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EXHIBIT 4.5
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SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
FLAGSTAR BANCORP, INC.,
as Issuer
to
FMB TRUST COMPANY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
__% Junior Subordinated Debentures
Dated as of March__, 1999
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FLAGSTAR BANCORP, INC.
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939,
AS AMENDED, AND SUBORDINATED INDENTURE,
DATED AS OF MARCH__, 1999
TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION SUBORDINATED INDENTURE SECTION
Section 310 15.09
Section 310(b) 9.08
Section 311 15.09
Section 311(a) 9.13
(b) 9.13
Section 312 15.09
Section 312(b) 6.02
Section 313 15.09
Section 313(a) 6.04
(b) 6.04
(c) 6.04
Section 314 15.09
Section 315 15.09
Section 316 15.09
Section 317 15.09
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Subordinated Indenture.
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SUBORDINATED INDENTURE (the "Indenture"), dated as of March__, 1999,
between FLAGSTAR BANCORP, INC., a Michigan corporation (the "Company") and FMB
TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee
(the "Trustee");
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized
the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of its
securities to be known as its __% Junior Subordinated Debentures due March __,
2029 (hereinafter referred to as the "Junior Subordinated Debentures"), the form
and substance of such Junior Subordinated Debentures and the terms, provisions
and conditions thereof to be set forth as provided in this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, Flagstar Capital Trust I, a Delaware statutory business trust (the
"Trust"), has offered to the public $_____[A]___ aggregate liquidation amount of
its __% Cumulative Trust Preferred Securities (the "Preferred Securities"),
representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust and
proposes to invest the proceeds from such offering, together with the proceeds
of the issuance and sale by the Trust to the Company of $__[B]___ aggregate
liquidation amount of its __% Common Securities, in $_[A]+[B]__ aggregate
principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures; and
WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver
this Indenture and all requirements necessary to make this Indenture a valid
instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the Junior Subordinated
Debentures, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee, the valid obligations of the Company; and
WHEREAS, to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Junior
Subordinated Debentures are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the
Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; 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, in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures by the holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted
and agreed as follows for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of Junior
Subordinated Debentures:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
The terms defined in this Section (except as in this Indenture otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of
this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the
respective meanings specified in this Section and shall include the plural as
well as the singular. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or that are by reference in said
Trust Indenture Act defined in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (except as
herein otherwise expressly provided
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or unless the context otherwise requires), shall have the meanings assigned to
such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as in force at
the date of the execution of this Indenture.
"Accelerated Maturity Date" means, if the Company elects to accelerate the
Maturity Date in accordance with Section 2.02, the date selected by the Company
which is prior to the Scheduled Maturity Date, but is after March __, 2004.
"Additional Sums" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(c).
"Administrative Trustees" has the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) any Person
directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to vote 10% or
more of the outstanding voting securities or other ownership interests of the
specified Person, (b) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting
securities or other ownership interests are directly or indirectly owned,
controlled or held with power to vote by the specified Person, (c) any Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with
the specified Person, (d) a partnership in which the specified Person is a
general partner, (e) any officer or director of the specified Person, and (f) if
the specified Person is an individual, any entity of which the specified Person
is an officer, director or general partner.
"Authenticating Agent" means an authenticating agent with respect to the
Junior Subordinated Debentures appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section
9.14.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state
law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the Company or any
duly authorized committee of such Board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification.
"Business Day" means any day other than a day on which federal or state
banking institutions in the State of Michigan are authorized or obligated by
law, executive order or regulation to close or a day on which the Trustee is
closed.
"Capital Treatment Event" means the reasonable determination by the Company
that, as a result of any amendment to, or change (including any proposed change)
in, the laws (or any 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 proposed change, pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the
date of issuance of the Preferred Securities under the Trust Agreement, there is
more than an insubstantial risk of impairment of the Company's ability to treat
the Preferred Securities (or any substantial portion thereof) as tier I
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Capital for purposes of any then applicable capital adequacy guidelines of the
OTS, as then in effect.
"Certificate" means a certificate signed by the principal executive
officer, the principal financial officer or the principal accounting officer of
the Company. The Certificate need not comply with the provisions of Section
15.07.
"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 Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Common Securities" means undivided beneficial interests in the assets of
the Trust which rank pari passu with Preferred Securities issued by the Trust;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the rights
of holders of Common Securities to payment in respect of Distributions and
payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise are subordinated to the
rights of holders of Preferred Securities.
"Company" means Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., a corporation duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Michigan, and, subject to the provisions
of Article XII, shall also include its successors and assigns.
"Compounded Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.01.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which, at any
particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered,
which office at the date hereof is located at ____________, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration.
"Coupon Rate" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a).
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, or similar
official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"Debt" means with respect to any Person, whether recourse is to all or a
portion of the assets of such Person and whether or not contingent, (a) every
obligation of such Person for money borrowed; (b) every obligation of such
Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments,
including obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property,
assets or businesses; (c) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with
respect to letters of credit, bankers' acceptances or similar facilities issued
for the account of such Person; (d) every obligation of such Person 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); (e) every capital lease obligation of such Person; and (f) every
obligation of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (e) of another Person
and all dividends of another Person the payment of which, in either case, such
Person has guaranteed or for which such Person is responsible or liable,
directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise.
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"Default" means any event, act or condition that with notice or lapse of
time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
"Deferred Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.01.
"Depositary" means, with respect to Junior Subordinated Debentures issued
as a Global Subordinated Debenture, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New
York, another clearing agency, or any successor registered as a clearing agency
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or
other applicable statute or regulation, which, in each case, shall be designated
by the Company pursuant to either Section 2.01 or 2.04.
"Dissolution Event" means that as a result of the occurrence and
continuation of a Special Event, the Trust is to be dissolved in accordance with
the Trust Agreement and the Junior Subordinated Debentures held by the Property
Trustee are to be distributed to the holders of the Trust Securities issued by
the Trust pro rata in accordance with the Trust Agreement.
"Distributions" shall have the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement.
"Event of Default" means any event specified in Section 7.01, continued for
the period of time, if any, therein designated.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Extended Interest Payment Period" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4.01.
"Global Subordinated Debenture" means a Junior Subordinated Debenture
executed by the Company and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or
pursuant to the Depositary's instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture,
which shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee.
"Governmental Obligations" means securities that are (a) direct obligations
of the United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and
credit is pledged or (b) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and
acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the
payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America that, in either case, are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also
include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian with respect to any such
Governmental Obligation or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any
such Governmental Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the
holder of such depositary receipt; provided, however, that (except as required
by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Governmental Obligation or the specific payment of
principal of or interest on the Governmental Obligation evidenced by such
depositary receipt.
"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.
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"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 in accordance with the terms hereof.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any installment of
interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures, means the date specified in the
Junior Subordinated Debenture as the fixed date on which an installment of
interest with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures is due and payable.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Company and the Trust
of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a
result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a change in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority (a "Change in Investment
Company Act Law"), the Trust is or will be considered an "investment company"
that is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, which Change
in Investment Company Act Law becomes effective on or after the date of original
issuance of the Preferred Securities under the Trust Agreement.
"Junior Subordinated Debentures" means the __% Junior Subordinated
Debentures due 2029 authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $25.00 per Trust Security.
"Maturity Date" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.02.
"Non Book-Entry Preferred Securities" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.04(a).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chief Executive
Officer, the President or a Vice President and by the Chief Accounting Officer
or the Controller or an Assistant Controller or the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company that is delivered to the Trustee in accordance with the
terms hereof. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in
Section 15.07, if and to the extent required by the provisions thereof.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing of legal counsel, who may
be an employee of or counsel for the Company, that is delivered to the Trustee
in accordance with the terms hereof. Each such opinion shall include the
statements provided for in Section 15.07, if and to the extent required by the
provisions thereof.
"OTS" means the Office of Thrift Supervision of the United States
Department of the Treasury, or any successor agency.
"Outstanding," when used with reference to Junior Subordinated Debentures
means, subject to the provisions of Section 10.04, as of any particular time,
all Junior Subordinated Debentures theretofore authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee under this Indenture, except
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(a) Junior Subordinated Debentures theretofore canceled by the Trustee or any
paying agent, or delivered to the Trustee or any paying agent for cancellation
or that have previously been canceled; (b) Junior Subordinated Debentures or
portions thereof for the payment or redemption of which moneys or Governmental
Obligations in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the
Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set
aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its
own paying agent); provided, however, that if such Junior Subordinated
Debentures or portions of such Junior Subordinated Debentures are to be redeemed
prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given
as provided in Article III, or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have
been made for giving such notice; and (c) Junior Subordinated Debentures in lieu
of or in substitution for which other Junior Subordinated Debentures shall have
been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.08.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
joint-stock company, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
"Predecessor Junior Subordinated Debenture" means every previous Junior
Subordinated Debenture evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Junior Subordinated Debenture; and, for the
purposes of this definition, any Junior Subordinated Debenture authenticated and
delivered under Section 2.08 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Junior
Subordinated Debenture shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost,
destroyed or stolen Junior Subordinated Debenture.
"Preferred Securities" means undivided beneficial interests in the assets
of the Trust which rank pari passu with Common Securities issued by the Trust;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the rights
of holders of Common Securities to payment in respect of Distributions and
payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise are subordinated to the
rights of holders of Preferred Securities.
"Preferred Securities Certificate" has the meaning set forth in the Trust
Agreement.
"Preferred Securities Guarantee" means any guarantee that the Company may
enter into with the Property Trustee or other Persons that operates directly or
indirectly for the benefit of holders of Preferred Securities of the Trust.
"Property Trustee" has the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement.
"Redemption Price" means the amount equal to 100% of the principal amount
of Junior Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid
interest thereon to the date of the redemption of such Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President, any Vice President, the
Secretary, the Treasurer, any trust officer, any corporate trust officer or any
other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall
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be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is
referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
"Scheduled Maturity Date" means March __, 2009.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 2.07.
"Securityholder," "Holder," "Registered Holder," or other similar term,
means the Person or Persons in whose name or names particular Junior
Subordinated Debentures shall be registered in the Securities Register.
"Senior and Subordinated Debt" means the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest, if any (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any
petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company whether or
not such claim for post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), on
Debt of the Company, whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture
or thereafter incurred, unless, in the instrument creating or evidencing the
same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such
obligations are not superior in right of payment to the Junior Subordinated
Debentures or to other Debt which is pari passu with, or subordinated to, the
Junior Subordinated Debentures; provided, however, that Senior and Subordinated
Debt shall not be deemed to include (a) any Debt 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,
(b) any Debt of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries, (c) any Debt to any
employee of the Company, (d) any Debt which by its terms is subordinated to any
trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of
business but only to the extent that payments made to the holders of such Debt
by the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures as a result of the
subordination provisions of this Indenture would be greater than they otherwise
would have been as a result of any obligation of such Holders to pay amounts
over to the obligees on such trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities
arising in the ordinary course of business as a result of subordination
provisions to which such Debt is subject, (e) the Preferred Securities
Guarantee, and (f) any other debt securities issued pursuant to this Indenture.
"Special Event" means a Tax Event, an Investment Company Event or a Capital
Treatment Event.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (a) any corporation at
least a majority of whose outstanding Voting Stock shall at the time be owned,
directly or indirectly, by such Person, or by one or more of its Subsidiaries,
or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, (b) any general
partnership, joint venture or similar entity, at least a majority of whose
outstanding partnership or similar interests shall at the time be owned by such
Person, or by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more
of its Subsidiaries, and (c) any limited partnership of which such Person or any
of its Subsidiaries is a general partner.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Company and the Trust of an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of any
amendment to, or change
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(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 administrative
pronouncement 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 Junior
Subordinated Debentures there is more than an insubstantial risk that (a)
interest payable by the Company on the Junior Subordinated Debentures is not, or
within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel will not be, deductible
by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax
purposes, (b) the Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the date of such
Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States federal income tax with respect to
income received or accrued on the Junior Subordinated Debentures, or (c) the
Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel,
subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties, assessments or
other governmental charges.
"Trust" means Flagstar Capital Trust I, a Delaware statutory business trust
created for the purpose of issuing Trust Securities in connection with the
issuance of Junior Subordinated Debentures under this Indenture.
"Trust Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as
of March__, 1999, of the Trust.
"Trustee" means TRUSTEE and, subject to the provisions of Article IX, shall
also include its successors and assigns, and, if at any time there is more than
one Person acting in such capacity hereunder, "Trustee" shall mean each such
Person.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at
the date of execution of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture
Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trust Securities" means Common Securities and Preferred Securities of the
Trust.
"Voting Stock" as applied to stock of any Person, means shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents in the equity interest (however designated)
in such Person having ordinary voting power for the election of a majority of
the directors (or the equivalent) of such Person, other than shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents having such power only by reason of the
occurrence of a contingency.
ARTICLE II
DESCRIPTION, TERMS, CONDITIONS, REGISTRATION
AND EXCHANGE OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES
.1. DESIGNATION AND PRINCIPAL AMOUNT. There is hereby authorized a
series of Securities designated the "__% Junior Subordinated Debentures due
2029," limited in aggregate principal amount to $__________, which amount shall
be as set forth in any written order of the
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Company for the authentication and delivery of Junior Subordinated Debentures
pursuant to Section 8.02 of this Indenture.
.2. MATURITY.
(a) The Maturity Date will be either:
(i) the Scheduled Maturity Date; or
(ii) if the Company elects to accelerate the Maturity Date
to be a date prior to the Scheduled Maturity Date in accordance
with Section 2.02(b), the Accelerated Maturity Date.
(b) The Company may, at any time before the day which is 90
days before the Scheduled Maturity Date, elect to shorten the Maturity Date
only once to the Accelerated Maturity Date, provided that the Company has
received the prior approval of the OTS if then required under applicable
capital guidelines or policies of the OTS, but in no case shall such
Accelerated Maturity Date be a date before March __, 2004.
(c) If the Company elects to accelerate the Maturity Date in
accordance with Section 2.02(b), the Company shall give notice to the
Registered Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, the Property
Trustee and the Trustee of the acceleration of the Maturity Date and the
Accelerated Maturity Date at least 90 days before the Accelerated Maturity
Date.
.3. FORM AND PAYMENT. Except as provided in Section 2.04, the Junior
Subordinated Debentures shall be issued in fully registered certificated form
without interest coupons. Principal and interest on the Junior Subordinated
Debentures issued in certificated form will be payable, the transfer of such
Junior Subordinated Debentures will be registrable and such Junior Subordinated
Debentures will be exchangeable for Junior Subordinated Debentures bearing
identical terms and provisions at the office or agency of the Trustee; provided,
however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by
check mailed to the Holder at such address as shall appear in the Securities
Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Holder of any Junior
Subordinated Debentures is the Property Trustee, the payment of the principal of
and interest (including Compounded Interest and Additional Sums, if any) on such
Junior Subordinated Debentures held by the Property Trustee will be made at such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Property Trustee.
.4. GLOBAL SUBORDINATED DEBENTURE.
(a) In connection with a Dissolution Event:
(i) the Junior Subordinated Debentures in certificated
form may be presented to the Trustee by the Property Trustee in
exchange for a Global Subordinated Debenture in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all
outstanding Junior Subordinated Debentures (a "Global
Subordinated Debenture"), to be registered in the name of the
Depositary, or its
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nominee, and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary for
crediting to the accounts of its participants pursuant to the
instructions of the Administrative Trustees. The Company upon any
such presentation shall execute a Global Subordinated Debenture
in such aggregate principal amount and deliver the same to the
Trustee for authentication and delivery in accordance with this
Indenture. Payments on the Junior Subordinated Debentures issued
as a Global Subordinated Debenture will be made to the
Depositary; and
(ii) if any Preferred Securities are held in non book-entry
certificated form, the Junior Subordinated Debentures in
certificated form may be presented to the Trustee by the Property
Trustee and any Preferred Securities Certificate which represents
Preferred Securities other than Preferred Securities held by the
Depositary or its nominee ("Non Book-Entry Preferred Securities")
will be deemed to represent beneficial interests in Junior
Subordinated Debentures presented to the Trustee by the Property
Trustee having an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Non Book-Entry Preferred
Securities until such Preferred Securities Certificates are
presented to the Securities Registrar for transfer or reissuance
at which time such Preferred Securities Certificates will be
canceled and a Junior Subordinated Debenture, registered in the
name of the holder of the Preferred Securities Certificate or the
transferee of the holder of such Preferred Securities
Certificate, as the case may be, with an aggregate principal
amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities Certificate canceled, will be executed by the Company
and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and delivery in
accordance with this Indenture. On issue of such Junior
Subordinated Debentures, Junior Subordinated Debentures with an
equivalent aggregate principal amount that were presented by the
Property Trustee to the Trustee will be deemed to have been
canceled.
(b) A Global Subordinated Debenture may be transferred, in whole
but not in part, only to another nominee of the Depositary, or to a
successor Depositary selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of
such successor Depositary.
(c) If at any time the Depositary notifies the Company that it
is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary or if at any time the
Depositary for such series shall no longer be registered or in good
standing under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulation,
and a successor Depositary for such series is not appointed by the Company
within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of
such condition, as the case may be, the Company will execute, and the
Trustee, upon written notice from the Company, will authenticate and
deliver the Junior Subordinated Debentures in definitive registered form
without coupons, in authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Subordinated Debenture
in exchange for such Global Subordinated Debenture. In addition, the
Company may at any time determine that the Junior Subordinated Debentures
shall no longer be represented by a Global Subordinated Debenture. In such
event the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officers' Certificate evidencing such determination by the Company, will
authenticate and deliver the Junior
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Subordinated Debentures in definitive registered form without coupons, in
authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Global Subordinated Debenture in exchange for such
Global Subordinated Debenture. Upon the exchange of the Global Subordinated
Debenture for such Junior Subordinated Debentures in definitive registered
form without coupons, in authorized denominations, the Global Subordinated
Debenture shall be canceled by the Trustee. Such Junior Subordinated
Debentures in definitive registered form issued in exchange for the Global
Subordinated Debenture shall be registered in such names and in such
authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from
its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the
Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Junior Subordinated Debentures to
the Depositary for delivery to the Persons in whose names such Junior
Subordinated Debentures are so registered.
.5. INTEREST.
(a) Each Junior Subordinated Debenture will bear interest at
the rate of __% per annum (the "Coupon Rate") from the original date of
issuance until the principal thereof becomes due and payable, and on any
overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of such interest is
enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of interest
at the Coupon Rate, compounded quarterly, payable (subject to the
provisions of Article IV) quarterly in arrears on the fifteenth day of
March, June, September and December in each year (each, an "Interest
Payment Date"), commencing on June 15, 1999, to the Person in whose name
such Junior Subordinated Debenture or any Predecessor Junior Subordinated
Debenture is registered at the close of business on the regular record
date for such interest installment, which, in respect of (i) Junior
Subordinated Debentures of which the Property Trustee is the Holder and
the Preferred Securities are in book-entry-only form or (ii) a Global
Subordinated Debenture, shall be the close of business on the Business Day
next preceding that Interest Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing
sentence, if (A) the Junior Subordinated Debentures are held by the
Property Trustee and the Preferred Securities are no longer in book-entry
only form or (B) the Junior Subordinated Debentures are not represented by
a Global Subordinated Debenture, the record date for such interest
installment shall be the first day of the month in which such payment is
to be made. The amount of each interest payment due with respect to the
Junior Subordinated Debentures will include amounts accrued through the
date the interest payment is due.
(b) The amount of interest payable for any period will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Except as
provided in the following sentence, the amount of interest payable for any
period shorter than a full quarterly period for which interest is computed
will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such
a quarterly period. In the event that any date on which interest is payable
on the Junior Subordinated Debentures is not a Business Day, then payment
of interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day
which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in
respect of any such delay), 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 such date.
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(c) If, at any time while the Property Trustee is the Holder of
any Junior Subordinated Debentures, the Trust or the Property Trustee is
required to pay any taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of
whatever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed by the United
States, or any other taxing authority, then, in any case, the Company will
pay as additional interest ("Additional Sums") on the Junior Subordinated
Debentures held by the Property Trustee such additional amounts as shall be
required so that the net amounts received and retained by the Trust and the
Property Trustee after paying such taxes, duties, assessments or other
governmental charges will be equal to the amounts the Trust and the
Property Trustee would have received had no such taxes, duties, assessments
or other government charges been imposed.
.6. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING. The Junior
Subordinated Debentures shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief
Executive Officer, its President or any Vice President and attested by its
Secretary or Assistant Secretary. The signature of any of these officers on the
Junior Subordinated Debentures may be manual or facsimile.
Junior Subordinated Debentures 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
Junior Subordinated Debentures or did not hold such offices at the date of such
Junior Subordinated Debentures.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Junior Subordinated Debentures executed by
the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company order for
the authentication and delivery of such Junior Subordinated Debentures. The
Trustee in accordance with such Company order shall authenticate and deliver
such Junior Subordinated Debentures as provided in this Indenture and not
otherwise.
Upon the initial issuance, each Junior Subordinated Debenture shall be
dated March__, 1999, and thereafter Junior Subordinated Debentures issued
hereunder shall be dated the date of their authentication.
No Junior Subordinated Debenture shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on
such Junior Subordinated Debenture a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and
such certificate upon any Junior Subordinated Debenture shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Junior Subordinated Debenture has
been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture.
.7. REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER. The Company shall cause to be kept at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in
such office or any other office or agency pursuant to Section 5.02 being herein
sometimes referred to as the "Securities Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of the Junior Subordinated Debentures and transfers of the Junior
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Subordinated Debentures. The Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar"
for the purpose of registering the Junior Subordinated Debentures and transfers
of the Junior Subordinated Debentures as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Junior Subordinated
Debenture at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section
5.02 for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, a new Junior Subordinated Debenture of the authorized denomination.
All Junior Subordinated Debentures issued upon any registration of transfer
of Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same debt and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture
as the Junior Subordinated Debentures surrendered upon such registration of
transfer.
Every Junior Subordinated Debenture presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer shall be duly endorsed for transfer (if so required by
the Company or the Trustee), or shall 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 for any registration of transfer of Junior
Subordinated Debentures, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer of Junior Subordinated Debentures.
The Company shall not be required to issue or register the transfer of any
Junior Subordinated Debenture during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Junior Subordinated Debentures selected for redemption pursuant to Article III
and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing.
.8. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN JUNIOR SUBORDINATED
DEBENTURES. If any mutilated Junior Subordinated Debenture is surrendered to the
Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a new Junior Subordinated Debenture of like tenor
and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (a) evidence to
their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Junior Subordinated
Debenture and (b) 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 Junior Subordinated Debenture has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Junior
Subordinated Debenture, a new Junior Subordinated Debenture of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Junior Subordinated
Debenture has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Junior Subordinated Debenture, pay such
Junior Subordinated Debenture.
Upon the issuance of any new Junior Subordinated Debenture under this
Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any
other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected
therewith.
Every new Junior Subordinated Debenture issued pursuant to this Section in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Junior Subordinated Debenture shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether
or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Junior Subordinated Debenture shall be at
any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of
this Indenture.
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 Junior Subordinated Debentures.
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES
.1. REDEMPTION. Subject to the Company having received prior approval of
the OTS, if then required under the applicable capital guidelines or policies of
the OTS, the Company may redeem the Junior Subordinated Debentures in accordance
with this Article III.
.2. SPECIAL EVENT REDEMPTION. Subject to the Company having received the
prior approval of the OTS, if then required under the applicable capital
guidelines or policies of the OTS, if a Special Event has occurred and is
continuing, then, notwithstanding Section 3.03, the Company shall have the right
upon not less than 30 days' nor more than 60 days' notice to the Holders of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures to redeem the Junior Subordinated Debentures, in
whole but not in part, for cash within 90 days following the occurrence of such
Special Event (the "90-Day Period") at the Redemption Price, provided that if at
the time there is available to the Company the opportunity to eliminate, within
the 90-Day Period, the Tax Event by taking some ministerial action ("Ministerial
Action"), such as filing a form or making an election, or pursuing some other
similar reasonable measure which has no adverse effect on the Company, the Trust
or the Holders of the Trust Securities issued by the Trust, the Company shall
pursue such Ministerial Action in lieu of redemption, and, provided, further,
that the Company shall have no right to redeem the Junior Subordinated
Debentures while the Trust is pursuing any Ministerial Action to eliminate the
Tax Event. The Redemption Price shall be paid prior to 2:00 p.m., Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, time, on the date of such redemption or such earlier time as
the Company determines, provided that the Company shall deposit with the Trustee
an amount sufficient to pay the Redemption Price by 12:00 noon, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, time, on the date such Redemption Price is to be paid.
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.3. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION BY COMPANY.
(a) Except as otherwise may be specified in this Indenture, the
Company shall have the right to redeem the Junior Subordinated Debentures,
in whole or in part, from time to time, on or after March __, 2004, at the
Redemption Price. Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.03 will be made
upon not less than 30 days' nor more than 60 days' notice to the Holders of
the Junior Subordinated Debentures, at the Redemption Price. If the Junior
Subordinated Debentures are only partially redeemed pursuant to this
Section 3.03, the Junior Subordinated Debentures will be redeemed pro rata
or by lot or by any other method utilized by the Trustee; provided, that if
at the time of redemption the Junior Subordinated Debentures are registered
as a Global Subordinated Debenture, the Depositary shall determine, in
accordance with its procedures, the principal amount of such Junior
Subordinated Debentures held by each Holder of Junior Subordinated
Debentures to be redeemed. The Redemption Price shall be paid prior to 2:00
p.m., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan time, on the date of such redemption or at
such earlier time as the Company determines provided that the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay the Redemption Price
by 12:00 noon, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan time, on the date such Redemption
Price is to be paid.
(b) If a partial redemption of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures would result in the delisting of the Preferred Securities issued
by the Trust from the NASDAQ National Market or any national securities
exchange or other organization on which the Preferred Securities may then
be listed, if any, the Company shall not be permitted to effect such
partial redemption and may only redeem the Junior Subordinated Debentures
in whole or in part to such extent as would not cause such delisting.
.4. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
(a) In case the Company shall desire to exercise such right to
redeem all or, as the case may be, a portion of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures in accordance with the right reserved so to do, the Company
shall, or shall cause the Trustee to, give notice of such redemption to
Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed by mailing,
first class postage prepaid, a notice of such redemption not less than 30
days and not more than 60 days before the date fixed for redemption to such
Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear upon the Securities
Register. Any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the
Registered Holder receives the notice. In any case, failure duly to give
such notice to the Holder of any Junior Subordinated Debenture designated
for redemption in whole or in part, or any defect in the notice, shall not
affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other
Junior Subordinated Debentures. In the case of any redemption of Junior
Subordinated Debentures prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish
the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with any
such restriction.
Each such notice of redemption shall specify the date fixed for
redemption and the Redemption Price, and shall state that payment of the
Redemption Price of such Junior
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Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed will be made at the office or agency
of the Company in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, upon presentation and
surrender of such Junior Subordinated Debentures, that interest accrued to
the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in said notice,
that from and after said date interest will cease to accrue. If less than
all the Junior Subordinated Debentures are to be redeemed, the notice to
the Holders of Junior Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed in whole or in
part shall specify the particular Junior Subordinated Debentures to be so
redeemed. In case any Junior Subordinated Debenture is to be redeemed in
part only, the notice that relates to such Junior Subordinated Debenture
shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed, and
shall state that on and after the redemption date, upon surrender of such
Junior Subordinated Debenture, a new Junior Subordinated Debenture or
Junior Subordinated Debentures in principal amount equal to the unredeemed
portion thereof shall be issued to the Holder.
(b) If less than all the Junior Subordinated Debentures are to
be redeemed, the Company shall give the Trustee at least 45 days' notice in
advance of the date fixed for redemption as to the aggregate principal
amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed, and thereupon the
Trustee shall select, by lot or in such other manner as it shall deem
appropriate and fair in its discretion and that may provide for the
selection of a portion or portions (equal to ______dollars U.S. ($_____) or
any integral multiple thereof), the Junior Subordinated Debentures to be
redeemed and shall thereafter promptly notify the Company in writing of the
numbers of the Junior Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed, in whole or
in part.
The Company may, if and whenever it shall so elect, by delivery of
instructions signed on its behalf by its Chief Executive Officer, its President
or any Vice President, instruct the Trustee or any paying agent to call all or
any part of the Junior Subordinated Debentures for redemption and to give notice
of redemption in the manner set forth in this Section, such notice to be in the
name of the Company or in the name of the Trustee or the paying agent, as the
Trustee or such paying agent may deem advisable. In any case in which notice of
redemption is to be given by the Trustee or any such paying agent, the Company
shall deliver or cause to be delivered to, or permit to remain with, the Trustee
or such paying agent, as the case may be, such Securities Register, transfer
books or other records, or suitable copies or extracts therefrom, sufficient to
enable the Trustee or such paying agent to give any notice by mail that may be
required under the provisions of this Section.
.5. PAYMENT UPON REDEMPTION.
(a) If the giving of notice of redemption shall have been
completed as above provided, the Junior Subordinated Debentures or portions
of Junior Subordinated Debentures to be redeemed specified in such notice
shall become due and payable on the date and at the place stated in such
notice at the Redemption Price (which includes interest accrued to the date
fixed for redemption) and interest on such Junior Subordinated Debentures
or
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portions of Junior Subordinated Debentures shall cease to accrue on and
after the date fixed for redemption, unless the Company shall default in
the payment of such Redemption Price with respect to any such Junior
Subordinated Debentures or portions thereof. On presentation and surrender
of such Junior Subordinated Debentures on or after the date fixed for
redemption at the place of payment specified in the notice, such Junior
Subordinated Debentures shall be paid and redeemed at the Redemption Price
(which includes the interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for
redemption) (but if the date fixed for redemption is an Interest Payment
Date, the interest installment payable on such date shall be payable to the
Registered Holder at the close of business on the applicable record date
pursuant to Section 2.05(a)).
(b) Upon presentation of any Junior Subordinated Debenture that
is to be redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and the office or agency where the Junior Subordinated
Debenture is presented shall deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense
of the Company, a new Junior Subordinated Debenture or Junior Subordinated
Debentures of authorized denominations in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Junior Subordinated Debenture so presented.
.6. NO SINKING FUND. The Junior Subordinated Debentures are not
entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.
ARTICLE IV
EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT PERIOD
.1. EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT PERIOD. So long as no Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right, at any time
and from time to time during the term of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, to
defer payments of interest by extending the interest payment period of such
Junior Subordinated Debentures for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive
quarters (the "Extended Interest Payment Period"), during which Extended
Interest Payment Period no interest shall be due and payable; provided that no
Extended Interest Payment Period may extend beyond the Maturity Date. To the
extent permitted by applicable law, interest, the payment of which has been
deferred because of the extension of the interest payment period pursuant to
this Section 4.01, will bear interest thereon at the Coupon Rate compounded
quarterly for each quarter of the Extended Interest Payment Period ("Compounded
Interest"). At the end of the Extended Interest Payment Period, the Company
shall pay all interest accrued and unpaid on the Junior Subordinated Debentures,
including any Additional Sums and Compounded Interest (together, "Deferred
Interest") that shall be payable to the Holders of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures in whose names the Junior Subordinated Debentures are registered in
the Securities Register on the record date for the Interest Payment Date
coinciding with the end of the Extended Interest Payment Period. Before the
termination of any Extended Interest Payment Period, the Company may further
extend such period, provided that such period together with all such further
extensions thereof shall not exceed 20 consecutive quarters, or extend beyond
the Maturity Date. Upon the termination of any Extended Interest Payment Period
and upon the payment of all Deferred Interest then due, the Company may commence
a new Extended Interest Payment Period, subject to the foregoing requirements.
No interest shall be due and payable during an Extended Interest Payment Period,
except at the end thereof, but the Company may prepay at any time all or any
portion of the interest accrued during an Extended Interest Payment Period.
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.2. NOTICE OF EXTENSION.
(a) If the Property Trustee is the only Registered Holder of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures at the time the Company selects an Extended
Interest Payment Period, the Company shall give written notice to the
Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Trustee of its
selection of such Extended Interest Payment Period one Business Day before
the earlier of (i) the next succeeding date on which Distributions are
payable, or (ii) the date the Trust is required to give notice of the
record date, or the date such Distributions are payable, to the Preferred
Securities holders or to the NASDAQ National Market or other applicable
self-regulatory organization, if any, but in any event at least one
Business Day before such record date.
(b) If the Property Trustee is not the only Holder of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures at the time the Company selects an Extended
Interest Payment Period, the Company shall give the Holders of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures and the Trustee written notice of its selection of
such Extended Interest Payment Period at least one Business Day before the
earlier of (i) the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or (ii) the date
the Company is required to give notice of the record or payment date of
such interest payment to the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures
or to the NASDAQ National Market or other applicable self-regulatory
organization, if any.
(c) The quarter in which any notice is given pursuant to
paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this Section 4.02 shall be counted as one
of the 20 quarters permitted in the maximum Extended Interest Payment
Period permitted under Section 4.01.
.3. LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS DURING EXTENSION. If (a) the Company
shall exercise its right to defer payment of interest as provided in Section
4.01; or (b) there shall have occurred any Event of Default, then the Company
shall be subject to the restrictions on payments set forth under Section 5.06.
ARTICLE V
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
.1. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST. The Company will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of and interest on the Junior
Subordinated Debentures at the time and place and in the manner provided herein
and established with respect to such Junior Subordinated Debentures.
.2. MAINTENANCE OF AGENCY. So long as any Junior Subordinated Debentures
remain Outstanding, the Company agrees to maintain an office or agency in
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, or at such other location or locations as may be
designated as provided in this Section 5.02, where (a) Junior Subordinated
Debentures may be presented for payment, (b) Junior Subordinated Debentures may
be presented as hereinabove authorized for registration of transfer and
exchange, and (c) notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures and this Indenture may be given or served, such
designation to continue with respect
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to such office or agency until the Company shall, by written notice signed by
its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President and delivered to
the Trustee, designate some other office or agency for such purposes or any of
them. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office
or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, 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, notices and demands.
.3. PAYING AGENTS.
(a) If the Company shall appoint one or more paying agents for
the Junior Subordinated Debentures, other than the Trustee, the Company
will cause each such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of this Section:
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for
the payment of the principal of or interest on the Junior
Subordinated Debentures (whether such sums have been paid to it
by the Company or by any other obligor) in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled thereto;
(ii) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by
the Company (or by any other obligor) to make any payment of the
principal of or interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures
when the same shall be due and payable;
(iii) that it will, at any time during the continuance of
any failure referred to in the preceding paragraph (a)(ii) above,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such paying agent; and
(iv) that it will perform all other duties of paying agent
as set forth in this Indenture.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own paying agent with
respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures, it will on or before each
due date of the principal of or interest on Junior Subordinated Debentures,
set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so
becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of such
action, or any failure (by it or any other obligor) to take such action.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more paying agents for the Junior
Subordinated Debentures, it will, prior to each due date of the principal
of or interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures, deposit with the
paying agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest so becoming
due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such principal or interest, and (unless such paying agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of this action or
failure so to act.
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(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary,
(i) the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is
subject to the provisions of Section 13.05, and (ii) 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 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 and conditions 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.
.4. APPOINTMENT TO FILL VACANCY IN OFFICE OF TRUSTEE. The Company,
whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will
appoint, in the manner provided in Section 9.10, a Trustee, so that there shall
at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
.5. COMPLIANCE WITH CONSOLIDATION PROVISIONS. The Company will not,
while any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures remain Outstanding, consolidate
with, or merge into, or merge into itself, or sell or convey all or
substantially all of its property to any other company unless the provisions of
Article XII hereof are complied with.
.6. RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN PAYMENTS. If at any time (a) there shall
have occurred any event of which the Company has actual knowledge that (i) with
the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of
Default and (ii) in respect to which the Company shall not have taken reasonable
steps to cure, or (b) the Company shall have given notice of its election of an
Extended Interest Payment Period as provided herein with respect to the Junior
Subordinated Debentures and shall not have rescinded such notice, or such
Extended Interest Payment Period, or any extension thereof, shall be continuing;
or (c) while the Junior Subordinated Debentures are held by the Trust, the
Company shall be in default with respect to its payment of any obligation under
the Preferred Securities Guarantee, then the Company will 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, interest or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company (including the Junior
Subordinated Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in interest to the
Junior Subordinated Debentures or make any guarantee payments with respect to
any guarantee by the Company of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the
Company if such guarantee ranks pari passu or junior in interest to the Junior
Subordinated Debentures (other than (A) dividends or distributions in common
stock, (B) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation
of a shareholders' rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in
the future or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto,
(C) payments under the Preferred Securities Guarantee and (D) purchases of
common stock related to the issuance of common stock or rights under any of the
Company's benefit plans for its directors, officers or employees).
.7. COVENANTS AS TO THE TRUST. For so long as the Trust Securities of
the Trust remain outstanding, the Company will (a) maintain 100% direct or
indirect ownership of the Common Securities of the Trust; provided, however,
that any permitted successor of the Company under this Indenture may succeed to
the Company's ownership of the Common Securities, (b) use its
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reasonable efforts to cause the Trust (i) to remain a business trust, except in
connection with a distribution of Junior Subordinated Debentures, the redemption
of all of the Trust Securities of the Trust or certain mergers, consolidations
or amalgamations, each as permitted by the Trust Agreement, and (ii) to
otherwise continue not to be treated as an association taxable as a corporation
or partnership for United States federal income tax purposes and (c) to use its
reasonable efforts to cause each Holder of Trust Securities to be treated as
owning an individual undivided beneficial interest in the Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
If the Junior Subordinated Debentures are to be issued as a Global
Subordinated Debenture in connection with the distribution of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures to the holders of the Preferred Securities issued by the
Trust upon a Dissolution Event, the Company will use its best efforts to list
such Junior Subordinated Debentures on the NASDAQ National Market or on such
other exchange as the Preferred Securities may then be listed.
ARTICLE VI
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
.1. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee (a) on each
regular record date (as defined in Section 2.05(a)) a list, in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of
such regular record date, provided that the Company shall not be obligated to
furnish or cause to furnish such list at any time that the list shall not differ
in any respect from the most recent list furnished to the Trustee by the Company
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; provided, however, that, in either case, no such list need be
furnished if the Trustee shall be the Securities Registrar.
.2. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS WITH SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of
the Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided
in Section 6.01 and as to the names and addresses of Holders received by
the Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar (if acting in such
capacity).
(b) The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided
in Section 6.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(c) Securityholders may communicate as provided in Section
312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with other Securityholders with respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under the Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
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.3. REPORTS BY THE COMPANY.
(a) The Company covenants and agrees to file with the Trustee,
within 15 days after the Company is required to file the same with the
Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents
and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as
the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe)
that the Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Company is not
required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of
such sections, then to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in
accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by
the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information,
documents and reports that may be required pursuant to any applicable rules
and regulations of the Commission.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees to file with the Trustee
and the Commission, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents
and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions
and covenants provided for in this Indenture as may be required from time
to time by such rules and regulations.
(c) The Company covenants and agrees to transmit by mail, first
class postage prepaid, or reputable overnight delivery service that
provides for evidence of receipt, to the Securityholders, as their names
and addresses appear upon the Securities Register, within 30 days after the
filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any information,
documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to
subsections (a) and (b) of this Section as may be required by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
.4. REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE.
(a) Beginning January 31, 2000, on or before January 31 in each
year in which any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures are Outstanding,
the Trustee shall transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the
Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear upon the Securities
Register, a brief report dated as of the preceding December 31, if and to
the extent required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) The Trustee shall comply with Section 313(b) and 313(c) of
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Securityholders, be filed by the Trustee with the Company,
and also with the Commission.
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ARTICLE VII
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND
SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
(a) Whenever used herein, "Event of Default" means any one or
more of the following events that has occurred and is continuing:
(i) the Company defaults in the payment of any installment
of interest upon any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, as
and when the same shall become due and payable, and continuance
of such default for a period of 30 days; provided, however, that
a valid extension of an interest payment period by the Company in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture shall not constitute
a default in the payment of interest for this purpose;
(ii) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of
any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures as and when the same
shall become due and payable whether at maturity, upon
redemption, by declaration or otherwise;
(iii) the Company fails to observe or perform any other of
its covenants or agreements hereunder with respect to the Junior
Subordinated Debentures for a period of 90 days after the date on
which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder, 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 principal amount of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures at the time Outstanding;
(iv) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any
Bankruptcy Law (A) commences a voluntary case, (B) consents to
the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary
case, (C) consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for
all or substantially all of its property or (D) makes a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
(v) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order under
any Bankruptcy Law that (A) is for relief against the Company in
an involuntary case, (B) appoints a custodian of the Company for
all or substantially all of its property, or (C) orders the
liquidation of the Company, and the order or decree remains
unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or
(vi) in the event Junior Subordinated Debentures are issued
to the Trust or a trustee of the Trust in connection with the
issuance of Trust Securities by the Trust, the Trust shall have
voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved, wound up its business or
otherwise terminated its existence, except in connection with (A)
the distribution of Junior Subordinated Debentures to holders of
Trust Securities in
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liquidation of their interests in the Trust, (B) the redemption
of all of the outstanding Trust Securities of the Trust or (C)
certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as
permitted by the Trust Agreement.
(b) In each and every such case, unless the principal of all the
Junior Subordinated Debentures shall have already become due and payable,
either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures then Outstanding
hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by such Securityholders) may declare the principal of all the Junior
Subordinated Debentures to be due and payable immediately, and upon any
such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and
payable, notwithstanding anything contained in this Indenture or in the
Junior Subordinated Debentures to the contrary.
(c) At any time after the principal of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any
judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been
obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures then
Outstanding, 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 all matured
installments of interest upon all the Junior Subordinated Debentures and
the principal of any and all Junior Subordinated Debentures that shall have
become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such
principal and, to the extent that such payment is enforceable under
applicable law, upon overdue installments of interest, at the rate per
annum expressed in the Junior Subordinated Debentures to the date of such
payment or deposit) and the amount payable to the Trustee under Section
9.06, and (ii) any and all Events of Default under this Indenture, other
than the nonpayment of principal on Junior Subordinated Debentures that
shall not have become due by their terms, shall have been remedied or
waived as provided in Section 7.06. Should the Holders fail to annul such
declaration and waive such default, then the holders of a majority in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities shall have such
right.
No such rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect
any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
(d) In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right
with respect to Junior Subordinated Debentures under this Indenture and
such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of such
rescission or annulment or for any other reason or shall have been
determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the
Company and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Company and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceedings had
been taken.
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.2. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.
(a) The Company covenants that (i) in case it shall default in
the payment of any installment of interest on any of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures as and when the same shall have become due and
payable, and such default shall have continued for a period of 90 Business
Days, or (ii) in case it shall default in the payment of the principal of
any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures when the same shall have become
due and payable, whether upon maturity of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures or upon redemption or upon declaration or otherwise, then, upon
demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the benefit
of the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, the whole amount that
then shall have become due and payable on all such Junior Subordinated
Debentures for principal or interest, or both, as the case may be, with
interest upon the overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law and, if the Junior
Subordinated Debentures are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust,
without duplication of any other amounts paid by the Trust or trustee in
respect thereof) upon overdue installments of interest at the rate per
annum expressed in the Junior Subordinated Debentures; and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, and the amount payable to the Trustee under Section
9.06.
(b) If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon
such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or
proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceeding to judgment or
final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the
Company or other obligor upon the Junior Subordinated Debentures and
collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or other obligor upon the Junior
Subordinated Debentures, wherever situated.
(c) In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, readjustment, arrangement, composition or
judicial proceedings affecting the Company or the creditors or property of
either, the Trustee shall have power to intervene in such proceedings and
take any action therein that may be permitted by the court and shall
(except as may be otherwise provided by law) be entitled to file such
proofs of claim and other papers and documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and of the Holders of
Junior Subordinated Debentures allowed for the entire amount due and
payable by the Company under this Indenture at the date of institution of
such proceedings and for any additional amount that may become due and
payable by the Company after such date, and to collect and receive any
moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claim, and to
distribute the same after the deduction of the amount payable to the
Trustee under Section 9.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in
bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to
make such payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall
consent to the making of such payments directly to such Securityholders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it under Section 9.06.
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(d) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Junior Subordinated Debentures, or the production thereof at any trial
or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for
payment to the Trustee of any amounts due under Section 9.06, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
In case of an Event of Default hereunder, the Trustee may in its discretion
proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in
bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right
vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder any
plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Junior Subordinated Debentures or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in
any such proceeding.
.3. APPLICATION OF MONEYS COLLECTED. Any moneys collected by the Trustee
pursuant to this Article with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such moneys on account of principal
or interest, upon presentation of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, and
notation thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof
if fully paid:
FIRST, to the payment of costs and expenses of collection and of
all amounts payable to the Trustee under Section 9.06;
SECOND, to the payment of all Senior and Subordinated Debt of the
Company if and to the extent required by Article XVI; and
THIRD, to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
Junior Subordinated Debentures for principal and 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 Junior Subordinated Debentures for principal and
interest, respectively.
.4. LIMITATION ON SUITS. No Holder shall have any right by virtue of or
by availing any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or
proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture
or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless (a) such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee
written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof; (b) the
Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures then Outstanding shall have
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made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or
proceeding in its own name as trustee hereunder; (c) such Holder or Holders
shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby;
and (d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and
offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action, suit or
proceeding; and (e) during such 60-day period, the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures do not give the Trustee a
direction inconsistent with the request.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture to the contrary, the
right of any Holder to receive payment of the principal of and interest on the
Junior Subordinated Debentures on or after the respective due dates (or in the
case of redemption, on the redemption date), or to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates or redemption
date, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder; and
by accepting a Junior Subordinated Debenture hereunder it is expressly
understood, intended and covenanted by the Holder thereof with every other such
Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatsoever by virtue of or by availing any provision of this Indenture to
affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or
seek to obtain priority over or preference to any such other Holders, or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and
for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Junior Subordinated
Debentures. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this
Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such
relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
.5. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE; DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.02, all powers and
remedies given by this Article to the Trustee or to the Securityholders
shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not
exclusive of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the
Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, by judicial proceedings or
otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and
agreements contained in this Indenture or otherwise established with
respect to such Junior Subordinated Debentures.
(b) No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
of the Junior Subordinated Debentures to exercise any right or power
accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid
shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver
of any such default or on acquiescence therein; and, subject to the
provisions of Section 7.04, every power and remedy given by this Article or
by law to the Trustee or the Securityholders may be exercised from time to
time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders.
.6. CONTROL BY SECURITYHOLDERS. The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures at the time Outstanding,
determined in accordance with Section 10.04, shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee;
provided, however, that such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or
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with this Indenture. Subject to the provisions of Section 9.01, the
Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the
Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in
personal liability. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Junior Subordinated Debentures at the time Outstanding affected thereby,
determined in accordance with Section 10.04, may on behalf of the Holders of all
of the Junior Subordinated Debentures waive any past default in the performance
of any of the covenants contained herein and its consequences, except (a) a
default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures as and when the same shall become due by its terms
otherwise than by acceleration (unless such default has been cured and a sum
sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and principal has been
deposited with the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.01(c)), (b) a default in
the covenants contained in Section 5.06 or (c) in respect of a covenant or
provision hereof which under Article XI cannot be modified or amended without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Junior Subordinated Debenture
affected; provided, however, that if the Junior Subordinated Debentures are held
by the Trust or a Trustee of the Trust, such waiver or modification to such
waiver shall not be effective until the Holders of a majority in Liquidation
Amount of Trust Securities of the Trust shall have consented to such waiver or
modification to such waiver; provided further, that if the consent of the Holder
of each Outstanding Junior Subordinated Debenture is required, such waiver shall
not be effective until each Holder of the Trust Securities of the Trust shall
have consented to such waiver. Upon any such waiver, the default covered thereby
shall be deemed to be cured for all purposes of this Indenture and the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
.7. UNDERTAKING TO PAY COSTS. All parties to this Indenture agree, and
each Holder of any Junior Subordinated Debentures by such Holder's 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 Securityholder, or group of Securityholders, holding more than
10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Junior Subordinated
Debentures, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement
of the payment of the principal of or interest on the Junior Subordinated
Debentures on or after the due dates thereof.
ARTICLE VIII
FORM OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURE AND ORIGINAL ISSUE
.1. FORM OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURE. The Junior Subordinated
Debenture and the Trustee's Certificate of Authentication to be endorsed thereon
are to be substantially in
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the forms contained as Exhibit A to this Indenture, attached hereto and
incorporated herein by reference.
.2. ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES. Junior
Subordinated Debentures in the aggregate principal amount of $__________ may,
upon execution of this Indenture, be executed by the Company and delivered to
the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and
deliver the Junior Subordinated Debentures to or upon the written order of the
Company, signed by its Chairman, its Vice Chairman, its Chief Executive Officer,
its President or any Vice President, without any further action by the Company.
ARTICLE IX
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
.1. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEE.
(a) The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default
and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall
undertake to perform with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures
such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not
been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise as a prudent man would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(b) 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) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and
after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that
may have occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this
Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for
the performance of such duties and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth
of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon any 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 provision hereof are specifically
required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to
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determine whether or not they conform to the requirement of
this Indenture;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(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 the Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures at the time Outstanding relating to the time, method
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon
the Trustee under this Indenture; and
(iv) none of the provisions contained in this Indenture
shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or
powers, if there is reasonable ground for believing that the
repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to
it under the terms of this Indenture or adequate indemnity
against such risk is not reasonably assured to it.
.2. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. Except as otherwise provided in Section
9.01:
(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, consent, order, approval,
bond, 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;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution or
an instrument signed in the name of the Company by the Chief Executive
Officer, the President or any Vice President and by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary or the Chief Accounting Officer thereof (unless other
evidence in respect thereof is specifically prescribed herein);
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice
of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered or
omitted hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of
the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order
or direction of any of the Securityholders, pursuant to the provisions of
this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the
Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that may be incurred therein or thereby; nothing contained
herein shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligation, upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default (that has not been cured or waived) to
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise
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as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of his own affairs;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized
or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this
Indenture;
(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, consent, order, approval,
bond, security or other papers or documents, unless requested in writing so
to do by the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Junior Subordinated Debentures (determined as provided in
Section 10.04); provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable
time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be
incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of
the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded
to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable
indemnity against such costs, expenses or liabilities as a condition to so
proceeding. The reasonable expense of every such examination shall be paid
by the Company or, if paid by the Trustee, shall be repaid by the Company
upon demand; 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.
.3. TRUSTEE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF THE JUNIOR
SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES.
(a) The recitals contained herein and in the Junior
Subordinated Debentures shall be taken as the statements of the Company and
the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same.
(b) The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
(c) The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures or
of the proceeds of such Junior Subordinated Debentures, or for the use or
application of any moneys paid over by the Trustee in accordance with any
provision of this Indenture, or for the use or application of any moneys
received by any paying agent other than the Trustee.
.4. MAY HOLD JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES. The Trustee or any paying
agent or Securities Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may
become the owner or pledgee of Junior Subordinated Debentures with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, paying agent or Securities
Registrar.
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.5. MONEYS HELD IN TRUST. Subject to the provisions of Section 13.05,
all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein
provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but
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 moneys received by
it hereunder except such as it may agree with the Company to pay thereon.
.6. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
(a) The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee, and
the Trustee shall be entitled to, such reasonable compensation (which shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust), as the Company and the Trustee may from time
to time agree in writing, for all services rendered by it in the execution
of the trusts hereby created and in the exercise and performance of any of
the powers and duties hereunder of the Trustee, and, except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee
upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of
this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its
employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from
its negligence or bad faith. The Company also covenants to indemnify the
Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and employees) for, and to
hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee and arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including
the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim of liability
in the premises.
(b) The obligations of the Company under this Section to
compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee
for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional
indebtedness hereunder. Such additional indebtedness shall be secured by a
lien prior to that of the Junior Subordinated Debentures upon all property
and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in
trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
.7. RELIANCE ON OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE. Except as otherwise provided in
Section 9.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture
the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or
established prior to taking or suffering or omitting to take any action
hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on the
part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee and such certificate, in the
absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full
warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by
it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
.8. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS. If the Trustee has or shall
acquire any "conflicting interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee
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and the Company shall in all respects comply with the provisions of
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
.9. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY. There shall at all times be
a Trustee with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures issued hereunder
which shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the
laws of the United States of America or any state or territory thereof or of the
District of Columbia, or a corporation or other Person permitted to act as
trustee by the Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000 (and
its parent holding company having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000) and subject to supervision or examination by federal, state,
territorial, or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation 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, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. No Affiliate of the Company may serve as
Trustee. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 9.10.
.10. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) The Trustee, or any successor hereafter appointed, may at
any time resign by giving written notice thereof to the Company and by
transmitting notice of resignation by mail, first class postage prepaid, to
the Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear upon the
Securities Register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company
shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in
duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the
successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such notice
of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of Junior Subordinated
Debentures for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of
Section 7.07, on behalf of such Securityholder and all other Holders,
petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such
court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any one of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of
Section 9.08 after written request therefor by the Company or by
any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of Junior
Subordinated Debentures for at least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 9.09 and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Company or by any such
Securityholder; or
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(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall
be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or commence a voluntary
bankruptcy proceeding, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or consented to, 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, the Company may remove the Trustee and
appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed
by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be
delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee,
or, subject to the provisions of Section 7.07, unless the Trustee's duty to
resign is stayed as provided herein, any Securityholder who has been a bona
fide Holder of Junior Subordinated Debentures for at least six months may,
on behalf of that Holder and all other Holders, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment
of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon after such notice, if any,
as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Junior Subordinated Debentures at the time Outstanding may at any time
remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company and may
appoint a successor Trustee with the consent of the Company.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of
a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as
provided in Section 9.11.
.11. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor trustee,
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 such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(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.
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(d) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as
provided in this Section, the Company shall transmit notice of the
succession of such trustee hereunder by mail, first class postage prepaid,
to the Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear upon the
Securities Register. If the Company fails to transmit such notice within
ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the
successor trustee shall cause such notice to be transmitted at the expense
of the Company.
.12. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS. Any
corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the
successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be
qualified and eligible under the provisions of this Article IX, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the
parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. In case any
Junior Subordinated Debentures 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 Junior Subordinated Debentures so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
.13. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE COMPANY. The Trustee
shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, excluding any
creditor relationship described in Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. A
Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act to the extent included therein.
.14. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT. At any time when any of the
Junior Subordinated Debentures remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an
Authenticating Agent or Agents which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Junior Subordinated Debentures issued upon original
issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or
pursuant to Section 2.08, and Junior Subordinated Debentures 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 Junior Subordinated Debentures 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 and a certificate
of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized
under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and
surplus of not less than $500,000 (and its parent holding company having a
combined capital and surplus of at least $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 such supervision or examining authority, 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
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so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this
Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation or upon such 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 mail written notice of such appointment by
first class mail, postage prepaid, to all Securityholders as their names and
addresses appear in the Securities Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the
rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as
if originally named as an Authenticating Agent herein. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of
this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 9.06.
If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the Junior Subordinated
Debentures may have endorsed thereon, in lieu of the form of certificate of
authentication set forth in Section 8.01, a certificate of authentication in the
following form:
"This is one of the Junior Subordinated Debentures described in the within
mentioned Indenture."
------------------------------------------,
as Trustee
By
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as Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signature
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ARTICLE X
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
.1. EVIDENCE OF ACTION BY SECURITYHOLDERS. Whenever in this Indenture it
is provided that the Holders of a majority or specified percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures may take any action
(including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice,
consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time
of taking any such action the Holders of such majority or specified percentage
have joined therein may be evidenced by any instrument or any number of
instruments of similar tenor executed by such Holders in Person or by agent or
proxy appointed in writing.
If the Company shall solicit from the Securityholders any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, the Company
may, at its option, as evidenced by an Officers' Certificate, fix in advance a
record date for the determination of Securityholders entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date
is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action may be given before or after the record date, but only
the Securityholders of record at the close of business on the record date shall
be deemed to be Securityholders for the purposes of determining whether
Securityholders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Junior Subordinated
Debentures have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, and for that
purpose the Outstanding Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be computed as of
the record date; provided, however, that no such authorization, agreement or
consent by such Securityholders on the record date shall be deemed effective
unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture
not later than six months after the record date.
.2. PROOF OF EXECUTION BY SECURITYHOLDERS. Subject to the provisions of
Section 6.01, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder (such
proof will not require notarization) or his agent or proxy and proof of the
holding by any Person of any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be
sufficient if made in the following manner:
(a) The fact and date of the execution by any such Person of
any instrument may be proved in any reasonable manner acceptable to the
Trustee.
(b) The ownership of Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be
proved by the Securities Register or by a certificate of the Securities
Registrar thereof.
(c) The Trustee may require such additional proof of any matter
referred to in this Section as it shall deem necessary.
.3. WHO MAY BE DEEMED OWNERS. Prior to the due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Junior Subordinated Debenture, the Company, the
Trustee, any paying agent and
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any Securities Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name such Junior
Subordinated Debenture shall be registered upon the books of the Company as the
absolute owner of such Junior Subordinated Debenture (whether or not such Junior
Subordinated Debenture shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of
ownership or writing thereon made by anyone other than the Securities Registrar)
for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and
(subject to Section 2.03) interest on such Junior Subordinated Debenture and for
all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent
nor any Securities Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
.4. CERTAIN JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES OWNED BY COMPANY DISREGARDED.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount
of Junior Subordinated Debentures have concurred in any direction, consent or
waiver under this Indenture, the Junior Subordinated Debentures that are owned
by the Company or any other obligor on the Junior Subordinated Debentures or by
any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under common
control with the Company or any other obligor on the Junior Subordinated
Debentures shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose
of any such determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether
the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or
waiver, only Junior Subordinated Debentures that the Trustee actually knows are
so owned shall be so disregarded. The Junior Subordinated Debentures so owned
that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding for the
purposes of this Section, if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of
the Trustee the pledgee's right with respect to such Junior Subordinated
Debentures and that the pledgee is not a Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Company or any such other obligor. In case of a dispute as to such right, any
decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full
protection to the Trustee.
.5. ACTIONS BINDING ON FUTURE SECURITYHOLDERS. At any time prior to
(but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 10.01, of
the taking of any action by the Holders of the majority or percentage in
aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder who is shown by the
evidence to have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the
Trustee, and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 10.02, revoke such
action so far as concerns such Holder's Junior Subordinated Debentures. Except
as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder shall be conclusive and binding
upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Holder's Junior
Subordinated Debentures, and of any Junior Subordinated Debentures issued in
exchange therefor, on registration of transfer thereof or in place thereof,
irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon such
Junior Subordinated Debentures. Any action taken by the Holders of the majority
or percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be
conclusively binding upon the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of all the
Junior Subordinated Debentures.
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ARTICLE XI
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
.1. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF SECURITYHOLDERS. In
addition to any supplemental indenture otherwise authorized by this Indenture,
the Company and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect), without the consent of
the Securityholders, for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to cure any ambiguity, defect, or inconsistency herein, or
in the Junior Subordinated Debentures, provided that any such action does
not materially adversely affect the interests of the Holders or the holders
of the Preferred Securities so long as they remain outstanding;
(b) to comply with Article XII;
(c) to provide for uncertificated Junior Subordinated Debentures
in addition to or in place of certificated Junior Subordinated Debentures;
(d) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company;
(e) to add to, delete from, or revise the conditions,
limitations, and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms, or purposes
of issue, authentication, and delivery of Junior Subordinated Debentures,
as herein set forth;
(f) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights
of any Securityholder in any material respect; or
(g) to establish the form of any certifications required to be
furnished pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or to add to the rights
of the Holders.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution
of any such supplemental indenture, and to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee 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.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may
be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Junior Subordinated Debentures at the time Outstanding,
notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 11.02.
.2. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF SECURITYHOLDERS. With the
consent (evidenced as provided in Section 10.01) of the Holders of not less than
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures
at the time Outstanding, the Company,
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when authorized by Board Resolutions, and the Trustee may from time to time and
at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto (which
shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect)
for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental
indenture or of modifying in any manner not covered by Section 11.01 the rights
of the Holders of the Junior Subordinated Debentures under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall without the consent
of the Holders of each Junior Subordinated Debenture then Outstanding, (a)
change (except as expressly provided herein pursuant to Section 2.02) the stated
maturity of the Junior Subordinated Debentures or reduce the principal amount
thereof; or reduce the rate or extend (except as expressly provided herein
pursuant to Section 4.01) the time of payment of interest thereon; or (b) reduce
the percentage of principal amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures, the
Holders of which are required to consent to any such supplemental indenture;
provided, further, that if the Junior Subordinated Debentures are held by the
Trust or a trustee of the Trust, such supplemental indenture shall not be
effective until the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of
Preferred Securities shall have consented to such supplemental indenture;
provided further, that if the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Junior
Subordinated Debenture is required, such supplemental indenture shall not be
effective until each Holder of the Trust Securities shall have consented to such
supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders to approve
the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.
.3. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article or of Section
12.01, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in
accordance therewith.
.4. JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES AFFECTED BY SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Junior Subordinated Debentures, affected by a supplemental indenture,
authenticated and delivered after the execution of such supplemental indenture
pursuant to the provisions of this Article or of Section 12.01, may bear a
notation in form approved by the Company, as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Junior
Subordinated Debentures so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Board
of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such
supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Company, authenticated by the
Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Junior Subordinated Debentures then
Outstanding.
.5. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the request of the
Company, accompanied by Board Resolutions authorizing the execution of any such
supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the
consent of Securityholders required to consent thereto as aforesaid, the Trustee
shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture
unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in
its discretion but shall not be obligated to enter into such supplemental
indenture. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 9.01, may receive
an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
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