; or
(G) if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act, a certificate to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto,
including the certifications in item (3)(c) thereof,
the Trustee will cancel the Restricted Definitive Note, increase or cause
to be increased the aggregate principal amount of, in the case of clause
(A) above, the appropriate Restricted
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Global Note, in the case of clause (B) above, the 144A Global Note, in the
case of clause (C) above, the Regulation S Global Note, and in all other
cases, the IAI Global Note.
(2) Restricted Definitive Notes to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted
Global Notes. A Holder of a Restricted Definitive Note may exchange such
Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note or transfer
such Restricted Definitive Note to a Person who takes delivery thereof in
the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note only if:
(A) such exchange or transfer is effected pursuant to the
Exchange Offer in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement and
the Holder, in the case of an exchange, or the transferee, in the case
of a transfer, certifies in the applicable Letter of Transmittal that
it is not (i) a Broker-Dealer, (ii) a Person participating in the
distribution of the Exchange Notes or (iii) a Person who is an
affiliate (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company;
(B) such transfer is effected pursuant to the Shelf Registration
Statement in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement;
(C) such transfer is effected by a Broker-Dealer pursuant to the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement in accordance with the
Registration Rights Agreement; or
(D) the Registrar receives the following:
(i) if the Holder of such Definitive Notes proposes to
exchange such Notes for a beneficial interest in the Unrestricted
Global Note, a certificate from such Holder in the form of
Exhibit C hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(c)
thereof; or
(ii) if the Holder of such Definitive Notes proposes to
transfer such Notes to a Person who shall take delivery thereof
in the form of a beneficial interest in the Unrestricted Global
Note, a certificate from such Holder in the form of Exhibit B
hereto, including the certifications in item (4) thereof;
and, in each such case set forth in this subparagraph (D), if the
Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an
Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to
the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the
Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein
and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to
maintain compliance with the Securities Act.
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Upon satisfaction of the conditions of any of the subparagraphs in this
Section 2.06(d)(2), the Trustee will cancel the Definitive Notes and
increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of the
Unrestricted Global Note.
(3) Unrestricted Definitive Notes to Beneficial Interests in
Unrestricted Global Notes. A Holder of an Unrestricted Definitive Note may
exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note
or transfer such Definitive Notes to a Person who takes delivery thereof in
the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note at any
time. Upon receipt of a request for such an exchange or transfer, the
Trustee will cancel the applicable Unrestricted Definitive Note and
increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of one of
the Unrestricted Global Notes.
If any such exchange or transfer from a Definitive Note to a beneficial
interest is effected pursuant to subparagraphs (2)(B), (2)(D) or (3) above at a
time when an Unrestricted Global Note has not yet been issued, the Company will
issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section
2.02 hereof, the Trustee will authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Notes
in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of Definitive
Notes so transferred.
(e) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes. Upon
request by a Holder of Definitive Notes and such Holder's compliance with the
provisions of this Section 2.06(e), the Registrar will register the transfer or
exchange of Definitive Notes. Prior to such registration of transfer or
exchange, the requesting Holder must present or surrender to the Registrar the
Definitive Notes duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by such Holder or
by its attorney, duly authorized in writing. In addition, the requesting Holder
must provide any additional certifications, documents and information, as
applicable, required pursuant to the following provisions of this Section
2.06(e).
(1) Restricted Definitive Notes to Restricted Definitive Notes. Any
Restricted Definitive Note may be transferred to and registered in the name
of Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a Restricted Definitive
Note if the Registrar receives the following:
(A) if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 144A under the
Securities Act, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the
form of Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (1)
thereof;
(B) if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 903 or Rule
904, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form of
Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (2) thereof; and
(C) if the transfer will be made pursuant to any other exemption
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, then the
transferor must deliver a
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certificate in the form of Exhibit B hereto, including the
certifications, certificates and Opinion of Counsel required by item
(3) thereof, if applicable.
(2) Restricted Definitive Notes to Unrestricted Definitive Notes. Any
Restricted Definitive Note may be exchanged by the Holder thereof for an
Unrestricted Definitive Note or transferred to a Person or Persons who take
delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note if:
(A) such exchange or transfer is effected pursuant to the
Exchange Offer in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement and
the Holder, in the case of an exchange, or the transferee, in the case
of a transfer, certifies in the applicable Letter of Transmittal that
it is not (i) a broker-dealer, (ii) a Person participating in the
distribution of the Exchange Notes or (iii) a Person who is an
affiliate (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company;
(B) any such transfer is effected pursuant to the Shelf
Registration Statement in accordance with the Registration Rights
Agreement;
(C) any such transfer is effected by a Broker-Dealer pursuant to
the Exchange Offer Registration Statement in accordance with the
Registration Rights Agreement; or
(D) the Registrar receives the following:
(i) if the Holder of such Restricted Definitive Notes
proposes to exchange such Notes for an Unrestricted Definitive
Note, a certificate from such Holder in the form of Exhibit C
hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(d) thereof; or
(ii) if the Holder of such Restricted Definitive Notes
proposes to transfer such Notes to a Person who shall take
delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note,
a certificate from such Holder in the form of Exhibit B hereto,
including the certifications in item (4) thereof;
and, in each such case set forth in this subparagraph (D), if the
Registrar so requests, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably
acceptable to the Company to the effect that such exchange or transfer
is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on
transfer contained herein and in the Private Placement Legend are no
longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities
Act.
(3) Unrestricted Definitive Notes to Unrestricted Definitive Notes. A
Holder of Unrestricted Definitive Notes may transfer such Notes to a Person
who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note.
Upon receipt of a request to register such a
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transfer, the Registrar shall register the Unrestricted Definitive Notes
pursuant to the instructions from the Holder thereof.
(f) Exchange Offer. Upon the occurrence of the Exchange Offer in accordance
with the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company will issue and, upon receipt
of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee
will authenticate:
(1) one or more Unrestricted Global Notes in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interests in the
Restricted Global Notes tendered into the Exchange Offer by Persons that
certify in the applicable Letters of Transmittal that (A) they are not
Broker-Dealers, (B) they are not participating in a distribution of the
Exchange Notes and (z) they are not affiliates (as defined in Rule 144) of
the Company; and
(2) Unrestricted Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the principal amount of the Restricted Definitive Notes accepted
for exchange in the Exchange Offer.
Concurrently with the issuance of such Notes, the Trustee will cause the
aggregate principal amount of the applicable Restricted Global Notes to be
reduced accordingly, and the Company will execute and the Trustee will
authenticate and deliver to the Persons designated by the Holders of Definitive
Notes so accepted Unrestricted Definitive Notes in the appropriate principal
amount.
(g) Legends. The following legends will appear on the face of all Global
Notes and Definitive Notes issued under this Indenture unless specifically
stated otherwise in the applicable provisions of this Indenture.
(1) Private Placement Legend.
(A) Except as permitted by subparagraph (B) below, each Global
Note and each Definitive Note (and all Notes issued in exchange
therefor or substitution thereof) shall bear the legend in
substantially the following form:
"THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND THIS NOTE MAY
NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH
PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS
NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.
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THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
ISSUERS THAT (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) IN THE UNITED STATES TO A PERSON
WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (II) OUTSIDE
THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH
RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144
THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE), (IV) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED
INVESTOR IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (V) TO THE ISSUERS OR ANY OF
THEIR SUBSIDIARIES OR (VI) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH
(VI) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY
STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH
SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS
NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A)
ABOVE."
(B) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Global Note or Definitive
Note issued pursuant to subparagraphs (b)(4), (c)(3), (c)(4), (d)(2),
(d)(3), (e)(2), (e)(3) or (f) of this Section 2.06 (and all Notes
issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) will not bear the
Private Placement Legend.
(2) Global Note Legend. Each Global Note will bear a legend in
substantially the following form:
"THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE
INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE
TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (1) THE TRUSTEE
MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 2.06 OF THE INDENTURE, (2) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE
EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT
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IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.06(a) OF THE INDENTURE, (3) THIS
GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION
PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.11 OF THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL
NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR
WRITTEN CONSENT OF TRIMAS CORPORATION.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES IN
DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A
WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF
THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A
SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇) ("▇▇▇"), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR
SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF
FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH
AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN."
(3) Regulation S Temporary Global Note Legend. The Regulation S
Temporary Global Note will bear a legend in substantially the following
form:
"THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE,
AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR
CERTIFICATED NOTES, ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED
HEREIN). NEITHER THE HOLDER NOR THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF THIS
REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE
PAYMENT OF INTEREST HEREON."
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(h) Cancellation and/or Adjustment of Global Notes. At such time as all
beneficial interests in a particular Global Note have been exchanged for
Definitive Notes or a particular Global Note has been redeemed, repurchased or
canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Note will be returned to or
retained and canceled by the Trustee in accordance with Section 2.11 hereof. At
any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note
is exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in
the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Note or for Definitive
Notes, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note will be
reduced accordingly and an endorsement will be made on such Global Note by the
Trustee or by the Depositary at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such
reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred
to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest
in another Global Note, such other Global Note will be increased accordingly and
an endorsement will be made on such Global Note by the Trustee or by the
Depositary at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such increase.
(i) General Provisions Relating to Transfers and Exchanges.
(1) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company
will execute and the Trustee will authenticate Global Notes and Definitive
Notes upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section
2.02 or at the Registrar's request.
(2) No service charge will be made to a Holder of a Global Note or to a
Holder of a Definitive Note for any registration of transfer or exchange,
but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith
(other than any such transfer taxes or similar governmental charge payable
upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 2.10, 3.06, 3.09, 4.10, 4.14
and 9.05 hereof). The Registrar will not be required to register the
transfer of or exchange any Note selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
(3) All Global Notes and Definitive Notes issued upon any registration
of transfer or exchange of Global Notes or Definitive Notes will be the
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to
the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Global Notes or Definitive
Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(4) The Company will not be required:
(A) to issue, to register the transfer of or to exchange any
Notes during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before the day of any selection of Notes for redemption under Section
3.02 hereof and ending at the close of business on the day of
selection;
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(B) to register the transfer of or to exchange any Note selected
for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
any Note being redeemed in part; or
(C) to register the transfer of or to exchange a Note between a
record date and the next succeeding interest payment date.
(5) Prior to due presentment for the registration of a transfer of any
Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and treat the Person
in whose name any Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for
the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Notes
and for all other purposes, and none of the Trustee, any Agent or the
Company shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
(6) The Trustee will authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02 hereof.
(7) All certifications, certificates and Opinions of Counsel required
to be submitted to the Registrar pursuant to this Section 2.06 to effect a
registration of transfer or exchange may be submitted by facsimile.
Section 2.07 Replacement Notes.
If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company and the
Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft
of any Note, the Company will issue and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Authentication Order, will authenticate a replacement Note if the Trustee's
requirements are met. If required by the Trustee or the Company, an indemnity
bond must be supplied by the Holder that is sufficient in the judgment of the
Trustee and the Company to protect the Company, the Trustee, any Agent and any
authenticating agent from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Note is
replaced. The Company may charge for its expenses in replacing a Note.
Every replacement Note is an additional obligation of the Company and will
be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
Section 2.08 Outstanding Notes.
The Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes authenticated by the
Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation,
those reductions in the interest in a Global Note effected by the Trustee in
accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this Section as
not outstanding. Except as set forth in Section 2.09 hereof, a Note does not
cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds
the Note; however, Notes held by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company
shall not be deemed to be outstanding for purposes of Section 3.07(b) hereof.
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If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 hereof, it ceases to be
outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the
replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser.
If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under Section 4.01
hereof, it ceases to be outstanding and interest on it ceases to accrue.
If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate
of any thereof) holds, on a redemption date or maturity date, money sufficient
to pay Notes payable on that date, then on and after that date such Notes will
be deemed to be no longer outstanding and will cease to accrue interest.
Section 2.09 Treasury Notes.
In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of
Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the
Company, or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or
under direct or indirect common control with the Company, will be considered as
though not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the
Trustee will be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent,
only Notes that the Trustee knows are so owned will be so disregarded.
Section 2.10 Temporary Notes.
Until certificates representing Notes are ready for delivery, the Company
may prepare and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, will
authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes will be substantially in the form
of certificated Notes but may have variations that the Company considers
appropriate for temporary Notes and as may be reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee. Without unreasonable delay, the Company will prepare and the Trustee
will authenticate definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes.
Holders of temporary Notes will be entitled to all of the benefits of this
Indenture.
Section 2.11 Cancellation.
The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation.
The Registrar and Paying Agent will forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered
to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee and no
one else will cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer,
exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and will dispose of canceled
Notes (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act). The
Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or that have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
Section 2.12 Defaulted Interest.
If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it will pay
the defaulted interest in any lawful manner plus, to the extent lawful, interest
payable on the defaulted interest, to
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the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent special record date, in each case at
the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01 hereof. The Company will
notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be
paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment. The Company will fix or
cause to be fixed each such special record date and payment date, provided that
no such special record date may be less than 10 days prior to the related
payment date for such defaulted interest. At least 15 days before the special
record date, the Company (or, upon the written request of the Company, the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company) will mail or cause to be
mailed to Holders a notice that states the special record date, the related
payment date and the amount of such interest to be paid.
Section 2.13 CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Notes may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally
in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of
redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state
that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as
printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or
omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any
change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT
Section 3.01 Notices to Trustee.
If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption
provisions of Section 3.07 hereof, it must furnish to the Trustee, at least 45
days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, an Officers'
Certificate setting forth:
(1) the clause of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall
occur;
(2) the redemption date;
(3) the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed; and
(4) the redemption price.
Section 3.02 Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased.
If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed or purchased in an
offer to purchase at any time, the Trustee will select Notes for redemption or
purchase as follows:
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(1) if the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange, in
compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities
exchange on which the Notes are listed; or
(2) if the Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange, on
a pro rata basis, by lot or by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair
and appropriate.
In the event of partial redemption or purchase by lot, the particular Notes
to be redeemed or purchased will be selected, unless otherwise provided herein,
not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption or purchase date
by the Trustee from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption
or purchase.
The Trustee will promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes
selected for redemption or purchase and, in the case of any Note selected for
partial redemption or purchase, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed or
purchased. Notes and portions of Notes selected will be in amounts of $1,000 or
whole multiples of $1,000; except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be
redeemed or purchased, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such
Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed or purchased. Except
as provided in the preceding sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply
to Notes called for redemption or purchase also apply to portions of Notes
called for redemption or purchase.
Section 3.03 Notice of Redemption.
Subject to the provisions of Section 3.09 hereof, at least 30 days but not
more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company will mail or cause to be
mailed, by first class mail, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Notes
are to be redeemed at its registered address, except that redemption notices may
be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued
in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture pursuant to Articles 8 or 12 of this Indenture.
The notice will identify the Notes to be redeemed (including the CUSIP or
ISIN number) and will state:
(1) the redemption date;
(2) the redemption price;
(3) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal
amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon
surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to
the unredeemed portion will be issued upon cancellation of the original
Note;
(4) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
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(5) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying
Agent to collect the redemption price;
(6) that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption
payment, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and
after the redemption date;
(7) the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture
pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed; and
(8) that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of
the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes.
At the Company's request, the Trustee will give the notice of redemption in
the Company's name and at its expense; provided, however, that the Company has
delivered to the Trustee, at least 45 days prior to the redemption date, an
Officers' Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting
forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in the preceding
paragraph.
Section 3.04 Effect of Notice of Redemption.
Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof,
Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption
date at the redemption price. A notice of redemption may not be conditional.
Section 3.05 Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price.
Prior to 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on the redemption or purchase
price date, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent
money sufficient to pay the redemption or purchase price of and accrued interest
and Liquidated Damages, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed or purchased on that
date. The Trustee or the Paying Agent will promptly return to the Company any
money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of
the amounts necessary to pay the redemption or purchase price of, and accrued
interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, on, all Notes to be redeemed or
purchased.
If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on
and after the redemption or purchase date, interest will cease to accrue on the
Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption or purchase. If a Note is
redeemed or purchased on or after an interest record date but on or prior to the
related interest payment date, then any accrued and unpaid interest shall be
paid to the Person in whose name such Note was registered at the close of
business on such record date. If any Note called for redemption or purchase is
not so paid upon surrender for redemption or purchase because of the failure of
the Company to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on
the unpaid principal, from the redemption or purchase date until such principal
is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid
principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01
hereof.
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Section 3.06 Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part.
Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed or purchased in part, the Company
will issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, the Trustee will
authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the Company a new Note equal in
principal amount to the unredeemed or unpurchased portion of the Note
surrendered.
Section 3.07 Optional Redemption.
(a) At any time prior to June 15, 2005, the Company may on any one or more
occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes issued
under this Indenture at a redemption price of 109.875% of the principal amount
thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, to the
redemption date, with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings;
provided that:
(1) at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes issued
under this Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence
of such redemption (excluding Notes held by the Company and its
Subsidiaries); and
(2) the redemption must occur within 120 days of the date of the
closing of such Equity Offering.
(b) Except pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Notes are not
redeemable at the Company's option prior to June 15, 2007.
(c) After June 15, 2007, the Company may redeem all or a part of the Notes
upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the redemption prices
(expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth below plus accrued and
unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, thereon, to the applicable
redemption date, if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on June 15
of the years indicated below:
Year Percentage
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2007................................................ 104.938%
2008................................................ 103.292%
2009................................................ 101.646%
2010 and thereafter................................. 100.000%
(d) Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.07 shall be made pursuant to
the provisions of Section 3.01 through 3.06 hereof.
Section 3.08 Mandatory Redemption.
The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund
payments with respect to the Notes.
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Section 3.09 Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds.
In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, the Company is required
to commence an offer to all Holders to purchase Notes (an "Asset Sale Offer"),
it will follow the procedures specified below.
The Asset Sale Offer shall be made to all Holders and all holders of other
Indebtedness that is pari passu with the Notes containing provisions similar to
those set forth in this Indenture with respect to offers to purchase or redeem
with the proceeds of sales and assets. The Asset Sale Offer will remain open for
a period of at least 20 Business Days following its commencement and not more
than 30 Business Days, except to the extent that a longer period is required by
applicable law (the "Offer Period"). No later than three Business Days after the
termination of the Offer Period (the "Purchase Date"), the Company will apply
all Excess Proceeds (the "Offer Amount") to the purchase of Notes and such other
pari passu Indebtedness (on a pro rata basis, if applicable) or, if less than
the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes and other Indebtedness tendered in
response to the Asset Sale Offer. Payment for any Notes so purchased will be
made in the same manner as interest payments are made.
If the Purchase Date is on or after an interest record date and on or
before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest, and
Liquidated Damages, if any, will be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is
registered at the close of business on such record date, and no additional
interest will be payable to Holders who tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Sale
Offer.
Upon the commencement of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company will send, by
first class mail, a notice to the Trustee and each of the Holders, with a copy
to the Trustee. The notice will contain all instructions and materials necessary
to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer. The
notice, which will govern the terms of the Asset Sale Offer, will state:
(1) that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to this Section
3.09 and Section 4.10 hereof and the length of time the Asset Sale Offer
will remain open;
(2) the Offer Amount, the purchase price and the Purchase Date;
(3) that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment will continue to
accrue interest;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in making such payment, any Note
accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer will cease to accrue
interest after the Purchase Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to an Asset
Sale Offer may elect to have Notes purchased in integral multiples of
$1,000 only;
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(6) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any
Asset Sale Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the form
entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Note
completed, or transfer by book-entry transfer, to the Company, a
Depositary, if appointed by the Company, or a Paying Agent at the address
specified in the notice at least three days before the Purchase Date;
(7) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Company, the Depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives,
not later than the expiration of the Offer Period, a telegram, telex,
facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the
principal amount of the Note the Holder delivered for purchase and a
statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note
purchased;
(8) that, if the aggregate principal amount of Notes and other pari
passu Indebtedness surrendered by Holders exceeds the Offer Amount, the
Company will select the Notes and other pari passu Indebtedness to be
purchased on a pro rata basis based on the principal amount of Notes and
such other pari passu Indebtedness surrendered (with such adjustments as
may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in
denominations of $1,000, or integral multiples thereof, will be purchased);
and
(9) that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part will be issued
new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes
surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer).
On or before the Purchase Date, the Company will, to the extent lawful,
accept for payment, on a pro rata basis to the extent necessary, the Offer
Amount of Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer,
or if less than the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes tendered, and will
deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that such Notes or
portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance with the
terms of this Section 3.09. The Company, the Depositary or the Paying Agent, as
the case may be, will promptly (but in any case not later than five days after
the Purchase Date) mail or deliver to each tendering Holder an amount equal to
the purchase price of the Notes tendered by such Holder and accepted by the
Company for purchase, and the Company will promptly issue a new Note, and the
Trustee, upon written request from the Company will authenticate and mail or
deliver such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any
unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered. Any Note not so accepted shall be
promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company
will publicly announce the results of the Asset Sale Offer on the Purchase Date.
Other than as specifically provided in this Section 3.09, any purchase
pursuant to this Section 3.09 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of
Sections 3.01 through 3.06 hereof.
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ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
Section 4.01 Payment of Notes.
The Company shall pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, on the Notes on the dates and
in the manner provided in the Notes. Principal, premium, if any, and interest
and Liquidated Damages, if any will be considered paid on the date due if the
Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of
10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the due date money deposited by the Company in
immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all
principal, premium, if any, and interest then due. The Company shall pay all
Liquidated Damages, if any, in the same manner on the dates and in the amounts
set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.
The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any
proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at the rate equal to
1% per annum in excess of the then applicable interest rate on the Notes to the
extent lawful; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any
proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest and
Liquidated Damages (without regard to any applicable grace period) at the same
rate to the extent lawful.
Section 4.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New
York, an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an affiliate
of the Trustee, Registrar or co-registrar) where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The
Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
fails to maintain any such required office or agency or fails to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however,
that no such designation or rescission will in any manner relieve the Company of
its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, the
City of New York for such purposes. The Company shall give prompt written notice
to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the
location of any such other office or agency.
The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as
one such office or agency of the Company in accordance with Section 2.03 hereof.
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Section 4.03 Reports.
(a) Whether or not required by rules and regulations of the SEC, so long as
any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall furnish to the Holders of Notes,
within the time periods specified in the SEC's rules and regulations:
(1) all quarterly and annual financial information that would be
required to be contained in a filing with the SEC on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if
the Company were required to file such forms, including a "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations"
and, with respect to the annual information only, a report on the annual
financial statements by the Company's certified independent accountants;
and
(2) all current reports that would be required to be filed with the SEC
on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports.
In addition, following the consummation of the Exchange Offer contemplated
by the Registration Rights Agreement, whether or not required by the SEC, the
Company shall file a copy of all of the information and reports referred to in
clauses (1) and (2) above with the SEC for public availability within the time
periods specified in the SEC's rules and regulations (unless the SEC will not
accept such a filing) and make such information available to securities analysts
and prospective investors upon request. In addition, the Company and the
Guarantors have agreed that, for so long as any Notes remain outstanding, they
shall furnish to the Holders and to securities analysts and prospective
investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant
to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. The Company will at all times
comply with TIA (Section) 314(a).
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Company's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
Section 4.04 Compliance Certificate.
(a) The Company and each Guarantor (to the extent that such Guarantor is so
required under the TIA) shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year, an Officers' Certificate, one of the signers of which
is the chief executive, chief principal or chief accounting officer, stating
that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the
preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing
Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further
stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of
his or her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled
each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the
performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this
Indenture (or, if a Default or Event of Default has
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occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she
may have knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take
with respect thereto) and that to the best of his or her knowledge no event has
occurred and remains in existence by reason of which payments on account of the
principal of or interest, if any, on the Notes is prohibited or if such event
has occurred, a description of the event and what action the Company is taking
or proposes to take with respect thereto.
(b) So long as not contrary to the then current recommendations of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the year-end financial
statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.03(a) above shall be accompanied by a
written statement of the Company's independent public accountants (who shall be
a firm of established national reputation) that in making the examination
necessary for certification of such financial statements, nothing has come to
their attention that would lead them to believe that the Company has violated
any provisions of Article 4 or Article 5 hereof or, if any such violation has
occurred, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof, it being
understood that such accountants shall not be liable directly or indirectly to
any Person for any failure to obtain knowledge of any such violation.
(c) So long as any of the Notes are outstanding, the Company shall deliver
to the Trustee, forthwith upon any Officer becoming aware of any Default or
Event of Default, an Officers' Certificate specifying such Default or Event of
Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.
Section 4.05 Taxes.
The Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay,
prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental levies
except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or
where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect
to the Holders of the Notes.
Section 4.06 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.
The Company and each of the Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any
manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension
or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company and
each of the Guarantors (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby
expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it
will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of
any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.
Section 4.07 Restricted Payments.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
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(1) declare or pay any dividend or make any other payment or
distribution on account of the Company's Equity Interests (including,
without limitation, any payment in connection with any merger or
consolidation involving the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries)
or to the direct or indirect holders of the Company's Equity Interests in
their capacity as such (other than dividends or distributions payable in
Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company or to the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company);
(2) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value
(including, without limitation, in connection with any merger or
consolidation involving the Company) any Equity Interests of the Company;
(3) purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value
any Indebtedness that is subordinated to the Notes or the Note Guarantees,
except a purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement for value in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund
obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due
within one year of the date of such acquisition or retirement; or
(4) make any Restricted Investment (all such payments and other actions
set forth in these clauses (1) through (4) above being collectively
referred to as "Restricted Payments"),
unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such Restricted Payment:
(1) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or
would occur as a consequence of such Restricted Payment; and
(2) the Company would, after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such
Restricted Payment had been made at the beginning of the applicable
four-quarter period, have been permitted to incur at least $1.00 of
additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test
set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.09 hereof; and
(3) such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all
other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries after the date of this Indenture (excluding Restricted
Payments permitted by clauses (2), (3), (4), (8), (9) and, to the extent
reducing Consolidated Net Income, (10) of paragraph (b) below), is less
than the sum, without duplication of:
(A) 50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Company for the
period (taken as one accounting period) from June 30, 2002 to the end
of the Company's most recently ended fiscal quarter for which internal
financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted
Payment (or, if such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a
deficit, less 100% of such deficit), plus
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(B) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the
Company since the date of this Indenture, including the fair market
value of property other than cash (determined in good faith by the
Board of Directors), as a contribution to its common equity capital or
from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Company (other than
Disqualified Stock) or from the issue or sale of convertible or
exchangeable Disqualified Stock or convertible or exchangeable debt
securities of the Company that have been converted into or exchanged
for such Equity Interests (other than Equity Interests (or Disqualified
Stock or convertible debt securities) sold to a Subsidiary of the
Company), provided, that (1) any such net proceeds received, directly
or indirectly, by the Company from an employee stock ownership plan
financed by loans from the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company shall
be included only to the extent such loans have been repaid with cash on
or prior to the date of determination and (2) any net proceeds received
in a form other than cash (other than on conversion or in exchange for
a security issued for cash to the extent of the cash received) from a
person that is an Affiliate of the Company prior to such receipt shall
be excluded from this clause 3(B); plus
(C) the amount by which Indebtedness of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary is reduced on the Company's balance sheet upon
the conversion or exchange (other than by a Restricted Subsidiary)
subsequent to the date of this Indenture of any Indebtedness of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary into Capital Stock (other than
Redeemable Stock) of the Company (less the amount of any cash or other
property (other than such Capital Stock) distributed by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary upon such conversion or exchange); plus
(D) to the extent that any Restricted Investment that was made
after the date of this Indenture is sold for cash or otherwise
liquidated or repaid for cash, the lesser of (i) the cash return of
capital with respect to such Restricted Investment (less the cost of
disposition, if any) and (ii) the initial amount of such Restricted
Investment; plus
(E) to the extent that any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Company
is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary after the date of this
Indenture, the lesser of (i) the fair market value of the Company's
Investment in such Subsidiary as of the date of such redesignation or
(ii) such fair market value as of the date on which such Subsidiary was
originally designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
(b) So long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused
thereby (except as to clauses (1) through (4), (6) and (9) below), the
provisions of Section 4.07(a) will not prohibit:
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(1) the payment of any dividend within 60 days after the date of
declaration of the dividend, if at the date of declaration the dividend
payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture;
(2) the redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or other
acquisition of any subordinated Indebtedness of the Company or any
Guarantor or of any Equity Interests of the Company in exchange for, or out
of the net cash proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale (other than
to a Restricted Subsidiary) of, Equity Interests (other than Disqualified
Stock) of the Company or a substantially concurrent capital contribution to
the Company; provided that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that
are utilized for any such redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or
other acquisition shall be excluded from clause (3)(B) of the preceding
paragraph;
(3) the defeasance, redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of
subordinated Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor in exchange for,
or with the net cash proceeds from, an incurrence of Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness or other Indebtedness incurred under Section 4.09(a) hereof;
(4) the defeasance, redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of
subordinated Indebtedness from Net Proceeds to the extent not prohibited
under Section 4.10 hereof, provided, that such purchase or redemption shall
be excluded from the calculation of the amount available for Restricted
Payments pursuant to the preceding paragraph;
(5) the defeasance, redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of
subordinated Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Company or any
Guarantor following a Change of Control after the Company shall have
complied with the provisions under Section 4.14 hereof, including payment
of the applicable Change of Control Payment;
(6) the repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for
value of any Equity Interests of the Company held by any member of the
Company's (or any of its Subsidiaries') management pursuant to any
management equity subscription agreement, stock option agreement or other
equity incentive agreement or plan; provided that the aggregate price paid
for all such repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Equity Interests
may not exceed $5.0 million in any twelve-month period plus any unutilized
portion of such amount in any prior fiscal year.
(7) any Investment made by the exchange for, or out of the proceeds of,
a capital contribution in respect of or the substantially concurrent sale
of, Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company to the
extent the net cash proceeds thereof are received by the Company, provided,
that the amount of such capital contribution or proceeds used to make such
Investment shall be excluded from the calculation of the amount available
for Restricted Payments pursuant to the preceding paragraph;
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(8) other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$20.0 million;
(9) payments required or contemplated by the terms of the Stock
Purchase Agreement and related documentation as in effect on the closing
date of the Transactions, including in respect of restricted stock awards
of the Company or any direct or indirect payment of the Company; and
(10) the payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock
of Restricted Subsidiaries subject to and permitted by Section 4.09 hereof.
The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be the fair
market value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities
proposed to be transferred or issued by the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment. The fair
market value of any assets or securities that are required to be valued by this
Section 4.07 will be determined by the Board of Directors acting in good faith
whose resolution with respect thereto shall be conclusive.
Section 4.08 Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist or become
effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any
Restricted Subsidiary to:
(1) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock
to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or with respect to
any other interest or participation in, or measured by, its profits, or pay
any indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(2) make loans or advances to the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries; or
(3) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries.
(b) However, the preceding restrictions in Section 4.08(a) will not apply
to encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:
(1) agreements governing Existing Indebtedness and Credit Facilities as
in effect on the date of this Indenture and any amendments, modifications,
restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or
refinancings of those agreements, provided that the amendments,
modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings,
replacements or refinancings are no more restrictive, taken as a whole,
with
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respect to such dividend and other payment restrictions than those
contained in those agreements on the date of this Indenture;
(2) this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees;
(3) applicable law;
(4) customary non-assignment provisions in leases entered into in the
ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices;
(5) purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary
course of business that impose restrictions on the property of the nature
described in clause (3) of Section 4.08(a);
(6) any agreement for the sale or other disposition of a Restricted
Subsidiary that restricts distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary
pending its sale or other disposition;
(7) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, provided that the restrictions
contained in the agreements governing such Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those
contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being Refinanced;
(8) Liens securing Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be incurred
under the provisions of Section 4.12 hereof that limit the right of the
debtor to dispose of the assets subject to such Liens;
(9) provisions with respect to the disposition or distribution of
assets or property in joint venture agreements, assets sale agreements,
stock sale agreements and other similar agreements entered into in the
ordinary course of business;
(10) any agreement relating to any Indebtedness or Liens incurred by a
Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company that is a Subsidiary of the
Company on the date of this Indenture or any Subsidiary carrying on any of
the businesses of any such Subsidiary) prior to the date on which such
Person became a Subsidiary of the Company and outstanding on such date and
not incurred in anticipation of becoming a Subsidiary and not incurred to
provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate such
acquisition, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any
Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person so
acquired;
(11) any encumbrance or restriction with respect to a Foreign
Subsidiary pursuant to an agreement relating to Indebtedness which is
permitted under Section 4.09 hereof or Liens incurred by such Foreign
Subsidiary;
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(12) Indebtedness or other contractual requirements of a Receivables
Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction, provided
that such restrictions apply only to such Receivables Subsidiary; and
(13) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by
customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business.
Section 4.09 Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee
or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise,
with respect to (collectively, "incur") any Indebtedness (including Acquired
Debt), and the Company will not issue any Disqualified Stock and will not permit
any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to issue any shares of
preferred stock; provided, however, that the Company may incur Indebtedness
(including Acquired Debt) or issue Disqualified Stock, and the Restricted
Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness or Restricted Subsidiaries that are not a
Guarantors may issue preferred stock, if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the
Company's most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which financial
statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional
Indebtedness is incurred or such Disqualified Stock or preferred stock is issued
would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0 prior to June 15, 2005 and at least 2.25 to
1.0 thereafter, determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma
application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness
had been incurred or the preferred stock or Disqualified Stock had been issued,
as the case may be, at the beginning of such four-quarter period.
(b) The provisions of Section 4.09(a) will not prohibit the incurrence of
any of the following items of Indebtedness (collectively, "Permitted Debt"):
(1) (a) the incurrence by the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary
of Indebtedness and letters of credit under the revolving
facility component of the Credit Facilities in an aggregate
principal amount at any one time outstanding under this clause
(1)(a) (with letters of credit being deemed to have a principal
amount equal to the maximum potential liability of the Company
and its Subsidiaries thereunder) not to exceed $150.0 million
less the aggregate amount of all Net Proceeds of Asset Sales
applied by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to
repay any Indebtedness under the Credit Facilities and to effect
a corresponding commitment reduction thereunder pursuant to
Section 4.10 hereof; and
(b) the incurrence by the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary
of Indebtedness under the term loan components of the Credit
Facilities in an aggregate principal amount at any one time
outstanding under this clause (1)(b) not to exceed $260.0 million
less the aggregate amount of all
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repayments, optional or mandatory, of the principal of any term
Indebtedness under a Credit Facility that have been made by or
the Company any of the Restricted Subsidiaries since the date of
this Indenture other than any repayment relating to any
amendment, restatement, modification, renewal, refunding,
replacement or refinancing of the principal of any term
Indebtedness under such Credit Facility; and
(c) the incurrence of Indebtedness of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary under one or more receivables financing
facilities pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary pledges or otherwise borrows against its Receivables
in an aggregate principal amount which, when taken together with
all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (c) and
then outstanding, does not exceed 85% of the consolidated book
value of the Receivables of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries (to the extent such Receivables or any other
Receivables of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case may be, are not then being financed pursuant to a Qualified
Receivables Transaction or as a basis for Indebtedness Incurred
pursuant to clause (10) of this Section 4.09(b));
(2) the incurrence by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries of
the Existing Indebtedness;
(3) the incurrence by the Company and the Guarantors of Indebtedness
represented by the Notes and the related Note Guarantees to be issued on
the date of this Indenture and the Exchange Notes and the related Note
Guarantees to be issued pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement;
(4) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
Indebtedness represented by Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings
or purchase money obligations, in each case, incurred for the purpose of
financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of construction or
improvement of property, plant or equipment used in the business of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary ("Capital Spending") and incurred no
later than 270 days after the date of such acquisition or the date of
completion of such construction or improvement, provided, that the
principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (4)
(other than Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness) at any time during a single
fiscal year shall not exceed 30% of the total Capital Spending of the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries made during the period of the most
recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters prior to the date of
such incurrence;
(5) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in exchange for, or the net proceeds
of which are used to refund, refinance or replace Indebtedness (other than
intercompany Indebtedness) that was
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permitted by this Indenture to be incurred under Section 4.09(a) or clauses
(2), (3), (4), (5), (8), (9) or (15) of this Section 4.09(b);
(6) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
of intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company and any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that:
(a) if the Company or any Guarantor is the obligor on such
Indebtedness, such Indebtedness must be (i) unsecured and (ii) if the
obligee is neither the Company nor a Guarantor, expressly subordinated
to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations with respect to
the Notes (in the case of the Company) (or the Note Guarantee, in the
case of a Guarantor); and
(b) (i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests
that results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and (ii) any sale
or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person that is not
either the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company will be
deemed, in each case, to constitute an incurrence of such Indebtedness
by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that
was not permitted by this clause (6);
(7) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
of Hedging Obligations that are incurred for the purpose of hedging (i)
interest rate risk or the impact of interest rate fluctuations on the
Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) in the case of
currency or commodity protection agreements, against currency exchange rate
or commodity price fluctuations in the ordinary course of the Company and
the Restricted Subsidiaries' respective businesses and, in the case of both
(i) and (ii), not for purposes of speculation;
(8) the guarantee by the Company or any of the Guarantors of
Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that was permitted
to be incurred by another provision of this Section 4.09;
(9) the accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization of original
issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of
additional Indebtedness with the same terms, and the payment of dividends
on Disqualified Stock in the form of additional shares of similar
Disqualified Stock shall not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness
or an issuance of Disqualified Stock for purposes of this Section 4.09;
provided, in each such case, that the amount thereof is included in Fixed
Charges of the Company as accrued;
(10) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries incurred for working capital
purposes if, at the time of incurrence of such Indebtedness, and after
giving effect thereto, the aggregate
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principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Foreign Subsidiaries incurred
pursuant to this clause (10) and then outstanding does not exceed the
amount equal to the sum of (x) 80% the consolidated book value of the
accounts receivable of the Foreign Subsidiaries and (y) 60% the
consolidated book value of the inventories of the Foreign Subsidiaries;
(11) Indebtedness incurred in respect of (a) workers' compensation
claims, self-insurance obligations, bankers' acceptances, performance,
surety and similar bonds and completion guarantees provided by the Company
or a Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business, (b) in
respect of performance bonds or similar obligations of the Company or any
of the Restricted Subsidiaries for or in connection with pledges, deposits
or payments made or given in the ordinary course of business and not for
money borrowed in connection with or to secure statutory, regulatory or
similar obligations, including obligations under health, safety or
environmental obligations, and (c) arising from guarantees to suppliers,
lessors, licensees, contractors, franchises or customers of obligations
incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for money borrowed;
(12) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase
price or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in
connection with the disposition of any business, assets or Capital Stock of
a Restricted Subsidiary, provided, that the maximum aggregate liability in
respect of all such Indebtedness shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds
actually received by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in
connection with such disposition;
(13) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other
financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument (except in
the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the
ordinary course of business, provided, however, that such Indebtedness is
extinguished within five Business Days of incurrence;
(14) the incurrence by a Receivables Subsidiary of Indebtedness in a
Qualified Receivables Transaction that is without recourse to the Company
or to any other Subsidiary of the Company or their assets (other than such
Receivables Subsidiary and its assets and, as to the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company, other than pursuant to representations,
warranties, covenants and indemnities customary for such transactions) and
is not guaranteed by any such Person;
(15) the issuance and sale of preferred stock (a) by a Foreign
Subsidiary in lieu of the issuance of non-voting common stock if (i) the
laws of the jurisdiction of incorporation of such Subsidiary precludes the
issuance of non-voting common stock and (ii) the preferential rights
afforded to the holders of such preferred stock are limited to those
customarily provided for in such jurisdiction in respect of the issuance of
non-voting stock, (b) by a Restricted Subsidiary which is a joint venture
with a third party which is not an Affiliate of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary, and (c) by a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to obligations with
respect to the issuance or sale of Preferred Stock which exist at the time
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Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and which were not created in
connection with or in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted
Subsidiary; and
(16) the incurrence by the Company or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries of additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount
(or accreted value, as applicable) at any time outstanding, including all
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, incurred to refund, refinance or
replace any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (16), not to
exceed $35.0 million.
For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.09, in the event
that an item of proposed Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the
categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (1) through (16) above, or is
entitled to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.09(a), the Company will be
permitted to classify such item of Indebtedness on the date of its incurrence,
or later reclassify all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness, in any manner
that complies with this Section 4.09. Indebtedness under Credit Facilities
outstanding on the date on which Notes are first issued and authenticated under
this Indenture will be deemed to have been incurred on such date in reliance on
the exception provided by clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of Permitted
Debt.
For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated
restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent
principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be
calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date
such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term Indebtedness, or first
committed, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness; provided, that if such
Indebtedness is incurred to Refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a
foreign currency, and such Refinancing would cause the applicable U.S.
dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant
currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such Refinancing, such U.S.
dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long
as the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the
principal amount of such Indebtedness being Refinanced. Notwithstanding any
other provision of this covenant, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the
Company may incur pursuant to this covenant shall not be deemed to be exceeded
solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies. The
principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred to Refinance other Indebtedness,
if incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being Refinanced,
shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the
currencies in which such Refinancing Indebtedness is denominated that is in
effect on the date of such Refinancing.
Section 4.10 Asset Sales.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless:
(1) the Company (or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be)
receives consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the
fair market value of the assets or Equity Interests issued or sold or
otherwise disposed of;
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(2) the fair market value is determined by the Company's Board of
Directors and evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors set forth
in an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee; and
(3) either (a) at least 75% of the consideration received in the Asset
Sale by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary is in the form of cash or
(b) the aggregate non-cash consideration for all Asset Sales not meeting
the criteria set forth in the preceding clause (a) does not exceed a fair
market value in excess of $20.0 million. For purposes of this provision,
each of the following shall be deemed to be cash:
(A) any liabilities, as shown on the Company's or such Restricted
Subsidiary's most recent consolidated balance sheet, of the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities and
liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Notes or any
Note Guarantee) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets
pursuant to a customary novation agreement that releases the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary from further liability; and
(B) any securities, notes or other obligations received by the
Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee to the
extent within 60 days, subject to ordinary settlement periods, they are
converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash.
Within 365 days after the receipt of any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale,
the Company may apply such Net Proceeds at its option:
(1) to permanently repay Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness that is
by its terms subordinated to, or pari passu with, the Notes or any Note
Guarantee) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, including any
Obligations under a Credit Facility and, if the Indebtedness repaid is
revolving credit Indebtedness, to correspondingly reduce commitments with
respect thereto or to reduce receivables advances and reduce commitments in
respect of a Receivables Facility;
(2) to acquire assets of, or a majority of the Voting Stock of, any
person owning assets used or usable in a business of the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiary; or
(3) to make a capital expenditure.
Pending the final application of any Net Proceeds, the Company may
temporarily reduce revolving credit borrowings or otherwise invest or use the
Net Proceeds in any manner that is not prohibited by this Indenture.
Any Net Proceeds from Asset Sales that are not applied or invested as
provided in the preceding paragraph will constitute "Excess Proceeds." When the
aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $25.0 million, within five days
thereof, the Company will make an Asset Sale Offer
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to all Holders of Notes and all holders of other Indebtedness that is pari passu
with the Notes containing provisions similar to those set forth in this
Indenture with respect to offers to purchase or redeem with the proceeds of
sales of assets in accordance with Section 3.09 hereof to purchase the maximum
principal amount of Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness that may be
purchased out of the Excess Proceeds. The offer price in any Asset Sale Offer
will be equal to 100% of principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest and
Liquidated Damages, if any, to the date of purchase, and will be payable in
cash. If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer,
the Company may use those Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise
prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and
other pari passu Indebtedness tendered into such Asset Sale Offer exceeds the
amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes and such other
pari passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis. Upon completion of
each Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset at zero.
The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with each
repurchase of Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer. To the extent that the
provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of
Sections 3.09 or 4.10 of this Indenture, the Company shall comply with the
applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have
breached its obligations under those provisions of this Indenture by virtue of
such conflict.
Section 4.11 Transactions with Affiliates.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or
assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract,
agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit
of, any Affiliate (each an "Affiliate Transaction"), unless:
(1) the Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less
favorable, taken as a whole, to the Company or the relevant Restricted
Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained at the time in a
comparable transaction by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an
unaffiliated Person; and
(2) the Company delivers to the Trustee:
(A) except when the opinion referred to in the following clause
(b) is delivered, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series
of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in
excess of $5.0 million, a resolution of the Board of Directors set
forth in an Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate
Transaction complies with Section 4.11(a) and that such Affiliate
Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested
members of the Board of Directors; and
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(B) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of
related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in
excess of $25.0 million, an opinion as to the fairness to the Company
of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by
an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national
standing.
(b) The following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions
and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of Section 4.11(a):
(1) loans or advances to employees, indemnification agreements with and
the payment of fees and indemnities to directors, officers and full-time
employees of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries and employment,
non-competition or confidentiality agreements entered into with any such
person in the ordinary course of business;
(2) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in
cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment,
compensation or indemnification arrangements, stock options and stock
ownership plans in the ordinary course of business to or with officers,
directors or employees of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, or
approved by the Board of Directors;
(3) transactions between or among the Company and/or its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(4) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Company
solely because the Company owns an Equity Interest in, or controls, such
Person;
(5) transactions pursuant to agreements existing on the date of this
Indenture, including, without limitation, the Stock Purchase Agreement, the
Shareholders Agreement, the Corporate Services Agreement and the Sublease
Agreement, and, in each case, any amendment or supplement thereto that,
taken in its entirety, is no less favorable to the Company than such
agreement as in effect on the date of this Indenture;
(6) sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the
Company to Affiliates of the Company or the receipt of capital
contributions by the Company;
(7) payment of certain fees under the Advisory Agreement;
(8) transactions (in connection with a Qualified Receivables
Transaction) between or among the Company and/or its Restricted
Subsidiaries or transactions between a Receivables Subsidiary and any
Person in which the Receivables Subsidiary has an Investment;
(9) any management, service, purchase, lease, supply or similar
agreement entered into in the ordinary course of the Company's business
between the Company or any
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Restricted Subsidiary and any Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Affiliate, so
long as the Company determines in good faith (which determination shall be
conclusive) that any such agreement is on terms no less favorable to the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that could be obtained in
a comparable arm's-length transaction with an entity that is not an
Affiliate; and
(10) Restricted Payments and Permitted Investments that are permitted
by Section 4.07 hereof.
Section 4.12 Liens.
The Company shall not and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or otherwise
cause or suffer to exist or become effective any Lien of any kind securing
Indebtedness (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of their property or assets,
now owned or hereafter acquired to secure any Indebtedness without making, or
causing such Subsidiary to make, effective provision for securing the Notes or,
in respect of Liens on any Guarantor's property or assets, any Guarantee of such
Guarantor, (x) equally and ratably with such Indebtedness as to such property or
assets for so long as such Indebtedness will be so secured or (y) in the event
such Indebtedness is subordinated Indebtedness, prior to such Indebtedness as to
such property or assets for so long as such Indebtedness will be so secured.
Section 4.13 Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article 5 hereof, the Company shall do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect:
(1) its corporate existence, and the corporate, partnership or other
existence of each of its Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective
organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of
the Company or any such Subsidiary; and
(2) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the
Company and its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not
be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the
corporate, partnership or other existence of any of its Subsidiaries, if
the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in
any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.
Section 4.14 Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control.
(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall make an
offer (a "Change of Control Offer") to each Holder to repurchase all or any part
(equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000) of each Holder's Notes at a
purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus
accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages on the Notes
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repurchased, if any, to the date of purchase (the "Change of Control Payment").
Within 15 days following any Change of Control, the Company shall mail a notice
to each Holder describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the
Change of Control and stating:
(1) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this
Section 4.14 and that all Notes tendered will be accepted for payment;
(2) the purchase price and the purchase date, which shall be no later
than 30 business days from the date such notice is mailed (the "Change of
Control Payment Date");
(3) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of
Control Payment, all Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of
Control Offer will cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control
Payment Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have any Notes purchased pursuant to a
Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Notes, with the
form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the
Notes completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice
prior to the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the
Change of Control Payment Date;
(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Paying Agent receives, not later than the close of business on the second
Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment Date, a telegram,
telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the
Holder, the principal amount of Notes delivered for purchase, and a
statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have the Notes
purchased; and
(7) that Holders whose Notes are being purchased only in part will be
issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered, which unpurchased portion must be equal to $1,000 in
principal amount or an integral multiple thereof.
The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
repurchase of the Notes as a result of a Change in Control. To the extent that
the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the
provisions of Sections 3.09 or 4.14 of this Indenture, the Company will comply
with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to
have breached its obligations under Section 3.09 or this Section 4.14 by virtue
of such conflict.
(b) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company will, to the extent
lawful:
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(1) accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered
pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;
(2) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of
Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly
tendered; and
(3) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes so
accepted together with an Officers' Certificate stating the aggregate
principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased by the
Company.
The Paying Agent will promptly mail to each Holder of Notes properly
tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the Trustee will
promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to
each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered, if any; provided that each new Note will be in a
principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. The Company will
publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as
practicable after the Change of Control Payment Date.
Prior to complying with any of the provisions of this Section 4.14, but in
any event within 90 days following a Change of Control, the Company will either
repay all outstanding Senior Debt or obtain the requisite consents, if any,
under all agreements governing outstanding Senior Debt to permit the repurchase
of notes required by this Section 4.14.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.14, the
Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of
Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the
times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this
Section 4.14 and Section 3.09 hereof and purchases all Notes validly tendered
and not withdrawn under the Change of Control Offer. Alternatively, the Company
may assign all or part of its obligations to purchase all Notes validly tendered
and not properly withdrawn under a Change of Control Offer to a third party. In
the event of such an assignment, the Company shall be released from its
obligations to purchase the Notes as to which the assignment relates subject to
the third party purchasing such Notes. A Change of Control Offer may be made in
advance of a Change of Control, and conditioned upon such Change of Control if a
definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making
of the Change of Control Offer. Notes repurchased by the Company pursuant to a
Change of Control Offer will have the status of Notes issued but not outstanding
or will be retired and canceled, at the option of the Company. Notes purchased
by a third party upon assignment will have the status of Note issued and
outstanding.
Section 4.15 Anti-Layering.
The Company shall not incur, create, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise
become liable for any Indebtedness that is subordinate or junior in right of
payment to any Senior Debt of the Company and senior in any respect in right of
payment to the Notes. No Guarantor shall incur, create, issue, assume, guarantee
or otherwise become liable for any Indebtedness that is subordinate or junior in
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right of payment to the Senior Debt of such Guarantor and senior in any respect
in right of payment to such Guarantor's Note Guarantee.
Section 4.16 Additional Note Guarantees.
After the Issue Date, the Company shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary,
other than a Subsidiary which is a Subsidiary Guarantor, that becomes a
guarantor or other obligor with respect to the obligations of the Company or a
Domestic Restricted Subsidiary under the Credit Agreement to execute and deliver
to the trustee a Guarantee pursuant to which such Guarantor shall
unconditionally Guarantee, on a joint and several basis, the full and prompt
payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes on a
senior subordinated basis.
Section 4.17 Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.
The Board of Directors may designate any Restricted Subsidiary to be an
Unrestricted Subsidiary if that designation would not cause a Default. If a
Restricted Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the aggregate
fair market value of all outstanding Investments owned by the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries in the Subsidiary properly designated will be deemed to
be an Investment made as of the time of the designation and will reduce the
amount available for Restricted Payments under the first paragraph of Section
4.07 hereof or Permitted Investments, as determined by the Company. That
designation will only be permitted if the Investment would be permitted at that
time and if the Restricted Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an
Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Board of Directors may redesignate any Unrestricted
Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary if the redesignation would not cause a
Default.
ARTICLE 5
SUCCESSORS
Section 5.01 Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets.
The Company shall not, directly or indirectly: (1) consolidate or merge
with or into another Person (whether or not the Company is the surviving
corporation), or (2) sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all
or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions,
to another Person; unless:
(1) either:
(A) the Company is the surviving corporation; or
(B) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Company) or to which such sale, assignment,
transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made is a
corporation organized or existing under the laws of the United States,
any state of the United States or the District of Columbia;
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(2) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger
(if other than the Company) or the Person to which such sale, assignment,
transfer, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made assumes all
the obligations of the Company under the Notes, this Indenture and the
Registration Rights Agreement pursuant to agreements reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee;
(3) immediately after such transaction, no Default or Event of Default
exists; and
(4) the Company or the Person formed by or surviving any such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Company), or to which such sale,
assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition has been made will,
on the date of such transaction after giving pro forma effect thereto and
any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at
least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.09(a) hereof.
In addition, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, lease all or
substantially all of its properties or assets, in one or more related
transactions, to any other Person. This Section 5.01 will not apply to a sale,
assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of assets between or among
the Company and any of the Guarantors.
Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture, a Restricted Subsidiary may
consolidate with, merge into or convey, lease, sell, assign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of all or part of its properties and assets to the Company or
a Restricted Subsidiary; and the Company may merge with an Affiliate
incorporated solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Company in another
jurisdiction in the United States to realize tax or other benefits.
Section 5.02 Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease,
conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the
provisions of, Section 5.01 hereof, the successor corporation formed by such
consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale,
assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall
succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such
consolidation, merger, sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the
provisions of this Indenture referring to the "Company" shall refer instead to
the successor corporation and not to the Company), and may exercise every right
and power of the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that
the predecessor Company shall not be relieved from the obligation to pay the
principal of and interest on the Notes except in the case of a sale of all of
the Company's assets in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with
the provisions of, Section 5.01 hereof.
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ARTICLE 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 6.01 Events of Default.
Each of the following is an "Event of Default":
(1) the Company defaults for 30 days in the payment when due of
interest on, or Liquidated Damages with respect to, the Notes whether or
not prohibited by the subordination provisions of this Indenture;
(2) the Company defaults in the payment when due (at maturity, upon
redemption or otherwise) of the principal of, or premium, if any, on the
Notes, whether or not prohibited by the subordination provisions of this
Indenture;
(3) failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to comply with
the provisions of Section 4.14 or 5.01 hereof after written notice to the
Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Notes;
(4) failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to comply with
any of the other agreements in this Indenture continued for 60 days after
written notice to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25%
in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes;
(5) default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which
there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any
Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
(or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or guarantee now exists, or is
created after the date of this Indenture, if that default:
(A) is caused by a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness
at the final maturity thereof (a "Payment Default"); or
(B) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its
express maturity,
and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together
with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there
has been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so
accelerated, aggregates $20.0 million or more;
(6) failure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to pay
final judgments aggregating in excess of $20.0 million (net of any
insurance proceeds available to
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pay such judgment), which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for
a period of 60 days;
(7) except as permitted by this Indenture, any Note Guarantee shall be
held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall
cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or
any Person acting on behalf of any Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its
obligations under its Note Guarantee;
(8) the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of
Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant
Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of Bankruptcy Law:
(A) commences a voluntary case,
(B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an
involuntary case,
(C) consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for all
or substantially all of its property,
(D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors,
or
(E) generally is not paying its debts as they become due; or
(9) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under
any Bankruptcy Law that:
(A) is for relief against the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would
constitute a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case;
(B) appoints a custodian of the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would
constitute a Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of
the property of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or
any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a
Significant Subsidiary; or
(C) orders the liquidation of the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a
whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary;
and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days.
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Section 6.02 Acceleration.
In the case of an Event of Default specified in clause (8) or (9) of
Section 6.01 hereof, with respect to the Company, all outstanding Notes will
become due and payable immediately without further action or notice. If any
other Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of
at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may declare all
the Notes to be due and payable immediately by giving notice in writing to the
Company and the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default (the
"Acceleration Notice") or if there are any amounts outstanding under the Credit
Agreement, it shall become immediately due and payable upon the first to occur
of an acceleration under the Credit Agreement or five business days after
receipt by us and the administrative agent under the Credit Agreement of such
Acceleration Notice (but only if such Event of Default is then continuing).
Upon any such declaration, the Notes shall become due and payable
immediately. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes by written notice to the Trustee may on behalf of all of the
Holders rescind an acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not
conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default
(except nonpayment of principal, interest or premium that has become due solely
because of the acceleration) have been cured or waived.
In the event of a declaration of acceleration of the Notes because an Event
of Default described in Section 6.01(5) has occurred and is continuing, the
declaration of acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically annulled if the
event of default or payment default triggering such Event of Default pursuant to
clause (5) shall be remedied or cured by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary
or waived by the holders of the relevant Indebtedness within 60 days after the
declaration of acceleration with respect thereto and if (a) the annulment of the
acceleration of the Notes would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a
court of competent jurisdiction and (b) all existing Events of Default, except
nonpayment of principal, premium or interest on the Notes that became due solely
because of the acceleration of the Notes, have been cured or waived.
Section 6.03 Other Remedies.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any
available remedy to collect the payment of principal, premium and Liquidated
Damages, if any, and interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any
provision of the Notes or this Indenture.
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of
the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission
by the Trustee or any Holder of a Note in exercising any right or remedy
accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. All remedies are
cumulative to the extent permitted by law.
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Section 6.04 Waiver of Past Defaults.
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
then outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders of
all of the Notes waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its
consequences hereunder, except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the
payment of the principal of, premium and Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest
on, the Notes (including in connection with an offer to purchase); provided,
however, that the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
then outstanding Notes may rescind an acceleration and its consequences,
including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration. Upon
any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 6.05 Control by Majority.
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may
direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising
any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred
on it. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts
with law or this Indenture that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial
to the rights of other Holders of Notes or that may involve the Trustee in
personal liability.
Section 6.06 Limitation on Suits.
A Holder of a Note may pursue a remedy with respect to this Indenture or
the Notes only if:
(1) the Holder of a Note gives to the Trustee written notice of a
continuing Event of Default;
(2) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the
remedy;
(3) such Holder of a Note or Holders of Notes offer and, if requested,
provide to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any
loss, liability or expense;
(4) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after
receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision of
indemnity satisfactory to it; and
(5) during such 60-day period the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a direction
inconsistent with the request.
A Holder of a Note may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of
another Holder of a Note or to obtain a preference or priority over another
Holder of a Note.
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Section 6.07 Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any
Holder of a Note to receive payment of principal, premium and Liquidated
Damages, if any, and interest on the Note, on or after the respective due dates
expressed in the Note (including in connection with an offer to purchase), or to
bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective
dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section 6.08 Collection Suit by Trustee.
If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(1) or (2) occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of
principal of, premium and Liquidated Damages, if any, and interest remaining
unpaid on the Notes and interest on overdue principal and, to the extent lawful,
interest and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
Section 6.09 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the
Holders of the Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Notes), its creditors or its property and shall
be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other
property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to
the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to
it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.07 hereof. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof out of the estate in
any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall
be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions,
dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be
entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan
of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
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Section 6.10 Priorities.
If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay
out the money in the following order:
First: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under
Section 7.07 hereof, including payment of all compensation, expense and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs
and expenses of collection;
Second: to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for
principal, premium and Liquidated Damages, if any, and interest, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due
and payable on the Notes for principal, premium and Liquidated Damages, if
any and interest, respectively; and
Third: to the Company or to such party as a court of competent
jurisdiction shall direct.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to
Holders of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.10.
Section 6.11 Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture
or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as a
Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant
in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its
discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good
faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.11
does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder of a Note pursuant
to Section 6.07 hereof, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE 7
TRUSTEE
Section 7.01 Duties of Trustee.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee will
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use
the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own
affairs.
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(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) the duties of the Trustee will be determined solely by the express
provisions of this Indenture and the Trustee need perform only those duties
that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against
the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However,
the Trustee will examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether
or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liabilities for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except
that:
(1) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section 7.01;
(2) the Trustee will not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(3) the Trustee will not be liable with respect to any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by
it pursuant to Section 6.05 hereof.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a),
(b), and (c) of this Section 7.01.
(e) No provision of this Indenture will require the Trustee to expend or
risk its own funds or incur any liability. The Trustee will be under no
obligation to exercise any of its rights and powers under this Indenture at the
request of any Holders, unless such Holder has offered to the Trustee security
and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.
(f) The Trustee will not be liable for interest on any money received by it
except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. Money held in trust
by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
Section 7.02 Rights of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely upon any document believed by it to
be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The
Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
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(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an
Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee will not be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on
such Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee may consult with
counsel of its selection and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion
of Counsel will be full and complete authorization and protection from liability
in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good
faith and in reliance thereon.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and will not be
responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due
care.
(d) The Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take
in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the rights or powers
conferred upon it by this Indenture.
(e) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand,
request, direction or notice from the Company will be sufficient if signed by an
Officer of the Company.
(f) The Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of
the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable security
or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred
by it in compliance with such request or direction.
(g) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event
of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge
thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is
received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such
notice references the Notes and this Indenture.
(h) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to
the Trustee, including without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are
extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities
hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
(i) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers'
Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers
authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture,
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 7.03 Individual Rights of Trustee.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any Affiliate of the
Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. However, in
the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest it must eliminate
such conflict within 90 days, apply to the SEC for permission to continue as
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trustee or resign. Any Agent may do the same with like rights and duties. The
Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11 hereof.
Section 7.04 Trustee's Disclaimer.
The Trustee will not be responsible for and makes no representation as to
the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be
accountable for the Company's use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money
paid to the Company or upon the Company's direction under any provision of this
Indenture, it will not be responsible for the use or application of any money
received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it will not be
responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement in the Notes or
any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this
Indenture other than its certificate of authentication.
Section 7.05 Notice of Defaults.
If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is
known to the Trustee, the Trustee will mail to Holders of Notes a notice of the
Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the case
of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium or
Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee may withhold
the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good
faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders
of the Notes.
Section 7.06 Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes.
(a) Within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following
the date of this Indenture, and for so long as Notes remain outstanding, the
Trustee will mail to the Holders of the Notes a brief report dated as of such
reporting date that complies with TIA (Section) 313(a) (but if no event
described in TIA (Section) 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months
preceding the reporting date, no report need be transmitted). The Trustee also
will comply with TIA (Section) 313(b)(2). The Trustee will also transmit by mail
all reports as required by TIA (Section) 313(c).
(b) A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to the Holders of
Notes will be mailed by the Trustee to the Company and filed by the Trustee with
the SEC and each stock exchange on which the Notes are listed in accordance with
TIA (Section) 313(d). The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the
Notes are listed on or delisted from any stock exchange.
Section 7.07 Compensation and Indemnity.
(a) The Company will pay to the Trustee as shall be agreed in writing
between the Trustee and the Company from time to time reasonable compensation
for its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder. The Trustee's
compensation will not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an
express trust. The Company will reimburse the Trustee promptly upon request for
all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or made by it in
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addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses will include the
reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee's agents and
counsel.
(b) The Company and the Guarantors will indemnify the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, damages or
expenses, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or
determined by the income of the Trustee), incurred by it arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties under this
Indenture, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture against
the Company and the Guarantors (including this Section 7.07) and defending
itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, the Guarantors or any
Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent any
such loss, liability or expense may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith. The Trustee will notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it
may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company will not
relieve the Company or any of the Guarantors of their obligations hereunder. The
Company or such Guarantor will defend the claim and the Trustee will cooperate
in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company will pay
the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. Neither the Company nor any
Guarantor need pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent
will not be unreasonably withheld.
(c) The obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under this Section
7.07 will survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the
resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(d) To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the
Trustee will have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or
collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal and
interest on particular Notes. Such Lien will survive the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture.
(e) When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.01(7) or (8) hereof occurs, the expenses and the
compensation for the services (including the fees and expenses of its agents and
counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
Bankruptcy Law.
(f) The Trustee will comply with the provisions of TIA (Section) 313(b)(2)
to the extent applicable.
Section 7.08 Replacement of Trustee.
(a) A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor
Trustee will become effective only upon the successor Trustee's acceptance of
appointment as provided in this Section 7.08.
(b) The Trustee may resign in writing at any time and be discharged from
the trust hereby created by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the then
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outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the
Company in writing. The Company may remove the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof;
(2) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for
relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;
(3) a custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its
property; or
(4) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
(c) If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company will promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a
successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
(d) If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company, or
the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction at the expense of the Company,
in the case of the Trustee, for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder who has been a
Holder for at least six months, fails to comply with Section 7.10, such Holder
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) A successor Trustee will deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee will become effective, and the
successor Trustee will have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee
under this Indenture. The successor Trustee will mail a notice of its succession
to Holders. The retiring Trustee will promptly transfer all property held by it
as Trustee to the successor Trustee, provided all sums owing to the Trustee
hereunder have been paid and subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.07
hereof. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 hereof will continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee.
Section 7.09 Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.
If the Trustee consolidates, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the
successor corporation without any further act will be the successor Trustee.
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Section 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification.
There will at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or
of any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trustee power, that is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state
authorities and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50 million
as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.
This Indenture will always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of
TIA (Section) 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee is subject to TIA (Section)
310(b).
Section 7.11 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
The Trustee is subject to TIA (Section) 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA (Section) 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been
removed shall be subject to TIA (Section) 311(a) to the extent indicated
therein.
ARTICLE 8
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 8.01 Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The Company may, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by a
resolution set forth in an Officers' Certificate, at any time, elect to have
either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon
compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article 8.
Section 8.02 Legal Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option
applicable to this Section 8.02, the Company and each of the Guarantors will,
subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof,
be deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect to all
outstanding Notes (including the Note Guarantees) on the date the conditions set
forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "Legal Defeasance"). For this purpose,
Legal Defeasance means that the Company and the Guarantors will be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding
Notes (including the Note Guarantees), which will thereafter be deemed to be
"outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 8.05 hereof and the other
Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have
satisfied all their other obligations under such Notes, the Note Guarantees and
this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the
following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder:
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(1) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in
respect of the principal of, or interest or premium and Liquidated Damages,
if any, on such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to
in Section 8.04 hereof;
(2) the Company's obligations with respect to such Notes under Article
2 and Section 4.02 hereof;
(3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder and the Company's and the Guarantors' obligations in connection
therewith; and
(4) this Article 8.
Subject to compliance with this Article 8, the Company may exercise its
option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option
under Section 8.03 hereof.
Section 8.03 Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option
applicable to this Section 8.03, the Company and the Guarantors will, subject to
the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be released
from each of their obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 4.07,
4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 and 4.17 hereof and clause
(4) of Section 5.01 hereof with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after
the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof are satisfied
(hereinafter, "Covenant Defeasance"), and the Notes will thereafter be deemed
not "outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or
declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in
connection with such covenants, but will continue to be deemed "outstanding" for
all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes will not be
deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant
Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes and Note
Guarantees, the Company and the Guarantors may omit to comply with and will have
no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any
such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference
elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such
covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such
omission to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under
Section 6.01 hereof, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this
Indenture and such Notes and Note Guarantees will be unaffected thereby. In
addition, upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option
applicable to this Section 8.03 hereof, subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, Sections 6.01(3) through 6.01(5)
hereof will not constitute Events of Default.
Section 8.04 Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance.
In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under
either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof:
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(1) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust,
for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, cash in United States dollars,
non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such
amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, premium
and Liquidated Damages, if any, and interest on the outstanding Notes on
the stated date for payment thereof or on the applicable redemption date,
as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are
being defeased to maturity or to a particular redemption date;
(2) in the case of an election under Section 8.02 hereof, the Company
has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that:
(A) the Company has received from, or there has been published
by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or
(B) since the date of this Indenture, there has been a change in
the applicable federal income tax law,
in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of
Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not
recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result
of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the
same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;
(3) in the case of an election under Section 8.03 hereof, the Company
must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the
outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance
had not occurred;
(4) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of
Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such
deposit);
(5) such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material
agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is bound;
(6) the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of
preferring the Holders of Notes
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over the other creditors of the Company with the intent of defeating,
hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company or
others; and
(7) the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
provided for or relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance
have been complied with.
In the event that the Company exercises its legal defeasance option or
covenant defeasance option, each of the Guarantors will be released from all of
its obligations with respect to its guarantee. The Company may exercise its
legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of the covenant
defeasance option.
Section 8.05 Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to Section 8.06 hereof, all money and non-callable Government
Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other
qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 8.05, the
"Trustee") pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes
will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the
provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or
through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to
become due thereon in respect of principal, premium and Liquidated Damages, if
any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except
to the extent required by law.
The Company will pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or non-callable Government
Securities deposited pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof or the principal and
interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other
charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.
Notwithstanding anything in this Article 8 to the contrary, the Trustee
will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the request of the
Company any money or non-callable Government Securities held by it as provided
in Section 8.04 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section
8.04(1) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required
to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
Section 8.06 Repayment to Company.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium or Liquidated
Damages, if any, or interest on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal, premium or Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest has
become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on its request or (if then
held by the Company) will be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such
Note will thereafter
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be permitted to look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability
of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all
liability of the Company as trustee thereof, will thereupon cease; provided,
however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make
any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published
once, in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition),
notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which will not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification
or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Company.
Section 8.07 Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any United States dollars
or non-callable Government Securities in accordance with Section 8.02 or 8.03
hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the Company's and the Guarantor's obligations under this
Indenture and the Notes and the Note Guarantees will be revived and reinstated
as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof until
such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in
accordance with Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof, as the case may be; provided,
however, that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium or
Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest on any Note following the reinstatement
of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders
of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or
Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
Section 9.01 Without Consent of Holders of Notes.
Notwithstanding Section 9.02 of this Indenture, the Company, the Guarantors
and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Note Guarantees or
the Notes without the consent of any Holder of a Note:
(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;
(2) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of
certificated Notes or to alter the provisions of Article 2 hereof
(including the related definitions) in a manner that does not materially
adversely affect any Holder;
(3) to provide for the assumption of the Company's or a Guarantor's
obligations to the Holders of the Notes by a successor to the Company
pursuant to Article 5 hereof;
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(4) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or
benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the
legal rights hereunder of any Holder of the Note;
(5) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or
maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA;
(6) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with
the limitations set forth in this Indenture as of the date hereof; or
(7) to allow any Guarantor to execute a supplemental indenture and/or a
Note Guarantee with respect to the Notes.
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its Board of
Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
Indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section
7.02 hereof, the Trustee will join with the Company and the Guarantors in the
execution of any amended or supplemental Indenture authorized or permitted by
the terms of this Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and
stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee will not be
obligated to enter into such amended or supplemental Indenture that affects its
own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.02 With Consent of Holders of Notes.
Except as provided below in this Section 9.02, the Company and the Trustee
may amend or supplement this Indenture (including, without limitation, Section
3.09, 4.10 and 4.14 hereof), the Note Guarantees and the Notes with the consent
of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes
(including, without limitation, Additional Notes, if any) then outstanding
voting as a single class (including, without limitation, consents obtained in
connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for, or purchase of, the
Notes), and, subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07 hereof, any existing Default or
Event of Default (other than a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the
principal of, premium or Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest on the Notes,
except a payment default resulting from an acceleration that has been rescinded)
or compliance with any provision of this Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the
Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class (including
consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for, or
purchase of, the Notes). Section 2.08 hereof shall determine which Notes are
considered to be "outstanding" for purposes of this Section 9.02.
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its Board of
Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
Indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the
Trustee of the consent of the Holders of Notes as aforesaid, and upon receipt by
the Trustee of the documents described in Section 7.02 hereof, the Trustee will
join with the Company in the execution of such amended or supplemental Indenture
unless such amended or supplemental Indenture directly affects the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities
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under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its
discretion, but will not be obligated to, enter into such amended or
supplemental Indenture.
It is not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Notes under this
Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or waiver,
but it is sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02 becomes
effective, the Company will mail to the Holders of Notes affected thereby a
notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of
the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, will not, however, in
any way impair or affect the validity of any such amended or supplemental
Indenture or waiver. Subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07 hereof, the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding voting as a
single class may waive compliance in a particular instance by the Company with
any provision of this Indenture or the Notes. However, without the consent of
each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver under this Section 9.02 may not
(with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):
(1) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to
an amendment, supplement or waiver;
(2) reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or
alter or waive any of the provisions with respect to the redemption of the
Notes except as provided above with respect to Sections 3.09, 4.10 and 4.14
hereof;
(3) reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest,
including default interest, on any Note;
(4) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of
or premium or Liquidated Damages, if any, or interest on the Notes (except
a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and a
waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);
(5) make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;
(6) make any change in the provisions of this Indenture relating to
waivers of past Defaults or the rights of Holders of Notes to receive
payments of principal of, or interest or premium or Liquidated Damages, if
any, on the Notes;
(7) make any change in Section 6.04 or 6.07 hereof or in the foregoing
amendment and waiver provisions;
(8) release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Note
Guarantee or this Indenture, except in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture; or
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(9) waive a redemption payment with respect to any Note (other than a
payment required by Sections 4.10 and 4.14)
In addition, any amendment to, or waiver of, the provisions of this
Indenture relating to subordination that adversely affects the rights of the
Holders of the Notes will require the consent of the Holders of at least 75% in
aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding.
Section 9.03 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.
Every amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Notes will be set
forth in an amended or supplemental Indenture that complies with the TIA as then
in effect.
Section 9.04 Revocation and Effect of Consents.
Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it
by a Holder of a Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every
subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as
the consenting Holder's Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any
Note. However, any such Holder of a Note or subsequent Holder of a Note may
revoke the consent as to its Note if the Trustee receives written notice of
revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or amendment becomes
effective. An amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective in accordance
with its terms and thereafter binds every Holder.
Section 9.05 Notation on or Exchange of Notes.
The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment,
supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Company in
exchange for all Notes may issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of an
Authentication Order, authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment,
supplement or waiver.
Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note will not
affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
Section 9.06 Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.
The Trustee will sign any amended or supplemental Indenture authorized
pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment or supplement does not adversely
affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. The Company
may not sign an amendment or supplemental Indenture until the Board of Directors
approves it. In executing any amended or supplemental Indenture, the Trustee
will be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 7.01 hereof) will be fully
protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section
12.04 hereof, an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture.
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ARTICLE 10
SUBORDINATION
Section 10.01 Agreement to Subordinate.
The Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note agrees, that the
Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is subordinated in right of payment, to the
extent and in the manner provided in this Article 10, to the prior payment in
full of all Senior Debt (whether outstanding on the date hereof or hereafter
created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed), and that the subordination is for the
benefit of the holders of Senior Debt.
Section 10.02 Certain Definitions.
"Designated Senior Debt" means:
(1) any Indebtedness outstanding under the Credit Facilities and all
Hedging Obligations with respect thereto; and
(2) after payment in full of all Obligations under the Credit
Facilities, any other Senior Debt permitted under this Indenture the
principal amount of which is $25.0 million or more and that has been
designated by the Company as "Designated Senior Debt."
"Permitted Junior Securities" means:
(1) Equity Interests in the Company or any Guarantor; or
(2) debt securities that are subordinated to all Senior Debt and any
debt securities issued in exchange for Senior Debt to substantially the
same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Notes and the Note
Guarantees are subordinated to Senior Debt under this Indenture.
"Representative" means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent or
representative for any Senior Debt.
"Senior Debt" means:
(1) all Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor outstanding under
Credit Facilities and all Hedging Obligations with respect thereto;
(2) any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor permitted to
be incurred under the terms of this Indenture, unless the instrument under
which such Indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that it is on a
parity with or subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or any Note
Guarantee, and
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(3) all Obligations with respect to the items listed in the preceding
clauses (1) and (2).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Senior Debt will not
include:
(1) any liability for federal, state, local or other taxes owed or
owing by the Company;
(2) any intercompany Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to the Company or any of its Affiliates;
(3) any trade payables; or
(4) the portion of any Indebtedness that is incurred in violation of
this Indenture; provided that such Indebtedness shall be deemed not to have
been incurred in violation of this Indenture for purposes of this clause
(4) if such Indebtedness consists of Indebtedness under any Credit Facility
and holders of such Indebtedness or their Representative (i) had no actual
knowledge at the time of the incurrence that the incurrence of such
Indebtedness violated this Indenture and (ii) shall have received an
officers' certificate to the effect that the incurrence of such
Indebtedness does not violate the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 10.03 Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.
Upon any distribution to creditors of the Company in a liquidation or
dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency,
receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property, in
an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshaling of the Company's
assets and liabilities:
(1) holders of Senior Debt will be entitled to receive payment in full
of all Obligations due in respect of such Senior Debt (including interest
after the commencement of any bankruptcy proceeding at the rate specified
in the applicable Senior Debt) before the Holders of Notes will be entitled
to receive any payment with respect to the Notes (except that Holders of
Notes may receive and retain Permitted Junior Securities and payments made
from any defeasance trust created pursuant to Section 8.01 hereof); and
(2) until all Obligations with respect to Senior Debt (as provided in
clause (1) above) are paid in full, any distribution to which Holders would
be entitled but for this Article 10 will be made to holders of Senior Debt
(except that Holders of Notes may receive and retain Permitted Junior
Securities and payments made from any defeasance trust created pursuant to
Section 8.01 hereof), as their interests may appear.
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Section 10.04 Default on Designated Senior Debt.
(a) The Company may not make any payment or distribution to the Trustee or
any Holder in respect of Obligations with respect to the Notes and may not
acquire from the Trustee or any Holder any Notes for cash or property (other
than Permitted Junior Securities and payments made from any defeasance trust
created pursuant to Section 8.01 hereof) until all principal and other
Obligations with respect to the Senior Debt have been paid in full if:
(1) payment default on Designated Senior Debt occurs and is continuing
beyond any applicable grace period in the agreement, indenture or other
document governing such Designated Senior Debt; or
(2) any other default occurs and is continuing on any series of
Designated Senior Debt that permits holders of that series of Designated
Senior Debt to accelerate its maturity and the Trustee receives a notice of
such default (a "Payment Blockage Notice") from the Company of the holders
of any Designated Senior Debt. If the Trustee receives any such Payment
Blockage Notice, no subsequent Payment Blockage Notice will be effective
for purposes of this Section unless and until (A) at least 360 days have
elapsed since the effectiveness of the immediately prior Payment Blockage
Notice and (B) all scheduled payments of principal, premium and Liquidated
Damages, if any, and interest on the Notes that have come due have been
paid in full in cash.
No nonpayment default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of
any Payment Blockage Notice to the Trustee may be, or may be made, the basis for
a subsequent Payment Blockage Notice unless such default has have been waived
for a period of not less than 90 days.
(b) The Company may and will resume payments on and distributions in
respect of the Notes and may acquire them upon the earlier of:
(1) in the case of a payment default, upon the date upon which such
default is cured or waived, or
(2) in the case of a nonpayment default, upon the earlier of the date
on which such nonpayment default is cured or waived or 179 days after the
date on which the applicable Payment Blockage Notice is received, unless
the maturity of any Designated Senior Debt has been accelerated, if this
Article 10 otherwise permits the payment, distribution or acquisition at
the time of such payment or acquisition.
10.05 Acceleration of Notes.
If payment of the Notes is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the
Company will promptly notify holders of Senior Debt of the acceleration.
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Section 10.06 When Distribution Must Be Paid Over.
In the event that the Trustee or any Holder receives any payment of any
Obligations with respect to the Notes (other than Permitted Junior Securities
and payments made from any defeasance trust created pursuant to Section 8.01
hereof) at a time when the Trustee or such Holder, as applicable, has actual
knowledge that such payment is prohibited by Section 10.04 hereof, such payment
will be held by the Trustee or such Holder, in trust for the benefit of, and
will be paid forthwith over and delivered, upon written request, to, the holders
of Senior Debt as their interests may appear or their Representative under the
agreement, indenture or other document (if any) pursuant to which Senior Debt
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, for application
to the payment of all Obligations with respect to Senior Debt remaining unpaid
to the extent necessary to pay such Obligations in full in accordance with their
terms, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for
the holders of Senior Debt.
With respect to the holders of Senior Debt, the Trustee undertakes to
perform only those obligations on the part of the Trustee as are specifically
set forth in this Article 10, and no implied covenants or obligations with
respect to the holders of Senior Debt will be read into this Indenture against
the Trustee. The Trustee will not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Debt, and will not be liable to any such holders if the
Trustee pays over or distributes to or on behalf of Holders or the Company or
any other Person money or assets to which any holders of Senior Debt are then
entitled by virtue of this Article 10, except if such payment is made as a
result of the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Trustee.
Section 10.07 Notice by Company.
The Company will promptly notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent of any
facts known to the Company that would cause a payment of any Obligations with
respect to the Notes to violate this Article 10, but failure to give such notice
will not affect the subordination of the Notes to the Senior Debt as provided in
this Article 10.
Section 10.08 Subrogation.
After all Senior Debt is paid in full and until the Notes are paid in full,
Holders of Notes will be subrogated (equally and ratably with all other
Indebtedness pari passu with the Notes) to the rights of holders of Senior Debt
to receive distributions applicable to Senior Debt to the extent that
distributions otherwise payable to the Holders of Notes have been applied to the
payment of Senior Debt. A distribution made under this Article 10 to holders of
Senior Debt that otherwise would have been made to Holders of Notes is not, as
between the Company and Holders, a payment by the Company on the Notes.
Section 10.09 Relative Rights.
This Article 10 defines the relative rights of Holders of Notes and holders
of Senior Debt. Nothing in this Indenture will:
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(1) impair, as between the Company and Holders of Notes, the obligation
of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of,
premium and interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, on the Notes in
accordance with their terms;
(2) affect the relative rights of Holders of Notes and creditors of the
Company other than their rights in relation to holders of Senior Debt; or
(3) prevent the Trustee or any Holder of Notes from exercising its
available remedies upon a Default or Event of Default, subject to the
rights of holders and owners of Senior Debt to receive distributions and
payments otherwise payable to Holders of Notes.
If the Company fails because of this Article 10 to pay principal of,
premium or interest or Liquidated Damages, if any, on a Note on the due date,
the failure is still a Default or Event of Default.
Section 10.10 Subordination May Not Be Impaired by Company.
No right of any holder of Senior Debt to enforce the subordination of the
Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes may be impaired by any act or failure to act
by the Company or any Holder or by the failure of the Company or any Holder to
comply with this Indenture.
Section 10.11 Distribution or Notice to Representative.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of
Senior Debt, the distribution may be made and the notice given to their
Representative.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article 10, the Trustee and the Holders of Notes will be entitled to rely
upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction or upon any
certificate of such Representative or of the liquidating trustee or agent or
other Person making any distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders of Notes
for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such
distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other Indebtedness of the
Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article 10.
Section 10.12 Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article 10 or any other provision of
this Indenture, the Trustee will not be charged with knowledge of the existence
of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment or distribution by
the Trustee, and the Trustee and the Paying Agent may continue to make payments
on the Notes, unless the Trustee has received at its Corporate Trust Office at
least five Business Days prior to the date of such payment written notice of
facts that would cause the payment of any Obligations with respect to the Notes
to violate this Article 10. Only the Company or a Representative may give the
notice. Nothing in this Article 10 will impair the claims of, or payments to,
the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.07 hereof.
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The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior
Debt with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do
the same with like rights.
Section 10.13 Authorization to Effect Subordination.
Each Holder of Notes, by the Holder's acceptance thereof, authorizes and
directs the Trustee on such Holder's behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this
Article 10, and appoints the Trustee to act as such Holder's attorney-in-fact
for any and all such purposes. If the Trustee does not file a proper proof of
claim or proof of debt in the form required in any proceeding referred to in
Section 6.09 hereof at least 30 days before the expiration of the time to file
such claim, the Representatives are hereby authorized to file an appropriate
claim for and on behalf of the Holders of the Notes.
Section 10.14 Amendments.
The provisions of this Article 10 may not be amended or modified without
the written consent of the holders of all Senior Debt.
ARTICLE 11
NOTE GUARANTEES
Section 11.01 Guarantee.
(a) Subject to this Article 11, each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and
severally, unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Note authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns,
irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes or
the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that:
(1) the principal of, premium and Liquidated Damages, if any, and
interest on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due, whether at
maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the
overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all
other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or
thereunder will be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance
with the terms hereof and thereof; and
(2) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes
or any of such other obligations, that same will be promptly paid in full
when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or
renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise.
Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed or any performance so
guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors will be jointly and severally
obligated to pay the same immediately. Each Guarantor agrees that this is a
guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection.
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(b) The Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations hereunder are
unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the
Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any
waiver or consent by any Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions
hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action
to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a
legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each Guarantor hereby
waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court
in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a
proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever
and covenant that this Note Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete
performance of the obligations contained in the Notes and this Indenture.
(c) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to
return to the Company, the Guarantors or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or
other similar official acting in relation to either the Company or the
Guarantors, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such Holder, this Note
Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, will be reinstated in full
force and effect.
(d) Each Guarantor agrees that it will not be entitled to any right of
subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed
hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby. Each
Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and
the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (1) the maturity of the
obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 hereof
for the purposes of this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or
other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations
guaranteed hereby, and (2) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of
such obligations as provided in Article 6 hereof, such obligations (whether or
not due and payable) will forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for
the purpose of this Note Guarantee. The Guarantors will have the right to seek
contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right
does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Note Guarantee.
Section 11.02 Subordination of Note Guarantee.
The Obligations of each Guarantor under its Note Guarantee pursuant to this
Article 11 will be junior and subordinated to the Senior Debt of such Guarantor
on the same basis as the Notes are junior and subordinated to Senior Debt of the
Company. For the purposes of the foregoing sentence, the Trustee and the Holders
will have the right to receive and/or retain payments by any of the Guarantors
only at such times as they may receive and/or retain payments in respect of the
Notes pursuant to this Indenture, including Article 10.01 hereof.
Section 11.03 Limitation on Guarantor Liability.
Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of Notes, each Holder, hereby
confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Note Guarantee of
such Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes
of Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the
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Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law to the
extent applicable to any Note Guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention,
the Trustee, the Holders and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the
obligations of such Guarantor will be limited to the maximum amount that will,
after giving effect to such maximum amount and all other contingent and fixed
liabilities of such Guarantor that are relevant under such laws, and after
giving effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution from or
payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the
obligations of such other Guarantor under this Article 11, result in the
obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not constituting a
fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
Section 11.04 Execution and Delivery of Note Guarantee.
To evidence its Note Guarantee set forth in Section 11.01, each Guarantor
hereby agrees that a notation of such Note Guarantee substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit E hereto will be endorsed by an Officer of such Guarantor on
each Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and that this Indenture
will be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by one of its Officers.
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Note Guarantee set forth in Section
11.01 will remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to
endorse on each Note a notation of such Note Guarantee.
If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture or on the Note Guarantee
no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note on
which a Note Guarantee is endorsed, the Note Guarantee will be valid
nevertheless.
The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof
hereunder, will constitute due delivery of the Note Guarantee set forth in this
Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.
In the event that the Company creates or acquires any Domestic Subsidiary
after the date of this Indenture that are guarantors or borrowers in respect of
the Credit Agreement, if required by Section 4.16 hereof, the Company will cause
such Domestic Subsidiary to comply with the provisions of Section 4.16 hereof
and this Article 11, to the extent applicable.
Section 11.05 Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 11.05, no Guarantor may sell or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate
with or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving
Person) another Person, other than the Company or another Guarantor, unless:
(1) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or
Event of Default exists; and
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(2) either:
(a) subject to Section 11.05 hereof, the Person acquiring the
property in any such sale or disposition or the Person formed by or
surviving any such consolidation or merger unconditionally assumes all
the obligations of that Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, under the
Notes, this Indenture and the Note Guarantee on the terms set forth
herein or therein; and
(b) the Net Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are
applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture,
including without limitation, Section 4.10 hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance and upon the
assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture, executed and
delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the Note
Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of
the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Guarantor,
such successor Person will succeed to and be substituted for the Guarantor with
the same effect as if it had been named herein as a Guarantor. Such successor
Person thereupon may cause to be signed any or all of the Note Guarantees to be
endorsed upon all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not
have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee. All the Note
Guarantees so issued will in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit
under this Indenture as the Note Guarantees theretofore and thereafter issued in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Note
Guarantees had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
Except as set forth in Articles 4 and 5 hereof, and notwithstanding clauses
(a) and (b) above, nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes
will prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company
or another Guarantor, or will prevent any sale or conveyance of the property of
a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or
another Guarantor.
Section 11.06 Releases Following Sale of Assets.
In the event of any sale or other disposition of all or substantially all
of the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or
a sale or other disposition of all to the Capital Stock of any Guarantor, in
each case to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such
transactions) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, then such Guarantor (in
the event of a sale or other disposition, by way of merger, consolidation or
otherwise, of all of the capital stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation
acquiring the property (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor) will be released and relieved
of any obligations under its Note Guarantee; provided that the Net Proceeds of
such sale or other disposition are applied in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10 hereof.
Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers'
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Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such sale or other
disposition was made by the Company in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10 hereof, the Trustee will
execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of
any Guarantor from its obligations under its Note Guarantee.
Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Note Guarantee
will remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest on the Notes
and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under this Indenture as provided
in this Article 11.
ARTICLE 12
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 12.01 Satisfaction and Discharge.
This Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect as
to all Notes issued hereunder, when:
(1) either:
(a) all Notes that have been authenticated (except lost, stolen
or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter
repaid to the Company) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(b) all Notes that have not been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation have become due and payable by reason of the making of a
notice of redemption or otherwise or will become due and payable within
one year and the Company or any Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely
for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable
Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as
will be sufficient without consideration of any reinvestment of
interest, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Notes not
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium and
Liquidated Damages, if any, and accrued interest to the date of
maturity or redemption;
(2) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on
the date of such deposit or will occur as a result of such deposit and such
deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a
default under, any other instrument to which the Company or any Guarantor
is a party or by which the Company or any Guarantor is bound;
(3) the Company or any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums
payable by it under this Indenture; and
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(4) the Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee
under this Indenture to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the
Notes at maturity or the redemption date, as the case may be.
In addition, the Company must deliver an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to
satisfaction and discharge have been satisfied.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, if money
has been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (b) of clause (1) of
this Section, the provisions of Section 12.02 and Section 8.06 will survive. In
addition, nothing in this Section 12.01 will be deemed to discharge those
provisions of Section 7.07 hereof, that, by their terms, survive the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
Section 12.02 Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.06, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 12.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto,
of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money
has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or Government
Securities in accordance with Section 12.01 by reason of any legal proceeding or
by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority
enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company's
and any Guarantor's obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be
revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section
12.01; provided that if the Company has made any payment of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any Notes because of the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
such Notes to receive such payment from the money or Government Securities held
by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 13
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 13.01 Trust Indenture Act Controls.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the
duties imposed by TIA (Section)318(c), the imposed duties will control.
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Section 13.02 Notices.
Any notice or communication by the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee to
the others is duly given if in writing and delivered in Person or mailed by
first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telex,
telecopier or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the
others' address:
If to the Company and/or any Guarantor:
TriMas Corporation
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Attention: Chief Financial Officer
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If to the Trustee:
The Bank of New York
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Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
The Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee, by notice to the others may
designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or
communications.
All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders) will be
deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally
delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage
prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt acknowledged,
if telecopied; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier,
if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.
Any notice or communication to a Holder will be mailed by first class mail,
certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery to its address shown on the register kept by the
Registrar. Any notice or communication will also be so
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mailed to any Person described in TIA (Section) 313(c), to the extent required
by the TIA. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect
in it will not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.
If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above within
the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it will mail a
copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.
Section 13.03 Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes.
Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA (Section) 312(b) with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The Company, the
Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA
(Section) 312(c).
Section 13.04 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:
(1) an Officers' Certificate in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee (which must include the statements set forth in
Section 13.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all
conditions precedent and covenants, if any, provided for in this Indenture
relating to the proposed action have been satisfied; and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee (which must include the statements set forth in Section
13.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such
conditions precedent and covenants have been satisfied.
Section 13.05 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.
Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided
pursuant to TIA (Section) 314(a)(4)) must comply with the provisions of TIA
(Section) 314(e) and must include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has
read such covenant or condition;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
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(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he or she has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been satisfied; and
(4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such Person,
such condition or covenant has been satisfied.
Section 13.06 Rules by Trustee and Agents.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Holders. The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and set
reasonable requirements for its functions.
Section 13.07 No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders.
No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or
stockholder of the Company or any Guarantor, as such, will have any liability
for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantors under the Notes, this
Indenture the Note Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by
reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Notes by accepting
a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part
of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. The waiver may not be effective
to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws.
Section 13.08 Governing Law.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO
CONSTRUE THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT
TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION
OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
Section 13.09 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or
debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other Person. Any
such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this
Indenture.
Section 13.10 Successors.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes will bind its
successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture will bind its
successors. All agreements of each Guarantor in this Indenture will bind its
successors, except as otherwise provided in Section 11.05.
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Section 13.11 Severability.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes is invalid, illegal
or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 13.12 Counterpart Originals.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each signed
copy will be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
Section 13.13 Table of Contents, Headings, etc.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings of the Articles
and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference
only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and will in no way
modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
[Signatures on following page]
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SIGNATURES
Dated as of June 6, 2002
TRIMAS CORPORATION
By: /s/ R. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: R. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Secretary
EACH OF THE GUARANTORS LISTED ON
SCHEDULE I HERETO:
By: /s/ R. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: R. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Secretary
EACH OF THE GUARANTORS LISTED ON
SCHEDULE II HERETO:
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By: /s/ Illegible
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Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE I
SCHEDULE OF GUARANTORS
The following schedules list each Guarantor under the Indenture as of the
date of the Indenture:
Arrow Engine Company
Commonwealth Industries LLC
Compac Corporation
Consumer Products, Inc
Cuyam Corporation
Di-Rite Company
Draw-Tite, Inc.
Entegra Fastener Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Performance Products, Inc.
Hitch 'N Post, Inc.
Keo Cutters, Inc.
K.S. Disposition, Inc.
Lake Erie Screw Corporation
Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Inc.
Netcong Investments, Inc.
NI Foreign Military Sales Corp.
NI Industries, Inc.
NI West, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Cylinder Company
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Environmental Services, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Industries, Inc.
Plastic Form, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Products, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Spline Products, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Micro-Tool, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇ Leasing Co., Incorporated
▇▇▇▇▇ of Indiana, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ of Mexico, Inc.
TriMas Company LLC
TriMas Fasteners, Inc.
TriMas Services Corp.
Wesbar Corporation
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SCHEDULE II
Beaumont Bolt & Gasket, Inc.
Industrial Bolt & Gasket, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Metal Gasket Co.
Louisiana Hose & Rubber Co.
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EXHIBIT A1
[Face of Note]
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CUSIP/CINS ____________
9-7/8% [Series A] [Series B] Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
No. ___ $__________
TRIMAS CORPORATION
promises to pay to CEDE & CO.
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or registered assigns,
the principal sum of____________________________________________________________
Dollars on June 15, 2012.
Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15
Record Dates: June 1 and December 1
Dated: June 6, 2002
TRIMAS CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
This is one of the Notes referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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[Back of Note]
9-7/8% [Series A] [Series B] Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
[Insert the Global Note Legend, if applicable pursuant to the provisions of the
Indenture]
[Insert the Private Placement Legend, if applicable pursuant to the provisions
of the Indenture]
Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.
(1) INTEREST. TriMas Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note
at 9-7/8% per annum from June 6, 2002 until maturity and shall pay the
Liquidated Damages, if any, payable pursuant to Section 2(d) of the
Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Company will pay
interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, semi-annually in arrears on June
15 and December 15 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day,
on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an "Interest Payment Date").
Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which
interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of
issuance; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of
interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred
to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date,
interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date;
provided, further, that the first Interest Payment Date shall be December
15, 2002. The Company will pay interest (including post-petition interest
in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and
premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is 1% per annum
in excess of the rate then in effect; it will pay interest (including
post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on
overdue installments of interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, (without
regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the
same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
(2) METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes
(except defaulted interest) and Liquidated Damages, if any, to the Persons
who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the June 1
or December 1 next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes
are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment
Date, except as provided in Section 2.12 of the Indenture with respect to
defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium and
Liquidated Damages, if any, and interest at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for such purpose within or without the City and State of
New York, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest and
Liquidated Damages, if any, may be made by check mailed to the Holders at
their addresses set forth in the register of Holders; provided that payment
by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with
respect to principal of and interest, premium and Liquidated Damages, if
any, on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which will
have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the
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Paying Agent. Such payment will be in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public and private debts.
(3) PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York, the
Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The
Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any
Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such
capacity.
(4) INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as
of June 6, 2002 (the "Indenture") among the Company, the Guarantors and the
Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and
those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code (Sections) 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are
subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and
such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this
Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions
of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Initial Notes are
unsecured obligations of the Company limited to $352,773,000 in aggregate
principal amount, plus amounts, if any, issued to pay Liquidated Damages on
outstanding Notes as set forth in Paragraph 2 hereof. In addition, the
Company shall be entitled, subject to its compliance with Section 4.09 of
the Indenture, to issue Additional Notes.
(5) OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.
(a) Except as set forth in subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph 5, the
Company will not have the option to redeem the Notes prior to June 15,
2007. Thereafter, the Company will have the option to redeem the Notes, in
whole or in part, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at
the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set
forth below plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if
any, thereon to the applicable redemption date, if redeemed during the
twelve-month period beginning on June 15 of the years indicated below:
Year Percentage
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2007............................................ 104.938%
2008............................................ 103.292%
2009............................................ 101.646%
2010 and thereafter............................. 100.000%
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (a) of this
Paragraph 5, at any time prior to June 15, 2005, the Company may on one or
more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
issued under the Indenture at a redemption price equal to 109.875% of the
aggregate principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated
Damages, if any to the redemption date, with the net cash proceeds of one
or more Equity Offerings; provided that (1) at least 65% in aggregate
principal amount of the Notes issued under the Indenture remains
outstanding immediately after the occurrence of such redemption and that
such redemption (excluding Notes held by the Company and its
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Subsidiaries); and (2) the redemption occurs within 120 days of the date of
the closing of such Equity Offering.
(6) MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company will not be required to make
mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.
(7) REPURCHASE AT OPTION OF HOLDER.
(a) If there is a Change of Control, the Company will be required to
make an offer (a "Change of Control Offer") to repurchase all or any part
(equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of each Holder's Notes at
a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof
plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages thereon, if any, to
the date of purchase (the "Change of Control Payment"). Within 15 days
following any Change of Control, the Company will mail a notice to each
Holder setting forth the procedures governing the Change of Control Offer
as required by the Indenture.
(b) If the Company or a Subsidiary consummates any Asset Sales, within
five days of each date on which the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds
exceeds $25.0 million, the Company will commence an offer to all Holders of
Notes and all holders of other Indebtedness that is pari passu with the
Notes containing provisions similar to those set forth in the Indenture
with respect to offers to purchase or redeem with the proceeds of sales of
assets (an "Asset Sale Offer") pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Indenture to
purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes (including any Additional
Notes) and other pari passu Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the
Excess Proceeds at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated
Damages thereon, if any, to the date fixed for the closing of such offer,
in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture. To the extent
that the aggregate amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) and
other pari passu Indebtedness tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is
less than the Excess Proceeds, the Company (or such Subsidiary) may use
such deficiency for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the Indenture.
If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and other pari passu
Indebtedness surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of Excess
Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes and other pari passu
Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis. Holders of Notes that are
the subject of an offer to purchase will receive an Asset Sale Offer from
the Company prior to any related purchase date and may elect to have such
Notes purchased by completing the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect
Purchase" on the reverse of the Notes.
(8) NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption will be mailed at least
30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder
whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. Notes in
denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole
multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be
redeemed. On and after the redemption date interest ceases to accrue on
Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.
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(9) DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged
as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a
Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and
transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes
and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need
not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note
selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note
being redeemed in part. Also, the Company need not exchange or register the
transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes
to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the
corresponding Interest Payment Date.
(10) PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be
treated as its owner for all purposes.
(11) AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain exceptions,
the Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the Notes may be amended or
supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and Additional Notes, if
any, voting as a single class, and any existing default or compliance with
any provision of the Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the Notes may be
waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes and Additional Notes, if any, voting as a single
class. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture, the Note
Guarantees or the Notes may be amended or supplemented to cure any
ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to provide for uncertificated Notes in
addition to or in place of certificated Notes, to provide for the
assumption of the Company's or any Guarantor's obligations to Holders of
the Notes in case of a merger or consolidation, to make any change that
would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes
or that does not adversely affect the legal rights under the Indenture of
any such Holder, to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to
effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act, to provide for the Issuance of Additional Notes in
accordance with the limitations set forth in the Indenture, or to allow any
Guarantor to execute a supplemental indenture to the Indenture and/or a
Note Guarantee with respect to the Notes.
(12) DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. Events of Default and Remedies include
those as set forth in Article 6 of the Indenture.
(13) SUBORDINATION. Payment of principal, interest and premium and
Liquidated Damages, if any, on the Notes is subordinated to the prior
payment of Senior Debt on the terms provided in the Indenture.
(14) TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee, in its individual or
any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform
services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the
Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
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(15) NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee,
incorporator or stockholder, of the Company or any of the Guarantors, as
such, will not have any liability for any obligations of the Company or
such Guarantor under the Notes, the Note Guarantees or the Indenture or for
any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or
their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all
such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for
the issuance of the Notes.
(16) AUTHENTICATION. This Note will not be valid until authenticated by
the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
(17) ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of
a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A
(= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
(18) ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTES AND
RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES. In addition to the rights provided to Holders
of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of Restricted Global Notes and
Restricted Definitive Notes will have all the rights set forth in the A/B
Exchange Registration Rights Agreement dated as of June , 2002, among the
Company, the Guarantors and the other parties named on the signature pages
thereof or, in the case of Additional Notes, Holders of Restricted Global
Notes and Restricted Definitive Notes will have the rights set forth in one
or more registration rights agreements, if any, among the Company, the
Guarantors and the other parties thereto, relating to rights given by the
Company and the Guarantors to the purchasers of any Additional Notes
(collectively, the "Registration Rights Agreement").
(19) CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has
caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use
CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed
on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may
be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
(20) GOVERNING LAW. The internal law of the State of New York will
govern and be used to construe the Notes without giving effect to
applicable principles of conflicts of law to the extent that the
application of the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement.
Requests may be made to:
TriMas Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Note, fill in the form below:
(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:
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(Insert assignee's legal name)
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(Insert assignee's soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
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(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint_________________________________________________________
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute
another to act for him.
Date:
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Your Signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the face of this Note)
Signature Guarantee:*
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* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to
Section 4.10 or 4.14 of the Indenture, check the appropriate box below:
[ ] Section 4.10 [ ] Section 4.14
If you want to elect to have only part of the Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.14 of the Indenture, state the amount you
elect to have purchased:
$
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Date:
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Your Signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the face of this Note)
Tax Identification No.:
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Signature Guarantee:*
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* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE1
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in
another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another
Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been
made:
Principal Amount
Amount of of this Global Note
decrease in Amount of increase in following such Signature of authorized
Principal Amount Principal Amount decrease officer of Trustee or
Date of Exchange of this Global Note of this Global Note (or increase) Custodian
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(a) This schedule should be included only if the Note is issued in global form.
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EXHIBIT A2
[Face of Regulation S Temporary Global Note]
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CUSIP/CINS ____________
9-7/8% [Series A] [Series B] Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
No. ___ $__________
TRIMAS CORPORATION
promises to pay to CEDE & CO.
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or registered assigns,
the principal sum of____________________________________________________________
Dollars on June 15, 2012.
Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15
Record Dates: June 1 and December 1
Dated: June 6, 2002
TRIMAS CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
This is one of the Notes referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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[Back of Regulation S Temporary Global Note]
9-7/8% [Series A] [Series B] Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE, AND THE
CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE FOR CERTIFICATED NOTES, ARE AS
SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN). NEITHER THE HOLDER NOR THE
BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF THIS REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE ENTITLED
TO RECEIVE PAYMENT OF INTEREST HEREON.
THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE
GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL
OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
EXCEPT THAT (1) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.06 OF THE INDENTURE, (2) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED
IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.06(a) OF THE INDENTURE, (3) THIS
GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION
2.11 OF THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A
SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF TRIMAS CORPORATION.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES IN DEFINITIVE
FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR
ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A
SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS
CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY (55 ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇) ("▇▇▇"), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT
FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 (THE
"SECURITIES ACT"), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION
THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF
THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER. THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE
AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUERS THAT (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD,
PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
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REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE
144A, (II) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE
WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF
AVAILABLE), (IV) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (V) TO THE ISSUERS OR
ANY OF THEIR SUBSIDIARIES OR (VI) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (VI) IN
ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO,
NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO
IN (A) ABOVE.
Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.
(1) INTEREST. TriMas Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note
at 9-7/8% per annum from June , 2002 until maturity and shall pay the
Liquidated Damages, if any, payable pursuant to Section 2(d) of the
Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Company will pay
interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, semi-annually in arrears on June
15 and December 15 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day,
on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an "Interest Payment Date").
Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which
interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of
issuance; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of
interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred
to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date,
interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date;
provided, further, that the first Interest Payment Date shall be December
15, 2002. The Company will pay interest (including post-petition interest
in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and
premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is 1% per annum
in excess of the rate then in effect; it will pay interest (including
post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on
overdue installments of interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, (without
regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the
same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Until this Regulation S Temporary Global Note is exchanged for one or
more Regulation S Permanent Global Notes, the Holder hereof shall not be
entitled to receive payments of interest hereon; until so exchanged in
full, this Regulation S Temporary Global Note shall in all other respects
be entitled to the same benefits as other Notes under the Indenture.
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(2) METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes
(except defaulted interest) and Liquidated Damages, if any, to the Persons
who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the June 1
or December 1 next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes
are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment
Date, except as provided in Section 2.12 of the Indenture with respect to
defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium,
interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for such purpose within or without the City and State of
New York, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest and
Liquidated Damages, if any, may be made by check mailed to the Holders at
their addresses set forth in the register of Holders; provided that payment
by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with
respect to principal of and interest, premium and Liquidated Damages, if
any, on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which will
have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the Paying
Agent. Such payment will be in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public
and private debts.
(3) PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York, the
Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The
Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any
Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such
capacity.
(4) INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as
of June , 2002 (the "Indenture") among the Company, the Guarantors and the
Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and
those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code (Sections) 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are
subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and
such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this
Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions
of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Initial Notes are
unsecured obligations of the Company limited to $352,773,000 in aggregate
principal amount, plus amounts, if any, issued to pay Liquidated Damages on
outstanding Notes as set forth in Paragraph 2 hereof. In addition, the
Company shall be entitled, subject to its compliance with Section 4.09 of
the Indenture, to issue Additional Notes.
(5) OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.
(a) Except as set forth in subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph 5, the
Company will not have the option to redeem the Notes prior to June 15,
2007. Thereafter, the Company will have the option to redeem the Notes, in
whole or in part, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at
the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set
forth below plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if
any, thereon to the applicable redemption date, if redeemed during the
twelve-month period beginning on June 15 years indicated below:
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Year Percentage
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2007........................................................ 104.938%
2008........................................................ 103.292%
2009........................................................ 101.646%
2010 and thereafter......................................... 100.000%
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (a) of this
Paragraph 5, at any time prior to June 15, 2005, the Company may on one or
more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
issued under the Indenture at a redemption price equal to 109.875% of the
aggregate principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated
Damages, if any to the redemption date, with the net cash proceeds of one
or more Equity Offerings; provided that (1) at least 65% in aggregate
principal amount of the Notes issued under the Indenture remains
outstanding immediately after the occurrence of such redemption and that
such redemption (excluding Notes held by the Company and its Subsidiaries);
and (2) the redemption occurs within 120 days of the date of the closing of
such Equity Offering.
(6) MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company will not be required to make
mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.
(7) Repurchase at Option of Holder.
(a) If there is a Change of Control, the Company will be required to
make an offer (a "Change of Control Offer") to repurchase all or any part
(equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of each Holder's Notes at
a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof
plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, thereon,
if any, to the date of purchase (the "Change of Control Payment"). Within
15 days following any Change of Control, the Company will mail a notice to
each Holder setting forth the procedures governing the Change of Control
Offer as required by the Indenture.
(b) If the Company or a Subsidiary consummates any Asset Sales, within
five days of each date on which the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds
exceeds $25.0 million, the Company will commence an offer to all Holders of
Notes and all holders of other Indebtedness that is pari passu with the
Notes containing provisions similar to those set forth in the Indenture
with respect to offers to purchase or redeem with the proceeds of sales of
assets (an "Asset Sale Offer") pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Indenture to
purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes (including any Additional
Notes) and other pari passu Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the
Excess Proceeds at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated
Damages thereon, if any, to the date fixed for the closing of such offer in
accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture. To the extent
that the aggregate amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) and
other pari passu Indebtedness tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is
less than the Excess Proceeds, the Company (or such Subsidiary) may use
such deficiency for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the
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Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and other pari passu
Indebtedness surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of Excess
Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes and other pari passu
Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis. Holders of Notes that are
the subject of an offer to purchase will receive an Asset Sale Offer from
the Company prior to any related purchase date and may elect to have such
Notes purchased by completing the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect
Purchase" on the reverse of the Notes.
(8) NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption will be mailed at least
30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder
whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. Notes in
denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole
multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be
redeemed. On and after the redemption date interest ceases to accrue on
Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.
(9) DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged
as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a
Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and
transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes
and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need
not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note
selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note
being redeemed in part. Also, the Company need not exchange or register the
transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes
to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the
corresponding Interest Payment Date.
This Regulation S Temporary Global Note is exchangeable in whole or in
part for one or more Global Notes only (i) on or after the termination of
the 40-day restricted period (as defined in Regulation S) and (ii) upon
presentation of certificates (accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel, if
applicable) required by Article 2 of the Indenture. Upon exchange of this
Regulation S Temporary Global Note for one or more Global Notes, the
Trustee shall cancel this Regulation S Temporary Global Note.
(10) PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be
treated as its owner for all purposes.
(11) AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain exceptions,
the Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the Notes may be amended or
supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and Additional Notes, if
any, voting as a single class, and any existing default or compliance with
any provision of the Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the Notes may be
waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes and Additional Notes, if any, voting as a single
class. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture, the Note
Guarantees or the Notes may be amended or supplemented to
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cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to provide for uncertificated
Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, to provide for the
assumption of the Company's or any Guarantor's obligations to Holders of
the Notes in case of a merger or consolidation, to make any change that
would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes
or that does not adversely affect the legal rights under the Indenture of
any such Holder, to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to
effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act , to provide for the Issuance of Additional Notes in
accordance with the limitations set forth in the Indenture, or to allow any
Guarantor to execute a supplemental indenture to the Indenture and/or a
Note Guarantee with respect to the Notes.
(12) DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. Events of Default and Remedies include
those as set forth in Article 6 of the Indenture.
(13) SUBORDINATION. Payment of principal, interest and premium and
Liquidated Damages, if any, on the Notes is subordinated to the prior
payment of Senior Debt on the terms provided in the Indenture.
(14) TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee, in its individual or
any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform
services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the
Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
(15) NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee,
incorporator or stockholder, of the Company or any of the Guarantors, as
such, will not have any liability for any obligations of the Company or
such Guarantor under the Notes, the Note Guarantees or the Indenture or for
any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or
their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all
such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for
the issuance of the Notes.
(16) AUTHENTICATION. This Note will not be valid until authenticated by
the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
(17) ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of
a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A
(= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
(18) ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTES AND
RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES. In addition to the rights provided to Holders
of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of Restricted Global Notes and
Restricted Definitive Notes will have all the rights set forth in the A/B
Exchange Registration Rights Agreement dated as of June , 2002, among the
Company, the Guarantors and the other parties named on the signature pages
thereof or, in the case of Additional Notes, Holders of Restricted Global
Notes and Restricted Definitive Notes will have the rights set forth in one
or more registration rights agreements, if
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any, among the Company, the Guarantors and the other parties thereto,
relating to rights given by the Company and the Guarantors to the
purchasers of any Additional Notes (collectively, the "Registration Rights
Agreement").
(19) CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has
caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use
CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed
on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may
be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
(20) GOVERNING LAW. The internal law of the State of New York will
govern and be used to construe the Notes without giving effect to
applicable principles of conflicts of law to the extent that the
application of the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement.
Requests may be made to:
TriMas Corporation
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Attention: Chief Financial Officer
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Note, fill in the form below:
(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:___________________________________
(Insert assignee's legal name)
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(Insert assignee's soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
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(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint_________________________________________________________
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute
another to act for him.
Date:
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Your Signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the face of this Note)
Signature Guarantee:*
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* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to
Section 4.10 or 4.14 of the Indenture, check the appropriate box below:
[ ] Section 4.10 [ ] Section 4.14
If you want to elect to have only part of the Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.14 of the Indenture, state the amount you
elect to have purchased:
$
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Date:
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Your Signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the face of this Note)
Tax Identification No.:
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Signature Guarantee:*
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* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE
The following exchanges of a part of this Regulation S Temporary Global
Note for an interest in another Global Note, or of other Restricted Global Notes
for an interest in this Regulation S Temporary Global Note, have been made:
Principal Amount
Amount of of this Global Note
decrease in Amount of increase in following such Signature of authorized
Principal Amount Principal Amount decrease officer of Trustee or
Date of Exchange of this Global Note of this Global Note (or increase) Custodian
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER
TriMas Corporation
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The Bank of New York
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Re: 9-7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
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Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of June 6, 2002 (the
"Indenture"), among TriMas Corporation, as issuer (the "Company"), the
Guarantors named on the signature pages thereto and The Bank of New York, as
trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
given to them in the Indenture.
___________________ (the "Transferor") owns and proposes to transfer the
Note[s] or interest in such Note[s] specified in Annex A hereto, in the
principal amount of $___________ in such Note[s] or interests (the "Transfer"),
to ___________________________ (the "Transferee"), as further specified in Annex
A hereto. In connection with the Transfer, the Transferor hereby certifies that:
[CHECK ALL THAT APPLY]
1. [ ] CHECK IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
THE 144A GLOBAL NOTE OR A DEFINITIVE NOTE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A. The Transfer is
being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and, accordingly, the Transferor
hereby further certifies that the beneficial interest or Definitive Note is
being transferred to a Person that the Transferor reasonably believed and
believes is purchasing the beneficial interest or Definitive Note for its own
account, or for one or more accounts with respect to which such Person exercises
sole investment discretion, and such Person and each such account is a
"qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A in a transaction
meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and such Transfer is in compliance with
any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States. Upon
consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will be
subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private Placement
Legend printed on the 144A Global Note and/or the Definitive Note and in the
Indenture and the Securities Act.
2. [ ] CHECK IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
THE TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE, THE REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE OR A
DEFINITIVE NOTE PURSUANT TO REGULATION S. The Transfer is being effected
pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act
and, accordingly, the Transferor hereby further certifies that (i) the
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Transfer is not being made to a Person in the United States and (x) at the time
the buy order was originated, the Transferee was outside the United States or
such Transferor and any Person acting on its behalf reasonably believed and
believes that the Transferee was outside the United States or (y) the
transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated
offshore securities market and neither such Transferor nor any Person acting on
its behalf knows that the transaction was prearranged with a buyer in the United
States, (ii) no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the
requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of Regulation S under the Securities
Act, (iii) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
registration requirements of the Securities Act and (iv) if the proposed
transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, the
transfer is not being made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a
U.S. Person (other than an Initial Purchaser). Upon consummation of the proposed
transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred
beneficial interest or Definitive Note will be subject to the restrictions on
Transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Regulation S
Global Note , the Temporary Regulation S Global Note and/or the Definitive Note
and in the Indenture and the Securities Act.
3. [ ] CHECK AND COMPLETE IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL
INTEREST IN THE IAI GLOBAL NOTE OR A DEFINITIVE NOTE PURSUANT TO ANY PROVISION
OF THE SECURITIES ACT OTHER THAN RULE 144A OR REGULATION S. The Transfer is
being effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to
beneficial interests in Restricted Global Notes and Restricted Definitive Notes
and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act and any applicable
blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States, and accordingly the
Transferor hereby further certifies that (check one):
(a) [ ] such Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance
with Rule 144 under the Securities Act;
or
(b) [ ] such Transfer is being effected to the Company or a subsidiary
thereof;
or
(c) [ ] such Transfer is being effected pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act and in compliance with the
prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act;
or
(d) [ ] such Transfer is being effected to an Institutional Accredited
Investor and pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of
the Securities Act other than Rule 144A, Rule 144 or Rule 904, and the
Transferor hereby further certifies that it has not engaged in any general
solicitation within the meaning of Regulation D under the Securities Act
and the Transfer complies with the transfer restrictions applicable to
beneficial interests in a Restricted Global Note or Restricted Definitive
Notes and the requirements of the exemption claimed, which certification is
supported by (1) a certificate executed by the
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Transferee in the form of Exhibit D to the Indenture and (2) if such
Transfer is in respect of a principal amount of Notes at the time of
transfer of less than $250,000, an Opinion of Counsel provided by the
Transferor or the Transferee (a copy of which the Transferor has attached
to this certification), to the effect that such Transfer is in compliance
with the Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed transfer in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial
interest or Definitive Note will be subject to the restrictions on transfer
enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the IAI Global Note
and/or the Definitive Notes and in the Indenture and the Securities Act.
4. [ ] CHECK IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE OR OF AN UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE.
(a) [ ] CHECK IF TRANSFER IS PURSUANT TO RULE 144. (i) The Transfer is
being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities
Act and in compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in the Indenture
and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States
and (ii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private
Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the
Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive
Note will no longer be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the
Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Global Notes, on Restricted
Definitive Notes and in the Indenture.
(b) [ ] CHECK IF TRANSFER IS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S. (i) The Transfer is
being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the
Securities Act and in compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in the
Indenture and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United
States and (ii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the
Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with
the Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or
Definitive Note will no longer be subject to the restrictions on transfer
enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Global
Notes, on Restricted Definitive Notes and in the Indenture.
(c) [ ] CHECK IF TRANSFER IS PURSUANT TO OTHER EXEMPTION. (i) The Transfer
is being effected pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act other than Rule 144, Rule 903 or
Rule 904 and in compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in the
Indenture and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any State of the United
States and (ii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the
Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with
the Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or
Definitive Note will not be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated
in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Global Notes or
Restricted Definitive Notes and in the Indenture.
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This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your
benefit and the benefit of the Company.
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[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
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ANNEX A TO CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER
1. The Transferor owns and proposes to transfer the following:
[CHECK ONE OF (a) OR (b)]
(a) [ ] a beneficial interest in the:
(i) [ ] 144A Global Note (CUSIP _________), or
(ii) [ ] Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP _________), or
(iii) [ ] IAI Global Note (CUSIP _________); or
(b) [ ] a Restricted Definitive Note.
2. After the Transfer the Transferee will hold:
[CHECK ONE]
(a) [ ] a beneficial interest in the:
(i) [ ] 144A Global Note (CUSIP _________), or
(ii) [ ] Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP _________), or
(iii) [ ] IAI Global Note (CUSIP _________); or
(iv) [ ] Unrestricted Global Note (CUSIP _________); or
(b) [ ] a Restricted Definitive Note; or
(c) [ ] an Unrestricted Definitive Note,
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF EXCHANGE
TriMas Corporation
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Re: 9-7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
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(CUSIP ____________)
Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of June 6, 2002(the
"Indenture"), among TriMas Corporation, as issuer (the "Company"), the
Guarantors named on the signature pages thereto and The Bank of New York, as
trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
given to them in the Indenture.
__________________________ (the "Owner") owns and proposes to exchange the
Note[s] or interest in such Note[s] specified herein, in the principal amount of
$____________ in such Note[s] or interests (the "Exchange"). In connection with
the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that:
1. EXCHANGE OF RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN A
RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE FOR UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS
IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE
(a) [ ] CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED
GLOBAL NOTE TO BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE. In connection
with the Exchange of the Owner's beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note
for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note in an equal principal
amount, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the beneficial interest is being acquired
for the Owner's own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has been
effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global
Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"), (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained in
the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to
maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the beneficial interest in
an Unrestricted Global Note is being acquired in compliance with any applicable
blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.
(b) [ ] CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED
GLOBAL NOTE TO UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE. In connection with the Exchange of
the Owner's beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note for an Unrestricted
Definitive Note, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the
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Definitive Note is being acquired for the Owner's own account without transfer,
(ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer
restrictions applicable to the Restricted Global Notes and pursuant to and in
accordance with the Securities Act, (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained
in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to
maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the Definitive Note is
being acquired in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any
state of the United States.
(c) [ ] CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE TO BENEFICIAL
INTEREST IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE. In connection with the Owner's Exchange
of a Restricted Definitive Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted
Global Note, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the beneficial interest is being
acquired for the Owner's own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has
been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to
Restricted Definitive Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the
Securities Act, (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture
and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain
compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the beneficial interest is being
acquired in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state
of the United States.
(d) [ ] CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE TO
UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE. In connection with the Owner's Exchange of a
Restricted Definitive Note for an Unrestricted Definitive Note, the Owner hereby
certifies (i) the Unrestricted Definitive Note is being acquired for the Owner's
own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance
with the transfer restrictions applicable to Restricted Definitive Notes and
pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act, (iii) the restrictions on
transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not
required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the
Unrestricted Definitive Note is being acquired in compliance with any applicable
blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.
2. EXCHANGE OF RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN
RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTES FOR RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS
IN RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTES
(a) [ ] CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED
GLOBAL NOTE TO RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE. In connection with the Exchange of
the Owner's beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note for a Restricted
Definitive Note with an equal principal amount, the Owner hereby certifies that
the Restricted Definitive Note is being acquired for the Owner's own account
without transfer. Upon consummation of the proposed Exchange in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture, the Restricted Definitive Note issued will continue
to be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private
Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Definitive Note and in the Indenture
and the Securities Act.
(b) [ ] CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE TO BENEFICIAL
INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE. In connection with the Exchange of the
Owner's Restricted Definitive Note for a beneficial interest in the [CHECK ONE]
[ ] 144A Global Note, [ ] Regulation S Global Note, [ ] IAI Global Note with an
equal principal amount, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the beneficial interest
is being acquired for the Owner's own account without transfer and (ii) such
Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions
applicable to the Restricted Global Notes
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and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act, and in compliance
with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.
Upon consummation of the proposed Exchange in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture, the beneficial interest issued will be subject to the restrictions on
transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the relevant
Restricted Global Note and in the Indenture and the Securities Act.
This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your
benefit and the benefit of the Company.
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[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF CERTIFICATE FROM
ACQUIRING INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR
TriMas Corporation
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The Bank of New York
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Re: % Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012
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Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of June __, 2002 (the
"Indenture"), among TriMas Corporation, as issuer (the "Company"), the
guarantors named on the signature pages thereto and The Bank of New York, as
trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
given to them in the Indenture.
In connection with our proposed purchase of $____________ aggregate
principal amount of:
(a) [ ] a beneficial interest in a Global Note, or
(b) [ ] a Definitive Note,
we confirm that:
1. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Notes or any interest
therein is subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the
Indenture and the undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge
or otherwise transfer the Notes or any interest therein except in compliance
with, such restrictions and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act").
2. We understand that the offer and sale of the Notes have not been
registered under the Securities Act, and that the Notes and any interest therein
may not be offered or sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We
agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting
as hereinafter stated, that if we should sell the Notes or any interest therein,
we will do so only (A) to the Company or any subsidiary thereof, (B) in
accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act to a "qualified institutional
buyer" (as defined therein), (C) to an institutional "accredited investor" (as
defined below) that, prior to such transfer, furnishes (or has furnished on its
behalf by a U.S. broker-dealer) to you and to the Company a signed letter
substantially in the form of this letter and , if such transfer is in respect of
a principal amount of Notes, at the time of transfer of less than $250,000, an
Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect
that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act, (D) outside the
United States in
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accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (E) pursuant
to the provisions of Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or (F) pursuant to an
effective registration statement under the Securities Act, and we further agree
to provide to any Person purchasing the Definitive Note or beneficial interest
in a Global Note from us in a transaction meeting the requirements of clauses
(A) through (E) of this paragraph a notice advising such purchaser that resales
thereof are restricted as stated herein.
3. We understand that, on any proposed resale of the Notes or beneficial
interest therein, we will be required to furnish to you and the Company such
certifications, legal opinions and other information as you and the Company may
reasonably require to confirm that the proposed sale complies with the foregoing
restrictions. We further understand that the Notes purchased by us will bear a
legend to the foregoing effect.
4. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and have
such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable
of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Notes, and we and
any accounts for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic risk of
our or its investment.
5. We are acquiring the Notes or beneficial interest therein purchased by
us for our own account or for one or more accounts (each of which is an
institutional "accredited investor") as to each of which we exercise sole
investment discretion.
You and the Company 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 proceedings or official inquiry with
respect to the matters covered hereby.
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[Insert Name of Accredited Investor]
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
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EXHIBIT E
FORM OF NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
For value received, each Guarantor (which term includes any successor
Person under the Indenture) has, jointly and severally, unconditionally
guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the
provisions in the Indenture dated as of June 6, 2002 (the "Indenture") among
TriMas Corporation, (the "Company"), the Guarantors listed on Schedule I thereto
and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the "Trustee"), (a) the due and punctual
payment of the principal of, premium and Liquidated Damages, if any, and
interest on the Notes (as defined in the Indenture), whether at maturity, by
acceleration, redemption or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest
on overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and the
due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the
Holders or the Trustee all in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (b)
in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of
such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or
performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at
stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. The obligations of the Guarantors
to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to the Note Guarantee and
the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article 11 of the Indenture and
reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Note
Guarantee. Each Holder of a Note, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall
be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee, on behalf
of such Holder, to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to
effectuate the subordination as provided in the Indenture and (c) appoints the
Trustee attorney-in-fact of such Holder for such purpose; provided, however,
that the Indebtedness evidenced by this Note Guarantee shall cease to be so
subordinated and subject in right of payment upon any defeasance of this Note in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture.
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Guarantors:
Arrow Engine Company
Beaumont Bolt & Gasket, Inc.
Commonwealth Industries LLC
Compac Corporation
Consumer Products, Inc
Cuyam Corporation
Di-Rite Company
Draw-Tite, Inc.
Entegra Fastener Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Performance Products, Inc.
Hitch 'N Post, Inc.
Industrial Bolt & Gasket, Inc.
Keo Cutters, Inc.
K.S. Disposition, Inc.
Lake Erie Screw Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Metal Gasket Co.
Louisiana Hose & Rubber Co.
Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Inc.
Netcong Investments, Inc.
NI Foreign Military Sales Corp.
NI Industries, Inc.
NI West, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Cylinder Company
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Environmental Services, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Industries, Inc.
Plastic Form, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Products, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Spline Products, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Micro-Tool, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇ Leasing Co., Incorporated
▇▇▇▇▇ of Indiana, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ of Mexico, Inc.
TriMas Company LLC
TriMas Fasteners, Inc.
TriMas Services Corp.
Wesbar Corporation
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT F
[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
TO BE DELIVERED BY SUBSEQUENT GUARANTORS]
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this "Supplemental Indenture"), dated as of
________________, 200__, among __________________ (the "Guaranteeing
Subsidiary"), a subsidiary of TriMas Corporation (or its permitted successor), a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), the Company, the other Guarantors (as
defined in the Indenture referred to herein) and The Bank of New York, as
trustee under the Indenture referred to below (the "Trustee").
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee
an Indenture (the "Indenture"), dated as of June 6, 2002 providing for the
issuance of an aggregate principal amount of up to $352,773,000 of 9-7/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2012 (the "Notes");
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the
Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental
indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall unconditionally
guarantee all of the Company's Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on
the terms and conditions set forth herein (the "Note Guarantee"); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee is
authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the
Guaranteeing Subsidiary and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the
equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:
1. CAPITALIZED TERMS. Capitalized terms used herein without definition
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
2. AGREEMENT TO GUARANTEE. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby agrees as
follows:
(a) Along with all Guarantors named in the Indenture, to jointly and
severally Guarantee to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, the Notes or
the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that:
(i) the principal of, and premium and Liquidated Damages, if any,
and interest on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due,
whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and
interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any,
if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the
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Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be promptly paid in
full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof;
and
(ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of
any Notes or any of such other obligations, that same will be promptly
paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the
extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed or any
performance so guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors shall be
jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately.
(b) The obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of
the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or the Indenture,
the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any
Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the
recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the
same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or
equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor.
(c) The following is hereby waived: diligence, presentment, demand of
payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or
bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against
the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever.
(d) This Note Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete
performance of the obligations contained in the Notes and the Indenture,
and the Guaranteeing Subsidiary accepts all obligations of a Guarantor
under the Indenture.
(e) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise
to return to the Company, the Guarantors, or any custodian, trustee,
liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to either the
Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such
Holder, this Note Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be
reinstated in full force and effect.
(f) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall not be entitled to any right of
subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations
guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed
hereby.
(g) As between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the
Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed
hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture for the
purposes of this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or
other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the
obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of
acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture,
such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become
due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of this Note Guarantee.
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(h) The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any
non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair
the rights of the Holders under the Note Guarantee.
(i) Pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Indenture, after giving effect to
any maximum amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities that are
relevant under any applicable Bankruptcy or fraudulent conveyance laws, and
after giving effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution
from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of
the obligations of such other Guarantor under Article 10 of the Indenture,
this new Note Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount permissible
such that the obligations of such Guarantor under this Note Guarantee will
not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
3. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY. Each Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees that the
Note Guarantees shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any
failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Note Guarantee.
4. GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON CERTAIN TERMS.
(a) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary may not sell or otherwise dispose of
all substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or merge with
or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person) another
Person, other than the Company or another Guarantor unless:
(i) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or
Event of Default exists; and
(ii) either (A) subject to Sections 11.04 and 11.05 of the Indenture,
the Person acquiring the property in any such sale or disposition or the
Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger
unconditionally assumes all the obligations of that Guarantor, pursuant to
a supplemental indenture in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Trustee, under the Notes, the Indenture and the Note Guarantee on the
terms set forth herein or therein; or (B) the Net Proceeds of such sale or
other disposition are applied in accordance with the applicable provisions
of the Indenture, including without limitation, Section 4.10 thereof.
(b) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance and
upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture,
executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the
Trustee, of the Note Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and the due and
punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of the
Indenture to be performed by the Guarantor, such successor Person shall
succeed to and be substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as if
it had been named herein as a Guarantor. Such successor Person thereupon
may cause to be signed any or all of the Note Guarantees to be endorsed
upon all of the Notes issuable under the Indenture which theretofore shall
not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee. All the
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Note Guarantees so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank
and benefit under the Indenture as the Note Guarantees theretofore and
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of the Indenture as though
all of such Note Guarantees had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof.
(c) Except as set forth in Articles 4 and 5 and Section 11.05 of
Article 11 of the Indenture, and notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above,
nothing contained in the Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any
consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another
Guarantor, or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the property of a
Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or
another Guarantor.
5. RELEASES.
(a) In the event of any sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger,
consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other disposition of all of the
capital stock of any Guarantor, in each case to a Person that is not
(either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company, then such Guarantor (in the event of a sale or
other disposition, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, of all of
the capital stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation acquiring the
property (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor) will be released and
relieved of any obligations under its Note Guarantee; provided that the Net
Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are applied in accordance with
the applicable provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation
Section 4.10 of the Indenture. Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee
of an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
such sale or other disposition was made by the Company in accordance with
the provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10
of the Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably
required in order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its
obligations under its Note Guarantee.
(b) Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Note
Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest
on the Notes and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under the Indenture
as provided in Article 11 of the Indenture.
6. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. No past, present or future director,
officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or agent of the Guaranteeing
Subsidiary, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company
or any Guaranteeing Subsidiary under the Notes, any Note Guarantees, the
Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect
of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of the
Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and
release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. Such waiver may
not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws and it
is the view of the SEC that such a waiver is against public policy.
7. NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL
GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL
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INDENTURE BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW
TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE
REQUIRED THEREBY.
8. COUNTERPARTS. The parties may sign any number of copies of this
Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them
together represent the same agreement.
9. EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Section headings herein are for convenience only
and shall not affect the construction hereof.
10. THE TRUSTEE. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner
whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental
Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which
recitals are made solely by the Guaranteeing Subsidiary and the Company.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the date first above
written.
Dated: _______________, 20___
[GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY]
By:
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Name:
Title:
TriMas Corporation
By:
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Name:
Title:
EXISTING GUARANTORS:
Arrow Engine Company
Beaumont Bolt & Gasket, Inc.
Commonwealth Industries LLC
Compac Corporation
Consumer Products, Inc
Cuyam Corporation
Di-Rite Company
Draw-Tite, Inc.
Entegra Fastener Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Performance Products, Inc.
Hitch 'N Post, Inc.
Industrial Bolt & Gasket, Inc.
Keo Cutters, Inc.
K.S. Disposition, Inc.
Lake Erie Screw Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Metal Gasket Co.
Louisiana Hose & Rubber Co.
Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Inc.
Netcong Investments, Inc.
NI Foreign Military Sales Corp.
NI Industries, Inc.
NI West, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Cylinder Company
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▇▇▇▇▇▇ Environmental Services, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Industries, Inc.
Plastic Form, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Products, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Spline Products, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Micro-Tool, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ Corporation
▇▇▇▇▇ Leasing Co., Incorporated
▇▇▇▇▇ of Indiana, Inc.
▇▇▇▇▇ of Mexico, Inc.
TriMas Company LLC
TriMas Fasteners, Inc.
TriMas Services Corp.
Wesbar Corporation
By:
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Name:
Title:
The Bank of New York,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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