PIC AU HOLDINGS LLC and PIC AU HOLDINGS CORPORATION 10.000% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2024 FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE Dated as of February 3, 2021 WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Trustee

Exhibit 4.1

PIC AU HOLDINGS LLC

and

PIC AU HOLDINGS CORPORATION

10.000% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2024

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of February 3, 2021

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Trustee

This FIRST SUPPLEMENT INDENTURE, dated as of February 3, 2021 (this “First Supplemental Indenture”), among PIC AU Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Main Issuer”), PIC AU Holdings Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Co-Issuer” and, together with the Main Issuer, the “Issuers”), Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”) and Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Peabody”) (on a limited basis, to the extent of its obligations specifically set forth herein), amends, restates and supplements the existing Indenture, dated as of January 29, 2021, among the Issuers, the Trustee and Peabody (on a limited basis, to the extent of its obligations specifically set forth therein) (the “Existing Indenture” and, as amended and restated by this First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).

WITNESSTH:

WHEREAS, the Indenture provides for the issuance, and governs the terms and conditions, of the Issuers’ 10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the “Notes”) previously issued on January 29, 2021;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01(a)(14) of the Existing Indenture, the Issuers and the Trustee may amend the Existing Indenture, without notice to or the consent of any Holder of the outstanding Notes, to make any change that does not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder of the outstanding Notes, including, without limitation, any such change as may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) of the Transaction Support Agreement (as defined in the Existing Indenture) that may be set forth in an amendment or supplement to or amendment and restatement of the Existing Indenture accompanied by, in addition to the documents required by Sections 9.05 and 13.02 of the Existing Indenture, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that such changes are required by such Section 2(c) of the Transaction Support Agreement and do not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder of outstanding Notes;

WHEREAS, the Restated Indenture (as defined herein) contemplates certain amendments to the Existing Indenture that are required pursuant to Section 2(c) of the Transaction Support Agreement and changes that do not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder of the outstanding Notes;

WHEREAS, the Main Issuer is delivering herewith to the Trustee the Officer’s Certificate required by Section 9.01(a)(14) of the Existing Indenture, in addition to the documents required by Sections 9.05 and 13.02 of the Existing Indenture;

WHEREAS, accordingly, this First Supplemental Indenture and the amendments set forth herein are authorized pursuant to Article IX of the Existing Indenture; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Existing Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this First Supplemental Indenture without the consent of any Holders of the Notes.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

Section 1.01 Definitions.

For all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Existing Indenture. All references to the “Indenture” after the date hereof shall refer to the Restated Indenture.

Section 1.02 Rules of Construction.

The Rules of Construction set forth in Section 1.03 of the Existing Indenture shall apply to this First Supplemental Indenture mutatis mutandis.

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ARTICLE II.

AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT OF EXISTING INDENTURE

Section 2.01 Amendment and Restatement of Existing Indenture.

The Existing Indenture, including the exhibits attached thereto, is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to be in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto (the Existing Indenture, including the exhibits attached thereto, as so amended and restated, the “Restated Indenture”). For all purposes of the Restated Indenture compared to the Existing Indenture, stricken text is indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: and added text is indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: underlined text.

Section 2.02 Ratification of Existing Indenture.

The provisions of the Existing Indenture, as amended and restated by this First Supplemental Indenture and the Restated Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and from and after the date hereof, the Restated Indenture shall supersede the Existing Indenture.

ARTICLE III.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.01 Governing Law.

THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 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 3.02 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

This First Supplemental Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Issuers or their Subsidiaries or of any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this First Supplemental Indenture.

Section 3.03 Successors.

All agreements of the Issuers in this First Supplemental Indenture will bind their successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this First Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors.

Section 3.04 Severability.

In case any provision in this First Supplemental Indenture 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 3.05 Counterpart Originals.

The parties may sign any number of copies of this First Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy will be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this First Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF transmission, email or other electronic means shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF, email or other electronic means shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

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Section 3.06 Headings, etc.

The Headings of the Articles and Sections of this First Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this First Supplemental Indenture and will in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 3.07 Trustee Disclaimer.

The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which are made solely by the Company and the Guarantors. In acting pursuant to the terms of this First Supplemental Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights, privileges and immunities of the Trustee set forth in the Existing Indenture, the Collateral Trust Agreement and the other Note Documents, as though fully set forth herein.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, as of the date first above written.

Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture

Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture

Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture

Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture

Exhibit A

Restated Indenture

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PIC AU HOLDINGS LLC

and

PIC AU HOLDINGS CORPORATION

10.000% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2024

INDENTURE

Dated as of January 29, 2021

DatedAmended and Restated as of January 29February 3, 2021

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Trustee

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EXHIBITS

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INDENTURE dated as of January 29, 2021 among PIC AU Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Main Issuer”), PIC AU Holdings Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Co-Issuer” and, together with the Main Issuer, the “Issuers”), Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”) and Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (on a limited basis, to the extent of its obligations specifically set forth herein), and amended and restated as of February 3, 2021 pursuant to that certain First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 3, 2021.

The Issuers and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) of the 10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the “Notes”):

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

“144A Global Note” means a Global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A 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 Debt of a Person existing at the time the Person is acquired by, or merges with or into, the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary or becomes a Subsidiary, whether or not such Debt is Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, the Person being acquired by or merging with or into or becoming a Subsidiary.

“Act of Required Secured Parties” means, as to any matter at any time:

in each case, accompanied by, if required by the Collateral Trustee, security or indemnity satisfactory to the Collateral Trustee for any losses, liabilities or expenses that may be incurred by the Collateral Trustee in connection with such direction.    

For purposes of this definition, (a) Secured Debt registered in the name of, or beneficially owned by, the Issuers or any Affiliate of the Issuers will be deemed not to be outstanding and neither the Issuers nor any Affiliate of the Issuers will be entitled to vote such Secured Debt (in each case, as identified in writing to the Collateral Trustee by the applicable Secured Debt Representative) and (b) votes will be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement.

“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with, such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise, and a Person shall be presumed to “control” another Person if (A) the first Person either (i) is the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such specified Person or (ii) (x) is the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 10% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such specified Person and (y) has the right to appoint or nominate, or has an officer or director that is, at least one member of the Board of Directors of such specified Person, or (B) if the specified Person is a limited liability company, the first Person is the managing member. “Controlled” has a meaning correlative thereto.

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“Agent” means any Registrar, co-registrar, Paying Agent or additional paying agent.

“Agreed Security Principles” means the agreed security principles attached as Exhibit G hereto.

“Applicable Premium” means with respect to any Note on any redemption date the greater of (A) 1% of the then outstanding principal amount of such Note and (B) the excess (if any) of (a) the present value at such redemption date of (1) the redemption price of such Note at January 30, 2023, as set forth in the table in Section 3.07 hereof) plus (2) all required interest payments due on such Note from the redemption date through January 30, 2023 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest to the redemption date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate with respect to such redemption date plus 50 basis points over (b) the principal amount of such Note. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculation of the Applicable Premium.    

“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 any sale, lease (other than operating leases or Finance Leases entered into in the ordinary course of a Permitted Business), transfer or other disposition of any assets by the Issuers or any Subsidiary  outside of the ordinary course of business, including by means of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction and including any sale or issuance of the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary (each of the above referred to as a “disposition”), provided that the following are not included in the definition of “Asset Sale”:

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“Attributable Debt” means, at any date, in respect of Finance Leases of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“Average Life” means, as of the date of determination with respect to any Debt, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products of (x) the number of years from the date of determination to the dates of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Debt and (y) the amount of such principal payment by (ii) the sum of all such principal payments.

“Bank Products Obligations” means any and all obligations of any Issuer arising out of (a) the execution or processing of electronic transfers of funds by automatic clearing house transfer, wire transfer or otherwise to or from the deposit accounts of any Issuer now or hereafter maintained with any of such lenders or their affiliates, (b) the acceptance for deposit or the honoring for payment of any check, draft or other item with respect to any such deposit accounts, (c) any other treasury, deposit, disbursement, overdraft, and cash management services afforded to the applicable Issuer by any of such lenders or their affiliates, and (d) stored value card, commercial credit card and merchant card services.

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

“Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any federal, state or foreign 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 correlative meanings. For purposes of this definition, a Person shall be deemed not to Beneficially Own securities that are the subject of a stock purchase agreement, merger agreement,

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amalgamation agreement, arrangement agreement or similar agreement until consummation of the transactions or, as applicable, series of related transactions contemplated thereby.

“Board of Directors” means:

“Business Day” means any day other than a Legal Holiday.

“Capital Expenditure” means any expenditure that, in accordance with GAAP, is or should be included in “purchase of property and equipment” or similar items, or which should otherwise be capitalized, reflected in the consolidated statement of cash flows of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries; provided that Capital Expenditure shall not include any expenditure (i) for replacements and substitutions for fixed assets, capital assets or equipment to the extent made with Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds or with Net Cash Proceeds or (ii) which constitute a Permitted Investment.

“Capital Stock” means:

“Cash Equivalents” means:

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“Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, assets or Real Property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, assets or Real Property.

“Change of Control” means:

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Notwithstanding the preceding, a conversion of the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or Co-Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Main Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of Co-Issuer from a limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other form of entity to a limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other form of entity or an exchange of all of the outstanding Equity Interests in one form of entity for Equity Interests for another form of entity shall not constitute a Change of Control, so long as following such transaction the “persons” (as that term is used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) who Beneficially Owned the Voting Stock of the Main Issuer or Co-Issuer, as the case may be, immediately prior to such transaction continue to Beneficially Own in the aggregate more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity, or continue to Beneficially Own sufficient Equity Interests in such entity to elect a majority of its directors, managers, trustees or other persons serving in a similar capacity for such entity or its general partner, as applicable, and, in either case no “person,” Beneficially Owns more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity or its general partner, as applicable.

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, S.A.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

“Collateral” means (i) 100% of the Capital Stock of PIC Acquisition owned by the Main Issuer, which constitutes 100% of all Capital Stock issued by PIC Acquisition and (ii) all other property subject or purported to be subject, from time to time, to a Lien under any Security Document.

“Collateral Trust Agreement” means that certain collateral trust agreement to be dated the Issue Date, by and among the Issuers, the Priority Lien Collateral Trustee, the Junior Lien Collateral Trustee and the Trustee.

“Collateral Trust Joinder” means, with respect to the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement relating to the addition of additional obligations, an agreement substantially in the form attached to the Collateral Trust Agreement.

“Collateral Trustee” means each of (i) the Priority Collateral Trustee and (ii) the Junior Collateral Trustee.

“Commission” or “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“common equity,” when used with respect to a contribution of capital to the Main Issuer, means a capital contribution to the Main Issuer in a manner that does not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests.

“Common Stock” means Capital Stock not entitled to any preference on dividends or distributions, upon liquidation or otherwise.

“Consolidated Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all Capital Expenditures of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries during such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, for the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the net income (or loss) attributable to the Main Issuer and the Subsidiaries for that period, determined in accordance with GAAP, excluding, without duplication:

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“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, as of any particular time, the total of all the assets appearing on the most recent consolidated balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries as of the end of the last fiscal quarter for which financial information is available (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting from such amount:

“Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of the date of determination, an amount equal to the sum (without duplication) of (1) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Debt of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis plus (2) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Disqualified Stock of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, with the amount of such Disqualified Stock equal to the greater of their respective voluntary or involuntary liquidation preferences and Maximum Fixed Repurchase Price.

For purposes hereof, the “Maximum Fixed Repurchase Price” of any Disqualified Stock that does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Stock as if such Disqualified Stock were purchased on any date on which Consolidated Total Debt shall be required to be determined pursuant to this Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the Fair Market Value of such Disqualified Stock, such Fair Market Value shall be determined reasonably and in good faith by the Main Issuer.

“Controlling Representative” means at any time (i) prior to the Discharge of Priority Lien Obligations, each of the Term Loan Agent and the Trustee and (ii) after the Discharge of Priority Lien Obligations, the Junior Lien Representative.

“continuing” means, with respect to any Default or Event of Default, that such Default or Event of Default has not been cured or waived.

“Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee” will be at the address of the Trustee specified in Section 13.01 hereof or such other address as to which the Trustee may give notice to the Issuers.

“Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the Notes in global form, or any successor entity thereto.

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“Debt” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication,

provided that in no event shall Debt include (i) asset retirement obligations, (ii) obligations (other than obligations with respect to Debt for borrowed money or other Funded Debt) related to surface rights under an agreement for the acquisition of surface rights for the production of coal reserves in the ordinary course of business in a manner consistent with historical practice of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries and (iii) Non-Finance Lease Obligations.

The amount of Debt of any Person will be deemed to be:

“Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time 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 A 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.

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“Derivative Instrument” with respect to a Person, means any contract, instrument or other right to receive payment or delivery of cash or other assets to which such Person or any Affiliate of such Person that is acting in concert with such Person in connection with such Person’s investment in the Notes (other than a Screened Affiliate) is a party (whether or not requiring further performance by such Person), the value or cash flows of which (or any material portion thereof) are materially affected by the value or performance of the Notes or the creditworthiness of any one or more of the Issuers (the “Performance References”).

“Discharge of Priority Lien Obligations” means the occurrence of all of the following:

“Disqualified Equity Interests” means Equity Interests that by their terms (or by the terms of any security into which such Equity Interests are convertible, or for which such Equity Interests are exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof) or upon the happening of any event:

in each case prior to the date that is 91 days after the Stated Maturity of the Notes; provided that Equity Interests will not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because of provisions giving holders thereof the right to require the repurchase or redemption upon an “asset sale” or “change of control” occurring prior to 91 days after the Stated Maturity of the Notes if those provisions

“Disqualified Stock” means Capital Stock constituting Disqualified Equity Interests.

“EBITDA” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication:

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provided that, with respect to any Subsidiary, such items will be added only to the extent and in the same proportion that the relevant Subsidiary’s net income was included in calculating Consolidated Net Income;

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“Environment” means soil, land surface or subsurface strata, water, surface waters (including navigable waters, ocean waters within applicable territorial limits, streams, ponds, drainage basins, and wetlands), ground waters, drinking water supply, water related sediments, air, plant and animal life, and any other environmental medium.

“Environmental Laws” means all laws (including common law), rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the Environment or human health and safety, the preservation, restoration or reclamation of natural resources, or the presence, use, storage, discharge, management, release or threatened release of any pollutants, contaminants or hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or material or the effect of the Environment on human health and safety.

“Equity Interests” means all Capital Stock and all warrants or options with respect to, or other rights to purchase, Capital Stock, but excluding Debt convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock.

“Equity Offering” means an offer and sale of Qualified Stock of the Main Issuer after the Issue Date other than (i) an issuance registered on Form S-4 or S-8 or any successor thereto or any issuance pursuant to employee benefit plans or otherwise relating to compensation to officers, directors or employees and (ii) issuances to the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Main Issuer.

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear system.

“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount (if positive) equal to, without duplication:

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As used in clause (1) above, “scheduled repayments of Debt” does not include (x) repurchases of Term Loans pursuant to the Term Loan Agreement and (y) repayments or redemptions, as applicable, of Notes, the Term Loans, or any other Debt with the cash proceeds of any Permitted Refinancing Debt.

“Excess Cash Flow Period” means (i) initially, the period commencing on February 1, 2021 and ending on June 30, 2021 and (ii) each six-month period ending on every June 30 and December 31 of the Main Issuer thereafter.

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any property, the price that could be negotiated in an arm’s-length transaction between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction, or, where the price is established by an existing contract, the contract price. Fair Market Value shall be determined, except as otherwise provided, (a) if such property has a Fair Market Value equal to or less than $5.0 million, by any Officer; or (b) if such property has a Fair Market Value in excess of $5.0 million, by at least a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Main Issuer and evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors delivered to the Trustee.

“Finance Lease” means, as applied to any Person, any lease of any property (whether real personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is, or is required to be accounted for as a finance lease on the balance sheet of that Person.

“Finance Lease Obligations” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Finance Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided that Finance Lease Obligations shall, for the avoidance of doubt, exclude all Non-Finance Lease Obligations.

“Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum of:

“Foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and any Subsidiary thereof.

“Funded Debt” means, with respect to any specified Person, any indebtedness of such Person (excluding accrued expenses and trade payables), whether or not contingent;

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For the avoidance of doubt, “Funded Debt” shall not include cash management obligations.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on the Issue Date.

“Global Note Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.06(f)(2) hereof, which is required to be placed on all Global Notes issued under this Indenture.

“Global Notes” means, individually and collectively, each of the Restricted Global Notes and the Unrestricted Global Notes deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and that bears the Global Note Legend and that has the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” attached thereto, issued in accordance with Sections 2.01, 2.06(b)(3), 2.06(b)(4), 2.06(d)(2) or 2.06(f) hereof.

“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

“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.

“Grantor” means the Issuers and any other Person (if any) that at any time provides collateral security for any Secured Obligations.

“Guarantee” by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing any Debt or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”), whether directly or indirectly, and including any written obligation of the guarantor, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt or other obligation or to purchase (or advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Debt or other obligation or (c) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Debt or other obligation; provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.

“Guarantor” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 4.15 of this Indenture.

“Hedging Agreement” means (i) any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedge agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect against or mitigate interest rate risk, (ii) any foreign exchange forward contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other agreement or arrangement designed to protect against or mitigate foreign exchange risk or (iii) any commodity or raw material, including coal, futures contract, commodity hedge agreement, option agreement, any actual or synthetic forward sale contract or other similar device or instrument or any other agreement designed to protect against or mitigate raw material price risk (which shall for the avoidance of doubt include any forward purchase and sale of coal for which full or partial payment is required or received).

“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered.

“IAI Global Note” means a Global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A 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.

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“Indenture” means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time, including by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 3, 2021.

“Indirect Participant” means a Person who holds a beneficial interest in a Global Note through a Participant.

“Incur” means, with respect to any Debt or Capital Stock, to incur, create, issue, assume or Guarantee such Debt or Capital Stock. If any Person becomes a Subsidiary of or merges with an Issuer or any Subsidiary of an Issuer on any date after the date of this Indenture, the Debt and Capital Stock of such Person outstanding on such date will be deemed to have been Incurred by such Person on such date for purposes of Section 4.09 hereof, but will not be considered the sale or issuance of Equity Interests for purposes of Section 4.10 hereof.

“Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding” means:

“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.

“Interest Expense” means, for any period, the consolidated interest expense (net of any interest income) of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries, plus, to the extent not included in such consolidated interest expense, and to the extent incurred, accrued or payable by the Main Issuer or its Subsidiaries, without duplication, (i) interest expense attributable to Finance Leases, (ii) amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs, (iii) capitalized interest, (iv) non-cash interest expense, (v) any of the above expenses with respect to Debt of another Person Guaranteed by the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries and (vi) any yields or other charges or other amounts comparable to, or in the nature of, interest payable by the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary under any receivables financing, but excluding (a) amortization of deferred financing charges incurred in respect of the Notes, any credit facility and any other Funded Debt, and (b) the write off of any deferred financing fees or debt discount, all as determined on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP. Interest Expense shall be determined for any period after giving effect to any net payments made or received and costs incurred by the Issuers and their Subsidiaries with respect to any related interest rate Hedging Agreement permitted hereunder.

“Internally Generated Cash” means, with respect to any period, any cash of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary generated during such period, excluding Net Cash Proceeds and any cash that is generated from an Incurrence of Debt, any Equity Offering or other issuance of Equity Interests or a capital contribution.

“Interest Payment Date” means March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 with the first Interest Payment Date being March 31, 2021.

“Investment” means:

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If the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Subsidiary so that, after giving effect to that sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Subsidiary of the Main Issuer, all remaining Investments of the Main Issuer and the Subsidiaries in such Person shall be deemed to have been made at such time. The acquisition by the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary of a Person that holds an Investment in a third Person shall be deemed to be an Investment by the Person or such Subsidiary in such third Person in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of the Investment held by the acquired Person in such third Person on the date of such acquisition.

“Investment Grade” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and BBB– (or the equivalent) by S&P.

“Issue Date” means January 29, 2021.

“Issuers” has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble of this Indenture.

“Issuers Order” means a written request or order signed on behalf of the Issuers by any Officer of each of the Issuers and delivered to the Trustee.

“Joint Venture” means any Person in which any Subsidiary holds an ownership interest (a) that is not a Subsidiary and (b) of which such Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer.

“Junior Collateral Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, in its capacity as collateral trustee for the Junior Lien Representative and the other Junior Lien Secured Parties under the Collateral Trust Agreement, together with its successors in such capacity.

“Junior Lien” means a Lien on Collateral granted by a Junior Lien Security Document to the Junior Collateral Trustee, at any time, upon any property of the Issuers or any Guarantors to secure Junior Lien Obligations.

“Junior Lien Cap” means the amount of “Priority Lien Debt” that may be Incurred by Peabody under the “Priority Lien Cap” in the Peabody 2024 Notes Indenture (each as defined in the Peabody 2024 Notes Indenture) or such lesser amount of such Indebtedness that is permitted to be outstanding as of the date of any determination under any Priority Lien Document.

“Junior Lien Debt” means Funded Debt of Peabody under the Peabody 2024 Notes, the Peabody L/C Facility (and any letter of credit and reimbursement obligations with respect thereto), the Peabody Credit Agreement and the Peabody Existing Indenture so long as such notes or facility is secured by a Junior Lien permitted to be so secured under each applicable Secured Debt Document; provided, that all relevant requirements set forth in the Collateral Trust Agreement are complied with.

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“Junior Lien Documents” means, collectively, any indenture, credit agreement or other agreement pursuant to which any Junior Lien Debt is incurred and the Junior Lien Security Documents.

“Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Collateral Trust Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 (as amended or otherwise modified), among Peabody, the other grantors party thereto, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as priority collateral trustee and junior lien collateral trustee, and the representatives of the Junior Lien Debt.

“Junior Lien Obligations” means Junior Lien Debt and all other Obligations in respect thereof, including, without limitation, interest and premium (if any) (including post-petition interest whether or not allowable), and all guarantees of any of the foregoing.

“Junior Lien Representative” means Wilmington Trust, National Association in its capacity as “Priority Lien Collateral Trustee” under the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

“Junior Lien Secured Parties” means the Junior Lien Representative and the other holders of Junior Lien Obligations.

“Junior Lien Security Documents” means all security agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, deeds of trust, collateral agency agreements, control agreements or other grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by the Issuers creating (or purporting to create) a Lien upon Collateral in favor of the Junior Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of any of the Junior Lien Secured Parties, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced, in whole or in part, from time to time, in accordance with its terms and the Collateral Trust Agreement.

“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 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.

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, preferential right or option, 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 any filing or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction; provided that in no event shall an operating lease (or other lease in respect of a Non-Finance Lease Obligation) constitute a Lien.

“Liquidity Amount” means, with respect to Wilpinjong Opco and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of such date of determination the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents.

“LTM EBITDA” means, as applicable, total consolidated EBITDA for the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries for an LTM Period.

“LTM Period” means, with respect to any 12-month measurement period, the most recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries, ending as of the last day of the most recently completed fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available and considered as one period.

“Long Derivative Instrument” means a Derivative Instrument (i) the value of which generally increases, or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally decrease, with positive changes to the Performance References or (ii) the value of which generally decreases, or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally increase, with negative changes to the Performance References.

“Management Services Agreements” means, collectively, (i) the Management Services Agreement, dated as of August 4, 2020, by and between Peabody Investments Corp. and each of the Client Companies listed on the signature page thereto and (ii) the Management Services Agreement, dated as August 4, 2020, by and between Peabody Energy Australia Pty Ltd and each of the Client Companies listed on the signature page thereto, in each

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case, as amended, modified or replaced from time to time so long as the amended, modified or new arrangements, taken as a whole at the time such arrangements are entered into, are not materially less favorable to the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries than those in effect on the Issue Date.

“Maximum Amount” shall mean the least of (i) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of notes as may be outstanding at any time plus accrued and unpaid interest up to that time and the aggregate Debt outstanding under the Term Loan Facility at any time plus accrued and unpaid interest up to that time, (ii) the maximum amount of “Restricted Payments” (as defined in the Peabody Existing Indenture), if any, that Peabody may be permitted under the Peabody Existing Indenture to utilize for purposes of issuing Peabody 2024 Notes pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer and the requirement to offer to exchange and issue Debt for the Term Loan Facility in the form of term loans under the Peabody L/C Agreement, in each case as of any date of determination, (iii) to the extent the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer may result in any Lien (as defined in the Peabody Existing Indenture), the maximum amount of Permitted Liens (as defined in the Peabody Existing Indenture) that may take the form of any such Lien and (iv) the maximum amount of “Investments” (as defined in the Peabody Credit Agreement), if any, that Peabody may be permitted to utilize for purposes of issuing Peabody 2024 Notes pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer and the requirement to offer to exchange and issue Debt for the Term Loan Facility in the form of term loans under the Peabody L/C Agreement, in each case as of any date of determination.

“Mine” means any excavation or opening into the earth now and hereafter made from which coal is or can be extracted from any of the Real Properties, together with access and other rights appurtenant thereto, and all tangible property located on, in, or under all or any part of such Real Property that is used or useful in connection Mining Operations.

“Mining Laws” means any and all applicable federal, state, local and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, legally-binding guidance, ordinances, rules, judgments, permits, grants, licenses, orders, decrees or common law causes of action relating to Mining Operations and activities.

“Mining Lease” means a lease, license or other use agreement which provides the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary the Real Property and water rights, other interests in land, including coal, mining, and surface rights, easements, rights of way and options, and rights to timber and natural gas (including coalbed methane and gob gas) necessary or integral in order to recover coal from any Mine. Leases (other than Finance Leases or operating leases of personal property even if such personal property would become fixtures) which provide the Main Issuer or any other Subsidiary the right to construct and operate a conveyor, crusher plant, silo, load out facility, rail spur, shops, offices and related facilities on the surface of the Real Property containing such reserves shall also be deemed a Mining Lease.

“Mining Operations” means (a) the removal of coal and other minerals from the natural deposits or from waste or stock piles by any surface or underground mining methods; (b) operations or activities conducted underground or on the surface associated with or incident to the preparation, development, operation, maintenance, opening and reopening of an underground or surface mine storage or stockpiling of mined materials, backfilling, sealing and other closure procedures related to a mine or the movement, assembly, disassembly or staging of any mining equipment; (c) milling; (d) coal preparation, coal processing or testing; (e) coal refuse disposal, coal fines disposal or the operation and maintenance of impoundments; (f) the operation of any mine drainage system; (vii) reclamation activities and operations; or (g) the operation of coal terminals, river or rail load-outs or any other transportation facilities.

“Moody’s” means ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.

“Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the proceeds of such Asset Sale in the form of cash (including (i) payments in respect of deferred payment obligations to the extent corresponding to principal, but not interest, when received in the form of cash, and (ii) proceeds from the conversion of other consideration received when converted to cash), net of

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Any Cash or Cash Equivalents received by the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Casualty Event shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale, and such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied in accordance with Section 4.10 hereof.

“Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds” means an amount equal to: (i) any cash payments or proceeds received by the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries (a) under any casualty insurance policy in respect of a covered loss thereunder or (b) as a result of the taking of any assets of the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries by any Person pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation or otherwise, or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such power under threat of such a taking, minus (ii) (a) any actual and reasonable costs incurred by the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the adjustment or settlement of any claims of the Main Issuer or such Subsidiary in respect thereof, and (b) any bona fide direct costs incurred in connection with any sale of such assets as referred to in clause (i)(b) of this definition, including income taxes payable as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith.

“Net Short” means, with respect to a Holder, as of a date of determination, either (i) the value of its Short Derivative Instruments exceeds the sum of the (x) the value of its notes plus (y) the value of its Long Derivative Instruments as of such date of determination or (ii) it is reasonably expected that such would have been the case were a Failure to Pay or Bankruptcy Credit Event (each as defined in the 2014 International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. Credit Derivatives Definitions, as supplemented by the 2019 Narrowly Tailored Credit Event Supplement) to have occurred with respect to any Issuer immediately prior to such date of determination.

“Non-Finance Lease Obligation” means a lease obligation that is not required to be accounted for as a Finance Lease on both the balance sheet and the income statement for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. For the avoidance of doubt, a straight-line or operating lease shall be considered a Non-Finance Lease Obligation.

“Non-U.S. Person” means a Person who is not a U.S. Person.

“Note Documents” means this Indenture, the Notes, the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents.

“Note Guarantee” means the guarantee of the Notes by a Guarantor pursuant to this Indenture.

“Notes” has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble to this Indenture.

“Obligations” means, with respect to any Debt, all obligations (whether in existence on the Issue Date or arising afterwards, absolute or contingent, direct or indirect) for or in respect of principal (when due, upon acceleration, upon redemption, upon mandatory repayment or repurchase pursuant to a mandatory offer to purchase, or otherwise), premium, interest, penalties, fees, indemnification, reimbursement, expenses, damages and other amounts payable and liabilities with respect to such Debt, including all interest accrued or accruing after the commencement of any bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or similar case or proceeding at the contract rate (including, without limitation, any contract rate applicable upon default) specified in the relevant documentation, whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed as a claim in such case or proceeding.

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“Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, any Senior Vice President, any Vice President or any Assistant Vice President of such Person.

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the Issuers by an Officer of the Main Issuer that meets the requirements of Section 13.03 hereof.

“Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion to the Trustee from legal counsel that meets the requirements of Section 13.03 hereof. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuers or any Subsidiary of the Issuers.

“Organizational Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-US jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.

“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).

“Peabody” means Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

“Peabody 2024 Notes” means the 8.500% senior secured notes due 2024 issued by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.

“Peabody 2024 Notes Indenture” means that certain indenture, to be dated as of the Issue Date, among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, as issuer, the guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.

“Peabody Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 among Peabody, as borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders from time to time party thereto, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time (and whether or not with the original administrative agent or lenders or another administrative agent or agents or other lenders).

“Peabody Existing Indenture” means that certain indenture, dated as of February 15, 2017, by and between Peabody Securities Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“PSFC”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Peabody Existing Trustee”), as amended, modified or otherwise supplemented by (i) that certain supplemental indenture, dated as of April 3, 2017, among Peabody, PSFC, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and the Peabody Existing Trustee, (ii) that certain supplemental indenture, dated as of May 7, 2018, among Peabody, NGS Acquisition Corp., LLC and the Peabody Existing Trustee, (iii) that certain supplemental indenture, dated as of August 9, 2018, between Peabody and the Peabody Existing Trustee, (iv) that certain supplemental indenture, dated as of December 7, 2018, among Peabody, Peabody Southeast Mining, LLC, and the Peabody Existing Trustee, (v) that certain supplemental indenture, dated as of January 8, 2021, between Peabody and the Peabody Existing Trustee, and (vi) that certain supplemental indenture, dated as of the Issue Date, between Peabody and the Peabody Existing Trustee, and any further amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, replacements, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof.

“Peabody Investments Corp.” means Peabody Investments Corp., a Delaware corporation.

“Peabody L/C Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among Peabody, as borrower, JPMorgan Chase N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders from time to time party thereto, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time (and whether or not with the original administrative agent or lenders or another administrative agent or agents or other lenders).

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“Peabody L/C Facility” means the letter of credit facility evidenced by the Peabody L/C Agreement, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time (and whether or not with the original administrative agent or lenders or another administrative agent or agents or other lenders).

“Permitted Business” means any of the following, whether domestic or foreign: the mining, production, marketing, sale, trading and transportation (including, without limitation, any business related to terminals) of natural resources including coal, ancillary natural resources and mineral products, exploration of natural resources, any acquired business activity so long as a material portion of such acquired business was otherwise a Permitted Business, and any business that is ancillary or complementary to the foregoing.

“Permitted Investments” means:

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In addition, (i) with respect to any Lien securing Debt that was permitted to secure such Debt at the time of the Incurrence of such Debt, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any Increased Amount of such Debt; and (ii) in no event shall any Lien on any property of the Issuers or PIC Acquisition be permitted other than as provided in clauses (1), (2), (7) and (23) above. The “Increased Amount” of any Debt shall mean any increase in the amount of such Debt in connection with any accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the amortization of original issue discount, accretion of original issue discount or liquidation preference and increases in the amount of Debt outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies or increases in the value of property securing Debt.

“Person” means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a trust or any other entity, including a government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.

“PIC Acquisition” means PIC Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation.

“Preferred Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any and all Capital Stock which is preferred as to the payment of dividends or distributions, upon liquidation or otherwise, over another class of Capital Stock of such Person.

“Priority Collateral Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, its capacity as collateral trustee for the Priority Lien Secured Parties (as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement) under the Collateral Trust Agreement, together with its successors in such capacity.

“Priority Lien” means a Lien granted, or purported to be granted, by a Security Document to the Collateral Trustee, at any time, upon any property of any Issuer to secure Priority Lien Obligations.

“Priority Lien Debt” means:

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“Priority Lien Documents” means, collectively, the Note Documents, the Term Loan Documents and any other indenture, credit agreement or other agreement pursuant to which any Priority Lien Debt is incurred and the Priority Lien Security Documents.

“Priority Lien Obligations” means the Priority Lien Debt and all other Obligations in respect of Priority Lien Debt and any indemnification obligations under the Transaction Support Agreement (subject to the limitations set forth therein), , including, without duplication, the TSA Obligations, including without limitation any post-petition interest whether or not allowable, together with any guarantees of any of the foregoing.

“Priority Lien Representative” means:

“Priority Lien Security Documents” means the security agreement and the pledge agreement delivered by the Main Issuer creating (or purporting to create) a Lien upon Collateral in favor of the Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of any of the Secured Parties, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced, in whole or in part, from time to time, in accordance with its terms and the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement.

“Private Placement Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.06(f)(1) hereof to be placed on all Notes issued under this Indenture except where otherwise permitted by the provisions of this Indenture.

“Production Payments” means with respect to any Person, all production payment obligations and other similar obligations with respect to coal and other natural resources of such Person that are recorded as a liability or deferred revenue on the financial statements of such Person in accordance with GAAP.

“QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

“Qualified Equity Interests” means all Equity Interests of a Person other than Disqualified Equity Interests.

“Qualified Stock” means all Capital Stock of a Person other than Disqualified Stock.

“Rating Agencies” means S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇; provided, that if either S&P or ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ (or both) shall cease issuing a rating on the Notes for reasons outside the control of the Issuers, the Issuers may select a nationally recognized statistical rating agency to substitute for S&P or ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ (or both).

“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold or mineral estate) in and to any and all parcels of real property owned, leased, licensed, used or operated, whether by lease, license or other use or occupancy agreement, including but not limited to, coal leases and surface use agreements, together with, in each case, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures (including all conveyors, preparation plants or other coal processing facilities, silos, shops and load out and other transportation facilities), access rights, easements and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof, including but not limited to, access rights, water rights and extraction rights for minerals, any improvements thereon and real property rights and interests appurtenant thereto, including, in each case, title or rights to surface and/or coal, coal products, methane gas, and other minerals that are or may be extracted from such Real Property (whether or not characterized as “as-extracted Collateral” or “inventory” under the UCC).

“Record Date” means March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15.

“Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

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“Regulation S Global Note” means a Regulation S Temporary Global Note or Regulation S Permanent Global Note, as applicable.

“Regulation S Permanent Global Note” means a permanent Global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A 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 substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto bearing the Global Note Legend, the Private Placement Legend and the Regulation S Temporary Global Note 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 Notes initially sold in reliance on Rule 903 of Regulation S.

“Regulation S Temporary Global Note Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.06(f)(3) hereof.

“Required Junior Lien Debtholders” means an “Act of Secured Parties” under the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

“Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee) or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject, and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

“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 Period” means the 40-day distribution compliance period as defined in Regulation S.

“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 under the Securities Act.

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings and its successors.

“Screened Affiliate” means any Affiliate of a Holder (i) that makes investment decisions independently from such holder and any other Affiliate of such holder that is not a Screened Affiliate, (ii) that has in place customary information screens between it and such holder and any other Affiliate of such holder that is not a Screened Affiliate and such screens prohibit the sharing of information with respect to the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) whose investment policies are not directed by such holder or any other Affiliate of such holder that is acting in concert with such holder in connection with its investment in the Notes, and (iv) whose investment decisions are not influenced by the investment decisions of such holder or any other Affiliate of such holder that is acting in concert with such holders in connection with its investment in the Notes.

“Secured Debt” means Priority Lien Debt and Junior Lien Debt.

“Secured Debt Documents” means the Priority Lien Documents and the Junior Lien Documents.

“Secured Debt Representative” means each Priority Lien Representative and each Junior Lien Representative.

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“Secured Obligations” means Priority Lien Obligations and Junior Lien Obligations.

“Secured Parties” means the holders of Secured Obligations and the Secured Debt Representatives and the Collateral Trustee.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Security Documents” means the Collateral Trust Agreement, each Collateral Trust Joinder, each Priority Lien Security Document and each Junior Lien Security Document, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced, in whole or in part, from time to time, in accordance with its terms and the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement.

“Series of Junior Lien Debt” means, severally, each issue or series of Junior Lien Debt for which a single transfer register is maintained.

“Series of Priority Lien Debt” means, severally, each series of the Notes and each other issue or series of Priority Lien Debt for which a single transfer register is maintained.

“Short Derivative Instrument” means a Derivative Instrument (i) the value of which generally decreases, or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally increase, with positive changes to the Performance References or (ii) the value of which generally increases, or the payment or delivery obligations under which generally decrease, with negative changes to the Performance References.

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Main Issuer 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 Issue ▇▇▇▇.▇▇ of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Main Issuer most recently ended, has assets with a value in excess of 5% of the Tangible Assets or 5% of consolidated total revenues, in each case, of the Main Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of such date.

“Stated Maturity” means (i) with respect to any Debt, the date specified as the fixed date on which the final installment of principal of such Debt is due and payable or (ii) with respect to any scheduled installment of principal of or interest on any Debt, the date specified as the fixed date on which such installment is due and payable as set forth in the documentation governing such Debt, not including any contingent obligation to repay, redeem or repurchase prior to the regularly scheduled date for payment.

“Subordinated Debt” means any Debt of any Issuer which is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to a written agreement to that effect.

“Subsidiary” means with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, limited liability company or other business entity of which more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock is owned, directly or indirectly, by, or, in the case of a partnership, the sole general partner or the managing partner or the only general partners of which are, such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or a combination thereof). Unless otherwise specified, “Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Main Issuer.

“Surety Transaction Support Agreement” means that certain Transaction Support Agreement, dated as of November 6, 2020, by and among Peabody and the Sureties signatory thereto (each as defined therein).

“Taxes” means any present or future tax, levy, import, duty, charge, deduction, withholding, assessment or fee of any nature (including interest, penalties, and additions thereto) that is imposed by any Governmental Authority or other taxing authority.

“Term Loan Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., as administrative agent under the Term Loan Agreement, together with its successors and assigns.

“Term Loan Agreement” means that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among the Issuers, as borrowers, the Term Loan Agent and the lenders from time to time party thereto.

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“Term Loan Documents” means the “Loan Documents” (or such similar term) to be defined in the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loan Facility” means the term loan facility evidenced by the Term Loan Agreement, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced (including by means of sales of debt securities) in whole or in part from time to time (and whether or not with the original administrative agent, lenders or trustee or another administrative agent or agents, other lenders or trustee).

“Term Loan Required Lenders” means the “Required Lenders” (or such similar term) to be defined in the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loans” means the loans under the Term Loan Facility.

“Transaction Support Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Transaction Support Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2020, by and among, among others, Peabody, the Issuers, and the Consenting Noteholders defined therein, as amended, modified or replaced from time to time.

“Treasury Rate” means with respect to the Notes, as of any redemption date, the yield to maturity as of such redemption date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H. 15 (519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the redemption date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from the redemption date to January 30, 2023; provided, however, that if the period from the redemption date to January 30, 2023 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be used. The Main Issuer will calculate the applicable Treasury Rate at least two but no more than four Business Days prior to the applicable redemption date and file with the Trustee, before such redemption date, a written statement setting forth the Applicable Premium and showing the calculation of the Applicable Premium, in reasonable detail, and the Trustee will have no responsibility for verifying any such calculation.

“Transaction Costs” means all reasonable fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Issuers in connection with any agreements entered into in connection with the exchange offer resulting in the issuance of the Notes.

“Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving hereunder.

“TSA Obligations” means any indemnification obligations under the Transaction Support Agreement (subject to the limitations set forth therein), including without limitation any post-petition interest whether or not allowable, together with any guarantees of any of the foregoing.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the perfection or priority of, or remedies with respect to, any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in such other jurisdiction solely for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, priority or remedies.

“U.S. Government Obligations” means obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or by any agency or instrumentality thereof, provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof.

“Unrestricted Definitive Note” means a Definitive Note that does not bear and is not required to bear the Private Placement Legend.

“Unrestricted Global Note” means a Global Note that does not bear and is not required to bear the Private Placement Legend.

“U.S. Person” means a U.S. Person as defined in Rule 902(k) promulgated under the Securities Act.

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“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person, Capital Stock of any class or kind ordinarily having the power to vote for the election of directors, managers or other voting members of the governing body of such Person.

“Wilpinjong Opco” means Wilpinjong Coal Pty Ltd., an indirect Wholly Owned subsidiary of Peabodythe Main Issuer.

“Wholly Owned” means, with respect to any Subsidiary, a Subsidiary all of the outstanding Capital Stock of which (other than any director’s qualifying shares) is owned by the Main Issuer and one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (or a combination thereof).

“Wilpinjong Mine” means the Wilpinjong Open Pit Mine located in New South Wales, Australia.

“Wilpinjong Mine Customer” means the Australian domestic energy producer that is a customer of the Wilpinjong Mine under a long-term supply agreement.

“Wilpinjong Triggering Event” means (i) (a) the Notes or the Term Loans are accelerated or otherwise become due prior to their Stated Maturity, in each case, as a result of an Event of Default hereunder or under the Term Loan Agreement or by operation of law, or (b) there occurs either (x) an Event of Default under clause (1) in the definition thereof or (y) an equivalent event of default under the Term Loan Agreement, or (ii) (a) either (x) LTM EBITDA is less than $70.0 million for each of four consecutive LTM Periods or (y) the Issuers fail to deliver the materials described in Section 4.03(a) accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit and (b) either (x) the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes have delivered written notice to Peabody requiring Peabody to make a Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer or (y) the Term Loan Required Lenders have delivered written notice to Peabody requiring Peabody to convert the Term Loans into loans under the Peabody L/C Facility on the terms required in the event of a Wilpinjong Triggering Event.

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(a)    Unless the context otherwise requires:

(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)    The term “including” is not limiting;

(5)    words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;

(6)    “will” shall be interpreted to express a command;

(7)    provisions apply to successive events and transactions;

(8)    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; and

(9)    unless otherwise provided in this Indenture, any Note or any other Note Document, the words “execute,” “execution,” “signed,” and “signature” and words of similar import used in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Indenture, any Note, any Note Document or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including amendments, waivers, consents and other modifications) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures and the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature in ink or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as applicable, to the fullest extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, and any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustee is not under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Trustee pursuant to reasonable procedures approved by the Trustee.

ARTICLE II.

THE NOTES

(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 minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

The terms and provisions contained in the Notes will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and the Issuers 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 Exhibit A 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 A 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

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amount of any increase or decrease in the aggregate 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 Holders of the Notes represented thereby with the Trustee, as Custodian for the Depositary and registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary for the accounts of the designated agents holding on behalf of Euroclear and Clearstream, duly executed by the Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

Following the termination of the Restricted Period, beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in the Regulation S Permanent Global Note upon certification in a form reasonably acceptable to the Issuers that those interests are owned by (i) non-U.S. Persons or (ii) U.S. Persons who acquired those interests pursuant to another exemption from, or in transactions not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Note and the Regulation S Permanent Global Note 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 Note that are held by Participants through Euroclear or Clearstream.

At least one Officer must sign the Notes for each of the Issuers by manual, facsimile or other electronic signature.

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.

The Trustee will, upon receipt of a written order of the Issuers signed by an Officer of each of the Issuers (an “Authentication Order”), authenticate Notes for original issue that may be validly issued under this Indenture. The aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed the aggregate principal amount of Notes authorized for issuance by the Issuers pursuant to one or more Authentication Orders, except as provided in Section 2.07 hereof.

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Issuers 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 Issuers.

The Issuers 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 Issuers 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 Issuers may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without prior notice to any Holder, provided that notice of such change is provided to Holders within 15 days of any such change. The Issuers will notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this

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Indenture. If the Issuers fail to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such. The Issuers or any of their Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

The Issuers initially appoint The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.

The Issuers initially appoint the Trustee to act as the Registrar and Paying Agent and to act as Custodian with respect to the Global Notes.

The Issuers 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 of, premium on, if any, or interest on the Notes, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Issuers 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 Trustee. The Issuers 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 one of the Issuers or a Subsidiary) will have no further liability for the money. If one of the Issuers 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 one of the Issuers, the Trustee will serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.

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. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Issuers 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.

(a)    Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. A Global Note may not be transferred except as a whole 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 Issuers for Definitive Notes if:

(1)    the Issuers deliver 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 Issuers within 120 days after the date of such notice from the Depositary;

(2)    the Issuers, in their sole discretion, determine that the Global Notes (in whole but not in part) should be exchanged for Definitive Notes and deliver a written notice to such effect to the Trustee; or

(3)    there has occurred and is continuing a Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes.

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, Section 2.07 or Section 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 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

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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. 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 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 a Regulation S Temporary Global Note prior to (x) the expiration of the Restricted Period and (y) the receipt by the Registrar of any certifications required pursuant to this Indenture.

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(g) 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;

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(B)    if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in 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 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 the Registrar receives the following:

(A)    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

(B)    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 (4), if the Issuers or the Registrar so request or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Issuers and 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 (4) above at a time when an Unrestricted Global Note has not yet been issued, the Issuers 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 the aggregate principal amount of beneficial interests transferred pursuant to subparagraph (4) 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;

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(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 Issuers or any of their Subsidiaries, a certificate to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(b) thereof; or

(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(g) hereof, and the Issuers 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 certifications 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 the Registrar receives the following:

(A)    if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for an Unrestricted Definitive Note, a certificate from such Holder in the form of Exhibit C hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(b) thereof; or

(B)    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 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 (3), if the Issuers or the Registrar so request or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Issuers or the Registrar to the

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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 Unrestricted Global Note to be reduced accordingly pursuant to Section 2.06(g) hereof, and the Issuers will execute and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, 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)(4) 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)(4) will not bear the Private Placement Legend.

(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 Issuers or any of their 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;

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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 applicable Restricted Global Note, in the case of clause (B) above, the 144A Global Note, in the case of clause (C) above, the applicable 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 the Registrar receives the following:

(A)    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

(B)    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 (2), if the Issuers or the Registrar so request or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Issuers or 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.

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) or (3) above at a time when an Unrestricted Global Note has not yet been issued, the Issuers 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, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit B hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof;

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(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 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 the Registrar receives the following:

(A)    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

(B)    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 (2), if the Issuers or the Registrar so request, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Issuers or 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.

(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 transfer, the Registrar shall register the Unrestricted Definitive Notes pursuant to the instructions from the Holder thereof.

(f)    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:

“THE NOTES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT (A) (1) TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (I) A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A OR (II) AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT,

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(2) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION COMPLYING WITH RULE 903 OR RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (3) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE AND PROVIDED THAT PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, THE TRUSTEE IS FURNISHED WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUERS THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT), (4) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE AND PROVIDED THAT PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, THE TRUSTEE IS FURNISHED WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUERS THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT), OR (5) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND (B) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS.”

In the case of any Notes sold pursuant to Regulation S, such Notes will bear an additional legend substantially in the following form unless otherwise agreed by the Issuers and the Holder thereof:

“BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON, NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON, AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED.”

(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) or (e)(3) 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 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 (4) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUERS.

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 (▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇) (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUERS OR THEIR 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

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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)    OID Legend. Each Note will bear a legend in substantially the following form:

“THIS NOTE IS A “CONTINGENT PAYMENT DEBT INSTRUMENT” THAT HAS BEEN ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”) FOR PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 1271-1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED. THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF OID, ISSUE DATE, YIELD TO MATURITY, COMPARABLE YIELD AND PROJECTED PAYMENT SCHEDULE OF THIS NOTE MAY BE OBTAINED BY CONTACTING CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER, PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇. LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63101.”

(4)    Regulation S Temporary Global Note Legend. The Regulation S Temporary Global Note shall 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 DEFINITIVE NOTES, ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).”

(g)    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.

(h)    General Provisions Relating to Transfers and Exchanges.

(1)    To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuers will execute and the Trustee will authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof or at the Registrar’s request.

(2)    No service charge will be made to a Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note or to a Holder of a Definitive Note for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuers 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 9.04 hereof).

(3)    The Registrar will not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

(4)    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 Issuers, 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.

(5)    Neither the Registrar nor the Issuers will be required:

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(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;

(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.

(6)    Prior to due presentment for the registration of a transfer of any Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Issuers 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 Issuers shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

(7)    The Trustee will authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02 hereof.

(8)    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.

(9)    The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Participants or Indirect Participants in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

(10)    Neither the Trustee, the Issuers nor any Agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Note, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuers, the Trustee, or any agent of the Issuers or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Depositary (or its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such Global Note or shall impair, as between such Depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such Global Note, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such Depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Note.

If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or the Issuers and the Trustee receives evidence to each of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, the Issuers 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 Issuers, an indemnity bond must be supplied by the Holder that is sufficient in the judgment of the Trustee (with respect to the Trustee) and the Issuers (with respect to the Issuers) to protect the Issuers, the Trustee, any Agent and any authenticating agent from any loss or expense that any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced. The Issuers may charge for their expenses in replacing a Note.

Every replacement Note is an additional obligation of the Issuers and will be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

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

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accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this Section 2.08 as not outstanding. Except as set forth in Section 2.09 hereof, a Note does not cease to be outstanding because any of the Issuers or an Affiliate of any of the Issuers holds the Note.

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 any of the Issuers, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of any thereof) holds in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, 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.

In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Issuers or any Guarantors, or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuers or any Guarantors, 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.

Until certificates representing Notes are ready for delivery, the Issuers 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 Issuers consider appropriate for temporary Notes and as may be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Without unreasonable delay, the Issuers 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.

The Issuers 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 destroy canceled Notes (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act and the Trustee). Certification of the cancellation of all canceled Notes will be delivered to the Issuers upon the Issuers’ written request. The Issuers may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or that have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

If the Issuers default in a payment of interest on the Notes, they will pay the defaulted interest in any lawful manner plus, to the extent lawful, interest payable on the defaulted interest, to 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 Issuers will notify the Trustee in writing in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment. The Issuers 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 Issuers (or, upon the written request of the Issuers, the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuers) will send or cause to be sent to Holders a notice that states the special record date, the related payment date and the amount of such interest to be paid.

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ARTICLE III.

REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

If the Issuers elect to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Section 3.07 hereof, the Issuers must furnish to the Trustee, at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer setting forth:

If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee will select Notes for redemption as follows:

(a)    if the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange and the Issuers notify a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in writing of such listing, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which the Notes are listed; or

(b)    if the Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange, on a pro rata basis (or, in the case of Global Notes, the Notes represented thereby will be selected by lot in accordance with the Applicable Procedures).

No Notes of $2,000 or less can be redeemed in part.

Notices of optional redemption will be given by first class mail (or electronically in the case of Global Notes) at least 30 but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed at its registered address, except that optional redemption notices may be given more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Articles 8 or 11 hereof.

The notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed (including CUSIP numbers) and shall state:

(a)    the redemption date;

(b)    the redemption price (if then determined and otherwise the basis for its determination);

(c)    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 shall be issued upon cancellation of the original Note;

(d)    the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(e)    that Notes called for redemption (other than a Global Note) must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

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(f)    that, unless the Issuers default in making such redemption payment, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

(g)    the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed;

(h)    any conditions to redemption; and

(i)    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.

If any of the Notes to be redeemed is in the form of a Global Note, then the Issuers shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the Applicable Procedures applicable to redemption.

At the Issuers’ request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Issuers’ name and at its expense; provided, however, that the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee, five Business Days (or three Business Days in the case of Global Notes) prior to the date notice of such redemption is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter notice period shall be agreed to by the Trustee) and, as provided in Section 3.01, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in the preceding paragraph.

Once notice of redemption is given in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof, Notes called for redemption without a condition become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption date at the redemption price.

Notice of any redemption of the Notes (including upon an Equity Offering) may, at the Main Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to a transaction or event and any such redemption or notice may, at the Main Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion or occurrence of the related transaction or event, as the case may be.

In addition, if such redemption or purchase is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Main Issuer’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption or purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed, or such notice may be rescinded at any time in the Main Issuer’s discretion if in the good faith judgment of the Main Issuer any or all of such conditions will not be satisfied. In addition, the Main Issuer may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Main Issuer’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.

No Notes of $2,000 or less can be redeemed in part. If any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to that Note will state the portion of the principal amount of that Note that is to be redeemed. A new Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the original Note will be issued in the name of the Holder upon cancellation of the original Note. Notes called for redemption without a condition precedent will become due on the date fixed for redemption. On and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on Note or portions of them called for redemption, unless the Issuers default in making such redemption payment.

On or prior to the redemption or purchase date, the Issuers will deposit no later than 11:00 a.m. New York City time on such date with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption or purchase price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed or purchased on that date. The Trustee or the Paying Agent will promptly return to the Issuers any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Issuers in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption or purchase price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed or purchased.

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If the Issuers comply 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 Issuers 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.

Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed or purchased in part, the Issuers will issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, the Trustee will authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the Issuers a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed or unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered.

(a)    At any time prior to January 30, 2023, the Issuers may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, upon prior notice, by paying a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus the Applicable Premium, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).

(b)    At any time and from time to time on or after January 30, 2023, the Issuers may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, upon prior notice, at a redemption price equal to the percentage of principal amount set forth below plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).

Unless the Issuers default in the payment of the applicable redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on and after the applicable redemption date.

(c)    Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.07 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.01 through 3.06 hereof. The Issuers may also redeem all of the Notes at the time, at the redemption price and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.14(g) hereof.

The Issuers are not required to make mandatory redemption payments with respect to the Notes. The Issuers may from time to time purchase Notes on the open market or otherwise in accordance with applicable laws. There will be no sinking fund payments for the Notes.

In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, the Issuers shall be required to commence a pro rata Asset Sale Offer (as defined in Section 4.10) to all Holders of the Notes and all holders of other Priority Lien Debt containing provisions similar to those set forth in this Section 3.09 and Section 4.10 hereof with respect to offers to purchase or redeem with the Net Cash Proceeds of sales of assets to purchase such Notes and such other Priority Lien Debt, it shall follow the procedures specified below.

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The Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for a period of at least 30 days following its commencement but no longer than 60 days, except to the extent that a longer period is required by applicable law (the “Offer Period”). Promptly after the termination of the Offer Period (the “Purchase Date”), the Issuers shall purchase the principal amount of Notes and such other Priority Lien Debt required to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof (the “Offer Amount”) or, if less than the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes and other Priority Lien Debt tendered and not withdrawn in response to the Asset Sale Offer.

Upon the commencement of an Asset Sale Offer, the Issuers shall send, by first class mail (or in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures), a notice to each of the Holders, with a copy to the Trustee. The notice shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer. The Asset Sale Offer shall be made to all Holders. The notice, which shall govern the terms of the Asset Sale Offer, shall state:

(a)    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 shall remain open;

(b)    the Offer Amount, the purchase price and the Purchase Date;

(c)    that any Note not validly tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue interest;

(d)    that, unless the Issuers default in making such payment, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Purchase Date;

(e)    that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Asset Sale Offer shall 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 Issuers, a Depositary, if appointed by the Issuers, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least three days before the Purchase Date;

(f)    that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Issuers, the Depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not later than the expiration of the Offer Period, an electronic 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased;

(g)    that, if the aggregate principal amount of Notes and other Priority Lien Debt surrendered by the holders thereof exceeds the Offer Amount, the Issuers shall select the Notes and other Priority Lien Debt to be purchased on a pro rata basis based on the principal amount of the Notes and such other Priority Lien Debt surrendered (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Issuers so that only Notes in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, shall remain outstanding after such purchase); and

(h)    that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part shall be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer).

On the Purchase Date, the Issuers shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment, on a pro rata basis to the extent necessary, the Offer Amount of Notes or portions thereof validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer, or if less than the Offer Amount has been validly tendered and not properly withdrawn, all Notes so tendered and not withdrawn, shall deposit by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, with the Paying Agent or Depositary an amount equal to the purchase price in respect of all Notes or portions thereof accepted for payment, and shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that such Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Issuers in accordance with the terms of this Section 3.09. The Issuers, the Depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall promptly mail or electronically send to each tendering Holder an amount equal to the purchase price of the Notes tendered by such Holder and accepted by the Issuers for purchase, and the Issuers shall promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, shall authenticate and mail or electronically send (or cause to be transferred by book entry) 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 electronically sent by the Issuers to the Holder

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thereof. The Issuers shall publicly announce the results of the Asset Sale Offer on or as soon as practicable after 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.

ARTICLE IV.

COVENANTS

The Issuers will pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium on, if any, and interest on, the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes. Principal, premium, if any, and interest will be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Issuers or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the due date money deposited by the Issuers in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, then due.

The Issuers will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at a rate that is 2.000% per annum higher than the then applicable interest rate on the Notes to the extent lawful; it will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace period), at the same rate to the extent lawful.

The Issuers will maintain 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 Issuers in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made. The Issuers will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Issuers fail 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 at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no service of legal process may be made on the Issuers or any Guarantor at any office of the Trustee.

The Issuers 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 Issuers of their obligation to maintain an office or agency in the United States for such purposes. The Issuers will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

The Issuers hereby designate the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as one such office or agency of the Issuers in accordance with Section 2.03 hereof.

So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Issuers shall furnish:

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall any reports provided pursuant to this covenant be required to include any additional financial information that would be required under Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X, respectively, promulgated by the Commission, or any separate financial information with respect to any class or grouping of Subsidiaries of the Main Issuer); and provided further, that, in no event, shall reports be required to comply with (1) Sections 302, 906 and 404 of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002 or Items 307, 308 and 402 of Regulation S-K, or (2) Regulation G under the Exchange Act or Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K with respect to any non-GAAP financial information contained therein.

So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Issuers will also use commercially reasonable efforts to arrange and participate in quarterly conference calls (each, a “Noteholder Call”) to discuss its results of operations for the previous quarters with Holders of Notes. The Noteholder Call may, but is not required to, be combined with a similar quarterly conference call conducted by Peabody, and in any event the Noteholder Call will be conducted no later than 10 Business Days following the date on which each of the quarterly and annual reports are made available as provided above. In addition, the Issuers agree that, for so long as any Notes remain outstanding, they will furnish to any beneficial owners, securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, any information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act and not otherwise previously provided pursuant to this covenant.

The Issuers will (1) distribute such reports and information required by this covenant electronically to the Trustee and (2) make available such reports and information and details relating to each Noteholder Call to any Holder,

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beneficial owner, prospective investor or security analyst, including by posting such reports and information on a password protected online data system; provided that (a) the Issuers shall only be required to make readily available any password or other login information to any such Holder, beneficial owner, prospective investor or security analyst and (b) the Issuers may deny access to any competitively-sensitive information otherwise to be provided pursuant to this paragraph to any such Holder, beneficial owner, prospective investor or security analyst that is a competitor of the Issuers and their Subsidiaries to the extent that the Issuers determine in good faith that the provision of such information to such Person would be competitively harmful to the Issuers and their Subsidiaries; provided, further that, such holders, beneficial owners and prospective investors shall agree to (i) not use such reports (and the information contained therein) and information for any purpose other than their investment or potential investment in the Notes or other Peabody securities and (ii) not publicly disclose any such reports (and the information contained therein) and information; provided, further, however, that the access details for each Noteholder Call shall be posted no fewer than three Business Days prior to the date of such Noteholder Call.

Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and its receipt of such reports shall not constitute actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuers’ compliance with any of their covenants under this Indenture or the Notes (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates). The Trustee shall not be obligated review or analyze any reports furnished or made available to it, or to monitor or confirm, on a continuing basis or otherwise, the Issuers’ compliance with the covenants or with respect to any reports or other documents filed or made available on any website under this Indenture or participate in any conference calls.

Any and all Defaults or Events of Default arising from a failure to furnish or file in a timely manner any information or report required by this Section 4.03 shall be deemed cured (and the Issuers shall be deemed to be in compliance with this Section 4.03) upon furnishing or filing such information or report as contemplated by this Section 4.03 (but without regard to the date on which such information or report is so furnished or filed); provided that such cure shall not otherwise affect the rights of the Holders of Notes described under Article VI hereof if principal and interest have been accelerated in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such acceleration has not been rescinded or cancelled prior to such cure.

To the extent not satisfied by the reporting obligations outlined above, the Issuers shall furnish Holders of Notes and prospective investors, upon their request, any information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act so long as the Notes are not freely transferable under the Securities Act. The Notes will be eligible for resale under Rule 144A.

(a)    The Main Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that a review of the activities of the Main Issuer 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 Main Issuer has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture and the Security Documents, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Main Issuer has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and the Security Documents and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture or the Security Documents (or, if a Default or Event of Default has occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Main Issuer is taking or proposing 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, premium on, if any, or interest on, the Notes is prohibited or if such event has occurred, a description of the event and what action the Issuers are taking or proposing to take with respect thereto.

(b)    So long as any of the Notes are outstanding, the Main Issuer will deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon any Officer becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Main Issuer is taking or proposing to take with respect thereto.

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The Main Issuer will pay, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental leviesTaxes 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.

The Issuers covenant (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) that they will 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 Issuers (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waive all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that they 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.

(a)    The Main Issuer will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (the payments and other actions described in the following clauses being collectively “Restricted Payments”):

(1)    declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on its Equity Interests (other than dividends or distributions paid in the Main Issuer’s Qualified Equity Interests) held by Persons other than the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries;

(2)    purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests of the Main Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of Main Issuer held by Persons other than the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries;

(3)    repay, redeem, repurchase, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, or make any payment on or with respect to, any Debt that is unsecured, Junior Lien Debt or Subordinated Debt (other than (x) a payment of interest or principal at Stated Maturity thereof or the redemption, repurchase or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Debt that is unsecured or Subordinated Debt, in anticipation of satisfying a scheduled maturity, sinking fund or amortization or other installment obligation, in each case due within one month of the date of such redemption, repurchase, acquisition or retirement or (y) Debt permitted under Section 4.09(b)(3) hereof); or

(4)    make any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.; or

(5)     make any voluntary payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, or similar payment with respect to the Term Loans (or refinancing thereof) before such Debt becomes due under the Term Loan Agreement.

The amount of any Restricted Payment, if other than in cash, will be the Fair Market Value, on the date of the Restricted Payment, of the assets or securities proposed to be transferred or issued to or by the Main Issuer or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment, except that the Fair Market Value of any non-cash dividend or distribution paid within 60 days after the date of its declaration shall be determined as of such date.

(b)    The provisions of Section 4.07(a) hereof will not prohibit:

(1)    the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof if, at the date of declaration, such payment would comply with paragraph (a) of this Section 4.07;

(2)    dividends or distributions by a Subsidiary payable, on a pro rata basis or on a basis more favorable to the Main Issuer, to all holders of any class of Equity Interests of such Subsidiary a majority of which is held, directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries, by the Main Issuer;

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(3)    the repayment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Debt that is unsecured or Subordinated Debt with the Net Cash Proceeds from, or in exchange for, Permitted Refinancing Debt;

(4)    the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of the Main Issuer in exchange for Qualified Equity Interests of the Main Issuer or of a contribution to the common equity of the Main Issuer, including a contribution of the Capital Stock of the Main Issuer;

(5)    [reserved];

(6)    any Investment acquired as a capital contribution to the Main Issuer, or made in exchange for, or out of the Net Cash Proceeds of, a substantially concurrent offering (with any offering within 45 days deemed as substantially concurrent) of Qualified Equity Interests of the Issuers;

(7)    (i) the payment of management or similar fees pursuant to the Management Services Agreements and any indemnification and reimbursement payments required thereunder provided that the aggregate amount of all such fees and payments may not exceed $15.0 million in any calendar year and (ii) any tax sharing payments to Peabody or its Affiliates; provided that any tax sharing payments shall not exceed the amount that the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries would have been required to pay in respect of foreign, federal, state or local income Taxes (as the case may be) in respect of the applicable fiscal year if the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries paid such Taxes directly as a stand-alone taxpayer (or stand-alone group);

(8)     [reserved];any voluntary payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, or similar payment with respect to the Term Loans (or refinancing thereof) before such Debt becomes due under the Term Loan Agreement, if (i) substantially concurrently therewith, a ratable amount to be determined by the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans outstanding and the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding at the time of such payment or prepayment under the Term Loan Agreement is applied to redeem or purchase the Notes in a manner permitted by this Indenture and (ii) to the extent that such purchases are made pursuant to open market purchases, the Issuers comply with Section 4.18;

(9)    [reserved];

(10)    [reserved];

(11)    [reserved]; and

(12)    any payments made, or the performance of any of the transactions contemplated, in connection with the exchange offer resulting in the issuance of the Notes.

For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment, less any amount paid, repaid, returned, distributed or otherwise received in cash in respect of such Investment.

(a)    Subject to the provisions of Section 4.08(b) below, the Main Issuer will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any Subsidiary to:

(1)    pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Equity Interests to the Main Issuer or any other Subsidiary;

(2)    pay any Debt or other liabilities owed to the Issuers or any other Subsidiary;

(3)    make loans or advances to the Issuers or any other Subsidiary; or

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(4)    sell, lease or transfer any of its property or assets to the Main Issuer or any other Subsidiary.

(b)    The restrictions in Section 4.08(a) hereof will not apply to any encumbrances or restrictions:

(1)    existing pursuant to the Term Loan Facility and any amendments, modifications, restatements, extensions, renewals, replacements or refinancings of those agreements; provided that the encumbrances and restrictions in the amendment, modification, restatement, extension, renewal, replacement or refinancing are, taken as a whole, no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than the encumbrances or restrictions being amended, modified, restated, extended, renewed, replaced or refinanced;

(2)    existing pursuant to this Indenture, the Notes or the Security Documents;

(3)    existing under or by reason of applicable law, rule, regulation or order;

(4)    existing under any agreements or other instruments of, or with respect to any Person, or the property or assets of any Person, at the time the Person is acquired by Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries;

(5)    of the type described in Section 4.08(a)(4) arising or agreed to (i) in the ordinary course of business that restrict in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease, license, conveyance or similar contract, including with respect to intellectual property, or (ii) that restrict in a customary manner, pursuant to provisions in partnership agreements, limited liability company organizational governance documents, joint venture agreements and other similar agreements, the transfer of ownership interests in, or assets of, such partnership, limited liability company, Joint Venture or similar Person or (iii) by virtue of any Lien on, or agreement to transfer, option or similar right with respect to any property or assets of, Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries;

(6)    with respect to Wilpinjong Opco and its Subsidiaries and imposed pursuant to an agreement that has been entered into for the sale or disposition of the Capital Stock of, or property and assets of, the Subsidiary pending closing of such sale or disposition that is permitted by this Indenture;

(7)    existing pursuant to any agreement with the Wilpinjong Mine Customer in effect on the Issue Date and any amendment, modification, restatement, extension, renewal or replacement of any such agreement that is no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than the agreement in effect on the Issue Date;

(8)    existing pursuant to Permitted Refinancing Debt; provided that the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the agreements governing such Permitted Refinancing Debt are, taken as a whole, no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than those contained in the agreements governing the Debt being refinanced;

(9)    consisting of restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by non-financial lessors, customers, suppliers or required by insurance surety bonding companies or in connection with any reclamation activity of the Main Issuer or a Subsidiary, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

(10)    existing pursuant to purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business and Finance Leases or operating leases or Mining Leases that impose encumbrances or restrictions discussed in Section 4.08(a)(4) on the property so acquired or covered thereby;

(11)    [reserved];

(12)    existing pursuant to customary provisions in joint venture, operating or similar agreements, asset sale agreements and stock sale agreements required in connection with the entering into of such transaction;

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(13)    existing pursuant to any agreement or instrument relating to any Debt permitted to be Incurred subsequent to the Issue Date by Section 4.09 hereof if such encumbrances and restrictions are, taken as a whole, no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than is customary in comparable financings (as determined in good faith by the Main Issuer), and the Main Issuer determines in good faith that such encumbrances and restrictions will not materially affect the Issuers’ ability to make principal or interest payments on the Notes as and when they become due; and

(14)    existing under or by reason of any Debt secured by a Lien permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section 4.09 and Section 4.12 hereof that limit the right of Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries to dispose of the assets securing such Debt.

(a)    The Main Issuer (1) will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Debt (including Acquired Debt) or Disqualified Stock; and (2) will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to Incur any Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries held by the Main Issuer or a Subsidiary, so long as it is so held).

(b)    The provisions of Section 4.09(a) hereof will not prohibit the Incurrence of any of the following items of Debt (“Permitted Debt”):

(1)    Incurrence by the Issuers of Debt under the Term Loan Facility in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $206.0 million (less (x) the aggregate amount of mandatory prepayments of such Debt made thereunder from time to time and (y) voluntary prepayments of the Term Loan Facility made with Internally Generated Cash) and any related guarantees thereof;

(2)    Debt represented by the Notes outstanding on the Issue Date and the TSA Obligations;

(3)    Debt of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary owed to the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary so long as such Debt continues to be owed to the Main Issuer or a Subsidiary and which, if the obligor is the Main Issuer or a Guarantor and if the Debt is owed to a Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes;

(4)    Debt constituting an extension or renewal of, replacement of, or substitution for, or issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to repay, redeem, repurchase, replace, refinance or refund, including by way of defeasance (all of the above, for purposes of this clause, “refinance”) then outstanding Debt (“Permitted Refinancing Debt”) that was permitted by this Indenture to be incurred under clauses (1), (4), (8) or (17) of this Section 4.09(b) in an amount not to exceed the principal amount of the Debt so refinanced, plus premiums, fees and expenses; provided that:

(A)    in case the Debt to be refinanced is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, the new Debt, by its terms or by the terms of any agreement or instrument pursuant to which it is outstanding, is expressly made subordinate in right of payment to the Notes at least to the extent that the Debt to be refinanced is subordinated to the Notes;

(B)    (x) the new Debt does not have a Stated Maturity prior to the Stated Maturity of the Debt to be refinanced, and the Average Life of the new Debt is at least equal to the remaining Average Life of the Debt to be refinanced or (y) the new debt does not have a Stated Maturity prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes, and the Average Life of the new Debt is at least equal to the remaining Average Life of the Notes;

(C)    in no event may Debt of any Issuer or Wilpinjong Credit PartyGuarantor, if any, be refinanced pursuant to this clause by means of any Debt of any Person that is not an Issuer or a Wilpinjong Credit PartyGuarantor; and

(D)    in case the Debt to be refinanced is secured, the Liens securing such new Debt have a Lien priority equal to or junior to the Liens securing the Debt being refinanced;

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(5)    Bank Products Obligations of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary; incurred in the ordinary course of business and Debt in respect of any Hedging Agreement entered into by Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business, consistent with prudent business practice, and not for speculative purposes;

(6)    Debt of Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with one or more standby or trade-related letters of credit, performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, bankers acceptances, insurance obligations, reclamation obligations, bank guarantees, surety bonds, completion guarantees or other similar bonds and obligations, including self-bonding arrangements, issued by a Subsidiary solely with respect to the Mining Operations of Wilpinjong Opco and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or pursuant to self-insurance obligations and not in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances;

(7)    Debt arising from agreements of Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price, earnouts or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets or any Subsidiary;

(8)    Debt of the Main Issuer or any SubsidiaryWilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries Incurred and the proceeds of which are used solely to finance the purchase, lease or acquisition of any Relevant Equipment and that is secured by such Relevant Equipment, including Finance Lease Obligations and any Debt assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such equipment and secured by a Lien on any such equipment before the acquisition thereof; provided that the aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding of any Debt Incurred pursuant to this clause, including all Permitted Refinancing Debt Incurred to refund, refinance or replace any Debt Incurred pursuant to this clause (8), may not exceed the greater of (a) $20.0 million and (b) 5.04.0% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; provided further that the ratio of Debt Incurred pursuant to this clause to the Fair Market Value of the applicable Relevant Equipment shall at no time exceed 75%;

(9)    Debt arising as a result of a Lien on the Collateral securing Junior Lien Debt permitted under clause (2) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”;

(10)    [reserved];

(11)    [reserved];

(12)    Preferred Stock of a Subsidiary issued to the Main Issuer or another Subsidiary; provided that any subsequent transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such Preferred Stock (except to the Main Issuer or another Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an issue of Preferred Stock;

(13)    Debt arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business;

(14)    [reserved];

(15)    Debt of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums solely with respect to the Mining Operations of Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply or other arrangements;

(16)    [reserved]; and

(17)    Debt of the Main IssuerWilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted hereunder in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the greater of (i) $5.0 million and (ii) 1.0% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.

None of the Issuers or their Subsidiaries will incur any Debt (including Permitted Debt) that is contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other Debt of the Main Issuer unless such Debt is also contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Notes on substantially identical terms; provided, however, that

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no Debt will be deemed to be contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other Debt of the Main Issuer solely by virtue of being unsecured or by virtue of being secured on junior priority basis.

(c)    For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.09 and Section 4.12, in the event that an item of Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (1) through (17) of Section 4.09(b) hereof, the Main Issuer will be permitted to classify such item of Debt on the date of its Incurrence, or later reclassify all or a portion of such item of Debt, in any manner that complies with this Section 4.09. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) all Debt under the Term Loan Facility will be deemed to have been incurred in reliance on the exception provided in Section 4.09(b)(1) hereof and (y) all Junior Lien Debt will be deemed to have been incurred in reliance on the exception provided in Section 4.09(b)(9) hereof.

(d)    The accrual of interest or Preferred Stock dividends, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Debt in the form of additional Debt with the same terms, the reclassification of Preferred Stock as Debt due to a change in accounting principles, and the payment of dividends on Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock will not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Debt or an issuance of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock for purposes of this Section 4.09; provided, in each such case, that the amount of any such accrual, accretion or payment is included in Fixed Charges of the Main Issuer as accrued. For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Debt, the U.S. dollar-equivalent principal amount of Debt denominated in a foreign currency shall be utilized, calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Debt was incurred. Notwithstanding any other provision of this covenant, the maximum amount of Debt that the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary may incur pursuant to this covenant shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in exchange rates or currency values.

(e)    The amount of any Debt outstanding as of any date will be:

(1)    the accreted value of the Debt, in the case of any Debt issued with original issue discount;

(2)    the principal amount of the Debt, in the case of any other Debt; and

(3)    in respect of Debt of another Person secured by a Lien on the assets of the specified Person, the lesser of:

(A)    the Fair Market Value of such assets at the date of determination; and

(B)    the amount of the Debt of the other Person.

(a)    The Main Issuer will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, make any Asset Sale unless the following conditions are met:

(1)    The Asset Sale (x) is for at least Fair Market Value (measured as of the date of the definitive agreement with respect to such Asset Sale). as reasonably determined by the Main Issuer in good faith) and (y) has a Fair Market Value (i) of less than $5.0 million for any such Asset Sale and (ii) in the aggregate of all such Asset Sales made pursuant to this Section 4.10 of less than $15.0 million.

(2)    At least 90% of the aggregate consideration received by the Main Issuer or its Subsidiaries for such Asset Sale consists of cash or Cash Equivalents. For purposes of this clause (2):

(A)    the assumption by the purchaser of Debt or other obligations or liabilities (as shown on the Main Issuer’s most recent balance sheet or in the footnotes thereto) (other than Subordinated Debt or other obligations or liabilities subordinated in right of payment to the Notes) of the Main Issuer or a Subsidiary pursuant to operation of law or a customary novation or assumption agreement; andany liabilities of any Issuer or any Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and as a result of which any Issuer or such Subsidiary is released from further liability; and

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(B)    instruments, notes, securities or other obligations received by the Main Issuer or such Subsidiary from the purchaser that are promptly, but in any event within 90 days of the closing, converted by the Main Issuer or such Subsidiary to cash or Cash Equivalents, to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents actually so received shall in each case be considered cash or Cash Equivalents.

(3)    Within 365 days after the receipt of any Net Cash Proceeds from an Asset Sale, the Main Issuer or a Subsidiary may apply an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds at its option:

(A)    to permanently prepay, repay, redeem, reduce or repurchase Debt as follows:

(i)     to prepay, repay, redeem, reduce or purchase Priority Lien Debt on a pro rata basis; provided that all reductions of (or offers to reduce) Obligations under the Notes shall be made as provided under Section 3.07 hereof, through open-market purchases (to the extent such purchases are at or above 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued unpaid interest, to, but not including, the date of redemption) or by making an offer (in accordance with the procedures set forth below for an Asset Sale Offer) to all Holders to purchase their Notes at 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus the amount of accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of redemption, on the amount of Notes that would otherwise be prepaid;

(ii)     [reserved];

(iii)     [reserved]; or

(B)    to acquire property, plant and equipment necessary for the conduct of the Mining Operations of Wilpinjong Opco and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business (collectively, “Relevant Equipment”).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that (i) a distribution of any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sales by a Foreign Subsidiary to the Main Issuer is prohibited or delayed by applicable local law or (ii) a distribution of any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Assets Sales by a Foreign Subsidiary to the Main Issuer could result in material adverse tax consequences, as reasonably determined by the Main Issuer, the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied in compliance with this covenant; provided that within 365 days of the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, the Main Issuer shall use commercially reasonable efforts, including entering into one or more intercompany loans, to permit repatriation of the proceeds that would otherwise be subject to this covenant without violating local law or incurring material adverse tax consequences, and, if; provided, further, that such funds shall be segregated and held in trust and not be used for working capital or any other purpose other than to upstream such funds until such material tax consequences or local law violation no longer exist. If such proceeds may be repatriated, within such 365 day period, such proceeds shall be required to be applied in compliance with this Section 4.10.

(4)    The Net Cash Proceeds of anany Asset SaleSales not applied pursuant to clause (3) within 365 days of the Asset Sale constitute “Excess Proceeds.” Excess Proceeds of less than $5.0 million (other than Excess Proceeds received from any Casualty Event) will be carried forward and accumulated. When the aggregate amount of the accumulated Excess Proceeds equals or exceeds such amount, the Main Issuer must, within 30 days, make an offer to purchase Notes (an “Asset Sale Offer”) having a principal amount equal to:

(A)    accumulated Excess Proceeds; multiplied by

(B)    a fraction (x) the numerator of which is equal to the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes and (y) the denominator of which is equal to the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes and all other Priority Lien Debt similarly required to be repaid, redeemed or tendered for in connection with the Asset Sale,

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rounded down to the nearest $1,000. The purchase price for any Asset Sale Offer will be 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date). If the Asset Sale Offer is for less than all of the outstanding Notes and Notes in an aggregate principal amount in excess of the purchase amount are tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer, the Main Issuer will purchase Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal to the purchase amount on a pro rata basis (in the case of Global Notes, subject to the applicable procedures of DTC), with adjustments so that only Notes in multiples of $1,000 principal amount (and in a minimum principal amount of $2,000) will be purchased. Upon completion of the Asset Sale Offer, any Excess Proceeds remaining after consummation of the Asset Sale Offer will be carried forward as Excess Proceeds and accumulated.

(b)    The Issuers will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with each purchase of Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer pursuant to this Section 4.10. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with Section 3.09 hereof or this Section 4.10, the Issuers will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under Section 3.09 hereof or this Section 4.10 by virtue of such compliance.

(a)    The Main Issuer will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any transaction or arrangement including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or the rendering of any service with any Affiliate of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary (a “Related Party Transaction”) involving aggregate consideration in excess of $2.5 million, unless the Related Party Transaction is (a) not prohibited by this Indenture and (b) on fair and reasonable terms that are not materially less favorable (as reasonably determined by the Main Issuer) to the Issuers or any of the relevant Subsidiaries than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Main Issuer.

(b)    Any Related Party Transaction or series of Related Party Transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $5.0 million must first be approved by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Main Issuer who are disinterested in the subject matter of the transaction pursuant to a resolution by the Board of Directors of the Main Issuer.

(c)    Any Related Party Transaction or series of Related Party Transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $10.0 million, the Main Issuer must deliver to the Trustee an opinion from an accounting, appraisal, or investment banking firm of national standing in the applicable jurisdiction (i) stating that its terms are not materially less favorable to the Main Issuer or any of the relevant Subsidiaries that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction with an unrelated Person or (ii) as to the fairness to the Main Issuer or any of the relevant Subsidiaries of such Related Party Transaction from a financial point of view.

(d)    The following items shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 4.11(a), Section 4.11(b) and Section 4.11(c) hereof:

(1)    any transaction between the Main Issuer and any of its Subsidiaries or between Subsidiaries of the Main Issuer;

(2)    the payment of reasonable and customary regular fees to directors of the Main Issuer who are not employees of the Main Issuer;

(3)    [reserved];

(4)    (i) any payment pursuant to the terms of either Management Services Agreement, including the payment of management or similar fees and any indemnification and reimbursement payments required thereunder, provided that the aggregate amount of all such fees and payments may not exceed $15.0 million in any calendar year and (ii) the payment of any tax sharing payments, in the case of each of (i) and (ii) permitted under the covenant described above under Section 4.07(a) hereof;

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(5)    loans or advances to officers, directors or employees of the Main Issuer in the ordinary course of business of the Main Issuer or its Subsidiaries or Guarantees in respect thereof or otherwise made on their behalf (including payment on such Guarantees) but only to the extent permitted by applicable law, including the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002 as if such Act applied to the Main Issuer;

(6)    any employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries with officers and employees of the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries that are Affiliates of the Main Issuer and the payment of compensation to such officers and employees (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, employee stock option or similar plans) so long as such agreement has been entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(7)    transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, joint venture partners, managers, operators, or purchasers or sellers of goods or services (including pursuant to joint venture agreements) solely with respect to the Mining Operations of Wilpinjong Opco and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Main Issuer, as determined in good faith by the Main Issuer;

(8)    transactions arising under any contract, agreement, instrument or other arrangement in effect on the Issue Date, as amended, modified or replaced from time to time so long as the amended, modified or new arrangements, taken as a whole at the time such arrangements are entered into, are not materially less favorable to the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries than those in effect on the Issue Date;

(9)    [reserved];

(10)    transactions with any Affiliate in its capacity as a holder of Debt; provided that such Affiliate owns less than a majority of the interests of the relevant class and is treated the same as other holders;

(11)    [reserved];

(12)    any lease or sublease of equipment to any Affiliate in the ordinary course of business on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Main Issuer, as determined in good faith by the Main Issuer; and

(13)    any agreements entered into in connection with the exchange offer resulting in the issuance of the Notes.

The Issuers will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, incur or permit to exist any Lien of any nature whatsoever on any of its properties or assets, whether owned at the Issue Date or thereafter acquired, to secure any Debt other than Permitted Liens.

(a)    Subject to Article V hereof, the Issuers shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect their corporate existence, and the corporate, partnership or other existence of each of their Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective organizational documentsOrganizational Documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of each of the Issuers or any such Subsidiary and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Issuers and their respective Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Issuers shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the corporate, partnership or other existence of any of their Subsidiaries, if senior management of the Issuers, as applicable, shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Issuers and their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.

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(a)    Not later than 30 days following a Change of Control, the Issuers will make an offer to purchase (a “Change of Control Offer”) all outstanding Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (the “Change of Control Payment”), subject to the rights of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that notwithstanding the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Issuers shall not be obligated to purchase the Notes pursuant to this Section 4.14 in the event that (i) during the 30-day period following such Change of Control, the Issuers have given the notice to exercise their right to redeem all the Notes under the terms described in Section 3.07 hereof and redeemed such Notes in accordance with such notice, unless and until there is a default in payment of the applicable redemption price or (ii) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Issuers and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under the offer.

(b)    Not later than 30 days following any Change of Control, the Issuers shall send, by first class mail (or in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures), to each Holder a written offer, which shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer, with a copy of such offer to the Trustee. In addition to including information concerning the business of the Issuers and their Subsidiaries that the Issuers in good faith believe will enable the Holders to make an informed decision with respect to the Change of Control Offer, the offer shall also state, among other things:

(1)    that a Change of Control has occurred and a Change of Control Offer is being made as provided for herein, and that, although Holders are not required to tender their Notes, all Notes that are validly tendered shall be accepted for payment;

(2)    the principal amount of Notes subject to the Change of Control Offer, the Change of Control Payment and the expiration date of the Change of Control Offer, which will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days after the date such written notice to the Holders and the Trustee is sent and a settlement date for purchase (the “Change of Control Payment Date”) not more than five Business Days after the expiration date;

(3)    that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer (and duly paid for on the Change of Control Payment Date) shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Payment Date;

(4)    that any Notes (or portions thereof) not validly tendered shall continue to accrue interest;

(5)    that any Holder electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Change of Control Offer shall 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 Issuers, a depositary, if appointed by the Issuers, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least one (1) Business Day before the Change of Control Payment Date;

(6)    that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Issuers, the depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not later than the close of business on the expiration date of the Change of Control Offer, an electronic 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased; and

(7)    the instructions and any other information necessary to enable Holders to tender their Notes (or portions thereof) and have such Notes (or portions thereof) purchased pursuant to the Change of Control Offer.

If the Change of Control Offer is sent prior to the occurrence of the Change of Control, it may be conditioned upon the consummation of the Change of Control.

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(c)    On or before the Change of Control Payment Date, the Issuers shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer. Promptly after such acceptance, on the Change of Control Payment Date, the Issuers will:

(1)    deposit by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, with the Paying Agent or Depositary an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered; and

(2)    deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Issuers.

(d)    Notes repurchased by the Issuers pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will have the status of Notes issued but not outstanding or will be retired and cancelled at the option of the Issuers. Notes purchased by a third party pursuant to the preceding sections will have the status of Notes issued and outstanding.

(e)    The Issuers shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the purchase of the Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer under this Section 4.14. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 4.14, the Issuers will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached their obligations under this Section 4.14 by virtue of such compliance.

(f)    On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall mail or electronically send to each Holder of Notes accepted for payment the Change of Control Payment for such Notes (or, if all the Notes are then issued in the form of Global Notes, make such payment through the facilities of the Depositary), and the Issuers shall promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuers Order, shall authenticate and mail or electronically send (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to each Holder such new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; provided that each such new Note shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. Interest on the Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the Change of Control Payment Date.

(g)    In the event that Holders of not less than 90% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes accept a Change of Control Offer and the Issuers (or the third party making the Change of Control Offer in lieu of the Issuers) purchase all of the Notes held by such Holders, the Issuers will have the right, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior written notice to the Holders and the Trustee, given not more than 30 days following the purchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, to redeem all of the Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a redemption price equal to the Change of Control Payment plus accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes redeemed from the date of purchase to, but excluding, the date of redemption (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).

The Notes will not be guaranteed by any of the Issuers’ Subsidiaries; provided that to the extent not resulting in a materially adverse tax consequence (as determined by Peabody in its good faith reasonable business judgment), if any of PIC Acquisition, Wilpinjong Opco or any of the Main Issuer’s direct or indirect Subsidiaries at any time is not contractually prohibited from becoming a Guarantor (as determined by Peabody in its good faith reasonable business judgment), PIC Acquisition, Wilpinjong Opco or such Subsidiary shall become a guarantor (each, a “Guarantor”) and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to execute a supplemental indenture with the Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto within 90 days.

(a)    On a semi-annual basis, not later than 30 days10 Business Days after each date on which (i) the quarterly financial statements for the preceding fiscal quarter ending June 30 and (ii) the annual financial statements for the preceding fiscal year are required to be delivered pursuant to clause (1) of covenant described under Section 4.03 hereof, commencing with the period from February 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021, the Issuers will make an offer to purchase Notes, which shall include, without limitation, a detailed calculation of Excess Cash Flow for the relevant

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Excess Cash Flow Period (each such offer to purchase, an “Excess Cash Flow Offer”), having an aggregate principal amount equal to:

(1)    an amount equal to 100% of Excess Cash Flow of the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries for the Excess Cash Flow Period then ended; multiplied by

(2)    a fraction (x) the numerator of which is equal to the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes and (y) the denominator of which is equal to the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes and all other Priority Lien Debt required to be repaid with such Excess Cash Flow,

rounded down to the nearest $1,000. The purchase price for any Excess Cash Flow Offer will be 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date) (the “Excess Cash Flow Payment”). If the Excess Cash Flow Offer is for less than all of the outstanding Notes and Notes in an aggregate principal amount in excess of the purchase amount are tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Excess Cash Flow Offer, the Main Issuer will purchase Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal to the purchase amount on a pro rata basis (in the case of Global Notes, subject to the applicable procedures of DTC), with adjustments so that only Notes in multiples of $1,000 principal amount (and in a minimum principal amount of $2,000) will be purchased. Any portion of such Excess Cash Flow remaining after consummation of the Excess Cash Flow Offer may be used for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture.

(b)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that the Liquidity Amount as of the last date of the applicable Excess Cash Flow Period, after giving pro forma effect to the Excess Cash Flow Offer for such Excess Cash Flow Period and any related prepayment (or offer of repayment) described in Section 2.05(g) of the Term Loan Agreement, is equal to or less than $60.0 million, the aggregate principal amount of Notes offered to be purchased inPriority Lien Debt required to be repurchased or repaid with such Excess Cash Flow Offer shall be reduced ratably solely (determined on the basis of outstanding aggregate principal amount of all such Priority Lien Debt outstanding at such time) solely to the extent necessary so that the Liquidity Amount as of the last date of the applicable Excess Cash Flow Period, after giving pro forma effect to such Excess Cash Flow Offer and any related prepayment (or offer of repayment) described in Section 2.05(g) of the Term Loan Agreement, is greater than $60.0 million.

(c)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that (i) a distribution of any or all of the net cash provided by/used in operating activities (as determined in accordance with GAAP) of a Foreign Subsidiary to the Main Issuer is prohibited or delayed by applicable local law or (ii) a distribution of any or all of the net cash provided by/used in operating activities (as determined in accordance with GAAP) by a Foreign Subsidiary to the Main Issuer could result in material adverse tax consequences, as reasonably determined by the Main Issuer in good faith, such net cash provided by/used in operating activities (as determined in accordance with GAAP) so affected will not be required to be applied in the calculation of Excess Cash Flow for the relevant Excess Cash Flow Period in compliance with this covenant; provided that within 365 days of the receipt of such net cash provided by/used in operating activities (as determined in accordance with GAAP), the Main Issuer shall use commercially reasonable efforts, including entering into one or more intercompany loans, to permit repatriation of the amounts that would otherwise be subject to this covenant without violating local law or incurring material adverse tax consequences, and, if; provided, further, that such Foreign Subsidiary shall segregate and hold in trust such net cash, and such funds shall not be used for working capital or any other purpose other than to upstream such funds to make the required payment under this Section 4.16 until such material tax consequences no longer exist. If such amounts may be repatriated, within such 365 day period, such proceeds shall be required to be applied in compliance with this covenant.

(d)    Within the timeframe noted in (a) above, the Issuers shall send, by first class mail (or in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures), to each Holder a written offer, which shall govern the terms of the Excess Cash Flow Offer, with a copy of such offer to the Trustee. In addition to including information concerning the business of the Issuers and their Subsidiaries that the Issuers in good faith believe will enable the Holders to make an informed decision with respect to the Excess Cash Flow Offer, the offer shall also state, among other things:

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(1)    that an Excess Cash Flow Offer is being made as provided for herein, and that, although Holders are not required to tender their Notes, all Notes that are validly tendered shall be accepted for payment, subject to pro rata reduction as set forth in Section 4.16(a);

(2)    the principal amount of Notes subject to the Excess Cash Flow Offer, the Excess Cash Flow Payment and the expiration date of the Excess Cash Flow Offer, which will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days after the date such written notice to the Holders and the Trustee is sent and a settlement date for purchase (the “Excess Cash Flow Payment Date”) not more than five Business Days after the expiration date;

(3)    that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Excess Cash Flow Offer (and duly paid for on the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date) shall cease to accrue interest after the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date;

(4)    that any Notes (or portions thereof) not validly tendered shall continue to accrue interest;

(5)    that any Holder electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Excess Cash Flow Offer shall 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 Issuers, a depositary, if appointed by the Issuers, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least one (1) Business Day before the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date;

(6)    that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Issuers, the depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not later than the close of business on the expiration date of the Excess Cash Flow Offer, an electronic 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased; and

(7)    the instructions and any other information necessary to enable Holders to tender their Notes (or portions thereof) and have such Notes (or portions thereof) purchased pursuant to the Excess Cash Flow Offer.

(e)    On or before the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date, the Issuers shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Excess Cash Flow Offer. Promptly after such acceptance, on the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date, the Issuers will:

(1)    deposit by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, with the Paying Agent or Depositary an amount equal to the Excess Cash Flow Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered; and

(2)    deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Issuers.

(f)    On the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall mail or electronically send to each Holder of Notes accepted for payment the Excess Cash Flow Payment for such Notes (or, if all the Notes are then issued in the form of Global Notes, make such payment through the facilities of the Depositary), and the Issuers shall promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuers Order, shall authenticate and mail or electronically send (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to each Holder such new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; provided that each such new Note shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. Interest on the Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the Excess Cash Flow Payment Date.

(g)    The Issuers will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with each purchase of Notes pursuant to an Excess Cash Flow Offer pursuant to this covenant. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Excess Cash Flow provisions in this Indenture, the

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Issuers will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Excess Cash Flow provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such compliance.

(a)    Not later than 30 days following the occurrence of a Wilpinjong Triggering Event, Peabody shall be obligated to make an offer to purchase outstanding Notes in an aggregate principal amount (plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase) up to the Maximum Amount (on a combined basis with the offer to exchange Term Loans under the Peabody L/C Agreement for Term Loans described below) (such offer to purchase, the “Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer”), provided that, during the term of the Notes, Peabody shall not be obligated to make more than one Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer pursuant to each of clauses (i) and (ii) of the definition of Wilpinjong Triggering Event, respectively.

(b)    The purchase price for any Notes purchased in a Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer will be 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date) . The purchase price for Notes purchased in the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer, including any accrued interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase, shall be paid in aggregate principal amount of Peabody 2024 Notes, rounded down to the nearest $1,000 (the “Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment”).

(c)    Not later than 30 days following the occurrence of a Wilpinjong Triggering Event, the Issuers shall send, by first class mail (or in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures), to each Holder a written offer, which shall govern the terms of the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer, with a copy of such offer to the Trustee. In addition to including information concerning the business of the Issuers and their Subsidiaries that the Issuers in good faith believe will enable the Holders to make an informed decision with respect to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer, the offer shall also state, among other things:

(1)    that a Wilpinjong Triggering Event has occurred and a Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer is being made as provided for herein, and that, although Holders are not required to tender their Notes, all Notes that are validly tendered shall be accepted for payment;

(2)    the principal amount of the Notes subject to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer, the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment and the expiration date of the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer, which will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days after the date such written notice to the Holders and the Trustee is sent and a settlement date for purchase (the “Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date”) not more than five Business Days after the expiration date;

(3)    that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer (and duly paid for on the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date) shall cease to accrue interest after the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date;

(4)    that any Notes (or portions thereof) not validly tendered shall continue to accrue interest;

(5)    that any Holder electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer shall 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 Issuers, a depositary, if appointed by the Issuers, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least one (1) Business Day before the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date;

(6)    that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Issuers, the depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not later than the close of business on the expiration date of the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer, an electronic 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased; and

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(7)    the instructions and any other information necessary to enable Holders to tender their Notes (or portions thereof) and have such Notes (or portions thereof) purchased pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer.

(d)    On or before the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date, the Issuers shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer. Promptly after such acceptance, on the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date, the Issuers will:

(1)    deposit by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, with the Paying Agent or Depositary an amount equal to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered; and

(2)    deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Issuers.

(e)    On the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall mail or electronically send to each Holder of Notes accepted for payment the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment for such Notes (or, if all the Notes are then issued in the form of Global Notes, make such payment through the facilities of the Depositary), and the Issuers shall promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuers Order, shall authenticate and mail or electronically send (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to each Holder such new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; provided that each such new Note shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. Interest on the Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer Payment Date.

(f)    If the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered (plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase) in a Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer exceeds the Maximum Amount, Peabody will select the Notes (in the case of Global Notes, subject to the applicable procedures of DTC) to be purchased on a pro rata basis with such adjustments as needed so that no Notes in an unauthorized denomination are purchased in part based on the aggregate principal amount, as applicable of the Notes tendered.

(g)    Upon any such issuance of Peabody 2024 Notes, delivery of the Notes by the Issuers to the Trustee for cancellation and satisfaction by the Issuers of the requirements under this Indenture, the Issuers’ obligations with respect to such Notes shall be discharged and such Notes shall cease to be outstanding. In this regard, Peabody shall not, nor shall it permit its Subsidiaries to, (i) make any “Restricted Payments” (as defined under the Peabody Existing Indenture) under SectionSections 4.07(a)(iii), 4.07(b)(11) or 4.07(b)(13) of the Peabody Existing Indenture until there is sufficient available capacity under such provisions of Section 4.07 of the Peabody Existing Indenture for “Restricted Payments” in an amount equal to or greater than the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and the outstanding principal amount of Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility and any accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes and the Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility to but excluding the date of determination, and, thereafter, shall maintain at all times such capacity under such provisions of Section 4.07 of the Peabody Existing Indenture, (ii) make any “Investments” (as defined in the Peabody Credit Agreement) under Section 7.02(l) or (m) until there is sufficient available capacity under such provisions of Section 7.02 of the Peabody Credit Agreement for “Investment” in an amount equal to or greater than the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and the outstanding principal amount of Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility and any accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes and the Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility to but excluding the date of determination, and, thereafter, shall maintain at all times such capacity under such provisions of Section 7.02 of the Peabody Credit Agreement, (iii) incur or permit to exist any “Permitted Liens” (as defined in the Peabody Existing Indenture) under the Peabody Existing Indenture until Peabody is permitted to incur or permit to exist “Permitted Liens” in an amount equal to or greater than the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and the outstanding principal amount of Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility and any accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes and the Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility to but excluding the date of determination, and, thereafter, shall maintain at all times such capacity under the Peabody Existing Indenture and (iv) fail to maintain at all times debt and lien capacity under the Peabody Credit Agreement to incur or permit to exist secured “Indebtedness” (as defined under the Peabody Credit Agreement) in an amount equal to or greater than the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and the

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outstanding principal amount of Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility and any accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes and the Priority Lien Debt under the Term Loan Facility to but excluding the date of determination.

(h)    Notwithstanding anything in the preceding paragraph to the contrary, in the event the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer is consummated, no Applicable Premium shall be due and payable with respect to any Notes tendered and exchanged pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer.

(i)    Peabody will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with each purchase of Notes pursuant to an Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer pursuant to this covenant. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer provisions in this Indenture, Peabody will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such compliance.

(a)    Not later than 30 days after each date on which there is a voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of the loans under the Term Loan Facility, the Issuers will make an offer to purchase the Notes in an aggregate principal amount up to the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans repurchased or prepaid (the “Term Loan Offer Amount”) at a price that, as a percentage of the principal acquired, is the same as the price paid in the repurchase or repayment of the Term Loans (each such offer, a “Term Loan Repayment Offer” and such payment, a “Term Loan Payment”).

(b)    Not later than 30 days following any voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of the loans under the Term Loan Facility, the Issuers shall send, by first class mail (or in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures), to each Holder a written offer, which shall govern the terms of the Term Loan Repayment Offer, with a copy of such offer to the Trustee. In addition to including information concerning the business of the Issuers and their Subsidiaries that the Issuers in good faith believe will enable the Holders to make an informed decision with respect to the Term Loan Repayment Offer, the offer shall also state, among other things:

(1)    that a voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of the loans under the Term Loan Facility has occurred and a Term Loan Repayment Offer is being made as provided for herein, and that, although Holders are not required to tender their Notes, all Notes that are validly tendered shall be accepted for payment;

(2)    the Term Loan Payment and the expiration date of the Term Loan Repayment Offer, which will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days after the date such written notice to the Holders and the Trustee is sent and a settlement date for purchase (the “Term Loan Payment Date”) not more than five Business Days after the expiration date;

(3)    that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Term Loan Repayment Offer (and duly paid for on the Term Loan Payment Date) shall cease to accrue interest after the Term Loan Payment Date;

(4)    that any Notes (or portions thereof) not validly tendered shall continue to accrue interest;

(5)    that any Holder electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Term Loan Repayment Offer shall 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 Issuers, a depositary, if appointed by the Issuers, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least one (1) Business Day before the Term Loan Payment Date;

(6)    that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Issuers, the depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not later than the close of business on the expiration date of

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the Term Loan Repayment Offer, an electronic 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 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased; and

(7)    the instructions and any other information necessary to enable Holders to tender their Notes (or portions thereof) and have such Notes (or portions thereof) purchased pursuant to the Term Loan Repayment Offer.

If the Term Loan Repayment Offer is sent prior to the voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of the loans under the Term Loan Facility, it may be conditioned upon the consummation of the voluntary prepayment, repayment or repurchase of the loans under the Term Loan Facility.

(c)    On or before the Term Loan Payment Date, the Issuers shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Term Loan Repayment Offer. Promptly after such acceptance, on the Term Loan Payment Date, the Issuers will:

(1)    deposit by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, with the Paying Agent or Depositary an amount equal to the Term Loan Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered; and

(2)    deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Issuers.

(d)    On the Term Loan Payment Date, the Paying Agent shall mail or electronically send to each Holder of Notes accepted for payment the Term Loan Payment for such Notes (or, if all the Notes are then issued in the form of Global Notes, make such payment through the facilities of the Depositary), and the Issuers shall promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuers Order, shall authenticate and mail or electronically send (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to each Holder such new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; provided that each such new Note shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. Interest on the Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the Term Loan Payment Date.

(e)    If the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered in a Term Loan Repayment Offer exceeds the Term Loan Offer Amount, the Issuers will select the Notes (in the case of Global Notes, subject to the applicable procedures of DTC) to be purchased on a pro rata basis with such adjustments as needed so that no Notes in an unauthorized denomination are purchased in part based on the aggregate principal amount, as applicable of the Notes tendered.

(f)    The Issuers will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the purchase of the Notes pursuant to a Term Loan Repayment Offer pursuant to this covenant. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Term Loan Repayment Offer provisions in this Indenture, the Issuers will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Term Loan Repayment Offer provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such compliance.

The Main Issuer may not (a) Incur any Debt other than described above under clauses (1), (2), (3), (5) and (9) of Section 4.09, (b) (i) beneficially own, directly or indirectly, any Equity Interests in any Entity unless the Main Issuer beneficially owns 100% of such Equity Interests or (ii) own any other material assets other than cash or Cash Equivalents or receivables arising in connection with intercompany transactions, or (c) fail to hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from all other Persons. The Main Issuer may not engage in any business or transactions not related directly or indirectly to (x) the performance of its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes or (y) holding 100% of the Capital Stock of PIC Acquisition (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, (i) any transaction pursuant to the terms of either Management Services Agreement, including the payment of management or similar fees and any indemnification and reimbursement payments required thereunder, and (ii) any tax sharing

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payments permitted under Section 4.07), provided that the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries, including Wilpinjong Opco, may hold intercompany receivables from, or incur intercompany payables to, each other, unless otherwise prohibited hereunder.

The Co-Issuer may not (a) Incur any Debt (other than the Notes and the Term Loans), (b) have any direct or indirect Subsidiaries, (c) own, directly or indirectly, any Equity Interests or any other assets, or (d) fail to hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from all other Persons. The Co-Issuer may not engage in any business or transactions not related directly or indirectly to obtaining money or arranging financing for the Main Issuer (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, (i) any transaction pursuant to the terms of either Management Services Agreement, including the payment of management or similar fees, any indemnification and reimbursement payments required thereunder and (ii) any tax sharing payments permitted under Section 4.07).

PIC Acquisition may not (a) Incur any Debt, (b) beneficially own, directly or indirectly, any Equity Interests in any Entity other than holding 100% of the Capital Stock of Wilpinjong Opco, provided that PIC Acquisition and its Subsidiaries, including Wilpinjong Opco, may hold intercompany receivables from, or incur intercompany payables to, each other, unless otherwise prohibited hereunder, or (c) fail to hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from all other Persons.

(a)    If at any time (i) the Notes are rated Investment Grade by each of S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ (or, if either (or both) of S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ have been substituted in accordance with the definition of “Rating Agencies,” by each of the then applicable Rating Agencies), (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture and (iii) the Issuers have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer certifying to the foregoing provisions in this Section 4.22(a) then, beginning on that day and subject to the provisions of the following paragraph, Sections 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11 and 4.16 hereof will be suspended (the “Suspension Period”).

(b)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the rating assigned to the Notes by either Rating Agency should subsequently decline to below Investment Grade, the foregoing covenants will be reinstituted as of and from the date of such rating decline (the “Reversion Date”). Calculations under the reinstated Section 4.07 hereof will be made as if Section 4.07 hereof had been in effect since the date of this Indenture except that no Default will be deemed to have occurred solely by reason of a Restricted Payment made while Section 4.07 hereof was suspended. Furthermore, all Debt incurred during the Suspension Period will be deemed to have been incurred or issued pursuant to Section 4.09(b)(2) hereof. Notwithstanding that the suspended covenants may be reinstated, no Default will be deemed to have occurred as a result of a failure to comply with such suspended covenants during any Suspension Period (or upon termination of any covenant Suspension Period or after that time based solely on events that occurred during the Suspension Period).

(c)    The Issuers shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer notifying the Trustee of any event giving rise to a Suspension Period or a Reversion Date, the date thereof and identifying the suspended covenants. The Trustee shall not have any obligation to monitor the ratings of the Notes, determine whether a Suspension Period or Reversion Date has occurred or notify Holders of the occurrence or dates of any Suspension Period, suspended covenants or Reversion Date.

The Issuers shall take all necessary actions to have a rating assigned to the Notes by either Rating Agency prior to the Issue Date and to maintain a rating of the Notes by at least one Rating Agency so long as any of the Notes are outstanding.

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The Issuers shall not become or remain liable as leasee or as a guarantor or other surety with respect to any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, which the Issuers or any Subsidiary (a) has sold or transferred or is to sell or to transfer to any other Person (other than Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries) and (b) intends to use for substantially the same purpose as any other property which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Issuers or such Subsidiary to any Person (other than Wilpinjong Opco or any of its Subsidiaries) in connection with such lease.

The Issuers shall not agree to any amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification to, or waiver of, any of its Organizational Documents after the Issue Date, in each case, to the extent the same would reasonably be expected to be material and adverse to the Holders (in the good faith determination of the Main Issuer), without obtaining the prior consent to such amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification or waiver of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes, and thereafter taking such steps as are necessary to maintain the perfection of the Collateral Trustee’s Lien on the Collateral.

ARTICLE V.

SUCCESSORS

(a)    None of the Issuers or PIC Acquisition will: (x) consolidate or merge with or into any Person; or (y) sell, convey, transfer, or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to any Person.

(b)    None of the Issuers or PIC Acquisition will lease all or substantially all of its assets, whether in one transaction or a series of transactions, to one or more other Persons.

(c)    Peabody will not consolidate or merge with or into, or sell, assign, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, all or substantially all of its assets to any Person unless:

(1)    the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not Peabody) shall be a Person organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and such Person shall expressly assume, by a supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, all the obligations of Peabody under the Notes, including pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer;

(2)    except in the case of a merger entered into solely for reincorporating Peabody in another jurisdiction, immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the assumption contemplated by the immediately preceding clause (1), there shall not have occurred an Event of Default described in clause (i)(i) or (ii) in the definition thereof;

(3)    such transaction shall be permitted under the Peabody Existing Indenture and the Peabody 2024 Notes Indenture, excluding the effect of any amendments to or waivers with respect to either of such indentures after the Issue Date; and

(4)    the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and that all conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

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ARTICLE VI.

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Each of the following is an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:

(a)    the Issuers default in the payment of the principal and premium, if any of any Note when the same becomes due and payable at final maturity, upon acceleration or redemption, or otherwise (other than pursuant to an Offer to Purchase);

(b)    the Issuers default in the payment of interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 days;

(c)    the Issuers fail to make an Offer to Purchase and thereafter accept and pay for Notes tendered when and as required pursuant to Sections 4.10, 4.14, 4.16 or 4.18 hereof or the Issuers fail to comply with Section 5.01 hereof;

(d)    the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary defaults in the performance of or breach any other of its covenants or agreements in this Indenture, under the Notes or under the other Note Documents (other than a default specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) above) and the default or breach continues for a period of 60 consecutive days (or 90 consecutive days in the case of a failure to comply with Section 4.03 hereof) after written notice to the Main Issuer by the Trustee or to the Main Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of 25% or more in aggregate principal amount of the Notes;

(e)    there occurs with respect to any Debt of the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries and/or Co-Issuer, as applicable, having an outstanding principal amount of $20.0 million or more an event of default, including failure to make a principal payment on such Debt when due and such defaulted payment is not made, waived or extended within the applicable grace period;

(f)    one or more final judgments or orders for the payment of money are rendered against the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries and are not paid or discharged, and there is a period of 60 consecutive days following entry of the final judgment or order that causes, in each case, the aggregate amount for such final judgments or orders outstanding and not paid or discharged against such Person to exceed $20.0 million (in excess of amounts which the Issuers’ insurance carriers have agreed to pay under applicable policies), or its foreign currency equivalent, during which a stay of enforcement, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect;

(g)    the Main Issuer, Co-Issuer or any other Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would be a Significant Subsidiary, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

(1)    commences a voluntary case,

(2)    consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

(3)    consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

(4)    makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

(5)    generally is unable to pay its debts as they become due;

(h)    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(1)    is for relief against the Main Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any other Subsidiary that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would be a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case,

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(2)    appoints a custodian of the Main Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any other Subsidiary that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would be a Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of the property of the Main Issuer, Co-Issuer or any other Subsidiary or any group of its Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would be a Significant Subsidiary, or

(3)    orders the liquidation of the Main Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any other Subsidiary that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would be a Significant Subsidiary;

and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days; or

(i)    (i) the permanent cessation of production of coal at the Wilpinjong Mine, or such cessation continues for more than 90 days and there is no reasonable likelihood that such production will continue, (ii) the occurrence of an event of default under the step-in deed for the benefit of Wilpinjong Mine Customer and the Wilpinjong Mine Customer exercises its step-in right to appoint a receiver to operate the Wilpinjong Mine and such receiver refuses to operate the Wilpinjong Mine for third-party production in a manner resulting in production substantially similar to the production from the ordinary course operation of the Wilpinjong Mine, or (iii) the Wilpinjong Mine Customer receiving payments or additional collateral (to which the Wilpinjong Mine Customer is not entitled at the Issue Date) and such payments or additional collateral are in excess of a Fair Market Value (or face value with respect to letters of credit or guarantees) of $20.0 million from the Main Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries as consideration to forbear from exercising its rights or waive any such event of default under any long-term supply contract;

(j)    the occurrence of the following:

(1)    except as permitted by the Note Documents, any Note Document establishing the Priority Liens ceases for any reason to be enforceable; provided that it will not be an Event of Default under this clause (j)(1) if the sole result of the failure of one or more Note Documents to be fully enforceable is that any Priority Lien purported to be granted under such Note Documents on Collateral ceases to be an enforceable and perfected Priority Lien; provided that if such failure is susceptible to cure, no Event of Default shall arise with respect thereto until 60 days after any Officer of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary becomes aware of such failure, which failure has not been cured during such time period;

(2)    except as permitted by the Note Documents, any Priority Lien purported to be granted under any Note Document on Collateral ceases to be an enforceable and perfected first priority Lien, subject to Permitted Liens; provided that if such failure is susceptible to cure, no Event of Default shall arise with respect thereto until 60 days after any Officer of the Main Issuer or any Subsidiary becomes aware of such failure, which failure has not been cured during such time period; and

(3)    the Issuers, or any Person acting on behalf of any of them, denies or disaffirms, in writing, any obligation of the Issuers set forth in or arising under any Note Document establishing Priority Liens;

(k)    (i) any termination of the Surety Transaction Support Agreement by any sureties signatory thereto, provided that such termination or terminations result in the Main IssuerIssuers or any of itstheir Subsidiaries making payments or delivering collateral to such sureties beyond the collateral that such sureties are entitled to as of the Issue Date, and such payments or additional collateral are in excess of a Fair Market Value (or face value with respect to delivered letters of credit or guarantees) of $20.0 million in the aggregate, or (ii) any modification or amendment of or supplement to the Surety Transaction Support Agreement materially adverse to Peabody or any of its Subsidiaries;

(l)    Peabody fails to comply with any obligation under the Transaction Support Agreement that survives or arises after the Issue Date (including any post-effective date covenant) and the default or breach continues for a period of 30 consecutive days after written notice to Peabody by the Trustee or to Peabody and the Trustee by the Holders of 25% or more in aggregate principal amount of the Notes; or

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(m)    the termination of the Management Services Agreements unless at the time of such termination there are arrangements in place providing for substantially the same services to be provided to the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries on terms not materially less favorable to the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries than the Management Services Agreements or the Management Services Agreements are amended in any manner materially adverse to the Main Issuer and its Subsidiaries.; or

(n)     any subordinated Debt or any Debt secured by a Junior Lien (including any Junior Lien Debt) permitted hereunder or the guarantees thereof or, in the case of any Debt secured by a Junior Lien (including any Junior Lien Debt), the Liens securing such Debt, shall cease, for any reason, to be validly subordinated to the Obligations of the Issuers hereunder as provided in the Collateral Trust Agreement or the indenture or other instrument governing such Debt or any Issuer or Guarantor, the trustee in respect of any such Debt or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of such Debt shall so assert.

If any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or Section 6.01(h) hereof with respect to any Issuer) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by written notice to the Main Issuer (and to the Trustee if the notice is given by the Holders), may declare the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes to be immediately due and payable. Upon a declaration of acceleration, such principal and accrued interest will become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or Section 6.01(h) hereof occurs with respect to the Main Issuer, Co-Issuer or any other Subsidiary that is a Significant Subsidiary, the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes then outstanding will become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that if the Notes are accelerated or otherwise become due prior to their Stated Maturity, in each case, as a result of an Event of Default (including, without limitation, an Event of Default under Section 6.01(g) or Section 6.01(h) hereof (including the acceleration of any portion of the Notes by operation of law)), the greater of (i) the Applicable Premium and (ii) the amount by which the applicable redemption price set forth in the table under Section 3.07 hereof exceeds the principal amount of the Notes (the “Redemption Price Premium”), as applicable, with respect to an optional redemption of the Notes shall also be due and payable as though the Notes had been optionally redeemed on the date of such acceleration and shall constitute part of the Obligations with respect to the Notes in view of the impracticability and difficulty of ascertaining actual damages and by mutual agreement of the parties as to a reasonable calculation of each Holder’s lost profits as a result thereof. If the Redemption Price Premium becomes due and payable, it shall be deemed to be principal of the Notes, and interest shall accrue on the full principal amount of the Notes (including the Redemption Price Premium) from and after the applicable triggering event, including in connection with an Event of Default specified under Section 6.01(g) or Section 6.01(h) hereof. Any Redemption Price Premium payable above shall be presumed to be liquidated damages sustained by each holder as the result of the acceleration of the Notes and the Issuers and the Wilpinjong Credit Partiesany Guarantor to the extent they provide guarantees for the Notes pursuant to Article X agree that it is reasonable under the circumstances currently existing. The premium shall also be payable in the event the Notes or this Indenture are satisfied, released or discharged through foreclosure, whether by judicial proceeding, deed in lieu of foreclosure, sale or collection of the Collateral or by any other means, or in connection with the restructuring, reorganization or compromise of the obligations by a plan of reorganization or otherwise. THE ISSUERS, AND TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE, THE WILPINJONG CREDIT PARTIESANY GUARANTOR IN ANY APPLICABLE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, EXPRESSLY WAIVE (TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THEY MAY LAWFULLY DO SO) THE PROVISIONS OF ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE STATUTE OR LAW THAT PROHIBITS OR MAY PROHIBIT THE COLLECTION OF THE FOREGOING PREMIUM IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUCH ACCELERATION. The Issuers and if applicable, the Wilpinjong Credit Partiesany Guarantor will expressly agree (to the fullest extent they may lawfully do so) that: (A) the Redemption Price Premium is reasonable and is the product of an arm’s length transaction between sophisticated business entities ably represented by counsel; (B) the Redemption Price Premium shall be payable notwithstanding the then prevailing market rates at the time acceleration occurs; (C) there has been a course of conduct between Holders and the Issuers giving specific consideration in this transaction for such agreement to pay the Redemption Price Premium; and (D) the Issuers and any Guarantor shall be estopped from claiming differently than as agreed to in this paragraph. The Issuers and if

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applicable, the Wilpinjong Credit Partiesany Guarantor, expressly acknowledge that their agreement to pay the Redemption Price Premium to Holders as herein described was a material inducement to investors to acquire the Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in the preceding paragraph to the contrary, in the event the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer is consummated, no Redemption Price Premium shall be due and payable with respect to any Notes tendered and exchanged pursuant to the Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer.

Any notice of Default, notice of acceleration or instruction to the Trustee to provide a notice of Default, notice of acceleration or take any other action (a “Noteholder Direction”) provided by any one or more Holders (each a “Directing Holder”) must be accompanied by a written representation from each such Holder delivered to the Main Issuer and the Trustee that such Holder is not (or, in the case such holder is DTC or its nominee, that such Holder is being instructed solely by beneficial owners that are not) Net Short (a “Position Representation”), which representation, in the case of a Noteholder Direction relating to the delivery of a notice of Default (a “Default Direction”) shall be deemed a continuing representation until the resulting Event of Default is cured or otherwise ceases to exist or the Notes are accelerated. In addition, each Directing Holder is deemed, at the time of providing a Noteholder Direction, to covenant to provide the Main Issuer with such other information as the Main Issuer may reasonably request from time to time in order to verify the accuracy of such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s Position Representation within five Business Days of request therefor (a “Verification Covenant”). In any case in which the holder is DTC or its nominee, any Position Representation or Verification Covenant required hereunder shall be provided by the beneficial owner of the Notes in lieu of DTC or its nominee and DTC shall be entitled to conclusively rely on such Position Representation and Verification Covenant in delivering its direction to the Trustee.

If, following the delivery of a Noteholder Direction, but prior to acceleration of the Notes, the Main Issuer determines in good faith that there is a reasonable basis to believe a Directing Holder was, at any relevant time, in breach of its Position Representation and provides to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that the Main Issuer has initiated litigation with a court of competent jurisdiction seeking a determination that such Directing Holder was, at such time, in breach of its Position Representation, and seeking to invalidate any Event of Default that resulted from the applicable Noteholder Direction, the cure period with respect to such Default shall be automatically stayed and the cure period with respect to such Event of Default shall be automatically reinstituted and any remedy stayed pending a final and non-appealable determination of a court of competent jurisdiction on such matter. If, following the delivery of a Noteholder Direction, but prior to acceleration of the Notes, the Issuers provide to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that a Directing Holder failed to satisfy its Verification Covenant, the cure period with respect to such Default shall be automatically stayed and the cure period with respect to any Event of Default that resulted from the applicable Noteholder Direction shall be automatically reinstituted and any remedy stayed pending satisfaction of such Verification Covenant. Any breach of the Position Representation shall result in such Holder’s participation in such Noteholder Direction being disregarded; and, if, without the participation of such Holder, the percentage of Notes held by the remaining Holders that provided such Noteholder Direction would have been insufficient to validly provide such Noteholder Direction, such Noteholder Direction shall be void ab initio (except with respect to any indemnity offered to the Trustee), with the effect that such Event of Default shall be deemed never to have occurred, any acceleration voided and the Trustee shall be deemed not to have received such Noteholder Direction or any notice of such Default or Event of Default.

Notwithstanding anything in the preceding two paragraphs to the contrary, any Noteholder Direction delivered to the Trustee in connection with a Default under clauses (c), (d), (e), (f) or (j) during the pendency of an Event of Default under clause (g) or (h) as a result of a bankruptcy or similar proceeding shall not require compliance with the two immediately preceding paragraphs.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any Noteholder Direction delivered to it in accordance with this Indenture, shall have no duty to inquire as to or investigate the accuracy of any Position Representation, enforce compliance with any Verification Covenant, verify any statements in any Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer delivered to it, or otherwise make calculations, investigations or determinations with respect to Derivative Instruments, Net Shorts, Long Derivative Instruments, Short Derivative Instruments or otherwise. The Trustee shall have no liability to the Main Issuer, any Holder or any other Person in acting in good faith on a Noteholder Direction.

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The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by written notice to the Main Issuer and to the Trustee may waive all past Defaults and rescind and annul a declaration of acceleration and its consequences if:

(a)    all existing Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of, and interest on, the Notes that have become due solely by the declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived; and

(b)    the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction.

In the event of a declaration of acceleration of the Notes because an Event of Default described in Section 6.01(e) hereof has occurred and is continuing, the declaration of acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically annulled, without any action by the Trustee or the Holders, if the Event of Default or payment default triggering such Event of Default pursuant to Section 6.01(e) hereof shall be remedied or cured, or rescinded or waived by the holders of the Debt, or the Debt that gave rise to such Event of Default shall have been discharged in full, within 30 days after the declaration of acceleration with respect thereto and if (i) the annulment of the acceleration of the Notes would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (ii) 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.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing on the Notes, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal of, premium on, if any, or 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.

The Holders of 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 as otherwise provided in Section 6.02 hereof and Section 9.02 hereof. 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.

The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law, this Indenture or the other Note Documents, that may involve the Trustee in personal liability, or that the Trustee determines in good faith may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Holders not joining in the giving of such direction (it being understood that the Trustee shall have no duty to determine whether any direction is prejudicial to any Holder). In addition, the Trustee may take any other action it deems proper that is not inconsistent with any such direction received from the Holders. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Trustee shall be obligated to take any action at the direction of Holders of Notes unless such Holders have offered, and if requested, provided to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee.

A Holder of a Note may not institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, the Notes or the other Note Documents, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy under this Indenture, the Notes or the other Note Documents, unless:

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(a)    the Holder of a Note has previously given to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default;

(b)    the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes have made a written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of the Event of Default in its own name as Trustee under this Indenture;

(c)    the Holders of the Notes have offered and, if requested, provided to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any costs, liabilities or expenses to be incurred in compliance with such request;

(d)    the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

(e)    during such 60-day period, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes have not given the Trustee a direction that is inconsistent with such written 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.

Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the right of any Holder of a Note to receive payment of principal of, or interest on its Note on or after the Stated Maturities thereof, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of that Holder.

If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) hereof occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover a judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Issuers for the whole amount of principal of, premium on, if any, and interest, if any, 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.

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 Issuers (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 7.06 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 7.06 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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Subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement, if the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article VI, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

First: to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee, their respective agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 7.06 hereof, including payment of all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

Second: to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, respectively; and

Third: to the Issuers or to such other party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

The Trustee, upon written notice to the Issuers, may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10.

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 and expenses, 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 aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.

ARTICLE VII.

TRUSTEE

(a)    If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, 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.

(b)    Except during the continuance of an Event of Default that is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee:

(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 (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations stated therein).

(c)    The Trustee may not be relieved from liabilities for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(1)    this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraphs (b) or (e) of this Section 7.01;

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(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 grossly 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), (c) and (e) 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 or powers under this Indenture at the request of any Holders, unless such Holder has offered (and if requested, provided) to the Trustee security and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee 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 Issuers. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers or duties under this Indenture.

(a)    The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, judgment, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or 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.

(b)    Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer 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 Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer or Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee may consult with counsel and the 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 or attorney 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 Issuers will be sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Main Issuer.

(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 a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge thereof and such Holders have offered, and if requested, provided, to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against the losses, liabilities and expenses that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(g)    The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or be charged with knowledge of any default or Event of Default under the Notes unless written notice of such default or Event of Default from the Issuers or any Holder of Notes is received by a Responsible Officer of 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, the Collateral Trustee, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

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(i)    Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may request that the Main Issuer deliver a 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 certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.

(j)    Anything in this Indenture notwithstanding, in no event shall the Trustee be liable for special, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to loss of profit), even if the Trustee has been advised as to the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

(k)    The Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Indenture arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its control, including, without limitation, any provision of any law or regulation or any act of any Governmental Authority; acts of God; earthquakes; fire; flood; terrorism; wars and other military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics or pandemics; riots; interruptions; loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communication services; the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex or other wire or communication facility; accidents; labor disputes; and acts of civil or military authority.

(l)    The permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.

(m)    The Trustee shall have no duty to know or inquire as to the performance or nonperformance of any provision of any other agreement, instrument, or document, including without limitation, the Transaction Support Agreement, the Surety Transaction Support Agreement, the step-in deed with respect to the Wilpinjong Mine, the Management Services Agreements, other than this Indenture and the other Note Documents.

The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuers or any Affiliate of the Issuers 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 or resign. Any Agent may do the same with like rights and duties. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.08 and 7.09 hereof.

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 Issuers’ use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money paid to the Issuers or upon the Issuers’ 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.

If any Default occurs and is continuing and is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee will send notice of the Default to each Holder within 90 days after it occurs, unless the Default has been cured, provided that except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of or interest on, any Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders. The Trustee will not be deemed to have knowledge of any Defaults or Events of Default unless written notice of an event, which is in fact a Default, has been delivered to the Trustee at its office specified in this Indenture and such notice references the Notes and the Indenture and states it is a “Notice of Default.”

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(a)    The Issuers will pay to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee from time to time such compensation as is agreed in writing to from time to time by the Issuers and the Trustee or Collateral Trustee, as applicable, for its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder. The Trustee’s and the Collateral Trustee’s compensation will not be limited by any law on compensation of a Trustee of an express trust. The Issuers will reimburse the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee promptly upon request for all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or made by it in addition to the compensation for its services except for any such disbursement, advance or expense as shall have been caused by the Trustee’s or Collateral Trustee’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final, non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction). Such expenses will include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee’s and Collateral Trustee’s respective agents and counsel.

(b)    The Issuers and any Guarantors, jointly and severally, will indemnify the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee (which for purposes of this Section 7.06(b) shall include each of their officers, directors, employees and agents) against any and all losses, liabilities or expenses incurred by it arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties under this Indenture, including the reasonable costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture against the Issuers (including this Section 7.06) and defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Issuers, any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder and under the other Note Documents, except to the extent any such loss, liability or expense shall be determined to have been caused by the Trustee’s or Collateral Trustee’s, as the case may be, own gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final, non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction). The Trustee will notify the Issuers promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Issuers will not relieve the Issuers of their obligations hereunder. The Issuers will defend the claim and the Trustee will cooperate in the defense. The Trustee and Collateral Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuers will pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Issuers need not pay for any settlement made without their consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.

(c)    The obligations of the Issuers under this Section 7.06 will survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the resignation or removal of the Trustee or the Collateral Trustee.

(d)    To secure the Issuers’ payment obligations in this Section 7.06, 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 of, premium on, if any, or interest, if any, on, particular Notes. Such Lien will survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. The Trustee’s and Collateral Trustee’s respective right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or Indebtedness of the Issuers.

(e)    When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) 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)    “Trustee” or “Collateral Trustee” for purposes of this Section shall include any predecessor Trustee or Collateral Trustee; provided, however, that the gross negligence or willful misconduct of any Trustee or Collateral Trustee hereunder shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee or Collateral Trustee hereunder.

(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 7.07.

(b)    The Trustee may resign in writing at any time upon 30 days’ written notice to the Issuers and be discharged from the trust hereby created by so notifying the Issuers. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee with respect to such Notes by so notifying the Trustee and the Issuers in writing. The Issuers may remove the Trustee if:

(1)    the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.09 hereof;

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(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 the Notes for any reason, the Issuers will promptly appoint a successor Trustee of the Notes. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Issuers.

(d)    If a successor ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuers, or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(e)    If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder of such Notes who has been a Holder for at least six months, fails to comply with Section 7.09 hereof, such Holder of such Notes 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 Issuers. 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 or electronically send 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 7.06 hereof. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.07, the Issuers’ obligations under Section 7.06 hereof will continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

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.

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 $100.0 million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.

ARTICLE VIII.

LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

The Issuers may at any time, at the option of their respective Boards of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer, elect to have either Section 8.02 or Section 8.03 hereof be applied to the outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article VIII.

Upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.02, the Issuers 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 on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”). For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Issuers will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Debt represented by the outstanding Notes, which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 8.05 hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture

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referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all their other obligations under such Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuers, shall execute such instruments reasonably requested by the Issuers acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

(1)    the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to in Section 8.04 hereof;

(2)    the Issuers’ obligations with respect to such Notes under Article II and Section 4.02 hereof;

(3)    the rights, powers, trusts, duties, immunities and indemnities of the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee, and the Issuers’ obligations in connection therewith; and

(4)    this Article VIII.

Subject to compliance with this Article VIII, the Issuers may exercise their option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.03 hereof.

Upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.03, the Issuers and Peabody, as applicable, 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 4.03, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21 and 4.22 hereof and Section 5.01(c) 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, the Issuers’ 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 with respect to the Notes, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes will be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.03, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, Sections 6.01(c), (d), (e), (f), (i), (j), (k), (l) and (m) hereof will not constitute Events of Default with respect to the Notes.

In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof:

(1)    the Issuers must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and non-callable Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm, or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest and premium, if any, on, the outstanding Notes on the stated date for payment thereof or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, and the Issuers must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to such stated date for payment or to a particular redemption date;

(2)    in the case of an election under Section 8.02 hereof, the Issuers must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming that:

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(A)    the Issuers have 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 will confirm that, the beneficial owners 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 Issuers must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming that the beneficial owners 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 under the Notes 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 (and any similar concurrent deposit relating to other Debt), and the granting of Liens to secure such borrowings);

(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 and the agreements governing any other Debt being defeased, discharged or replaced) to which the Issuers is a party or by which the Issuers are bound;

(6)    the Issuers must deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that the deposit was not made by the Issuers with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Notes over the other creditors of the Issuers with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any creditors of the Issuers or others; and

(7)    the Issuers must deliver to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.

In addition, the Collateral will be released from the Lien securing the Notes, as provided in Section 12.04 hereof, in accordance with this Article VIII hereof.

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 Issuers 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, if any, and interest, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Issuers 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.

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Notwithstanding anything in this Article VIII to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Issuers from time to time upon the written request of the Issuers 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.

Subject to applicable abandoned property law, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Issuers, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium on, if any, or interest, if any, on, any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuers on its request or (if then held by the Issuers) will be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note will thereafter be permitted to look only to the Issuers for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Issuers 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 Issuers 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 Issuers.

If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. 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 Issuers’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes 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 Issuers make any payment of principal of, premium on, if any, or interest, if any, on, any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Issuers 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 IX.

AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

(a)    Notwithstanding Section 9.02 hereof, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee, as applicable, may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes and the other Note Documents without notice to or the consent of any Holder of a Note:

(1)    to cure any ambiguity, defect, omission, mistake or inconsistency in the Note Documents;

(2)    to comply with the requirements of Section 5.01 hereof;

(3)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of an appointment by a successor ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇;

(4)    to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, provided that the uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Notes are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code;

(5)    to provide for any Guarantee of the Notes or to confirm and evidence the release, termination or discharge of any Guarantee of the Notes when such release, termination or discharge is permitted by this Indenture;

(6)    [reserved];

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(7)    (i) to conform to the provisions of the “Description of the New Co-Issuer Notes” for the Notes; or (ii) to conform the text of the Note Documents or any other such documents (in recordable form) as may be necessary or advisable (in the Issuers’ reasonable discretion) to preserve and confirm the relative priorities of the Priority Lien Obligations and as such priorities are contemplated and set forth in the Collateral Trust Agreement;

(8)    make, complete or confirm any grant of Collateral permitted or required by any of the Note Documents, including to secure additional Priority Lien Debt;

(9)    release, discharge or terminate Liens on Collateral in accordance with the Note Documents and to confirm and evidence any such release, discharge or termination;

(10)    as provided in the Collateral Trust Agreement;

(11)    in the case of any Note Document, to include therein any legend required to be set forth therein pursuant to the Collateral Trust Agreement or to modify any such legend as required by the Collateral Trust Agreement;

(12)    in the case of this Indenture, to make any amendment to the provisions relating to the transfer and legending of the Notes as permitted hereunder, including, without limitation, to facilitate the issuance and administration of the Notes; provided that compliance with this Indenture as so amended may not result in the Notes being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable securities laws;

(13)    to comply with the rules of any applicable securities depositary; or

(14)    to make any other change that does not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note, including, without limitation, any such change as may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) of the Transaction Support Agreement that may be set forth in an amendment or supplement to or amendment and restatement of this Indenture accompanied by, in addition to the documents required by Section 9.05 and 13.02, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer stating that such changes are required by such Section 2(c) of the Transaction Support Agreement and do not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

Upon the request of the Issuers accompanied by a resolution of their respective Board of Directors, authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to any Note Document, and upon receipt by the Trustee and Collateral Trustee, if applicable of the documents described in Section 9.05 hereof, the Trustee shall and shall direct the Collateral Trustee to, if applicable, join with the Issuers in the execution of any amended or supplemental indenture, or any supplement or amendment to any Note Document, authorized or permitted by the terms of this Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but each of the Trustee and Collateral Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into such amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to such Note Document that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture, the Note Documents or otherwise.

Except as provided below in this Section 9.02, the Issuers, the Trustee and Collateral Trustee, as applicable, may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes and the other Note Documents with the consent of the Holders of at least 66.67% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and, subject to Section 6.04 and Section 6.07 hereof, compliance with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of at least 66.67% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, any existing Default or Event of Default may, by notice to the Trustee, be waived by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes in accordance with Section 6.04 hereof.

Upon the request of the Issuers accompanied by a resolution of their respective Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to any Note Document, and upon the filing with the Trustee and Collateral Trustee, if applicable, of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of the consent of the Holders as aforesaid, and upon receipt by the Trustee and Collateral Trustee, if

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applicable, of the documents described in Section 9.05 hereof, the Trustee and Collateral Trustee, if applicable, shall join with the Issuers in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to any Note Document unless such amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to such Note Document affects the Trustee’s or Collateral Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case each of the Trustee and Collateral AgentTrustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to such Note Document.

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Issuers shall send to the Holders affected thereby (with a copy to the Trustee) a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the Issuers to send such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amended or supplemental indenture or waiver.

Subject to Section 6.04 and Section 6.07 hereof, the Holders of at least 66.67% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may waive compliance in a particular instance by the Issuers with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes.

Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section 9.02, unless consented to by the Holders of at least 85.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02 may not (i) release the Liens for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes on all or substantially all of the Collateral, (ii) alter or waive the provisions with respect to the redemption of the Notes described under Section 4.10, Section 4.14, Section 4.16 and Section 4.18 or (iii) modify or change any provision of this Indenture affecting the ranking of the Notes in a manner materially adverse to the Holders of the Notes.

Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section 9.02, without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

(1)    reduce the principal amount of or change the Stated Maturity of any installment of principal of any Note or alter or waive the provisions with respect to the redemption of the Notes (other than the provisions described under Section 4.10, Section 4.14 and Section 4.16);

(2)    reduce the rate of or change the Stated Maturity of any interest payment on any Note;

(3)    reduce the amount payable upon the redemption of any Note or, in respect of an optional redemption, the times at which any Note may be redeemed;

(4)    after the time an Offer to Purchase is required to have been made, reduce the purchase amount or purchase price, or extend the latest expiration date or purchase date thereunder;

(5)    make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Note;

(6)    impair the right of any Holder of Notes to receive any principal payment or interest payment on such Holder’s Notes, on or after the Stated Maturity thereof, or institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment;

(7)    make any change in the percentage of the principal amount of the Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment or waiver;

(8)    [reserved];

(9)    [reserved];

(10)    modify or amend the provisions in this Indenture regarding the waiver of past Defaults and the waiver of certain covenants by the Holders of such Notes affected thereby, except to increase any

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percentage vote required or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture may not be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby; or

(11)    modify or amend any of the above or this amendment and waiver provision.

Neither the Issuers nor any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates may, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Notes unless such consideration is offered to be paid or agreed to be paid to all Holders that consent, waive or agree to amend such term or provision within the time period set forth in the solicitation documents relating to the consent, waiver or amendment.

For the avoidance of doubt, no amendment to, or deletion of any of the covenants described in Article IV hereof, in each case in accordance with the provisions governing such amendment or deletion contained in this Indenture, or action taken in compliance with such covenants in effect at the time of such action, shall be deemed to impair or affect any legal rights of any Holders to receive payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes.

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 and the Issuers receive 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.

The Issuers may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to consent to such amendment, supplement or waiver or revoke any consent previously given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date. No consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days after such record date except to the extent that the requisite number of consents to the amendment, supplement or waiver have been obtained within such 90-day period or as set forth in the next paragraph of this Section 9.03.

After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (1) through (11) of Section 9.02 hereof, in which case, the amendment, supplement or waiver shall bind only each Holder of a Note who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same indebtedness as the consenting Holder’s Note.

The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Issuers, in exchange for all Notes, may issue and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuers Order, shall authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver. Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

The Trustee and Collateral Trustee shall sign any amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to a Note Document, as applicable, authorized pursuant to this Article IX if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee or Collateral Trustee. In executing any amended or supplemental indenture or amendment or supplement to any Note Document, the Trustee and Collateral Trustee shall be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 7.01 hereof) shall be fully

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protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment or supplement is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, the Collateral Trust Agreement and the other Note Documents and that all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such amendments or supplements have been satisfied.

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX, this Indenture or the Notes shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

ARTICLE X.

NOTE GUARANTEES

If any of PIC Acquisition, Wilpinjong Opco or any of the Main Issuer’s direct or indirect Subsidiaries becomes a Guarantor upon execution of a supplemental indenture with the Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto in accordance with Section 4.15 hereof, each such Guarantor will be subject to the terms of this Article X.

(a)    Subject to this Article X, upon execution of a supplemental indenture with the Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto in accordance with Section 4.15 hereof, each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee and each of their successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Issuers hereunder or thereunder, that:

(1)    the principal of, premium, if any, on, and interest (including interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or like proceeding relating to either of the Issuers or any other Guarantor, whether or not allowed in such proceeding), if any, 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, premium on, if any, and interest (including interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or like proceeding relating to either of the Issuers or any other Guarantor, whether or not allowed in such proceeding), if any, on, the Notes, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Issuers to the Holders, the Trustee or the Collateral 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 continuing guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection.

(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 Issuers, 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, marshaling, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of either of the Issuers, any right to require a proceeding first against either of the Issuers, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenant that this Note Guarantee will not be subject to any impairment, set off, defense, counterclaim or discharge except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Notes and this Indenture. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Note Guarantee and the obligations of each

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Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by, and each Guarantor hereby waives all rights, claims or defenses that it might otherwise have with respect to:

(1)    any renewal, extension or acceleration of, or any increase in the amount of the obligations hereunder, or any amendment, supplement, modification or waiver of, or any consent to departure from, this Indenture;

(2)    any change, reorganization or termination of the corporate structure or existence of the Issuers or any other Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries and any corresponding restructuring of the obligations hereunder; or

(3)    the validity, perfection, non-perfection or lapse in perfection, priority or avoidance of any security interest or lien, the release of any or all Collateral securing, or purporting to secure, the Obligations hereunder or any other impairment of such Collateral.

(c)    If any Holder, the Trustee or the Collateral Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Issuers, the Guarantors or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to either the Issuers or the Guarantors, any amount paid by either to the Trustee, the Collateral 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 any right of subrogation, reimbursement or contribution it may have in relation to the Holders or in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby shall be subordinated to, and shall not be enforceable 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, the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee, on the other hand, (1) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article VI 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 VI 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, the Trustee or the Collateral Trustee under the Note Guarantee.

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 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 X, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.

To evidence its Note Guarantee set forth in Section 10.01 hereof, 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 10.01 hereof will remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Note Guarantee.

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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 Issuers or any of their Subsidiaries creates or acquires any Subsidiary after the date of this Indenture, if required by Section 4.15 hereof, the Issuers will cause such Subsidiary to comply with the provisions of Section 4.15 hereof and this Article X, to the extent applicable.

(a)    The Note Guarantee and all other obligations under this Indenture of a Guarantor will terminate and be released: (a) in connection with a sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation or merger or otherwise) of the Guarantor or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Guarantor (other than to the Issuers or their Subsidiaries) in connection with a transaction or circumstance that does not violate this Indenture; (b) upon a disposition of the majority of the Capital Stock of the Guarantor to a third Person in connection with a transaction or circumstance that does not violate this Indenture, after which the Guarantor is no longer a Subsidiary; or (c) upon a liquidation or dissolution of the Guarantor so long as no Default occurs as a result thereof, if its assets are distributed to the Issuers or another Guarantor; or (d) upon Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance pursuant to Article VIII hereof or upon satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Article XI hereof.

(b)    Upon delivery by the Issuers to the Trustee of an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer to the effect that such sale or other disposition was made in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10 hereof, or such Note Guarantee is to be released pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.04(a) and the documents required by Section 13.02 hereof, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably requested by the Main Issuer in order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from all of its obligations under its Note Guarantee and this Indenture. 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 it has guaranteed pursuant to this Article X.

ARTICLE XI.

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

This Indenture will be discharged with respect to the Notes 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 been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuers, 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 sending of a notice of redemption or otherwise or will become due and payable within one year and the Issuers have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders of Notes , 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 Debt on the Notes not delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, to the date of maturity or redemption;

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(2)    in respect of subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section 11.01, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit and/or any similar deposit relating to other Debt and, in each case, the granting of Liens to secure such borrowings) and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other instrument to which the Issuers are a party or by which the Issuers are bound (other than with respect to the borrowing of funds to be applied concurrently to make the deposit required to effect such satisfaction and discharge and any similar concurrent deposit relating to other Debt, and in each case the granting of Liens to secure such borrowings);

(3)    the Issuers have paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture with respect to the Notes; and

(4)    the Issuers have delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee under this Indenture to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at maturity or on the redemption date, as the case may be.

In addition, the Issuers must deliver an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge (and any related release of Collateral) have been satisfied. The Collateral will be released from the Lien securing the Notes, as provided in Section 12.04 hereof in accordance with this Article XI.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, if money has been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section 11.01, the provisions of Sections 11.02 and 8.06 hereof will survive with respect to the Notes. In addition, nothing in this Section 11.01 will be deemed to discharge those provisions of Section 7.06 hereof, that, by their terms, survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

Subject to the provisions of Section 8.06 hereof, all money or Government Securities deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 11.01 hereof 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 Issuers acting as their own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, 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 11.01 hereof 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 Issuers’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 11.01 hereof; provided that if the Issuers have made any payment of principal of, premium on, if any, or interest, if any, on, any Notes because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Issuers 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 XII.

COLLATERAL AND SECURITY

The due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium (if any) and interest, if any, on, the Notes when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of, premium (if any) and interest, if any, on the Notes and performance of all other obligations of the Issuers and any Guarantors to the Holders or the Trustee and the Notes (including, without limitation, any Note Guarantees), according to the terms hereunder or thereunder, are secured as provided herein and in the Security Documents.

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Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Note, consents and agrees to the terms of the Security Documents (including, without limitation, the provisions providing for foreclosure and release of Collateral) as the same may be in effect or may be amended from time to time in accordance with their terms and authorizes and appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association as the Trustee and as the Priority Collateral Trustee, and each Holder directs the Trustee to enter (and to direct the Priority Collateral Trustee to enter) into the Security Documents and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights thereunder in accordance with respect to the provisions thereof. Each of the Issuers consents and agrees, and any Guarantor will consent and agree, to be bound by the terms of the Security Documents, as the same may be in effect from time to time, and agrees to perform its obligations thereunder in accordance therewith.

The Issuers will deliver to the Trustee copies of all documents delivered to the Priority Collateral Trustee pursuant to the Security Documents, and will do or cause to be done all such acts and things as may be required by the provisions of the Security Documents, to assure and confirm to the Priority Collateral Trustee the security interest in the Collateral contemplated by the Security Documents or any part thereof, as from time to time constituted, so as to render the same available for the security and benefit of this Indenture and of the Notes. The Issuers will take, and will cause any Guarantors to take, any and all actions reasonably required to cause the Security Documents to create and maintain, as security for the Priority Lien Obligations, a valid and enforceable perfected Lien in and on all the Collateral in favor of the Priority Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, holders of other Priority Lien Obligations, to the extent required by, and with the Lien priority required under, the Secured Debt Documents.

This Article XII and the provisions of each other Security Document are subject to the terms, conditions and benefits set forth in the Collateral Trust Agreement. The Issuers consent to and agree to be bound by, and any Guarantors will consent to and agree to be bound by, the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement, as the same may be in effect from time to time, and to perform its obligations thereunder in accordance therewith. Each Holder of Notes, by its acceptance of the Notes (a) agrees that it will be bound by, and will take no actions contrary to, the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement, (b) authorizes and instructs the Trustee, on behalf of each holder of Obligations hereunder, to execute and deliver the Collateral Trust Agreement (and to direct the Priority Collateral Trustee to execute and deliver the Collateral Trust Agreement), to appoint the Priority Collateral Trustee thereunder, and to perform its obligations thereunder as Priority Lien Representative and (c) authorizes and instructs the Priority Collateral Trustee to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Security Documents.

The Indenture and the Security Documents shall also be subject to the Agreed Security Principles.

(1)    Wilmington Trust, National Association will initially act as the Priority Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and all other Priority Lien Obligations outstanding from time to time.

(2)    Wilmington Trust, National Association (in its capacity as “Priority Collateral Trustee” under the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement) will initially act as the Junior Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Junior Lien Obligations outstanding from time to time.

(3)    Neither the Issuers nor any of their Affiliates may act as Collateral Trustee.

(4)    Each of the Priority Collateral Trustee and the Junior Collateral Trustee will hold (directly or through co-trustees or agents), and will be entitled to enforce, all Liens on the Collateral at any time held by it created by the relevant Security Documents, subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement.

(5)    Except as provided in the Collateral Trust Agreement or as directed by an Act of Required Secured Parties in accordance with the Collateral Trust Agreement, the Collateral Trustee will not be obligated:

(A)    to act upon directions purported to be delivered to it by any Person;

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(B)    to foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any Lien; or

(C)    to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any or all of the Security Documents, the Liens created thereby or the Collateral.

The Issuers will deliver to each Secured Debt Representative copies of all Security Documents delivered to the Collateral Trustee acting for the benefit of such Secured Debt Representative.

The Collateral Trustee’s Liens on the Collateral will be released in any one or more of the circumstances described in the Collateral Trust Agreement.

The Collateral Trustee’s Liens upon the Collateral will no longer secure the Notes outstanding under this Indenture or any other Obligations under this Indenture, and the right of the Holders and such Obligations to the benefits and proceeds of the Collateral Trustee’s Liens on the Collateral will terminate and be discharged:

(1)    upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, in accordance with Article XI hereof;

(2)    upon a Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance of the Notes in accordance with Article VIII hereof;

(3)    upon payment in full and discharge of all Notes outstanding under this Indenture and all Obligations that are outstanding, due and payable under this Indenture at the time the Notes are paid in full and discharged;

(4)    in whole or in part, with the consent of the Holders of the requisite percentage of the Notes in accordance with Article IX hereof; or

(5)     with respect to the assets of any Guarantor, at the time such Guarantor is released from its Note Guarantee in accordance with Section 10.04.

Notwithstanding:

(1)    anything to the contrary contained in the Security Documents;

(2)    the time of Incurrence of any Series of Priority Lien Debt or Series of Junior Lien Debt;

(3)    the order or method of attachment or perfection of any Liens securing any Series of Priority Lien Debt;

(4)    the time or order of filing or recording of financing statements, mortgages or other documents filed or recorded to perfect any Lien upon any Collateral;

(5)    the time of taking possession or control over any Collateral;

(6)    that any Priority Lien may not have been perfected or may be or have become subordinated, by equitable subordination or otherwise, to any other Lien; or

(7)    the rules for determining priority under any law governing relative priorities of Liens:

(A)    all Priority Liens granted at any time by the Issuers or any Guarantor will secure, equally and ratably, all present and future Priority Lien Obligations (including the Notes, if any, that remain outstanding following the offering); and

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(B)    all proceeds of all Priority Liens granted at any time by the Issuers or any Guarantor will be allocated and distributed equally and ratably on account of the Priority Lien Debt and other Priority Lien Obligations.

In addition, this Section 12.06 is intended for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable as a third party beneficiary by, each present and future Holder of Priority Lien Obligations, each present and future Priority Lien Representative and the Collateral Trustee as holder of Priority Liens. The Priority Lien Representative of each future Series of Priority Lien Debt shall be required to deliver a Lien sharing and priority confirmation to the Collateral Trustee and the Trustee at the time of Incurrence of such Series of Priority Lien Debt.

Nothing in this Indenture or the Security Documents will:

(1)    impair, as to the Issuers and the Holders, the obligation of the Issuers to pay principal of, premium and interest on the Notes in accordance with their terms or any other obligation of the Issuers or any other Grantor;

(2)    affect the relative rights of Holders as against any other creditors of the Issuers or any other Grantor (other than holders of Priority Liens or Junior Liens);

(3)    restrict the right of any Holder to sue for payments that are then due and owing (but not enforce any judgment in respect thereof against any Collateral to the extent specifically prohibited by the Collateral Trust Agreement);

(4)    restrict or prevent any Holder or other Priority Lien Obligations, the Priority Collateral Trustee or any Priority Lien Representative from exercising any of its rights or remedies upon a Default or Event of Default not specifically restricted or prohibited by the Collateral Trust Agreement; or

(5)    restrict or prevent any holder of Junior Lien Obligations, the Collateral Trustee or the Junior Lien Representative from taking any lawful action in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding not specifically restricted or prohibited by the Collateral Trust Agreement.

The Issuers and each of the other Grantors will do or cause to be done all acts and things that may be required, or that any Controlling Representative from time to time may reasonably request, to assure and confirm that the Collateral Trustee holds, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, duly created and enforceable and perfected Liens upon the Collateral (including, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, any property or assets that are acquired or otherwise become, or are required by any Secured Debt Document to become, Collateral after the Notes are issued), in each case, as contemplated by, and with the Lien priority required under, the Secured Debt Documents.

The Issuers and each of the other Grantors will promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver such Security Documents, instruments, certificates, notices and other documents, and take such other actions as shall be reasonably required, or that any Controlling Representative may reasonably request, to create, perfect, protect, assure or enforce the Liens and benefits intended to be conferred, in each case as contemplated by the Secured Debt Documents for the benefit of the Secured Parties; it being understood that none of the Collateral Trustee or any Secured Debt Representative shall have a duty to so request.

The Issuers and the other Grantors will:

(1)    keep their properties adequately insured at all times by financially sound and reputable insurers;

(2)    maintain such other insurance, to such extent and against such risks (and with such deductibles, retentions and exclusions), including fire and other risks insured against by extended coverage and coverage for acts of terrorism, as is customary with companies in the same or similar businesses

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operating in the same or similar locations, including public liability insurance against claims for personal injury or death or property damage occurring upon, in, about or in connection with the use of any properties owned, occupied or controlled by them;

(3)    maintain such other insurance as may be required by law; and

(4)    maintain such other insurance as may be required by the Security Documents.

Upon the request of the Collateral Trustee, the Issuers and the other Grantors will furnish to the Collateral Trustee full information as to their property and liability insurance carriers.

The Collateral Trustee and the Trustee, as applicable, are hereby directed and authorized to enter into any intercreditor agreement on behalf of, and binding with respect to, the Holders and their interest in designated assets, in connection with the Incurrence of any Secured Debt, including to clarify the respective rights of all parties in and to designated assets. The Collateral Trustee and Trustee, as applicable, shall enter into any intercreditor agreement at the request of the Main Issuer, provided that (in the case of such intercreditor agreement) the Main Issuer shall have delivered to the Collateral Trustee and the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer to the effect that such other intercreditor agreement complies with the provisions of this Indenture, the Notes and the Security Documents. The Collateral Trustee and the Trustee, as applicable, each agrees to execute and deliver any amendment to, waiver of, or supplement to any Security Document or intercreditor agreement authorized pursuant to Article IX or the Collateral Trust Agreement.

(a)    The Trustee, as Priority Lien Representative for the Notes, shall enter into the Collateral Trust Agreement to appoint Wilmington Trust, National Association to act as the Priority Collateral Trustee. The Trustee shall not be obligated to take any action (or to direct the Collateral Trustee to take any action) under the Collateral Trust Agreement or any other Security Document for the Notes without the written direction of the Holders and may request the direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (or the minimum consent for such action required under this Indenture) with respect to any such actions and, upon receipt of the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (or the minimum consent for such action required under this Indenture) along with security and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee, shall take such actions; provided, that upon the receipt by the Trustee and Collateral Trustee of a written request of the Issuers signed by an Officer (a “Security Document Order”), the Trustee and Collateral Trustee are hereby authorized to execute and enter into, and shall execute and enter into, without the further consent of any Holder or the Trustee and without liability to any Person, any Security Document to which it is a party or amendment or supplement thereto to be executed after the Issue Date; provided, further, that neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Trustee shall be required to execute or enter into any such Security Document which, in the Trustee’s or Collateral Trustee’s reasonable opinion is reasonably likely to adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee or Collateral Trustee, as the case may be, or that the Trustee or Collateral Trustee determines is reasonably likely to involve the Trustee or Collateral Trustee in personal liability. Such Security Document Order shall (i) state that it is being delivered to the Trustee and Collateral Trustee pursuant to, and is a Security Document Order referred to in, this Indenture and (ii) instruct the Trustee to execute and enter into (or direct the Collateral Trustee to execute and enter into) such Security Document. Other than as set forth in this Indenture, any such execution of a Security Document shall be at the direction and expense of the Issuers, upon delivery to the Trustee and Collateral Trustee of an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent in the Indenture and the other Note Documents to the execution and delivery of the Security Document have been satisfied.

(b)    Neither the Trustee nor any of its officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents shall be responsible or liable (i) for the legality, enforceability, effectiveness or sufficiency of the Security Documents, for the creation, perfection, priority, sufficiency, maintenance, renewal or protection of any Lien, or for any defect or deficiency as to any such matters, (ii) for any failure to demand, collect, foreclose or realize upon or otherwise enforce any of the Liens or Security Documents or any delay in doing so, or (iii) for the validity or sufficiency of the Collateral or any agreement or assignment contained therein, for the validity of the title, for insuring the Collateral

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or for the payment of taxes, charges, assessments or Liens upon the Collateral or otherwise as to the maintenance of the Collateral.

(c)    The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee under this Indenture, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified and compensated and all other rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits set forth in this Indenture are extended to the Trustee when acting under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the other Note Documents on behalf of the Holders.

(d)    The Trustee will not be responsible for filing any financing or continuation statements or recording any documents or instruments in any public office at any time or times or otherwise perfecting or maintaining the perfection of any Liens on the Collateral.

(e)    Whenever an action under the Collateral Trust Agreement requires an Act of Required Secured Parties, the Trustee, in its capacity as Priority Lien Representative, shall be entitled to seek the direction of Holders of the Notes. Subject to the next succeeding sentence, if the minimum consent or directions of Holders for such action required by Sections 6.05 or 9.02 or otherwise under this Indenture are met, the Trustee shall deliver a written direction to the Collateral Trustee (i) directing such Act of Required Secured Parties and (ii) notifying the Collateral Trustee of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes consenting or directing such action (it being agreed that if the requisite percentage of consent or direction is received by the Trustee, the Trustee shall consent or direct such action on behalf of all of the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes), which upon request of the Collateral Trustee, shall be accompanied by indemnity or security acceptable to the Collateral Trustee for any losses, liability or expenses that may be incurred in connection with such direction (it being understood that the Trustee, in its individual capacity, shall not be obligated to provide such indemnity or security). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the requested action requires the consent or direction of each Holder of the Notes affected thereby, then the Trustee shall not deliver a direction to the Collateral Trustee in such Act of Required Secured Parties unless a unanimous consent is obtained for the Holders of the Notes. For purposes of determining the consent or direction of Holders for an action under the Collateral Trust Agreement that requires an Act of Required Secured Parties, the Notes registered in the name of, or beneficially owned by, the Issuers or any Affiliate of the Issuers will be deemed not to be outstanding and neither the Issuers nor any Affiliate of the Issuers will be entitled to vote such Notes and the Issuers shall notify the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee in writing whether any Notes are owned by the Issuers or any of their Affiliates.

ARTICLE XIII.

MISCELLANEOUS

Any notice or communication by the Issuers or the Trustee to the others is duly given if in writing and delivered in Person or by first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), facsimile transmission or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others’ address:

If to the Issuers:

PIC AU Holdings LLC

PIC AU Holdings Corporation

▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇

St. Louis, Missouri 63101

Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇

Fax: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇

With a copy to:

Chief Legal Officer

Fax: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇

With a copy to:

▇▇▇▇▇ Day 77

West ▇▇▇▇▇▇

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Chicago, Illinois 60601

Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.

Fax: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇

If to the Trustee:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

Global Capital Markets

▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attention: PIC AU Holdings Notes Administrator

Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇

The Issuers 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 receipt acknowledged, if transmitted by facsimile or e-mail; 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 or otherwise sent in accordance with the Applicable Procedures. 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 the Issuers mail a notice or communication to Holders, it will mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or any Note, where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary for such Note (or its designee) pursuant to the customary procedures of such Depositary.

Upon any request or application by the Issuers to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Issuers shall furnish to the Trustee:

(1)    an Officer’s Certificate of the Main Issuer (which must include the statements set forth in Section 13.03 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 (which must include the statements set forth in Section 13.03 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants have been satisfied.

Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture 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.

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.

No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of either of the Issuers will have any liability for any obligations of the Issuers under the Notes, this Indenture, the Security Documents 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.

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.

The Issuers and the Guarantors agree that any suit, action or proceeding against the Issuers or any Guarantor brought by any Holder or the Trustee arising out of or based upon this Indenture, the Guarantee or the Notes may be instituted in any state or Federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, and each of them irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any suit, action or proceeding. The Issuers and the Guarantors irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to any suit, action, or proceeding that may be brought in connection with this Indenture, the Guarantee or the Notes, including such actions, suits or proceedings relating to securities laws of the United States of America or any state thereof, in such courts whether on the grounds of venue, residence or domicile or on the ground that any such suit, action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Issuers and the Guarantors agree that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Issuers or the Guarantors, as the case may be, and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which the Issuers or the Guarantors, as the case may be, are subject by a suit upon such judgment.

This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Issuers or their Subsidiaries or of any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

All agreements of the Issuers in this Indenture and the Notes will bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture will bind its successors. All agreements in this Indenture of any entity that becomes a Guarantor upon execution of a supplemental indenture with the Trustee will bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.04 hereof.

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.

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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. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF transmission, email or other electronic means shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF, email or other electronic means shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

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.

The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.

EACH OF THE ISSUERS, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.

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Face of Note

CUSIP                     

ISIN                    

10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2024

PIC AU HOLDINGS LLC

PIC AU HOLDINGS CORPORATION

promises to pay to                  or registered assigns,

the principal sum of                                                                       DOLLARS [as the same may be revised on the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached hereto] on December 31, 2024.

Interest Payment Dates: March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31

Record Dates: March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15

Dated:             , 20[    ]

[Signature Pages Follow]

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A-2

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Back of Note

10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2024

[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]

[Insert the OID Legend, if applicable pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture]

[Insert the Regulation S Temporary Global Note 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. The Issuers promise to pay or cause to be paid interest on the principal amount of this Note at 10.000% per annum from                     ,                      until maturity. The Issuers will pay interest, if any, quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 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 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 March 31, 2021. The Issuers will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at a rate that is 2.000% per annum higher than the then applicable interest rate on the Notes to the extent lawful; it will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest, if any (without regard to any applicable grace period), at the same rate to the extent lawful.

Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

(2)    METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Issuers will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest), if any, to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 immediately 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, if any, and interest, if any, at the office or agency of the Paying Agent and Registrar, or, at the option of the Issuers, payment of interest, if any, may be made by check mailed or electronically sent 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, premium on, if any, and interest, if any, on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which will have provided wire transfer instructions to the Issuers 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, Wilmington Trust, National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuers may change the Paying Agent or Registrar without prior notice to the Holders of the Notes. The Issuers or any of their Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

(4)    INDENTURE AND SECURITY DOCUMENTS. The Issuers issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of January 29, 2021 (the “Indenture”) between the Issuers and the Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture 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 Notes are secured obligations of the Issuers. The Notes are secured by Liens on the Collateral pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents.

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(5)    OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. The Notes are subject to optional redemption by the Issuers as provided in Section 3.07 of the Indenture.

(6)    REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDER. Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Issuers will be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes as provided in Section 4.14 of the Indenture. Following the occurrence of certain Asset Sales, the Issuers may be required to offer to repurchase the Notes as required in Section 4.10 of the Indenture. In addition, in connection with an Excess Cash Flow Offer, Wilpinjong Mandatory Offer or Term Loan Repayment Offer, the Issuers will be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes as provided in Section 4.16, Section 4.17 or Section 4.18 of the Indenture, as applicable.

(7)    NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Issuers will mail or cause to be mailed, by first class mail or electronically, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address, except that redemption notices may be electronically sent or 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 the Indenture pursuant to Articles VIII or XI thereof. Notes and portions of Notes selected will be in minimum principal amounts of $2,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; 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 shall be redeemed or purchased.

(8)    DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 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 Issuers may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Issuers 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 Issuers or the Registrar 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 next succeeding Interest Payment Date.

(9)    PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes. Only registered Holders have rights under the Indenture.

(10)    AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. The Notes are subject to the amendment, supplement and waiver provisions set forth in Article IX of the Indenture.