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EXHIBIT 99.T3C
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THE HALLWOOD GROUP INCORPORATED
TO
BANK ONE, N. A.
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
DATED AS OF ___________, 1998
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8.5% COLLATERALIZED SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES
DUE JULY 31, 2005
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION............................. 1
Section 101 Definitions....................................................... 1
Section 102 Compliance Certificates and Opinions.............................. 6
Section 103 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee............................ 6
Section 104 Acts of Holders................................................... 7
Section 105 Notices, etc., to Trustee and the Company........................ 7
Section 106 Notice to Holders: Waiver........................................ 8
Section 107 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................................ 8
Section 108 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents......................... 8
Section 109 Successors and Assigns........................................... 8
Section 110 Separability Clause.............................................. 8
Section 111 Benefits of Indenture............................................ 8
Section 112 Governing Laws................................................... 8
Section 113 Legal Holidays................................................... 8
ARTICLE II - SECURITY FORMS.................................................................... 9
Section 201 Forms Generally.................................................. 9
Section 202 Form of Face of Security......................................... 9
Section 203 Form of Reverse of Security...................................... 10
Section 204 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.................. 12
ARTICLE III - THE SECURITIES................................................................... 12
Section 301 Title and Terms.................................................. 13
Section 302 Denominations.................................................... 13
Section 303 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating................... 13
Section 304 Temporary Securities............................................. 14
Section 305 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.............. 14
Section 306 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities................. 15
Section 307 Payment of Interest: Interest Rights Preserved................... 15
Section 308 Persons Deemed Owners............................................ 16
Section 309 Cancellation..................................................... 16
Section 310 Computation of Interest.......................................... 16
Section 311 Payments Net of Withholding Taxes................................ 16
ARTICLE IV - DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE............................................................ 16
Section 401 Termination of Company's Obligations............................. 16
Section 402 Application of Trust Money....................................... 17
Section 403 Repayment to Company............................................. 17
Section 404 Reinstatement.................................................... 17
ARTICLE V - REMEDIES........................................................................... 18
Section 501 Events of Default................................................ 18
Section 502 Acceleration of Maturity: Rescission and Annulment............... 18
Section 503 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement,
by Trustee....................................................... 19
Section 504 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................. 19
Section 505 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities...... 20
Section 506 Application of Money Collected................................... 20
Section 507 Limitation on Suits.............................................. 20
Section 508 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest............................................. 21
Section 509 Restoration of Rights and Remedies............................... 21
Section 510 Rights and Remedies Cumulative................................... 21
Section 511 Delay or Omission Not Waiver..................................... 21
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Section 512 Control by Holders................................................ 22
Section 513 Waiver of Past Defaults........................................... 22
Section 514 Undertaking for Costs............................................. 22
ARTICLE VI - THE TRUSTEE........................................................................ 22
Section 601 Certain Duties and Responsibilities............................... 22
Section 602 Notice of Defaults................................................ 23
Section 603 Certain Rights of Trustee......................................... 23
Section 604 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities............ 24
Section 605 May Hold Securities............................................... 24
Section 606 Money Held in Trust............................................... 24
Section 607 Compensation and Reimbursement.................................... 25
Section 608 Disqualification; Conflicting Interest............................ 25
Section 609 Corporate Trustee Required Eligibility............................ 29
Section 610 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor................. 29
Section 611 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............................ 30
Section 612 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business....... 30
Section 613 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company................. 30
Section 614 Authenticating Agent.............................................. 33
ARTICLE VII - HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY................................. 34
Section 701 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders......... 34
Section 702 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders............ 34
Section 703 Reports by Trustee................................................ 35
Section 704 Reports by Company................................................ 36
ARTICLE VIII - CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE............................. 37
Section 801 Company Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.................. 37
Section 802 Successor Substituted............................................. 37
ARTICLE IX - SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES............................................................ 37
Section 901 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders................ 37
Section 902 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders................... 38
Section 903 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.............................. 38
Section 904 Effect of Supplemental Indentures................................. 38
Section 905 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act............................... 38
Section 906 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures................ 39
Section 907 Effect on Senior Indebtedness..................................... 39
ARTICLE X - SECURITY............................................................................ 39
Section 1001 Pledge Agreement.................................................. 39
Section 1002 Recording, Opinions and Certificates.............................. 39
Section 1003 Authorization of Actions to Be Taken By the Trustee
Under the Pledge Agreement........................................ 40
Section 1004 Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee
Under the Pledge Agreement........................................ 40
Section 1005 Release of Assets from Security Pool.............................. 40
Section 1006 Certain Covenants of the Company with respect to the Security
Pool.......................................................... 41
ARTICLE XI - COVENANTS.......................................................................... 42
Section 1101 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest........................ 42
Section 1102 Maintenance of Office or Agency................................... 42
Section 1103 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust................... 42
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Section 1104 No Restriction on Payment at Stated Maturity........................ 43
Section 1105 Corporate Existence; Conduct of Business............................ 43
Section 1106 Compliance Certificates............................................. 43
Section 1107 Statement by Officers as to Default................................. 43
Section 1108 Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws............................. 44
Section 1109 Security Pool....................................................... 44
ARTICLE XII - REDEMPTION OR REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES............................................... 44
Section 1201 Right of Redemption................................................. 44
Section 1202 Applicability of Article............................................ 44
Section 1203 Notice to Trustee................................................... 44
Section 1204 Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed................... 44
Section 1205 Notice of Redemption................................................ 45
Section 1206 Deposit of Redemption Price......................................... 45
Section 1207 Funding for Redemption or Repurchase................................ 45
Section 1208 Securities Payable on Redemption Date............................... 46
Section 1209 Securities Redeemed in Part......................................... 46
ARTICLE XIII - SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES......................................................... 46
Section 1301 Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness....................... 46
Section 1302 Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, etc...................... 46
Section 1303 No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default...................... 47
Section 1304 Payment Permitted if No Default..................................... 48
Section 1305 Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness............. 48
Section 1306 Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights......................... 48
Section 1307 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination................................. 49
Section 1308 No Waiver of Subordination Provisions............................... 49
Section 1309 Notice to Trustee................................................... 49
Section 1310 Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent...... 50
Section 1311 Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.................................... 50
Section 1312 Article Applicable to Paying Agents................................. 50
Section 1313 Reliance............................................................ 50
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Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939
and Indenture, dated as of March 2, 1993
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section
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Section 310 (a) (1).......................................................... 609
(a) (2).......................................................... 609
(a) (3).......................................................... Not Applicable
(a) (4).......................................................... Not Applicable
(b) ............................................................ 608, 610
Section 311 (a) ............................................................ 613 (a)
(b) ............................................................ 613 (b)
(b) (2).......................................................... 703 (a) (2), ▇▇▇ (▇)
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ (▇) ............................................................ 701, 702 (a)
(b) ............................................................ 702 (b)
(c) ............................................................ 702 (c)
Section 313 (a) ............................................................ 703 (a)
(b) ............................................................ 703 (b)
(c) ............................................................ 703 (a), 703 (b)
(d) ............................................................ 703 (c)
Section 314 (a) ............................................................ 704
(b) ............................................................ 1002
(c) (1).......................................................... 102
(c) (2).......................................................... 102
(c) (3).......................................................... Not Applicable
(d) ............................................................ 1001, 1002, 1005
(e) ............................................................ 102
Section 315 (a) ............................................................ 601 (a)
(b) ............................................................ 602, 703 (a) (6)
(c) ............................................................ 601 (b)
(d) ............................................................ 601
(d) (1).......................................................... 601 (a)
(d) (2).......................................................... 601 (c) (2)
(d) (3).......................................................... 601 (c) (3)
(e) ............................................................ 514
Section 316 (a) ............................................................ 101
(a) (1) (A)...................................................... 502, 512
(a) (1) (B)...................................................... 513
(a) (2).......................................................... Not Applicable
(b) ............................................................ 508
Section 317 (a) (1).......................................................... 503
(a) (2).......................................................... 504
(b) ............................................................ 1103
Section 318 (a) ............................................................ 107
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
a part of the Indenture.
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INDENTURE, dated as of _______________, 1998, between HALLWOOD GROUP
INCORPORATED, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the "Company"), and
BANC ONE TEXAS N.A., a national banking association, as trustee (hereinafter
called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its 8.5%
Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debentures due July 31, 2005 (hereinafter
called the "Securities") of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set
forth, to be issued to the holders of the Company's outstanding 7%
Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debentures due July 31, 2000 (the "Original
Series Debentures") who have validly tendered Original Series Debentures to the
Company pursuant to an exchange offer made by the Company pursuant to the
Exchange Offer Circular dated May __, 1998, and to provide therefor the Company
has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture.
All things necessary have been done to make the Securities, when
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly
issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company and to make this
Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its
terms.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises, it is mutually covenanted and
agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the
Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP; and
(d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to
any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Articles Six and Ten, are defined in
those Articles.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning specified in
Section 104(a).
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any Person, (a) any Person who,
directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common
control with, such Person, or (b) any Person who is a director or officer (i) of
such Person, (ii) of any Subsidiary of such Person or (iii)of any Person
described in clause (a) above. For purposes of this definition, control of a
Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect, (x) to vote 10 percent or more
of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of
such Person, or (y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of such Person whether through ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise.
"Authenticating Agent" means, initially, State Street Bank and Trust
Company, or any other Person authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the
Company to authenticate Securities.
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"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company
or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day
on which commercial banks in New York, New York or DALLAS, TEXAS are authorized
or required by law to close.
"Capital Stock" means any and all shares, interests, participations,
rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock.
"Collateral" means the assets of the Company which are pledged pursuant
to the Pledge Agreement to secure the Securities, including assets in the
Security Pool and the Senior Collateral.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 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.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company (a)by the Chairman of its Board of Directors,
its President or any Vice President, and (b) by its Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consent of the Holders" means the requisite principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities with respect to any consent of the Holders pursuant to
this Indenture which, except as otherwise specifically stated in any provision
of this Indenture, shall be at least a majority of the principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office at the date of execution of this Indenture is located
at ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
"Default" means an event or condition that, with notice or lapse of
time, or both, would become an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five.
"Exchange Closing" means the date of consummation of the exchange offer
made by the Company to the registered holders of Original Series Debentures
pursuant to the Exchange Offer Circular dated May __, 1998.
"Fair Value" means, in the case of Traded Securities, the Net Value of
such Traded Securities and, in the case of any assets other than Traded
Securities, the price which could be negotiated in an arm's length market
transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer,
neither of whom is under undue pressure to complete the transaction, as
determined in good faith by the Company's Board of Directors or, to the extent
required under Section 1005, an independent engineer, appraiser or other expert.
"Funded Indebtedness" means indebtedness for borrowed money which by
its terms matures more than one year from the date of determination thereof, or
which is extendible or renewable at the option of the obligor to a time more
than one year from the date of determination thereof.
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"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States of America as in effect from time to time.
"Guarantee" of a Person means any guarantee or other contingent
liability (other than any endorsement for collection or deposit in the ordinary
course of business), direct or indirect, of such Person with respect to any
obligation of another Person, through an agreement or otherwise, including,
without limitation, (a) any other endorsement or discount with recourse or
undertaking substantially equivalent to or having economic effect similar to a
guarantee in respect of any such obligation and (b) any agreement (i) to
purchase, or to advance or supply funds for the payment or purchase of, any such
obligation, (ii) to purchase, sell or lease property, products, materials,
supplies, transportation or services, to enable such other Person to pay any
such obligation or to assure the owner thereof against loss regardless of the
delivery or nondelivery of the property, products, materials, supplies,
transportation or services, or (iii) to make any loan, advance or capital
contribution to or other investment in, or to otherwise provide funds to or for,
such other Person to enable such Person to satisfy any obligation (including any
liability for a dividend, stock liquidation payment or expense) or to assure a
minimum equity, working capital or other balance sheet condition in respect of
any such obligation. The amount of the Guarantee shall be equal to the
outstanding amount of the obligation directly or indirectly guaranteed.
"Holder" means a Person on whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indebtedness" of a Person means (a) all indebtedness of such Person
for borrowed money, (b) all indebtedness of such Person for the deferred
purchase price of property or services (excluding trade payables incurred in the
ordinary course of business), (c) all obligations of such Person under leases
which have been or, in accordance with GAAP, should be, recorded as capital
leases, (d) all indebtedness of such Person arising under acceptance facilities,
(e) the face amount of all letters of credit issued for the account of such
Person, (f) all liabilities (other than rental commitments under operating
leases, net of rental commitments under subleases thereof) secured by any Lien
on any property owned by such Person, to the extent attributable to such
Person's interest in such property, even though such Person has not assumed or
become liable for the payment thereof, (g) obligations of such Person under any
interest rate swap agreement, interest rate collar agreement or other similar
agreement or arrangement designed to protect against fluctuations in interest
rates, and (h) any Guarantee of such Person with respect to Indebtedness of
another Person.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Intercreditor Agreement" means any agreement between the Trustee, on
behalf of the Holders of Securities, and any other Person that has a Lien on the
Collateral.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an installment of
interest on the Securities.
"Investment Grade Securities" means marketable direct obligations
issued by any Person which (i) mature within one year, (ii) are rated in one of
the three highest generic rating categories by either Standard & Poor's
Corporation or ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc. and (iii) are not listed (except
with positive implications) in Credit Watch or any successor publication
published by Standard & Poor's Corporation.
"Lien" means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment for security, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or
other), or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential
arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever under the Uniform Commercial Code
or comparable law of any jurisdiction in respect of any of the foregoing.
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security means the date on
which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption (optional or mandatory) or otherwise.
"Net Proceeds" means the excess, if any, of (i) the cash (or Fair Value
of other assets) received in connection with the disposition of an asset by the
Company over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness which
is secured by such asset and which is required to be repaid in connection with
the disposition thereof, plus (B) the reasonable
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out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such
disposition, plus (C) provision for taxes, including federal, state and local
income taxes, attributable to the disposition of such asset.
"Net Value" means (a) with respect to assets in the Security Pool that
are securities traded or quoted on a national securities exchange, or, if traded
or quoted in the over-the-counter market, for which closing bid and asked prices
are reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. Automated
Quotation System ("NASDAQ") or the National Quotation Bureau, Inc. ("NQB")
("Traded Securities"), on the trading day prior to the date of determination of
Net Value, (i) the last reported sales price, regular way, on such day on the
principal securities exchange on which such security is then listed or admitted
to unlisted trading privileges, (ii) if no sale takes place on such day on any
such exchange, the average of the last reported closing bid and asked prices,
regular way, on such day as officially quoted on any such exchange, or (iii) if
the security is not then listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on
any securities exchange, the average of the last reported closing bid and asked
prices on such day in the over-the-counter market, as furnished by NASDAQ or
NQB, less, in each case, the principal amount of any Indebtedness which is
secured by such Traded Securities, and, (b) with respect to securities that are
not Traded Securities, the consolidated net book value, determined in accordance
with GAAP, of an asset in the Security Pool.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed (a) by the Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Company, the President or one of its Vice
Presidents, and (b) by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Series Debentures" means the Company's 7% Collateralized
Senior Subordinated Debentures due July 31, 2000 referred to in the first
Recital of this Indenture.
"Original Series Debentures Indenture" means the Indenture dated as of
March 2, 1993 between the Original Series Debenture Trustee and the Company with
respect to the Original Series Debentures, as such agreement may be amended and
in effect from time to time.
"Original Series Debentures Pledge Agreement" means the Pledge and
Security Agreement dated as of March 2, 1993, by the Company in favor of the
Trustee, as such agreement may be amended and in effect from time to time.
"Original Series Debentures Trustee" means Norwest Bank Minnesota,
National Association, as trustee under the Indenture dated as of March 2, 1993
with respect to the Original Series Debentures, or any duly appointed and acting
successor thereof.
"Outstanding" when used with respect to Securities means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose redemption
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set
aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act
as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities, provided
that notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made; and
(c) Securities in exchange for, or in lieu of, which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there
shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that
such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands the
Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded and
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deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to
be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means, initially, State Street Bank and Trust Company,
which maintains an office in Boston, Massachusetts, and whose address is ▇.▇.
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, or other any Person authorized by the
Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any, on) or interest on any
Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Pledge Agreement" means the Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of
_____________, 1998 by the Company in favor of the Trustee, in substantially the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A, as such agreement may be amended and in
effect from time to time.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or
stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed
or stolen Security.
"Redemption Date" when used with respect to any Securities to be
redeemed means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price" when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date means the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) of the month in
which such Interest Payment Date shall occur.
"Requisite Amount" means with respect to any request, demand or other
action of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture a majority of the principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means the
chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or
vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the
president, any vice president, any assistant vice president, the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any
assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller,
any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Securities" means the Securities referred to in the first Recital of
this Indenture.
"Security Pool" means the pool of assets in which a subordinate Lien
has been granted by the Company as security for the Securities pursuant to the
Pledge Agreement.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Collateral" means those assets in which a senior Lien has been
granted by the Company as security for the Securities pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement.
"Senior Indebtedness" means all Indebtedness of the Company existing at
any time and from time to time which, by its terms, is expressly senior in right
of payment to the Securities.
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"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security, or any
installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means, of any Person, any corporation with respect to
which more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of stock of each class
having ordinary voting power (other than stock or other ownership interests
having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) is at the
time owned by such Person or by one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by
such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force
at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as provided in
Section 905; 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.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument, until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean such successor Trustee.
"Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary organized under
the laws of any State of the United States or the District of Columbia, all the
outstanding shares of which (other than directors' qualifying shares) are at the
time owned by the Company and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries.
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee an Officers, Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if
any, provided for in this Indenture (including any covenants compliance with
which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to the proposed action have
been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include
(i.) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(ii.) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation, if any, upon which the statements or
opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(iii.) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or
not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(iv.) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of,
any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by,
or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified
or covered by only one document, but one
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such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 104. Acts of Holders.
(i.) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given
or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in
person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein
or therein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.
Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the
Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of
any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section
601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the
manner provided in this Section.
(ii.) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which
the Trustee deems sufficient in its sole discretion.
(iii.) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(iv.) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall
bind every future Holder of the same Security or Holder of every
Security issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in
lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, suffered or omitted to be
done by the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
Section 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and the Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(i.) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed, in writing or by telecopier and followed by a writing, mailed
first-class postage prepaid, to or with the Trustee at its Corporate
Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust (with a copy thereof to the
Company at the address specified in Section 105(b)), or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Company and each Holder
by the Trustee; or
(ii.) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed or sent
by telecopier and followed by a writing mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Executive Vice President, or at any
other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
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Section 106. Notice to Holders: Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not later
than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders. Any notice when mailed to a Holder in the aforesaid
manner shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder whether
or not actually received by such Holder. Where this Indenture provides for
notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such
waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders
shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service, or by
reason of any other cause, it shall be impracticable to mail notice of any event
as required by any provision of this Indenture, then any method of giving such
notice as shall be satisfactory of the Trustee shall be deemed to be a
sufficient giving of such notice.
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person (other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, any Paying Agent, the Holders and the holders of Senior Indebtedness)
any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
Section 112. Governing Laws.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or
principal (and premium, if any) need not be made on such date, but may be made
on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on
the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity;
provided, however, that interest shall accrue with respect to any such principal
payment (at the rate applicable to the Securities during
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the period of such extension as herein provided) for the period from and after
such Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to the next
succeeding Business Day, and shall be payable on such next succeeding Business
Day.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities and the Trustee's Certificate of Authentication shall be
in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks or
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Any portion of the text of
any Security may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate
reference thereto on the face of the Security.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in any other
manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities
may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Section 202. Form of Face of Security.
THE HALLWOOD GROUP INCORPORATED
8.5% Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debenture
due July 31, 2005
No. HWG- $________________
THE HALLWOOD GROUP INCORPORATED, a Delaware corporation (herein called
the "Company", which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
_______________________________ or registered assigns, the principal sum of
________________________ Dollars (or such larger amount as may be payable in
accordance with the terms of this Security and the Indenture) on July 31, 2005,
at the office or agency of the Company referred to below, and to pay interest
thereon from the later of the date hereof or the most recent date through which
interest has been paid hereon at the rate of 8.5% per annum, which interest
shall accrue and be payable (in cash) quarterly on January 31, April 30, July
31, and October 31 and each year, commencing on July 31, 1998, until the
principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest payable and
punctually paid on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in such
Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth day (whether or not
a Business Day) of the month in which such Interest Payment Date shall occur.
Any such interest not so punctually paid shall forthwith cease to be payable to
the Holder on such Regular Record Date, and may be paid to the Person in whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of
Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture. Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any,
on) and interest on this Security shall be made, subject to the provisions of
Section 301 of the Indenture, at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for that purpose in Boston, Massachusetts, with cash interest to be paid in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that
payment of interest may be made, subject to said Section 301 of the Indenture,
at the option of the Company by mailing of a check to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear on tie Security Register.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been duly executed
by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent referred to on the reverse hereof by
manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be duly
executed.
THE HALLWOOD GROUP INCORPORATED
[Corporate Seal]
By:
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Title:
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Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the
Company designated as its 8.5% Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debentures due
July 31, 2005 (herein called the "Securities"), limited in aggregate original
principal amount to $2,055,443, which may be issued under an indenture (herein
called the "Indenture") dated as of ______________, 1998 between the Company and
Bank Texas, N.A., a national banking association, as trustee (herein called the
"Trustee", which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties,
obligations and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and
are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The indebtedness evidenced by the Securities will constitute
subordinated Indebtedness of the Company that is on a parity with the
Indebtedness evidenced by the Original Series Debentures; provided, however, to
the extent and in the manner provided in the Indenture, the indebtedness
evidenced by the Securities is subordinate and subject in right of payment to
the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness and the Lien on certain of
the assets which secures repayment of the indebtedness evidenced by the
Securities is subordinate to the Lien which secure other indebtedness of the
Company, including the Original Series Debentures. Each Holder of this Security,
by accepting the same (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b)
authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in the
Indenture, and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such purpose.
The Securities are secured by a pledge to the Trustee of shares of
capital stock of certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company and the
Company's holdings of shares of capital stock of certain public companies.
The Securities are subject to redemption at the election of the
Company, as a whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, upon not less
than 30 nor more than 60 days, notice by first-class mail, at a redemption price
equal to 100 percent of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed,
together in each case with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, as provided
in Section 1201 of the Indenture. Any redemption of Securities shall first be
made in respect of Securities outstanding in denominations of less than $1,000.
In the case of any redemption of Securities, interest installments
whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to
the Holders of such Securities of record at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date referred to on the face hereof. Securities (or portions thereof) for
whose redemption and payment provision is made in accordance with the Indenture
shall cease to bear interest from and after the date fixed for redemption.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities for the unredeemed portion hereof shall (subject to
Section 301 of the Indenture) be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon
the cancellation hereof.
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If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of
all the Securities (together with any accrued interest thereon) may be declared,
or may become, due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.
The Indenture permits the amendment thereof and the modification of the
rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders under the
Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the
Holders of the Requisite Amount of Outstanding Securities; provided, however,
that certain amendments and modifications are not permitted without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, and certain other
amendments and modifications are permitted without the consent of any Holders.
The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified
percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance
by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past
defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver
by or on behalf of the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding
upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any
Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof
or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon
this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any, on)
and interest on this Security at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin
currency or instrument, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable on the Security Register
of the Company, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at
the office of the Paying Agent, or any other office or agency of the Company
maintained for such purpose in Boston, Massachusetts, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities,
of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons
only in denominations of $100 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in
the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the
Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
in the same denomination as the denomination in which the Securities are then
outstanding, in a larger denomination or in a smaller denomination as requested
by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange or redemption of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
Prior to and at the time of due presentment of this Security for
registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as
the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent shall be affected by notice to
the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an
assignee, such as: TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the
entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as
tenants in common), CUST (=Custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gifts to Minors
Act).
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture, which has in it the text of this Security in
larger type. Requests may be made to: The Hallwood Group Incorporated, ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention:
Corporate Secretary.
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I/we assign and transfer this Security to
Insert assignee's Social Security or tax ID No ..........
___________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint _______________________________________________________
______________________________, as agent to transfer this Security on the books
of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Dated:_____________________________ Signed:__________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)
Section d. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
Dated:______________________________
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned
Indenture.
BANK TEXAS, N.A. STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee, as Authenticating Agent,
By:_________________________________ or By:________________________________
Authorized Signature Authorized Signature
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Title and Terms.
The aggregate original principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this indenture is limited to $_____________,
excluding Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Section 304,
305, 306, 906 or 1208.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "8.5%
Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debentures due July 31, 2005" of the Company.
Their Stated Maturity shall be July 31, 2005, and they shall bear interest prior
to default from the later of their date, which shall be the date of original
issuance of the Securities as provided herein, or the most recent date through
which interest has been paid thereon at the rate of 8.5% per annum, which
interest shall accrue and be payable in cash quarterly on April 30, July 31,
October 31 and January 31 of each year, commencing on July 31, 1998, until the
principal of such Securities is paid or duly provided for.
The principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on the
Securities shall be payable, subject to the following provisos, at the office or
agency o the Company maintained for such purpose in Boston, Massachusetts;
provided, however,
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that, at the option of the Company, interest may be paid by mailing of a check
for such interest to the addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as such
addresses shall appear on the Security Register.
The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article Twelve.
The lien on certain assets securing the Securities shall be
subordinated to the lien in such assets securing other indebtedness of the
Company, including the Original Series Debentures, and the Securities shall be
subordinated in right of payment to Senior Indebtedness as provided in Article
Thirteen.
Section 302. Denominations.
The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without
coupons and only in denominations of $100 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by the
Chairman of its Board of Directors, its President or any of its Vice Presidents.
The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or
facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance
with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as
provided in this Indenture and not otherwise.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication, substantially in the form provided for herein,
duly executed by the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent by manual signature of
an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may
execute, and upon Company order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed
or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced
by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary securities at the office
or agency of the Company designated for such purpose pursuant to Section 1102,
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the
temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
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Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1102 being herein sometimes
referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration
of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Paying Agent is hereby
initially appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any security at the
office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1102, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate
and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or
more new Securities of any authorized denomination or denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other
Securities of any authorized denomination or denominations, of a like aggregate
principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such
office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer,
or for exchange or redemption, shall (if so required by the Company or the
Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by
the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange or redemption of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other
than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1208 not involving any transfer.
The Company, the Trustee or the Security Registrar, as the case may be,
shall not be required (a) to issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or
exchange any Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15
days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of the Securities selected for
redemption under Section 1204 and ending at the close of business on the day of
such mailing, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
Securities being redeemed in part.
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If (a) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or the
Security Registrar or (b) the Company, the Trustee and the Security Registrar
receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security, and there is delivered to the Company, the Trustee and the Security
Registrar such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save all of
them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that
such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall
execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
exchange for any such mutilated Security or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost
or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Securities under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee and the Security
Registrar) connected therewith.
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Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any
and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 307. Payment of Interest: Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the
Regular Record Date; and such Defaulted Interest may, unless the Trustee shall
have made demand therefor as provided in the Securities and Section 503 hereof
(whereupon such Defaulted Interest shall become due and payable as provided in
said Section 503) be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in Subsection (a) or (b) below:
(i.) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
shall notify the Trustee and any Paying Agent in writing of the amount
of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the date
of the proposed payment (which date shall be not less than 60 days
following delivery of such notice), and at the same time the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as in this Subsection provided. Thereupon
the Trustee shall, not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
Trustee of notice of the proposed payment, fix a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which Special Record Date
shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the
date of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Company and any Paying Agent of such Special Record Date. In the name
and at the expense of the Company, the Trustee shall cause notice of
the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder
at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10
days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment
of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having
been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in
whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be
payable pursuant to the following Subsection (b).
(ii.) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon
such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given
by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
Subsection, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall be dated, and carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to and at the time of due presentment for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered as the owner of
such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium,
if any, on) and (subject to Sections 307 and 311) interest
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on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the
Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent, be delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver
to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be
promptly cancelled by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent . No Securities
shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as
provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All
cancelled Securities held by the Trustee may be destroyed or disposed of in
accordance with the Trustee's or the Authenticating Agent's normal practice.
Section 310. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 311. Payments Net of Withholding Taxes.
All payments shall be made net of any applicable withholding or similar
taxes, charges or imposts imposed in connection with such payment.
ARTICLE IV
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section 401. Termination of Company's Obligations.
(i.) The Company may terminate its obligations under the
Securities and this Indenture if all Securities previously
authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
provided in Sect on 306, and (ii) Securities for whose payment money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust
by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company, or discharged from
such trust, as provided in Section 1103) have been delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation and the Company has paid all sums payable by
it hereunder.
(ii.) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 401(b), the
Company may also terminate its obligations under the Securities and
this Indenture if:
(1) the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused
to be deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent and
conveyed all right, title and interest for the
benefit of the Holders, under the terms of an
irrevocable trust agreement in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, as trust
funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders
for that purpose, money or direct non-callable
obligations of the United States of America for the
payment of which obligations the full faith and
credit of the United States is pledge ("U.S.
Government Obligations") maturing as to principal
and interest in such amounts and at such times as
are sufficient (in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee), without consideration of
any reinvestment of such interest, to pay principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on the Outstanding
Securities, to redemption or maturity, provided that
the Trustee or Paying Agent shall have been
irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the
proceeds of such U.S. Government Obligations to the
payment of said principal, premium, if any, and
interest with respect to the Securities, and
provided, further, that from and after the time of
deposit, the money or U.S. Government Obligations
deposited shall not be subject to
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the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of Article Thirteen;
(2) no Event of Default or Default with respect to
the Securities shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of such deposit;
(3) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee
an opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
trust funds will not be subject to any rights of
holders of Senior Indebtedness, including,
without limitation, those arising under Article
Thirteen of this Indenture;
(4) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all
sums then payable by the Company hereunder and
under the Securities; and
(5) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel,
each stating that all conditions precedent
provided for herein relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture have been
complied with.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 401(b), (x) the
Company's obligations in Article Three, Sections 402-404, Articles Six, Seven,
Nine, Sections 1101, 1102, 1103 and 1108 shall survive until the Securities are
no longer Outstanding, and (y) notwithstanding that the Securities are no longer
outstanding, the Company's obligations in Sections 402, 403, 404 and 607 shall
thereafter continue to survive.
(iii.) After any irrevocable deposit pursuant to Section
401(a) or 401(b), the Trustee upon request shall acknowledge in writing
the discharge of the Company's obligations under the Securities and
this Indenture except for the surviving obligations specified above.
Section 402. Application of Trust Money.
The Trustee or Paying Agent shall hold in trust money or U.S.
Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to Section 401, and shall
apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations in
accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of, premium, if any,
and interest on the Securities.
Section 403. Repayment to Company.
Subject to Section 401 hereof, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall
promptly pay to the Company upon request any excess money held by them at any
time and thereupon shall be relieved from all liability with respect to such
money. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request
any money held by them for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest that remains unclaimed for two years, provided that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent before being required to make any payment may at the expense of the
Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in
Boston, Massachusetts, or mail to each Holder entitled to such money notice that
such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified therein which shall
be at least 30 days after the date of such publication or mailing any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company. After
payment to the Company, Holders entitled to such money must look to the Company
for payment as general creditors unless an applicable law designates another
Person, and all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to
such money shall cease.
Section 404. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S.
Government Obligations in accordance with Section 401 by reason of any legal
proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental
authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the
Company's obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived
and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 401,
provided that if the Company has made any payment of principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on any Securities because of the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
such Securities to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government
Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
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ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be 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):
(i.) the Company shall default in (i) the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at its Maturity
(including upon optional or mandatory redemption or otherwise); or (ii)
the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes
due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or
(ii.) the Company shall default in the observance or
performance of, or breach, any of the covenants set forth in (i)
Section 1005 (to the extent relating to actions required to be taken by
the Company in connection with the release of assets from the Security
Pool); (ii) Section 1109; or (iii) the mandatory redemption or
repurchase requirements set forth in Section 1201; or
(iii.) the Company shall default in the observance or
performance of, or breach, any covenant or other agreement contained in
this Indenture other than to the extent constituting an Event of
Default described in clause (b) of this Section 501, and such default
shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days; or
(iv.) an "Event of Default" (as defined in the Original Series
Debenture Indenture) shall have been declared and be continuing with
respect to the Original Series Debentures;
(v.) (i) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall commence
any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future
law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an
order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate
it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other
relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a
receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for
all or any substantial part of its assets, or the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall make a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced against the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries any case, proceeding or other action of a nature
referred to in clause (i). above which (A) results in the entry of an
order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains
undismissed, undischarged or unbounded for a period of 60 days; or
(iii) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall generally not, or
shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its
debts as they become due.
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity: Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default specified in clause (i) or (ii) of Section
501(d) occurs and is continuing, then the principal of the Securities, together
with any accrued interest on the principal amount of such Securities, shall
automatically become immediately due and payable, without any declaration or
other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. If an Event of Default
(other than an Event of Default specified in clause (i) or (ii) of Section
501(d)) occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the
Holders of the Requisite Amount of the Securities Outstanding may, and the
Trustee upon the request of the Holders of the Requisite Amount of the
Securities outstanding shall, by written notice to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders) declare the principal of the Securities to be, and
the same shall become, due and payable five days following the giving of such
notice, together with any accrued interest on the principal amount of such
Securities which shall be deemed matured.
At any time after such declaration of acceleration has been made and
before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by
the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of the
Requisite Amount of the Securities Outstanding, by written notice to the Company
and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
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(i.) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
of money in an amount sufficient to pay
(1) all overdue interest on all Securities,
(2) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities which have become due otherwise than by
such declaration of acceleration and interest
thereon,
(3) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate
stipulated by Section 503, and
(4) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder
and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel; and
(ii.) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of
principal of Securities (which has become due solely by such
declaration of acceleration), have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement,
by Trustee.
If
(i.) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default
continues for a period of 30 days, or
(ii.) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any, on) and, to the extent that
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments
of interest, at the rate borne by the Securities; and, in addition thereto, such
further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee,
in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial
proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid and not delivered
and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce
the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities and
collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities,
wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall in its
discretion deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether
for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or
in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other
proper remedy.
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention
in such proceeding or otherwise,
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(i.) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any, on) and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities (including following the Maturity of any such
Securities occurring due to optional or mandatory redemption thereof)
and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii.) 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
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee
shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay the
Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
and as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. Application of Money Collected.
Subject to Article Thirteen, any money collected by the Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or
dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on
account of principal (or premium, if any, on) or interest, subject to Section
301, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment
if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the Trustee for all amounts due under Section 607;
SECOND: To the holders of Senior Indebtedness to the extent
required by Article Thirteen;
THIRD: To Holders of the Securities for amounts then due and
unpaid on the Securities for principal (and premium, if any, on) and
interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for
principal (and premium, if any, on) and interest, respectively; and
FOURTH: The balance, if any, to the Company, its successors or
assigns or to whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or
as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
Section 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Securities shall have any right to institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(i.) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
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(ii.) the Holders of not less than the Requisite Amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee
to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own
name as Trustee hereunder;
(iii.) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee (in
its individual capacity and as Trustee) reasonable indemnity against
the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with
such request;
(iv.) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(v.) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60 day period by the Holders of
the Requisite Amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture (other than
Section 311), the Holder of any Security shall have the right on the terms
stated herein, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on such Security on the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of
such Holder.
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the
Trustee and the Holder shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding,
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding has been instituted.
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as provided in Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred
upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of
any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy
given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.
The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise,
shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no
adequate remedy at law exists for breach of its obligations under Article Ten.
In the event that the Company fails to comply with the terms of the provisions
set forth in said Article, the Holder or Holders of the Requisite Amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding shall have the right to obtain specific
performance of the Company's obligations pursuant to said Article.
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any
such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or any
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised form time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.
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Section 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of the Requisite Amount of the Outstanding Securities shall
have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Trustee, provided that
(i.) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture, and
(ii.) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of the Requisite Amount of the Outstanding Securities may
on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities waive any past default hereunder
and its consequences, except a default
(i.) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) or interest on any Security (including following the Maturity of
any such Securities due to the optional or mandatory redemption
thereof), or
(ii.) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each outstanding Security affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in
its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys, fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee; to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than 10 percent in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities; or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the
payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on), or interest on any
Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security
(or, in the case of redemption, on or after any Redemption Date).
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The Trustee, for itself and its successors, hereby accepts the trusts
created by this Indenture upon the terms and conditions set forth herein,
including the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 601.
(i.) Except during the continuance of any Event of Default,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and
only such duties as are specifically set forth in
this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon
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certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture;
provided, that in the case of any such certificates
or opinions which by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee,
the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same
to determine whether or not they conform to the
requirements of this Indenture.
(ii.) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers
vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(iii.) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except
that
(1) this Subsection (c) shall not be construed to limit
the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible
Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good
faith in accordance with the direction of the
Holders of the Requisite Amount of the Outstanding
Securities relating to the time, method and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust
or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity
against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.
(iv.) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the
liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to
the provisions of this Section.
Section 602. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any Default hereunder, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, notice of such Default hereunder known to the
Trustee, unless such Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however,
that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) or interest on the Securities, the Trustee shall be
protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Board of Directors,
the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such
notice is in the interest of the Holders of the Securities.
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(i.) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, 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 or, in the case of cables,
telecopies and telexes, to have been sent by the proper party or
parties;
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(ii.) any request or direction of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company
Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(iii.) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate;
(iv.) the Trustee may consult with counsel, accountants or
other experts in connection with the fulfillment of its duties
hereunder, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the written
opinion of such counsel, accountants or other experts in connection
with any action taken, omitted to be taken or suffered by the Trustee
in fulfilling its duties hereunder. The Trustee shall have the right at
any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this
Indenture from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(v.) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to take any
action or omit to take any action to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless the Trustee shall
have been provided adequate security and indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance
with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as
may be requested by the Trustee;
(vi.) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine
to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to
examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or
by agent or attorney-in-fact; and
(vii.) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys-in-fact, and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent
or attorney-in-fact appointed with due care by it hereunder.
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificate of authentication in the form set forth in Section 204 of
this Indenture, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee
shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for their correctness. The
Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall tot be accountable for the use
or application by the Company of any Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar or any other agent of
the Company, in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities, and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal
with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 606. Money Held in Trust.
Except as provided in Article Four or otherwise expressly provided
herein, money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it thereunder.
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Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(i.) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such
compensation as shall be agreed upon in writing for all services
rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by
any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust);
(ii.) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents, attorneys-in-fact and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith; and
(iii.) to indemnify the Trustee (in its individual capacity
and as Trustee) and each of its officers, directors, attorneys-in-fact
and agents for, and to hold each of such Persons harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on
such Persons's part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of this Indenture, including the costs and
expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of the Trustee's
powers or duties hereunder.
Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interest.
(i.) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting
interest, as defined in this Section, within 90 days after ascertaining
that it has such conflicting interest and if the Event of Default to
which such conflicting interest relates has not been cured or duly
waived or otherwise eliminated before the end of such 90 day period,
the Trustee shall either eliminate such conflicting interest or resign
in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
(ii.) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with
the provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section, the Trustee shall,
within 10 days after the expiration of such 90-day period, transmit by
mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register, notice of such failure.
(iii.) For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be
deemed to have a conflicting interest if an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing and if
(1) the Trustee is trustee under another indenture
under which any other securities, or certificates
of interest or participation in any other
securities, of the Company are outstanding,
unless such other indenture is a collateral trust
indenture under which the only collateral
consists of Securities issued under this
Indenture, provided that there shall be excluded
from the operation of this paragraph any
indenture or indentures under which other
securities, or certificates of interest or
participation in other securities, of the Company
are outstanding, if
(a) this Indenture and such other indentures are
wholly unsecured and such other indenture or
indentures are hereafter qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act, unless the Commission
shall have found and declared by order
pursuant to Section 305(b) or Section 307(c)
of the Trust Indenture Act that differences
exist between the provisions of this
Indenture and the provisions of such other
indenture or indentures which are so likely
to involve a material conflict of interest
as to make it necessary in the public
interest or for the protection of investors
to disqualify the Trustee from acting as
such under this Indenture or such other
indenture or indentures, or
(b) the Company shall have sustained the burden
of proving, on application to the Commission
and after opportunity for hearing thereon,
that trusteeship
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under this Indenture and such other
indenture or indentures is not so likely to
involve a material conflict of interest as
to make it necessary in the public interest
or for the protection of investors to
disqualify the Trustee from acting as such
under one of such indentures;
(2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is an obligor upon the Securities or an
underwriter for the Company;
(3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is
directly or indirectly controlled by or is under
direct or indirect common control with the
Company or an underwriter for the Company;
(4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive
officers is a director, officer, partner,
employee, appointee or representative of the
Company, or of an underwriter (other than the
Trustee itself) for the Company who is currently
engaged in the business of underwriting, except
that (i) one individual may be a director or an
executive officer, or both, of the Trustee and a
director or an executive officer, or both, of the
Company but may not be at the same time an
executive officer of both the Trustee and the
Company; (ii) if and so long as the number of
directors of the Trustee in office is more than
nine, one additional individual may be a director
or an executive officer, or both, of the Trustee
and a director of the Company; and (iii) the
Trustee may be designated by the Company or by
any underwriter for the Company to act in the
capacity of transfer agent, registrar, custodian,
paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent or
depositary, or in any other similar capacity, or,
subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of
this Subsection, to act as trustee, whether under
an indenture or otherwise;
(5) 10 percent or more of the voting securities of
the Trustee is beneficially owned either by the
Company or by any director, partner or executive
officer thereof, or 20 percent or more of such
voting securities is beneficially owned,
collectively, by any two or more of such persons;
or 10 percent or more of the voting securities of
the Trustee is beneficially owned either by an
underwriter for the Company or by any director,
partner or executive officer thereof, or is
beneficially owned, collectively, by any two or
more such persons;
(6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds
as collateral security for an obligation which is
in default (as hereinafter in this Subsection
defined), (i) 5 percent or more of the voting
securities, or lot or more of any other class of
security, of the Company not including the
Securities issued under this Indenture and
securities issued under any other indenture under
which the Trustee is also trustee, or (ii) 10
percent or more of any class of security of an
underwriter for the Company;
(7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds
as collateral security for an obligation which is
in default (as hereinafter in this Subsection
defined), 5 percent or more of the voting
securities of any person who, to the knowledge of
the Trustee, owns 10!k or more of the voting
securities of, or controls directly or indirectly
or is under direct or indirect common control
with, the Company;
(8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds
as collateral security for an obligation which is
in default (as hereinafter in this Subsection
defined), lot or more of any class of security of
any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee,
owns 50 percent or more of the voting securities
of the Company; or
(9) the Trustee owns, on May 15 in any calendar year,
in the capacity of executor, administrator,
testamentary or inter vivos trustee, guardian,
committee or conservator, or in any other similar
capacity, an aggregate of 25 percent or more of
the voting
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securities, or of any class of security, of any
person, the beneficial ownership of a specified
percentage of which would have constituted a
conflicting interest under paragraph (6), (7) or
(8) of this Subsection. As to any such securities
of which the Trustee acquired ownership through
becoming executor, administrator or testamentary
trustee of an estate which included them, the
provisions of the preceding sentence shall not
apply, for a period of two years from the date of
such acquisition, to the extent that such
securities included in such estate do not exceed
25 percent of such voting securities of 25
percent or any such class of security. Promptly
after May 15 in each calendar year, the Trustee
shall make a check of its holdings of such
securities in any of the abovementioned
capacities as of such May 15. If the Company
fails to make payment in full of the principal
of, or the premium, if any, or interest on, any
of the Securities when and as the same becomes
due and payable, and such failure continues for
30 days thereafter, the Trustee shall make a
prompt check of its holdings of such securities
in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of
the date of the expiration of such 30-day period,
and after such date, notwithstanding the
foregoing provisions of this paragraph, all such
securities so held by the Trustee, with sole or
joint control over such securities vested in it,
shall, but only so long as such failure shall
continue, be considered as though beneficially
owned by the Trustee for the purposes of
paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of this Subsection.
The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9), inclusive,
of this Subsection shall not be construed as indicating that the ownership of
such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not necessary or
sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of
paragraph (3) or (7) of this Subsection.
For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of this Subsection
only, (i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only such
securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall not include
any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence an obligation to
repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust companies or banking
firms, or any certificate of interest or participation in any such note or
evidence of indebtedness; (ii) an obligation shall be deemed to be "in default"
when a default in payment of principal shall have continued for 30 days or more
and shall not have been cured; and (iii) the Trustee shall not be deemed to be
the owner or holder of (A) any security which it holds as collateral security,
as trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in default as defined in
clause (ii) above, or (B) any security which it holds as collateral security
under this Indenture, irrespective of any default hereunder, or (C) any security
which it holds as agent for collection, or as custodian, escrow agent, or
depositary, or in any similar representative capacity.
(iv.) For the purpose of this Section:
(1) The term "underwriter" when used with reference
to the Company means every person who, within
three years prior to the time as of which the
determination is made, has purchased from the
Company with a view to, or has offered or sold
for the Company in connection with, the
distribution of any security of the Company
outstanding at such time, or has participated or
has had a direct or indirect participation in any
such undertaking, or has participated, or has had
a participation in the direct or indirect
underwriting of any such undertaking, but such
term shall not include a person whose interest
was limited to a commission from an underwriter
or dealer not in excess of the usual and
customary distributors' or sellers, commission.
(2) The term "director" means any director of a
corporation, or any individual performing similar
functions with resect to any organization whether
incorporated or unincorporated.
(3) The term "Person" means an individual, a
corporation, a partnership, an association, a
joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated
organization, or a government or political
subdivision thereof. As used in this paragraph,
the term "trust" shall include
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only a trust where the interest or interests of
the beneficiary or beneficiaries are evidenced by
a security.
(4) The term "voting security" means any security
presently entitling the owner or holder thereof
to vote in the direction or management of the
affairs of a person, or any security issued under
or pursuant to any trust, agreement or
arrangement whereby a trustee or trustees or
agent or agents for the owner or holder of such
security are presently entitled to vote in the
direction or management of the affairs of a
person.
(5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the
Securities.
(6) The term "executive officer" means the president,
every vice president, every trust officer, the
cashier, the secretary and the treasurer of a
corporation, and any individual customarily
performing similar functions with respect to any
organization, whether incorporation or
unincorporated, but shall not include the
chairman of the board of directors.
(v.) The percentages of voting securities and other
securities specified in this Section shall be calculated in accordance
with the following provisions:
(1) A specified percentage of the voting securities
of the Trustee, the Company or any other person
referred to it this Section (each of whom is
referred to as a "person" in this paragraph)
means such amount of the outstanding voting
securities of such person as entitles the holder
or holders thereof to cast such specified
percentage of the aggregate votes which the
holders of all the outstanding voting securities
of such person are entitled to cast in the
direction or management of the affairs of such
person.
(2) A specified percentage of a class of securities
of a person means such percentage of the
aggregate amount of securities of the class
outstanding.
(3) The term "amount", when used in regard to
securities, means the principal amount if
relating to evidences of indebtedness, the number
of shares if relating to capital shares, and the
number of units if relating to any other kind of
security.
(4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held
by or for the account of the issuer. The
following securities shall not be deemed
outstanding within the meaning of this
definition:
(a) securities of an issuer held in a sinking
fund relating to securities of the issuer of
the same class;
(b) securities of an issuer held in a sinking
fund relating to another class of securities
of the issuer, if the obligation evidenced
by such other class of securities is not in
default as to the principal or interest or
otherwise;
(c) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as
security for an obligation of the issuer not
in default as to principal or interest or
otherwise; and
(d) securities held in escrow if placed in
escrow by the issuer thereof;
provided, however, that any voting securities of an issuer shall be
deemed outstanding if any person other than the issuer is entitled to
exercise the voting rights thereof.
(5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same
class as another security if both securities
confer upon the holder or holders thereof
substantially the same rights and
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privileges; provided, however, that, in the case
of secured evidences of indebtedness, all of
which are issued under a single indenture,
differences in the interest rates or maturity
dates of various series thereof shall not be
deemed sufficient to constitute such series
different classes, and provided, further that, in
the case of unsecured evidences of indebtedness,
differences in the interest rates or maturity
dates thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to
constitute them securities of different classes,
whether or not they are issued under a single
indenture.
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America or of any State, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust
powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000, subject
to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published.
If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(i.) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor
Trustee under Section 611.
(ii.) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a
successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within
30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee.
(iii.) The Trustee may be removed at any time by an Act of the
Holders of the Requisite Amount of the Outstanding Securities,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(iv.) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section
608(a) after written request therefor by the
Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 609 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Company or by any
such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or
shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall
be appointed or any public officer shall taken
charge or control of the Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any case, (i) the Company by a Board
Resolution may remove the Trustee, or (ii)
subject to Section 514, the Holder of any
Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months may, on behalf
of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of
a successor Trustee.
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(v.) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of
Trustee for any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such
vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of the Holders
of the Requisite Amount of the Outstanding Securities delivered to the
Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed
shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the
successor Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the
Company or the Holders of the Securities and accepted appointment in
the manner hereinafter provided, the Holder of any Security who has
been a bona fide Holder for at least six months may, subject to Section
514, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(vi.) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee
by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Holders of Securities as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of
the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or the
successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of such successor Trustee, the
Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation 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; provided, however, that such successor
corporation shall give written notice to the Company, in the manner provided for
in Section 105(b), that it is the successor by merger, conversion or
consolidation, as the case may be, to the Trustee, such notice to specify the
new name and address, if applicable, of such successor corporation. In case any
Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then
in the office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities
so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
(i.) Subject to Subsection (b) of this Section, if the
Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly,
secured or unsecured, of the Company within four months prior to a
default, as defined in Subsection (c) of this Section, or subsequent to
such a default, then, unless and until such default shall be cured, the
Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special account for the benefit
of the Trustee individually, the Holders of the Securities and the
holders of other indenture securities (as defined in Subsection (c) of
this Section):
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the
amount due and owing upon any claim as such
creditor in respect of principal or interest,
effected after the beginning of such
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four-month period and valid as against the
Company and its other creditors, except any such
reduction resulting from the receipt or
disposition of any property described in
paragraph (2) of this Subsection, or from the
exercise of any right of set-off which the
Trustee could have exercised if a petition in
bankruptcy had been filed by or against the
Company upon the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect
of any claim as such creditor, either as security
therefor, or in satisfaction or composition
thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of
such four-month period, or an amount equal to the
proceeds of any such property, if disposed of,
subject, however, to the rights, if any, of the
Company and its other creditors in such property
or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made
on account of any such claim by any Person (other than the
Company) who is liable thereon, (ii) the proceeds of the bona
fide sale of any such claim by the Trustee to a third Person,
and (iii) distributions made in cash, securities or other
property in respect of claims filed against the Company in
bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or
applicable State law;
(B) realize, for its own account upon any property
held by it as security for any such claim, if such property
was so held prior to the beginning of such four-month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the
extent of the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property
held by it as security for any such claim, if such claim was
created after the beginning of such four-month period and such
property was received as security therefor simultaneously with
the creation thereof, and if the Trustee shall sustain the
burden of proving that at the time such property was so
received the Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe that a
default as defined in Subsection (c) of this Section would
occur within four months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in
paragraph (B) or (C), against the release of any property held
as security for such claims provided in paragraph (B) or (C),
as the case may be, to the extent of the fair value of such
property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C), and (D), property substituted after the
beginning of such four-month period for property held as security at the time of
such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the property
released, have the same status as the property released, and, to the extent that
any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in renewal of or in
substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding any pre-existing
claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have the same status as
such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
between the Trustee, and Holders and the holders of other indenture securities
in such manner that the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture
securities realize, as a result of payments from such special account and
payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, the same percentage of their respective
claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything on account
of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and property in such special
account and before crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee and the
Holders of the Securities and the holders of other indenture securities
dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or
in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Code or
applicable State law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the
indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all sources other than
from such dividends and from the fun and property so held in such special
account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term
"dividends" shall include any distribution with respect to such claim, in
bankruptcy or receivership or proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or applicable State law, whether such distribution is
made in cash, securities, or other property, but shall not include any such
distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of such claim. The
court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceedings for reorganization
is pending shall
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have jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the Trustee and the Holders and the
holders of other indenture securities in accordance with the provisions of this
paragraph, the funds and property held in such special account and proceeds
thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to
the provisions of this paragraph due consideration in determining the fairness
of the distributions to be made to the Trustee and the Holders and the holders
of other indenture securities, with respect to their respective claims, in which
event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value of any
securities or other property held in such special account or as security for any
such claim, or to make a specific allocation of such distributions as between
the secured and unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply the
provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical formula.
Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such four-month period shall be subject to the provisions of this Subsection as
though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has resigned
or been removed prior to the beginning of such four-month Period, it shall be
subject to the provisions of this Subsection if and only if the following
conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or of reduction of claim, which
would have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had
continued as Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such four-month
period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
within four months after such resignation or removal.
(ii.) There shall be excluded from the operation of Subsection
(a) of this Section a creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued
under any indenture, or any security or
securities having a maturity of one year or more
at the time of acquisition of the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or
bankruptcy court of competent jurisdiction or by
this Indenture, for the purpose of preserving any
property which shall at any time be subject to
the Lien of this Indenture or of discharging tax
liens or other prior Liens or encumbrances
thereon, if notice of such advances and of the
circumstances surrounding the making thereof is
given to the Holders at the time and in the
manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of
business in the capacity of trustee under an
indenture, transfer agent, registrar, custodian,
paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or
other similar capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services
rendered or premises rented, or an indebtedness
created as a result of goods or securities sold
in a cash transaction as defined in Subsection
(c) of this Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of
a corporation organized under the provisions of
Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act, as
amended, which is directly or indirectly a
creditor of the Company; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or
negotiation of any drafts, bills of exchange,
acceptances or obligations which fall within the
classification of self-liquidating paper as
defined in Subsection (c) of this Section.
(iii.) For the purposes of this Section only:
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(1) the term "default" means any failure to make
payment in full of the principal of or interest
on any of the Securities or upon the other
indenture securities when and as such principal
or interest becomes due and payable;
(2) the term "other indenture securities" means
securities upon which the Company is an obligor
outstanding under any other indenture (i) under
which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which
contains provisions substantially similar to the
provisions of this Section, and (iii) under which
a default exists at the time of the apportionment
of the funds and property held in such special
account;
(3) the term "cash transaction" means any transaction
in which full payment for goods or securities
sold is made within seven days after delivery of
the goods or securities in currency or in checks
or other orders drawn upon banks and payable upon
demand;
(4) the term "self-liquidating paper" means any
draft, ▇▇▇▇ of exchange, acceptance or obligation
which is made, drawn, negotiated or incurred by
the Company for the purpose of financing the
purchase, processing, manufacturing, shipment,
storage or sale of goods, wares or merchandise
and which is secured by documents evidencing
title to, possession of, or a Lien upon, the
goods, wares or merchandise or the receivables or
proceeds arising from the sale of the goods,
wares or merchandise previously constituting the
security, provided the -------- security is
received by the Trustee simultaneously with the
creation of the creditor relationship with the
Company arising from the making, drawing,
negotiating or incurring of the draft, ▇▇▇▇ of
exchange, acceptance or obligation;
(5) the term "Company" means any obligor upon the
Securities; and
(6) the term "Federal Bankruptcy Code" means the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or Title 11 of the United
States Code.
Section 614. Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities issued
upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer, or partial
redemption or pursuant to Article 12, and Securities so authenticated shall be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for
all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by
an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf
of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States, any State thereof the
District of Columbia, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$25,000,000, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually pursuant
to law or the requirements of such supervising or examining authority, then for
the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which any Authenticating Agent.
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business
of any Authenticating Agent shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent
hereunder, if such successor corporation is otherwise eligible under this
Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of the Trustee, such Authenticating Agent or such successor corporation.
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Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee
may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent acceptable to the Company, and
thereupon shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall
mail notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities as the names and
addresses of such Holders appear on the Security Register.
The Trustee agrees to pay to the Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Indenture, and the Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions
of Section 607.
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(i.) on August 10 and February 10 of each year until the
Stated Maturity of the Securities, a list, in such form as the Trustee
may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of
the July 31 and January 31, respectively, immediately preceding such
date, and
(ii.) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Company of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than
15 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however,
that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Security Registrar, no
such list need be furnished.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(i.) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in
the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section
701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in
its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list
so furnished.
(ii.) If three or more Holders (hereinafter referred to as
"applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the
Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security
for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such
application, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this
Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, at its election, either
(1) afford such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in
accordance with Section 702(a), or
(2) inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of Holders whose names and addresses
appear in the information preserved at the time
by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a),
and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such
Holders the form of proxy or other communication,
if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder whose name and address appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), a copy of the form
of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless within five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to
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such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the
material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of
the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders
or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify
the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing
upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an
order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an
order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find,
after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained
have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail
copies of such material to all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the
entry of such order and the renewal of such tender, otherwise the Trustee shall
be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(iii.) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding
the same agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the
Company nor the Trustee shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders in accordance with Section 702(b), regardless of the source
from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not
be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a
request made under Section 702(b).
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
(i.) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing
with the first May 15 after the first issuance of Securities, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report dated as of
May 15 with respect to:
(1) its eligibility under Section 609 and its
qualifications under Section 608, and in lieu
thereof, if to the best of its knowledge it has
continued to be eligible and qualified under said
Sections, a written statement to such effect;
(2) the character and amount of any advances (and if
the Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof) made by the
Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date
of such report, and for the reimbursement of
which it claims or may, claim a Lien or charge,
prior to that of the Securities, on any property
or funds held or collected by it as Trustee,
except that the Trustee shall not be required
(but may elect) to report such advances if such
advances so remaining unpaid aggregate not more
than 1/2 of 1 percent of the principal amount of
the Securities Outstanding on the date of such
report;
(3) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of
all other indebtedness owing by the Company (or
by any other obligor on the Securities) to the
Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date
of such report, with a brief description of any
property held as collateral security therefor,
except an indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in any manner described in
Section 613(b)(2), (3), (4), or (6);
(4) the property and funds, if any, physically in the
possession of the Trustee as such on the date of
such report;
(5) any release, or release and substitution, of
property subject to the Lien of the Indenture
(and the consideration therefor, if any) which
the Trustee has not previously reported;
(6) any additional issue of Securities which the
Trustee has not previously reported;
(7) any Lien granted or created on any assets of the
Security Pool with respect to other Indebtedness
of the Company in accordance with the provisions
of Section 1109 which the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(8) any action taken by the Trustee in the
performance of its duties hereunder which it has
not previously reported and which in its opinion
materially affects the Securities,
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except action in respect of a default, notice of
which has been or is to be withheld by the
Trustee in accordance with Section 602.
(ii.) The Trustee shall submit by mail to all Holders, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief
report with respect
(1) to the release, or release and substitution, of
property subject to the Lien of the Indenture
(and the consideration therefor, if any) unless
the fair value of such property, as set forth in
the certificate or opinion required by Trust
Indenture Act Section 314(d)(1), is less than 10
percent of the principal amount of Securities
Outstanding At the time of such release, or such
release and substitution, such report to be
transmitted within 90 days after such time; and
(2) to the character and amount of any advances (and
if the Trustee elects so to state, the
circumstances surrounding the making thereof)
made by the Trustee (as such) since the date of
the last report transmitted pursuant to
Subsection (a) of this Section (or if no such
report has yet been so transmitted, since the
date of the execution of this instrument) for the
reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a
Lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities,
on property or funds held or collected by it as
Trustee and which it has not previously reported
pursuant to this Subsection, except that the
Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to
report such advances if such advances remaining
unpaid at any time aggregate lot or less of the
principal amount of the Securities Outstanding at
such time, such report to be transmitted within
90 days after such time.
(iii.) The Trustee shall submit by mail to all Holders, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief
report identifying the assets in the Security Pool, such report to be
transmitted within 90 days after the first issuance of Securities under
this Indenture.
(iv.) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to the Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock
exchange upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and
also with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when the
Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall:
(i.) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company
is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may
be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the
Company is not required to file information, documents or reports
pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file with the
Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the
supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may
be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 in respect of a security listed and registered on a national
securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(ii.) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants
of this indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules
and regulations; and
(iii.) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, with 30 days after the
filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any information,
documents and reports
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required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Subsections (a) and (b)
of this Section, if such transmittal to such Holders of such summaries
is required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by
the Commission.
ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. Company Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person,
or permit any other Person to merge into it, or convey, transfer or lease its
property and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
(i.) the Company shall be the continuing corporation
following such merger or the Person (if other than the Company) formed
by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person
which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease the properties and
assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to
the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on
all the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(ii.) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and
any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith (and treating any
Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or a Subsidiary
in connection with or as a result of such transaction as having been
incurred at the time of such transaction) no Event of Default and no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(iii.) the Company or such Person shall have delivered to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease
and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such
transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with this Indenture
and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been satisfied.
Section 802. Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation or merger, or any conveyance, transfer or lease
of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in
accordance with Section 801, the Person formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or the Person to which such conveyance, transfer or
lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every
right and power of, the Company under this indenture with the same effect as if
such successor had been named as the Company herein; and thereafter, except in
the case of a lease, the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(i.) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(ii.) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit
of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the Company; or
(iii.) to secure the Securities; or
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(iv.) to make any change that does not adversely affect the
rights of any Holders.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of the Requisite Amount of Outstanding
Securities, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into
an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security
affected thereby:
(i.) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or of
any installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable
upon the redemption thereof, or change the mandatory redemption or
repurchase requirements set forth in Section 1201, or change the coin
or currency or instrument in which, any Security or any premium or the
interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for
the enforcement of any such payment after the Stated Maturity thereof
(or, in the case of redemption, on or after any Redemption Date); or
(ii.) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for
any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
provided for in this Indenture; or
(iii.) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section
513, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain
or other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected thereby; or
(iv.) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture relating
to the subordination of the Securities in a manner adverse to the
Holders thereof; or
(v.) modify any of the provisions of Section 1204.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof and such Act shall
so state.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes. Every Holder of
Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to the Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
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Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article, may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Board of
Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by
the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities.
Section 907. Effect on Senior Indebtedness.
No supplemental indenture shall adversely affect the rights of any
holder of Senior Indebtedness under Article Thirteen without the consent of such
holder.
ARTICLE X
SECURITY
Section 1001. Pledge Agreement.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Company will assign and grant to
the Trustee a first Lien upon the Senior Collateral and a subordinate and junior
Lien upon the assets in the Security Pool. Each Holder, by accepting a Security,
(i) agrees to all of the terms and provisions of the Pledge Agreement and the
Original Series Debenture Pledge Agreement (including those relating to the
addition of additional secured parties to the extent permitted under Section
1109 of the Original Series Debentures Indenture, and the release of assets
from, or addition of assets to, the Security Pool in accordance with Section
1005 or 1207 thereof) and the Intercreditor Agreement, as any of the foregoing
agreements may be in effect or may be amended from time to time in accordance
with their respective terms, (ii) acknowledges that the Lien of the Pledge
Agreement on assets in the Security Pool is subject and junior in priority to
(A) any Lien which currently exists on assets in the Security Pool (including
the Lien in favor of the Original Series Debentures), and (B) any Lien on assets
in the Security Pool which may hereafter be granted or created as permitted by
Section 1109 of the Original Series Debentures Indenture, to the extent the
terms of such Lien which is hereafter granted or created in accordance with
Section 1109 of the Original Series Debentures Indenture expressly provides that
such Lien ranks senior to the Lien of the Pledge Agreement, and (iii) authorizes
the Trustee to appoint as its collateral agent any other Person that has a Lien
on assets in the Security Pool, to the extent that such Lien is permitted under
this Indenture and the Pledge Agreement, and to deliver possession of any assets
in the Security Pool to any such Person to hold in accordance with the terms of
an Intercreditor Agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The due and
punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at the Stated
Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption, purchase or otherwise, and
payment and performance of the Company of all other obligations to the Holders
or the Trustee under this Indenture and the Securities, according to the terms
hereunder or thereunder, shall be secured as provided in the Pledge Agreement.
The Company will make a subordinate assignment and pledge of its right, title
and interest in and to the assets comprising the Security Pool to the Trustee as
required by and in accordance with the Pledge Agreement. The Company will also
make a first and prior assignment and pledge of its right, title and interest in
and to the Senior Collateral to the Trustee as required by and in accordance
with the Pledge Agreement.
Section 1002. Recording, Opinions and Certificates.
To the extent required under Section 314(b) of the Trust Indenture Act:
(i.) the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly after
the execution and delivery of this Indenture an Opinion of Counsel
either (i) stating that in the opinion of such counsel all action has
been taken with respect to the recording, registering and filing of
this Indenture, the Pledge Agreement or any other instrument necessary
to make effective the Lien intended to be created by the Pledge
Agreement, and reciting, with respect to the security interests in the
assets comprising the Security Pool and the Senior Collateral, the
details of such action, or (ii) stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, no such action is necessary to make such Lien effective; and
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(ii.) the Company shall furnish to the Trustee within 60 days
after December 15 in each year beginning with December 15, 1993, an
Opinion of Counsel, dated as of such date, either (a) stating that, in
the opinion of such counsel, all action has been taken with respect to
the recording, registering, filing, re-recording, re-registering and
refiling of all supplemental indentures or other instruments of further
assurance as is necessary to maintain the Lien of the Pledge Agreement
and reciting, with respect to the security interests in the assets
comprising the Security Pool, the details of such action or referring
to prior opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (b)
stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is
necessary to maintain such Lien.
Section 1003. Authorization of Actions to Be Taken By the Trustee
Under the Pledge Agreement.
The Trustee may, in its sole discretion and without the Consent of the
Holders, but subject to Article Six hereof, take all actions it deems necessary
or appropriate in order to (a) enforce or effect the Pledge Agreement, and (b)
collect and receive any and all amounts payable in respect of the obligations of
the Company hereunder, in each case in accordance with and to the extent
provided in the Pledge Agreement. Subject to the provisions of the Pledge
Agreement, the Trustee shall have power to institute and to maintain such suits
and proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of its
interest in the assets comprising the Security Pool by any acts which may be
unlawful or in violation of the Pledge Agreement or this Indenture, and such
suits and proceedings as the Trustee may deem expedient to preserve or protect
its interest and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral (including power
to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or
compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order
that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or
compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security
hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or of the Trustee).
Section 1004. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under
the Pledge Agreement.
The Trustee is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of
Holders distributed under the Pledge Agreement and to make further distributions
of such funds to the Holders according to the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 1005. Release of Assets from Security Pool.
The Trustee shall not release assets from the Lien of the Pledge
Agreement unless the Company complies with the provisions of Section 1207 and
the procedures set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
The Trustee and each of the Holders acknowledge that the release of any
assets comprising the Security Pool and the Senior Collateral from the terms
hereof and of the Pledge Agreement will not be deemed to impair the security
under this Indenture if and to the extent any such asset is released in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Pledge Agreement.
To the extent required under Section 314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act,
the Company shall furnish to the Trustee a certificate or opinion of an
engineer, appraiser, or other expert as to the fair value:
(1) of any property or securities to be released from
the Lien of the Pledge Agreement, which
certificate or opinion shall state that in the
opinion of the person making the same the
proposed release will not impair the security
under such Pledge Agreement in contravention of
the provisions thereof and of the Indenture, and
requiring further that such certificate or
opinion shall be made by an independent engineer,
appraiser, or other expert, if the fair value of
such property or securities and of all other
property or securities released since the
commencement of the then current calendar year,
as set forth in the certificates or opinions
required by this paragraph, is 10 percent or more
of the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding; but such a
certificate or opinion of an independent
engineer, appraiser, or other expert shall not be
required in the case of any release of property
or securities, if the fair value thereof as set
forth in the certificate or opinion required by
this paragraph is less than $25,000 or less than
1 percent of the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities at the time outstanding;
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(2) to the Company of any securities (other than
Securities and securities secured by a Lien prior
to the Lien of the Pledge Agreement upon property
subject to the Lien of the Pledge Agreement), the
deposit of which with the Trustee is made the
basis for the authentication and delivery of
Securities, the withdrawal of cash constituting a
part of the trust estate or the release of
property or securities subject to the Lien of the
Pledge Agreement and requiring further that if
the fair value to the Company of such securities
and of all other such securities made the basis
of any such authentication and delivery,
withdrawal, or release since the commencement of
the then current calendar year, as set forth in
the certificates or opinions required by this
paragraph, is 10 percent or more of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding, such certificate or opinion shall be
made by an independent engineer, appraiser, or
other expert and, in the case of the
authentication and delivery of Securities, shall
cover the fair value to the Company of all other
such securities so deposited since the
commencement of the current calendar year as to
which a certificate or opinion of an independent
engineer, appraiser, or other expert has not
previously been furnished; but such a certificate
of an independent engineer, appraiser, or other
expert shall not be required with respect to any
securities so deposited, if the fair value
thereof to the Company as set forth in the
certificate or opinion required by this paragraph
is less than $25,000 or less than 1 percent of
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
at the time Outstanding; and
(3) to the Company of any property the subjection of
which to the Lien of the Pledge Agreement is made
the basis for the authentication and delivery of
Securities, the withdrawal of cash constituting a
part of the trust estate, or the release of
property or securities subject to the Lien of the
Pledge Agreement.
Any certificate or opinion required pursuant to this Section may be
made by an officer or employee of the Company who is duly authorized to make
such certificate or opinion by the Company from time to time, except in cases in
which this Section requires that such certificate or opinion be made by an
independent Person. In such cases, such certificate or opinion shall be made by
an independent engineer, appraiser, or other expert selected or approve the
Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care.
Section 1006. Certain Covenants of the Company with respect to the
Security Pool.
If an asset in the Security Pool or which is part of the Senior
Collateral consists of less than all of the common stock (including any
securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into such common stock
(collectively, "Derivative Securities")) of a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the
Company, (i) the Company shall not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any
such common stock (including any Derivative Securities) unless the Company
simultaneously sells, transfers or otherwise disposes of all of the common stock
(including any Derivative Securities) of such Subsidiary owned by the Company
for the same price per share (assuming the exercise, exchange or conversion of
any Derivative Securities) and (ii) in the event that the Trustee determines to
sell all of the common stock (including any Derivative Securities) of a
wholly-owned Subsidiary pledged to it under the Pledge Agreement, such sale to
be made pursuant to the provisions of the Pledge Agreement, the Trustee shall
have the right, subject to the provisions of any applicable Intercreditor
Agreement, to cause the Company simultaneously to sell all of the remaining
shares of common stock (including any Derivative Securities) of such Subsidiary
owned by the Company (the "Other Shares") for the same price per share (assuming
the exercise, exchange or conversion of any Derivative Securities) and, in
connection therewith, the Trustee shall have the rights set forth in Section 7
of the Pledge Agreement to deal with the Other Shares as if the same were
Collateral thereunder (other than in respect of the application of the proceeds
of the sale of the Other Shares). In the case of (a) a sale pursuant to clause
(i) above, the amount referred to in clause (i)(B) of Section 1207 shall be, and
(b) a sale pursuant to clause (ii) above, the amount of Net Proceeds which shall
be subject to the Lien of the Pledge Agreement shall be, the total amount of Net
Proceeds from the sale attributable to the common stock (including any
Derivative Securities) multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is equal
to the number of shares of common stock (assuming the exercise, exchange or
conversion of any Derivative Securities) of the relevant Subsidiary pledged to
the Trustee pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and the denominator of which is
equal
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to the total number of shares of issued and outstanding common stock of such
Subsidiary (assuming the exercise, exchange or conversion of any Derivative
Securities).
ARTICLE XI
COVENANTS
Section 1101. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium,
if any, on) and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the
Securities and this Indenture.
Section 1102. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in Boston, Massachusetts, an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities may be served.
The office of the Paying Agent shall be such office or agency of the Company,
unless the Company shall designate and maintain some other office or agency for
one or more of such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any
time the Company shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the
Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies (in or outside of Boston, Massachusetts) where the Securities may be
presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes, and may from time to time
rescind such designation; provided, however, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain
an office or agency in Boston, Massachusetts, for such purposes. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or
rescission and any change in the location of any such office or agency.
Section 1103. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it will,
on or before each due date (including upon acceleration, optional or mandatory
redemption or otherwise) of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) or
interest on any of the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such
Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of
such action or any failure so to act.
The Company will, on or before each due date (including upon
acceleration, optional as mandatory redemption or otherwise) of the principal of
(and premium, if any, on), or interest on, any Securities, deposit with a Paying
Agent a sum in same day funds with respect to the payment of principal (and
premium, if any, on) or interest sufficient to pay the principal (and premium,
if any, on) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of such action or any failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent will:
(i.) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) or interest on Securities in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums
shall be paid and delivered to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided;
(ii.) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment
of principal (and premium, if any, on) or interest (including principal
or interest due by reason of acceleration, optional or mandatory
redemption or otherwise); and
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(iii.) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay and
deliver, or by Company order direct any Paying Agent to pay and deliver, to the
Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to
be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which sums were held
by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment and delivery by any
Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any, on) or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal (and premium, if any, on) or interest has become due and payable
(including by reason of acceleration, optional or mandatory redemption or
otherwise) shall be paid or returned to the Company on Company Request, or (if
then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of
such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to
the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in Boston, Massachusetts, notice that such money remains unclaimed
and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days
from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such
money then remaining will be repaid or returned to the Company.
Section 1104. No Restriction on Payment at Stated Maturity.
The Company will not create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any
Indebtedness having a stated maturity at the same time as or after the Stated
Maturity of the Securities which, by its terms or the terms of the instrument
creating or evidencing it, in any ways prohibits or restricts the payment at
Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities in accordance with the terms
of the Securities and this Indenture.
Section 1105. Corporate Existence; Conduct of Business.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will and will cause its
Subsidiaries to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, and take all reasonable action to maintain all material rights
(charter and statutory), privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the
normal conduct of its business; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
required to preserve any such rights, privileges or franchises, or the corporate
existence of any Subsidiary, if the Board of Directors shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of
the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is
not, and will not be, adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the
Securities.
Section 1106. Compliance Certificates.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end
of each fiscal quarter, an Officers' Certificate stating whether or not the
signers know of any Event of Default or Default that occurred during such fiscal
quarter. If they do know of any Event of Default or Default the certificate
shall describe such Event of Default or Default and its status. The first
certificate to be delivered pursuant to this Section 1106 shall be for the first
fiscal quarter beginning after the execution of this Indenture.
Section 1107. Statement by Officers as to Default.
When any event has occurred and is continuing which is an Event of
Default or Default, or if the Trustee or any Holder or the trustee for or the
holder of any other evidence of Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary
gives any notice or takes any other action with respect to a claimed default,
the Company shall deliver to the Trustee by registered or certified mail or by
telegram, telex or facsimile transmission an Officers' Certificate specifying
such event, notice or other action within five Business Days of its occurrence.
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Section 1108. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law
or other law, which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any
portion of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities as
contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or
which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all
benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder,
delay or impede the execution any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had
been enacted.
Section 1109. Security Pool and Senior Collateral.
The Company shall not grant or create any Lien on any of the assets in
the Security Pool with respect to other Indebtedness of the Company (but
excluding Indebtedness incurred in connection with the refinancing of any such
existing Indebtedness existing on the date hereof to the extent that the holders
of such Indebtedness are entitled to the benefit of an existing Lien on any
assets in the Security Pool) unless (i) such Lien is permitted by the Original
Series Debenture Indenture (for so long as it remains in effect), (ii) the
aggregate Net Value of the assets in the Security Pool immediately following the
granting or creating of such Lien is at least equal to the then aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Original Series Debentures which are then
outstanding, if any, and the Securities, and (iii) such additional Indebtedness
does not exceed $25 million in the aggregate at any time. The Company may also
grant an additional Lien on the Senior Collateral to secure any additional
Indebtedness of the Company which is also secured by an additional Lien on the
assets in the Security Pool as provided in this Section 1109. To the extent the
Company is not prohibited from granting or creating a Lien with respect to other
Indebtedness under this Section, such Lien may rank senior to the Lien of the
Pledge Agreement, and the Company may require the Trustee to transfer possession
of assets in the Security Pool and the Senior Collateral to the holder of such
other Indebtedness in connection with such grant or creation of a Lien, provided
that such assets remain subject to the Lien of the Pledge Agreement pursuant to
an Intercreditor Agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.
ARTICLE XII
REDEMPTION OR REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES
Section 1201. Right of Redemption.
The Securities may be redeemed at the election of the Company, at any
time and from time to time, as a whole or in part, at a redemption price equal
to 100 percent of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed,
together in the case of any such redemption with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date. The election of the Company to redeem any Securities pursuant
to this Section 1201 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution.
Section 1202. Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Securities, at the election of the Company as permitted
by, or as required pursuant to, any provision of this Indenture, shall be made
in accordance with such provision and this Article.
Section 1203. Notice to Trustee.
The Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed
by the Company (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount
of Securities to be redeemed.
Section 1204. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed shall be selected, not more than
60 days prior to the Redemption Date, by the Trustee at random, from the
Outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth herein, no Securities shall be
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redeemed in part unless the portion thereof which shall remain Outstanding
following such partial redemption shall be in a principal amount equal to $100
or an integral multiple of $100.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case
of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to redemption of Securities shall relate, in
the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1205. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given 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 Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in
the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i.) the Redemption Date;
(ii.) the Redemption Price;
(iii.) if less than all Outstanding Securities are to be
redeemed or repurchased, the identification, including the CUSIP number
(and, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the principal
amount) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(iv.) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and
that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date; and
(v.) the place or places where (subject to Section 301) such
Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be given by the
Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the
expense of the Company.
Section 1206. Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1203) an amount of
money in same day funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except
if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on,
all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 1207. Funding for Redemption or Repurchase.
Subject to the provisions of Section 1005, simultaneously (or, in the
case of clause (ii) below, substantially simultaneously) with the release of an
asset from the Lien of the Pledge Agreement in order to effect its sale, the
Company shall, to the extent that proceeds are available from the sale of such
an asset after satisfaction of all prior Liens to which such asset is subject,
(i) redeem Securities having an aggregate principal amount at least equal to the
lesser of (A) the Net Value on the Exchange Closing (or such later date as such
asset was added to the Collateral) of such asset which is to be released, (B)
the Net Proceeds received by the Company from the sale of such asset, or (C) the
Net Proceeds remaining from the sale of such asset after satisfaction of all
prior Liens to which such asset is subject (the "Released Amount") at 100
percent of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued interest thereon
to the Redemption Date, (ii) repurchase Securities in the open market or in
private transactions for an aggregate amount at least equal to the Released
Amount or (iii) deposit in a special account maintained by the Trustee for the
benefit of Holders of Securities and designated as part of and added to the
Collateral, the consideration received in exchange for any asset released from
the Lien of the Pledge Agreement in order
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to effect its sale (less a portion of such consideration, the Fair Value of
which is equal to the sum of the items described in clauses (A), (B) and (C) of
the definition of Net Proceeds), or cash or cash equivalents (including
Investment Grade Securities) in an amount at least equal to the Released Amount.
Section 1208. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price; provided, however, that
installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption
Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Dates
according to the terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid on any
Redemption Date, the principal (and premium, if any, on) and interest then due
in respect thereof shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date in
accordance with Section 503.
Section 1209. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Subject to Section 301, any Security which is to be redeemed only in
part shall be surrendered at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
such purpose pursuant to Section 1102 (with, if the Company, the Security
Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar or the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee,
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as
requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange
for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the security so surrendered.
ARTICLE XIII
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 1301. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5 and the fact that the
Securities will constitute senior subordinated Indebtedness of the Company, the
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by his acceptance
thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Article, the Indebtedness represented by the
Securities and the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest
on each and all of the Securities and any fees or other amounts payable by the
Company in connection therewith, are hereby expressly made subordinate and
subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior
Indebtedness.
For the purposes of this Indenture, the Senior Indebtedness shall not
be deemed to have been paid in full until the holders or owners of Senior
Indebtedness shall have received payment of the Senior Indebtedness in cash.
Section 1302. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, etc.
In the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or
any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding in connection therewith, relative to the Company or to its creditors,
as such, or to its assets, or (b) any liquidation, dissolution or other winding
up or arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief or composition of the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or
bankruptcy, or (c) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other
marshaling of assets and liabilities of the Company, then and in any such event:
(1) the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be
entitled to receive payment in full of all
amounts due or to become due on or in respect of
all Senior Indebtedness before the Holders of the
Securities are entitled to receive any payment on
account of principal
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of (or premium, if any, on) or interest on the
Securities or any fees or other amounts payable
by the Company in connection therewith; and
(2) the priority of the claims of Holders of
Securities will be on a parity with that of
holders of the Original Series Debentures
remaining outstanding after the Exchange Closing;
and
(3) any payment or distribution of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or
securities, by set-off or otherwise, to which the
Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be
entitled but for the provisions of this Article
Thirteen, including any such payment or
distribution which may be payable or deliverable
by reason of the payment of any other
Indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to
the payment of the Securities (except for any
such payment or distribution of securities which
are subordinated, to at least the same extent as
the Securities, to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness then outstanding), shall be paid by
the liquidating trustee or agent or other person
making such payment or distribution, whether a
trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating
trustee or otherwise, directly to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness or their representative or
representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture under which any instruments
evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may
have been issued, ratably according to the
aggregate amounts remaining unpaid on account of
the Senior Indebtedness held or represented by
each, for application to (in the case of cash) or
as collateral for (in the case of property or
securities) the payment or prepayment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after
giving effect to any concurrent payment or
distribution to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness; and
(4) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this Section, the Trustee or the
Holder of any Security shall have received such
payment or distribution of any kind or character,
whether in cash, property or securities,
including any such payment or distribution which
may be payable or deliverable by reason of the
payment of any other Indebtedness of the Company
being subordinated to the payment of the
Securities, before all Senior Indebtedness is
paid in full, then and in such event such payment
or distribution shall be received and held in
trust for the holders of Senior Indebtedness and
shall be paid over to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or their representative or
representatives or the trustee or trustees under
any indenture under which any instruments
evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may
have been issued, ratably as aforesaid, for
application to (in the case of cash) or as
collateral for (in the case of property or
securities) the payment or prepayment of all
Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid until all
such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in
full, after giving effect to any concurrent
payment or distribution to or for the holders of
Senior Indebtedness.
The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company
into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following
the conveyance, transfer or lease of its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to another Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article
Eight shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding up, liquidation,
reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors or marshaling of assets
and liabilities of the Company for the purposes of this Section if the Person
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person
which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease such properties and assets
substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, comply with the conditions
set forth in Article Eight.
Section 1303. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default.
In the event of and during the continuation of any default in the
payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on), or interest on any Senior
Indebtedness, or (b) in the event that any event of default (other than an event
described in clause
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(a)) with respect to any Senior Indebtedness shall have occurred and be
continuing permitting the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to declare such
Senior Indebtedness due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise have become due and payable, then no direct or indirect payment shall
be made by the Company on account of the principal of (or premium, if any, on),
or interest on the Securities or any fees or other amounts payable by the
Company in connection therewith or on account of the purchase or redemption or
other acquisition of Securities (i) in case of any event of default described in
clause (a), unless and until such event of default shall have been cured or
waived in writing or shall have ceased to exist and (ii) in case of any event of
default specified in clause (b), from the date the Company or the Trustee first
receives written notice of such event of default from the holders of Senior
Indebtedness until the earlier of (x) 360 days after such date, and (y) the
date, if any, on which the Senior Indebtedness to which such event of default
relates is discharged or such event of default is waived in writing by the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness or otherwise cured (provided that further
written notice relating to the same or any other event of default specified in
clause (b) above with respect to any Senior Indebtedness received by the Company
or the Trustee within 360 days after receipt of the initial such written notice
shall not be effective for purposes of this clause (ii)).
In the event that the principal amount of the Securities, together with
any accrued interest thereon, is declared due and payable before its Stated
Maturity in accordance with Section 502, then and in such event the holders of
the Senior Indebtedness outstanding at such time shall be entitled to receive
payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of such
Senior Indebtedness before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive
any payment with respect to the Securities (including, without limitation, any
payment that may be payable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness
of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities.)
Section 1304. Payment Permitted if No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
any of the Securities shall prevent the Company, at any time except during the
pendency of any case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation or other winding up,
assignment for the benefit of creditors or other marshaling of assets and
liabilities of the Company referred to in section 1302 or under the conditions
described in Section 1303, from making payments at any time of principal of (and
premium, if any, on) or interest on the Securities or any other amount payable
by the Company under the Securities or this Indenture.
Section 1305. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Holders
of the Securities shall be subrogated (equally and ratably with the holders of
all Indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to
Senior Indebtedness of the Company to the same extent as the Securities are
subordinated and which is entitled to like rights of subrogation) to the rights
of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions
of cash, property and securities applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on the Securities shall be
paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which
the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of
this Article to the holders of Senior Indebtedness by holders of the Securities
or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a
payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior
Indebtedness. The subrogation rights established hereby shall not create any
obligations or liabilities of any holder or owner of any Senior Indebtedness to
the Holders of the Securities.
Section 1306. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture (other than in Section
1312) or in the Securities is intended to or shall (a) impair, as among the
Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders
of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on, and any other amount payable by the Company
under, the Securities or this Indenture as and when the same shall become due
and payable in accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights
against the Company of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the
Company other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent the
Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law
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upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this
Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness (1) in any case, proceeding,
dissolution, liquidation or other winding up, assignment for the benefit of
creditors or other marshaling of assets and liabilities of the Company referred
to in Section 1302, to receive, pursuant to and in accordance with such Section,
cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or
such Holder, or (2) under the conditions specified in Section 1303, to prevent
any payment prohibited by such Section.
Section 1307. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and
appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
Section 1308. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time or in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
non-compliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph,
the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities, and without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the
Securities and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this
Article or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (a) change
the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew
or alter, Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any
agreement under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (b) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise
securing Senior Indebtedness; (c) release any Person liable in any manner for
the collection of Senior Indebtedness; (d) exercise or refrain from exercising
any rights against the Company and any other Person; and (e) increase the
aggregate amount of Indebtedness extended to the Company (whether or not the
same shall be Senior Indebtedness).
The provisions of this Article Thirteen are intended to be for the
benefit of, and shall be enforceable directly by, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness.
Section 1309. Notice to Trustee.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact
known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the
Trustee in respect to the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the securities, unless
and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company, or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee, fiduciary or
agent therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled in all
respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the
Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least
one Business Day prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may
become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any, on) or interest on any Security), then,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall
have full power and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the
purpose for which such money was received and shall not be affected by any
notice to the contrary which may be received by it within one Business Day prior
to such date; provided, further, however, that such receipt and application
shall not affect the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness, including any
right such holders may have to the payment over of any such money, against the
Holders of the Securities. The Trustee agrees that its declaration, or the
declaration by the Holders of the Requisite Amount of Securities Outstanding,
that the principal amount of all of the Securities is immediately due and
payable pursuant to Article Five shall be constructive notice to the Trustee of
the existence of facts that would prohibit the Trustee's making of any payment
of monies or taking of any other action under this Indenture.
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Subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall be entitled
to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing
himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee, fiduciary or agent
therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior
Indebtedness (or a trustee, fiduciary or agent therefor). In the event that the
Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect
to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness to participate in
any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article, and if such evidence is
not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial
determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 1310. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to
in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the
Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency,
bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up
or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit
of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of
ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and other Indebtedness of the
Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts payable or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
Section 1311. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the
rights set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which
may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
Section 1312. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise
requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were
named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee.
Section 1313. Reliance.
Each Holder of a Security by his or its acceptance thereof acknowledges
and agrees that the provisions of this Article are, and are intended to be, an
inducement and a consideration to each holder of any Senior Indebtedness,
whether such Senior Indebtedness was created or acquired before or after the
issuance of such Security, to acquire and/or continue to hold such Senior
Indebtedness and such holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed conclusively
to have relied on the provisions of this Article in acquiring and/or continuing
to hold such Senior Indebtedness.
The provisions of this Article Thirteen shall continue to be effective
or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the
Senior Indebtedness is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the holder of
Senior Indebtedness upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the
Company or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
The Company hereby waives promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance
and any other notice; with respect to any of the Senior Indebtedness (other than
the notice provided for in Section 1309) and this Article and any requirement
that any holder of Senior Indebtedness protect, secure, perfect or insure any
security interest or Lien or any property subject thereto or exhaust any right
or take any action against the Company or any other Person or any collateral.
No failure on the part of any holder of Senior Indebtedness to
exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a
waiver thereof. No single or partial exercise of any right hereunder shall
preclude any other
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or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by
law.
The provisions of this Article Thirteen constitute a continuing
agreement and shall (i) remain in full force and effect until the Senior
Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, (ii) be binding upon the Holders of
the Securities, the Trustee, and the Company and their successors and assigns,
and (iii) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by each holder of Senior
Indebtedness and their successors, transferees and assigns.
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This Indenture may be signed in any number of counterparts with the
same effect as if the signatures to each counterpart were upon a single
instrument, and all such counterparts together shall be deemed an original of
this Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, as of the day and year first above written.
THE HALLWOOD GROUP INCORPORATED
By:
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Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Secretary
BANK ONE, N.A.
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
This PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made as of this
____ day of ______, 1998, by and between THE HALLWOOD GROUP INCORPORATED, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and BANK ONE, N.A., a national banking
association, as trustee (hereinafter, in such capacity, the "Trustee") for the
holders of the Company's 8.5% Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debentures due
July 31, 2003 (the "Securities"), pursuant, to an Indenture, dated as of
_____________, 1998, between the Company and the Trustee (as amended or
supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Indenture").
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the Company is the direct legal and beneficial owner of the
shares of the common stock of Brookwood Companies, Incorporated ("BCI"),
Hallwood Hotels, Inc. ("HHI") and ▇▇▇▇▇ Suite Hotels, Inc. ("BSH") described on
Annex A hereto; (the stock of BCI is referred to herein as the "Brookwood
Stock," the stock of HHI is referred to herein as the "HHI Stock," the stock of
BSH is referred to herein as the "BSH Stock" and the Brookwood Stock, the HHI
Stock and the BSH Stock is referred to herein collectively as the "Stock"); and
WHEREAS, the Company has issued its 7% Collateralized Senior
Subordinated Debentures ("7% Debentures") pursuant to that certain Indenture
("Original Indenture") between the Company and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National
Association, as Trustee ("Original Trustee") dated as of March 2, 1993 and has
granted to the Original Trustee a pledge and security interest in the Brookwood
Stock and the HHI Stock to secure the 7% Debentures pursuant to that certain
Pledge and Security Agreement ("Original Pledge Agreement") between the Company
and the Original Trustee dated as of March 2, 1993; and
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture provides that the Company may grant a
subordinate pledge and security interest in the security pledged thereunder to
secure other indebtedness of the Company, and the Company now desires to issue
its 8.5% Collateralized Senior Subordinated Debentures ("Debentures") pursuant
to that certain Indenture ("Indenture") between the Company and the Trustee, as
Trustee ("Trustee") dated as of ___________, 1998 and desires to grant to the
Trustee a subordinate pledge and security interest in the Brookwood Stock and
the HHI Stock and a first and prior pledge and security interest in the BSH
Stock to secure the Debentures pursuant to this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Indenture, upon the occurrence of certain
events, the Company may be required to grant certain additional pledges and
security interests in favor of the Trustee; and
WHEREAS the Company wishes to grant (and provide for such additional
grant of) pledges and security interests in favor of the Trustee, as herein
provided;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises contained herein and
for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1. Pledge of Stock, Etc.
(a) The Company hereby pledges, assigns, grants to the Trustee or
its agent a security interest in (A) the number of shares of HHI Stock set forth
on ANNEX A hereto, currently held by The First National Bank of Boston,
("FNBB"), as collateral agent for the Original Trustee under the Intercreditor
Agreement, dated as of March 2, 1993 between FNBB and the Trustee, (B) the
number of shares common and preferred Brookwood Stock currently held by the
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. ("Chase"), as collateral agent for the Trustee under
the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of March 2, 1993, between Chase and the
Trustee, and (C) the number of shares of BSH Stock to be held by Bank One,
Texas, N.A., as agent ("Bank One"), as collateral agent for the Trustee under
the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of ________, 1998, between Bank One and
the Trustee, all for the benefit of the holders from time to time of the
Securities, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. The
certificates for such shares, accompanied by stock powers or other appropriate
instruments of assignment thereof duly executed in blank by the Company, have
been delivered to the Trustee or its agents (including FNBB, Chase and Bank
One). The pledge and assignment of the HHI Stock is junior and subordinate to
the
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pledge and assignment thereof to the Original Trustee pursuant to the Original
Pledge Agreement and is subject to the terms and conditions contained in the
Original Indenture and the Original Pledge Agreement; and the pledge and
assignment of the Brookwood Stock is junior and subordinate to the pledges and
assignments thereof to (i) The Bank of New York as security for the Company's
guaranty of certain indebtedness of BCI to The Bank of New York and (ii) the
Original Trustee pursuant to the Original Pledge Agreement and subject to the
terms and conditions contained in the Original Indenture and the Original Pledge
Agreement.
(b) In case the Company shall acquire any additional shares of a class
of capital stock of any corporation (i) all or a portion of the shares of such
class of which have been pledged pursuant to Section 1(a) above and (ii) which
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, or the successor of any such
corporation, or any securities which are exercisable or exchangeable for or
convertible into shares of such capital stock of any such corporation, by
purchase or otherwise, then the Company shall forthwith pledge such number of
shares or other securities to the Trustee under this Agreement and deliver such
number of shares or other securities to the Trustee or its agent (including
FNBB, Chase and Bank One) in connection therewith as represents the same
proportion to the number of shares or securities being acquired as the number of
shares (including shares which securities are exercisable or exchangeable for or
convertible into) of such class previously pledged hereunder bears to the number
of shares (including shares which securities are exercisable or exchangeable for
or convertible into) of such class owned by the Company immediately prior to
such acquisition by the Company. The Company agrees that the Trustee may from
time to time attach as ANNEX A hereto an updated list of the shares of capital
stock or securities at the time pledged with the Trustee hereunder.
(c) The Company also hereby pledges, assigns, grants a security
interest in, and delivers to the Trustee the Cash Collateral Account and all of
the Cash Collateral, as such terms are hereinafter defined.
Section 2. Definitions. All capitalized terms used herein without
definition have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture.
Terms used herein and not defined in the Indenture or otherwise defined herein
that are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New
York have such defined meanings herein, unless the context otherwise indicates
or requires, and the following terms have the following meanings:
"Cash Collateral" has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4
hereof.
"Cash Collateral Account" has the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 4 hereof.
"Collateral" means the property at any time pledged to the Trustee
hereunder (whether described herein or not) and all income therefrom, increases
therein and proceeds thereof, including without limitation the Stock and the
Cash Collateral.
"Obligations" has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3
hereof.
"Release Amounts has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 10
hereof.
"Stock" means the number of shares of stock set forth and described in
ANNEX A attached hereto and any additional securities pledged with the Trustee
hereunder pursuant to Section i(b) above.
Section 3. Security for Obligations. This Agreement and the security
interest in and pledge of the Collateral hereunder are made with and granted to
the Trustee, as security for the payment, when due, whether at stated maturity,
upon call for redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise, of the principal of,
and premium, if any, and interest on, the Securities and all other obligations
of the Company to the Holders of the Securities under the Indenture
(hereinafter, the "Obligations").
Section 4. Liquidation, Recapitalization, Etc.
(a) Any sums or other property paid or distributed upon or with respect
to any of the Stock, whether by dividend or redemption or upon the liquidation
or dissolution of the issuer thereof or otherwise, shall, except to the extent
provided in Section 6, be paid over and delivered to the Trustee or its agent to
be held by or for the benefit of the Trustee as security for the payment and
performance in full of all of the Obligations. In case, pursuant to the
recapitalization or reclassification of the capital of the issuer thereof or
pursuant to the reorganization thereof, any distribution of capital shall be
made on or in respect of any of the Stock or any property shall be distributed
upon or with respect to any of the Stock,
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the property so distributed shall be delivered to the Trustee or its agent, to
be held by or for the benefit of the Trustee as security for the Obligations.
Except to the extent provided in Section 6, all sums of money and property paid
or distributed in respect of the Stock, whether as a dividend or upon such a
liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or reclassification or otherwise,
that are received by the Company shall, until paid or delivered to the Trustee
or its agent, be held in trust for the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders
from time to time of the Securities, as security for the payment and performance
in full of all of the Obligations.
(b) All sums of money that are delivered to the Trustee or its agent
pursuant to this Section 4 shall be deposited into an interest bearing account
maintained by, and under the sole dominion and control of, the Trustee (the
"Cash Collateral Account"). Interest earned on the Cash Collateral Account shall
be deposited in the Cash Collateral Account. The Cash Collateral Account, all
sums from time to time standing to the credit of the Cash Collateral Account,
any cash or cash equivalents (including Investment Grade Securities) deposited
with the Trustee in accordance with Section 1207 of the Indenture, and any and
all proceeds of any thereof are hereinafter referred to as the "Cash
Collateral."
(c) Unless the conditions set forth in Section 1207 of the Indenture
are complied with, the Company shall have no right to withdraw sums from the
Cash Collateral Account or to receive any of the Cash Collateral.
Section 5. Warranty of Title. The Company hereby represents and
warrants that: (a) except as otherwise disclosed on Schedule 5(a) hereto, the
Company has good and marketable title to the Stock described on Annex A , free
and clear of all pledges, liens, security interests, charges, options,
restrictions or other encumbrances except for this Agreement and (b) the
information set forth in Annex A hereto relating to the Stock is true and
correct.
Section 6. Dividends Voting, Etc., Prior to Maturity. So long as no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall be
entitled to receive all cash dividends paid in respect of the Stock, to vote the
Stock and to give consents, waivers and ratifications in respect of the Stock.
All such rights of the Company to vote and give consents, waivers and
ratifications with respect to the Stock shall, at the Trustee's option, as
evidenced by the Trustee's notifying the Company of such election, cease if an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Section 7. Remedies.
(a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Trustee shall thereafter have the following rights and remedies (the extent
permitted by applicable law) in addition to the rights and remedies of a secured
party under the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York or
such other jurisdiction as may mandatorily be applicable thereto, all such
rights and remedies being cumulative, not exclusive, and enforceable
alternatively, successively or concurrently, at such time or times as the
Trustee deems expedient:
(i) if the Trustee so elects and gives notice of such
election to the Company, the Trustee may vote any or all shares of the
Stock (whether or not the same shall have been transferred into its
name or the name of its nominee or nominees) and, if such Stock (the
"Subsidiary Stock") consists of less than all of the common stock of a
wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company, all of the other shares of
common stock of such Subsidiary (the "Other Shares") for any lawful
purpose, including, without limitation, if the Trustee so elects, for
the liquidation of the assets of the issuer thereof, and give all
consents, waivers and ratifications in respect of the Stock and
otherwise act with respect thereto as though it were the outright owner
thereof, and the Company hereby irrevocably appoints and constitutes
the Trustee as its lawful attorney-in-fact and proxy with full power of
substitution to vote, and to give all consents, waivers and
ratifications in respect of, the Other Shares following the occurrence
and during the continuance of an Event of Default, and such proxy shall
be irrevocable and coupled with an interest and shall expire upon the
termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 15 hereof or the
earlier release of the Subsidiary Stock from the Lien created under
this Agreement;
(ii) the Trustee may demand, ▇▇▇ for, collect or make
any compromise or settlement the Trustee deems suitable in respect of
any Collateral;
(iii) the Trustee may sell, resell, assign and
deliver, or otherwise dispose of any or all of the Collateral, for cash
or credit or both and upon such terms, at such places, at such times
and to such Persons as the
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Trustee deems expedient, all without demand for performance by the
Company or any notice or advertisement whatsoever except as expressly
provided herein or as may otherwise be required by law;
(iv) the Trustee may cause all or any part of the
Stock held by it to be transferred into its name or the name of its
nominee or nominees; and
(v) the Trustee may set off against the Obligations
any and all sums deposited with it or held by it, including without
limitation, any sums standing to-the credit of the Cash Collateral
Account.
(b) In the event of any disposition of the Collateral as provided in
clause (iii) of Section 7(a), the Trustee shall give to the Company at least ten
Business Days, prior written notice of the time and place of any public sale of
the Collateral or of the time after which any private sale or any other intended
disposition is to be made. The Company hereby acknowledges that ten Business
Days, prior written notice of such sale or sales shall be reasonable notice. The
Trustee may buy any part or all of the Collateral at any public sale and if any
part or all of the Collateral is of a type customarily sold in a recognized
market or is of the type which is the subject of widely distributed standard
price quotations, the Trustee may buy at private sale and may make payments
thereof by any means.
(c) If the Trustee shall determine to exercise its right to sell any or
all of the Stock pursuant to this Section 7, and if in the opinion of counsel
for the Trustee it is necessary, or if in the reasonable opinion of the Trustee
it is advisable, to have the Stock, or that portion thereof to be sold,
registered under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), the Company agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to
cause the issuer or issuers of the Stock contemplated to be sold to execute and
deliver, and cause the directors and officers of such issuer or issuers to
execute and deliver, all at the Company's expense, all such instruments and
documents, and to do or cause to be done all such other acts and things as may
be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Trustee, advisable to register
such Stock under the provisions of the Securities Act and to cause the
registration statement relating thereto to become effective and to remain
effective for a period of 3 months from the date such registration statement
became effective, and to make all amendments thereto or to the related
prospectus or both that, in the reasonable opinion of the Trustee, are necessary
or advisable, all in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and
the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission applicable
thereto. The Company agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such
issuer or issuers to comply with the provisions of the securities or "Blue Sky"
laws of any jurisdiction which the Trustee shall designate and to cause such
issuer or issuers to make available to its security-holders, as soon as
practicable, an earnings statement (which need not be audited) which will
satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act. If the Trustee
elects to sell Stock in a private sale, the Company agrees to use commercially
reasonable efforts to cause the issuer or issuers of the Stock contemplated to
be sold to execute and deliver, and cause the directors and officers of such
issuer or issuers to execute and deliver, all at the Company's expense, all such
instruments and documents, and to do or cause to be done all such other acts and
things as may be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Trustee,
advisable to exempt such Stock from registration under the provisions of the
Securities Act, and to make all amendments to such instruments and documents
which, in the opinion of the Trustee, are necessary or advisable, all in
conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission applicable thereto.
(d) The Trustee agrees that any sale of Stock shall be made in a
commercially reasonable manner.
(e) The Company further agrees to do or cause to be done all such other
acts and things as may be reasonably necessary to make any sales of any portion
or all of the Stock pursuant to this Section 7 valid and binding and in
compliance with any and all applicable laws, regulations, orders, writs,
injunctions, decrees or awards of any and all courts, arbitrators or
governmental instrumentalities, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over
any such sale or sales, all at the Company's expense.
(f) If the Trustee exercises its right, set forth in Section 1006 of
the Indenture, to cause the Company to sell Other Shares, the provisions of this
Section 7 shall be applicable to such sale, except as provided in such Section
1006 with respect to the proceeds of such sale.
Section 8. Company's Obligations Not Affected. The obligations
of the Company hereunder shall remain in full force and effect without regard
to, and shall not be impaired by (a) any exercise or nonexercise, or any waiver,
by the Trustee or any holder of Securities of any right, remedy, power or
privilege under or in respect of any of the Obligations or
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any security thereof (including under this Agreement); (b) any amendment to or
modification of the Indenture, the Securities or any of the Obligations; or (c)
the taking of additional security for, or any other assurances of payment of,
any of the Obligations or the release, discharge or termination of any security
or other assurances of payment or performance for any of the Obligations.
Section 9. Other Liens. The Company shall not pledge, grant or suffer
to exist any Lien in, or otherwise encumber or restrict, any of the Collateral
or any interest therein, except for the pledge thereof and Lien therein provided
for in this Agreement or any Lien existing on the date hereof; provided,
however, that the Company may ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇ on all or any portion of the
Collateral if the conditions specified in Section 1109 of the Original Indenture
and Section 1109 of the Indenture have been satisfied. In connection with the
grant or creation of a Lien by the Company in all or any portion of the
Collateral to the extent permitted under this Section, the Company may require
the Trustee, following receipt by the Trustee of at least five Business Days'
prior written notice from the Company, to deliver the Collateral which is to be
subject to such Lien to the holder of Indebtedness to be secured by such Lien at
such time and place as the Company shall specify in such notice, provided that
such Collateral remains subject to the Lien created under this Pledge Agreement,
and such holder of Indebtedness agrees in writing to act as the Trustee's agent
for such purpose.
Section 10. Release of Collateral. Provided that no Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee, upon receipt of at least five
Business Days written notice from the Company delivered in connection with a
proposed sale of all or any portion of the Collateral, shall take all action
necessary to release such portion of the Collateral as is proposed to be sold
from the Lien created under this Agreement and deliver such Collateral to the
Company free and clear of such Lien at the time and place specified by the
Company in such notice, against receipt by the Trustee or the Paying Agent of
(i) an amount at least equal to the lesser of (A) the Net Value on the Exchange
Closing (or such later date as the asset was added to the Security Pool) of the
Collateral which is to be released, (B) the Net Proceeds received by the company
from the sale of such Collateral, or (C) the Net Proceeds remaining after the
satisfaction of all prior and senior Liens to which such asset is subject (such
lesser amount, the "Released Amount"), which amount shall be applied by the
Trustee or Paying Agent to the simultaneous redemption of Securities at 100% of
the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest thereon to the Redemption
Date, (ii) the consideration received from the sale of any Collateral released
pursuant to this Section (less a portion of such consideration, the Fair Value
of which is equal to the sum of the items described in clauses (A), (B) and (C)
of the definition of Net Proceeds set forth in the indenture), or cash or cash
equivalents (including Investment Grade Securities) in an amount at least equal
to the Release Amount, which shall be deposited by the Trustee into the Cash
Collateral Account and be Collateral subject to the Lien granted and created
under this Agreement, or (iii) evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
that Securities are substantially simultaneously being repurchased by the
Company in the open market or in private transactions for an aggregate
consideration, at least equal to the Release Amount. The Trustee agrees to
deliver such documents or instruments as the Company may reasonably request in
connection with the release of any Lien or delivery of any Collateral as
contemplated by this Section. In the case of clause (i) above, it shall be a
condition of the release of such Collateral from such Lien that the Company
shall have taken all action necessary to cause the Redemption Date to occur
simultaneously with such release. The Trustee shall take all steps reasonably
required to release any part of the Collateral from the Lien under this
Agreement in connection with the sale of such asset by the Company if the
proceeds thereof are used to satisfy prior and senior Liens in accordance with
the terms of the Original Pledge Agreement and the Original Indenture and if all
remaining proceeds, if any, are used or delivered as required by this Section
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Section 11. Further Assurances. The Company will do all such acts, and
will furnish to the Trustee all such financing statements, certificates, legal
opinions and other documents and will obtain all such governmental consents and
corporate approvals and will do or cause to be done all such other things as the
Trustee may reasonably request from time to time in order to give full effect to
this Agreement and to secure the rights of the Trustee hereunder, all without
any cost or expense to the Trustee. If the Trustee so elects, a photocopy of
this Agreement may at any time and from time to time be filed by the Trustee as
a financing statement in any recording office in any jurisdiction.
Section 12. Trustee's Exoneration. Under no circumstances shall the
Trustee be deemed to assume any responsibility for or obligation or duty to the
Company with respect to any part or all of the Collateral of any nature or kind
or any matter or proceedings arising out of or relating thereto, other than (a)
to exercise reasonable care in the physical custody of the Collateral and (b)
after an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing to act in a
commercially reasonable manner. The Trustee shall not be required to take any
action of any kind to collect, preserve or protect its or the
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Company's rights in the Collateral. The Trustee's prior recourse to any part or
all of the Collateral shall not constitute a condition of any demand, suit or
proceeding for payment or collection of any of the Obligations.
Section 13. No Waiver, Etc. Neither this Agreement nor any term hereof
may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated except by a written instrument
expressly referring to this Agreement and to the provisions so modified or
limited, and executed by the Trustee, with the consent of the Required Holders
if such consent is required pursuant to the Indenture, and the Company. No act,
failure or delay by the Trustee shall constitute a waiver of its rights and
remedies hereunder or otherwise. No single or partial waiver by the Trustee of
any default or right or remedy that it may have shall operate as a waiver of any
other default, right or remedy or of the same default, right or remedy on a
future occasion. The Company hereby waives presentment, notice of dishonor and
protest of all instruments included in or evidencing any of the Obligations or
the Collateral, and any and all other notices and demands whatsoever (except as
expressly provided herein or in the indenture).
Section 14. Notice, Etc. All notices, requests and other communications
hereunder shall be made in the manner set forth in Section 105 of the Indenture.
Section 15. Termination. Upon final payment and performance in full of
the Obligations, this Agreement shall terminate and the Trustee shall, at the
Company's request and expense, return to the Company all Collateral in the
possession or control of the Trustee together with any moneys and other property
at the time held by the Trustee hereunder.
Section 16. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, except as
required by mandatory provisions of law and except to the extent that the
validity or perfection of the security interest hereunder, or remedies
hereunder, in respect of any particular Collateral are governed by the laws of a
jurisdiction other than the State of New York.
Section 17. Miscellaneous. The headings of each section of this
Agreement are for convenience only and shall not define or limit the provisions
thereof. This Agreement and all rights and obligations hereunder shall be
binding upon the Company and its respective successors and assigns, and shall
inure to the benefit of the Trustee and the holder from time to time of the
Securities and their respective successors and assigns. If any term of this
Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity of
all other terms hereof shall be in no way affected thereby, and this Agreement
shall be construed and be enforceable as if such invalid, illegal or
unenforceable term had not been included herein.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, the Company and the
Trustee have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first above
written.
THE HALLWOOD GROUP
INCORPORATED
By:
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Title:
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BANK ONE, N.A.
as Trustee
By:
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Title:
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Annex A to Pledge Agreement
Number of Par or
Number of Issued and Number of Liquidation
Class of Certificate Authorized Outstanding Shares being Value per
Issuer Shares Number(s) Shares Shares Pledged Share
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Brookwood Companies Incorporated Common C1 15,000,00 10,000,000 10,000,000 $ .01
Brookwood Companies Incorporated Preferred P 1, P2 500,000 130,000 130,000 No par value
Hallwood Hotels, Inc. Common 001 1,000 10 10 No par value
▇▇▇▇▇ Suite Hotels, Inc. Common 7 10,000 8,000 8,000 $ 1.00
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Schedule 5(a)
Other Liens
1. All of the common stock and preferred stock of Brookwood
Companies Incorporated ("Brookwood") is subject to a Lien in
favor of The Bank of New York, pursuant to a Pledge Agreement
dated as of January 7, 1997 between the Company and the Bank
of New York, which secures the Obligations of Brookwood under
the Credit Agreement dated as of January 7, 1997 among
Brookwood, its subsidiaries and the Bank of New York, and the
loan documents related thereto.
2. All of the common and preferred stock of Brookwood Companies
Incorporated, Hallwood Hotels, Inc. and ▇▇▇▇▇ Suite Hotels,
Inc. is subject to a Lien in favor of Norwest Bank Minnesota,
National Association, as Trustee, under that certain Indenture
of Trust dated as of March 2, 1993 regarding 7% Collateralized
Senior Subordinated Debentures of The Hallwood Group
Incorporated.
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