EXHIBIT 4.1
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Between
PROVIDENT BANKSHARES CORPORATION
and
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
(as Trustee)
dated as of
__________, 2000
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PROVIDENT TRUST II
Certain Sections of this Junior Subordinated Indenture relating
to Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Junior Subordinated
Act Section Indenture Section
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Section 310 (a)(1)....................... 6.9
(a)(2)....................... 6.9
(a)(3)....................... Not Applicable
(a)(4)....................... Not Applicable
(a)(5)....................... 6.9
(b).......................... 6.8, 6.10
Section 311 (a).......................... 6.13
(b).......................... 6.13
(b)(2)....................... 7.3(a)
Section 312 (a).......................... 7.1, 7.2(a)
(b).......................... 7.2(b)
(c).......................... 7.2(c)
Section 313 (a).......................... 7.3(a)
(a)(4)....................... 7.3(a)
(b).......................... 7.3(b)
(c).......................... 7.3(a)
(d).......................... 7.3(c)
Section 314 (a).......................... 7.4
(b).......................... 7.4
(c)(1)....................... 1.2
(c)(2)....................... 1.2
(c)(3)....................... Not Applicable
(e).......................... 1.2
Section 315 (a).......................... 6.1(a)
(b).......................... 6.2, 7.3
(c).......................... 6.1(b)
(d).......................... 6.1(c)
(e).......................... 5.14
Section 316 (a).......................... 5.12
(a)(1)(A).................... 5.12
(a)(1)(B).................... 5.13
(a)(2)....................... Not Applicable
(b).......................... 5.8
(c).......................... 1.4(f)
Section 317 (a)(1)....................... 5.3
(a)(2)....................... 5.4
(b).......................... 10.3
Section 318 (a).......................... 1.7
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION............... 1
Section 1.1. Definitions.................................................... 11
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificate and Opinions............................ 12
Section 1.3. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee........................ 12
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders................................................ 14
Section 1.5. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company........................... 14
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver...................................... 15
Section 1.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.............................. 15
Section 1.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents....................... 15
Section 1.9. Successors and Assigns......................................... 15
Section 1.10. Separability Clause............................................ 15
Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.......................................... 15
Section 1.12. Governing Law.................................................. 16
Section 1.13. Non-Business Days.............................................. 16
ARTICLE II SECURITY FORMS........................................................ 16
Section 2.1. Generally...................................................... 16
Section 2.2. Form of Face of Security....................................... 17
Section 2.3. Form of Reverse of Security.................................... 21
Section 2.4. Additional Provisions Required in Global Security.............. 23
Section 2.5. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication................ 24
ARTICLE III THE SECURITIES........................................................ 24
Section 3.1. Title and Terms................................................ 24
Section 3.2. Denominations.................................................. 25
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating................. 25
Section 3.4. Temporary Securities........................................... 27
Section 3.5. Global Securities.............................................. 27
Section 3.6. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally;
Certain Transfers and Exchanges; Securities Act
Legends........................................................ 28
Section 3.7. Mutilated, Lost and Stolen Securities.......................... 31
Section 3.8. Payment of Interest and Additional Interest;
Interest Rights Preserved...................................... 32
Section 3.9. Persons Deemed Owners.......................................... 33
Section 3.10. Cancellation................................................... 33
Section 3.11. Computation of Interest........................................ 34
Section 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates............................ 34
Section 3.13. Right of Set-Off............................................... 35
Section 3.14. Agreed Tax Treatment........................................... 35
Section 3.15. CUSIP Numbers.................................................. 35
Section 3.16. Shortening of Stated Maturity.................................. 36
ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE........................................... 36
Section 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........................ 36
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Money..................................... 37
ARTICLE V REMEDIES............................................................. 37
Section 5.1. Events of Default.............................................. 38
Section 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment............. 39
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Trustee..................................................... 40
Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim............................... 41
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of
Securities..................................................... 41
Section 5.6. Application of Money Collected................................. 41
Section 5.7. Limitation on Suits............................................ 41
Section 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest; Direct Action by Holders of
Preferred Securities........................................... 42
Section 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies............................. 42
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative................................. 43
Section 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver................................... 43
Section 5.12. Control by Holders............................................. 43
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults........................................ 43
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs.......................................... 44
Section 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws........................ 44
ARTICLE VI THE TRUSTEE......................................................... 45
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities............................ 45
Section 6.2. Notice of Defaults............................................. 46
Section 6.3. Certain Rights of Trustee...................................... 46
Section 6.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities..................................................... 47
Section 6.5. May Hold Securities............................................ 47
Section 6.6. Money Held in Trust............................................ 47
Section 6.7. Compensation and Reimbursement................................. 48
Section 6.8. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests........................ 49
Section 6.9. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility........................ 49
Section 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.............. 49
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor......................... 51
Section 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business....................................................... 51
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.............. 51
Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent............................ 52
ARTICLE VII HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT AND COMPANY...... 53
Section 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders........................................................ 53
Section 7.2. Preservation of Information, Communications to
Holders........................................................ 53
Section 7.3. Reports by Trustee and Paying Agent............................ 54
Section 7.4. Reports by Company............................................. 54
ARTICLE VIII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE................ 54
Section 8.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms........... 55
Section 8.2. Successor Company Substituted.................................. 56
ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES............................................. 56
Section 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders............. 56
Section 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders................ 57
Section 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures........................... 58
Section 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.............................. 58
Section 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act............................ 59
Section 9.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures............. 59
ARTICLE X COVENANTS........................................................... 59
Section 10.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest..................... 59
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency................................ 59
Section 10.3. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust................ 60
Section 10.4. Statement as to Compliance..................................... 61
Section 10.5. Waiver of Certain Covenants.................................... 61
Section 10.6. Additional Sums................................................ 61
Section 10.7. Additional Covenants........................................... 62
Section 10.8. Federal Tax Reports............................................ 63
ARTICLE XI REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES............................................ 63
Section 11.1. Applicability of this Article.................................. 63
Section 11.2. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.......................... 63
Section 11.3. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed......................... 64
Section 11.4. Notice of Redemption........................................... 64
Section 11.5. Deposit of Redemption Price.................................... 65
Section 11.6. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.................... 65
Section 11.7. Right of Redemption of Securities Initially Issued
to the Issuer Trust............................................ 66
ARTICLE XII SINKING FUNDS....................................................... 66
ARTICLE XIII SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES......................................... 66
Section 13.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.................. 66
Section 13.2. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default;
Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc................. 67
Section 13.3. Payment Permitted if No Default................................ 68
Section 13.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness................................................... 68
Section 13.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.................... 69
Section 13.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination............................ 69
Section 13.7 No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.......................... 69
Section 13.8. Notice to Trustee.............................................. 70
Section 13.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent.............................................. 71
Section 13.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Indebtedness................................................... 71
Section 13.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.............................. 71
Section 13.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents............................ 71
Section 13.13. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed Payment................ 71
ANNEX A FORM OF RESTRICTED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE............................ A-1
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
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THIS JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of __________, 2000 between
PROVIDENT BANKSHARES CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation (the "Company"), having
its principal office at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ and
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee, having its principal office at Four Albany
Street, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10006 (the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance of its unsecured junior subordinated
deferrable interest debentures due _____________, 2030 (the "Securities") of
substantially the tenor hereinafter provided, including Securities issued to
evidence loans made to the Company from the proceeds from the issuance from time
to time by Provident Trust II, a Delaware business trust (the "Issuer Trust") of
undivided preferred beneficial interests in the assets of such Issuer Trust (the
"Preferred Securities") and common undivided interests in the assets of such
Issuer Trust (the "Common Securities" and, collectively with the Preferred
Securities, the "Trust Securities"), and to provide the terms and conditions
upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by
the Holders (as such term is defined in Section 1.1 hereof) thereof, it is
mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all
Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, and intending to be legally
bound hereby, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in
this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act,
either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(c) the words "include," "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be
followed by the phrase "without limitation";
(d) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as
in effect at the time of computation;
(e) whenever the context may require, any gender shall be deemed to include
the other;
(f) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an "Article" or a
"Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this
Indenture; and
(g) the words "hereby", "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
"25% Capital Limitation" means the limitation imposed by the Federal Reserve
that the proceeds of certain qualifying securities similar to the Trust
Securities will qualify as Tier 1 capital of the issuer up to an amount not to
exceed, when taken together with all cumulative preferred securities of the
issuer, if any, 25% of the issuer's Tier 1 capital, or any subsequent limitation
adopted by the Federal Reserve.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning specified in
Section 1.4.
"Additional Interest" means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any
interest on the Securities of any series the payment of which has not been made
on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at the rate per
annum specified or determined as specified in such Security.
"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 10.6.
"Additional Taxes" means any additional taxes, duties and other governmental
charges to which the Issuer Trust has become subject from time to time as a
result of a Tax Event.
"Administrator" means, in respect of the Issuer Trust, each Person appointed
in accordance with the Trust Agreement, solely in such Person's capacity as
Administrator of the Issuer Trust and not in such Person's individual capacity,
or any successor Administrator appointed as therein provided.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Agent Member" means any member of, or participant in, the Depositary.
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"Applicable Procedures" means, with respect to any transfer or transaction
involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and
procedures of the Depositary for such Global Security, in each case to the
extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or the
Executive Committee of the board of directors of the Company (or any other
committee of the board of directors of the Company performing similar functions)
or, for purposes of this Indenture, a committee designated by the board of
directors of the Company (or such committee), comprised of two or more members
of the board of directors of the Company or officers of the Company, or both.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or
any Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of
Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the
Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors has been
delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification,
and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day
on which banking institutions in the State of Maryland or the City of New York
are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (iii)
a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or, with respect to
the Securities initially issued to the Issuer Trust, the "Corporate Trust
Office" (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement, is closed for business.
"Capital Treatment Event" means, in respect of the Issuer Trust, the
reasonable determination by the Company that, as a result of the occurrence of
any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in, the
laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of the United States or any
political subdivision thereof or therein, or as a result of any official or
administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
such pronouncement, action or decision is announced on or after the date of the
issuance of the Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the Company will not be entitled to treat an amount
equal to the Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of such
Preferred Securities as "Tier 1 Capital" (or the then equivalent thereof),
except as otherwise restricted under the 25% Capital Limitation, for purposes of
the risk-based capital adequacy guidelines of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, as then in effect and applicable to the Company.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties on such date.
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"Common Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
"Common Stock" means the common stock, $___ par value per share, of the
Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor entity shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor entity.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, the written request
or order signed in the name of the Company by any Chairman of the Board of
Directors, any Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive
Officer, President or a Vice President, and by its Chief Financial Officer, its
Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which
office at the date hereof is located at Four ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
"Creditor" has the meaning specified in Section 6.7.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.8.
"Delaware Trustee" means, with respect to the Issuer Trust, the Person
identified as the "Delaware Trustee" in the Trust Agreement, solely in its
capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust under the Trust Agreement and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor Delaware trustee appointed as therein provided.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities issuable or issued in whole
or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person designated
as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1 (or any successor thereto).
"Discount Security" means any security that provides for an amount less than
the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2.
"Dollar" or "$" means the currency of the United States of America that, as at
the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
The term "entity" includes a bank, corporation, association, company, limited
liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
"Event of Default," has the meaning specified in Article V.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
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"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.
"Global Security" means a Security in the form prescribed in Section 2.4
evidencing all or part of the Securities, issued to the Depositary or its
nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or its nominee.
"Guarantee" means, with respect to the Issuer Trust, the Guarantee Agreement,
dated __________, 2000, executed by the Company for the benefit of the Holders
of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust as modified, amended or
supplemented from time to time.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Securities Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Institutional Accredited Investor" means an institutional accredited investor
within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the
Securities Act.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest
on such Securities.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any
successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an Opinion
of Counsel, rendered by counsel experienced in such matters, to the effect that,
as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a written
change (including any announced prospective change) in interpretation or
application of law or regulation by any legislative body, court, governmental
agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an insubstantial risk that
the Issuer Trust is or will be considered an "investment company" that is
required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, which change or
prospective change becomes effective or would become effective, as the case may
be, on or after the date of the issuance of the Preferred Securities of the
Issuer Trust.
"Issuer Trust" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security means the date on which the
principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein
provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call
for redemption or otherwise.
"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in Section
5.1(c).
"Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a certificate
signed by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or a
Vice President, and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, an Associate
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
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Assistant Secretary of such Person, and delivered to the Trustee. Any Officers'
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers' Certificate that such
officer has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation
as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such
condition or covenant has been complied with;
provided, however, that the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to the
provisions of Section 10.4 hereof shall comply with the provisions of Section
314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel
for or an employee of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
"Original Issue Date" means the date of issuance specified as such in each
Security.
"Outstanding" means, when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date
of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities for whose payment money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the
Holders of such Securities; and
(c) Securities in substitution for or in lieu of other Securities which have
been authenticated and delivered or that have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6,
unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Securities
are held by Holders in whose hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal
obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the
Issuer Trust to which Securities of the applicable series were initially issued)
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities that the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so
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owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to
act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or
any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such
other obligor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the Issuer Trust). Upon
the written request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if
any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of the
Company, or any other obligor on the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company
or such obligor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the Issuer Trust), and,
subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall be entitled to
accept such Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein
set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are Outstanding
for the purpose of any such determination.
"Outstanding Preferred Securities" means the ___________ aggregate liquidation
amount of $________ preferred securities issued by Provident Trust I.
"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, or other amounts in
respect of any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, trust, unincorporated organization
or entity (as defined herein) or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities, the place or places
where the principal of (or premium, if any) and interest on the Securities are
payable pursuant to Section 3.1.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security. For the purposes of this definition, any security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.7 in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Preferred Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
"Principal Subsidiary Bank" means each of (i) Provident Bank of Maryland, (ii)
any other banking subsidiary of the Company the consolidated assets of which
constitute 20% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its
consolidated subsidiaries, (iii) any other banking subsidiary designated as a
Principal Subsidiary Bank pursuant to a Board Resolution and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and (iv) any subsidiary of the
Company that owns, directly or indirectly, any voting securities, or options,
warrants or rights to subscribe for or purchase voting securities, of any
Principal Subsidiary Bank under clause (i), (ii) or (iii), and in the case of
clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) their respective successors (whether by
consolidation, merger, conversion, transfer of substantially all their assets
and business or otherwise) so long as any such successor is a banking subsidiary
(in the case of clause (i), (ii) or (iii)) or a subsidiary (in the case of
clause (iv)) of the Company.
"Proceeding" has the meaning specified in Section 13.2.
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"Property Trustee" means, with respect to the Issuer Trust, the Person
identified as the "Property Trustee" in the Trust Agreement, solely in its
capacity as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust under the Trust Agreement and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor property trustee appointed as therein provided.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture or the
terms of such Security.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
with respect to the Securities means, unless otherwise provided pursuant to
Section 3.1 with respect to the Securities, the close of business on March 15,
June 15, September 15 or December 15 next preceding such Interest Payment Date
(whether or not a Business Day).
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Property Trustee means
any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any managing
director, principal, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant
treasurer, assistant secretary or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and having direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Security" means each Security required pursuant to Section 3.6(c)
to bear a Restricted Securities Legend.
"Restricted Securities Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the
form set forth in Annex A.
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"Restricted Securities Legend" means a legend substantially in the form of the
legend required in the form of Security set forth in Section 2.2 to be placed
upon a Restricted Security.
"Rights Plan" means any plan of the Company providing for the issuance by the
Company to all holders of its Common Stock, $____ par value per share, of rights
entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of any class
or series of capital stock of the Company which rights (i) are deemed to be
transferred with such shares of such Common Stock, (ii) are not exercisable, and
(iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of such Common Stock, in
each case until the occurrence of a specified event or events.
"Securities" or "Security" means any debt securities or debt security, as the
case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
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"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 3.6.
"Senior Indebtedness" means, whether recourse is to all or a portion of the
assets of the Company and whether or not contingent, (i) every obligation of the
Company for money borrowed; (ii) every obligation of the Company evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, including obligations
incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses;
(iii) every reimbursement obligation of the Company with respect to letters of
credit, bankers' acceptances or similar facilities issued for the account of the
Company; (iv) every obligation of the Company issued or assumed as the deferred
purchase price of property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable or
accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business); (v) every
capital lease obligation of the Company; (vi) every obligation of the Company
for claims (as defined in Section 101(4) of the United States Bankruptcy Code of
1978, as amended) in respect of derivative products such as interest and foreign
exchange rate contracts, commodity contracts and similar arrangements; and (vii)
every obligation of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) of another
person and all dividends of another person the payment of which, in either case,
the Company has guaranteed or is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly,
as obligor or otherwise. Senior Indebtedness shall not include (i) any
obligations which, by their terms, are expressly stated to rank pari passu in
right of payment with, or to not be superior in right of payment to, the Junior
Subordinated Debentures, (ii) any Senior Indebtedness of the Company which when
incurred and without respect to any election under Section 1111(b) of the United
States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, was without recourse to the Company,
(iii) any indebtedness of the Company to any of its subsidiaries, (iv)
indebtedness to any executive officer or director of the Company, or (v) any
indebtedness in respect of debt securities issued to any trust, or a trustee of
such trust, partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company that is a
financing entity of the Company in connection with the issuance of such
financing entity of securities that are similar to the Preferred Securities,
including the obligations associated with the Outstanding Preferred Securities.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date
fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.8.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any installment
of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified pursuant to
the terms of such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such
Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable, as
such date may, in the case of such principal, be shortened or extended as
provided pursuant to the terms of such Security and this Indenture.
"Subsidiary" means an entity more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of
which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other
Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For
purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock that ordinarily has
voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long
as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Successor Security" of any particular Security means every Security issued
after, and evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by,
such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.7 in
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exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall
be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an Opinion of Counsel,
rendered by counsel experienced in such matters, to the effect that, as a result
of any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in,
the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any
official or administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision
interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is
effective or which pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the date
of issuance of the Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust, there is more than
an insubstantial risk that (a) the Issuer Trust is, or will be within 90 days of
the delivery of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States federal income
tax with respect to income received or accrued on the corresponding series of
Securities issued by the Company to the Issuer Trust, (b) interest payable by
the Company on the Securities is not, or within 90 days of the delivery of such
Opinion of Counsel will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part,
for United States federal income tax purposes, or (c) the Issuer Trust is, or
will be within 90 days of the delivery of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to
more than a de minimus amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental
charges.
"Trust Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of
__________, 2000, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, among
the trustees of the Issuer Trust named therein, the Company, as depositor, and
the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial ownership interests in the
assets of the Issuer Trust.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of
this Indenture, solely in its capacity as such and not in its individual
capacity, until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder and, if at any time there is
more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities
shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the
Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, or any successor statute, in each case as
amended from time to time, except as provided in Section 9.5.
"Trust Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company, means any duly
appointed vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificate and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent
(including covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent),
if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
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complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, all such conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with
which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this
Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than the certificates provided
pursuant to Section 10.4) shall include:
(a) a statement by each individual signing such certificate or opinion that
such individual has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions of such individual contained
in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, 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 complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based
are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar
as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions, or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
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Section 1.4. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be given to, made or taken by Holders
may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in
writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments is or are delivered to the
Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section 1.4.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by
the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him or her the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a Person acting in other than his or her individual capacity,
such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or
her authority.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be
provided in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient and in accordance
with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the transfer thereof
or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done or
suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether
or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(f) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or take
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given to, made or taken by
Holders of Securities, provided that the Company may not set a record date for,
and the provisions of this Section 1.4(f) shall not apply with respect to, the
giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in
Section 1.4(g). If any record date is set pursuant to this Section 1.4(f), the
Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders,
shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date, provided, however that no such action
shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date (as defined below) by Holders of the requisite principal amount
of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this Section 1.4(f)
shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any
action for
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which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this Section
1.4(f) (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no
action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this Section
1.4(f) shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of
the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on the date such action
is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this Section 1.4(f),
the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the
proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the
Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6.
(g) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving
or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration
referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred
to in Section 5.7(b), or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 5.12, in each
case with respect to Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this
Section 1.4(g), the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and
no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request
or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date,
provided, however that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken
on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this
Section 1.4(g) shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this Section 1.4(g) (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect) and
nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action
taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on
the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to
this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause notice of
such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration
Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities in
the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
(h) With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 1.4, the
party hereto that sets such record date may designate any day as the "Expiration
Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day, provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the
proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and
to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6 on or prior
to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with
respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto that
set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day
after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to
its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this Section 1.4(h).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th
day after the applicable record date.
(i) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any
action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to
all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with
regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
Section 1.5. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company.
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Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act
of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the Trustee by any Holder, any holder of Preferred Securities or the
Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred
Securities shall be sufficient for every purpose (except as otherwise provided
in Section 5.1) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such
event, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register,
not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such notice. If, by reason of the suspension of or
irregularities in regular mail services or for any other reason, it shall be
impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders when said
notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture or of
the Securities, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory
to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. In any
case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of
notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be
a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
Section 1.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the
Trust Indenture Act that is required thereunder to be a part of and govern this
Indenture, the provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. If any
provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be
deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case
may be.
Section 1.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.9. Successors and Assigns.
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All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.10. Separability Clause.
If any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give
to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns,
the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities and, to the
extent expressly provided in Sections 5.2, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, 9.1 and 9.2,
the holders of Preferred Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.12. Governing Law.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 1.13. Non-Business Days.
If any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any
Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision
of this Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and
premium, if any) other amounts in respect of such Security need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest
shall accrue in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the
period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity, as the case may be, until such next succeeding Business Day) except
that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment
shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day (in each case with the
same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date
or at the Stated Maturity).
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1. Generally.
(a) The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be
in substantially the forms set forth in this Article II, or in such other form
or forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one
or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and
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such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with
applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities is
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an
appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to
the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.3 with respect to
the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
(b) The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods, if required by any securities
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved border or
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the
rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
(c) Securities distributed to holders of Global Preferred Securities (as
defined in the Trust Agreement) upon the dissolution of the Issuer Trust shall
be distributed in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the
name of a Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the Securities
Registrar, as custodian for such Depositary, or with such Depositary, for credit
by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of the
Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct).
Securities distributed to holders of Preferred Securities other than Global
Preferred Securities upon the dissolution of the Issuer Trust shall not be
issued in the form of a Global Security or any other form intended to facilitate
book-entry trading in beneficial interests in such Securities.
Section 2.2. Form of Face of Security.
PROVIDENT BANKSHARES CORPORATION
_______% Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due _____________,
2030
[If the Security is a Restricted Security, insert - THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED
HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT") AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT (A) BY ANY INITIAL INVESTOR THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(I) TO A PERSON WHO THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE
144A, (II) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION COMPLYING WITH THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 903
OR RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (III) PURSUANT TO AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144
THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE), OR (B) BY AN INITIAL INVESTOR THAT IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER OR BY ANY SUBSEQUENT INVESTOR, AS SET FORTH IN (A) ABOVE
AND, IN ADDITION, TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR IN A TRANSACTION
EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
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OF THE SECURITIES ACT, AND, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAWS OF THE STATES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS. SECURITIES OWNED BY AN INITIAL INVESTOR THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER MAY NOT BE HELD IN GLOBAL FORM AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
WITHOUT CERTIFICATION THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS, AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION
CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR
RESALES OF THE SECURITIES.]
No. $__________
Provident Bankshares Corporation, a Maryland corporation (hereinafter called
the "Company", which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
Provident Trust II, or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________
Dollars on _____________, 2030, or such other principal amount represented
hereby as may be set forth in the records of the Securities Registrar
hereinafter referred to in accordance with the Indenture provided that the
Company may shorten the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security to a
date not earlier than _____________, 2005. The Company further promises to pay
interest on said principal from __________, 2000, or from the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,
quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on March 31, June
30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing _____________, 2000 at
the rate of _______% per annum, together with Additional Sums, if any, as
provided in Section 10.6 of the Indenture, until the principal hereof is paid or
duly provided for or made available for payment; provided that any overdue
principal, premium or Additional Sums and any overdue installment of interest
shall bear Additional Interest at the rate of _______% per annum (to the extent
that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), compounded
quarterly from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made
available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand. The amount
of interest payable for any period less than a full interest period shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual
days elapsed in a partial month in such period. The amount of interest payable
for any full interest period shall be computed by dividing the applicable rate
per annum by four. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest installment, which shall be the 15th day of March, June,
September and December (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next
preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such
Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities
of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
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requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture.
So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company
shall have the right, at any time during the term of this Security, from time to
time to defer the payment of interest on this Security for up to 20 consecutive
quarterly interest payment periods with respect to each deferral period (each an
"Extension Period"), during which Extension Periods the Company shall have the
right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date, and at
the end of which the Company shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid
including Additional Interest, as provided below; provided however, that no
Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of
this Security, as then in effect, and no such Extension Period may end on a date
other than an Interest Payment Date; and provided further, however, that during
any such Extension Period, the Company shall not (i) declare or pay any
dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's capital stock, or (ii)
make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank pari passu in
all respects with or junior in interest to this Security, including the
Company's obligations associated with the Outstanding Preferred Securities
(other than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of
capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit
plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more
employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend
reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the
issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or
exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition
transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period, (b) as a
result of a reclassification, an exchange or conversion of any class or series
of the Company's capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary of the
Company) for any class or series of the Company's capital stock or of any class
or series of the Company's indebtedness for any class or series of the Company's
capital stock, (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (iv) any
declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, or the issuance of
rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or
repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (v) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable
upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock). Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Company
may further defer the payment of interest, provided that no Extension Period
shall exceed 20 consecutive quarterly interest payment periods, extend beyond
the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security or end on a date other
than an Interest Payment Date. Upon the termination of any such Extension
Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any
Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Company may elect
to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above conditions. No interest
shall be due and payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof,
but each installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable
during such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent that
the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of
_______% per annum, compounded quarterly and calculated as set forth in the
first paragraph of this Security, from the date on which such amounts would
otherwise have been due and payable until paid or made available for payment.
The Company shall give the Holder of this Security and the Trustee notice of its
election to begin any Extension Period at least
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one Business Day prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date on which
interest on this Security would be payable but for such deferral or so long as
such securities are held by Provident Trust II, or at least one Business Day
prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding date on which Distributions on
the Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust would be payable but for such
deferral, and (ii) the date on which the Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust is
required to give notice to holders of such Preferred Securities of the record
date or the date such Distributions are payable, but in any event not less than
one Business Day prior to such record date.
Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security will be made at the
office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United
States, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time
of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided
however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made (i)
by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Securities Register, or (ii) if to a Holder of $1,000,000 or
more in aggregate principal amount of this Security, by wire transfer in
immediately available funds upon written request to the Trustee not later than
15 calendar days prior to the date on which the interest is payable.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the
Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payments to the prior payment in
full of all Senior Indebtedness, and this Security is issued subject to the
provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security,
by accepting the same, (i) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (ii)
authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions as
may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided, and
(iii) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, waives all
notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in
the Indenture by each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or
hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said
provisions.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth
on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or facsimile signature, this
Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
PROVIDENT BANKSHARES CORPORATION
By:___________________________
Name:
Title:
Attest:
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Secretary or Assistant Secretary
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in
the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: ___________
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By: __________________
Name:
Title:
Section 2.3. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company
(herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued under the Junior
Subordinated Indenture, dated as of __________, 2000 (herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee (herein
called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, the holders of
Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in
aggregate principal amount to $______________.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture or, if not
defined in the Indenture, in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement dated as
of __________, 2000 (as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time the
"Trust Agreement"), relating to Provident Trust II (the "Issuer Trust") among
the Company, as Depositor, the Trustees named therein and the Holders from time
to time of the Trust Securities issued pursuant thereto shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, as the case may be.
The Company has the right to redeem this Security (i) on or after
_____________, 2005, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, or (ii)
in whole (but not in part), at any time within 90 days following the occurrence
and during the continuation of a Tax Event, Investment Company Event, or Capital
Treatment Event, in each case at the Redemption Price described below, and
subject to possible regulatory approval. The Redemption Price shall equal 100%
of the principal amount hereof being redeemed, together with accrued interest to
but excluding the date fixed for redemption.
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In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or
Securities for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
[If applicable, insert - The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at
any time [of the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive
covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case]
upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth in the
Indenture.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
Company and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or
indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations
of the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent of the
Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of
the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their
consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or
in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent
or waiver is made upon this Security.
[If the Security is not a Discount Security, insert - As provided in and
subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect
to the Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in
every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare the principal amount
of all the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing
to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), provided that, if upon
an Event of Default, the Trustee or such Holders fail to declare the principal
of all the Outstanding Securities to be immediately due and payable, the holders
of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust
Agreement) of the Preferred Securities then outstanding shall have the right to
make such declaration by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee; and
upon any such declaration the principal amount of and the accrued interest
(including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities shall become
immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain subordinated
to the extent provided in Article XIII of the Indenture.]
[If the Security is a Discount Security, insert - As provided in and subject
to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every
such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare an amount of principal of the
Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), provided that, if upon an
Event of Default, the Trustee or such Holders fail to declare such principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities to be immediately due and payable, the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust
Agreement) of the Preferred Securities then outstanding shall have the right to
make such declaration by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee.
The principal amount payable
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upon such acceleration shall be equal to [insert formula for determining the
amount]. Upon any such declaration, such amount of the principal of and the
accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities shall
become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of such principal
and interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities shall
remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIII of the Indenture.
Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii)
of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the
extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of
the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and
premium and interest, if any, on this Security shall terminate.]
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest (including Additional Interest) on this Security at the times, place
and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities Register,
upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency of the Company maintained under Section 10.2 of the Indenture for such
purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by,
the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Securities, of like tenor, of authorized denominations
and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated
transferee or transferees.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial interest
therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in,
this Security agrees that for United States federal, state and local tax
purposes it is intended that this Security constitute indebtedness.
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
THIS SECURITY IS A DIRECT AND UNSECURED OBLIGATION OF THE COMPANY, DOES NOT
EVIDENCE DEPOSITS AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER INSURER OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY.
Section 2.4. Additional Provisions Required in Global Security.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, any Global Security
issued hereunder shall, in addition to the provisions contained in Sections 2.2
and 2.3, bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY
IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND 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, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
Section 2.5. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:___________________________
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1. Title and Terms.
(a) The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is $______________.
(b) Subject to Section 3.16, the Securities' Stated Maturity shall be
_____________, 2030.
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(c) The Securities, established pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall bear
interest at a per annum rate equal to _______% from __________, 2000 or from the
most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, as the case may be, payable quarterly (subject to deferral as set
forth in Section 3.12), in arrears, on March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31 of each year, commencing _____________, 2000, until the principal
thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will compound quarterly
and will accrue at a per annum rate equal to _______% to the extent permitted by
applicable law, on any interest installment in arrears for more than one
quarterly period or during an extension of an interest payment period as set
forth below in Section 3.12.
(d) The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities
shall be payable at the office or agency of the Paying Agent in the United
States maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency maintained
by the Company for such purpose in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (ii) by wire
transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as may
be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Security
Register.
(e) Securities may be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more
Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary for such Global Securities
shall be The Depository Trust Company.
(f) The securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness as provided in Article XIII.
Section 3.2. Denominations.
The Securities shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be
issuable in denominations of $10.00 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
(a) The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer,
President or one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by its Secretary or one of
its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the
Securities may be manual or facsimile.
(b) Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities. At any time and from time to
time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver
Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together
with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and
the Trustee in accordance with the Company
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Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of
the Securities have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board
Resolutions as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1, in authenticating such
Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture
in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of
Counsel stating:
(i) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 2.1, that such form has
been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(ii) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 3.1, that such terms have
been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(iii) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions
specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally
binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors' rights and to general equity principles.
(c) If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner that
is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and Section 3.3(b), if all
Securities are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be
necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to
Section 3.1 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required
pursuant to Section 3.3(b) at or prior to the authentication of each Security if
such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original
issuance of the first Security to be issued.
(e) Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
(f) No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by the manual or facsimile signature of one of its
authorized officers, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such security has been duly authenticated
and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the
Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 3.10, for all purposes of this Indenture
such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.4. Temporary Securities.
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(a) Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may
execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
(b) If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at the office
or agency of the Company designated for that purpose without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in
exchange therefor one or more definitive securities, of any authorized
denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having
the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities.
Section 3.5. Global Securities.
(a) Each Global Security issued under this Indenture shall be registered in
the name of the Depositary designated by the Company for such Global Security or
a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or
custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single
Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security
may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer
of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any
Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof
unless (i) such Depositary advises the Trustee in writing that such Depositary
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as
Depositary with respect to such Global Security, and the Company is unable to
locate a qualified successor within 90 days of receipt of such notice from the
Depositary, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company
Order stating that the Company elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Depositary, or (iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default.
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or
cancelled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Depositary or
its nominee to the Securities Registrar for exchange or cancellation as provided
in this Article III. If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other
Securities or canceled in part, or if another Security is to be exchanged in
whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global Security, then either
(i) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as
provided in this Article III or (ii) the principal amount thereof shall be
reduced, or increased by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so
exchanged or canceled, or equal to the principal amount of such other Security
to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, by
means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Securities
Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance
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with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized
representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any such
surrender or adjustment of a Global Security by the Depositary, accompanied by
registration instructions, the Trustee shall, subject to Section 3.6(b) and as
otherwise provided in this Article III, authenticate and deliver any Securities
issuable in exchange for such Global Security (or any portion thereof) in
accordance with the instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be
liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely
on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such instructions.
(d) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof,
whether pursuant to this Article III, Section 9.6 or 11.6 or otherwise, shall be
authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security,
unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) The Depositary or its nominee, as the registered owner of a Global
Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under
this Indenture and the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a
Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Procedures.
Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest in a Global Security shall be
shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through,
records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or agent. Neither the
Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of any
transfers effected by the Depositary.
(f) The rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall
be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such owners and the Depositary and/or
its Agent Members.
Section 3.6. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers
and Exchanges; Securities Act Legends.
(a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and
transfers of Securities. Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the
"Securities Register." The Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar"
for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at the offices or
agencies of the Company designated for that purpose, the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized
denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and bearing such
restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities
of any authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount
and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture, upon
surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever
any securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
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shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so
required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of
Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
transfer or exchange of Securities.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required, pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, (i) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange
any Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before
the day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant to Article XI and
ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice of
redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such
Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(b) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Indenture, transfers and exchanges of Securities and beneficial interests
in a Global Security shall be made only in accordance with this Section 3.6(b).
(i) Restricted Non-Global Security to Global Security. If the Holder of
a Restricted Security (other than a Global Security) wishes at any time to
transfer all or any portion of such Security to a Person who wishes to take
delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Security,
such transfer may be effected only in accordance with the provisions of this
clause (b)(i) and subject to the Applicable Procedures. Upon receipt by the
Securities Registrar of (A) such Security as provided in Section 3.6(a) and
instructions satisfactory to the Securities Registrar directing that a
beneficial interest in the Global Security in a specified principal amount not
greater than the principal amount of such Security be credited to a specified
Agent Member's account and (B) a Restricted Securities Certificate duly
executed by such Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing,
then the Securities Registrar shall cancel such Security (and issue a new
Security in respect of any untransferred portion thereof) as provided in
Section 3.6(a) and increase the aggregate principal amount of the Global
Security by the specified principal amount as provided in Section 3.5(c).
(ii) Non-Global Security to Non-Global Security. A Security that is
not a Global Security may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a Person who
takes delivery in the form of another Security that is not a Global Security
as provided in Section 3.6(a), provided that if the Security to be transferred
in whole or in part is a Restricted Security, the
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Securities Registrar shall have received a Restricted Securities Certificate
duly executed by the transferor Holder or such Holder's attorney duly
authorized in writing.
(iii) Exchanges Between Global Security and Non-Global Security. A
beneficial interest in a Global Security may be exchanged for a Security that
is not a Global Security as provided in Section 3.5.
(iv) Certain Initial Transfers of Non-Global Securities. In the case
of Securities initially issued other than in global form, an initial transfer
or exchange of such Securities that does not involve any change in beneficial
ownership may be made to an Institutional Accredited Investor or Investors as
if such transfer or exchange were not an initial transfer or exchange;
provided, however that written certification shall be provided by the
transferee and transferor of such Securities to the Securities Registrar that
such transfer or exchange does not involve a change in beneficial ownership.
(c) Restricted Securities Legend. Except as set forth below, all Securities
shall bear a Restricted Securities Legend:
(i) subject to the following clauses of this Section 3.6(c), a
Security or any portion thereof that is exchanged, upon transfer or otherwise,
for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall bear the Restricted
Securities Legend while represented thereby;
(ii) subject to the following clauses of this Section 3.6(c), a new
Security which is not a Global Security and is issued in exchange for another
Security (including a Global Security) or any portion thereof, upon transfer
or otherwise, shall, if such new Security is required pursuant to Section
3.6(b)(ii) or (iii) to be issued in the form of a Restricted Security, bear a
Restricted Securities Legend;
(iii) a new Security (other than a Global Security) that does not bear
a Restricted Security Legend may be issued in exchange for or in lieu of a
Restricted Security or any portion thereof that bears such a legend if, in the
Company's judgment, placing such a legend upon such new Security is not
necessary to ensure compliance with the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, and the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company in
the form of an Officers' Certificate, shall authenticate and deliver such a
new Security as provided in this Article III;
(iv) notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.6(c),
a Successor Security of a Security that does not bear a Restricted Securities
Legend shall not bear such form of legend unless the Company has reasonable
cause to believe that such Successor Security is a "restricted security"
within the meaning of Rule 144, in which case the Trustee, at the written
direction of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate, shall
authenticate and deliver a new Security bearing a Restricted Securities Legend
in exchange for such Successor Security as provided in this Article III; and
(v) Securities distributed to a holder of Preferred Securities upon
dissolution of an Issuer Trust shall bear a Restricted Securities Legend if
the Preferred Securities so held bear a similar legend.
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Section 3.7. Mutilated, Lost and Stolen Securities.
(a) If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with
such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to
save each of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security, of like tenor and
aggregate principal amount, bearing the same legends, and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
(b) If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the
Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser or a
protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and
bearing the same legends as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(c) If any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead
of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
(d) Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 3.7, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
(e) Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
(f) The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 3.8. Payment of Interest and Additional Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved.
(a) Interest and Additional Interest on any Security that is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, shall be
paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest in respect of Securities, except that, unless otherwise
provided in the Securities, interest payable on the Stated Maturity of the
principal of a Security shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid.
The initial payment of interest on any Security that is issued between a Regular
Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date shall
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be payable as provided in such Security or in the Board Resolution pursuant to
Section 3.1 with respect to the Securities.
(b) Any interest on any Security that is due and payable, but is not timely
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities (herein
called "Defaulted Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been
such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Securities in respect of which interest is in
default (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall
notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to
be paid on each Security and the date of the proposed payment, and which shall
be fixed at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount
of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon, the Trustee shall
fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which
shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first
class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security at the address of such
Holder as it appears in the Securities Register not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and
at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least
once in a newspaper, customarily published in the English language on each
Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City
of New York, but such publication shall not be a condition precedent to the
establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of
such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been
mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant
to the following clause (ii).
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Securities in respect of which interest is in default
may be listed and, upon such notice as may be required by such exchange (or by
the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause (ii),
such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(c) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the
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rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue interest, that were carried
by such other Security.
Section 3.9. Persons Deemed Owners.
(a) The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered as the owner of
such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject
to Section 3.8) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company,
the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
(b) No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its
behalf by a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect
to such Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global
Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the
Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other
authorization furnished by a Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary and
such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices
governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary (or its nominee) as
Holder of any Security.
Section 3.10. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or exchange
shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the
Trustee, and any such Securities, and Securities surrendered directly to the
Trustee for any such purpose, shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may
at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by
the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for
any Securities canceled as provided in this Section 3.10, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall be destroyed by the
Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver to the Company a certificate of such
destruction.
Section 3.11. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Securities for any period shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual number of days elapsed in
any partial month in such period, and interest on the Securities for a full
period shall be computed by dividing the rate per annum by the number of
interest periods that together constitute a full twelve months.
Section 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates.
(a) So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Company shall have the right, at any time during the term of the Securities,
from time to time to defer the payment of interest on such Securities for such
period or periods (each an "Extension Period") not to exceed
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the number of consecutive interest periods that equal five years with respect to
each Extension Period, during which Extension Periods the Company shall have the
right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date. No
Extension Period shall end on a date other than an.Interest Payment Date. At the
end of any such Extension Period, the Company shall pay all interest then
accrued and unpaid on the Securities (together with Additional Interest thereon,
if any, at the rate specified for the Securities to the extent permitted by
applicable law); provided, however, that no Extension Period shall extend beyond
the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities; and provided further,
however, that, during any such Extension Period, the Company shall not (i)
declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire
or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's capital
stock, or (ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any,
on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank
pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Securities, (other
than (A) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital
stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or
other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees,
officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment
or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of capital
stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exercisable for such
capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior
to the applicable Extension Period, (B) as a result of a reclassification, an
exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company's capital stock (or
any capital stock of a Subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the
Company's capital stock or of any class or series of the Company's indebtedness
for any class or series of the Company's capital stock, (C) the purchase of
fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the
conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being
converted or exchanged, (D) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any
Rights Plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any Rights
Plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (E) any
dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the
dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or
other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or
ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock). Prior to the termination of any
such Extension Period, the Company may further defer the payment of interest,
provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and provided
further, that no Extension Period shall exceed the period or periods specified
in such Securities, extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of such
Securities or end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. Upon the
termination of any such Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and
unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment
Date, the Company may elect to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the
above conditions. No interest or Additional Interest shall be due and payable
during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof, but each installment of
interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during such Extension
Period shall bear Additional Interest. The Company shall give the Holders of the
Securities and the Trustee notice of its election to begin any such Extension
Period at least one Business Day prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment
Date on which interest on Securities would be payable but for such deferral or,
with respect to any Securities issued to the Issuer Trust, so long as any such
Securities are held by the Issuer Trust, at least one Business Day prior to the
earlier of (x) the next succeeding date on which Distributions (as defined in
the Trust Agreement) on the Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust would be
payable but for such deferral, and (y) the date on which the Property Trustee of
the Issuer Trust is required to give notice to holders of such Preferred
Securities of the record date or the date such Distributions are payable, but in
any event not less than one Business Day prior to such record date.
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(b) The Trustee shall promptly give notice of the Company's election to begin
any such Extension Period to the Holders of the Outstanding Securities.
Section 3.13. Right of Set-Off.
With respect to the Securities initially issued to the Issuer Trust,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the
right to set off any payment it is otherwise required to make in respect of any
such Security to the extent the Company has theretofore made, or is concurrently
on the date of such payment making, a payment under the Guarantee relating to
such Security or to a holder of Preferred Securities pursuant to an action
undertaken under Section 5.8 of this Indenture.
Section 3.14. Agreed Tax Treatment.
Each Security issued hereunder shall provide that the Company and, by its
acceptance of a Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and
any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Security agree that for
United States federal, state and local tax purposes it is intended that such
Security constitutes indebtedness.
Section 3.15. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company, in issuing the Securities, may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then
generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notice
of redemption and other similar or related materials as a convenience to
Holders; provided that any such notice or other materials may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed
on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or other materials
and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed
on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect
in or omission of such numbers.
Section 3.16. Shortening of Stated Maturity.
The Company shall have the right to shorten the Stated Maturity of the
principal of the Securities at any time to any date not earlier than
_____________, 2005, provided that the Company shall give notice to the Holders,
the Trustee and, in the case of Securities issued to an Issuer Trust, the Issuer
Trust of such shortening no less than 90 days prior to the effectiveness
thereof.
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect
(except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for and as otherwise provided in this
Section 4.1) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of
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the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when:
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(A) Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.7 and (B) Securities for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held
in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged
from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(A) have become due and payable,
(B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year of the date of deposit, or
(C) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
and the Company, in the case of subclause (ii)(A), (B) or (C) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
such purpose an amount in the currency or currencies in which the Securities are
payable sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for the
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest)
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and
payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder
by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been
complied with.
(d) Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7, the obligations of
the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (ii) of clause (a) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and the last
paragraph of Section 10.3 shall survive.
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Money.
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Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all money
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and
applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if
any) and interest and Additional Interest for the payment of which such money or
obligations have been deposited with or received by the Trustee.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 5.1. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to the Securities, means
any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default
and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of
law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule
or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security, including any
Additional Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (subject to the deferral of
any due date in the case of an Extension Period);
(b) default in the payment of (and premium, if any, on) the principal of any
Security at its Stated Maturity;
(c) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any other
of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in the Securities or
in this Indenture for a period of 90 days after the date on which written notice
of such failure, requiring the Company to remedy the same, shall have been given
to the Company by the Trustee by registered or certified mail or to the Company
and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities; or
(d) the occurrence of the appointment of a receiver or other similar official
in any liquidation, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect to the Company
or all or substantially all of its property; or a court or other governmental
agency shall enter a decree or order appointing a receiver or similar official
and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and undischarged for a period of
60 days.
Section 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
(a) If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.1(d)) with respect to Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then, and in every such case, the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare
the principal amount (or, if the Securities are Discount Securities, such
portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms) of all the
Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the
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Trustee if given by Holders), provided, however that, if, upon an Event of
Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities fail to declare the principal of all the Outstanding
Securities to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the
Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust then outstanding shall have the
right to make such declaration by a notice in writing to the Company and the
Trustee; and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
portion thereof) of and the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest)
on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of
Default specified in Section 5.1(d) with respect to Securities at the time
Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities (or, if the
Securities are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such
Securities as may be specified by the terms) shall automatically, and without
any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become
immediately due and payable. Payment of principal and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent
provided in Article XIII notwithstanding that such amount shall become
immediately due and payable as herein provided.
(b) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the
Securities has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V,
provided the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient
to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all Securities;
(B) any accrued Additional Interest on all Securities;
(C) the principal of (and premium, if any on) any Securities that
have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and
interest and Additional Interest thereon at the rate borne by the
Securities; and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to Securities, other than the
non-payment of the principal of Securities that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
(c) If the Holders of Securities fail to annul such declaration and waive
such default, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as
defined in the Trust Agreement) of Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
Trust then outstanding shall also have the right to rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in clauses (a)
and (b) above of this Section 5.2.
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(d) No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
(a) The Company covenants that if:
(i) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest
(including any Additional Interest) on any Security when such interest becomes
due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days or (ii)
default is made in the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on)
any Security at the Stated Maturity thereof,
then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities, the whole amount then due and payable
on the Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including
any Additional Interest), and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing the
Trustee under Section 6.7.
(b) If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, wherever
situated.
(c) If an Event of Default with respect to Securities occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its
rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate judicial
proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any
such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement
in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to
enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial or
administrative proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors,
(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest)) shall be entitled and empowered,
by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
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(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) owing and
unpaid in respect to the Securities and to file such other papers or documents
as may be necessary or advisable and to take any and all actions as are
authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have the claims of the
Holders and any predecessor to the Trustee under Section 6.7 allowed in any
such judicial or administrative proceedings; and
(ii) in particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and
receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same in accordance with Section 5.6; and
(b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator,
conservator (or other similar official) in any such judicial or administrative
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee for distribution in accordance with Section 5.6, 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 and any predecessor Trustee
under Section 6.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize
or consent to accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however,
that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a
trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or
other similar committee.
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any
such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, subject to
Article XIII and after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the
Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7, its agents and counsel,
be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.6. Application of Money Collected.
Any money or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect
to the Securities pursuant to this Article V shall be applied in the following
order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money or property on account of principal (and premium, if
any) or interest (including any Additional Interest), upon presentation of the
Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and
upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7;
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SECOND: Subject to Article XIII, to the payment of the amounts
then due and unpaid upon Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest (including any Additional Interest) in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest), respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
Section 5.7. Limitation on Suits.
Subject to Section 5.8, no Holder of any Securities shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture
or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator (or other similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless:
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with
such request;
(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) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the
Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; it being understood and intended
that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever
by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to
affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Securities, or
to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such
Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner
herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.
Section 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest; Direct Action by Holders of Preferred Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 3.8
and 3.12) interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Security on the
Stated Maturity (or in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not
be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Any registered holder of the
Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
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Trust shall have the right, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described
in Section 5.1(a) or 5.1(b), to institute a suit directly against the Company
for enforcement of payment to such holder of principal of (and premium, if any)
and (subject to Sections 3.8 and 3.12) interest (including any Additional
Interest) on the Securities having a principal amount equal to the aggregate
Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of such Preferred
Securities held by such holder.
Section 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred Securities issued by the
Issuer Trust has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under
this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee, such Holder or such
holder of Preferred Securities, then, and in every such case, the Company, the
Trustee, such Holders and such holder of Preferred Securities shall, subject to
any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee, such Holder and such holder of Preferred Securities shall continue as
though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.7, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or the Holders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
(a) No delay or omission of the Trustee, any Holder of any Security with
respect to the Securities or any holder of any Preferred Security to exercise
any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default with respect to the
Securities shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
(b) Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee
or to the Holders and the right and remedy given to the holders of Preferred
Securities by Section 5.8 may be exercised from time to time, and as often as
may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee, the Holders or the holders of Preferred
Securities, as the case may be.
Section 5.12. Control by Holders.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities, provided that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this
Indenture,
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(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that
is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have the
right to decline to follow such direction if a Responsible Officer or Officers
of the Trustee shall, in good faith, determine that the proceeding so directed
would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not joining in any such direction
or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.
(a) The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities affected thereby and, the holders of a majority in
aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the
Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust may waive any past default
hereunder and its consequences except a default:
(i) in the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security (unless such
default has been cured and the Company has paid to or deposited with the
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest
(including Additional Interest) and all principal of (and premium, if any) all
Securities due otherwise than by acceleration), or
(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Article IX
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of any
Outstanding Security affected thereby.
(b) Any such waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities, or in the case of waiver by holders of Preferred Securities issued
by the Issuer Trust, by all holders of Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
Trust.
(c) Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its
discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may, in its
discretion, assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant, but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the
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enforcement of the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest) on any Security on or after the Stated
Maturity.
Section 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will
not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture, but in the case
of any such certificates or opinions that by any provisions hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be
under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to
the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own
affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee
from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its own willful misconduct except that:
(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
subsection (a) of this Section 6.1;
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(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of
Holders pursuant to Section 5.12 relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture
with respect to the Securities.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or
powers, if there shall be reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of
such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 6.2. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
of the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities, as their names and
addresses appear in the Securities Register, notice of such default, unless such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security, the Trustee shall
be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of
directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities; and
provided further, that, in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 5.1(c), no such notice to Holders of Securities shall be given until at
least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section
6.2, the term "default" means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of
time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities.
Section 6.3. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from
acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, Security or other
paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties;
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(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem
it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon
an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice and the advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the
Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to
the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction; provided, however, that nothing herein shall relieve the Trustee of
its obligations upon the occurrence of an Event of Default that has not been
cured or waived to exercise with respect to the Securities such of the rights
and powers vested in the Trustee by this Indenture, and to use the same degree
of care and skill in exercising such rights and powers as a reasonably prudent
person would use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts
or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, indenture,
Security or other paper or document, but the Trustee in its discretion may make
such inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and,
if the Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall
be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform
any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and
the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the
part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
Section 6.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility
for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor
any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.5. May Hold Securities.
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The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections
6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would
have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Securities
Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.6. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company.
Section 6.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.
(a) The Company agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in such amounts as the
Company and the Trustee shall agree from time to time (which compensation shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust).
(b) The Company agrees to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee
in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel),
except any such expense disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
(c) Since the Issuer Trust is being formed solely to facilitate an investment
in the Preferred Securities, the Company, as Holder of the Common Securities,
hereby covenants to pay all debts and obligations (other than with respect to
the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities) and all reasonable costs and
expenses of the Issuer Trust (including without limitation all costs and
expenses relating to the organization of the Issuer Trust, the fees and expenses
of the trustees and all reasonable costs and expenses relating to the operation
of the Issuer Trust) and to pay any and all taxes, duties, assessments or
governmental charges of whatever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed
on the Issuer Trust by the United States, or any taxing authority, so that the
net amounts received and retained by the Issuer Trust and the Property Trustee
after paying such expenses will be equal to the amounts the Issuer Trust and the
Property Trustee would have received had no such costs or expenses been incurred
by or imposed on the Issuer Trust. The foregoing obligations of the Company are
for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, any person to whom any such
debts, obligations, costs, expenses and taxes are owed (each, a "Creditor")
whether or not such Creditor has received notice thereof. Any such Creditor may
enforce such obligations directly against the Company, and the Company
irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that any such Creditor take
any action against the Issuer Trust or any other person before proceeding
against the Company. The Company shall execute such additional agreements as may
be necessary or desirable to give full effect to the foregoing.
(d) The Company shall indemnify the Trustee, its directors, officers,
employees and agents for, and hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel) incurred without
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negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, arising out of or in connection
with the acceptance or administration of this trust or the performance of its
duties hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder. This indemnification shall survive the
termination of this Indenture or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(e) When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 5.1(d) occurs, the expenses and the compensation
for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 or any successor statute.
Section 6.8. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee for the Securities issued hereunder shall be subject to, and shall
comply fully with, the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Nothing herein shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the
application referred to in the second to last paragraph of said Section 310(b).
Section 6.9. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to the Securities issued
hereunder which shall be:
(a) a Person organized and doing business under the laws of the United States
of America or of any state or territory thereof or of the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to
supervision or examination by federal, state, territorial or District of
Columbia authority, or
(b) an entity organized and doing business under the laws of a foreign
government that is permitted to act as Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or
order of the Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust
powers, and subject to supervision or examination by authority of such foreign
government or a political subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to
supervision or examination applicable to United States institutional trustees;
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such
entity publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then, for
the purposes of this Section 6.9, the combined capital and surplus of such
entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in
its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article VI. Neither the Company nor any Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company shall serve
as Trustee for the Securities issued hereunder.
Section 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
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(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities by
giving written notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by
a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days
after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities by
Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8 after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and shall
fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such
Holder, or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged
bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or
of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation;
then, in any such case, (x) the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a
Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect to the Securities issued
hereunder, or (y) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of such Holder and
all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities issued hereunder and
the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or
if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with respect to
the Securities, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities shall be appointed by Act of
the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor
Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment,
become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities and supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and
accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, subject to Section
5.14, on behalf of such Holder and all
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others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the
Trustee with respect to the Securities and each appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities by mailing written notice of such event
by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities as their
names and addresses appear in the Securities Register. Each notice shall include
the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities and the address
of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect
to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of
its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money
held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any
and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to
such successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred to in Section
6.11(a).
(c) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless, at the time of
such acceptance, such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article VI.
Section 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any entity succeeding to
all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall
be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such entity shall be
otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the
Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to
such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the
Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities
either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in the name of such successor
Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of authentication shall have the full
force which it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture that
the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
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If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
(a) The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to
the Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities issued upon original issue and upon exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section
3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated
by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all
times be an entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America, or of any state or territory thereof or of the District of
Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a
combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such Authenticating
Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating
Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its
most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 6.14, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect specified in this Section 6.14.
(b) Any entity into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party,
or any entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating Agent
hereunder, provided such entity shall be otherwise eligible under this Section,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
(c) An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent, which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such
appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.6 to all Holders of Securities.
Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance hereunder shall become vested
with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like
effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provision of
this Section.
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(d) The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payment, subject to the provisions
of Section 6.7.
(e) If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section 6.14, the Securities
may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following
form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
Dated: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:__________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By:__________________________
As Authenticating Agent
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE,
PAYING AGENT AND COMPANY
Section 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) quarterly, not more than 15 days after March 15, June 15, September 15,
and December 15 in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such dates, excluding
from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity
as Securities Registrar, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days
after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is
furnished, excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the
Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar.
Section 7.2. Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
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(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to
their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding
rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust
Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 7.3. Reports by Trustee and Paying Agent.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee
and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act, at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not more
than 12 months shall be transmitted within 60 days of January 31 in each
calendar year, commencing with January 31, 2001.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each securities exchange upon which any
Securities are listed and also with the Commission. The Company will notify the
Trustee when any Securities are listed on any securities exchange.
(d) The Paying Agent shall comply with all withholding, backup withholding,
tax and information reporting requirements under the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, and the Treasury Regulations issued thereunder with respect to
payments on, or with respect to, the Securities.
Section 7.4. Reports by Company.
The Company shall file or cause to be filed with the Trustee and with the
Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other
reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in the Trust Indenture
Act. In the case of information, documents or reports required to be filed with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
the Company shall file or cause the filing of such information documents or
reports with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is required to be filed
with the Commission.
ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
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The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or sell,
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
or sell, convey, transfer or distribute the capital stock or all or
substantially all of the assets of any Principal Subsidiary Bank to any Person,
and no Person shall consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to the
Company, unless:
(a) if the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to any Person, the entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company
is merged or the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer, or that leases,
the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be
an entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America
or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by
an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) on all
the Securities of every series and the performance of every covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed; provided,
however, that nothing herein shall be deemed to restrict or prohibit, and no
supplemental indenture shall be required in the case of, the merger of a
Principal Subsidiary Bank with and into a Principal Subsidiary Bank or the
Company, the consolidation of Principal Subsidiary Banks into a Principal
Subsidiary Bank or the Company, or the sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of any Principal Subsidiary Bank to another
Principal Subsidiary Bank or the Company, if, in any such case in which the
surviving, resulting or acquiring entity is not the Company, the Company would
own, directly or indirectly, at least 80% of the voting securities of the
Principal Subsidiary Bank (and of any other Principal Subsidiary Bank any voting
securities of which are owned, directly or indirectly, by such Principal
Subsidiary Bank) surviving such merger, resulting from such consolidation or
acquiring such assets;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default,
and no event that, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an
Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
transfer or lease and any such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with and, in the case of a transaction subject to
this Section 8.1 but not requiring a supplemental indenture under paragraph (a)
of this Section 8.1, an Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the surviving, resulting or successor entity is legally bound by the
Indenture and the Securities; and the Trustee, subject to Section 6.1, may rely
upon such Officers' Certificates and Opinions of Counsel as conclusive evidence
that such transaction complies with this Section 8.1.
Section 8.2. Successor Company Substituted.
(a) Upon any consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other
Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties
and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section
8.1, the successor entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company
is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease
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is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any
such conveyance, transfer or lease the Company shall be discharged from all
obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities.
(b) Such successor Person may cause to be executed, and may issue either in
its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities
issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company
and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor Person
instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations
in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver
any Securities that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the
officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication pursuant to such
provisions and any Securities that such successor Person thereafter shall cause
to be executed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf for the purpose
pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects
have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities
theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
(c) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease,
such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities thereafter to
be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may amend or
waive any provision of this Indenture or enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the
following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in
the Securities contained;
(b) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with
the Trustee or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company;
(c) to facilitate the issuance of Securities in certificated or other
definitive form;
(d) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of
the Securities or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company;
(e) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of
the Securities;
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(f) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture, provided
that any such change or elimination shall not apply to any Outstanding
Securities;
(g) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that
may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this clause (g) shall not
adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities in any material
respect or, in the case of the Securities issued to the Issuer Trust and for so
long as any of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust shall remain
outstanding, the holders of such Preferred Securities;
(h) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities and to add to or change any of
the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b); or
(i) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or
maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities affected by such supplemental
indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into
an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Securities under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
interest (including any Additional Interest) on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable
upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of principal of a Discount
Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
Stated Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, or change the place of payment
where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption,
on or after the Redemption Date),
(b) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or Section
10.5, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other
provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of
the Holder of each Security affected thereby;
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provided, further, that, in the case of the Securities issued to the Issuer
Trust, so long as any of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust
remains outstanding, (i) no such amendment shall be made that adversely affects
the holders of such Preferred Securities in any material respect, and no
termination of this Indenture shall occur, and no waiver of any Event of Default
or compliance with any covenant under this Indenture shall be effective, without
the prior consent of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate
Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of such Preferred
Securities then outstanding unless and until the principal of (and premium, if
any, on) the Securities and all accrued and (subject to Section 3.8) unpaid
interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon have been paid in full, and
(ii) no amendment shall be made to Section 5.8 of this Indenture that would
impair the rights of the holders of Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
Trust provided therein without the prior consent of the holders of each such
Preferred Security then outstanding unless and until the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) the Securities of such series and all accrued and (subject
to Section 3.8) unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon have
been paid in full.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve
the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be
sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the
trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such action have been
complied with. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any
such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and shall if required by the Company,
bear a notation in form
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approved by the Company as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
Section 10.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Securities that it
will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities in accordance with the
terms of such Securities and this Indenture.
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
(a) The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this
Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints the Trustee, acting
through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said purposes. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of
any such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain
such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands.
(b) The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any
or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designations;
provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner
relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each
Place of Payment for Securities for such purposes. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation and any change in the
location of any such office or agency.
Section 10.3. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
(a) If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to the Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any of the
Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest (including Additional
Interest) so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee
of its failure so to act.
(b) Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, prior
to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) (or
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premium, if any) or interest, including Additional Interest on any Securities,
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest,
including Additional Interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal or interest, including
Additional Interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company
will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.
(c) The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on the Securities
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall
be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(ii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon such Securities) in the making of any payment of principal
(and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) in respect
of any Security;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any default with respect to
the Securities, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
(iv) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable
to it as a Paying Agent.
(d) The Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same terms as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
(e) Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Company in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest
(including Additional Interest) has become due and payable shall (unless
otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or
unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to the Company, or (if then
held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of
applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be discharged from
such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money,
and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required
to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be
published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily
published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of
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Manhattan, the City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from
the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining
will be repaid to the Company.
Section 10.4. Statement as to Compliance.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate covering the preceding calendar year, stating whether or not to the
best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the
performance, observance or fulfillment of or compliance with any of the terms,
provisions, covenants and conditions of this Indenture, and if the Company shall
be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge. For the purpose of this Section 10.4, compliance
shall be determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice
provided pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
Section 10.5. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
Subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Securities specified in Section
9.2, if any, the Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant or condition provided pursuant to Section 3.1, 9.1(c) or 9.1(d) with
respect to the Securities, if before or after the time for such compliance the
Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no
such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the
extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company in respect of any such covenant or condition shall
remain in full force and effect.
Section 10.6. Additional Sums.
So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.1 or Section 3.1, if: (a) the
Issuer Trust is the Holder of all of the Outstanding Securities, and (b) a Tax
Event described in clause (a) or (c) of the definition of "Tax Event" in Section
1.1 hereof has occurred and is continuing in respect of the Issuer Trust, the
Company shall pay the Issuer Trust (and its permitted successors or assigns
under the Trust Agreement) for so long as the Issuer Trust (or its permitted
successor or assignee) is the registered holder of the Outstanding Securities,
such additional sums as may be necessary in order that the amount of
Distributions (including any Additional Amount (as defined in the Trust
Agreement)) then due and payable by the Issuer Trust on the Preferred Securities
and Common Securities that at any time remain outstanding in accordance with the
terms thereof shall not be reduced as a result of such Additional Taxes (the
"Additional Sums"). Whenever in this Indenture or the Securities there is a
reference in any context to the payment of principal of or interest on the
Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payments of
the Additional Sums provided for in this paragraph to the extent that, in such
context, Additional Sums are, were or would be payable in respect thereof
pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph and express mention of the payment
of Additional Sums (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be
construed as excluding Additional Sums in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made; provided,
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however, that the deferral of the payment of interest pursuant to Section 3.12
or the Securities shall not defer the payment of any Additional Sums that may be
due and payable.
Section 10.7. Additional Covenants.
The Company covenants and agrees with each Holder of Securities that it shall
not: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase,
acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the
Company's capital stock, or (b) make any payment of principal of or interest or
premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the
Company that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the
Securities (other than (i) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of
shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment
contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of
any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection
with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection
with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible
into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition
transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period or other event
referred to below, (ii) as a result of a reclassification, exchange or
conversion of any class or series of the Company's capital stock (or any capital
stock of a Subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the Company's
capital stock or of any class or series of the Company's indebtedness for any
class or series of the Company's capital stock, (iii) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or
exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged, (iv) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights
Plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan,
or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (v) any dividend
in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock
or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is
the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu
with or junior to such stock) if at such time (A) there shall have occurred any
event (x) of which the Company has actual knowledge that with the giving of
notice or the lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities, and (y) which the Company shall not have taken
reasonable steps to cure, (B) if the Securities are held by the Issuer Trust,
the Company shall be in default with respect to its payment of any obligations
under the Guarantee relating to the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
Trust, or (C) the Company shall have given notice of its election to begin an
Extension Period with respect to the Securities as provided herein and shall not
have rescinded such notice, or such Extension Period, or any extension thereof,
shall be continuing.
The Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities issued to the Issuer
Trust (a) to hold, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Common Securities of the
Issuer Trust, provided that any permitted successor of the Company as provided
under Section 8.2 may succeed to the Company's ownership of such Common
Securities, (b) as holder of such Common Securities, not to voluntarily
terminate, windup or liquidate the Issuer Trust, other than (i) in connection
with a distribution of the Securities to the holders of the Preferred Securities
in liquidation of the Issuer Trust, or (ii) in connection with certain mergers,
consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the Trust Agreement, and (c) to use
its reasonable efforts, consistent with the terms and provisions of the Trust
Agreement, to cause the Issuer Trust to continue not to be taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
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Section 10.8. Federal Tax Reports.
On or before December 15 of each year during which any Securities are
outstanding, the Company shall furnish to each Paying Agent such information as
may be reasonably requested by each Paying Agent in order that each Paying Agent
may prepare the information which it is required to report for such year on
Internal Revenue Service Forms 1096 and 1099 pursuant to Section 6049 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Such information shall include the
amount of original issue discount includible in income for each authorized
minimum denomination of principal amount at Stated Maturity of outstanding
Securities during such year.
ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.1. Applicability of this Article.
Redemption of Securities as permitted or required by any form of Security
issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such form of
Security and this Article; provided, however, that, if any provision of any such
form of Security shall conflict with any provision of this Article XI, the
provision of such form of Security shall govern.
Section 11.2. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of
the Company, the Company shall, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to
the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee and, in the case of Securities held by the Issuer
Trust, the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement of such date and of the
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and provide the additional
information required to be included in the notice or notices contemplated by
Section 11.4; provided, that, for so long as such Securities are held by the
Issuer Trust, such notice shall be given not less than 45 nor more than 75 days
prior to such Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to
the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement). In the case of any redemption
of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption
provided in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee
with an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance
with such restriction.
Section 11.3. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.
(a) If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities not previously
called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion
of the principal amount of any Security, provided that the unredeemed portion of
the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination
(which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such
Security.
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(b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for partial redemption and the principal amount thereof to
be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security that has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 11.4. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not later than the thirtieth day, and not earlier than the sixtieth day,
prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at
the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register.
With respect to Securities to be redeemed, each notice of redemption shall
state:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated
prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the
Redemption Price provided pursuant to the Indenture together with a statement
that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated
on the third Business Day prior to the Redemption Date (if such an estimate of
the Redemption Price is given, a subsequent notice shall be given as set forth
above setting forth the Redemption Price promptly following the calculation
thereof);
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal
amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and
payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that interest thereon,
if any, shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price;
(f) such other provisions as may be required in respect of the terms of the
Securities; and
(g) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the
Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
The notice, if mailed in the manner provided above, shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such
notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the
notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in
part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any
other Security.
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Section 11.5. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date specified in
the notice of redemption given as provided in Section 11.4, the Company will
deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or if the Company is
acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company will segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and any accrued interest (including Additional Interest) on, all the
Securities (or portions thereof) that are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 11.6. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.
(a) If any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.4,
the Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has
been given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places
stated in such notice at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date. On
presentation and surrender of such Securities at a Place of Payment in said
notice specified, the said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be
paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price, together
with accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption
Date; provided, however, that, installments of interest (including Additional
Interest) whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant record
dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.8.
(b) Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder
thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities, of
authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed
portion of the Security so presented and having the same Original Issue Date,
Stated Maturity and terms.
(c) If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid under
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, on such
Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate
prescribed therefor in the Security.
Section 11.7. Right of Redemption of Securities Initially Issued to the Issuer
Trust.
(a) The Company, at its option, may redeem such Securities (i) on or after
_____________, 2005, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, or (ii)
upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tax Event, an Investment
Company Event or a Capital Treatment Event, at any time within 90 days following
the occurrence and during the continuation of such Tax Event, Investment Company
Event or Capital Treatment Event, in whole (but not in part), in each case at a
Redemption Price specified in such Security, together with accrued interest
(including Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date.
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(b) If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the aggregate
principal amount of such Securities remaining Outstanding after giving effect to
such redemption shall be sufficient to satisfy any provisions of the Trust
Agreement.
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
Except as may be provided in any supplemental or amended indenture, no sinking
fund shall be established or maintained for the retirement of Securities.
ARTICLE XIII
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 13.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in
the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article, the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) on
each and all of the Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject
in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
Section 13.2. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default; Payment Over of
Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
(a) If the Company shall default in the payment of any principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Indebtedness when the same becomes
due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by
declaration of acceleration or otherwise, then, upon written notice of such
default to the Company by the holders of Senior Indebtedness or any trustee
therefor, unless and until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall
have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property,
securities, by set-off or otherwise) shall be made or agreed to be made on
account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including
Additional Interest) on any of the Securities, or in respect of any redemption,
repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition of any of the Securities.
(b) In the event of (i) any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition or other similar
proceeding relating to the Company, its creditors or its property, (ii) any
proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Company,
voluntary or involuntary, whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy
proceedings, (iii) any assignment by the Company for the benefit of creditors or
(iv) any other marshalling of the assets of the Company (each such event, if
any, herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding"), all Senior Indebtedness
(including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such
proceedings) shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution,
whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any Holder on
account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or
other property (other than securities of the Company or any other entity
provided for by a plan of reorganization or
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readjustment, the payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent
provided in these subordination provisions with respect to the indebtedness
evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness at the
time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect thereof under any such
plan of reorganization or readjustment), which would otherwise (but for these
subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities
shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness in
accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders until all Senior
Indebtedness (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of
any Proceeding) shall have been paid in full.
(c) In the event of any Proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing
with respect to Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities, together
with the holders of any obligations of the Company ranking on a parity with the
Securities, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the
Company the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities and such other obligations
before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property or
otherwise, shall be made on account of any capital stock or any obligations of
the Company ranking junior to the Securities, and such other obligations. If,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of any character or
any security, whether in cash, securities or other property (other than
securities of the Company or any other entity provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least to
the extent provided in these subordination provisions with respect to the
indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness at the time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect
thereof under any plan of reorganization or readjustment), shall be received by
the Trustee or any Holder in contravention of any of the terms hereof and before
all Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, such payment or
distribution or security shall be received in trust for the benefit of, and
shall be paid over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities then
existing among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior
Indebtedness in full. In the event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder
to endorse or assign any such payment, distribution or security, each holder of
Senior Indebtedness is hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the
same.
(d) The Trustee and the Holders shall take such action (including, without
limitation, the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for the holders of Senior
Indebtedness or consent to the filing of a financing statement with respect
hereto) as may, in the opinion of counsel designated by the holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Senior Indebtedness at the time outstanding,
be necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination
effected by these provisions.
(e) The provisions of this Section 13.2 shall not impair any rights,
interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Company in respect
of any security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the
provisions of this Indenture.
(f) The securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise ranking on a
parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities shall not be
deemed to prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations
ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities.
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Section 13.3. Payment Permitted if No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
any of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time, except during
the pendency of the conditions described in the first paragraph of Section 13.2
or of any Proceeding referred to in Section 13.2, from making payments at any
time of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional
Interest) on the Securities, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any monies
deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of
such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such payment
would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
Section 13.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on all
Senior Indebtedness, or the provision for such payment in cash or cash
equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of
the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the holders
of all indebtedness of the Company that by its express terms is subordinated to
Senior Indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the
Securities are subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness and is entitled to like
rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders
of such Senior Indebtedness) to the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and
securities applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of and
interest (including Additional Interest) on the Securities shall be paid in
full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which
the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article, and no payments pursuant to the provisions of this
Article to the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or
the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a
payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior
Indebtedness.
Section 13.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article XIII are, and are intended solely for, the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing
contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the
Securities is intended to or shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the
Holders of the Securities, the obligations of the Company, which are absolute
and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms; (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders
of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than their rights in
relation to the holders of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent the Trustee or
the Holder of any Security (or to the extent expressly provided herein, the
holder of any Preferred Security) from exercising all remedies otherwise
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permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, including filing
and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this
Article XIII of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, property and
securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
Section 13.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary
or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article XIII and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and
all such purposes.
Section 13.7 No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
(a) No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or
be otherwise charged with.
(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of Section 13.7(a), the
holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without
the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities,
without incurring responsibility to such Holders of the Securities and without
impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article XIII or the
obligations hereunder of such Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place
or terms of payment or extent the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior
Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Indebtedness
or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior
Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with
any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Indebtedness; (iii)
release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior
Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against
the Company and any other Person.
Section 13.8. Notice to Trustee.
(a) The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of
any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Article XIII or any other provision of this Indenture,
the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts
that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of
the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice
thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee,
agent or representative therefor; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall
not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least two Business
Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any monies may become
payable for any purpose (including, the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any
Security), then, anything herein contained to the
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contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to
receive such monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were
received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be
received by it within two Business Days prior to such date.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall be entitled
to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing
himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or
attorney-in-fact therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a
holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or attorney-in-fact therefor). In
the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is
required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior
Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness
held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of
such Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not furnished, the
Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 13.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this
Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, and the Holders
of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by
any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is pending, or a
certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, conservator, liquidating
trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person
making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders
of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XIII.
Section 13.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall
not be liable to any such holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over
or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other Person
cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness shall
be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
Section 13.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set
forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness that may at any
time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.
Section 13.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
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In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been
appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as
used in this Article XIII shall in such case (unless the context otherwise
requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were
named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee.
Section 13.13. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed Payment.
For purposes of this Article only, (a) the issuance and delivery of junior
securities upon conversion or exchange of Securities shall not be deemed to
constitute a payment or distribution on account of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Securities
or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of such Securities, and (b)
the payment, issuance or delivery of cash, property or securities (other than
junior securities) upon conversion or exchange of a Security shall be deemed to
constitute payment on account of the principal of such security. For the
purposes of this Section, the term "junior securities" means (i) shares of any
stock of any class of the Company, and (ii) securities of the Company that are
subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness that may be
outstanding at the time of issuance or delivery of such securities to
substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Securities
are so subordinated as provided in this Article.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which
so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
PROVIDENT BANKSHARES CORPORATION
By:______________________
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:______________________
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