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EXHIBIT 4(f)(3)
AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
among
MBNA CORPORATION, as Depositor,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Property Trustee,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee,
and
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
Dated as of [______] [__], 1997
MBNA CAPITAL C
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MBNA Capital C
Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating to Sections 310
through 318 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Trust Agreement
Act Section Section
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(Section) 310 (a)(1)................................................................. 8.7
(a)(2)................................................................. 8.7
(a)(3)................................................................. 8.9
(a)(4)................................................................. 2.7(a)(ii)
(b).................................................................... 8.8
(Section) 311 (a).................................................................... 8.13
(b).................................................................... 8.13
(Section) 312 (a).................................................................... 5.7
(b).................................................................... 5.7
(c).................................................................... 5.7
(Section) 313 (a).................................................................... 8.14(a)
(a)(4)................................................................. 8.14(b)
(b).................................................................... 8.14(a)
(c).................................................................... 10.10
(d).................................................................... 8.14(b)
(Section) 314 (a).................................................................... 8.15
(b).................................................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1)................................................................. 8.16
(c)(2)................................................................. 8.16
(c)(3)................................................................. Not Applicable
(d).................................................................... Not Applicable
(e).................................................................... 1.1, 8.16
(Section) 315 (a).................................................................... 8.1(a), 8.3(a)
(b).................................................................... 8.2, 10.10
(c).................................................................... 8.1(a)
(d).................................................................... 8.1, 8.3
(e).................................................................... Not Applicable
(Section) 316 (a).................................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(1)(A).............................................................. Not Applicable
(a)(1)(B).............................................................. Not Applicable
(a)(2)................................................................. Not Applicable
(b).................................................................... 5.14
(c).................................................................... 6.7
(Section) 317 (a)(1)................................................................. Not Applicable
(a)(2)................................................................. Not Applicable
(b).................................................................... 5.9
(Section) 318 (a).................................................................... 10.11
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Note: This reconciliation and tie sheet shall not, for any purpose, be deemed
to be a part of the Trust Agreement.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS.............................................1
SECTION 1.1 Definitions. ..............................................................1
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE TRUST..................................... 10
SECTION 2.1 Name. ................................................................... 10
SECTION 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business. ............ 10
SECTION 2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses. ........ 10
SECTION 2.4 Issuance of the Preferred Securities. ................................... 10
SECTION 2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
Debentures. ....................................................... 11
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust. ................................................... 11
SECTION 2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions. ....................... 11
SECTION 2.8 Assets of Trust. ........................................................ 15
SECTION 2.9 Title to Trust Property. ................................................ 15
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT.......................................... 15
SECTION 3.1 Payment Account. ........................................................ 15
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION..................................... 16
SECTION 4.1 Distributions. .......................................................... 16
SECTION 4.2 Redemption. ............................................................. 17
SECTION 4.3 Subordination of Common Securities. ..................................... 19
SECTION 4.4 Payment Procedures. ..................................................... 19
SECTION 4.5 Tax Returns and Reports. ................................................ 19
SECTION 4.6 Payment of Expenses of the Trust. ....................................... 20
SECTION 4.7 Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions................... 20
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES................................... 20
SECTION 5.1 Initial Ownership. ...................................................... 20
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SECTION 5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates. ...................................... 20
SECTION 5.3 Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates. ................ 21
SECTION 5.4 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities
Certificates....................................................... 21
SECTION 5.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates. ..... 22
SECTION 5.6 Persons Deemed Securityholders. ......................................... 23
SECTION 5.7 Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses. ................. 23
SECTION 5.8 Maintenance of Office or Agency. ........................................ 23
SECTION 5.9 Appointment of Paying Agent. ............................................ 23
SECTION 5.10 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor. ............................ 24
SECTION 5.11 Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common
Securities Certificate. ........................................... 24
SECTION 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency. ............................................. 25
SECTION 5.13 Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates. ........................... 25
SECTION 5.14 Rights of Securityholders. .............................................. 26
SECTION 5.15 CUSIP Numbers............................................................ 28
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING............................. 28
SECTION 6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights. ........................................... 28
SECTION 6.2 Notice of Meetings. ..................................................... 29
SECTION 6.3 Meetings of Preferred Securityholders. .................................. 29
SECTION 6.4 Voting Rights. .......................................................... 30
SECTION 6.5 Proxies, etc. ........................................................... 30
SECTION 6.6 Securityholder Action by Written Consent. ............................... 31
SECTION 6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes. .............................. 31
SECTION 6.8 Acts of Securityholders. ................................................ 31
SECTION 6.9 Inspection of Records. .................................................. 32
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES................................... 32
SECTION 7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the
Delaware........................................................... 32
SECTION 7.2 Representations and Warranties of Depositor. ............................ 33
ARTICLE VIII
THE TRUSTEES............................................ 34
SECTION 8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. .................................... 34
SECTION 8.2 Certain Notices. ........................................................ 36
SECTION 8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee. ..................................... 36
SECTION 8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. ................. 38
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SECTION 8.5 May Hold Securities. .................................................... 38
SECTION 8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees. .......................................... 38
SECTION 8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees. ........... 39
SECTION 8.8 Conflicting Interests. .................................................. 40
SECTION 8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee. ....................................... 40
SECTION 8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. ...................... 42
SECTION 8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. ................................. 43
SECTION 8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. ............ 44
SECTION 8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust. ........... 44
SECTION 8.14 Reports by Property Trustee. ............................................ 45
SECTION 8.15 Reports to the Property Trustee. ........................................ 45
SECTION 8.16 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. ....................... 45
SECTION 8.17 Number of Trustees. ..................................................... 45
SECTION 8.18 Delegation of Power. .................................................... 46
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER................................ 46
SECTION 9.1 Termination Upon Expiration Date. ....................................... 46
SECTION 9.2 Early Termination. ...................................................... 46
SECTION 9.3 Termination. ............................................................ 47
SECTION 9.4 Liquidation. ............................................................ 47
SECTION 9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the
Trust. ............................................................ 49
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS...................................... 50
SECTION 10.1 Limitation of Rights of Securityholders. ................................ 50
SECTION 10.2 Liability of the Common Securityholder................................... 50
SECTION 10.3 Amendment. .............................................................. 50
SECTION 10.4 Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease..................... 51
SECTION 10.5 Separability. ........................................................... 51
SECTION 10.6 Governing Law............................................................ 52
SECTION 10.7 Payments Due on Non-Business Day. ....................................... 52
SECTION 10.8 Successors. ............................................................. 52
SECTION 10.9 Headings. ............................................................... 52
SECTION 10.10 Reports, Notices and Demands. ........................................... 52
SECTION 10.11 Agreement Not to Petition. .............................................. 53
SECTION 10.12 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. ................. 53
SECTION 10.13 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture. ........ 54
SECTION 10.14 Counterparts............................................................. 55
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THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON
CERTIFICATE NUMBER: NUMBER OF COMMON SECURITIES:
C-1
CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING COMMON SECURITIES
OF
MBNA CAPITAL C
[__]% COMMON SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $25 PER COMMON SECURITY)
MBNA Capital C, a statutory business trust created under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that MBNA Corporation
(the "Holder") is the registered owner of [_____] common securities of the
Trust representing undivided beneficial ownership interests of the Trust and
designated the [__]% Common Securities (Liquidation Amount $25 per Common
Security) (the "Common Securities"). In accordance with Section 5.10 of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below) the Common Securities are not transferable
and any attempted transfer hereof shall be void. The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the
Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject
to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of
the Trust dated as of [________], 1997, as the same may be amended from time
to time (the "Trust Agreement") including the designation of the terms of the
Common Securities as set forth therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the
Trust Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust
at its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder and by acceptance hereof
agrees to the provisions of (i) the Guarantee Agreement entered into by MBNA
Corporation, a Maryland corporation ("MBNA") and The Bank of New York, a New
York banking corporation ("The Bank of New York"), as guarantee trustee, dated
as of [_______], 1997, and (ii) the Junior Subordinated Indenture entered into
by MBNA and The Bank of New York, as trustee, dated as of December 18, 1996.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust
has executed this certificate.
MBNA CAPITAL C
By:
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Name:
Administrative Trustee
This is one of the Common Securities referred to in the within
mentioned Trust Agreement.
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[This Preferred Security is a Global Certificate within the meaning
of the Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name
of The Depository Trust Company (the "Depository") or a nominee of the
Depository. This Preferred Security is exchangeable for Preferred Securities
registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee
only in the limited circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and no
transfer of this Preferred Security (other than a transfer of this Preferred
Security as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a
nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the
Depository) may be registered except in limited circumstances.
Unless this Preferred Security is presented by an authorized
representative of the Depository (55 ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇) to MBNA Capital C
or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any
Preferred Security issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such
other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository
Trust Company (and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co. or to such other
entity as is requested by an authorized representative of the Depository), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS
WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest
herein.]
CERTIFICATE NUMBER: NUMBER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES:
P-1 [ ]
CUSIP NO. [ ]
CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING PREFERRED SECURITIES
OF
MBNA CAPITAL C
[__]% TRUST ORIGINATED PREFERRED SECURITIES,
SERIES C
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $25 PER PREFERRED SECURITY)
MBNA Capital C, a statutory business trust created under the laws of
the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that Cede & Co.(the
"Holder") is the registered owner of [ ] (000,000) preferred securities of the
Trust representing an undivided beneficial ownership interest in the assets of
the Trust and designated the MBNA Capital C [__]% Trust Originated Preferred
Securities, Series C (Liquidation Amount $25 per Preferred Security) (the
"Preferred Securities"). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the
books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney,
upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for
transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below).
The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other
terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this
certificate and the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and
shall in all respects be subject to, the
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terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust
dated as of [_________], 1997, as the same may be amended from time to time
(the "Trust Agreement") including the designation of the terms of Preferred
Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the
Guarantee Agreement entered into by MBNA Corporation, a Maryland corporation
("MBNA"), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation ("The Bank
of New York"), as guarantee trustee, dated as of [________], 1997 (the
"Guarantee"), to the extent provided therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of
the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee to the Holder without charge upon
written request to the Trust at its principal place of business or registered
office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder and by acceptance hereof
agrees to the provisions of (i) the Guarantee and (ii) the Junior Subordinated
Indenture entered into by MBNA and The Bank of New York, as trustee, dated as
of December 18, 1996.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust
has executed this certificate.
MBNA CAPITAL C
By:
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Name:
Administrative Trustee
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned
Trust Agreement.
Date of Authentication:
[_____________], 1997
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as
Property Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this
Preferred Security to:
(Insert assignee's social security or tax identification number)
(Insert address and zip code of assignee)
and irrevocably appoints
agent to transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the
Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date:
Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred
Security Certificate)
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution
(banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with
membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to
S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15.
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of [______] [__],
1997, among (i) MBNA Corporation, a Maryland corporation (including any
successors or assigns, the "Depositor"), (ii) The Bank of New York, a New York
banking corporation, as property trustee (in such capacity, the "Property
Trustee" and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as
Property Trustee, the "Bank"), (iii) The Bank of New York (Delaware), a
banking corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, as
Delaware trustee (the "Delaware Trustee"), (iv) M. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, an
individual, and ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ an individual, each of whose address is ▇/▇
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (each an "Administrative Trustee"
and collectively the "Administrative Trustees") (the Property Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees referred to collectively as
the "Trustees") and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly
declared and established a business trust pursuant to the Delaware Business
Trust Act by the entering into that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of
November 4, 1996 (the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution and
filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate
of Trust, filed on November 6, 1996, attached as Exhibit A (the "Certificate
of Trust"); and
WHEREAS, the parties thereto amended and restated the Original Trust
Agreement by entering into the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust, dated as of December 11, 1996 (the "Restated Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Trustees desire to amend and restate
the Restated Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for,
among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Trust to
the Depositor, (ii) the issuance of the Preferred Securities by the Trust in
exchange for the Series A Preferred Stock validly tendered in the Offer and
(iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the Depositor of all of the right,
title and interest in the Debentures;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties
and for the benefit of the Securityholders, hereby amends and restates the
Restated Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 Definitions.
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
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(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may
be, of this Trust Agreement; and
(d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
"Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a
given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional
Interest (as defined in the Indenture) paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount
of Debentures for such period.
"Administrative Trustee" means each of the individuals identified as
an "Administrative Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in
such individual's capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Trust formed and
continued hereunder and not in such individual's individual capacity, or such
Administrative Trustee's successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in
the premises judging such Person as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as
properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or
composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable federal or
state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
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(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated
as a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or
similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property,
or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due and its willingness to be adjudicated as bankrupt, or the taking of
corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any such action.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.11.
"Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates" means a beneficial
interest in the Preferred Securities Certificates, ownership and transfers of
which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in
Section 5.11.
"Business Day" means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a
day on which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (c) a day on which the
Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the Corporate Trust Office of the
Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
"Capital Treatment Event" means the reasonable determination by the
Depositor that, as a result of any amendment to, or change (including any
proposed change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United
States or any political subdivision thereof or therein, or as a result of any
official or administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision
interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change
is effective, or which proposed change, pronouncement, action or decision is
announced, on or after the date of issuance of the Preferred Securities
hereunder, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Depositor will
not be entitled to treat an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities as "Tier 1 Capital" (or the then equivalent thereof) for
purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve, as then in
effect and applicable to the Depositor.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" means the agreement among the
Trust, the Depositor and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing
Agency, dated as of the Closing Date, relating to the Trust Securities
Certificates, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B, as the same may
be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate of Trust" has the meaning specified in the recitals
hereof, as amended from time to time.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. The Depository Trust Company will be the initial Clearing Agency.
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"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means the date of execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
C.
"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial ownership interest in
the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the
rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to
receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Corporate Trust Office" means (i) when used with respect to the
Property Trustee, the principal office of the Property Trustee located in New
York, New York, and (ii) when used with respect to the Debenture Trustee, the
principal office of the Debenture Trustee located in New York, New York.
"Dealer Manager Agreement" means the Dealer Manager Agreement between
the Depositor and Merilll ▇▇▇▇▇ & Co. dated [____________], 1997.
"Debenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined
in the Indenture.
"Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures to
be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption under the
Indenture.
"Debenture Tax Event" means a "Tax Event" as defined in the Indenture.
"Debenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York, a New York banking
corporation, as trustee under the Indenture, and any successor trustee
appointed as provided therein.
"Debentures" means the $[___________] aggregate principal amount of
the Depositor's [__]% Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures,
Series C, issued pursuant to the Indenture.
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"Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates" means either or both
(as the context requires) of (a) Preferred Securities Certificates issued as
Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates as provided in Section 5.11(a)
and (b) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully
registered form as provided in Section 5.13.
"Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. 3801, et seq., as it may be amended from time to
time.
"Delaware Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Delaware
Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as
Delaware Trustee of the Trust formed and continued hereunder and not in its
individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust
Securities as provided in Section 4.1.
"Early Termination Event" has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.
"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever
the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
(b) default by the Property Trustee in the payment of any
Distribution when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default
for a period of 30 days; or
(c) default by the Property Trustee in the payment of any Redemption
Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect,
of any covenant or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other
than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance or breach of which is
dealt with in clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or
breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the defaulting Trustee or Trustees by the Holders of at
least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring
it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property
Trustee and the failure by the Depositor to appoint a successor Property
Trustee within 90 days thereof.
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"Exchange Agent" means the Bank of New York, a New York banking
corporation.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
"Federal Reserve" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, as from time to time constituted, or if at any time after the
execution of this Trust Agreement the Federal Reserve is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it, then the body performing such duties
at such time.
"Guarantee" means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by
the Depositor and The Bank of New York, as trustee, contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the Holders
of the Trust Securities, as amended from time to time.
"Indenture" means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of
December 18, 1996, between the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as
trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of
trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security
interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential
arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust
Securities, Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the
principal amount of Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance
with the Indenture the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption
Price of such Trust Securities, and (b) with respect to a distribution of
Debentures to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or
liquidation of the Trust, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such
Debentures are distributed.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $25 per Trust Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Debentures are to be
distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a termination
and liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4(a).
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).
"1940 Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
"Offer" means the offer by the Trust to exchange the Preferred
Securities for any and all shares of the Series A Preferred Stock.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the
Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of
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the Depositor, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee. One of the officers
signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 8.16 shall be the
principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Depositor. Any
Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:
(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers' Certificate
has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officers'
Certificate;
(c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such
officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Depositor, and who shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the recitals
to this Trust Agreement.
"Outstanding" when used with respect to Trust Securities, means, as
of the date of determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and
delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Trust Securities theretofore cancelled by the Securities
Registrar or delivered to the Securities Registrar for cancellation;
(b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or
any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Trust Securities; provided that, if
such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c) Trust Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in
lieu of which other Trust Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant
to this Trust Agreement, including pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.11 and
5.13;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, Preferred Securities owned by the Depositor, any Trustee or any
Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not
to be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining whether any
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Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Preferred Securities
that such Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded and
(b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding
Preferred Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of the Trustees
and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee's
right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
"Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of a Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificate as reflected in the records of the Clearing
Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the beneficial owner, then
as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such
Clearing Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 5.9 and shall initially be the Bank.
"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate
trust account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its
corporate trust department for the benefit of the Securityholders in which all
amounts paid in respect of the Debentures will be held and from which the
Property Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the
Securityholders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Preferred Security" means an undivided beneficial ownership interest
in the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the
rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to
receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Preferred Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit D.
"Property Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Property
Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as
Property Trustee of the Trust heretofore created and continued hereunder and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated
maturity of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of
Trust Securities.
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"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of the premium,
if any, paid by the Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount
of Debentures, allocated on a pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts)
among the Trust Securities.
"Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 5.4.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust
Security or Trust Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any
such Person shall be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware
Business Trust Act; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders
of the requisite amount of Preferred Securities have voted on any matter
provided for in this Trust Agreement, then for the purpose of any such
determination, so long as Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates have
not been issued, the term Securityholders or Holders as used herein shall
refer to the Owners.
"Series A Preffered Stock" means the Depositor's 7.50% Cumulative
Preferred Stock Series A, $0.01 par value.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Trust or the Depositor of an
Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result
of any amendment to, or change (including any announced proposed change) in,
the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any
official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective, or
which proposed change, pronouncement or decision is announced, on or after the
date of issuance of the Preferred Securities under this Trust Agreement, there
is more than an insubstantial risk that (i) the Trust is, or will be within 90
days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States
federal income tax with respect to income received or accrued on the
Debentures, (ii) interest payable by the Depositor on the Debentures is not,
or within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel, will not be,
deductible by the Depositor, in whole or in part, for United States federal
income tax purposes or (iii) the Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the
date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of
other taxes, duties or other governmental charges.
"Trust" means the Delaware business trust created and continued
hereby and identified on the cover page to this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as
the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the
applicable provisions hereof, including (i) all exhibits hereto and (ii) for
all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
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that are deemed to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such
modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however,
that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Debentures, (b) any cash on deposit
in, or owing to, the Payment Account and (c) all proceeds and rights in
respect of the foregoing.
"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the
Preferred Securities.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificates or the Preferred Securities Certificates.
"Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee and the Administrative Trustees.
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE TRUST
SECTION 2.1 Name.
The Trust continued hereby shall be known as "MBNA Capital C," as
such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees
following written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other
Trustees, in which name the Trustees engage in the transactions contemplated
hereby, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the
Trust and ▇▇▇ and be sued.
SECTION 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of
Business.
The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is ▇/▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ (Delaware), ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Trust Department or such other address in
the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice
to the Securityholders and the Depositor. The principal executive office of
the Trust is ▇/▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
SECTION 2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational
Expenses.
The Property Trustee acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor
in connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which
constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall,
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upon request of any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such
expenses paid by such Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon the
Trust Property for the payment of such expenses.
SECTION 2.4 Issuance of the Preferred Securities.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in
accordance with Section 5.2 and deliver to the Exchange Agent, Preferred
Securities Certificates, registered in such names as the Depositor shall
instruct the Administrative Trustee, in an aggregate amount of [________]
Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $[________],
against receipt of an aggregate amount of [_______] of Series A Preferred
Stock, which Stock such Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the
Property Trustee.
SECTION 2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and
Purchase of Debentures.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in
accordance with Section 5.2 and deliver to the Depositor Common Securities
Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor, in an aggregate amount
of [______] Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of
$[______] against payment by the Depositor of an aggregate purchase price
therefor of $[______], which amount such Administrative Trustee shall promptly
deliver to the Property Trustee. Contemporaneously therewith, an
Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe to and
purchase from the Depositor Debentures, registered in the name of the Trust
and having an aggregate principal amount equal to $[___________], and, in
satisfaction of the purchase price for such Debentures, the Property Trustee,
on behalf of the Trust, shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of $[_____]
(being the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee pursuant to
(i) the second sentence of Section 2.4 and (ii) the first sentence of this
Section 2.5).
SECTION 2.6 Declaration of Trust.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are (a) to issue
and sell Trust Securities, (b) to use the proceeds from such sale to acquire
the Debentures and (c) to engage in those activities necessary or incidental
thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Trustees as trustees of the Trust,
to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and
the Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby
declares that it will hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Trust and the
Securityholders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and
duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to
accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be
entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of
the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the Administrative
Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the Trustees
of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements
of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
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SECTION 2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance
with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth
in paragraph (b) of this Section, Article VIII and in accordance with the
following provisions (i) and (ii), the Trustees shall have the authority to
enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the Trustees to be
appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted
to the Trustees under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in
furtherance thereof, including without limitation, the following:
(i) As among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee
shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with
respect to the following matters:
(A) the issuance and exchange or sale of the Trust
Securities;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to
execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the
Certificate Depository Agreement, the Dealer Manager
Agreement, and such other agreements as may be necessary or
desirable in connection with the purposes and function of
the Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Preferred
Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
under state securities or blue sky laws, and the
qualification of this Trust Agreement as a trust indenture
under the Trust Indenture Act;
(D) assisting in the listing, if any, of the
Preferred Securities upon such national securities exchange
or exchanges or automated quotation system or systems as
shall be determined by the Depositor and the registration of
the Preferred Securities under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and the preparation and filing of all
periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to
the foregoing;
(E) the sending of notices (other than notices of
default) and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Debentures to the Securityholders in
accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent and
Securities Registrar in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(G) registering transfer of the Trust Securities in
accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement,
the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the
Trust and the execution and filing of the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware; and
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(I) the taking of any action incidental to the
foregoing as the Trustees may from time to time determine is
necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this
Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders
(without consideration of the effect of any such action on
any particular Securityholder).
(ii) As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall
have the power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with
respect to the following matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the collection of interest, principal and any
other payments made in respect of the Debentures in the
Payment Account;
(D) the distribution through the Paying Agent of
amounts owed to the Securityholders in respect of the Trust
Securities;
(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and
privileges of a holder of the Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other
information regarding the Trust Securities and the
Debentures to the Securityholders in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement,
the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the
Trust and the execution and filing of the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware;
(I) after an Event of Default (other than under
paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of the definition of such
term if such Event of Default is by or with respect to the
Property Trustee) the taking of any action incidental to the
foregoing as the Property Trustee may from time to time
determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the
terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and conserve the
Trust Property for the benefit of the Securityholders
(without consideration of the effect of any such action on
any particular Securityholder); and
(J) except as otherwise provided in this Section
2.7(a)(ii), the Property Trustee shall have none of the
duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of the
Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 2.7(a)(i).
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or
the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business,
activities or transaction except as
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expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, the Trustees
shall not (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not
authorized by this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange,
mortgage, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or
interests therein, including to Securityholders, except as expressly provided
herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to
qualify as a "grantor trust" for United States federal income tax purposes,
(iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt, (v)
take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on
any of the Trust Property, (vi) invest any proceeds received by the Trust from
holding the Debentures, but shall distribute all such proceeds to Holders of
Trust Securities pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement and of the
Securities; (vii) acquire any assets other than the Trust Property; (viii)
possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the Trust
Property; (ix) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the
terms of the Securities in any way whatsoever (except to the extent expressly
authorized in this Trust Agreement or by the terms of the Trust Securities);
or (x) issue any securities or other evidences of beneficial ownership of, or
beneficial interest in, the Trust other than the Trust Securities. The
Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at
any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to the
interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in their capacity as
Securityholders.
(c) In connection with the issue and exchange of the Preferred
Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist
the Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following
(and any actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior
to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all
respects):
(i) the preparation and filing by the Trust with the
Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a registration
statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Preferred
Securities, including any amendments thereto;
(ii) the determination of the states in which to take
appropriate action to qualify or register for sale all or part of the
Preferred Securities and the determination of any and all such acts,
other than actions which must be taken by or on behalf of the Trust,
and the advice to the Trustees of actions they must take on behalf of
the Trust, and the preparation for execution and filing of any
documents to be executed and filed by the Trust or on behalf of the
Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or advisable in order to
comply with the applicable laws of any such states;
(iii) the preparation for filing by the Trust and
execution on behalf of the Trust of an application to the New York
Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or the NASDAQ
National Market or any other automated quotation system for listing
upon notice of issuance of any Preferred Securities and filing with
such exchange or self regulatory organization such notifications and
documents as may be necessary from time to time to maintain such
listing;
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(iv) the negotiation of the terms of, and the
execution and delivery of, the Dealer Manager Agreement providing for
the exchange of the Preferred Securities for the Series A Preferred
Stock; and
(v) the taking of any other actions necessary or
desirable to carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of
the Trust and to operate the Trust so that the Trust will not be deemed to be
an "investment company" required to be registered under the 1940 Act, or fail
to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes and so that the Debentures will be treated as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. In this connection,
the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any
action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this
Trust Agreement, that each of the Depositor and any Administrative Trustee
determines in its discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes,
as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
SECTION 2.8 Assets of Trust.
The assets of the Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9 Title to Trust Property.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered
by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Trust and the Securityholders
in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1 Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall
establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and any agent of the
Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal
with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and
withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the
Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account
for the exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for distribution as
herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided
for herein.
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(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account,
promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest or premium on,
and any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts
held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1 Distributions.
(a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial ownership
interests in the Trust Property, and Distributions (including of Additional
Amounts) will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates
that payments of interest (including of Additional Interest, as defined in the
Indenture) are made on the Debentures. Accordingly:
(i) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be
cumulative, and will accumulate whether or not there are funds of the
Trust available for the payment of Distributions. Distributions shall
accrue from [________] [__], 1997, and, except in the event (and to
the extent) that the Depositor exercises its right to defer the
payment of interest on the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture,
shall be payable quarterly in arrears on [the fifteenth day of
January, April, July and October of each year, commencing on July 15,
1997]. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on
the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the payment of such
Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of
any such delay) except that, if such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar year, payment of such Distribution shall be made
on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same
force and effect as if made on such date (each date on which
Distributions are payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a), a
"Distribution Date").
(ii) Assuming payments of interest on the Debentures
are made when due (and before giving effect to Additional Amounts, if
applicable), Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be payable
at a rate of [__]% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities. The amount of Distributions shall be computed on the
basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. The amount of Distributions payable for any period
shall include the Additional Amounts, if any.
(iii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be
made by the Property Trustee from the Payment Account and shall be
payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust
has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.
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(b) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on
the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date,
which shall be the [first day of the month in which the relevant Distribution
Date occurs] (whether or not such record date is a Business Day).
SECTION 4.2 Redemption.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of
the Debentures, the Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust
Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be
redeemed, at such Holder's address appearing in the Security Register. All
notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the CUSIP number;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities
are to be redeemed, the identification and the total Liquidation
Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed;
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price
will become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be
redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to accrue on and
after said date; and
(vi) the place and address where the Holders shall
surrender their Preferred Securities Certificates.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption or payment at stated maturity of Debentures. Redemptions of the
Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on
each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand
and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect
of any Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with
respect to Preferred Securities in book-entry-only form, irrevocably deposit
with the Clearing Agency for such Preferred Securities funds sufficient to pay
the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable
instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Owners thereof.
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With respect to the Preferred Securities that are not in book-entry-only form,
the Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with
the Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and
will give the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the
Redemption Price to the Holders thereof upon surrender of their Preferred
Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable
on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for
redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they
appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant
record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall
have been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of such
deposit, all rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities so called for
redemption will cease, except the right of such Securityholders to receive the
Redemption Price and any Distribution payable on or prior to the Redemption
Date, but without interest thereon, and such Trust Securities will cease to be
outstanding. In the event that any date on which any Redemption Price is
payable is not a Business Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on
such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and
without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), except
that, if such Business Day falls in the next calendar year, such payment will
be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same
force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the
Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is
improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Trust or by the
Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee, Distributions on such Trust Securities
will continue to accrue, at the then applicable rate, from the Redemption Date
originally established by the Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such
Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will
be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption
Price.
(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall be
made to the recordholders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register
for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be fifteen
days prior to the relevant Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust
Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated on a
pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common Securities and
the Preferred Securities. The particular Preferred Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts) not
more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from
the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called for redemption, by
such method (including, without limitation, by lot) as the Property Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for
redemption of portions (equal to $25 or an integral multiple of $25 in excess
thereof) of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities of a denomination
larger than $25. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Security
Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities selected for redemption and,
in the case of any Preferred Securities selected for partial redemption, the
Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust
Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to
the redemption of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of any
Preferred Securities
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redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the Liquidation
Amount of Preferred Securities that has been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 4.3 Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(f), pro rata among the
Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount
of the Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date
or Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution
(including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or Redemption Price of, any
Common Security, and no other payment on account of the redemption,
liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless
payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including
Additional Amounts, if applicable) on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for
all Distribution periods terminating on or prior thereto, or in the case of
payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of such Redemption Price on
all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for redemption, shall have
been made or provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property
Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all
Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or the
Redemption Price of, Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting
from any Debenture Event of Default, the Holder of Common Securities will be
deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of
Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of
Default with respect to the Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or
otherwise eliminated. Until any such Event of Default under this Trust
Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities has been so cured, waived
or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of
the Holders of the Preferred Securities and not the Holder of the Common
Securities, and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the
right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
SECTION 4.4 Payment Procedures.
Payments of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) in respect of the Preferred Securities shall be made by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear on the Securities Register or, with respect to Preferred Securities
held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing
Agency in immediately available funds, which shall credit the relevant
Persons' accounts at such Clearing Agency on the applicable Distribution
Dates. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such
manner as shall be mutually agreed in writing between the Property Trustee and
the Common Securityholder.
SECTION 4.5 Tax Returns and Reports.
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The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared),
at the Depositor's expense, and file all United States federal, state and
local tax and information returns and reports required to be filed by or in
respect of the Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a)
prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) the appropriate Internal
Revenue Service Form required to be filed in respect of the Trust in each
taxable year of the Trust and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared
and furnished) to each Securityholder the appropriate Internal Revenue Service
form and the information required to be provided on such form. The
Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee
with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or
furnishing. The Trustees shall comply with United States federal withholding
and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements with
respect to any payments to Securityholders under the Trust Securities.
SECTION 4.6 Payment of Expenses of the Trust.
(a) Pursuant to Section 10.6 of the Indenture, the Depositor, as
borrower, has agreed to pay to the Trust, and reimburse the Trust for, the
full amount of any costs, expenses or liabilities of the Trust (other than
obligations of the Trust to pay the holders of any Trust Securities or other
similar interests in the Trust the amounts due such Holders pursuant to the
terms of the Trust Securities or such other similar interests, as the case may
be), including without limitation, any taxes, duties or other governmental
charges of whatever nature (other than United States withholding taxes)
imposed on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority. Such
payment obligation includes any such costs, expenses or liabilities of the
Trust that are required by applicable law to be satisfied in connection with a
termination of such Trust.
(b) Upon receipt by the Trust of the amounts described in subsection
4.6(a), the Trust shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or other governmental
charges of whatever nature (other than United States withholding taxes)
imposed on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.
SECTION 4.7 Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities
shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or an
Owner with respect to the Holder's Preferred Securities) has directly received
pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture or Section 5.14 of this Trust
Agreement.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1 Initial Ownership.
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Upon the creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor
pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at
any time during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor shall
be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
SECTION 5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates.
The Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum
denominations of $25 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $25 in
excess thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in
denominations of $25 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The
Trust Securities Certificates shall be (i) executed on behalf of the Trust by
manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrative Trustee and, if
executed on behalf of the Trust by facsimile, countersigned by a transfer
agent or its agent and (ii) authenticated by the Property Trustee by manual or
facsimile signature of an authorized signatory thereof and, if executed by
such authorized signatory of the Property Trustee by facsimile, countersigned
by a transfer agent or its agent. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the
manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures
shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust or the
Property Trustee or, if executed on behalf of the Trust or the Property
Trustee by facsimile, countersigned by a transfer agent or its agent, shall be
validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be
so authorized prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or
did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a
Securityholder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the
obligations of a Securityholder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust
Securities Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to Sections 5.4,
5.11 and 5.13.
SECTION 5.3 Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.
On the Closing Date, the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust
Securities Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in
Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the Trust and delivered to
or upon the written order of the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the
board, its president, any executive vice president or any vice president,
treasurer or assistant treasurer or controller without further corporate
action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations.
SECTION 5.4 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates.
The Depositor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency
maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, a register or registers for the purpose of
registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges of
Preferred Securities Certificates (the "Securities Register") in which the
transfer agent and registrar designated by the Depositor (the "Securities
Registrar"), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall
provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common
Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.10 in the case of the Common
Securities Certificates) and
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registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates
as herein provided. The Bank shall be the initial Securities Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred
Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section
5.8, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute on behalf of
the Trust (and if executed on behalf of the Trust by a facsimile signature,
such certificate shall be countersigned by a transfer agent or its agent) and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like
aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such
Administrative Trustee or Trustees. The Securities Registrar shall not be
required to register the transfer of any Preferred Securities that have been
called for redemption during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption and ending at the
close of business on the day of such mailing.
At the option of a Holder, Preferred Securities Certificates may be
exchanged for other Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized
denominations of the same class and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount
upon surrender of the Preferred Securities Certificates to be exchanged at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8.
Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an Administrative Trustee and
the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly
authorized in writing. Each Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently
disposed of by an Administrative Trustee or the Securities Registrar in
accordance with such Person's customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates.
SECTION 5.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be
surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall
receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Trust Securities Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the
Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in
the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of
them, on behalf of the Trust shall execute by manual or facsimile signature
and, if executed on behalf of the Trust by facsimile signature, such
certificate shall be countersigned by a transfer agent, and make available for
delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of
like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of
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any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section, the Administrative
Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued
pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided
beneficial interest in the Trust Property, as if originally issued, whether or
not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found
at any time.
SECTION 5.6 Persons Deemed Securityholders.
The Trustees or the Securities Registrar shall treat the Person in
whose name any Trust Securities Certificate shall be registered in the
Securities Register as the owner of such Trust Securities Certificate for the
purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever, and
neither the Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice
to the contrary.
SECTION 5.7 Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses.
Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold
the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees accountable
by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source
from which such information was derived.
SECTION 5.8 Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Administrative Trustees shall maintain an office or offices or
agency or agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be
served. The Administrative Trustees initially designate The Bank of New York,
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Trust Administration, as its principal corporate trust office for such
purposes. The Administrative Trustees shall give prompt written notice to the
Depositor, the Property Trustee and to the Securityholders of any change in
the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 5.9 Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Securityholders from the
Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the
Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have
the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account for the purpose
of making the Distributions referred to above. The Administrative Trustees may
revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if such Trustees determine in
their sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its
obligations under this Trust Agreement in any material respect. The Paying
Agent shall initially be the Bank, and any co-paying agent chosen by the Bank,
and acceptable to the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor. Any Person
acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30
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Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Depositor. In the event that the Bank
shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign
or its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint
a successor that is acceptable to the Property Trustee and the Depositor to
act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The
Administrative Trustees shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any
additional Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees to execute
and deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent
or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustees that as Paying Agent,
such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if
any, held by it for payment to the Securityholders in trust for the benefit of
the Securityholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such
Securityholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the
Property Trustee and upon resignation or removal of a Paying Agent such Paying
Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee.
The provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.3 and 8.6 herein shall apply to the Bank
also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Bank shall act as Paying
Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed
hereunder, and any Paying Agent shall be bound by the requirements with
respect to paying agents of securities issued pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any
co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 5.10 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.
On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire and retain
beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest
extent permitted by law, other than a transfer in connection with a
consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another Person, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to Section 8.1 of the
Indenture, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities shall be void. The
Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued
to the Depositor to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON".
SECTION 5.11 Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common
Securities Certificate.
(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates, upon original issuance,
will be issued in the form of a typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate
or Certificates representing Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates, to
be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by,
or on behalf of, the Trust and, in accordance with Section 5.13, in the form
of printed, lithographed or engraved Preferred Securities Certificates in
certificated, fully registered form. The Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificate or Certificates shall initially be registered on the Securities
Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing
Agency. With respect to any Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate:
(i) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall be
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(ii) the Securities Registrar and the Trustees shall
be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Trust Agreement relating to the Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificates (including the payment of the Liquidation Amount of and
Distributions on the Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificates and the giving of instructions or
directions to Owners of Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificates) as the sole Holder of Preferred
Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates
and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section
5.11 conflict with any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, the
provisions of this Section 5.11 shall control; and
(iv) the rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be exercised only through the
Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the
Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository
Agreement the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers
among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit
payments on the Book-Entry Preferred Securities to such Clearing
Agency Participants.
(b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common
Securities Certificate.
SECTION 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency.
To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Owners is
required under this Trust Agreement, with respect to any Owners holding
Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates, the Trustees shall give all such
notices and communications specified herein to be given to Owners to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
SECTION 5.13 Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates.
(a) The Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees that meets the
requirements of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the
Preferred Securities are then listed or approved for trading, as evidenced by
the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of them. The
Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates as Securityholders.
(b) If (x) the Depositor or the Clearing Agency advises the Trustees
in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly
discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificates, and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified
successor, or if at anytime the Clearing Agency ceases to be a clearing agency
registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, at a time
when the
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Clearing Agency is required to be so registered to act as such depositary or
(y) the Depositor at its option advises the Trustees in writing that it elects
to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, then the
Administrative Trustees shall notify other Trustees and the Clearing Agency,
and the Clearing Agency, in accordance with its customary rules and
procedures, shall notify all Clearing Agency Participants for whom it holds
Preferred Securities of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of
such class or classes, as applicable, requesting the same. Upon surrender to
the Administrative Trustees of the typewritten Preferred Securities
Certificate or Certificates representing the Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions,
the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency or, if executed on behalf of the Trust by facsimile,
countersigned by a transfer agent or its agent. Neither the Securities
Registrar nor the Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying
on, such instructions.
SECTION 5.14 Rights of Securityholders.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in
the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9,
and the Securityholders shall not have any right or title therein other than
the undivided beneficial ownership interest in the assets of the Trust
conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for
any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except
as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving
only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement.
The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when
issued and delivered to Securityholders against payment of the purchase price
therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable by the Trust. The Holders of the
Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same
limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware.
(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if,
upon a Debenture Event of Default, the Debenture Trustee fails or the holders
of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Debentures fail to
declare the principal of all of the Debentures to be immediately due and
payable, the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to
the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee; and upon any such declaration such
principal amount of and the accrued interest on all of the Debentures shall
become immediately due and payable as set forth in the Indenture, provided
that the payment of principal, premium and interest on such Debentures shall
remain subordinated to the extent provided in the Indenture.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
the Debentures has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of
the money due has been obtained by the Debenture Trustee as in the Indenture
provided, the Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the
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Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration
and its consequences if:
(i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the
Debenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest (including
any Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture)) on
all of the Debentures,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Debentures which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate
borne by the Debentures, and
(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture
Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Debenture
Trustee and the Property Trustee, their agents and counsel;
and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the
Debentures, other than the non-payment of the principal of the
Debentures which has become due solely by such acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.
The holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred
Securities, waive any past default under the Indenture, except a default in
the payment of principal, premium or interest (unless all Events of Default
with respect to the Debentures, other than the non-payment of the principal of
the Debentures which has become due solely by such acceleration, have been
cured or annulled as provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture and the Company
has paid or deposited with the Debenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all
overdue installments of interest (including any Additional Interest (as
defined in the Indenture)) on the Debentures, the principal of (and premium,
if any, on) any Debentures which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the
Debentures, and all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture Trustee under the
Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Debenture Trustee and the Property trustee, their agents and
counsel) or a default in respect of a covenant or provision which under the
Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of
each outstanding Debenture. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent
default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such
an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of the
Preferred Securities, a record date shall be established for determining
Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities entitled to join in such notice,
which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property
Trustee receives such notice. The Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities
on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons,
shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided, that,
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unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the
case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage
having joined in such notice prior to the day which is 90 days after such
record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and
annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action
by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph
shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration
of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or
rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a
written notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the
preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.14(b).
(c) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to
the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust
Agreement and the Indenture, upon a Debenture Event of Default specified in
Section 5.1(1) or 5.1(2) of the Indenture, any Holder of Preferred Securities
shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor,
pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such
Holder of the principal amount of or premium or interest on Debentures having
a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
of such Holder (a "Direct Action"). Except as set forth in Section 5.14(b) and
this Section 5.14(c), the Holders of Preferred Securities shall have no right
to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of, or in
respect of, the Debentures.
SECTION 5.15 CUSIP Numbers.
The Administrative Trustees in issuing the Preferred Securities may
use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Property
Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to
Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is
made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Preferred
Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may
be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Preferred
Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or
omission of such numbers. The Administrative Trustees will promptly notify the
Property Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as provided in this Section, in Sections 5.14, 8.10 and
10.3 and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of
Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise
control the administration, operation and management of the Trust or the
obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or
contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so
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constitute the Securityholders from time to time as partners or members of an
association.
(b) So long as any Debentures are held by the Property Trustee, the
Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture Trustee, or executing any
trust or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to such
Debentures, (ii) waive any past default which is waiveable under Section 5.13
of the Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration
that the principal of all the Debentures shall be due and payable or (iv)
consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the
Debentures, where such consent shall be required, without, in each case,
obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a majority in
Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Preferred Securities, provided, however,
that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each
holder of Debentures affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the
Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred
Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or
approved by a vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities, except by a
subsequent vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee
shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any notice of default
received from the Debenture Trustee with respect to the Debentures. In
addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Administrative
Trustees shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the
Trust to fail to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal
income tax purposes.
(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or
the Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely
affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of
the Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to this Trust Agreement
or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust,
other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of
Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such
amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective
except with the approval of the Holders of at least a majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Trust Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be
made if, as a result of such amendment, it would cause the Trust to fail to be
classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 6.2 Notice of Meetings.
Notice of all meetings of the Preferred Securityholders, stating the
time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee
pursuant to Section 10.10 to each Preferred Securityholder of record, at his
registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the
meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be
so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any
adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 6.3 Meetings of Preferred Securityholders.
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No annual meeting of Securityholders is required to be held. The
Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of Preferred
Securityholders to vote on any matter upon the written request of the
Preferred Securityholders of record of 25% of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount) and the Administrative
Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion, call a
meeting of Preferred Securityholders to vote on any matters as to which
Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote.
Preferred Securityholders of record of 50% of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount), present in person
or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Preferred
Securityholders.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the
Preferred Securityholders of record present, in person or by proxy, holding
more than a majority of the Outstanding Preferred Securities (based upon their
Liquidation Amount) held by holders of record of Outstanding Preferred
Securities present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall
constitute the action of the Preferred Securityholders, unless this Trust
Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.
SECTION 6.4 Voting Rights.
Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote for each $25 of
Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities in respect of any
matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
SECTION 6.5 Proxies, etc.
At any meeting of Securityholders, any Securityholder entitled to
vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any
meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative
Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the
Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at
which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property
Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one
or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Securityholders of record shall
be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several
Persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in
respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be
present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their
proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be
received in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be
executed by or on behalf of a Securityholder shall be deemed valid unless
challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity
shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years
after its date of execution.
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SECTION 6.6 Securityholder Action by Written Consent.
Any action which may be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be
taken without a meeting if Securityholders holding more than a majority of all
Outstanding Trust Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount) entitled to
vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be
required by any express provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to
the action in writing.
SECTION 6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
For the purposes of determining the Securityholders who are entitled
to notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to
participate in any Distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a
record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the
purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time
fix a date, not more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of
Securityholders or the payment of a Distribution or other action, as the case
may be, as a record date for the determination of the identity of the
Securityholders of record for such purposes.
SECTION 6.8 Acts of Securityholders.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be
given, made or taken by Securityholders or Owners may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Securityholders or Owners in person or by an agent duly appointed in
writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to an
Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as
the "Act" of the Securityholders or Owners signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust
Agreement and (subject to Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if
made in the manner provided in this Section.
The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual
signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.
Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other manner which any Trustee receiving the same
deems sufficient.
The ownership of Preferred Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
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Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind
every future Securityholder of the same Trust Security and the Securityholder
of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in
exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or
suffered to be done by the Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether
or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled hereunder
to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may
do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust
Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so
pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such
Liquidation Amount.
If any dispute shall arise between the Securityholders and the
Administrative Trustees or among such Securityholders or Trustees with respect
to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand,
authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Securityholder
or Trustee under this Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the
Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.
SECTION 6.9 Inspection of Records.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the
Property Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection by
Securityholders during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably
related to such Securityholder's interest as a Securityholder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee
and the Delaware Trustee.
The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on
behalf of and as to itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of
the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(a) the Property Trustee is a New York banking corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State
of New York;
(b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority and
legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) the Delaware Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing in the State of Delaware;
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(d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and
legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the
valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in accordance with its
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors' rights and to general equity principles;
(f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement
has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the
part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and does not require any
approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and
such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the charter or
by-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any
provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a
default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any
properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any
indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or
instrument to which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or
by which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or
regulation of the State of New York or the State of Delaware, as the case may
be, governing the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or
the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order, judgment or
decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee;
(g) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation
of any of the transactions by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as
appropriate in context) contemplated herein or therein requires the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of
any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under
any existing New York or Delaware law governing the banking, trust or general
powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be;
and
(h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of each of the
Property Trustee's and the Delaware Trustee's knowledge, threatened against or
affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before
any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal which,
individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the
Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property Trustee
or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its
obligations as one of the Trustees under this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 7.2 Representations and Warranties of Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Securityholders that:
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(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Closing Date on
behalf of the Trust have been duly authorized and will have been, duly and
validly executed, issued and delivered by the Trustees pursuant to the terms
and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust
Agreement and the Securityholders will be, as of such date, entitled to the
benefits of this Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by
the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf of the Trust) under the laws of the State
of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
THE TRUSTEES
SECTION 8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Trust Agreement shall require the Trustees to expend or risk their own funds
or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of their
duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their rights or powers, if they
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
them. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section. Nothing in this Trust Agreement shall be construed to release an
Administrative Trustee from liability for its own gross negligent action, its
own gross negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct. To the
extent that, at law or in equity, an Administrative Trustee has duties
(including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Trust or
to the Securityholders, such Administrative Trustee shall not be liable to the
Trust or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's good faith reliance on the
provisions of this Trust Agreement. The Administrative Trustees shall not be
liable for the default or misconduct of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they
restrict the duties and liabilities of the Administrative Trustees otherwise
existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the
Securityholders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the
Administrative Trustees. No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed
to impose any duty or obligation on any Administrative Trustee to perform any
act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or
imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which
such Administrative Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance
with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such
right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available
to any Administrative Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
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(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in
respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and
proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be
sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property
Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms
hereof. Each Securityholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees
that it will look solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property
to the extent legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and
that the Trustees are not personally liable to it for any amount distributable
in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in respect of any
Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the
Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case
of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to
relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any
error of judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the
Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good
faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less
than a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any
trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust
Agreement;
(iii) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to
the custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the Debentures
and the Payment Account shall be to deal with such property in a
similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property
for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on
liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement
and the Trust Indenture Act;
(iv) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any
interest on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree
in writing with the Depositor; and money held by the Property Trustee
need not be segregated from other funds held by it except in relation
to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to
Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law; and
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for
monitoring the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the
Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement,
nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor.
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SECTION 8.2 Certain Notices.
Within five Business Days after the occurrence of any Event of
Default actually known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.10, notice of
such Event of Default to the Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees and
the Depositor, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the
Depositor's exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the
Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, the Administrative Trustee shall
transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.10, notice of
such exercise to the Securityholders and the Property Trustee, unless such
exercise shall have been revoked.
SECTION 8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:
(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel,
certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of
auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action
or (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other
provisions contained herein or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the
application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any
matter as to which the Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote under
the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice
to the Depositor requesting written instructions of the Depositor as to the
course of action to be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action,
or refrain from taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall be
instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Depositor;
provided, however, that if the Property Trustee does not receive such
instructions of the Depositor within ten Business Days after it has delivered
such notice, or such reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such
notice (which to the extent practicable shall not be less than two Business
Days), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such
action not inconsistent with this Trust Agreement as it shall deem advisable
and in the best interests of the Securityholders, in which event the Property
Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or
willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the Administrative
Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced
by an Officers' Certificate;
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(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be established before
undertaking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee
(unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence
of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officers' Certificate
which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the
Depositor or the Administrative Trustees;
(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording,
filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or
continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any
rerecording, refiling or reregistration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection
(which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and
may include any of its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full
and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and
in accordance with such advice, such counsel may be counsel to the Depositor
or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees; the Property
Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the
administration of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent
jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust Agreement,
unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Property Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond,
debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Securityholders, but the
Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
facts or matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its
agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible
for its own negligence or recklessness with respect to selection of any agent
or attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive written instructions with
respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder
the Property Trustee (i) may request written instructions from the Holders of
the Trust Securities which written instructions may only be given by the
Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities
as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the
Trust Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action, (ii) may refrain
from enforcing such remedy or right or taking
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such other action until such written instructions are received, and (iii)
shall be protected in acting in accordance with such written instructions; and
(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement,
the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that
is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement.
No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any
duty or obligation on the Property Trustee to perform any act or acts or
exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in
any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Property
Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law,
to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or
obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Property Trustee
shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities
Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Trustees
do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees shall not
be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of
the Debentures.
SECTION 8.5 May Hold Securities.
Any Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust
Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13, except as provided in the
definition of the term "Outstanding" in Article I, may otherwise deal with the
Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not a Trustee or such
other agent.
SECTION 8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.
Pursuant to Section 10.6 of the Indenture, the Depositor, as
borrower, agrees:
(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time such compensation as
shall be agreed in writing with the Depositor for all services rendered by
them hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of
law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision of this
Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith;
and
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(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify
and hold harmless (i) each Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Trustee, (iii)
any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any
Trustee, and (iv) any employee or agent of the Trust or its Affiliates,
(referred to herein as an "Indemnified Person") from and against any and all
loss, damage, liability, tax, penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature
whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of the creation,
operation or termination of the Trust or any act or omission performed or
omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Trust and in
a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of
authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except
that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of
any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of
negligence, bad faith, or willful or intentional misconduct with respect to
such acts or omissions. When the Property Trustee incurs expenses or renders
services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(4) or
Section 5.1(5) of the Indenture, the expenses (including the reasonable
charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of
this Trust Agreement.
No Trustee may claim any lien or charge on any Trust Property as a
result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.
The Depositor and any Trustee (in the case of the Property Trustee,
subject to Section 8.8 hereof) may engage in or possess an interest in other
business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others,
similar or dissimilar to the business of the Trust, and the Trust and the
Holders of Trust Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust
Agreement in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived
therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the
business of the Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. Neither the
Depositor, nor any Trustee, shall be obligated to present any particular
investment or other opportunity to the Trust even if such opportunity is of a
character that, if presented to the Trust, could be taken by the Trust, and
the Depositor or any Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account
(individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such
particular investment or other opportunity. Any Trustee may engage or be
interested in any financial or other transaction with the Depositor or any
Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as depository for, trustee or agent
for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other
obligations of the Depositor or its Affiliates.
SECTION 8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of
Trustees.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that
is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
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requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and
with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to
the Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural
person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware
or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of
Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law
that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.
SECTION 8.8 Conflicting Interests.
If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall
either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner
provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and
this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at
any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the
Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust
Property may at the time be located, the Depositor and the Administrative
Trustees, by agreed action of the majority of such Trustees, shall have power
to appoint, and upon the written request of the Administrative Trustees, the
Depositor shall for such purpose join with the Administrative Trustees in the
execution, delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to appoint, one or more Persons approved by the Property
Trustee either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all
or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as
separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may
be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or
Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed
necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. If
the Depositor does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request so to do, or in case a Debenture Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee alone shall have power to
make such appointment. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant
to this Section shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years
of age and a resident of the United States or (ii) a legal entity with its
principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or
more persons authorized to bind such entity.
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Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any
co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such
co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any and
all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and
delivered by the Depositor.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms,
namely:
(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered and all
rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of
securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to be
deposited or pledged with, the Trustees specified hereunder shall be exercised
solely by such Trustees and not by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or
imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any property covered by such
appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by
the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or
separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing
such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law
of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the
Property Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in
which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and
performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing
executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor, may accept the
resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under
this Section, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation
of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence
of the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the
Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and
performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to
effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or
separate trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner
provided in this Section.
(d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property Trustee or any other
trustee hereunder.
(e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of
a co-trustee or separate trustee.
(f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be
deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.
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SECTION 8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
No resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee") and
no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11.
Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee
may resign at any time. The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee shall
give written notice thereof to the Securityholders and the Administrative
Trustee shall give notice thereof to the Depositor. If the instrument of
acceptance by the successor Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have
been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of
the Trust, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Relevant Trustee.
Unless a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, any Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Common
Securityholder. If a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may
be removed at such time by Act of the Holders of a majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its
individual capacity and on behalf of the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may
be removed by the Common Securityholder at any time. If the instrument of
acceptance by the successor Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have
been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 30 days after such removal, the
Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Trust, any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
If any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting
as Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for any
cause, at a time when no Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder
delivered to the retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee
or Trustees, and the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.11. If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee
shall resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to act as the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, at a time when a
Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Preferred Securityholders, by Act of the Securityholders of a majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding delivered to
the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Relevant
Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If an Administrative Trustee shall
resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at
a time when a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Common Securityholder by Act of the Common Securityholder
delivered to the Administrative Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor
Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees and such successor
Administrative Trustee or Trustees shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been
so appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Preferred Securityholders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any
Securityholder who has
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been a Securityholder of Trust Securities for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of a Trustee (other than an Administrative Trustee) and each
appointment of a successor Trustee (other than an Administrative Trustee) to
all Securityholders in the manner provided in Section 10.10 and shall give
notice to the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the
Property Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who
is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Depositor,
incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence
or incapacity may be filled by (a) the unanimous act of the remaining
Administrative Trustees if there are at least two of them or (b) otherwise by
the Depositor (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies
the eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees or Delaware Trustee,
as the case may be, set forth in Section 8.7).
SECTION 8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee,
the retiring Relevant Trustee and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect
to the Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein
each successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a)
shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer
and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust and (b) shall add to or change
any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement as shall be necessary to provide
for or facilitate the administration of the Trust by more than one Relevant
Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such amendment shall
constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and upon the execution and
delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such
successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Relevant Trustee; but, on written request of the Trust or any successor
Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer
and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all
proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder
with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.
Upon written request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the
Trust shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights,
powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as
the case may be.
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No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified
and eligible under this Article.
SECTION 8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business.
Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee
may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant
Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all
the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor
of such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise
qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of
any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
SECTION 8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or
Trust.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
similar judicial proceeding relative to the Trust or any other obligor upon
the Trust Securities or the property of the Trust or of such other obligor or
their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any
Distributions on the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the
Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Trust for the payment of
any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any
Distributions owing and unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file
such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property
Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial
proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on 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 Property Trustee and, in the event
the Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to
the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property
Trustee.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement adjustment or compensation affecting
the Trust Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Property Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
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SECTION 8.14 Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) The Property Trustee shall transmit to Securityholders such
reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust
Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. If required by Section 313(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall, within sixty days after
each May 15 following the date of this Trust Agreement deliver to
Securityholders a brief report, dated as of such May 15, which complies with
the provisions of such Section 313(a).
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with each national
stock exchange, the Nasdaq National Market or such other interdealer quotation
system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Trust Securities are
listed or traded, if any, with the Commission and with the Depositor. The
Depositor will promptly notify the Property Trustee of any such listing or
trading.
SECTION 8.15 Reports to the Property Trustee.
The Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust
shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information
as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the
compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act
in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the
Trust Indenture Act. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to
the Property Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Property
Trustee's receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any
information contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein, including the Trust's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Property Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers'
Certificates).
SECTION 8.16 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of
the Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance
with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement
that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314 (c) of the Trust
Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer
pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the
form of an Officers' Certificate.
SECTION 8.17 Number of Trustees.
(a) The number of Trustees shall be four, provided that the Holder of
all of the Common Securities by written instrument may increase or decrease
the number of Administrative Trustees. The Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee may be the same Person.
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(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the number
of Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 8.17(a), or if
the number of Trustees is increased pursuant to Section 8.17(a), a vacancy
shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a Trustee appointed in
accordance with Section 8.10.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy,
incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not
operate to dissolve, terminate or annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the
number of Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by
the appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 8.10,
the Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the
powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the
duties imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 8.18 Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent
with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21
his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in
Section 2.7(a), including any registration statement or amendment thereto
filed with the Commission, or making any other governmental filing; and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from
time to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such
things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust
or the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative
Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited
by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust Agreement, as
set forth herein.
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1 Termination Upon Expiration Date.
Unless earlier terminated, the Trust shall automatically terminate on
December 31, 2051 (the "Expiration Date"), following the distribution of the
Trust Property in accordance with Section 9.4.
SECTION 9.2 Early Termination.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early
Termination Event":
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the
dissolution or liquidation of, the Depositor or the Holder of the Common
Securities;
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(b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the Depositor
at any time to terminate the Trust and, after satisfaction of liabilities to
creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, distribute Debentures to
Securityholders in exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is
optional and wholly within the discretion of the Depositor);
(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection
with the redemption of all of the Debentures; and
(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Trust by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.3 Termination.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and
the Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to
occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to
Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or
upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2, of
all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the final payment of the
Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Trust; and (c)
the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees,
including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the
Trust or the Securityholders.
SECTION 9.4 Liquidation.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d)
of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be
liquidated by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to be
possible by distributing, after satisfaction or the making of reasonable
provisions for the payment of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as
provided by applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount of
Debentures, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by
the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid mailed not later
than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of
Trust Securities at such Holder's address appearing in the Securities
Register. All notices of liquidation shall:
(i) state the CUSIP Number of the Trust Securities;
(ii) state the Liquidation Date;
(iii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date,
the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and
any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will
be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures; and
(iv) provide such information with respect to the
mechanics by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates
for Debentures, or if Section 9.4(d)
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applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative
Trustees or the Property Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect
the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Debentures to
Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days prior to the Liquidation
Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment
of a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the
Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be
Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Debentures will
be issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such
certificates to the Administrative Trustees or their agent for exchange, (iii)
the Depositor shall use its best efforts to have the Debentures listed on the
New York Stock Exchange or on such other exchange, interdealer quotation
system or self-regulatory organization as the Preferred Securities are then
listed or traded, (iv) any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered
for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures, accruing
interest at the rate provided for in the Debentures from the last Distribution
Date on which a Distribution was made on such Trust Securities Certificates
until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so
surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be made to Holders of
Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such Debentures) and (v) all
rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the
right of such Securityholders to receive Debentures upon surrender of Trust
Securities Certificates.
(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this
Section 9.4, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Debentures in the
manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be
practical, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Trust shall be
dissolved, wound-up or terminated, by the Property Trustee. In such event, on
the date of the dissolution, winding-up or other termination of the Trust,
Securityholders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust
available for distribution to Securityholders, after satisfaction of
liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount
equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the
"Liquidation Distribution"). If, upon any such dissolution, winding up or
termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the
Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate
Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the
amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro
rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common
Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such
dissolution, winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with
Holders of Preferred Securities, except that, if a Debenture Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securities shall have a priority
over the Common Securities.
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SECTION 9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of
the Trust.
The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be
replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other Person, except
pursuant to this Article IX. At the request of the Depositor, with the consent
of the Administrative Trustees and without the consent of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, the Trust
may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a
trust organized as such under the laws of any State; provided, that (i) such
successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the
Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities or (b) substitutes for the
Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as
the Preferred Securities (the "Successor Securities") so long as the Successor
Securities rank the same as the Preferred Securities rank in priority with
respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and
otherwise, (ii) the Depositor expressly appoints a trustee of such successor
entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the
holder of the Debentures, (iii) the Successor Securities are listed or traded,
or any Successor Securities will be listed upon notification of issuance, on
any national securities exchange or other organization on which the Preferred
Securities are then listed or traded, if any, (iv) such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the
Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by
any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, (v) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does
not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of
the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material
respect, (vi) such successor entity has a purpose identical to that of the
Trust, (vii) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease, the Depositor has received an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the
rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Preferred Securities
(including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, and (b)
following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor entity will be
required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act and (viii)
the Depositor owns all of the common securities of such successor entity and
guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor
Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of 100%
in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate,
merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other Person or
permit any other Person to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or
replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Trust or the successor entity to
be classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income
tax purposes.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1 Limitation of Rights of Securityholders.
The death, incapacity, liquidation, dissolution, termination or
bankruptcy of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust
Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor entitle
the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any Securityholder for
such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding
in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated
hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the
parties hereto or any of them.
SECTION 10.2 Liability of the Common Securityholder.
The Holder of the Common Securities shall be liable for all of the
debts and obligations of the Trust (other than with respect to the Trust
Securities) to the extent not satisfied out of the Trust's assets.
SECTION 10.3 Amendment.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the
Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees and the
Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) to cure any
ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions
with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which
shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement,
or (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement
to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust will be
classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust at
all times that any Trust Securities are outstanding or to ensure that the
Trust will not be required to register as an investment company under the 1940
Act; provided, however, that in the case of clause (i) or clause (ii), such
action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Securityholder, and any amendments of this Trust Agreement shall become
effective when notice thereof is given to the Securityholders.
(b) Except as provided in Section 10.3(c) hereof, any provision of
this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trustees and the Depositor with (i)
the consent of Trust Securityholders representing not less than a majority
(based upon Liquidation Amounts) of the Trust Securities then Outstanding and
(ii) receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Trustees in accordance
with such amendment will not affect the Trust's status as a grantor trust for
United States federal income tax purposes or the Trust's exemption from status
of an investment company under the 1940 Act.
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(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this
Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder (such
consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this
Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount
of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as
of a specified date or (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date;
notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of
the Securityholders (such consent being obtained in accordance with Section
6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this paragraph (c) of this Section 10.3 may not be
amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no
Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement
which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from
status of an investment company under the 1940 Act or fail or cease to be
classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary,
without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not be amended
in a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made,
the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of
such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be
required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement which affects its
own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property
Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers'
Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in
compliance with this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.4 Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease.
The Depositor shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge into
the Depositor or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to the Depositor, unless it has complied with the
terms of Section 8.1 of the Indenture.
SECTION 10.5 Separability.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust
Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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SECTION 10.6 Governing Law.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE
SECURITYHOLDERS, THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST
AGREEMENT AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF
LAWS PRINCIPLES).
SECTION 10.7 Payments Due on Non-Business Day.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a
day that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such
date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (except
as otherwise provided in Sections 4.1(a) and 4.2(d)), with the same force and
effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no interest
shall accrue thereon for the period after such date.
SECTION 10.8 Successors.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the
benefit of any successor to the Depositor, the Trust or the Relevant Trustee,
including any successor by operation of law. Except in connection with a
consolidation, merger or sale involving the Depositor that is permitted under
Article Eight of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in
writing to perform the Depositor's obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall
not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 10.9 Headings.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall
not affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.10 Reports, Notices and Demands.
Any report, notice, demand or other communication which by any
provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or
served to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor may be given or served
in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United
States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed,
(a) in the case of a Preferred Securityholder, to such Preferred
Securityholder as such Securityholder's name and address may appear on the
Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Common Securityholder or the
Depositor, to MBNA Corporation, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, facsimile no.: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇. Such notice, demand or other
communication to or upon a Securityholder shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or
transmission.
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Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of
this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon
the Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or the Administrative
Trustees shall be given in writing addressed (until another address is
published by the Trust) as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee
to The Bank of New York, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; (b) with respect to the Delaware
Trustee, to The Bank of New York (Delaware), ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, with a copy to the Property Trustee at the address set forth
in Clause (a); and (c) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at
the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked "Attention
Administrative Trustees of MBNA Capital C." Such notice, demand or other
communication to or upon the Trust or the Property Trustee shall be deemed to
have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing
by the Trust or the Property Trustee.
SECTION 10.11 Agreement Not to Petition.
Each of the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the
Securityholders that, until at least one year and one day after the Trust has
been terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in
the filing of, a petition against the Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law (including, without limitation, the United
States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, "Bankruptcy Laws") or otherwise join in
the commencement of any proceeding against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law.
In the event the Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 10.11,
the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders, that at the
expense of the Depositor, it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or
otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor
against the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense
that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be
stopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel
for the Trustee or the Trust may assert. The provisions of this Section 10.11
shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.12 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required or deemed to be part of this Trust Agreement
and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee which is a trustee
for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with
another provision hereof which is required or deemed to be included in this
Trust Agreement by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such
required or deemed provision shall control. If any provision of this Trust
Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which
may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply
to this Trust Agreement as so modified or excluded, as the case may be.
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(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust
Agreement shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity
securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the
Trust.
SECTION 10.13 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and
Indenture.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT
ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE
UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A
BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER
TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT
OF THE TRUST, SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND
PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE
AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
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SECTION 10.14 Counterparts.
This Trust Agreement may contain more than one counterpart of the
signature page and this Trust Agreement may be executed by the affixing of the
signature of each of the Trustees of one of such counterpart signature pages.
All of such counterpart signature pages shall be read as though one, and they
shall have the same force and effect as though all of the signers had signed a
single signature page.
MBNA CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Property Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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M. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
as Administrative Trustee
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▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
as Administrative Trustee
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EXHIBIT A
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EXHIBIT B
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EXHIBIT C
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EXHIBIT D