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UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR, INC.
ISSUER,
AND
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
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INDENTURE
Dated as of December 16, 1996
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$100,000,000
9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2006
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
TIA INDENTURE
SECTION SECTION
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310(a)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10
(a)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10
(a)(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(a)(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(a)(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.8;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.10;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.2
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
311(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.11
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.11
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.3
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.3
313(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6
(b)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(b)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.2
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6
314(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(c)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.4
(c)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.4
(c)(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5
(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
315(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1(b)
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TIA INDENTURE
SECTION SECTION
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(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.2
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1(a)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1(c)
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.14
316(a)(last sentence). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9
(a)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11
(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.12
(a)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.A.
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.12;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8
317(a)(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3
(a)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4
318(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.1
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N.A. means Not Applicable
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE................ 1
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.............................................. 1
SECTION 1.2. Incorporation by Reference of TIA........................ 21
SECTION 1.3. Rules of Construction.................................... 21
ARTICLE II
THE SECURITIES................................ 22
SECTION 2.1. Form and Dating.......................................... 22
SECTION 2.2. Execution and Authentication............................. 22
SECTION 2.3. Registrar and Paying Agent............................... 23
SECTION 2.4. Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust..................... 24
SECTION 2.5. Securityholder Lists..................................... 25
SECTION 2.6. Transfer and Exchange.................................... 25
SECTION 2.7. Replacement Securities................................... 32
SECTION 2.8. Outstanding Securities................................... 33
SECTION 2.9. Treasury Securities...................................... 33
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities..................................... 33
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation............................................. 34
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest....................................... 34
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION.................................. 35
SECTION 3.1. Right of Redemption...................................... 35
SECTION 3.2. Notices to Trustee....................................... 36
SECTION 3.3. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed................... 36
SECTION 3.4. Notice of Redemption..................................... 37
SECTION 3.5. Effect of Notice of Redemption........................... 38
SECTION 3.6. Deposit of Redemption Price.............................. 39
SECTION 3.7. Securities Redeemed in Part.............................. 39
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ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS.................................. 39
SECTION 4.1. Payment of Securities.................................... 39
SECTION 4.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.......................... 40
SECTION 4.3. Limitation on Restricted Payments........................ 40
SECTION 4.4. Corporate Existence...................................... 42
SECTION 4.5. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims........................ 42
SECTION 4.6. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default................ 42
SECTION 4.7. Reports.................................................. 43
SECTION 4.8. Limitation on Status as Investment Company............... 43
SECTION 4.9. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates............... 43
SECTION 4.10. Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness
and Disqualified Capital Stock........................... 44
SECTION 4.11. Limitation on Dividends and Other Payment
Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries...................... 46
SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Liens Securing Indebtedness................ 47
SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Sale of Assets and Subsidiary Stock........ 47
SECTION 4.14. Limitation on Layering Indebtedness...................... 51
SECTION 4.15. Limitation on Lines of Business.......................... 51
SECTION 4.16. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.................. 51
SECTION 4.17. Payment for Consent...................................... 52
ARTICLE V
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION............................ 52
SECTION 5.1. Limitation on Merger, Sale or Consolidation.............. 52
SECTION 5.2. Successor Corporation Substituted........................ 53
ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES........................ 53
SECTION 6.1. Events of Default........................................ 53
SECTION 6.2. Acceleration of Maturity Date; Rescission and
Annulment................................................ 56
SECTION 6.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee................................... 57
SECTION 6.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim......................... 58
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SECTION 6.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities............................................... 59
SECTION 6.6. Priorities............................................... 59
SECTION 6.7. Limitation on Suits...................................... 60
SECTION 6.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest..................................... 61
SECTION 6.9. Rights and Remedies Cumulative........................... 61
SECTION 6.10. Delay or Omission Not Waiver............................. 61
SECTION 6.11. Control by Holders....................................... 62
SECTION 6.12. Waiver of Past Default................................... 62
SECTION 6.13. Undertaking for Costs.................................... 63
SECTION 6.14. Restoration of Rights and Remedies....................... 63
ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE................................... 63
SECTION 7.1. Duties of Trustee........................................ 64
SECTION 7.2. Rights of Trustee........................................ 65
SECTION 7.3. Individual Rights of Trustee............................. 66
SECTION 7.4. Trustee's Disclaimer..................................... 66
SECTION 7.5. Notice of Default........................................ 67
SECTION 7.6. Reports by Trustee to Holders............................ 67
SECTION 7.7. Compensation and Indemnity............................... 67
SECTION 7.8. Replacement of Trustee................................... 68
SECTION 7.9. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc......................... 70
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification............................ 70
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company........ 70
ARTICLE VIII
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE................... 70
SECTION 8.1. Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance............................................... 70
SECTION 8.2. Legal Defeasance and Discharge........................... 70
SECTION 8.3. Covenant Defeasance...................................... 71
SECTION 8.4. Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance............... 72
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SECTION 8.5. Deposited Cash and U.S. Government Obligations to be
Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions............ 73
SECTION 8.6. Repayment to the Company................................. 74
SECTION 8.7. Reinstatement............................................ 74
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS..................... 75
SECTION 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders....... 75
SECTION 9.2. Amendments, Supplemental Indentures and Waivers with
Consent of Holders....................................... 76
SECTION 9.3. Compliance with TIA...................................... 77
SECTION 9.4. Revocation and Effect of Consents........................ 78
SECTION 9.5. Notation on or Exchange of Securities.................... 78
SECTION 9.6. Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc.......................... 79
ARTICLE X
RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE......................... 79
SECTION 10.1. Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder Upon
a Change of Control...................................... 79
ARTICLE XI
SUBORDINATION................................ 82
SECTION 11.1. Securities Subordinated to Senior Debt................... 82
SECTION 11.2. No Payment on Securities in Certain Circumstances........ 83
SECTION 11.3. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior
Debt on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization....... 84
SECTION 11.4. Securityholders to Be Subrogated to Rights of
Holders of Senior Debt................................... 85
SECTION 11.5. Obligations of the Company Unconditional................. 86
SECTION 11.6. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in
Absence of Notice........................................ 86
SECTION 11.7. Application by Trustee of Assets Deposited with It....... 87
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SECTION 11.8. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions
of the Company or Holders of Senior Debt................. 87
SECTION 11.9. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination of Securities.............................. 87
SECTION 11.10. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Debt..................... 88
SECTION 11.11. Article XI Not to Prevent Events of Default.............. 88
SECTION 11.12. No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to Holders of Senior Debt... 88
ARTICLE XII
MISCELLANEOUS................................ 89
SECTION 12.1. TIA Controls............................................. 89
SECTION 12.2. Notices.................................................. 89
SECTION 12.3. Communications by Holders with Other Holders............. 90
SECTION 12.4. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent....... 91
SECTION 12.5. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion............ 91
SECTION 12.6. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar................ 92
SECTION 12.7. Non-Business Days........................................ 92
SECTION 12.8. Governing Law............................................ 92
SECTION 12.9. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements............ 93
SECTION 12.10. No Recourse against Others............................... 93
SECTION 12.11. Successors............................................... 93
SECTION 12.12. Duplicate Originals...................................... 93
SECTION 12.13. Severability............................................. 93
SECTION 12.14. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc......................... 93
SIGNATURES.............................................................. 94
Exhibit A...............................................................A-1
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INDENTURE, dated as of December 16, 1996, by and among Universal
Outdoor, Inc., an Illinois corporation (the "Company"), and United States Trust
Company of New York (the "Trustee").
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of each other
party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company's 9
3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2006:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.
"ACCELERATION NOTICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.2.
"ACQUIRED INDEBTEDNESS" means Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital
Stock of any person existing at the time such person becomes a Subsidiary of the
Company, including by designation, or is merged or consolidated into or with
the Company or one of its Subsidiaries.
"ACQUISITION" means the purchase or other acquisition of any person or
substantially all the assets of any person by any other person, whether by
purchase, merger, consolidation, or other transfer, and whether or not for
consideration.
"AFFILIATE" means any person directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company. For
purposes of this definition, the term "control" means the power to direct the
management and policies of a person, directly or through one or more
intermediaries, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract,
or otherwise, PROVIDED, THAT, with respect to ownership interest in the Company
and its Subsidiaries a Beneficial Owner of 10% or more of the total voting power
normally entitled to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees, as
applicable, shall for such purposes be deemed to constitute control.
"AFFILIATE TRANSACTION" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.9.
"AGENT" means any authenticating agent, Registrar, Paying Agent or
transfer agent.
"ASSET SALE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.13.
"ASSET SALE OFFER" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.13.
"ASSET SALE OFFER AMOUNT" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.13.
"ASSET SALE OFFER PERIOD" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.13.
"ASSET SALE OFFER PRICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.13.
"AVERAGE LIFE" means, as of the date of determination, with respect to
any security or instrument, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of (a)
the product of the number of years from the date of determination to the date or
dates of each successive scheduled principal (or redemption) payment of such
security or instrument and (b) the amount of each such respective principal (or
redemption) payment by (ii) the sum of all such principal (or redemption)
payments.
"BANKRUPTCY LAW" means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar Federal,
state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
"BENEFICIAL OWNER" or "BENEFICIAL OWNER" for purposes of the
definition of Change of Control has the meaning attributed to it in Rules l3d-3
and l3d-5 under the Exchange Act (as in effect on the Issue Date), whether or
not applicable, except that a "person" shall be deemed to have "beneficial
ownership" of all shares that any such person has the right to acquire, whether
such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" or "BOARD" means, with respect to any Person, the
Board of Directors of such Person or any committee of the Board of Directors of
such Person authorized, with respect to any particular matter, to exercise the
power of the Board of Directors of such Person.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means, with respect to any Person, a duly adopted
resolution of the Board of Directors of such Person.
"BUSINESS DAY" means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York
are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
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"CAPITAL STOCK" means, with respect to any corporation, any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase (other than convertible or exchangeable
Indebtedness), warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests (however designated) in stock issued by that corporation.
"CAPITALIZED LEASE OBLIGATION" means, as applied to any Person, any
lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) of which the discounted
present value of the rental obligations of such Person, as lessee, in conformity
with GAAP, is required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person.
"CASH" or "CASH" means such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
"CASH EQUIVALENT" means (a)(i) securities issued or directly and fully
guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United
States of America is pledged in support thereof), (ii) time deposits and
certificates of deposit issued by any domestic commercial bank of recognized
standing having capital and surplus in excess of $500 million or (iii)
commercial paper issued by others rated at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof
by Standard & Poor's Corporation or at least P-1 or the equivalent thereof by
▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc. and in each case maturing within one year after
the date of acquisition or (b) shares of money market mutual funds or similar
funds having assets in excess of $500,000,000.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" means (i) any merger or consolidation of the
Company or the Parent with or into any person or any sale, transfer or other
conveyance, whether direct or indirect, of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company or the Parent, on a consolidated basis, in one transaction
or a series of related transactions, if, immediately after giving effect to such
transaction(s), any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used for purposes of
Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, whether or not applicable), other
than the Parent in the case of the Company or a Permitted Holder or Holders, is
or becomes the "beneficial owner," directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of
the total voting power in the aggregate normally entitled to vote in the
election of directors, managers, or trustees, as applicable, of the
transferee(s) or surviving entity or entities, (ii) any "person" or "group" (as
such terms are used for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange
Act, whether or not applicable), other than the Parent in the case of the
Company or a Permitted Holder or Holders, is or becomes the "beneficial owner,"
directly
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or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power in the aggregate of
all classes of Capital Stock of the Company or the Parent, as the case may be,
then outstanding normally entitled to vote in elections of directors, or (iii)
during any period of 12 consecutive months after the Issue Date, individuals who
at the beginning of any such 12-month period constituted the Board of Directors
of the Company or the Parent (together with any new directors whose election by
such Board or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company
or the Parent, as the case may be, was approved by a vote of a majority of the
directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of
such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so
approved), cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of
Directors of the Company or the Parent, as the case may be, then in office.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL OFFER" shall have the meaning specified in Section
10.1.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL OFFER PERIOD" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 10.1.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL PURCHASE DATE" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 10.1.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL PURCHASE PRICE" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 10.1.
"COMMISSION" means the SEC.
"COMMON STOCK" means the common stock, $.01 par value, of Parent.
"COMPANY" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter means such successor.
"CONSOLIDATED EBITDA" means, with respect to any person, for any
period, the Consolidated Net Income of such person for such period adjusted to
add thereto (to the extent deducted from net revenues in determining
Consolidated Net Income), without duplication, the sum of (i) consolidated
income tax expense, (ii) consolidated depreciation and amortization expense,
PROVIDED that consolidated depreciation and amortization of a Subsidiary that is
a less than wholly owned Subsidiary shall only be added to the extent of the
equity interest of the Company in such Subsidiary and only to the extent that
dividends in excess of such Person's PRO RATA share of net income are paid, and
(iii)
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Consolidated Fixed Charges, less the amount of all cash payments made by such
person or any of its Subsidiaries during such period to the extent such payments
relate to non-cash charges that were added back in determining Consolidated
EBITDA for such period or any prior period.
"CONSOLIDATED FIXED CHARGES" of any person means, for any period, the
aggregate amount (without duplication and determined in each case in accordance
with GAAP) of (a) interest expensed or capitalized, paid, accrued, or scheduled
to be paid or accrued (including, in accordance with the following sentence,
interest attributable to Capitalized Lease Obligations) of such person and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries during such period, including (i) original issue
discount and non-cash interest payments or accruals on any Indebtedness, (ii)
the interest portion of all deferred payment obligations, and (iii) all
commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to bankers'
acceptances and letters of credit financings and currency and Interest Swap and
Hedging Obligations, in each case to the extent attributable to such period, and
(b) the amount of dividends accrued or payable (or guaranteed) by such person or
any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of preferred stock (other than
by Subsidiaries of such person to such person or such person's wholly owned
Subsidiaries). For purposes of this definition, (x) interest on a Capitalized
Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably
determined by the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such
Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP and (y) interest expense
attributable to any Indebtedness represented by the guaranty by such person or a
Subsidiary of such person of an obligation of another person shall be deemed to
be the interest expense attributable to the Indebtedness guaranteed.
"CONSOLIDATED LEVERAGE RATIO" of any person on any date of
determination (the "Transaction Date") means the ratio, on a PRO FORMA basis
after giving effect to the application of any proceeds of Indebtedness, of (a)
Indebtedness as of the end of the Reference Period to (b) the aggregate amount
of Consolidated EBITDA of such person attributable to continuing operations and
businesses (exclusive of amounts attributable to operations and businesses
permanently discontinued or disposed of) for the Reference Period; PROVIDED,
that for purposes of such calculation, (i) Acquisitions which occurred during
the Reference Period or subsequent to the Reference Period and on or prior to
the Transaction Date shall be assumed to have occurred on the first day of the
Reference Period and (ii) the incurrence of any Indebtedness or issuance of any
Disqualified Capital Stock subsequent to the Reference Period and on or prior to
the Transaction Date shall be assumed to have occurred on the last day of the
Reference Period.
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"CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means, with respect to any person for any
period, the net income (or loss) of such person and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP) for
such period, adjusted to exclude (only to the extent included in computing such
net income (or loss) and without duplication): (a) all gains or losses which are
either extraordinary, unusual (as determined in accordance with GAAP) or are
nonrecurring (including any gain from the sale or other disposition of assets
outside the ordinary course of business or from the issuance or sale of any
capital stock or losses in connection with the Transactions), (b) the net
income, if positive, of any person, other than a wholly owned Consolidated
Subsidiary, in which such person or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries has an
interest, except to the extent of the amount of any dividends or distributions
actually paid in cash to such person or a wholly owned Consolidated Subsidiary
of such person during such period, but in any case not in excess of such
person's PRO RATA share of such person's net income for such period and (c) the
net income, if positive, of any of such person's Consolidated Subsidiaries to
the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions
is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or bylaws
or any other agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, or governmental
regulation applicable to such Consolidated Subsidiary.
"CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH" of any person at any date means the aggregate
consolidated stockholders' equity of such person (plus amounts of equity
attributable to preferred stock) and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, as would be
shown on the consolidated balance sheet of such person prepared in accordance
with GAAP, adjusted to exclude (to the extent included in calculating such
equity), (a) the amount of any such stockholders' equity attributable to
Disqualified Capital Stock or treasury stock of such person and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries, (b) all upward revaluations and other write-ups in the book value
of any asset of such person or a Consolidated Subsidiary of such person
subsequent to the Issue Date, and (c) all investments in Subsidiaries that are
not Consolidated Subsidiaries and in persons that are not Subsidiaries.
"CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY" means, for any person, each Subsidiary of
such person (whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired) the
financial statements of which are consolidated for financial statement reporting
purposes with the financial statements of such person in accordance with GAAP.
"COVENANT DEFEASANCE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.3.
"CREDIT AGREEMENT" means the consolidated credit agreement dated
October 31, 1996, by and among the Company, certain financial institutions and
Bankers Trust
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Company, as agent, providing for (A) an aggregate $75 million term loan facility
(subject to an amendment subsequent to the date hereof), and (B) an aggregate
$225 million revolving credit facility, including any related notes, guarantees,
collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection
therewith, as such credit agreement and/or related documents may be amended,
restated, supplemented, renewed, replaced or otherwise modified from time to
time whether or not with the same agent, trustee, representative lenders or
holders, and, subject to the proviso to the next succeeding sentence,
irrespective of any changes in the terms and conditions thereof. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term "Credit Agreement" shall
include agreements in respect of Interest Swap and Hedging Obligations with
lenders party to the Credit Agreement and shall also include any amendment,
amendment and restatement, renewal, extension, restructuring, supplement or
modification to any Credit Agreement and all refundings, refinancings and
replacements of any Credit Agreement, including any agreement (i) extending the
maturity of any Indebtedness incurred thereunder or contemplated thereby, (ii)
adding or deleting borrowers or guarantors thereunder, so long as borrowers and
issuers include one or more of the Company and its Subsidiaries and their
respective successors and assigns, (iii) increasing the amount of Indebtedness
incurred thereunder or available to be borrowed thereunder, PROVIDED that on the
date such Indebtedness is incurred it would not be prohibited by clause (f) of
Section 4.10 or (iv) otherwise altering the terms and conditions thereof in a
manner not expressly prohibited by the terms hereof.
"CUSTODIAN" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"DEBT INCURRENCE RATIO" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.10.
"DEFAULT" means any event or condition that is, or after notice or
passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.12.
"DEFINITIVE SECURITIES" means Securities that are in the form of the
Security attached hereto as Exhibit A that do not include the information called
for by footnotes 1 and 3 thereof.
"DEPOSITARY" means, with respect to the Securities issuable or issued
in whole or in part in global form, the person specified in Section 2.3 as the
Depositary with respect to the Securities, until a successor shall have been
appointed and become such
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pursuant to the applicable provision of this Indenture, and, thereafter,
"Depositary" shall mean or include such successor.
"DISQUALIFIED CAPITAL STOCK" means (a) except as set forth in (b),
with respect to any person, an Equity Interest of such person that, by its terms
or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, exercisable or
exchangeable, is, or upon the happening of an event or the passage of time would
be, required to be redeemed or repurchased (including at the option of the
holder thereof) by such person or any of its Subsidiaries, in whole or in part,
on or prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities and (b) with respect to any
Subsidiary of such person (including with respect to any Subsidiary of the
Company), any Equity Interest other than any common equity with no preference,
privileges, or redemption or repayment provisions
"DTC" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
"EQUITY INTEREST" of any Person means any shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents (however designated) in such Person's
equity, and shall in any event include any Capital Stock issued by, or
partnership interests in, such Person. Convertible or exchangeable Indebtedness
shall not be deemed to be an Equity Interest for purposes of clause (b) of the
definition of Restricted Payments to the extent acquired at any time the
conversion or exchange feature is not "in-the-money".
"EQUITY PRIVATE PLACEMENT" means any sale by the Parent of its Capital
Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) not requiring registration under
the Securities Act.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.1.
"EVENT OF LOSS" means, with respect to any property or asset, any (i)
loss, destruction or damage of such property or asset or (ii) any condemnation,
seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, of
such property or asset, or confiscation or requisition of the use of such
property or asset.
"EXCESS PROCEEDS" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.13.
"EXCESS PROCEEDS DATE" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.13.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
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"EXCHANGE SECURITIES" means the 9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2006 to be issued pursuant to this Indenture in connection with the
offer to exchange Securities for the Initial Securities that may be made by the
Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
"FAIR MARKET VALUE" or "FAIR MARKET VALUE" means, with respect to any
assets or properties, the amount at which such assets or properties would change
hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, within a commercially
reasonable time, each having reasonable knowledge of the relevant facts, neither
being under a compulsion to sell or buy, as such amount is determined by (i) the
Board of Directors of the Company acting in good faith or (ii) an appraisal or
valuation firm of national or regional standing selected by the Company, with
experience in the appraisal or valuation of properties or assets of the type for
which Fair Market Value is being determined.
"GAAP" means United States generally accepted accounting principles
set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board
of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession as in effect on the Issue Date.
"GLOBAL SECURITY" means a Security that contains the paragraph
referred to in footnote 1 and the additional schedule referred to in footnote 2
to the form of Security attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"HOLDER" or "SECURITYHOLDER" means the Person in whose name a Security
is registered on the Registrar's books.
"INCUR" or "INCURRENCE" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.10.
"INCURRENCE DATE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.10.
"INDEBTEDNESS" of any person means, without duplication, (a) all
liabilities and obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such any person, (i) in
respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the
whole of the assets of such person or only to a portion thereof), (ii) evidenced
by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (iii) representing the
balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services,
(except for balances incurred in the ordinary course of its business that would
constitute ordinarily a trade payable to trade creditors and except for balances
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due and actually paid within six months of the date property is delivered or
services are rendered or, if not actually paid within six months, being
contested in good faith), (iv) evidenced by bankers' acceptances or similar
instruments issued or accepted by banks, (v) under any Capitalized Lease
Obligation, or (vi) evidenced by a letter of credit or a reimbursement
obligation of such person with respect to any letter of credit; (b) all net
obligations of such person under Interest Swap and Hedging Obligations; (c) all
liabilities and obligations of others of the kind described in the preceding
clause (a) or (b) that such person has guaranteed or that is otherwise its legal
liability or which are secured by any assets or property of such person; (d) any
and all deferrals, renewals, extensions, refinancing and refundings (whether
direct or indirect) of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, any
liability of the kind described in any of the preceding clauses (a), (b) or (c),
or this clause (d), whether or not between or among the same parties, and (e)
all Disqualified Capital Stock of such Person (measured at the greater of its
voluntary or involuntary maximum fixed repurchase price plus accrued and unpaid
dividends). For purposes hereof, the "maximum fixed repurchase price" of any
Disqualified Capital Stock which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be
calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Capital Stock as if
such Disqualified Capital Stock were purchased on any date on which Indebtedness
shall be required to be determined pursuant to the Indenture, and if such price
is based upon, or measured by, the Fair Market Value of such Disqualified
Capital Stock, such Fair Market Value to be determined in good faith by the
board of directors of the issuer (or managing general partner of the issuer) of
such Disqualified Capital Stock. For purposes hereof, the amount of any
Indebtedness issued with original issue discount shall be the original purchase
price plus accreted interest, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such accretion shall not
be deemed an incurrence of Indebtedness.
"INDENTURE" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time
to time in accordance with the terms hereof, including, without limitation, the
provisions of the TIA that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument
and any supplemental indenture, respectively.
"INITIAL PURCHASERS" means Bear, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co. Inc. and BT Securities
Corporation.
"INITIAL SECURITIES" means the 9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2006, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with
the terms hereof, issued under this Indenture on December 16, 1996.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means the stated due date of an installment of
interest on the Securities.
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"INTEREST SWAP AND HEDGING OBLIGATION" means any obligation of any
person pursuant to any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate exchange agreement,
currency exchange agreement or any other agreement or arrangement designed to
protect against fluctuations in interest rates or currency values, including,
without limitation, any arrangement whereby, directly or indirectly, such person
is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by
applying either a fixed or floating rate of interest on a stated notional amount
in exchange for periodic payments made by such person calculated by applying a
fixed or floating rate of interest on the same notional amount.
"INVESTMENT" by any person in any other person means (without
duplication) (a) the acquisition (whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or
otherwise) by such person (whether for cash, property, services, securities or
otherwise) of capital stock, bonds, notes, debentures, partnership or other
ownership interests or other securities, including any options or warrants, of
such other person or any agreement obligating a person to make any such
acquisition; (b) the making by such person of any deposit (in excess of $5
million in any one transaction) with, or advance, loan or other extension of
credit to, such other person (including the purchase of property from another
person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise,
obligating such Person to resell such property to such other person) or any
commitment to make any such advance, loan or extension (but excluding accounts
receivable or deposits arising in the ordinary course of business); (c) other
than guarantees of Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary to the extent
permitted by Section 4.10, the entering into by such person of any guarantee of,
or other credit support or contingent obligation with respect to, Indebtedness
or other liability of such other person; (d) the making of any capital
contribution by such person to such other person, other than to the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company; and (e) the designation by the Board of Directors of
the Company of any person to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Company shall
be deemed to make an Investment in an amount equal to the fair market value of
the net assets of any subsidiary (or, if neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has theretofore made an Investment in such subsidiary, in an amount
equal to the Investments being made), at the time that such subsidiary is
designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary, and any property transferred to an
Unrestricted Subsidiary from the Company or a Subsidiary shall be deemed an
Investment valued at its fair market value at the time of such transfer.
"ISSUE DATE" means the date of first issuance of the Securities under
the Indenture.
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"JUNIOR SECURITY" means any Qualified Capital Stock and any
Indebtedness of the Company that is subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Debt at least to the same extent as the Securities, and has no scheduled
installment of principal due, by redemption, sinking fund payment or otherwise,
on or prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities.
"LEGAL DEFEASANCE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.2.
"LIEN" means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien (statutory or
otherwise), privilege, security interest, hypothecation or other encumbrance
upon or with respect to any property of any kind, real or personal, movable or
immovable, now owned or hereafter acquired.
"MATURITY DATE" means, when used with respect to any Security, the
date specified on such Security as the fixed date on which the final installment
of principal of such Security is due and payable (in the absence of any
acceleration thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture regarding
acceleration of Indebtedness or any Change of Control Offer or Asset Sale
Offer).
"NET CASH PROCEEDS" means the aggregate amount of Cash or Cash
Equivalents received by the Company in the case of a sale of Qualified Capital
Stock and by the Parent in the case of a Public Equity Offering or an Equity
Private Placement and by the Company and its Subsidiaries in respect of an Asset
Sale plus, in the case of an issuance of Qualified Capital Stock upon any
exercise, exchange or conversion of securities (including options, warrants,
rights and convertible or exchangeable debt) of the Company that were issued for
cash on or after the Issue Date, the amount of cash originally received by the
Company (to the extent not previously included in the calculation of Net Cash
Proceeds) upon the issuance of such securities (including options, warrants,
rights and convertible or exchangeable debt) less, in each case, the sum of all
payments, fees, commissions and expenses (including, without limitation, the
fees and expenses of legal counsel and investment banking fees and expenses)
incurred in connection with such Asset Sale or sale of Qualified Capital Stock
or Public Equity Offering or Equity Private Placement, and, in the case of an
Asset Sale only, less (i) the amount (estimated in good faith by the Company) of
income, franchise, sales and other applicable taxes required to be paid by the
Company or any of its respective Subsidiaries in connection with such Asset
Sale, (ii) payments made to repay Indebtedness or any other obligation
outstanding at the time of such Asset Sale that either (A) is secured by a Lien
on the property or assets sold or (B) is required to be paid as a result of such
sale, and (iii) appropriate amounts to be provided by the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company as a reserve against any liabilities associated with
such Asset Sale, including, without
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limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities
related to environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification
obligations associated with such Asset Sale, all as determined in conformity
with GAAP.
"NOTICE OF DEFAULT" shall have the meaning specified in Section
6.1(c).
"OBLIGATION" means any principal, premium or interest payment, or
monetary penalty, or damages, due by the Company under the terms of the
Securities or the Indenture.
"OCTOBER NOTES" means the Company's 9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes
due 2006 issued on October 16, 1996.
"OFFICER" means, with respect to the Company, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the
Treasurer, the Controller, or the Secretary of the Company.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means, with respect to the Company, a
certificate signed by two Officers or by an Officer and an Assistant Secretary
of the Company and otherwise complying with the requirements of Sections 12.4
and 12.5, and delivered to the Trustee or an Agent, as applicable.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion from legal counsel who is
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee (which may include counsel to the Trustee
or the Company including an employee of the Company) or an Agent, as applicable,
complying with the requirements of Sections 12.4 and 12.5, and delivered to the
Trustee or an Agent, as applicable.
"PARENT" means Universal Outdoor Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
"PAYING AGENT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
"PAYMENT BLOCKAGE PERIOD" shall have the meaning specified in Section
11.2.
"PAYMENT DEFAULT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.2.
"PAYMENT NOTICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.2.
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"PERMITTED HOLDER" means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ or ▇▇▇▇▇ &
Company, L.P. or any of their respective affiliates (as such term is defined in
Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act).
"PERMITTED INDEBTEDNESS" means the Indebtedness of the Company to any
wholly owned Subsidiary, and Indebtedness of any wholly owned Subsidiary to any
other wholly owned Subsidiary or to the Company; PROVIDED, that, in the case of
Indebtedness of the Company, such obligations shall be unsecured and
subordinated in all respects to the Company's obligations pursuant to the
Securities and the date of any event that causes such Subsidiary to no longer be
a wholly owned Subsidiary shall be an Incurrence Date.
"PERMITTED INVESTMENT" means (a) Investments in any of the Securities;
(b) Cash Equivalents; (c) Permitted Indebtedness; (d) Investments in Persons
who, after such Investments, will become Subsidiaries of the Company; (e) other
Investments not to exceed $25 million in aggregate at any time outstanding; and
(f) Investments in any property or assets to be used in a business in which the
Company was engaged on the date of the Indenture.
"PERMITTED LIEN" means (a) Liens existing on the Issue Date; (b) Liens
imposed by governmental authorities for taxes, assessments or other charges not
yet subject to penalty or which are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are
maintained on the books of the Company in accordance with GAAP; (c) statutory
liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, landlords, repairmen or
other like Liens arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business
provided that (i) the underlying obligations are not overdue for a period of
more than 30 days, or (ii) such Liens are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings and adequate reserves with respect thereto are
maintained on the books of the Company in accordance with GAAP; (d) Liens
securing the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than borrowed money),
leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and
other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) easements, rights-of-way, zoning, similar restrictions and other similar
encumbrances or title defects which, singly or in the aggregate, do not in any
case materially detract from the value of the property, subject thereto (as such
property is used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or interfere with
the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) Liens arising by operation of law in connection with judgments, only to the
extent, for an amount and for a period not resulting in an Event of Default with
respect thereto; (g) pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business
in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other types
of social security legislation; (h)
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Liens securing the Securities; (i) Liens securing Indebtedness of a Person
existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or is merged with or into
the Company or a Subsidiary or Liens securing Indebtedness incurred in
connection with an Acquisition, PROVIDED that such Liens were in existence prior
to the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation, were not incurred in
anticipation thereof, and do not extend to any other assets; (j) Liens arising
from Purchase Money Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under clause (c) of
Section 4.10 provided such Liens relate to the property which is subject to such
Purchase Money Indebtedness; (k) leases or subleases granted to other persons in
the ordinary course of business not materially interfering with the conduct of
the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or materially detracting
from the value of the relative assets of the Company or any Subsidiary; (l)
Liens arising from precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing statement
filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; and (m) Liens securing
Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to refinance any Indebtedness that was
previously so secured in a manner no more adverse to the Holders of the
Securities than the terms of the Liens securing such refinanced Indebtedness
provided that the Indebtedness secured is not increased and the lien is not
extended to any additional assets or property.
"PERSON" or "PERSON" means any corporation, individual, partnership,
trust, unincorporated association, or a government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"PRINCIPAL CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE OF THE TRUSTEE" means the office of
the Trustee as set forth in Section 12.2 and such other offices as the Trustee
may designate in writing from time to time.
"PROPERTY" or "PROPERTY" means any right or interest in or to property
or assets of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether
tangible or intangible.
"PUBLIC EQUITY OFFERING" means an underwritten offering of Common
Stock of the Parent pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act.
"PURCHASE MONEY INDEBTEDNESS" means any Indebtedness of such person to
any seller or other person incurred to finance the acquisition (including in the
case of a Capitalized Lease Obligation, the lease) of any real or personal
tangible property which, in the reasonable good faith judgment of the Board of
Directors of the Company, is directly related to a Related Business of the
Company and which is incurred substantially concurrently with such acquisition
and is secured only by the assets so financed.
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"QUALIFIED CAPITAL STOCK" means any Capital Stock of the Company that
is not Disqualified Capital Stock.
"QUALIFIED EXCHANGE" means any legal defeasance, redemption,
retirement, repurchase or other acquisition of Capital Stock or Indebtedness of
the Company issued on or after the Issue Date with the Net Cash Proceeds
received by the Company from the substantially concurrent sale of Qualified
Capital Stock or any exchange of Qualified Capital Stock for any Capital Stock
or Indebtedness issued on or after the Issue Date.
"RECORD DATE" means a Record Date specified in the Securities whether
or not such Record Date is a Business Day.
"REDEMPTION DATE," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to Article III of
this Indenture and Paragraph 5 in the form of Security attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
"REDEMPTION PRICE," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the redemption price for such redemption pursuant to Paragraph 5
in the form of Security attached hereto as Exhibit A, which shall include,
without duplication, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption
Date (subject to the provisions of Section 3.5).
"REFERENCE PERIOD" with regard to any person means the four full
fiscal quarters (or such lesser period during which such person has been in
existence) for which financial statements are available ended immediately
preceding any date upon which any determination is to be made pursuant to the
terms of the Securities or the Indenture.
"REFINANCING INDEBTEDNESS" means Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital
Stock (a) issued in exchange for, or the proceeds from the issuance and sale of
which are used substantially concurrently to repay, redeem, defease, refund,
refinance, discharge or otherwise retire for value, in whole or in part, or (b)
constituting an amendment, modification or supplement to, or a deferral or
renewal of ((a) and (b) above are, collectively, a "Refinancing"), any
Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock in a principal amount or, in the case
of Disqualified Capital Stock, liquidation preference, not to exceed (after
deduction of reasonable and customary fees and expenses incurred in connection
with the Refinancing) the lesser of (i) the principal amount or, in the case of
Disqualified Capital Stock, liquidation preference, of the Indebtedness or
Disqualified Capital Stock so Refinanced and (ii) if such Indebtedness being
Refinanced was issued with an original issue discount, the accreted value
thereof (as determined in accordance with
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GAAP) at the time of such Refinancing, plus, in each case, premium and fees and
expenses; PROVIDED, that (A) such Refinancing Indebtedness of any Subsidiary of
the Company shall only be used to Refinance outstanding Indebtedness or
Disqualified Capital Stock of such Subsidiary, (B) such Refinancing Indebtedness
shall (x) not have an Average Life shorter than the Indebtedness or Disqualified
Capital Stock to be so refinanced at the time of such Refinancing and (y) in all
respects, be no less subordinated or junior, if applicable, to the rights of
Holders of the Securities than was the Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital
Stock to be refinanced and (C) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall have a final
stated maturity or redemption date, as applicable, no earlier than the final
stated maturity or redemption date, as applicable, of the Indebtedness or
Disqualified Capital Stock to be so refinanced.
"REGISTRAR" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
"REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT" means the Registration Rights
Agreement dated as of the Issue Date by and between the Company and the Initial
Purchasers providing for certain registration rights for the Securities.
"RELATED BUSINESS" means the business conducted (or proposed to be
conducted) by the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Issue Date and any and
all businesses that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the
Company are materially related businesses.
"RESTRICTED PAYMENT" means, with respect to any person, (a) the
declaration or payment of any dividend or other distribution in respect of
Equity Interests of such person or any parent of such person, (b) any payment on
account of the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value
of Equity Interests of such person or parent of such person, (c) other than with
the proceeds from the substantially concurrent sale of, or in exchange for,
Refinancing Indebtedness any purchase, redemption, or other acquisition or
retirement for value of, any payment in respect of any amendment of the terms of
or any defeasance of, any Subordinated Indebtedness, directly or indirectly, by
such person or Subsidiary of such person prior to the scheduled maturity, any
scheduled or required repayment of principal, or scheduled sinking fund payment,
as the case may be, of such Indebtedness and (d) any Investment by such person,
other than a Permitted Investment; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the term "Restricted
Payment" does not include (i) any dividend, distribution or other payment on or
with respect to Capital Stock of an issuer to the extent payable solely in
shares of Qualified Capital Stock of such issuer; or (ii) any dividend,
distribution or other payment to the Company, or to any of its wholly owned
Subsidiaries, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
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"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"SECURITIES" means, collectively, the Initial Securities and, when and
if issued as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement, the Exchange
Securities.
"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
"SECURITIES CUSTODIAN" means the Registrar, as custodian with respect
to the Securities in global form, or any successor entity thereto.
"SECURITYHOLDER" or "HOLDER" means the Person in whose name a Security
is registered on the Registrar's books.
"SENIOR DEBT" of the Company means Indebtedness (including any
monetary obligation in respect of the Credit Agreement, and interest, whether or
not allowable, accruing on Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Credit
Agreement after the filing of a petition initiating any proceeding under any
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law) of the Company arising under the Credit
Agreement or that, by the terms of the instrument creating or evidencing such
Indebtedness, is expressly designated Senior Debt or made senior in right of
payment to the Securities; PROVIDED, that in no event shall Senior Debt include
(a) Indebtedness to any Subsidiary of the Company or any officer, director or
employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (b) Indebtedness
incurred in violation of the terms of the Indenture, (c) Indebtedness consisting
of trade payables, (d) Disqualified Capital Stock and (e) Capitalized Lease
Obligations.
"SENIOR DEBT REPRESENTATIVE" means the agent under the Credit
Agreement or the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent or representative for
the holders of an aggregate of at least $10 million principal amount outstanding
of any other Senior Debt.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" means, at any date of determination, any
Subsidiary of the Company that, together with its Subsidiaries, (i) for the most
recent fiscal year of the Company, accounted for more than 10% of the
consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries or (ii) as of the end
of such fiscal year, was the owner of more than 10% of the consolidated assets
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, all as set forth on the most recently
available consolidated financial statements of the Company for such fiscal year.
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"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.12.
"STATED MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security, means
October 15, 2006.
"SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS" means Indebtedness of the Company that is
expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Securities in any respect or,
for purposes of the definition of Restricted Payments only, has a stated
maturity on or after the Stated Maturity.
"SUBSIDIARY," with respect to any person, means (i) a corporation a
majority of whose Capital Stock with voting power, under ordinary circumstances,
to elect directors is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such person,
by such person and one or more Subsidiaries of such person or by one or more
Subsidiaries of such person, (ii) any other person (other than a corporation or
partnership) in which such person, one or more Subsidiaries of such person, or
such person and one or more Subsidiaries of such person, directly or indirectly,
at the date of determination thereof has at least majority ownership interest,
or (iii) a partnership in which such person or a Subsidiary of such person is,
at the time, a general partner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Unrestricted
Subsidiary shall not be a Subsidiary of the Company or of any Subsidiary of the
Company. Unless the context requires otherwise, Subsidiary means each direct
and indirect Subsidiary of the Company.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code
Sections 77aaa-77bbbb), as in effect on the date of the execution of this
Indenture; except as otherwise provided in Section 9.3.
"TRANSACTIONS" means the acquisition of Outdoor Advertising Holdings,
Inc. pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into on August 27,
1996, the tender offer and consent solicitation by the Company to purchase all
of its outstanding 11% Series A Senior Notes due 2003, the tender offer and
consent solicitation by Parent to purchase all of its outstanding 14% Senior
Secured Notes due 2004, the execution of the Credit Agreement, the purchase of
certain assets of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, L.L.C., TOA Enterprises, L.P., ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
WBT Outdoor, Inc. and The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust pursuant to an Option and
Asset Purchase Agreement entered into on September 12, 1996, the purchase of
certain assets of Iowa Outdoor Displays pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement
entered into on September 12, 1996 and the purchase of certain assets of The
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Chase Company pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement entered into on September
11, 1996.
"TRANSFER RESTRICTED SECURITIES" means Securities that bear or are
required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.6 hereof.
"TRUSTEE" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter means such successor.
"TRUST OFFICER" means any officer within the corporate trust
administration division (or any successor group) of the Trustee or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by the Persons who at that time shall be such officers, and also
means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer of
the Trustee to whom such trust matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means direct non-callable obligations
of, or noncallable obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America for
the payment of which obligation or guarantee the full faith and credit of the
United States of America is pledged.
"UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means any subsidiary of the Company that
does not own any Capital Stock of, or own or hold any Lien on any property of,
the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company and that shall be designated
an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of the Company; PROVIDED,
that (i) such subsidiary shall not engage, to any substantial extent, in any
line or lines of business activity other than a Related Business and (ii)
neither immediately prior thereto nor after giving pro forma effect to such
designation would there exist a Default or Event of Default. The Board of
Directors of the Company may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a
Subsidiary, provided, that (i) no Default or Event of Default is existing or
will occur as a consequence thereof and (ii) immediately after giving effect to
such designation, on a PRO FORMA basis, the Company could incur at least $1.00
of Indebtedness pursuant to the Debt Incurrence Ratio in paragraph (a) of
Section 4.10. Each such designation shall be evidenced by filing with the
Trustee a certified copy of the resolution giving effect to such designation and
an Officers' Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the
foregoing conditions.
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"WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY" means a Subsidiary all the Equity Interests
of which are owned by the Company or one or more wholly owned Subsidiaries of
the Company.
SECTION 2. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TIA.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such
provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"COMMISSION" means the SEC.
"INDENTURE SECURITIES" means the Securities.
"INDENTURE SECURITYHOLDER" means a Holder or a Securityholder.
"INDENTURE TO BE QUALIFIED" means this Indenture.
"INDENTURE TRUSTEE" or "INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEE" means the Trustee.
"OBLIGOR" on the indenture securities means the Company and any other
obligor on the Securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them thereby.
SECTION 3. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned
to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
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(4) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural
include the singular;
(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;
(6) "herein," "hereof" and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision; and
(7) references to Sections or Articles means reference to such
Section or Article in this Indenture, unless stated otherwise.
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 1. FORM AND DATING.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication, in
respect thereof, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which
Exhibit is part of this Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends
or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage or the terms
hereof. The Company shall approve the form of the Securities and any notation,
legend or endorsement on them. Any such notations, legends or endorsements not
contained in the form of Security attached as Exhibit A hereto shall be
delivered in writing to the Trustee. Each Security shall be dated the date of
its authentication.
The terms and provisions contained in the form of Securities shall
constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the
extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery
of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound
thereby.
SECTION 2. EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.
Two Officers shall sign, or one Officer shall sign and one Officer
shall attest to, the Security for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.
The Company's seal shall be impressed, affixed, imprinted or reproduced on the
Securities and may be in facsimile form.
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If an Officer whose signature is on a Security was an Officer at the
time of such execution but no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates the Security, the Security shall be valid nevertheless and the
Company shall nevertheless be bound by the terms of the Securities and this
Indenture.
A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Security but
such signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been
authenticated pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
The Trustee shall authenticate or cause to be authenticated the
Initial Securities for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of up to
$100,000,000 and shall authenticate Exchange Securities for original issue in
the aggregate principal amount of up to $100,000,000, in each case upon a
written order of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate provided
that such Exchange Securities shall be issuable only upon the valid surrender
for cancellation of Initial Securities of a like aggregate principal amount. The
Officers' Certificate shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated
and the date on which the Securities are to be authenticated. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities outstanding at any time may not exceed
$100,000,000, except as provided in Section 2.7. Upon the written order of the
Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate, the Trustee shall authenticate
Securities in substitution of Securities originally issued to reflect any name
change of the Company.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the
Company to authenticate Securities. Unless otherwise provided in the
appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company, any Affiliate of the Company,
or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
Securities shall be issuable only in fully registered form, without
coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
SECTION 3. REGISTRAR AND PAYING AGENT.
The Company shall maintain an office or agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, where Securities may be presented or
surrendered for
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registration of transfer or exchange ("Registrar") and an office or agency of
the Company where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment
("Paying Agent") and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect
of the Securities may be served. The Company may act as Registrar or Paying
Agent, except that for the purposes of Articles III, VIII, X and Section 4.13
and as otherwise specified in this Indenture, neither the Company nor any
Affiliate of the Company shall act as Paying Agent. The Registrar shall keep a
register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The Company may
have one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional Paying Agents. The
term "Registrar" includes any co-registrar and the term "Paying Agent" includes
any additional Paying Agent. The Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee
as Registrar and Paying Agent, and by its signature hereto, the Trustee hereby
agrees so to act. The Company may at any time change any Paying Agent or
Registrar without notice to any Holder.
The Company shall enter into an appropriate written agency agreement
with any Agent (including the Paying Agent) not a party to this Indenture, which
agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such
Agent, and shall furnish a copy of each such agreement to the Trustee. The
Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of
any such Agent. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent,
the Trustee shall act as such.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") to
act as Depositary with respect to the Global Securities.
The Company initially appoints the Registrar to act as Securities
Custodian with respect to the Global Securities.
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section 6.1(d)
or (f), the Trustee shall, or upon the occurrence of any other Event of Default
by notice to the Company, the Registrar and the Paying Agent, the Trustee may,
assume the duties and obligations of the Registrar and the Paying Agent
hereunder.
The Trustee is authorized to enter into a letter of representation
with DTC in the form provided to the Trustee by the Company and to act in
accordance with such letter.
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SECTION 4. PAYING AGENT TO HOLD ASSETS IN TRUST.
The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
agree in writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of
Holders or the Trustee all assets held by the Paying Agent for the payment of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Securities (whether such
assets have been distributed to it by the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities), and shall notify the Trustee in writing of any Default in making
any such payment. If either of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts
as Paying Agent, it shall segregate such assets and hold them as a separate
trust fund for the benefit of the Holders or the Trustee. The Company at any
time may require a Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the
Trustee and account for any assets disbursed and the Trustee may at any time
during the continuance of any Payment Default or any Event of Default, upon
written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to distribute all
assets held by it to the Trustee and to account for any assets distributed.
Upon distribution to the Trustee of all assets that shall have been delivered by
the Company to the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company)
shall have no further liability for such assets.
SECTION 5. SECURITYHOLDER LISTS.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
Holders and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is
not the Registrar, the Company shall cause the Registrar to furnish to the
Trustee on or before the seventh Business Day preceding each Interest Payment
Date and at such other times as the Trustee or any such Paying Agent may request
in writing a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee reasonably may
require of the names and addresses of Holders and the Company shall otherwise
comply with TIA Section 312(a).
SECTION 6. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a) TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES. When
Definitive Securities are presented to the Registrar with a request:
(x) to register the transfer of such Definitive Securities; or
(y) to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal
principal amount of Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations,
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the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if
its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that the Definitive Securities surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange:
(i) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company, the
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing; and
(ii) in the case of Definitive Securities that are Transfer
Restricted Securities, such request shall be accompanied by the following
additional information and documents, as applicable:
(A) if such Transfer Restricted Securities are being
delivered to the Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such
Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security);
(B) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being
transferred to a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under
the Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse
of the Security); or
(C) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being
transferred (i) pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with
Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Securities Act or (ii) pursuant to an
effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (iii) in reliance
on another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse
of the Security) and in the case of (i) and (iii) above, if the Company so
requests, a customary opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company to
the effect that such transfer is in compliance with the Security Act.
(b) RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF A DEFINITIVE SECURITY FOR A
BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A GLOBAL SECURITY. A Definitive Security may not be
exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Security except upon
satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Registrar
of a Definitive Security, duly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate
instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Registrar, together with:
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(i) if such Definitive Security is a Transfer Restricted
Security, certification, substantially in the form set forth on the reverse of
the Security, that such Definitive Security is being transferred to a "qualified
institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in
accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; and
(ii) whether or not such Definitive Security is a Transfer
Restricted Security, written instructions of the Holder directing the Registrar
to make, or to direct the Securities Custodian to make, an endorsement on the
Global Security to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities represented by the Global Security, then the Registrar shall cancel
such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the Securities Custodian to cause,
in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the
Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of
Securities represented by the Global Security to be increased accordingly. If
no Global Securities are then outstanding, the Company shall issue and the
Trustee, upon receipt of an authentication order in the form of an Officers'
Certificate, shall authenticate and deliver a new Global Security in the
appropriate principal amount.
(c) TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN GLOBAL
SECURITIES. The transfer and exchange of Global Securities or beneficial
interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with
this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein,
if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor which shall include
restrictions on transfer comparable to those set forth herein to the extent
required by the Securities Act.
(d) TRANSFER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A GLOBAL SECURITY FOR A
DEFINITIVE SECURITY.
(i) Any Person having a beneficial interest in a Global
Security may upon request, subject to the Company's approval in its
sole and complete discretion, exchange such beneficial interest for a
Definitive Security. Upon receipt by the Registrar of written
instructions or such other form of instructions as is customary for the
Depositary from the Depositary or its nominee on behalf of any Person
having a beneficial interest in a Global Security and upon receipt by
the Registrar of a written order or such other form of instructions as
is customary for the Depositary from the Person designated by the
Depositary as having such a beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted
Security only, and the following additional information and documents
(all of which may be submitted by facsimile):
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(A) if such beneficial interest is being
transferred to the Person designated by the Depositary as being the
beneficial owner, a certification from such person to that effect (in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(B) if such beneficial interest is being
transferred to a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule
144A under the Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act a certification to that effect from the transferor (in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(C) if such beneficial interest is being
transferred (i) pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance
with Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Securities Act or (ii) pursuant
to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (iii)
in reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements of
the Securities Act, a certification to that effect from the transferee
or transferor (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the
Security) and in the case of (i) and (iii) above, if the Company so
requests, a customary opinion of counsel from the transferee or
transferor reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that such
transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act;
then the Registrar or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee,
will cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing
between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the aggregate principal
amount of the Global Security to be reduced and, following such reduction, the
Company will execute and, upon receipt of an authentication order in the form of
an Officers' Certificate, the Trustee or the Trustee's authenticating agent will
authenticate and deliver to the transferee a Definitive Security.
(ii) Definitive Securities issued in exchange for a
beneficial interest in a Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.6(d)
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 Registrar. The Registrar
shall deliver such Definitive Securities to the persons in whose names
such Securities are so registered.
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(e) RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF GLOBAL SECURITIES.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the
provisions set forth in subsection (f) of this Section 2.6), a Global Security
may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the
Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another
nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
(f) AUTHENTICATION OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES IN ABSENCE OF
DEPOSITARY.
If at any time:
(i) the Depositary for the Securities notifies the
Company that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for the Global Securities and a successor Depositary for the
Global Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after
delivery of such notice; or
(ii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the
Trustee and the Registrar in writing that they elect to cause the
issuance of Definitive Securities under this Indenture,
then the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officers' Certificate requesting the authentication and delivery of
Definitive Securities, will, or its authenticating agent will,
authenticate and deliver Definitive Securities, in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Securities,
in exchange for such Global Securities.
(g) CANCELLATION AND/OR ADJUSTMENT OF GLOBAL SECURITY. At such
time as all beneficial interests in a Global Security have either been exchanged
for Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, such Global
Security shall be returned to or retained and cancelled by the Trustee. At any
time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security
is exchanged for Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, the
principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be
reduced and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security, by the Trustee
or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such
reduction.
(h) LEGENDS.
(i) Except as permitted by the following paragraph (ii),
each Security certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the
Definitive Securities
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(and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof)
shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
"THE NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY
WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
"SECURITIES ACT"), AND THE NOTE EVIDENCED HEREBY
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED
IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF
THE NOTE EVIDENCED HEREBY IS NOTIFIED THAT THE
SELLER MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF
THE NOTE EVIDENCED HEREBY AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) SUCH NOTE MAY BE RESOLD,
PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (1) (a) TO A
PERSON WHO THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE
144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (b) IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (c) OUTSIDE THE UNITED
STATES TO A FOREIGN PERSON IN
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A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 904
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (d) IN ACCORDANCE WITH
ANOTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON
AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IF THE COMPANY SO REQUESTS),
(2) TO THE COMPANY OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF
ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL,
AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY
ANY PURCHASER OF THE NOTE EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE
RESALE RESTRICTION SET FORTH IN (A)(l) ABOVE."
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(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security
(including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Global Security)
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act:
(A) in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is a
Definitive Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to
exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a Definitive Security
that does not bear the legend set forth above and rescind any
restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Security in
the case of a sale or transfer pursuant to Rule 144 under the
Securities Act, after three years from the date the Securities were
first issued (or such shorter period that may hereafter be provided
under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act) or delivery of a customary
opinion of counsel; and
(B) any such Transfer Restricted Security represented by a
Global Security shall not be subject to the provisions set forth in
(i) above (such sales or transfers being subject only to the
provisions of Section 2.6(c) hereof); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that with
respect to any request for an exchange of a Transfer Restricted
Security that is represented by a Global Security for a Definitive
Security that does not bear a legend, which request is made in
reliance upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Holder thereof
shall certify in writing (to be accompanied by a customary opinion of
counsel) to the Registrar that such request is being made pursuant to
Rule 144 under the Securities Act (such certification to be
substantially in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security).
(i) OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO TRANSFERS AND EXCHANGES OF
DEFINITIVE SECURITIES.
(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee or any authenticating agent of
the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and Global
Securities at the Registrar's request.
(ii) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessment, or
similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than
any such transfer taxes, assessments,
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or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges or transfers pursuant to
Section 2.2 (fourth paragraph), 2.10, 3.7, 4.13(8), 9.5, or 10.1 (final
paragraph)).
(iii) The Registrar shall not be required to register the
transfer of or exchange (a) any Definitive Security selected for redemption in
whole or in part pursuant to Article III, except the unredeemed portion of any
Definitive Security being redeemed in part, or (b) any Security for a period
beginning 15 Business Days before the mailing of a notice of an offer to
repurchase pursuant to Article X or Section 4.13 hereof or a notice of
redemption of Securities pursuant to Article III hereof and ending at the close
of business on the day of such mailing.
(iv) Prior to due presentment for registration or transfer of
any Security, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and treat the
Person in whose name the Security is registered as the absolute owner of such
Security, and none of the Trustee, Agent or the Company shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
SECTION 7. REPLACEMENT SECURITIES.
If a mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder
of a Security claims and submits evidence, satisfactory to the Trustee to the
effect that the Security has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, in the
absence of notice to the Company and the Trustee that such Security has been
acquired by a bona-fide purchaser, the Company shall issue and the Trustee or
any authenticating agent of the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a
replacement Security if the Trustee's requirements are met. If required by the
Trustee or the Company, such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other
indemnity, sufficient in the judgment of both the Company and the Trustee, to
protect the Company, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them
may suffer if a Security is replaced. The Company may require the payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessment or similar governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation to the issuance of any new Security and
charge such Holder for its reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses (including the
fees and expenses of the Trustee) in replacing a Security.
Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company.
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SECTION 8. OUTSTANDING SECURITIES.
Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities that have
been authenticated by the Trustee (including any Security represented by a
Global Security) except those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for
cancellation, those reductions in the interest in a Global Security effected by
the Trustee hereunder and those described in this Section 2.8 as not
outstanding. A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or
an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security, except as provided in Section
2.9.
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.7 (other than a
mutilated Security surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding
unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security
is held by a BONA FIDE purchaser. A mutilated Security ceases to be outstanding
upon surrender of such Security and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.7.
If on a Redemption Date or the Maturity Date the Paying Agent (other
than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds Cash or U.S. Government
Obligations sufficient to pay all of the principal and interest and premium, if
any, due on the Securities payable on that date and payment of the Securities
called for redemption is not otherwise prohibited, then on and after that date
such Securities cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.
SECTION 9. TREASURY SECURITIES.
In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of
Securities have concurred in any direction, amendment, supplement, waiver or
consent, Securities owned by the Company or Affiliates of the Company shall be
disregarded, except that, for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, amendment, supplement,
waiver or consent, only Securities that a Trust Officer of the Trustee knows are
so owned shall be disregarded.
SECTION 10. TEMPORARY SECURITIES.
Until Definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may
prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities.
Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of permanent Securities
but may have variations that the Company and the Trustee reasonably consider
appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company
shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate
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Definitive Securities in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged,
the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same rights,
privileges and benefits under this Indenture as permanent Securities
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 11. CANCELLATION.
The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee
any Securities surrendered to it or them (as applicable) for registration of
transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel and destroy all
Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and shall
deliver a certificate of destruction to the Company. Subject to Section 2.7,
the Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that have been
paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided
in this Section 2.11, except as expressly permitted in the form of Securities
and as permitted by this Indenture.
SECTION 12. DEFAULTED INTEREST.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date plus, to the extent
lawful, any interest payable on the defaulted interest (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder on the
relevant Record Date, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at
its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective
predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall
be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of Cash equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such Cash when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as provided in this clause (1). Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record
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Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more
than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the
notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of
the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Holder at his address as it appears in the
Security register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names the Securities (or
their respective predecessor Securities) are registered on such Special
Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause
(2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause,
such manner shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION
SECTION 1. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
Redemption of Securities, as permitted by any provision of this
Indenture, shall be made in accordance with such provision and this Article III.
The Company will not have the right to redeem any Securities prior to October
15, 2001, except as provided in the immediately following paragraph. On or
after October 15, 2001, the Company will have the right to redeem all or any
part of the Securities at the Redemption Prices specified in the form of
Security attached as Exhibit A set forth therein in Paragraph 5 thereof,
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including accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date (subject to the
right of Holders of record on a Record Date to receive interest due on an
Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to such Redemption Date, and subject
to the provisions set forth in Section 3.5).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to October 15, 1999, upon any
Public Equity Offering or Equity Private Placement, in each case resulting in
Net Cash Proceeds of $100 million or more which are then contributed in full to
the Company, up to $35 million aggregate principal amount of the Securities may
be redeemed at the option of the Company with cash from the Net Cash Proceeds of
such Public Equity Offering or Equity Private Placement, at 110% of principal,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that immediately following such redemption not less than $65
million aggregate principal amount of the Securities are outstanding, PROVIDED,
FURTHER, that such redemption shall occur within 120 days of such Public Equity
Offering or Equity Private Placement.
SECTION 2. NOTICES TO TRUSTEE.
If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to Paragraph 5 of
the Securities, it shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate setting
forth (i) the Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall
occur, (ii) Redemption Date, (iii) the principal amount of Securities to be
redeemed, (iv) the Redemption Price, and (v) whether it wants the Trustee to
give notice of redemption to the Holders in accordance with Section 3.4.
If the Company elects to reduce the principal amount of Securities to
be redeemed pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Securities by crediting against any
such redemption Securities it has not previously delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, it shall so notify the Trustee of the amount of the reduction and
deliver such Securities with such notice.
The Company shall give the Officers' Certificate to the Trustee
provided for in this Section 3.2 at least 45 days before the Redemption Date
(unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee). Any such notice
to the Trustee may be cancelled at any time up to one Business Day prior to
notice of such redemption being mailed to any Holder and shall thereby be void
and of no effect.
SECTION 3. SELECTION OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.
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If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed pursuant to
Paragraph 5 thereof, the Trustee shall select the Securities or portions thereof
for redemption on a PRO RATA basis, by lot or by such other method as the
Trustee shall determine to be fair and appropriate.
The Trustee shall make the selection from the Securities outstanding
and not previously called for redemption and shall promptly notify the Company,
the Registrar and the Paying Agent, if applicable, in writing of the Securities
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Security selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. Securities in
denominations of $1,000 may be redeemed only in whole. The Trustee may select
for redemption portions (equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of
the principal of Securities that have denominations larger than $1,000.
Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption also
apply to portions of Securities called for redemption.
SECTION 4. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date,
the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Trustee and each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed to
such Holder's last address as then shown on the registry books of the Registrar.
At the Company's request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the
Company's name and at the Company's expense. Each notice for redemption shall
identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price, including the amount of
accrued and unpaid interest to be paid upon such redemption;
(3) the name, address and telephone number of the
Paying Agent;
(4) that Securities called for redemption must be
surrendered to the Paying Agent at the address specified in such notice to
collect the Redemption Price;
(5) that, unless the Company defaults in its
obligation to deposit Cash or U.S. Government Obligations which through the
scheduled
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payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with
their terms will provide Cash in an amount to fund the Redemption Price
with the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.6 hereof or such
redemption payment is otherwise prohibited, interest on Securities called
for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the Redemption Date and the
only remaining right of the Holders of such Securities is to receive
payment of the Redemption Price, including accrued and unpaid interest to
the Redemption Date, upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Securities
called for redemption and to be redeemed;
(6) if any Security is being redeemed in part, the
portion of the principal amount equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple
thereof, of such Security to be redeemed and that, after the Redemption
Date, and upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in
aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be
issued;
(7) if less than all the Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification of the particular Securities (or portion
thereof) to be redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of such
Securities to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Securities
to be outstanding after such partial redemption;
(8) the CUSIP number of the Securities to be redeemed;
and
(9) that the notice is being sent pursuant to this
Section 3.4 and pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Paragraph
5 of the Securities.
SECTION 5. EFFECT OF NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.4,
Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date
and at the Redemption Price, including accrued and unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date. Upon surrender to the Trustee or, if the Trustee is no longer
the paying agent, to the Paying Agent, such Securities called for redemption
shall be paid at the Redemption Price, including interest, if any, accrued and
unpaid to the Redemption Date; PROVIDED that if the Redemption Date is on or
after a regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to
which such Record Date relates, the accrued interest shall be payable to the
Holder of the redeemed Securities registered on the relevant Record Date and no
additional interest will be payable to Holders of the redeemed Securities on the
Redemption Date;
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and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that if a Redemption Date is not a Business Day, payment
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no interest shall accrue
for the period from such Redemption Date to such succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 6. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
At least one Business Day prior to the Redemption Date, the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (other than the Company
or an Affiliate of the Company) Cash or U.S. Government Obligations in
immediately available funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and
accrued and unpaid interest on, all Securities to be redeemed on such Redemption
Date (other than Securities or portions thereof called for redemption on that
date that have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee for cancellation).
The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any Cash or
U.S. Government Obligations so deposited which is not required for that purpose
upon the written request of the Company.
If the Company complies with the preceding paragraph and the other
provisions of this Article III and payment of the Securities called for
redemption is not otherwise prohibited, interest on the Securities to be
redeemed will cease to accrue on the applicable Redemption Date, whether or not
such Securities are presented for payment. Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, if any Security surrendered for redemption in the manner provided
in the Securities shall not be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of
the failure of the Company to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest
shall continue to accrue and be paid from the Redemption Date until such payment
is made on the unpaid principal, and, to the extent lawful, on any interest not
paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate and in the manner
provided in Section 4.1 hereof and the Security.
SECTION 7. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Upon surrender of a Security that is to be redeemed in part, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder, without service charge to the Holder, a new Security or Securities equal
in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.
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COVENANTS
SECTION 1. PAYMENT OF SECURITIES.
The Company shall pay the principal of and interest and premium, if
applicable, on the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided herein and
in the Securities. An installment of principal of or interest and premium, if
applicable, on the Securities shall be considered paid on the date it is due if
the Trustee or Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company
or an Affiliate of the Company) holds for the benefit of the Holders, on or
before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on that date, Cash deposited and designated
for and sufficient to pay the installment.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest at the rate specified in the Securities compounded
semi-annually, to the extent lawful.
SECTION 2. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered
for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location,
of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any
such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the
address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made
or served at the address of the Trustee set forth in Section 12.2 (the
"Principal Corporate Trust Office of Trustee").
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any
or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner
relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, for such purposes. The Company
shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or
rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office
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or agency. The Company hereby initially designates the Principal Corporate Trust
Office of Trustee as such office.
SECTION 3. LIMITATION ON RESTRICTED PAYMENTS.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, make any Restricted Payment if, after giving effect
to such Restricted Payment on a PRO FORMA basis, (1) a Default or an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (2) the Company is not permitted
to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Debt
Incurrence Ratio in paragraph (a) of Section 4.10, or (3) the aggregate amount
of all Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Subsidiaries, including
after giving effect to such proposed Restricted Payment, from and after the
Issue Date, would exceed the sum of (a) Consolidated EBITDA of the Company and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries for the period (taken as one accounting period),
commencing on the first day of the first full fiscal quarter commencing after
the Issue Date, to and including the last day of the fiscal quarter ended
immediately prior to the date of each such calculation (or, in the event
Consolidated EBITDA for such period is a deficit, then minus 100% of such
deficit), minus (b) 1.5 times the Consolidated Fixed Charges over such period,
plus (c) the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company from the sale
of its Qualified Capital Stock or Indebtedness to the extent subsequently
converted into Qualified Capital Stock (other than (i) to a Subsidiary of the
Company and (ii) to the extent applied in connection with a Qualified Exchange)
or the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors reasonably and
in good faith) of securities of the Parent issued in connection with an
acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case after the
Issue Date, plus (d) the net reductions in Investments (other than reductions in
Permitted Investments) in any Person resulting from payments of interest on
Indebtedness, dividends, repayments of loans or from designations of
Unrestricted Subsidiaries as Subsidiaries, valued in each case as provided in
the definition of "Investment," not to exceed the amount of Investments
previously made by the Company and its Subsidiaries in such Person, plus (e) $15
million.
The preceding paragraph, however, will not prohibit (w) payments in
accordance with "Use of Proceeds" section of the Offering Memorandum, dated
December 11, 1996, (x) repurchases of Capital Stock out of the proceeds of any
"key man" life insurance policies on ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ existing on the Issue Date
and described in the Prospectus and additional repurchases of Capital Stock from
employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries upon the death, disability or
termination of employment in an aggregate amount to all employees not to exceed
$1 million per year or $2 million in the aggregate on and after the Issue Date,
(y) a Qualified Exchange, or (z) the payment of any dividend
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on Qualified Capital Stock within 60 days after the date of its declaration if
such dividend could have been made on the date of such declaration in compliance
with the foregoing provisions. The full amount of any Restricted Payment made
pursuant to the foregoing clauses (x) and (z) of the immediately preceding
sentence, however, will be deducted in the calculation of the aggregate amount
of Restricted Payments available to be made referred to in clause (3) of the
immediately preceding paragraph of this Section 4.3.
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SECTION 4. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Except as otherwise provided or permitted in Article V or elsewhere in
this Indenture, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence in accordance
with its organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time)
and the rights (charter and statutory) and corporate franchises of the Company;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, nothing in this Section will prohibit the Company from
engaging in any transaction permitted under Section 11.4 or Section 11.5 hereof
and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any
right or franchise if the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine that
the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business
of such entity.
SECTION 5. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND OTHER CLAIMS.
The Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to
pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental
levies except (i) as contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with
respect to which appropriate reserves have been taken to the extent required by
GAAP or (ii) where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any
material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 6. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE; NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days
after the end of its fiscal year an Officers' Certificate complying with Section
314(a)(4) of the TIA and stating that a review of its activities and the
activities of its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made
under the supervision of the signing Officers and stating, as to each such
Officer signing such certificate, to the best of his knowledge, based on such
review, whether or not the signer knows of any Event of Default or event which
with notice or the passage of time would become an Event of Default which has
occurred and is continuing (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Defaults of which such
signer may have knowledge and what action each is taking or proposed to take
with respect thereto) and that to the best of such signer's knowledge no event
has occurred and remains in existence by reason of which payments on account of
the principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities are prohibited or if
such event has occurred, a description of the event and what action each is
taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. The Officers' Certificate
shall also notify the Trust-
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ee should the relevant fiscal year end on any date other than the current fiscal
year end date.
(b) The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are
outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware of any Default
or Event of Default, an Officers' Certificate specifying such Default or Event
of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with
respect thereto. The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any
Default or any Event of Default unless one of its Trust Officers receives
written notice thereof from the Company or any of the Holders.
SECTION 7. REPORTS.
Whether or not the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall file with the
Commission, and deliver to the Trustee and to each Holder within 15 days after
it has filed such with the Commission (if the Commission will accept such
filing), annual, quarterly and other reports required by Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Trustee
shall have no duty to review such documents for purposes of determining
compliance with any provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 8. LIMITATION ON STATUS AS INVESTMENT COMPANY.
Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall be required to register
as an "investment company" (as that term is defined in the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended) or shall otherwise become subject to regulation under
the Investment Company Act.
SECTION 9. LIMITATION ON TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will be permitted
after the Issue Date to enter into or suffer to exist any contract, agreement,
arrangement or transaction (other than guarantees of the Credit Agreement by the
Company's Subsidiaries) with any Affiliate (an "Affiliate Transaction"), or any
series of related Affiliate Transactions, (i) unless it is determined that the
terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair and reasonable to the Company, and
no less favorable to the Company than could have been obtained in an arm's
length transaction with a non-Affiliate and, (ii) if involving consideration to
either party in excess of $1 million, unless such Affiliate Transaction(s) is
evidenced by an Officers' Certificate addressed and delivered to the Trustee
certifying
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that such Affiliate Transaction (or Affiliate Transactions) has been approved by
a majority of the members of the Board of Directors that are disinterested in
such transaction and (iii) if involving consideration to either party in excess
of $10 million, unless in addition the Company, prior to the consummation
thereof, obtains a written favorable opinion as to the fairness of such
transaction to the Company from a financial point of view from an independent
investment banking firm of national reputation.
This Section 4.9 shall not apply to (i) any transaction between the
Company and any of its Subsidiaries or between Subsidiaries, (ii) the payment of
reasonable and customary regular fees to directors of the Company who are not
employees of the Company and any employment agreement entered into by the
Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and (iii) any tax
sharing arrangement between the Company and Parent.
SECTION 10. LIMITATION ON INCURRENCE OF ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS AND
DISQUALIFIED CAPITAL STOCK.
Except as set forth in this Section 4.10, the Company shall not, and
shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, issue,
assume, guaranty, incur, become directly or indirectly liable with respect to
(including as a result of an Acquisition), or otherwise become responsible for,
contingently or otherwise (individually and collectively, to "incur" or, as
appropriate, an "incurrence"), any Indebtedness or any Disqualified Capital
Stock (including Acquired Indebtedness). Notwithstanding the foregoing:
(a) if (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing at the time of, or would occur after giving effect on a PRO
FORMA basis to, such incurrence of Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock
and (ii) on the date of such incurrence (the "Incurrence Date"), the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio of the Company as of the end of the Reference Period
immediately preceding the Incurrence Date, after giving effect on a PRO FORMA
basis to such incurrence of such Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock and,
to the extent set forth in the definition of Consolidated Leverage Ratio, the
use of proceeds thereof, would not exceed 6.5 to l from the Issue Date to and
including the third anniversary of the Issue Date, 6.25 to 1 from the third
anniversary of the Issue Date to and including the fifth anniversary thereof,
and 6.0 to 1 thereafter (each, a "Debt Incurrence Ratio"), then the Company may
incur such Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock;
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(b)the Company and the Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness
evidenced by the Securities and represented by the Indenture up to the amounts
specified therein as of the date thereof;
(c)the Company and the Subsidiaries may incur Purchase Money
Indebtedness (including any Indebtedness issued to refinance, replace or refund
such Indebtedness) on or after the Issue Date, PROVIDED, that (i) the aggregate
amount of such Indebtedness incurred on or after the Issue Date and outstanding
at any time pursuant to this paragraph (c) shall not exceed $10 million, and
(ii) in each case, such Indebtedness shall not constitute more than 100% of the
cost (determined in accordance with GAAP) to the Company or such Subsidiary, as
applicable, of the property so purchased or leased;
(d)the Company and the Subsidiaries, as applicable, may incur
Refinancing Indebtedness with respect to any Indebtedness or Disqualified
Capital Stock, as applicable, described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this
Section 4.10 or which is outstanding on the Issue Date so long as, in the case
of Refinancing Indebtedness which is not Senior Debt, such Refinancing
Indebtedness is secured only by the assets that secured the Indebtedness so
refinanced;
(e)the Company and the Subsidiaries may incur Permitted
Indebtedness;
(f)Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement up to
an aggregate amount outstanding (including any Indebtedness issued to refinance,
refund or replace such Indebtedness) at any time not to exceed $300 million
minus the amount of any such Indebtedness retired with Net Cash Proceeds from
any Asset Sale and plus any such Indebtedness constituting Interest Swap and
Hedging Obligations;
(g)other Indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries not to
exceed $25 million at any time outstanding, of which only $10 million may be
incurred by Subsidiaries.
Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock of any Person which is
outstanding at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company
(including upon designation of any subsidiary or other person as a Subsidiary)
or is merged with or into or consolidated with the Company or a Subsidiary of
the Company shall be deemed to have been Incurred at the time such Person
becomes such a Subsidiary of the Company or is merged with or into or
consolidated with the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, as applicable.
For purposes of determining amounts of Indebtedness under this Section
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4.10, (i) Indebtedness resulting from security interests granted with respect
to Indebtedness otherwise included in the determination of Indebtedness, and
guarantees (and security interests with respect thereof) of, or obligations
with respect to letters of credit supporting, Indebtedness otherwise included
in the determination of Indebtedness shall not be included in the
determination of Indebtedness, (ii) any Liens permitted hereunder supporting
Indebtedness otherwise included in the determination of Indebtedness shall
not be included in the determination of Indebtedness and (iii) Indebtedness
permitted under this Section 4.10 need not be permitted solely by reference
to one provision permitting such Indebtedness but may be permitted in part by
reference to one such provision and in part by reference to one or more other
provisions of this Section 4.10. For purposes of determining compliance with
this Section 4.10, in the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the
criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described above, the
Company in its sole discretion shall classify such item of Indebtedness and
shall only be required to include the amount and type of Indebtedness in one
of such categories.
SECTION 11. LIMITATION ON DIVIDENDS AND OTHER PAYMENT RESTRICTIONS
AFFECTING SUBSIDIARIES.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, create, assume or suffer to exist any consensual
restriction on the ability of any Subsidiary of the Company to pay dividends or
make other distributions to or on behalf of, or to pay any obligation to or on
behalf of, or otherwise to transfer assets or property to or on behalf of, or
make or pay loans or advances to or on behalf of, the Company or any Subsidiary
of the Company, except (a) restrictions imposed by the Securities or the
Indenture, (b) restrictions imposed by applicable law, (c) restrictions under
any Acquired Indebtedness not incurred in violation of this Indenture or any
agreement relating to any property, asset, or business acquired by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, which restrictions in each case existed at the time
of acquisition, were not put in place in connection with or in anticipation of
such acquisition and are not applicable to any person, other than the person
acquired, or to any property, asset or business, other than the property, assets
and business so acquired, (d) any such restriction or requirement imposed by
Indebtedness incurred under paragraph (f) of Section 4.10, (e) restrictions with
respect solely to a Subsidiary of the Company imposed pursuant to a binding
agreement which has been entered into for the sale or disposition of all or
substantially all of the Equity Interests or of any assets of such Subsidiary,
provided such restrictions apply solely to the Equity Interests or assets of
such Subsidiary, (f) restrictions on transfer contained in Purchase Money
Indebtedness incurred pursuant to paragraph (c) of Section 4.10, provided such
restrictions relate only to the transfer of the property acquired with the
proceeds of such Purchase Money Indebtedness, and (g) in connection with and
pursuant
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to permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, replacements of restrictions imposed
pursuant to clause (a) or (f) of this Section 4.11 that are not more restrictive
than those being replaced and do not apply to any other person or assets than
those that would have been covered by the restrictions in the Indebtedness so
refinanced. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither (a) customary provisions
restricting subletting or assignment of any lease entered into in the ordinary
course of business, consistent with industry practice, nor (b) Liens permitted
under the terms of this Indenture shall in and of themselves be considered a
restriction on the ability of the applicable Subsidiary to transfer such
agreement or assets, as the case may be.
SECTION 12. LIMITATION ON LIENS SECURING INDEBTEDNESS.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien of any kind, other than Permitted
Liens, upon any of their respective assets now owned or acquired on or after the
date of the Indenture or upon any income or profits therefrom securing any
Indebtedness of the Company other than Senior Debt of the Company, unless the
Company provides, and causes its Subsidiaries to provide, concurrently or
immediately thereafter, that the Securities are equally and ratably so secured
so long as such Lien exists, PROVIDED that, if such Indebtedness is Subordinated
Indebtedness, the Lien securing such Subordinated Indebtedness shall be
subordinate and junior to the Lien securing the Securities with the same
relative priority as such Subordinated Indebtedness shall have with respect to
the Securities.
SECTION 13. LIMITATION ON SALE OF ASSETS AND SUBSIDIARY STOCK.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, in one or a series of related transactions, convey, sell, transfer, assign
or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any of its property, business
or assets, including by merger or consolidation (other than a merger or
consolidation of the Company), and including any sale or other transfer or
issuance of any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Company, whether by
the Company or a Subsidiary of either or through the issuance, sale or transfer
of Equity Interests by a Subsidiary of the Company (an "Asset Sale"), unless
(l)(a) within 210 days after the date of such Asset Sale, the Net Cash Proceeds
therefrom (the "Asset Sale Offer Amount") are applied to the optional redemption
of the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof or to the repurchase of
Securities pursuant to a cash offer (the "Asset Sale Offer") to repurchase
Securities at a purchase price (the "Asset Sale Offer Price") of 100% of
principal amount, plus accrued interest to the date of payment, made within 180
days of such Asset Sale or (b) within 180 days following such Asset Sale
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(subject to the right under the Indenture, dated as of October 16, 1996,
governing the October Notes to accumulate $15 million in proceeds), the Asset
Sale Offer Amount is (i) invested (or committed to be invested, and in fact is
so invested, within an additional 90 days) in assets and property other than
notes, bonds, obligation and securities (except in connection with the
acquisition of a wholly owned Subsidiary) which in the good faith reasonable
judgment of the Board will immediately constitute or be a part of a Related
Business of the Company or such Subsidiary immediately following such
transaction or (ii) used to permanently reduce Senior Debt (PROVIDED that in the
case of a revolver or similar arrangement that makes credit available, such
commitment is also permanently reduced by such amount) or redeem or purchase the
October Notes, (2) at least 75% of the consideration for such Asset Sale or
series of related Asset Sales consists of Cash, Cash Equivalents or Permitted
Investments, (3) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing at the time of, or would occur after giving effect, on a PRO forma
basis, to, such Asset Sale, and (4) the Board of Directors of the Company
determines in good faith that the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable,
receives fair market value for such Asset Sale.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of the prior paragraph:
(i)the Company and its Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary
course of business, convey, sell, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of
inventory acquired and held for resale in the ordinary course of business;
(ii)the Company and its Subsidiaries may convey, sell,
transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of assets pursuant to and in
accordance with the limitation on mergers, sales or consolidations
provisions in this Indenture;
(iii)the Company and its Subsidiaries may sell or dispose of
damaged, worn out or other obsolete property in the ordinary course of
business so long as such property is no longer necessary for the proper
conduct of the business of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable;
(iv)the Subsidiaries may convey, sell, transfer, assign or
otherwise dispose of assets to the Company or any of its wholly owned
Subsidiaries; and
(v)the Company and its Subsidiaries may convey, sell,
transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of assets (in addition to those
transactions
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described in clause (i) through (iv) of this Section 4.13) with an
aggregate fair market value of $5 million in any fiscal year.
An Asset Sale Offer may be deferred until the accumulated Net Cash
Proceeds from Asset Sales not applied to the uses set forth in clause (l) of the
first paragraph of this Section 4.10 (the "Excess Proceeds") exceeds $15 million
and that each Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for 20 Business Days following
its commencement (the "Asset Sale Offer Period"). Upon expiration of the Asset
Sale Offer Period, the Company shall apply the Asset Sale Offer Amount plus an
amount equal to accrued interest to the purchase of all Securities properly
tendered (on a PRO RATA basis if the Asset Sale Offer Amount is insufficient to
purchase all Securities so tendered) at the Asset Sale Offer Price (together
with accrued interest). To the extent that the aggregate amount of Securities
tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is less than the Asset Sale Offer
Amount, the Company may use any remaining Net Cash Proceeds for general
corporate purposes as otherwise permitted by this Indenture and following each
Asset Sale Offer the Excess Proceeds amount shall be reset to zero. For
purposes of clause (2) of the first paragraph of this Section 4.13 total
consideration received means the total consideration received for such Asset
Sales minus the amount of (a) Senior Debt assumed by a transferee and (b)
property that within 30 days of such Asset Sale is converted into Cash or Cash
Equivalents.
All Net Cash Proceeds from an Event of Loss shall be invested, used
for prepayment of Senior Debt, or used to repurchase Securities, all within the
period and as otherwise provided above in clause 1(a) or 1(b) of the first
paragraph of this Section 4.13.
Notice of an Asset Sale Offer will be sent 20 Business Days prior to
the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the date set by the
Company to repurchase Securities pursuant to this Section 4.13 (the "Purchase
Date"), by first-class mail, by the Company to each Holder at its registered
address, with a copy to the Trustee. The notice to the Holders will contain all
information, instructions and materials required by applicable law. The notice,
which (to the extent consistent with this Indenture) shall govern the terms of
the Asset Sale Offer, shall state:
(1)that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to
such notice and this Section 4.13;
(2)the Asset Sale Offer, the Asset Sale Offer Price
(including the amount of accrued and unpaid interest), and the Purchase
Date,
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which Purchase Date shall be on or prior to 45 Business Days following the
Excess Proceeds Date;
(3)that any Security or portion thereof not tendered or
accepted for payment will continue to accrue interest;
(4)that, unless the Company defaults in depositing Cash
with the Paying Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Section
4.13, any Security, or portion thereof, accepted for payment pursuant to
the Asset Sale Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Purchase
Date;
(5)that Holders electing to have a Security, or portion
thereof, purchased pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer will be required to
surrender the Security, with the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect
Purchase" on the reverse of the Security completed, to the Paying Agent
(which may not for purposes of this Section 4.13, notwithstanding anything
in this Indenture to the contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate of the
Company) at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of
business on the third Business Day prior to the Purchase Date;
(6)that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their
elections, in whole or in part, if the Paying Agent receives, up to the
close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Purchase Date, a
telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of
the Holder, the principal amount of the Securities the Holder is
withholding and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to
have such principal amount of Securities purchased;
(7)that if Securities in a principal amount in excess
of the principal amount of Securities to be acquired pursuant to the Asset
Sale Offer are tendered and not withdrawn, the Company shall purchase
Securities on a PRO RATA basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed
appropriate by the Company so that only Securities in denominations of
$1,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 shall be acquired);
(8)that Holders whose Securities were purchased only in
part will be issued new Securities equal in principal amount to the
unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered; and
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(9)a brief description of the circumstances and
relevant facts regarding such Asset Sales.
On or before the Purchase Date, the Company shall (i) accept for
payment Securities or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant to the Asset
Sale Offer on or before the third Business Day prior to the Purchase Date (on a
PRO RATA basis if required pursuant to paragraph (7) hereof) and (ii) deposit
with the Paying Agent Cash sufficient to pay the Asset Sale Offer Price for all
Securities or portions thereof so tendered and accepted plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon to the Purchase Date. On the Purchase Date, the Company shall
deliver to the Trustee Securities so accepted together with an Officers'
Certificate stating the Securities or portions thereof being purchased by the
Company. The Paying Agent shall on the Purchase Date mail or deliver to Holders
of Securities so accepted payment in an amount equal to the Asset Sale Offer
Price for such Securities (together with accrued and unpaid interest), and the
Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail or deliver to such Holders a new
Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Security
surrendered. Any Security not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered
by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company agrees that any Asset Sale
Offer shall be made in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, and
regulations, including, if applicable, Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act and
the rules and regulations thereunder and all other applicable Federal and state
securities laws, and any provisions of this Indenture which conflict with such
laws shall be deemed to be superseded by the provisions of such laws.
SECTION 14. LIMITATION ON LAYERING INDEBTEDNESS.
The Company shall not, directly or indirectly, incur, or suffer to
exist any Indebtedness that is expressly subordinate in right of payment to any
other Indebtedness of the Company unless, by its terms, such Indebtedness is
subordinate in right of payment to, or ranks PARI PASSU with, the Securities.
SECTION 15. LIMITATION ON LINES OF BUSINESS.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, engage to any substantial extent in any line or
lines of business activity other than that which, in the reasonable good faith
judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, is a Related Business.
SECTION 16. WAIVER OF STAY, EXTENSION OR USURY LAWS.
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The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time voluntarily insist upon, plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law
or any usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from
paying all or any portion of the principal of, premium of, or interest on the
Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time
hereafter in force; and (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) the Company
hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants
that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Trustee relating to any such law, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 17. PAYMENT FOR CONSENT.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Unrestricted
Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any
consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder of
any Securities for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of
any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Securities unless such
consideration is offered to be paid or agreed to be paid to all holders of the
Securities which so consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth
in solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.
ARTICLE V
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON MERGER, SALE OR CONSOLIDATION.
The Company shall not, directly or indirectly, consolidate with or
merge with or into another person or sell, lease, convey or transfer all or
substantially all of its assets (computed on a consolidated basis), whether in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions, to another Person or
group of affiliated Persons, unless (i) either (a) the Company is the continuing
entity or (b) the resulting, surviving or transferee entity is a corporation
organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District
of Columbia and expressly assumes by supplemental indenture all of the
obligations of the Company in connection with the Securities and this Indenture;
(ii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or shall occur immediately after
giving effect on a PRO FORMA basis to such transaction; (iii) immediately after
giving effect to such
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transaction on a PRO FORMA basis, the Consolidated Net Worth of the consolidated
resulting, surviving or transferee entity is at least equal to the Consolidated
Net Worth of the Company immediately prior to such transaction; and (iv)
immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a PRO FORMA basis, the
consolidated resulting, surviving or transferee entity would immediately
thereafter be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness
pursuant to the Debt Incurrence Ratio set forth in paragraph (a) of Section
4.10.
On or prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that (a) such consolidation, merger, sale,
assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition and such supplemental
indenture executed in connection therewith comply with this Indenture and (b)
this transaction shall not impair the rights and powers of the Trustee and
Holders of the Securities thereunder. The Trustee shall be entitled to
conclusively rely upon such Officer's Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.
For purposes of the foregoing, the transfer (by lease, assignment,
sale or otherwise) of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of
one or more Subsidiaries, the Company's interest in which constitutes all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company shall be deemed to
be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the
Company.
SECTION 2. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation or merger or any transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company or consummation of a plan of
liquidation in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such transfer is
made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named herein as the Company, and the Company shall be
released from all obligations under the Securities and this Indenture except
with respect to any obligations that arise from, or are related to, such
transaction.
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ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be caused voluntarily or involuntarily or effected, without limitation, by
operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) the failure by the Company to pay any installment of interest
on the Securities as and when the same becomes due and payable and the
continuance of any such failure for 30 days;
(b) the failure by the Company to pay all or any part of the
principal, or premium, if any, on the Securities when and as the same becomes
due and payable at maturity, redemption, by acceleration or otherwise,
including, without limitation, payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price
or the Asset Sale Offer Price, or otherwise;
(c) the failure by the Company or any Subsidiary to observe or
perform any other covenant or agreement contained in the Securities or this
Indenture (other than a default in the performance of any covenant or agreement
which is specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section 6.1) and the
continuance of such failure for a period of 30 days after written notice is
given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
outstanding specifying such Default and requiring that it be remedied (PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that the grace period after notice for an Event of Default arising as a
result of the Company's inability to repay Senior Debt in full, or to obtain
requisite consents from holders of Senior Debt to repurchase Securities,
following a Change of Control, or to make the Change of Control Offer as
described in Section 10.1 shall be five days);
(d) a decree, judgment, or order by a court of competent
jurisdiction shall have been entered adjudicating the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly
filed a petition seeking reorganization of the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries under any bankruptcy or similar law, and such decree or order shall
have continued undischarged and unstayed for
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a period of 60 consecutive days; or a decree or order of a court of competent
jurisdiction, judgment appointing a receiver, liquidator, trustee, or assignee
in bankruptcy or insolvency for the Company, any of its Significant
Subsidiaries, or any substantial part of the property of any such Person, or for
the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of any such Person, shall have been
entered, and such decree, judgment, or order shall have remained in force
undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days;
(e) a default in the payment of principal on any issue of
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at final stated maturity
or any acceleration for any other reason of the stated maturity of any
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in each case with an
aggregate principal amount in excess of $10 million; and
(f) the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall
institute proceedings to be adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or shall consent
to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or
answer or consent seeking reorganization under any bankruptcy or similar law or
similar statute, or shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall
consent to the appointment of a Custodian, receiver, liquidator, trustee, or
assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or any substantial part of its assets
or property, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or
shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due, or
take any corporate action in furtherance of or to facilitate, conditionally or
otherwise, any of the foregoing; and
(g) final unsatisfied judgments not covered by insurance
aggregating in excess of $10 million, at any one time rendered against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries and either (i) the commencement by any
creditor of any enforcement proceeding upon any such judgment or order or (ii)
such judgment or order is not stayed, bonded or discharged within 60 days.
Notwithstanding the period and notice requirement contained in Section
6.1(c) above, (i) with respect to a default under Article X, the five day period
referred to in Section 6.1(c) shall be deemed to have begun as of the date
notice of a Change of Control Offer is required to be sent to the Holders in the
event that the Company has not complied with the provisions of Section 10.1, and
the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities thereafter give the Notice of Default referred to in Section 6.1(c)
in respect of such compliance to the Company and, if applicable, the Trustee;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the breach or default is a result of a default in the
payment when due of the Change of Control Purchase Price on the Change of
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Control Payment Date, such default shall be deemed, for purposes of this Section
6.1, to arise on the Change of Control Payment Date; and (ii) with respect to a
default under Section 4.13 requiring the giving of such notice, the 30-day
period referred to in Section 6.1(c) shall be deemed to have begun as of the
date the notice of an Asset Sale Offer is required to be sent in the event that
the Company has not complied with the provisions of Section 4.13, and the
Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities thereafter give the Notice of Default referred to in Section 6.1(c)
in respect of such compliance to the Company and, if applicable, the Trustee;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the breach or default is a result of a default in the
payment when due of the Asset Sale Offer Price on the Purchase Date, such
default shall be deemed, for purposes of this Section 6.1, to arise no later
than on the Purchase Date.
SECTION 2. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY DATE; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event
of Default specified in clauses (d) and (f) of Section 6.1, relating to the
Company only) then in every such case, unless the principal of all of the
Securities shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the
Holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding,
by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders) (an
"Acceleration Notice"), may declare all principal, determined as set forth
below, and accrued interest thereon to be due and payable immediately; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that if any Senior Debt is outstanding pursuant to the Credit
Agreement, upon a declaration of such acceleration, such principal and interest
shall be due and payable upon the earlier of (x) the third Business Day after
the sending to the Company and the Senior Debt Representatives of such written
notice, unless such Event of Default is cured or waived prior to such date and
(y) the date of acceleration of any Senior Debt under the Credit Agreement. If
an Event of Default specified in clauses (d) and (f) of Section 6.1, relating to
the Company only occurs, all principal and accrued interest thereon will be
immediately due and payable on all outstanding Securities without any
declaration or other act on the part of Trustee or the Holders.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made and
before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by
the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article VI, the Holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities, by
written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind, on behalf of all
Holders, any such declaration of acceleration if:
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(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee
Cash sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any,
applicable to) any Securities which would become due other than by reason
of such declaration of acceleration, and interest thereon at the rate borne
by the Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Securities,
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee and its agents and counsel (provided, however, that nothing
contained in this Indenture shall be deemed to imply that the Trustee is
required to pay or advance any funds), and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 7.7, and
(2) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on Securities which have
become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 6.12, including, if applicable, any Event of
Default relating to the covenants contained in Section 10.1.
Notwithstanding the previous sentence of this Section 6.2, no waiver shall be
effective against any Holder for any Event of Default or event which with notice
or lapse of time or both would be an Event of Default with respect to (i) any
covenant or provision which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of
the Holder of each outstanding Security affected thereby, unless all such
affected Holders agree, in writing, to waive such Event of Default or other
event. No such waiver shall cure or waive any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
The Trustee shall provide to each Senior Debt Representative a copy of
each Acceleration Notice that it sends, and of each Acceleration Notice and
notice of rescission of a declaration of acceleration that it receives, under
this Section 6.2, on the date that the Trustee sends any such notice, and as
promptly as possible following the date that the Trustee receives any such
notice.
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SECTION 3. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if an Event of Default in payment of
principal, premium, or interest specified in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.1
occurs and is continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to
it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due
and payable on such Securities for principal, premium (if any) and interest,
and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable,
interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue
interest, at the rate borne by the Securities, and, in addition thereto, such
further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including compensation to, and expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee and its agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Trustee
under Section 7.7.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust in favor of the
Holders, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so
due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and
may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the
manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in
its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 4. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal and premium, if any, or
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interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise to take any and all actions under the TIA, including
(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of
the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agent and counsel and all
other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7) and of the Holders allowed
in such judicial proceeding, and
(2) to collect and receive any moneys or securities or
other property payable or deliverable upon conversion or exchange of the
Securities or upon any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel, and any
other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7. To the extent that the payment
of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7
out of the estate in any such proceeding shall be denied for any reason, payment
of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all
distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the
Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or
under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
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SECTION 5. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust in favor of the Holders, and any recovery of
judgment shall, after provision for the payment of compensation to, and
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and
all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7, be for the ratable benefit
of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
SECTION 6. PRIORITIES.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall,
subject to Article XI, be applied in the following order, at the date or dates
fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account
of principal, premium (if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities
and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon
surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the Trustee in payment of all amounts due pursuant to
Section 7.7;
SECOND: To the Holders in payment of the amounts then due and unpaid
for principal of, premium (if any) and interest on, the Securities in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and
payable on such Securities for principal, premium (if any) and interest,
respectively; and
THIRD: To the Company or such other Person as a court of competent
jurisdiction shall direct, the remainder, if any.
The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date and
payment date for any payment to the Holders under this Section 6.6.
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SECTION 7. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Security shall have any right to order or direct the
Trustee to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless
(A) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(B) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of then outstanding Securities shall have made written request to
the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in
its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(C) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred or reasonably probable to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(D) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding;
and
(E) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatsoever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
SECTION 8. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL,
PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of, and premium (if any) and interest on, such
Security on the respective dates such payments are due as expressed in such
Security (in the case of redemption, the
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Redemption Price on the applicable Redemption Date, in the case of an Asset Sale
Offer, the Asset Sale Offer Price, on the date of payment thereof and in the
case of a Change of Control, the Change of Control Offer Price, on the date of
payment thereof) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment
after such respective dates, and such rights shall not be impaired without the
consent of such Holder.
SECTION 9. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.7, no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 10. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission by the Trustee or by any Holder of any Security
to exercise any right or remedy arising upon any Event of Default shall impair
the exercise of any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such
Event of Default. Every right and remedy given by this Article VI or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.
SECTION 11. CONTROL BY HOLDERS.
The Holder or Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
then outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, PROVIDED, that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
or with this Indenture or involve the Trustee in personal liability,
(2) the Trustee shall not determine that the action so directed
would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such
direction or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability, and
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(3) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 12. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULT.
Subject to Section 6.8, prior to the declaration of acceleration of
the maturity of the Securities, the Holder or Holders of not less than a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may,
on behalf of all Holders, waive any past default hereunder and its consequences,
except a default
(A) in the payment of the principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on, any Security as specified in clauses (a) and (b) of
Section 6.1 and not yet cured; or
(B) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which,
under Article IX, cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each outstanding Security affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or Event of Default or impair the exercise of any right arising
therefrom.
In the case of any such waiver, the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders of all the Securities shall be restored to their former positions and
rights hereunder, respectively.
SECTION 13. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security
by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that 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, suffered or omitted to be taken by it
as Trustee, any court may in its discretion require 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
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Section 6.13 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more
than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities, or to any
suit instituted by any Holder for enforcement of the payment of principal of, or
premium (if any) or interest on, any Security on or after the respective due
dates expressed in such Security (including, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 14. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE
The Trustee hereby accepts the trust imposed upon it by this Indenture
and covenants and agrees to perform the same, as herein expressed, subject to
the terms hereof.
SECTION 1. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
such Person's own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) The Trustee need perform only those duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no covenants
or obligations shall be implied in or read into this Indenture which are
adverse to the Trustee, and
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(2) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However,
in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or
not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(1) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of
this Section 7.1,
(2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by it, unless it is proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts, and
(3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 6.11.
(4) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder or to take or omit to take
any action under this Indenture or at the request, order or direction of
the Holders or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured
to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section 7.1.
(e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as the Trustee may otherwise agree in writing with the
Company. Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other
assets except to the extent required by law.
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SECTION 2. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to Section 7.1:
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely on any document believed
by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
Person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the
document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
consult with counsel and may require an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion
of Counsel, which shall conform to Sections 13.4 and 13.5. The Trustee shall
not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
reliance on such certificate or advice of counsel.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and
shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent
appointed with due care.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or
omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture, nor for any action
permitted to be taken or omitted hereunder by any Agent.
(e) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion,
may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as
it may see fit.
(f) 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 Holders, pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may
be incurred therein or thereby.
(g) Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this
Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be
sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Company.
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(h) The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the
performance of the Company's covenants in Article IV hereof or as to the
performance by any Agent of its duties hereunder. In addition, the Trustee
shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default
except any Default or Event of Default of which the Trustee shall have
received written notification or with respect to which a Trust Officer shall
have actual knowledge.
(i) Whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior
to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad
faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate.
SECTION 3. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company, any of
its Subsidiaries, or its Affiliates with the same rights the Trustee would have
if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. However,
the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
SECTION 4. TRUSTEE'S DISCLAIMER.
The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of
this Indenture or the Securities and it shall not be accountable for the
Company's use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be
responsible for any statement in the Securities, other than the Trustee's
certificate of authentication (if executed by the Trustee), or the use or
application of any funds received by a Paying Agent other than the Trustee.
SECTION 5. NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it
is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder and the
Senior Debt Representatives notice of the uncured Default or Event of Default
within 90 days after such Default or Event of Default occurs. Except in the
case of a Default or an Event of Default in payment of principal (or premium, if
any) of, or interest on, any Security (including the payment of the Change of
Control Purchase Price on the Change of Control Purchase Date, the payment of
the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date and the payment of the Asset Sale
Price on the date of payment thereof), the Trustee may withhold the notice
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if and so long as the Board of Directors, the executive committee or a trust
committee of the directors and/or Trust Officers in good faith determines that
withholding the notice is in the interest of the Securityholders.
SECTION 6. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS.
Within 60 days after each January 31, beginning with January 31, 1997,
the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder a brief report dated as of such
January 31 that complies with TIA Section 313(a); but if no event described in
TIA Section 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months preceding the reporting
date, no report need be transmitted. If applicable, Trustee also shall comply
with TIA Sections 313(b) and 313(c).
The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing if the
Securities become listed on any stock exchange or automatic quotation system.
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders
shall be mailed to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock exchange,
if any, on which the Securities are listed.
SECTION 7. COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY.
The Company agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services. The Trustee's compensation shall not be limited
by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall
reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable disbursements, expenses
and advances, if any, incurred or made by it in accordance with this Indenture.
Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and
expenses of the Trustee's agents, accountants, experts and counsel.
The Company agrees to indemnify the Trustee (in its capacity as
Trustee) and each of its officers, directors, attorneys-in-fact and agents for,
and hold it and each of them harmless against, any claim, demand, expense
(including but not limited to reasonable compensation, disbursements and
expenses of the Trustee's agents and counsel), loss or liability incurred by it
without negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, arising out of or in
connection with the administration of this trust and its rights or duties
hereunder including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder. The Trustee agrees to notify the Company
promptly of any claim asserted against the Trustee for which it may seek
indemnity. The Company need not reimburse
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any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability to the extent incurred by
the Trustee through its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.7, the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all assets held or
collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except assets held in
trust to pay principal and premium, if any, of or interest on particular
Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.1(d) or (f) occurs, the expenses and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any Bankruptcy Law.
The Company's obligations under this Section 7.7 and any Lien arising
hereunder shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee, the discharge
of the Company's obligations pursuant to Article VIII of this Indenture and any
rejection or termination of this Indenture under any Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 8. REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee may resign by so notifying the Company in writing, to
become effective upon the appointment of a successor trustee. The Holder or
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Securities may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Company and the Trustee in
writing and may appoint a successor trustee with the Company's consent. The
Company may remove the Trustee and the Holder of any Securities who has been a
beneficial Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of such
Holder and all Holders similarly situated, petition any court of competent
competition for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor
trustee if:
(a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(b) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(c) a receiver, Custodian, or other public officer takes charge
of the Trustee or its property; or
(d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
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If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company or the court of competent
jurisdiction, as the case may be, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.
If, within one year after such resignation or removal no successor Trustee has
been appointed, the Holder or Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that
and provided that all sums owing to the retiring Trustee provided for in Section
7.7 have been paid, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it
as trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided in Section
7.7, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective,
and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the
Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail notice of its
succession to each Holder.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the
Holder or Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding Securities may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Securityholder
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.8, the Company's obligations under Section 7.7 shall continue for the benefit
of the retiring Trustee.
SECTION 9. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER, ETC.
If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall, if such resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is
otherwise eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee.
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SECTION 10. ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION.
The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA
Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee (together with its corporate
parent) shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set
forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee is
subject to TIA Section 310(b).
SECTION 11. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
The Trustee is subject to TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been
removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated therein.
ARTICLE VIII
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 1. OPTION TO EFFECT LEGAL DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
The Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have Section
8.2 or Section 8.3 applied to all outstanding Securities upon compliance with
the conditions set forth below in this Article VIII.
SECTION 2. LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.1 of the option applicable
to this Section 8.2, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from
its obligations with respect to all outstanding Securities on the date the
conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "Legal Defeasance"). For
this purpose, such Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding
Securities, which shall thereafter be deemed to be "outstanding" only for the
purposes of the Sections of this Indenture referred to in (a) through (d)
below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and
this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the
following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder: (a) rights of Holders to receive payments in respect of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Securities when such
payments are due from the trust funds described below; (b) the
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Company's obligations with respect to such Securities concerning issuing
temporary Securities, registration of Securities, mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Securities, and the maintenance of an office or agency for payment and
money for security payments held in trust; (c) the rights, powers, trust,
duties, and immunities of the Trustee, and the Company's obligations in
connection therewith; and (d) this Article VIII. Subject to compliance with
this Article VIII, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 8.2
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.3 with respect
to the Securities.
SECTION 3. COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.1 of the option applicable
to this Section 8.3, the Company shall be released from its obligations under
the covenants contained in Sections 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11,
4.12, 4.13, 4.14, and 4.15, Article V and Article X with respect to the
outstanding Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth below are
satisfied (hereinafter, "Covenant Defeasance"), and the Securities shall
thereafter be deemed not "outstanding" for the purposes of any direction,
waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any
thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed
"outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such Covenant
Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Securities, the Company
need not comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or
by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or
in any other document (and Section 6.1(c) shall not apply to any such covenant),
but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such
Securities shall be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company's
exercise under Section 8.1 of the option applicable to this Section 8.3,
Sections 6.1(d) through 6.1(g) shall not constitute Events of Default.
SECTION 4. CONDITIONS TO LEGAL OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of either
Section 8.2 or Section 8.3 to the outstanding Securities:
(a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfactory to the Trustee
satisfying the re-
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quirements of Section 7.10 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this
Article VIII applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making
the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated
solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (a) Cash in an amount,
or (b) U.S. Government Obligations (not subject to prepayment or redemption
prior to maturity) which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest
in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than
one day before the due date of any payment, Cash in an amount, or (c) a
combination thereof, in such amounts, as in each case will be sufficient without
the need to reinvest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge and which shall be applied by the
Paying Agent (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge the principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on the outstanding Securities on the stated
maturity or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, of such
principal or installment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities; PROVIDED that the Paying Agent shall have been irrevocably
instructed to apply such Cash and the proceeds of such U.S. Government
Obligations to said payments with respect to the Securities. The Paying Agent
shall promptly advise the Trustee in writing of any Cash or Securities deposited
pursuant to this Section 8.4;
(b) In the case of an election under Section 8.2, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (i) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling or (ii) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon
such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Securities will
not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result
of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if
such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;
(c) In the case of an election under Section 8.3, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the
outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject
to Federal income tax in the same amount, in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;
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(d) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities
shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as
Section 6.1(d) or Section 6.1(f) is concerned, at any time in the period ending
on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this
condition is a condition subsequent which shall not be deemed satisfied until
the expiration of such period, but in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the
covenants which are defeased under Section 8.3 will cease to be in effect unless
an Event of Default under Section 6.1(d) or Section 6.1(f) occurs during such
period);
(e) Such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result
in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or
any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
bound;
(f) In the case of an election under either Section 8.2 or 8.3,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating
that the deposit made by the Company pursuant to its election under Section 8.2
or 8.3 was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders
over any other creditors of the Company or with the intent of defeating,
hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company or others;
and
(g) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that the conditions
precedent provided for in, in the case of the Officer's Certificate, clauses (a)
through (f), and, in the case of the Opinion of Counsel, clauses (a) (with
respect to the validity and perfection of the security interest), (b), (c) and
(e) of this Section 8.4 have been complied with.
SECTION 5. DEPOSITED CASH AND U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE HELD
IN TRUST; OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Subject to Section 8.6, all Cash and U.S. Government Obligations
(including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Paying Agent (or other
qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 8.5, the "Paying
Agent") pursuant to Section 8.4 in respect of the outstanding Securities shall
be held in trust and applied by the Paying Agent, in accordance with the
provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any other Paying Agent as the Trustee may determine, to the
Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect
of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
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SECTION 6. REPAYMENT TO THE COMPANY.
Anything in this Article VIII to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee or the Paying Agent, as applicable, shall deliver or pay to the Company
from time to time upon the request of the Company any Cash or U.S. Government
Obligations held by it as provided in Section 8.4 hereof which in the opinion of
a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion
delivered under Section 8.4(a) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that
would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance.
Any Cash and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds
thereof) deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the
Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after such
principal, and premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable shall,
subject to the requirements of applicable law, be paid to the Company on its
request; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such
repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in the
NEW YORK TIMES and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (national edition), notice that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall
not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 7. REINSTATEMENT.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any Cash or U.S.
Government Obligations in accordance with Section 8.2 or 8.3, as the case may
be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority
enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the
Company's obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived
and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.2 or 8.3
until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply such money
in accordance with Section 8.2 and 8.3, as the case may be; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any Security following the reinstatement of its obligations, the
Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to
receive
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such payment from the Cash and U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee
or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 1. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holder, the Company, when authorized by
Board Resolutions, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect, or inconsistency, or make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture,
PROVIDED such action pursuant to this clause shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders;
(2) 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;
(3) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company,
and the assumption by any such successor of the obligations of the Company,
herein and in the Securities in accordance with Article V;
(4) to comply with the TIA;
(5) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities;
(6) to secure the Securities in accordance with the provisions
of Section 4.12; or
(7) to provide for the issuance and authentication of the
Exchange Securities in exchange for the Initial Securities in compliance with
this Indenture and the Registration Rights Agreement.
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SECTION 2. AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES AND WAIVERS WITH
CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Subject to Section 6.8, with the consent of the Holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities, by
written act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by Board Resolutions, and the Trustee may amend or
supplement this Indenture or the Securities or enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or
the Securities or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under
this Indenture or the Securities. Subject to Section 6.8, the Holder or Holders
of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding
Securities may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this
Indenture or the Securities. Notwithstanding any of the above, however, no such
amendment, supplemental indenture or waiver shall, without the consent of the
Holder of each outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) reduce the percentage of principal amount of Securities whose
Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver of any provision of
this Indenture or the Securities;
(2) reduce the rate or extend the time for payment of interest on any
Security;
(3) reduce the principal or premium amount of any Security, or reduce
the Change of Control Purchase Price, the Asset Sale Offer Price or the
Redemption Price, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);
(4) change the Stated Maturity;
(5) alter the redemption provisions of Article III (including the
defined terms therein) in a manner adverse to any Holder;
(6) make any changes in the provisions concerning waivers of Defaults
or Events of Default by Holders of the Securities or the rights of Holders to
recover the principal or premium of, interest on, or redemption payment with
respect to, any Security, including without limitation any changes in
Section 6.8, 6.12 or this third sentence of this Section 9.2, except to increase
any required percentage or to provide that certain other
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provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of
the Holder of each outstanding Security affected thereby;
(7) make the principal of, or the interest or premium on, any
Security payable with anything or in any manner other than as provided for in
this Indenture (including changing the place of payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is
payable) and the Securities as in effect on the date hereof; or
(8) make the Securities further subordinated in right of payment to
any extent or under any circumstances to any other Indebtedness (it being
understood that amendments to Section 4.10 hereof which may have the effect of
increasing the amount of Senior Debt that the Company may Incur shall not, for
purposes of this clause (8), be deemed to make the Securities further
subordinated in right of payment to any extent or under any circumstances to any
other Indebtedness).
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement
or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance
thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section becomes
effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a notice
briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the
Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any
way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.2 or
Section 9.4 becomes effective, it shall bind each Holder.
In connection with any amendment, supplement or waiver under this
Article IX, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, offer to any Holder
who consents to such amendment, supplement or waiver, or to all Holders,
consideration for such Holder's consent to such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 3. COMPLIANCE WITH TIA.
Every amendment, waiver or supplement of this Indenture or the
Securities shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.
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SECTION 4. REVOCATION AND EFFECT OF CONSENTS.
Until an amendment, waiver or supplement becomes effective, a consent
to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent
Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as
the consenting Holder's Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on
any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the
consent as to his Security or portion of his Security by written notice to the
Company or the Person designated by the Company as the Person to whom consents
should be sent if such revocation is received by the Company or such Person
before the date on which the Trustee receives an Officers' Certificate
certifying that the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities have
consented (and not theretofore revoked such consent) to the amendment,
supplement or waiver.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for
the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
supplement or waiver, which record date shall be the date so fixed by the
Company notwithstanding the provisions of the TIA. If a record date is fixed,
then notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph,
those Persons who were Holders at such record date, and only those Persons (or
their duly designated proxies), shall be entitled to revoke any consent
previously given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such
record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days
after such record date.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall
bind every Securityholder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses
(1) through (8) of Section 9.2, in which case, the amendment, supplement or
waiver shall bind only each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and
every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences
the same debt as the consenting Holder's Security; PROVIDED, that any such
waiver shall not impair or affect the right of any other Holder to receive
payment of principal and premium of and interest on a Security, on or after the
respective dates set for such amounts to become due and payable expressed in
such Security, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or
after such respective dates.
SECTION 5. NOTATION ON OR EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES.
If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security,
the Trustee may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee
or require the Holder to put an appropriate notation on the Security. The
Trustee may place an
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appropriate notation on the Security about the changed terms and return it to
the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the
Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee shall
authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms. Any failure to
make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Security shall not affect the
validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 6. TRUSTEE TO SIGN AMENDMENTS, ETC.
The Trustee shall execute any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to this Article IX; PROVIDED, that the Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, execute any such amendment, supplement or waiver
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully
protected in conclusively relying upon, an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel stating that the execution of any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to this Article IX is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture.
ARTICLE X
RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE
SECTION 1. REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF THE HOLDER UPON A
CHANGE OF CONTROL.
(a)In the event that a Change of Control occurs, each Holder
shall have the right, at such Holder's option, pursuant to an irrevocable and
unconditional offer by the Company (the "Change of Control Offer") subject to
the terms and conditions of this Indenture, to require the Company to repurchase
all or any part of such Holder's Securities (PROVIDED, that the principal amount
of such Securities at maturity must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof)
on a date selected by the Company that is no later than 35 Business Days after
the occurrence of such Change of Control (the "Change of Control Purchase
Date"), at a cash price (the "Change of Control Purchase Price") equal to 101%
of the principal amount thereof, plus (subject to the right of Holders of record
on a Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on
or prior to such repurchase date and subject to clause (b)(4) below) accrued and
unpaid interest, if any, to the Change of Control Purchase Date.
If the terms of any outstanding Senior Debt prohibit the Company from
repurchasing Securities in accordance with the terms of paragraph (a) of this
Section 10.1,
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then prior to the making of the offer, but in any event within 10 Business Days
following any Change of Control, the Company covenants to (i) repay in full such
Senior Debt or offer to repay in full such Senior Debt and repay such Senior
Debt of each holder thereof who has accepted such offer or (ii) obtain the
requisite consent under such Senior Debt to permit the repurchase of Securities
in accordance with the terms of this Section 10.1. The Company shall first
comply with the preceding sentence before it shall be required to repurchase
Securities pursuant to this Section 10.1.
(b) In the event of a Change of Control, the Company shall be
required to commence an offer to purchase Securities (a "Change of Control
Offer") as follows:
(1) the Change of Control Offer shall commence within 10 Business
Days following the occurrence of the Change of Control;
(2) the Change of Control Offer shall remain open for not less
than 20 Business Days following its commencement (the "Change of Control
Offer Period");
(3) upon the expiration of the Change of Control Offer Period, the
Company shall purchase all of the properly tendered Securities at the
Change of Control Purchase Price, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon;
(4) if the Change of Control Purchase Date is on or after a Record
Date and on or before the related interest payment date, any accrued
interest will be paid to the Person in whose name a Security is registered
at the close of business on such Record Date, and no additional interest
will be payable to Securityholders who tender Securities pursuant to the
Change of Control Offer;
(5) the Company shall provide the Trustee and the Paying Agent
with written notice of the Change of Control Offer at least three Business
Days before the commencement of any Change of Control Offer; and
(6) on or before the commencement of any Change of Control Offer,
the Company or the Registrar (upon the request and at the expense of the
Company) shall send, by first-class mail, a notice to each of the
Securityholders, which (to the extent consistent with this Indenture) shall
govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer and shall state:
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(i) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant
to such notice and this Section 10.1 and that all Securities, or portions
thereof, tendered will be accepted for payment;
(ii) the Change of Control Purchase Price (including the
amount of accrued and unpaid interest, subject to clause (b)(4) above) and
the Change of Control Purchase Date;
(iii) that any Security, or portion thereof, not tendered or
accepted for payment will continue to accrue interest;
(iv) that, unless the Company defaults in depositing Cash
with the Paying Agent in accordance with the last paragraph of this Article
X or such payment is prevented, any Security, or portion thereof, accepted
for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue
interest after the Change of Control Purchase Date;
(v) that Holders electing to have a Security, or portion
thereof, purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required
to surrender the Security, with the form entitled "Option of Holder to
Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Security completed, to the Paying
Agent (which may not for purposes of this Section 10.1, notwithstanding
anything in this Indenture to the contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate
of the Company) at the address specified in the notice prior to the
expiration of the Change of Control Offer;
(vi) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their
election, in whole or in part, if the Paying Agent (which may not for
purposes of this Section 10.1, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture
to the contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company) receives,
prior to the expiration of the Change of Control Offer, a telegram, telex,
facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the
principal amount of the Securities the Holder is withdrawing and a
statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such
principal amount of Securities purchased; and
(vii) a brief description of the events resulting in such
Change of Control.
Any such Change of Control Offer shall be made in compliance with all
applicable Federal and state laws, rules and regulations, including, if
applicable, Regula-
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tion 14E under the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder and all other
applicable Federal and state securities laws, and any provisions of this
Indenture which conflict with such laws shall be deemed to be superseded by the
provisions of such laws.
On or before the Change of Control Purchase Date, the Company shall
(i) accept for payment Securities or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant
to the Change of Control Offer prior to the expiration of the Change of Control
Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent Cash sufficient to pay the Change of
Control Purchase Price (together with accrued and unpaid interest, subject to
clause (b)(4) above) for all Securities or portions thereof so tendered and
(iii) deliver to the Trustee Securities so accepted together with an Officers'
Certificate listing the Securities or portions thereof being purchased by the
Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to Holders of Securities so
accepted payment in an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price
(together with accrued and unpaid interest, subject to clause (b)(4) above), for
such Securities (subject to clause (b)(4) above), and the Trustee or its
authenticating agent shall promptly authenticate and mail or deliver (or cause
to be transferred by book entry) to such Holders a new Security equal in
principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Security surrendered;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that each such new Security will be in a principal amount of
$1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. Any Securities not so accepted shall be
promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company
shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon
as practicable after the Change of Control Purchase Date.
ARTICLE XI
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 1. SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO SENIOR DEBT.
The Company and each Holder, by its acceptance of Securities, agree
that (a) the payment of the principal of and interest on the Securities and (b)
any other payment in respect of the Securities, including on account of the
acquisition or redemption of the Securities by the Company (including, without
limitation, pursuant to Section 4.13 or 10.1) is subordinated, to the extent and
in the manner provided in this Article XI, to the prior payment in full in Cash
or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Debt of the Company and that these
subordination provisions are for the benefit of the holders of Senior Debt.
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This Article XI shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons
who, in reliance upon such provisions, become holders of, or continue to hold,
Senior Debt, and such provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of
Senior Debt, and such holders are made obligees hereunder and any one or more of
them may enforce such provisions.
SECTION 2. NO PAYMENT ON SECURITIES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
(a) No payment (by set-off or otherwise) shall be made by or on
behalf of the Company on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on the Securities (including any repurchases of Securities), or on
account of the redemption provisions of the Securities or any Obligation in
respect of the Securities, for cash or property (other than Junior Securities),
(i) upon the maturity of any Senior Debt of the Company by lapse of time,
acceleration (unless waived) or otherwise, unless and until all principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on such Senior Debt are first paid in full in cash
or Cash Equivalents (or such payment is duly provided for) or otherwise to the
extent holders accept satisfaction of amounts due by settlement in other than
cash or Cash Equivalents, or (ii) in the event of default in the payment of any
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on Senior Debt of the Company when it
becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment
or by declaration or otherwise (a "Payment Default"), unless and until such
Payment Default has been cured or waived or otherwise has ceased to exist.
(b) Upon (i) the happening of an event of default (other than a
Payment Default) that permits the holders of Senior Debt to declare such Senior
Debt to be due and payable and (ii) written notice of such event of default
given to the Company and the Trustee by the Senior Debt Representatives (a
"Payment Notice"), then, unless and until such event of default has been cured
or waived or otherwise has ceased to exist, no payment (by set-off or otherwise)
may be made by or on behalf of the Company which is an obligor on such Senior
Debt on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities (including any repurchases of any of the Securities), or on account
of the redemption provisions of the Securities or any Obligation in respect of
the Securities, in any such case, other than payments made with Junior
Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless the Senior Debt in respect of
which such event of default exists has been declared due and payable in its
entirety within 179 days after the Payment Notice is delivered as set forth
above (the "Payment Blockage Period") (and such declaration has not been
rescinded or waived), at the end of the Payment Blockage Period, the Company
shall, unless a Payment Default exists, be required to pay all sums not paid to
the Holders of the Securities during the Payment Blockage Period due to the
foregoing prohibitions and to resume all other payments as and when due on the
Securities. Any number of Payment
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Notices may be given; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) not more than one Payment
Notice shall be given within a period of any 360 consecutive days, and (ii) no
default that existed upon the date of such Payment Notice or the commencement of
such Payment Blockage Period (whether or not such event of default is on the
same issue of Senior Debt) shall be made the basis for the commencement of any
other Payment Blockage Period.
(c) In furtherance of the provisions of Section 11.1, in the event
that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.2, any payment
or distribution of assets of the Company (other than Junior Securities) shall be
received by the Trustee at a time when such payment or distribution is
prohibited by the provisions of this Section 11.2, such payment or distribution
shall be held in trust for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Debt, and
shall be paid or delivered by the Trustee, to the holders of such Senior Debt
remaining unpaid or unprovided for or to their representative or
representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to
which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Debt may have been issued,
ratably according to the aggregate principal amounts remaining unpaid on account
of such Senior Debt held or represented by each, for application to the payment
of all such Senior Debt remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay of
provide for the payment of all such Senior Debt in full in cash or Cash
Equivalents after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the
holders of such Senior Debt.
SECTION 3. SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO PRIOR PAYMENT OF ALL SENIOR
DEBT ON DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION OR REORGANIZATION.
Upon any distribution of assets of the Company upon any dissolution,
winding up, total or partial liquidation or reorganization of the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary, in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or a
similar proceeding or upon assignment for the benefit of creditors or any
marshalling of assets or liabilities:
(a) the holders of all Senior Debt of the Company will first be
entitled to receive payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents before the
Holders are entitled to receive any payment on account of the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities or any Obligation in respect of
the Securities (other than Junior Securities);
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any
kind or character from any source, whether in cash, property or securities
(other than Junior Securities) to which the Holders or the Trustee on behalf of
the Holders would be entitled (by set-off or otherwise), except for the
provisions of this Article XI, shall be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent
or other person making such a payment or distribution
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directly to the holders of such Senior Debt or their representative to the
extent necessary to make payment in full (or have such payment duly provided
for) on all such Senior Debt remaining unpaid, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior Debt; and
(c) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
or distribution of assets of the Company (other than Junior Securities) shall be
received by the Trustee at a time when such payment or distribution is
prohibited by the foregoing provisions, such payment or distribution shall be
held in trust for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Debt, and shall be
paid or delivered by the Trustee to the holders of such Senior Debt remaining
unpaid to their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any of such
Senior Debt may have been issued, ratably according to the aggregate principal
amounts remaining unpaid on account of such Senior Debt held or represented by
each, for application to the payment of all such Senior Debt remaining unpaid,
to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Debt in full in cash or Cash
Equivalents after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the
holders of such Senior Debt.
SECTION 4. SECURITYHOLDERS TO BE SUBROGATED TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF
SENIOR DEBT.
Subject to the payment in full in Cash or Cash Equivalents of all
Senior Debt of the Company as provided herein, the Holders of Securities shall
be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt to receive
payments or distributions of assets of the Company applicable to the Senior Debt
until all amounts owing on the Securities shall be paid in full, and for the
purpose of such subrogation no such payments or distributions to the holders of
such Senior Debt by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the
Holders by virtue of this Article XI, which otherwise would have been made to
the Holders shall, as between the Company and the Holders, be deemed to be
payment by the Company or on account of such Senior Debt, it being understood
that the provisions of this Article XI are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders, on the one hand, and the
holders of such Senior Debt, on the other hand.
If any payment or distribution to which the Holders would otherwise
have been entitled but for the provisions of this Article XI shall have been
applied, pursuant to the provisions of this Article XI, to the payment of
amounts payable under Senior Debt of the Company, then the Holders shall be
entitled to receive from the holders of such Senior Debt any payments or
distributions received by such holders of Senior Debt in
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excess of the amount sufficient to pay all amounts payable under or in respect
of such Senior Debt in full in Cash or Cash Equivalents.
SECTION 5. OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY UNCONDITIONAL.
Nothing contained in this Article XI or elsewhere in this Indenture or
in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company and the
Holders, the obligation of each such Person, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative
rights of the Holders and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the
Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or any
Holder from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon
default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article
XI, of the holders of Senior Debt in respect of cash, property or securities of
the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Article XI or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
the Securities, upon any distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article XI, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.1 and 7.2,
and the Holders shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any
court of competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding up,
liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the
liquidating Trustee or agent or other Person making any distribution to the
Trustee or to the Holders for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other
Indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount
or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or
to this Article XI so long as such court has been apprised of the provisions of,
or the order, decree or certificate makes reference to, the provisions of this
Article XI. Nothing in this Section 11.5 shall apply to the claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.7.
SECTION 6. TRUSTEE ENTITLED TO ASSUME PAYMENTS NOT PROHIBITED IN
ABSENCE OF NOTICE.
The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by
the Trustee unless and until a Trust Officer of the Trustee or any Paying Agent
shall have received, no later than two Business Days prior to such payment,
written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more holders of Senior
Debt or from any representative therefor and, prior to the receipt of any such
written notice, the Trustee, subject to the
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provisions of Sections 7.1 and 7.2, shall be entitled in all respects
conclusively to assume that no such fact exists.
SECTION 7. APPLICATION BY TRUSTEE OF ASSETS DEPOSITED WITH IT.
Amounts deposited in trust with the Trustee pursuant to and in
accordance with Article VIII shall be for the sole benefit of Securityholders
and, to the extent allocated for the payment of Securities, shall not be subject
to the subordination provisions of this Article XI. Otherwise, any deposit of
assets with the Trustee or the Agent (whether or not in trust) for the payment
of principal of or interest on any Securities shall be subject to the provisions
of Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4; PROVIDED that, if prior to two Business
Days preceding the date on which by the terms of this Indenture any such assets
may become distributable for any purpose (including without limitation, the
payment of either principal of or interest on any Security) the Trustee or such
Paying Agent shall not have received with respect to such assets the written
notice provided for in Section 11.6, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall
have full power and authority to receive such assets and to apply the same to
the purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any
notice to the contrary which may be received by it on or after such date.
SECTION 8. SUBORDINATION RIGHTS NOT IMPAIRED BY ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF
THE COMPANY OR HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT.
No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Debt to
enforce subordination provisions contained in this Article XI shall at any time
in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of
the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder,
or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof which any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with. The holders of Senior Debt may extend, renew, modify or
amend the terms of the Senior Debt or any security therefor and release, sell or
exchange such security and otherwise deal freely with the Company, all without
affecting the liabilities and obligations of the parties to this Indenture or
the Holders.
SECTION 9. SECURITYHOLDERS AUTHORIZE TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES.
Each Holder of the Securities by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provisions contained in
this Article XI and to
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protect the rights of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, and appoints the
Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such purpose, including, in the event of any
dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether
in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for
the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of
the Company), the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of his
Securities in the form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to be
approved. If the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the
form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the
time to file such claim or claims, then the holders of the Senior Debt or their
representative are or is hereby authorized to have the right to file and are or
is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the
Holders of said Securities. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Debt or their representative to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder any
plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee or
the holders of Senior Debt or their representative to vote in respect of the
claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 10. RIGHT OF TRUSTEE TO HOLD SENIOR DEBT.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this
Article XI in respect of any Senior Debt at any time held by it to the same
extent as any other holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall
be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 11. ARTICLE XI NOT TO PREVENT EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on the Securities by reason of any provision of this Article XI
shall not be construed as preventing the occurrence of a Default or an Event of
Default under Section 6.1 or in any way limit the rights of the Trustee or any
Holder to pursue any other rights or remedies with respect to the Securities.
SECTION 12. NO FIDUCIARY DUTY OF TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Trustee shall not
be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to any present or future holders of Senior
Debt, and shall not be liable to any such holders (other than for its willful
misconduct or gross negligence) if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or
distribute to the Holders of
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Securities or the Company or any other Person, cash, property or securities to
which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XI
or otherwise. The Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of the
covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article XI, and
no implied covenants or obligations with respect to such holders of Senior Debt
shall be implied in this Indenture against the Trustee. Nothing in this Section
11.12 shall affect the obligation of any other such Person to hold such payment
for the benefit of, and to pay such payment over to, the holders of Senior Debt
or their representative. In the event of any conflict between the fiduciary
duty of the Trustee to the Holders of Securities and to the holders of Senior
Debt, the Trustee is expressly authorized to resolve such conflict in favor of
the Holders.
ARTICLE XII
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 1. TIA CONTROLS.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts
with the duties imposed by operation of the TIA, the imposed duties, upon
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA, shall control.
SECTION 2. NOTICES.
Any notices or other communications to the Company, Paying Agent,
Registrar, Securities Custodian, transfer agent or the Trustee required or
permitted hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made
by hand delivery, by telex, by telecopier, nationally recognized overnight
courier or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt
requested, addressed as follows:
if to the Company:
Universal Outdoor, Inc.
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▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
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Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Telecopy: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
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if to the Trustee:
United States Trust Company
of New York
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇
Attention: Corporate Trust and
Agency Division
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Telecopy: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Any party by notice to each other party may designate additional or
different addresses as shall be furnished in writing by such party. Any notice
or communication to any party shall be deemed to have been given or made as of
the date so delivered, if personally delivered; when answered back, if telexed;
when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and five Business Days after
mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a
notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until
actually received by the addressee).
Any notice or communication mailed to a Securityholder shall be mailed
to him or her by first-class mail or other equivalent means at his or her
address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be
sufficiently given to him or her if so mailed within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder or any
defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other
Securityholders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided
above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it shall
mail a copy to the Trustee at the same time.
SECTION 3. COMMUNICATIONS BY HOLDERS WITH OTHER HOLDERS.
Securityholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with
other Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the
Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall
have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
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SECTION 4. CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under this Indenture, such Person shall furnish to the Trustee:
(1) an Officers' Certificate (in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee) stating that, in the opinion of the
signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture
relating to the proposed action have been met; and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel (in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
all such conditions precedent have been met;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in the case of any such request or application as to
which the furnishing of particular documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished under this Section 13.4.
SECTION 5. STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN CERTIFICATE OR OPINION.
Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been met; and
(4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of each
such Person, such condition or covenant has been met; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an
Officers' Certificate or certificates of public officials.
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SECTION 6. RULES BY TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT, REGISTRAR.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Securityholders. The Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for
its functions.
SECTION 7. NON-BUSINESS DAYS.
If a payment date is not a Business Day at such place, payment may be
made at such place on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, and no
interest shall accrue for the intervening period.
SECTION 8. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS
MADE AND PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF
CONFLICTS OF LAW. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF
ANY NEW YORK STATE COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW
YORK OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW
YORK IN RESPECT OF ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES, AND IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN
RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, JURISDICTION OF THE
AFORESAID COURTS. THE COMPANY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY
EFFECTIVELY DO SO UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, TRIAL BY JURY AND ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT
MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR
PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR
PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.
NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THE TRUSTEE OR ANY SECURITYHOLDER TO
SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL
PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST THE COMPANY IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.
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SECTION 9. NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or
debt agreement of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any such indenture,
loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 10. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
No direct or indirect stockholder, employee, officer or director, as
such, past, present or future of the Company or any successor entity, shall have
any personal liability in respect of the obligations of the Company under the
Securities or this Indenture by reason of his, her or its status as such
stockholder, employee, officer or director. Each Securityholder by accepting a
Security waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are
part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
SECTION 11. SUCCESSORS.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities
shall bind its successors and assigns. All agreements of the Trustee in this
Indenture shall bind its successor.
SECTION 12. DUPLICATE ORIGINALS.
All parties may sign any number of copies or counterparts of this
Indenture. Each signed copy or counterpart shall be an original, but all of
them together shall represent the same agreement.
SECTION 13. SEVERABILITY.
In case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture or in the
Securities shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for
any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in
every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions
hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.
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SECTION 14. TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS, ETC.
The Table of Contents and headings of the Articles and the Sections of
this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to
be considered a part hereof and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the
terms or provisions hereof.
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SIGNATURES
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR, INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
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Exhibit A
UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR, INC.
9 3/4% SERIES B SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE
DUE 2006
CUSIP: ________
No. $ ______
Universal Outdoor, Inc., an Illinois corporation (hereinafter called
the "Company," which term includes any successors under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
__________________ , or registered assigns, the principal sum of ______________
Dollars, on October 15, 2006.
Interest Payment Dates: April 15 and October 15 commencing April 15,
1997.
Record Dates: April 1 and October 1
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security on the
reverse side, which will, for all purposes, have the same effect as if set forth
at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR, INC., an
Illinois corporation
[Seal]
By:
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Name:
Title:
Attest:
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Secretary
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FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
as Trustee and
Authenticating Agent
By:
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Authorized Signatory
Dated:
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UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR INC.
9 3/4% SERIES B SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE
DUE 2006
Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in
definitive form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to
the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any
such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor
Depositary. Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company (55 ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇) ("▇▇▇"), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer,
exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of
Cede & Co. or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of
DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or such other entity as is requested
by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE
HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the
registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.(1)
THE NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND THE NOTE
EVIDENCED HEREBY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE
ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH
PURCHASER OF THE NOTE EVIDENCED HEREBY IS NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER MAY BE
RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE HOLDER OF THE NOTE EVIDENCED HEREBY AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
COMPANY THAT (A) SUCH NOTE MAY BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED
ONLY (1) (a) TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (b) IN A TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (c) OUTSIDE
THE UNITED
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(1) This paragraph should only be added if the Security is issued in global
form.
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STATES TO A FOREIGN PERSON IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF
RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (d) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (AND
BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IF THE COMPANY SO REQUESTS), (2) TO THE
COMPANY OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND, IN EACH
CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE
UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL,
AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE NOTE
EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTION SET FORTH IN (A)(l) ABOVE.(2)
1. INTEREST.
Universal Outdoor, Inc., an Illinois corporation (hereinafter called
the "Company," which term includes any successors under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of
this Security at the rate of 9 3/4% per annum from December 16, 1996 until
maturity. To the extent it is lawful, the Company promises to pay interest on
any interest payment due but unpaid on such principal amount at a rate of 9 3/4%
per annum compounded semi-annually.
The Company will pay interest semi-annually on April 15 and October 15
of each year or, if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding
Business Day (each, an "Interest Payment Date"), commencing April 15, 1997.
Interest on the Securities will accrue from the most recent date to which
interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on the Securities, from
the date of issuance. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT.
The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted
interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business
on the April 1 or October 1 immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date.
Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal
payments. Except as provided below, the Company shall pay principal and
interest in such coin or currency of the United States of
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(2) This paragraph should be included only for the Transfer Restricted
Securities.
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America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for payment of public
and private debts ("Cash"). The Securities will be payable as to principal,
premium, if any, and interest, and the Securities may be presented for
registration of transfer or exchange, at the office or agency of the Company
maintained for such purpose within or without the Borough of Manhattan, the City
and State of New York or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may
be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the
register of Holders, and PROVIDED that payment by wire transfer of immediately
available funds will be required with respect to principal of and interest and
premium on all Global Securities and all other Securities the Holders of which
shall have provided wire transfer instructions to an account within the United
States to the Company or the Paying Agent. Until otherwise designated by the
Company, the Company's office or agency will be the corporate trust office of
the Trustee presently located at the Trustee's agency at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR.
Initially, the United States Trust Company of New York (the "Trustee,"
which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) will act as
Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar
or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders. The Company or any of its
Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as Paying Agent, Registrar
or co-Registrar.
4. INDENTURE.
The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture, dated as of
December16, 1996 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and the Trustee.
Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise
defined herein. The terms of the Securities include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act, as in effect on the date of the Indenture. The Securities are
subject to all such terms, and Holders of Securities are referred to the
Indenture and said Act for a statement of them. The Securities are senior
subordinated, unsecured general obligations of the Company limited in aggregate
principal amount to $100,000,000. The Securities are subordinated in right of
payment to certain other debt obligations of the Company.
5. REDEMPTION.
The Securities may be redeemed, at the option of the Company, in
whole or in part, at any time on or after October 15, 2001, at the Redemption
Price (expressed
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as a percentage of principal amount) set forth below with respect to the
indicated Redemption Date, together with any accrued but unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on a Record Date to
receive interest due on the Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to such
Redemption Date). The Securities may not be so redeemed prior to October 15,
2001, except as provided in the immediately following paragraph.
If redeemed during
the 12-month period
commencing October 15 Redemption Price
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2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.875%
2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.250%
2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.625%
2004 and thereafter . . . . . 100.000%
Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to October 15, 1999, upon any
Public Equity Offering or Equity Private Placement, in each case resulting in
Net Cash Proceeds of $100 million or more which are then contributed in full to
the Company, up to $35 million aggregate principal amount of the Securities may
be redeemed at the option of the Company with cash from the Net Cash Proceeds of
such Public Equity Offering or Equity Private Placement, at 110% of principal,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that immediately following such redemption not less than $65
million aggregate principal amount of the Securities are outstanding, PROVIDED,
FURTHER, that such redemption shall occur within 120 days of such Public Equity
Offering or Equity Private Placement.
Any such redemption will comply with Article III of the Indenture.
6. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption will be sent by first class mail, at least 30
days and not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to the Holder of
each Security to be redeemed at such Holder's last address as then shown upon
the registry books of the Registrar. Securities may be redeemed in part in
multiples of $1,000 only.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, from and after any Redemption
Date, if monies for the redemption of the Securities called for redemption shall
have been deposited with the Paying Agent on such Redemption Date and payment of
the Securities called for redemption is not otherwise prohibited, the Securities
called for redemption will cease
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to bear interest and the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to
receive payment of the Redemption Price.
7. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE.
The Securities are in fully registered form, without coupons, in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder may register
the transfer of Securities in accordance with the Indenture. No service charge
will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Securities, but
the Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate
endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any taxes or other governmental
charge payable in connection therewith. The Registrar need not register the
transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption.
8. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
The registered Holder of a Security may be treated as the owner of it
for all purposes.
9. UNCLAIMED MONEY.
If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed
for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent(s) will pay the money back to
the Company at its written request. After that, all liability of the Trustee
and any such Paying Agent(s) with respect to such money shall cease.
10. DISCHARGE PRIOR TO REDEMPTION OR MATURITY.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if the Company irrevocably
deposits with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, Cash, U.S.
Government Obligations or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be
sufficient in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities to redemption or maturity and comply with the other provisions of the
Indenture relating thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain
provisions of the Indenture and the Securities (including the restrictive
covenants described in paragraph 12 below, but excluding their obligation to pay
the principal of and interest on the Securities).
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11. AMENDMENT; SUPPLEMENT; WAIVER.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Securities may be
amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, and
any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision may be
waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities then outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any
Holder, the parties thereto may under certain circumstances amend or supplement
the Indenture or the Securities to, among other things, cure any ambiguity,
defect or inconsistency, or make any other change that does not adversely affect
the rights of any Holder of a Security.
12. RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS.
The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the
Company to, among other things, incur additional Indebtedness and Disqualified
Capital Stock, pay dividends or make certain other restricted payments, enter
into certain transactions with Affiliates, incur Liens, sell assets, merge or
consolidate with any other Person or transfer (by lease, assignment or
otherwise) substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company. The
limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions.
The Company must periodically report to the Trustee on compliance with such
limitations.
13. REPURCHASE AT OPTION OF HOLDER.
(a) If there is a Change of Control, the Company shall be required to
offer to purchase on the Change of Control Purchase Date all outstanding
Securities at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof,
plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Change of Control Purchase
Date. Holders of Securities will receive a Change of Control Offer from the
Company prior to any related Change of Control Purchase Date and may elect to
have such Securities purchased by completing the form entitled "Option of Holder
to Elect Purchase" appearing below.
(b) The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the
Company to sell assets. In the event the proceeds from a permitted Asset Sale
exceed certain amounts, as specified in the Indenture, the Company generally
will be required either to reinvest the proceeds of such Asset Sale in its
business, use such proceeds to retire debt, or to make an asset sale offer to
purchase a certain amount of each Holder's Securities at 100% of the principal
amount thereof, plus accrued interest, if any, to the purchase date, as more
fully set forth in the Indenture
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14. RANKING.
Payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities
is subordinated, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to
the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt.
15. SUCCESSORS.
When a successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under
the Securities and the Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those
obligations.
16. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event
of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or
reorganization), then in every such case, unless the principal of all of the
Securities shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the
Holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of Securities then outstanding may
declare all the Securities to be due and payable in the manner and with the
effect provided in the Indenture. Holders of Securities may not enforce the
Indenture or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee
may require indemnity satisfactory to it before it enforces the Indenture or the
Securities. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the Trustee in
its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of
Securities notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a
Default in payment of principal or interest), if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest.
17. TRUSTEE OR AGENT DEALINGS WITH COMPANY.
The Trustee and each Agent under the Indenture, in its individual or
any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform
services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the
Company or its Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee and such Agent.
18. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
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No direct or indirect stockholder, employee, officer or director, as
such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor entity shall have
any personal liability in respect of the obligations of the Company under the
Securities or the Indenture by reason of his or its status as such stockholder,
employee, officer or director. Each Holder of a Security by accepting a
Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are
part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
19. AUTHENTICATION.
This Security shall not be valid until the Trustee or authenticating
agent signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this
Security.
20. ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINED TERMS.
Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a
Security or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act).
21. CUSIP NUMBERS.
Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform
Security Identification Procedures, the Company will cause CUSIP numbers to be
printed on the Securities as a convenience to the Holders of the Securities. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Securities and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
22. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and
without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:
Universal Outdoor, Inc.
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▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
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Attention: Corporate Secretary
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ASSIGNMENT
I or we assign this Security to
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee)
Please insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee
_________________________
and irrevocably appoint __________ agent to transfer this Security on the books
of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Dated: __________ Signed: ______________________________
__________________________________________________________
(Sign exactly as name appears on
the other side of this Security)
Signature Guarantee**
____________________
** NOTICE: The Signature must be guaranteed by an Institution which is a
member of one of the following recognized Signature Guaranty Programs: (i)
The Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (Stamp); (ii) The New York
Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) The Stock Exchange Medallion
Program (SEMP); or (iv) in such other guarantee program acceptable to the
Trustee.
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.13 or Article X of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
/ / Section 4.13
/ / Article X
If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by
the Company pursuant to Section 4.13 or Article X of the Indenture, as the case
may be, state the amount you want to be purchased: $________
Date: ________________ Signature: ________________________
(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the other side of
this Security)
Signature Guarantee**
______________________
** NOTICE: The Signature must be guaranteed by an Institution which is a
member of one of the following recognized Signature Guaranty Programs: (i)
The Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (Stamp); (ii) The New York
Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) The Stock Exchange Medallion
Program (SEMP); or (iv) in such other guarantee program acceptable to the
Trustee.
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES(2)
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for
Definitive Securities have been made:
Principal Amount
Amount of Amount of of this Signature of
decrease in increase in Global Security authorized
Principal Amount Principal Amount following such officer of
Date of of this of this decrease (or Trustee or
Exchange Global Security Global Security increase) Securities
Custodian
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____________________
(2) This schedule should only be added if the Security is issued in global
form.
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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF
SECURITIES
Re: 9 3/4% SERIES B SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2006 OF UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR,
INC.
This Certificate relates to $______ principal amount of Securities held in
(check applicable box) / / book-entry or / / definitive form by ___________
(the "Transferor").
The Transferor (check applicable box):
/ / has requested the Registrar by written order to deliver in exchange
for its beneficial interest in the Global Security held by the Depositary a
Security or Securities in definitive, registered form of authorized
denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest
in such Global Security (or the portion thereof indicated above); or
/ / has requested the Registrar by written order to exchange or register
the transfer of a Security or Securities.
In connection with such request and in respect of each such Security,
the Transferor does hereby certify that Transferor is familiar with the
Indenture relating to the above-captioned Securities and as provided in Section
2.6 of such Indenture, the transfer of this Security does not require
registration under the Securities Act (as defined below) because (check
applicable box):
/ / Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor's own account,
without transfer (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(A) or Section
2.6(d)(i)(A) of the Indenture).
/ / Such Security is being transferred to a "qualified institutional
buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act")) in reliance on Rule 144A (in satisfaction of Section
2.6(a)(ii)(B) or Section 2.6(d)(i)(B) of the Indenture) or pursuant to an
effective registration
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statement under the Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(C) or
Section 2.6(d)(i)(C) of the Indenture).
/ / Such Security is being transferred in accordance with Rule 144 under
the Securities Act, or pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance
with Regulation S under the Securities Act, and an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that such transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act
accompanies this Certificate (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(C) or
Section 2.6(d)(i)(C) of the Indenture).
/ / Such Security is being transferred in reliance on and in compliance
with an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
other than Rule 144A, in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, and
an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(C) or Section 2.6(d)(i)(C) of the Indenture).
_________________________________
[INSERT NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By:______________________________
Date: _________________________
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