EXHIBIT 4.3
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Dated as of August [_], 1997
Between
SYSTEM SOFTWARE ASSOCIATES, INC.
as Issuer of the Junior Subordinated Notes and the Warrants,
and
THE PURCHASERS LISTED HEREIN
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$48,400,000 IN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
OF
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE AUGUST 1, 2003
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WARRANTS TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK AND PREFERRED STOCK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS.......................................................1
Section 1.1. Definitions..............................................1
Affiliate..............................................2
Board of Directors.....................................2
Business Day...........................................2
Change in Control......................................2
Closing Price..........................................2
Commission.............................................2
Common Stock...........................................2
Company................................................3
Controlled.............................................3
Conversion Price.......................................3
Corporate Trust Office.................................3
Current Market Price...................................3
default................................................3
Defaulted Interest.....................................3
Designated Senior Indebtedness.........................3
Exchange Act...........................................4
Expiration Time........................................4
Event of Default.......................................4
Indebtedness...........................................4
Indenture..............................................5
Initial Purchasers.....................................5
Junior Subordinated Notes..............................5
New Preferred Stock....................................5
New Securities.........................................5
Officers' Certificate..................................5
Opinion of Counsel.....................................5
outstanding............................................5
Payment Blockage Notice................................6
Person.................................................6
Predecessor Security...................................6
Purchased Shares.......................................6
Publicly Traded Securities.............................6
Record Date............................................6
Representative.........................................6
Responsible Officer....................................7
Repurchase Date........................................7
Repurchase Price.......................................7
Securities Act.........................................7
Security or Securities.................................7
Security register......................................7
Securityholder or holder...............................7
Senior Indebtedness....................................7
Significant Subsidiary.................................8
Subsidiary.............................................8
Trading Day............................................8
Trigger Event..........................................8
Trust Indenture Act....................................8
(i)
Trustee............................................... 8
U.S. Government Obligations........................... 9
Warrants.............................................. 9
ARTICLE II. ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION
AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES ......................................... 9
Section 2.1. Designation, Amount and Issue of
Securities.......................................... 9
Section 2.2. Form of Securities.................................... 9
Section 2.3. Date and Denomination of Securities
Payments of Interest................................10
Section 2.4. Execution of Securities...............................12
Section 2.5. Exchange and Registration of Transfer of
Securities..........................................12
Section 2.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Securities..........................................14
Section 2.7. Temporary Securities..................................15
Section 2.8. Cancellation of Securities Paid, Etc..................15
ARTICLE III. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES...................................16
Section 3.1. Redemption Prices.....................................16
Section 3.2. Notice of Redemption; Selection of
Securities..........................................16
Section 3.3. Payment of Securities Called for
Redemption..........................................18
Section 3.4. Conversion Arrangement on Call for
Redemption..........................................19
ARTICLE IV. SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES.................................19
Section 4.1. Agreement of Subordination............................19
Section 4.2. Payments to Securityholders...........................20
Section 4.3. Subrogation of Securities.............................23
Section 4.4. Authorization to Effect Subordination.................24
Section 4.5. Notice to Trustee.....................................25
Section 4.6. Trustee's Relation to Senior Indebtedness.............26
Section 4.7. No Impairment of Subordination........................26
Section 4.8. Certain Conversions Deemed Payment....................26
Section 4.9. Article Applicable to Paying Agents...................27
Section 4.10. Senior Indebtedness Entitled to Rely..................27
ARTICLE V. PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY..........................27
Section 5.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest............27
Section 5.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.......................28
Section 5.3. Appointments to Fill Vacancies in
Trustee's Office....................................28
Section 5.4. Provisions as to Paying Agent.........................28
Section 5.5. Corporate Existence...................................30
Section 5.6. Amendments to Junior Notes, Warrants
New Preferred Stock.................................30
Section 5.7. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws........................30
Section 5.8. Compliance Certificate................................30
Section 5.9.. No Prepayment of Junior Notes at the
Option of the Company..............................30
Section 5.10. No Repurchase of Warrants.............................31
(ii)
Section 5.11. Liquidation........................................... 31
Section 5.12. Notice of Defaults.................................... 32
Section 5.13. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims..................... 32
Section 5.14. Further Instruments and Acts.......................... 32
ARTICLE VI. SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND TRUSTEE.......................................... 32
Section 6.1. Securityholders' Lists................................. 32
Section 6.2. Preservation and Disclosure of Lists................... 33
Section 6.3. Reports by Trustee..................................... 33
Section 6.4. Reports by Company..................................... 34
ARTICLE VII. REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT....................................... 34
Section 7.1. Events of Default...................................... 34
Section 7.2. Payments of Securities on Default; Suit
Therefor............................................. 37
Section 7.3. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee............. 38
Section 7.4. Proceedings by Securityholder.......................... 39
Section 7.5. Proceedings by Trustee................................. 40
Section 7.6. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing..................... 40
Section 7.7. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of
Defaults by Majority of Securityholders.............. 41
Section 7.8. Notice of Defaults..................................... 42
Section 7.9. Undertaking to Pay Costs............................... 42
ARTICLE VIII. CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE..................................... 42
Section 8.1. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee................. 42
Section 8.2. Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc................... 42
Section 8.3. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.................... 45
Section 8.4. Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents
or Registrar May Own Securities...................... 45
Section 8.5. Monies to Be Held in Trust............................. 45
Section 8.6. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee................... 46
Section 8.7. Officers' Certificate as Evidence...................... 46
Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests of Trustee....................... 47
Section 8.9. Eligibility of Trustee................................. 47
Section 8.10. Resignation or Removal of Trustee..................... 47
Section 8.11. Acceptance by Successor Trustee....................... 49
Section 8.12. Succession by Merger, Etc............................. 49
Section 8.13. Limitation on Rights of Trustee as
Creditor............................................ 50
ARTICLE IX. CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS............................... 50
Section 9.1. Action by Securityholders.............................. 50
Section 9.2. Proof of Execution by Securityholders.................. 51
Section 9.3. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners......................... 51
Section 9.4. Company-Owned Security Disregarded..................... 51
Section 9.5. Revocation of Consents: Future Holders
Bound................................................ 52
ARTICLE X. SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS..................................... 52
Section 10.1. Purpose of Meetings................................... 52
Section 10.2. Call of Meetings by Trustee........................... 53
(iii)
Section 10.3. Call of Meetings by Company or......................... 53
Securityholders...................................... 53
Section 10.4. Qualifications for Voting.............................. 54
Section 10.5. Regulations............................................ 54
Section 10.6. Voting................................................. 54
Section 10.7. No Delay of Rights by Meeting.......................... 55
ARTICLE XI. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES....................................... 55
Section 11.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent
of Securityholders................................... 55
Section 11.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Securityholders...................................... 57
Section 11.3. Effect of Supplemental Indenture....................... 58
Section 11.4. Notation on Security................................... 58
Section 11.5. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental
Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee.................... 58
ARTICLE XII. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND
LEASE 58
Section 12.1. Company May Consolidate Etc. on Certain................ 58
Terms................................................ 59
Section 12.2. Successor Corporation to Be Substituted................ 60
Section 12.3. Opinion of Counsel to Be Given Trustee
ARTICLE XIII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE..................... 60
Section 13.1. Discharge of Indenture................................. 60
Section 13.2. Deposited Monies to Be Held in Trust by
Trustee.............................................. 61
Section 13.3. Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held...................... 61
Section 13.4. Return of Unclaimed Monies............................. 61
Section 13.5. Reinstatement.......................................... 61
ARTICLE XIV. IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS,
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS................................................ 62
Section 14.1. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate
Obligations............................................... 62
ARTICLE XV. CONVERSION OF SECURITIES...................................... 62
Section 15.1. Right to Convert............................................ 62
Section 15.2. Exercise of Conversion Privilege;
Issuance of Common Stock on Conversion;
No Adjustment for Interest or Dividends................... 63
Section 15.3. Cash Payments in Lieu of Fractional Shares.................. 64
Section 15.4. Conversion Price............................................ 65
Section 15.5. Adjustment of Conversion Price.............................. 65
Section 15.6. Effect of Reclassification,
Consolidation, Merger or Sale............................. 76
Section 15.7. Taxes on Shares Issued...................................... 77
Section 15.8. Reservation of Shares to Be Fully Paid;
Compliance with Governmental
Requirements; Listing of Common Stock..................... 77
Section 15.9. Responsibility of Trustee................................... 78
(iv)
INDENTURE, dated as of August __ 1997, between System Software Associates,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the "Company," as
more fully set forth in Section 1.1), and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust and Savings Bank, as
trustee hereunder (hereinafter sometimes called the "Trustee," as more fully set
forth in Section 1.1).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized
the issue of its ___% Convertible Subordinated Notes due August 1, 2002
(hereinafter sometimes called the "Securities"), in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $90,000,000 ($103,500,000 if the over-allotment option is
exercised in full) and, to provide the terms and conditions upon which the
Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Securities, the certificate of authentication to be borne by
the Securities, a form of assignment, a form of option to elect repurchase upon
a Change in Control (as defined in Section 16.4) and a form of conversion notice
to be borne by the Securities are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter
provided for; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Securities, when
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly
authorized authenticating agent, as in this Indenture provided, the valid,
binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a
valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the
execution of this Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Securities have in
all respects been duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Securities
are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of
the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Securities by the holders
thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and
proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the
Securities (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1. Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.1 (except as
herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires)
for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto
shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.1. All other
terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or
which are by reference therein defined in the Securities Act (except as herein
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) shall
have the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said
Securities Act as in force at the date of the execution of this Indenture. The
words "herein," "hereof," "hereunder," and words of similar import refer to this
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the
singular.
Affiliate: The term "Affiliate" of any specified Person shall mean any
other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct
or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control," when used with respect to any specified Person, means the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such
Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise and the terms "controlling" and
"controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
Board of Directors: The term "Board of Directors" shall mean the Board of
Directors of the Company or a committee of such Board duly authorized to act for
it hereunder.
Business Day: The term "Business Day" means each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which the banking
institutions in Chicago, Illinois and New York, New York are authorized or
obligated by law or executive order to close or be closed.
Change in Control: The term "Change in Control" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 16.4.
Closing Price: The term "Closing Price" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.5(h)(1).
Commission: The term "Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Common Stock: The term "Common Stock" shall mean any stock of any class of
the Company which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts
payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company.
Subject to the provisions of Section 15.6, however, shares issuable on
conversion of Securities shall include only shares of the class designated as
common stock of the Company at the date of this Indenture or shares of any class
or classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and
which have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the
event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
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winding up of the Company and which are not subject to redemption by the
Company, provided that, if at any time there shall be more than one such
resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be
substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class
resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of
all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
Company: The term "Company" shall mean System Software Associates, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, and, subject to the provisions of Article XII, shall
include its successors and assigns.
Controlled: The term "Controlled" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 16.4.
Conversion Price: The term "Conversion Price" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.4.
Corporate Trust Office: The term "Corporate Trust Office" or other similar
term shall mean the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office is, at
the date as of which this Indenture is dated, located at [Address], Attention:
[Name], (System Software Associates, Inc., __% Convertible Subordinated Notes
due 2002).
Current Market Price: The term "Current Market Price" shall have the
meaning specified in Section 15.5(h)(2).
default: The term "default" shall mean any event that is, or after notice
or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
Defaulted Interest: The term "Defaulted Interest" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.3.
Designated Senior Indebtedness: The term "Designated Senior Indebtedness"
means any particular Senior Indebtedness in which the instrument creating or
evidencing the same or the assumption or guarantee thereof (or related
agreements or documents to which the Company is a party) expressly provides that
such Senior Indebtedness shall be "Designated Senior Indebtedness" for purposes
of the Indenture (provided that such instrument, agreement or other document may
place limitations and conditions on the right of such Senior Indebtedness to
exercise the rights of Designated Senior Indebtedness).
Exchange Act: The term "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
as in effect from time to time.
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Expiration Time: The term "Expiration Time" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 15.5(f).
Event of Default: The term "Event of Default" shall mean any event
specified in Section 7.1(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g).
Indebtedness: The term "Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Person,
and without duplication, (a) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest
on, and fees, costs, enforcement expenses, collateral protection expenses and
other reimbursement or indemnity obligations in respect of all indebtedness or
obligations of the Company to any Person, including, but not limited to, banks
and other lending institutions, for money borrowed that is evidenced by a
Security, bond, Note, loan agreement, or similar instrument or agreement
(including purchase money obligations with original maturities in excess of one
year and noncontingent reimbursement obligations in respect of amounts paid
under letters of credit), (b) all reimbursement obligations and other
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such Person with respect to letters of
credit, bank guarantees or bankers' acceptances, (c) all obligations and
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) in respect of leases of such Person
required, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, to be
accounted for as capitalized lease obligations on the balance sheet of such
Person and all obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) under
any lease or related document (including a purchase agreement) in connection
with the lease of real property which provides that such Person is contractually
obligated to purchase or cause a third party to purchase the leased property and
thereby guarantee a minimum residual value of the leased property to the lessor
and the obligations of such Person under such lease or related document to
purchase or to cause a third party to purchase such leased property, (d) all
obligations of such Person (contingent or otherwise) with respect to an interest
rate or other swap, cap or collar agreement or other similar instrument or
agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange, purchase or similar instrument or
agreement, (e) all direct or indirect guaranties or similar agreements by such
Person in respect of, and obligations or liabilities (contingent or otherwise)
of such Person to purchase or otherwise acquire or otherwise assure a creditor
against loss in respect of indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of another
Person of the kind described in clauses (a) through (d), (f) any indebtedness or
other obligations described in clauses (a) through (d) secured by any mortgage,
pledge, lien or other encumbrance existing on property which is owned or held by
such Person, regardless of whether the indebtedness or other obligation secured
thereby shall have been assumed by such Person and (g) any and all deferrals,
renewals, extensions and refundings of, or amendments, modifications or
supplements to, any indebtedness, obligation or liability of the kind described
in clauses (a) through (f).
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Indenture: The term "Indenture" shall mean this instrument as originally
executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented.
Initial Purchasers: The term "Initial Purchasers" means Alex. ▇▇▇▇▇ & Sons
Incorporated, [____________] and [______________].
Junior Notes: The term "Junior Notes" shall mean the 12% Junior Notes of
the Company due August 1, 2003.
New Preferred Stock: The term "New Preferred Stock" shall mean the shares
of preferred stock of the Company issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
New Securities: The term "New Securities" shall have the meaning specified
in Section 15.5(d).
Officers' Certificate: The term "Officers' Certificate," when used with
respect to the Company, shall mean a certificate signed by both (a) the
President, the Chief Executive Officer, Executive or Senior Vice President or
any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or
words added before or after the title "Vice President") and (b) the Treasurer or
any Assistant Treasurer or Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
Opinion of Counsel: The term "Opinion of Counsel" shall mean an opinion in
writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the
Company, or other counsel acceptable to the Trustee.
outstanding: The term "outstanding," when used with reference to
Securities, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 9.4, mean, as of any
particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under
this Indenture, except
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the redemption of which
monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the
Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Company) or shall have
been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall
act as its own paying agent); provided that, if such Securities are to be
redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall
have been given as in Article III provided, or provision satisfactory to
the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice;
(c) Securities in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other
Securities shall have been authenticated
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and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.6 unless proof
satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Securities are held
by bona fide holders in due course; and
(d) Securities converted into Common Stock pursuant to Article XV and
Securities deemed not outstanding pursuant to Article III.
Payment Blockage Notice: The term "Payment Blockage Notice" has the meaning
specified in Section 4.2.
Person: The term "Person" shall mean a corporation, an association, a
partnership, an individual, a joint venture, a joint stock company, a limited
liability company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an
agency or a political subdivision thereof.
Predecessor Security: The term "Predecessor Security" of any particular
Security shall mean 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 2.6 in
lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security that it replaces.
Purchased Shares: The term "Purchased Shares" has the meaning specified in
Section 15.5(f).
Publicly Traded Securities: The term "Publicly Traded Securities" shall
have the meaning specified in Section 16.4.
Record Date: The term "Record Date" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.5(h)(4).
Representative: The term "Representative" means the (a) indenture trustee
or other trustee, agent or representative for any Senior Indebtedness or (b)
with respect to any Senior Indebtedness that does not have any such trustee,
agent or other representative, (i) in the case of such Senior Indebtedness
issued pursuant to an agreement providing for voting arrangements as among the
holders or owners of such Senior Indebtedness, any holder or owner of such
Senior Indebtedness acting with the consent of the required persons necessary to
bind such holders or owners of such Senior Indebtedness and (ii) in the case of
all other such Senior Indebtedness, the holder or owner of such Senior
Indebtedness.
Responsible Officer: The term "Responsible Officer," when used with respect
to the Trustee, shall mean an officer of the Trustee in the Corporate Trust
Office assigned and duly authorized by the Trustee to administer the corporate
trust matters hereunder.
Repurchase Date: The term "Repurchase Date" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 16.1.
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Price: The term "Repurchase Price" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 16.1.
Securities Act: The term "Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Security or Securities: The terms "Security" or "Securities" shall mean any
of the ___% Convertible Subordinated Notes of the Company, due August 1, 2002,
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
Security register: The term "Security register" shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.5.
Securityholder or holder: The terms "Securityholder" or "holder" as applied
to any Security, or other similar terms (but excluding the term "beneficial
holder"), shall mean any person in whose name at the time a particular Security
is registered on the Security registrar's books.
Senior Indebtedness: The term "Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of,
premium, if any, interest (including all interest accruing subsequent to the
commencement of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, whether or not a claim for
post-petition interest is allowable as a claim in any such proceeding) on or in
connection with, and all fees, costs, expenses and other amounts accrued or due
on or in connection with, Indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding on
the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred, assumed, guaranteed
or in effect guaranteed by the Company (including all deferrals, renewals,
extensions or refundings of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, the
foregoing), unless in the case of any particular Indebtedness the instrument
creating or evidencing the same or the assumption or guarantee thereof expressly
provides that such Indebtedness shall not be senior in right of payment to the
Securities or expressly provides that such Indebtedness is "pari passu" with or
"junior" to the Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term Senior
Indebtedness shall not include any Indebtedness of the Company to any Subsidiary
of the Company or amounts payable with respect to the Junior Notes, the Warrants
or any series of preferred stock of the Company.
Significant Subsidiary: The term "Significant Subsidiary" means a
corporation or other entity of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under
Regulation S-X promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Subsidiary: The term "Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i)
any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of
the total voting power of shares of capital stock entitled (without regard to
the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors,
managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or
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indirectly, by such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or a
combination thereof) and (ii) any partnership (a) the sole general partner or
managing general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person
or (b) the only general partners of which are such Person or one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).
Trading Day: The term "Trading Day" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.5(h)(5).
Trigger Event: The term "Trigger Event" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 15.5(d).
Trust Indenture Act: The term "Trust Indenture Act" shall mean the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution
of this Indenture, except as provided in Sections 11.3, 15.6 and 16.5; provided,
however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the
date hereof, the term "Trust Indenture Act" shall mean, to the extent required
by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
Trustee: The term "Trustee" shall mean ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust and Savings Bank, and
its successors and any corporation resulting from or surviving any consolidation
or merger to which it or its successors may be a party and any successor trustee
at the time serving as successor trustee hereunder.
U.S. Government Obligations: The term "U.S. Government Obligations" means
direct non-callable obligations of, or non-callable obligations guaranteed by,
the United States of America for the payment of which guarantee or obligation
the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged.
Warrants: The term "Warrants" shall mean the warrants to purchase shares of
Common Stock and a new series of the Company's preferred stock issued to the
holders of the Junior Note.
The definitions of certain other terms are as specified in Article XV and
Article XVI.
ARTICLE II.
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION
AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES
Section 2.1. Designation, Amount and Issue of Securities. The Securities
shall be designated as "__% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2002." Securities
not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of $90,000,000 (or $103,500,000 if
the over-allotment option set forth in Section 2 of the Underwriting Agreement,
dated August __, 1997 (as amended from time to time by the parties thereto) by
and between the Company and the Initial
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Purchasers is exercised in full) upon the execution of this Indenture, or
(except pursuant to Sections 2.5, 2.6, 3.3, 15.2 and 16.2 hereof) from time to
time thereafter, may be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for
authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said
Securities to or upon the written order of the Company, signed by its (a)
President, Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or
not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the
title "Vice President") and (b) Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or its
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, without any further action by the Company
hereunder.
Section 2.2. Form of Note. The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of
authentication to be borne by such Securities shall be substantially in the form
set forth in Exhibit A, which is incorporated in and made a part of this
Indenture.
Any of the Securities may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such notations, legends and endorsements as the officers
executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of
such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or
regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any
securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be
listed, or to conform to usage.
The terms and provisions contained in the Form of Note attached as Exhibit
A hereto shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their
execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and
provisions and to be bound thereby.
Section 2.3. Date and Denomination of Securities Payments of Interest. The
Securities shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations
of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. Every Security shall
be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the
applicable date in each case as specified on the face of the Form of Note
attached as Exhibit A hereto. Interest on Securities shall be paid in arrears on
each February 15 and August 15 commencing February 15, 1998 and ending on
February 15, 2002, unless redeemed, repurchased or converted earlier pursuant to
the terms of this Indenture. Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.
The person in whose name any Security (or its Predecessor Security) is
registered at the close of business on any record date with respect to any
interest payment date (including any Security that is converted after the record
date and on or before the
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interest payment date) shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such
interest payment date notwithstanding the cancellation of such Security upon any
transfer, exchange or conversion subsequent to the record date and on or prior
to such interest payment date; provided, that in the case of any Security, or
portion thereof, called for redemption on a redemption date or repurchased in
connection with a Change in Control on a Repurchase Date that is after a record
date and prior to (but excluding) the next succeeding interest payment date,
interest shall not be paid to the person in whose name the Security, or portion
thereof, is registered on the close of business on such record date and the
Company shall have no obligation to pay interest on such Security or such
portion except to the extent required to be paid upon redemption or repurchase
of such Security or portion thereof pursuant to Section 3.3 or 16.1 hereof.
Interest may, at the option of the Company, be paid by check mailed to the
address of such person on the Security register; provided that, with respect to
any holder of Securities with an aggregate principal amount equal to or in
excess of $[5,000,000] at the request of such holder in writing to the Company
at least five (5) days prior to the date set for payment of interest (who shall
then furnish written notice to such effect to the Trustee), interest on such
holder's Securities shall be paid by wire transfer in immediately available
funds in accordance with the wire transfer instructions supplied by such holder
to the Trustee and paying agent (if different from the Trustee). The term
"interest payment date" shall mean February 15 and August 15 of each year
commencing on February 15, 1998. The term "record date" with respect to any
interest payment date shall mean the February 1 or August 1 preceding said
February 15 or August 15, respectively.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any said February 15 or August 15 (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Securityholder
on the relevant record date by virtue of his having been such Securityholder and
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below.
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on a special record
date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in
the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of
the amount of Defaulted Interest to be paid on each Security and the date
of the payment (which shall be not less than twenty-five (25) days after
the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee shall consent
to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount 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
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proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than fifteen
(15) days and not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than ten (10) days after the receipt by the Trustee of
the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Company of such special record date and, in the name and at the expense of
the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted
Interest and the special record date therefor to be mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, to each Securityholder at his address as it appears in the
Security register, not less than ten (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) were registered at the close of business
on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange and automated quotation system on which the Securities
may be listed or designated for listing, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange and automated quotation system, if, after notice
given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to
this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Section 2.4. Execution of Securities. The Securities shall be signed in the
name and on behalf of the Company by the facsimile signature of its President,
any Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not
designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the
title "Vice President") and attested by the facsimile signature of its Treasurer
or Assistant Treasurer or its Secretary or any of its Assistant Secretaries
(which may be printed, engraved or otherwise reproduced thereon, by facsimile or
otherwise). Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form set forth on the Form of Note attached
as Exhibit A hereto, manually executed by the Trustee (or an authenticating
agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 17.11), shall be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any
Security executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Security
so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that
the holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
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In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the
Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Securities so signed shall
have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the
Company, such Securities nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or
disposed of as though the person who signed such Securities had not ceased to be
such officer of the Company and any Security may be signed on behalf of the
Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such
Security, shall be the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of
the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
Section 2.5. Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Securities. The
Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the
Company designated pursuant to Section 5.2 being herein sometimes collectively
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 Security register shall be in
written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within
a reasonably prompt period of time. The Trustee is hereby appointed "Security
registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities
as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars in
accordance with Section 5.2.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security to the Security
registrar or any co-registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such
transfer set forth in this Section 2.5, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denominations and
of a like aggregate principal amount.
Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the
Company pursuant to Section 5.2. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for
exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, the Securities which the Securityholder making the exchange is entitled
to receive bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
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.
All Securities presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange, redemption, repurchase or conversion
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shall (if so required by the Company or the Security registrar) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee, and the Securities shall be
duly executed by the Securityholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Security registrar nor any co-
registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any
Securities for a period of fifteen (15) days next preceding any selection of
Securities to be redeemed or (b) any Securities or portions thereof called for
redemption pursuant to Article III or (c) any Securities or portion thereof
surrendered for conversion pursuant to Article XV.
Section 2.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities. In case any
Security shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in
its discretion may execute, and upon its written request the Trustee or an
authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a
new Security, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange
and substitution for the mutilated Security, or in lieu of and in substitution
for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a
substituted Security shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if
applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or
expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of
destruction, loss or theft, the applicant also shall furnish to the Company, to
the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the
ownership thereof.
The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such
substituted Security and deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or
indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating
agent may require. Upon the issuance of any substituted Security, 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 connected therewith. In case any Security which has matured or is about
to mature or has been called for redemption or is about to be converted into
Common Stock shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company
may, instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of
or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof
except in the case of a mutilated Security), as the case
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may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the
Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless
for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such
substitution, and, in case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory
to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any paying agent or conversion
agent of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership
thereof.
Every substitute Security issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section
2.6 by virtue of the fact that any Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall
constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not
the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be found at any time, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set
forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Securities duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Securities
shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions
are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment or conversion of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and shall preclude any and all
other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment or
conversion of negotiable instruments or other securities without their
surrender.
Section 2.7. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of Securities in
certificated form, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating
agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Company,
authenticate and deliver temporary Securities (printed, typewritten or
lithographed). Temporary Securities shall be issuable in any authorized
denomination, and substantially in the form of the Securities in certificated
form, but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate
for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such
temporary Security shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the
Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in
substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Securities in
certificated form. Without unreasonable delay the Company will execute and
deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Securities in certificated
form and thereupon any or all temporary Securities may be surrendered in
exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant
to Section 5.2 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate
and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities an equal aggregate
principal amount of Securities in certificated form. Such exchange shall be made
by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as
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Securities in certificated form authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.8. Cancellation of Securities Paid, Etc. All Securities
surrendered for the purpose of payment, redemption, repurchase, conversion,
exchange or registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the Company or
any paying agent or any Security registrar or any conversion agent, be
surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it, or, if surrendered to
the Trustee, shall be promptly canceled by it, and no Securities shall be issued
in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this
Indenture; provided that, any Security or portion thereof surrendered for
repurchase shall only be canceled at such time as such Security or portion
thereof has been repurchased pursuant to Article XVI hereof. The Trustee shall
destroy canceled Securities (unless the Company directs it to do otherwise) and,
after such destruction, shall, if requested by the Company, deliver a
certificate of such destruction to the Company. If the Company shall acquire any
of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until
the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
ARTICLE III.
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 3.1. Redemption Prices. The Company may not redeem the Securities
prior to August 1, 2000. At any time on or after August 1, 2000, the Company
may, at its option from time to time, redeem all or any part of the Securities
on any date prior to maturity, upon notice as set forth in Section 3.2, and at
the optional redemption prices set forth in the Form of Note attached as Exhibit
A hereto, together with accrued interest to, but excluding, the date fixed for
redemption.
Section 3.2. Notice of Redemption; Selection of Securities. In case the
Company shall desire to exercise the right to redeem all or , as the case may
be, any part of the Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, it shall fix a date for
redemption and it or, at its request, the Trustee in the name of and at the
expense of the Company, shall mail or cause to be mailed a notice of such
redemption at least fifteen (15) and not more than sixty (60) days prior to the
date fixed for redemption to the holders of Securities so to be redeemed as a
whole or in part at their last addresses as the same appear on the Security
register (provided that if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also
give written notice, and written notice of the Securities to be redeemed, to the
Trustee). Such mailing shall be by first class mail. The notice if mailed in the
manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given,
whether or not the holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give
such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the holder of
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any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect
the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.
Each such notice of redemption shall specify the aggregate principal amount
of Securities to be redeemed, the date fixed for redemption, the redemption
price at which Securities are to be redeemed, the place or places of payment,
that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Securities,
that interest accrued to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption will be
paid as specified in said notice, and that on and after said date interest
thereon or on the portion thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue. Such
notice shall also state the current Conversion Price and the date on which the
right to convert such Securities or portions thereof into Common Stock will
expire. If fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the notice of
redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed. In case any Security is
to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of
the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after
the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Security, a new Security
or Securities in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will
be issued.
On or prior to the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption
given as provided in this Section 3.2, the Company will deposit with the Trustee
or with one or more paying agents (or, if the Company is acting as its own
paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 5.4)
an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the
Securities (or portions thereof) so called for redemption (other than those
theretofore surrendered for conversion into Common Stock) at the appropriate
redemption price, together with accrued interest to, but excluding, the date
fixed for redemption; provided that, if such payment is made on the redemption
date it must be received by the Trustee or paying agent, as the case may be, by
________ [a.m./p.m.] ___________ time, on such date. If any Security called for
redemption is converted pursuant hereto, any money deposited with the Trustee or
any paying agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such
Security shall be paid to the Company upon its written request, or, if then held
by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust. If fewer than all the
Securities are to be redeemed, the Company will give the Trustee written notice
in the form of an Officers' Certificate not fewer than forty-five (45) days (or
such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the
redemption date as to the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be
redeemed.
If fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall
select the Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed (in principal amounts
of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) by lot or, in its discretion, on a pro
rata basis with such adjustments up to $1,000 in order to retain the minimum
denominations of the Securities. If any Security selected for
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partial redemption is converted in part after such selection, the converted
portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion to
be selected for redemption. The Securities (or portions thereof) so selected
shall be deemed duly selected for redemption for all purposes hereof,
notwithstanding that any such Security is converted as a whole or in part before
the mailing of the notice of redemption.
Upon any redemption of less than all Securities, the Company and the
Trustee may (but need not) treat as outstanding any Securities surrendered for
conversion during the period of fifteen (15) days next preceding the mailing of
a notice of redemption and may (but need not) treat as outstanding any Security
authenticated and delivered during such period in exchange for the unconverted
portion of any Security converted in part during such period.
Section 3.3. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If notice of
redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portion of
Securities with respect to which such notice has been given shall, unless
converted into Common Stock pursuant to the terms hereof, become due and payable
on the date and at the place or places stated in such notice at the applicable
redemption price, together with interest accrued to (but excluding) the date
fixed for redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of such Securities at the redemption price, together with
interest accrued to said date) interest on the Securities or portion of
Securities so called for redemption shall cease to accrue and such Securities
shall cease after the close of business on the fifth Business Day preceding the
date fixed for redemption to be convertible into Common Stock and, except as
provided in Sections 8.5 and 13.4, to be entitled to any benefit or security
under this Indenture, and the holders thereof shall have no right in respect of
such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and
unpaid interest to (but excluding) the date fixed for redemption. On
presentation and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment in said
notice specified, the said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be
paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable redemption price, together
with interest accrued thereon to (but excluding) the date fixed for redemption;
provided that, if the applicable redemption date is an interest payment date,
the semi-annual payment of interest becoming due on such date shall be payable
to the holders of such Securities registered as such on the relevant record date
instead of the holders surrendering such Securities for redemption on such date.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the holder thereof, at
the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities, of authorized
denominations, in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the
Securities so presented.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee shall not pay the redemption
price of any Securities or mail any notice of optional redemption during the
continuance of a default in payment of interest or premium on the Securities or
of any Event of Default of which, in the case of any Event of Default other than
under Sections 7.1(a) or 7.1(b), a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has
knowledge. If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and premium, if any, shall,
until paid or duly provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for
redemption at the rate borne by the Security and such Security shall remain
convertible into Common Stock until the principal and premium, if any, shall
have been paid or duly provided for.
Section 3.4. Conversion Arrangement on Call for Redemption. In connection
with any redemption of Securities, the Company may arrange for the purchase and
conversion of any Securities by an agreement with one or more investment bankers
or other purchasers to purchase such Securities by paying to the Trustee in
trust for the Securityholders, on or before the date fixed for redemption, an
amount not less than the applicable redemption price, together with interest
accrued to (but excluding) the date fixed for redemption, of such Securities.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Article III, the
obligation of the Company to pay the redemption price of such Securities,
together with interest accrued to (but excluding) the date fixed for redemption,
shall be deemed to be satisfied and discharged to the extent such amount is so
paid by such purchasers. If such an agreement is entered into (a copy of which
shall be filed with the Trustee prior to the date fixed for redemption), any
Securities not duly surrendered for conversion by the holders thereof may, at
the option of the Company, be deemed, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
acquired by such purchasers from such holders and (notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in Article XV) surrendered by such purchasers for
conversion, all as of immediately prior to the close of business on the date
fixed for redemption (and the right to convert any such Securities shall be
extended through such time), subject to payment of the above amount as
aforesaid. At the written direction of the Company, the Trustee shall hold and
dispose of any such amount paid to it in the same manner as it would monies
deposited with it by the Company for the redemption of Securities. Without the
Trustee's prior written consent, no arrangement between the Company and such
purchasers for the purchase and conversion of any Securities shall increase or
otherwise affect any of the powers, duties, responsibilities or obligations of
the Trustee as set forth in this Indenture, and the Company agrees to indemnify
the Trustee from, and hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense
arising out of or in connection with any such arrangement for the purchase and
conversion of any Securities between the Company and such purchasers to which
the Trustee has not consented in writing, including the costs and expenses,
including reasonable legal fees, incurred by the Trustee in the defense of any
claim or
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liability arising out of or in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers, duties, responsibilities or obligations under this Indenture.
ARTICLE IV.
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 4.1. Agreement of Subordination. The Company covenants and agrees,
and each holder of Securities issued hereunder by his acceptance thereof
likewise covenants and agrees, that all Securities shall be issued subject to
the provisions of this Article IV and each Person holding any Security, whether
upon original issue or upon transfer, assignment or exchange thereof, accepts
and agrees to be bound by such provisions.
The payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all
Securities (including, but not limited to, the redemption price with respect to
the Securities called for redemption in accordance with Section 3.2 or submitted
for repurchase in accordance with Section 16.2, as the case may be, as provided
in the Indenture) issued hereunder shall, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and subject in right of payment to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, whether outstanding at the
date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred.
No provision of this Article IV shall prevent the occurrence of any default
or Event of Default hereunder.
Section 4.2. Payments to Securityholders. No payment shall be made with
respect to the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities
(including, but not limited to, the redemption price with respect to the
Securities to be called for redemption in accordance with Section 3.2 or
submitted for repurchase in accordance with Section 16.2, as the case may be, as
provided in the Indenture), except payments and distributions made by the
Trustee as permitted by the first or second paragraph of Section 4.5, if:
(1) a default in the payment of principal, premium, interest, rent or
other obligations due on any Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing
(or, in the case of Senior Indebtedness for which there is a period of
grace, in the event of such a default that continues beyond the period of
grace, if any, specified in the instrument or lease evidencing such Senior
Indebtedness), unless and until such default shall have been cured or
waived or shall have ceased to exist; or
(2) a default, other than a payment default, on any Designated Senior
Indebtedness occurs and is continuing that then permits holders of such
Designated Senior Indebtedness to
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accelerate its maturity and the Trustee receives a written notice of the
default (a "Payment Blockage Notice") from a Representative or the Company.
If the Trustee receives any Payment Blockage Notice pursuant to clause
(2) above, no subsequent Payment Blockage Notice shall be effective for purposes
of this Section unless and until (A) at least 365 days shall have elapsed since
the initial effectiveness of the immediately prior Payment Blockage Notice, and
(B) all scheduled payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities that have come due have been paid in full in cash. No nonpayment
default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of any Payment
Blockage Notice to the Trustee shall be, or be made, the basis for a subsequent
Payment Blockage Notice.
The Company may and shall resume payments on and distributions in
respect of the Securities upon the earlier of:
(3) the date upon which the default is cured or waived or ceases to
exist, or
(4) in the case of a default referred to in clause (2) above, 179 days
pass after notice is received if the maturity of such Designated Senior
Indebtedness has not been accelerated,
unless this Article IV otherwise prohibits the payment or distribution at the
time of such payment or distribution.
Upon any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the Company
of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors
upon any dissolution or winding up or liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all amounts due or to become due upon all
Senior Indebtedness shall first be paid in full in cash or other payment
satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, or payment thereof in
accordance with its terms provided for in cash or other payment satisfactory to
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment is made on account
of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities (except
payments made pursuant to Article XIII from monies deposited with the Trustee
pursuant thereto prior to commencement of proceedings for such dissolution,
winding up, liquidation or reorganization) and upon any such dissolution or
winding up or liquidation or reorganization of the Company or bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other proceeding, any payment by the Company, or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, to which the holders of the Securities or the Trustee
would be entitled, except for the provision of this Article IV, shall (except as
aforesaid) be paid by the Company or by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy,
liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution,
or by the
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holders of the Securities or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received by
them or it, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata to such
holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by
such holders, or as otherwise required by law or a court order) or their
representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, to the extent
necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full, in cash or other payment
satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution or provision therefor is made
to the holders of the Securities or to the Trustee.
For purposes of this Article IV, the words, "cash, property or securities"
shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or
readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for
by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is
subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article IV with respect to
the Securities to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness which may at the time
be outstanding; provided that, (i) the Senior Indebtedness is assumed by the new
corporation, if any, resulting from any reorganization or readjustment, and (ii)
the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness (other than leases which are
not assumed by the Company or the new corporation, as the case may be) are not,
without the consent of such holders, altered by such reorganization or
readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the
Company into, another corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of the
Company following the conveyance or transfer of its property as an entirety, or
substantially as an entirety, to another corporation upon the terms and
conditions provided for in Article XII shall not be deemed a dissolution,
winding up, liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section 4.2
if such other corporation shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger,
conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions stated in Article XII.
In the event of the acceleration of the Securities because of an Event of
Default, no payment or distribution shall be made to the Trustee or any holder
of Securities in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities (including, but not limited to, the redemption price with respect
to the Securities called for redemption in accordance with Section 3.2 or
submitted for repurchase in accordance with Section 16.2, as the case may be, as
provided in the Indenture), except payments and distributions made by the
Trustee as permitted by the first or second paragraph of Section 4.5, until all
Senior Indebtedness has been paid in full in cash or other payment satisfactory
to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or such acceleration is rescinded in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture. If payment of the Securities is
accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Company shall
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promptly notify holders of Senior Indebtedness of the acceleration unless there
are no payment obligations of the Company thereunder and all obligations
thereunder to extend credit have been terminated or expired.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities (including, without limitation, by way of setoff or
otherwise), prohibited by the foregoing, shall be received by the Trustee or the
holders of the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full in cash
or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, or
provision is made for such payment thereof in accordance with its terms in cash
or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, such
payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of and shall be
paid over or delivered to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their
representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, as calculated by
the Company, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining
unpaid to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full in cash or
other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, after
giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness.
Nothing in this Section 4.2 shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 8.6. This Section 4.2 shall be subject to
the further provisions of Section 4.5, and the right to rescind and annul
acceleration of the notice pursuant to Section 7.1.
Section 4.3. Subrogation of Securities. Subject to the payment in full of
all Senior Indebtedness, the rights of the holders of the Securities shall be
subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of this Article IV (equally
and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company which by its
express terms is subordinated to other indebtedness of the Company to
substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated and is entitled
to like rights of subrogation) to the rights of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of cash, property or
securities of the Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the
principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full
and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which
the holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article IV, and no payment pursuant to the provisions of this
Article IV, to or for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness by
holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its
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creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the holders of the
Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account of the
Senior Indebtedness and no payments or distributions of cash, property or
securities to or for the benefit of the holders of the Securities pursuant to
the subrogation provisions of this Article IV, which would otherwise have been
paid to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed to be a payment by
the Company to or for the account of the Securities. It is understood that the
provisions of this Article IV are and are intended solely for the purposes of
defining the relative rights of the holders of the Securities, on the one hand,
and the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
Nothing contained in this Article IV or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its
creditors other than the 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 the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable
in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative
rights of the holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than
the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein
prevent the Trustee or the holder of any Security from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article IV of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received
upon the exercise of any such remedy.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article IV, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 8.1, and the
holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such bankruptcy,
dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending,
or a certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee,
agent or other person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the
Trustee or to the holders of the Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the
persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article IV.
Section 4.4. Authorization to Effect Subordination. Each holder of a
Security by the holder's acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee
on the holder's behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to
effectuate the subordination as provided in this Article IV and appoints the
Trustee to act as the holder's attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
If the Trustee does not file a proper proof of
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claim or proof of debt in the form required in any proceeding referred to in the
third paragraph of Section 7.2 hereof at least 30 days before the expiration of
the time to file such claim, the holders of any Senior Indebtedness or their
representatives are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on
behalf of the holders of the Securities.
Section 4.5. Notice to Trustee. The Company shall give prompt written
notice in the form of an Officers' Certificate to a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee and to any paying agent of any fact known to the Company which would
prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee or any paying
agent in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Article
IV. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article IV 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 of monies to or by
the Trustee in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this
Article IV, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have
received written notice thereof at the Corporate Trust Office from the Company
(in the form of an Officers' Certificate) or a Representative or a holder or
holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee thereof and before the
receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Section 8.1, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts
exist; provided that, if on a date not fewer than two Business Days prior to the
date upon which by the terms hereof any such monies may become payable for any
purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of, or
premium, if any, or interest on any Security) the Trustee shall not have
received, with respect to such monies, the notice provided for in this Section
4.5, then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such monies and to apply
the same to the purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected
by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it on or after such prior
date.
Notwithstanding anything in this Article IV to the contrary, nothing shall
prevent any payment by the Trustee to the Securityholders of monies deposited
with it pursuant to Section 13.1, and any such payment shall not be subject to
the provisions of Section 4.1 or 4.2.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 8.1, shall be entitled to
rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Representative or a person
representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee on
behalf of such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a
Representative or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or a trustee on behalf of any
such holder or holders. 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
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Article IV, the Trustee may request such person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness
held by such person, the extent to which such person is entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of
such person under this Article IV, 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 4.6. Trustee's Relation to Senior Indebtedness. The Trustee in its
individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this
Article IV in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the
same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in Section
8.13 or elsewhere in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its
rights as such holder.
With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes
to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Article IV, and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read
into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe
any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and, subject to the
provisions of Section 8.1, the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder of
Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to holders of Securities,
the Company or any other person money or assets to which any holder of Senior
Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article IV or otherwise.
Section 4.7. No Impairment of Subordination. No right of any present or
future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein
provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or
failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in
good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the
terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge
thereof which any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.
Section 4.8. Certain Conversions Deemed Payment. For the purposes of this
Article IV only, (1) the issuance and delivery of junior securities upon
conversion of Securities in accordance with Article XV shall not be deemed to
constitute a payment or distribution on account of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest on Securities or on account of the purchase or other
acquisition of Securities, and (2) the payment, issuance or delivery of cash
(except in satisfaction of fractional shares pursuant to Section 15.2), property
or securities (other than junior securities) upon conversion of a Security shall
be deemed to constitute payment on account of the principal of such Security.
For the purposes of this Section 4.8, the term "junior securities" means (a)
shares of any stock of any class of the Company, or (b) securities of the
Company which are subordinated
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in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness which may be outstanding at the
time of issuance or delivery of such securities to substantially the same extent
as, or to a greater extent than, the Securities are so subordinated as provided
in this Article. Nothing contained in this Article IV or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the
Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the
Securityholders, the right, which is absolute and unconditional, of the Holder
of any Security to convert such Security in accordance with Article XV.
Section 4.9. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. If 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 (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; provided, however, that the first paragraph of Section 4.5 shall not
apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate
acts as paying agent.
Section 4.10. Senior Indebtedness Entitled to Rely. The holders of Senior
Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Designated Senior Indebtedness)
shall have the right to rely upon this Article IV, and no amendment or
modification of the provisions contained herein shall diminish the rights of
such holders unless such holders shall have agreed in writing thereto.
ARTICLE V.
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
Section 5.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. The Company
covenants and agrees that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid
the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on each of the Securities at
the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the
Securities. Each installment of interest on the Securities due on any semi-
annual interest payment date may be paid by mailing checks for the interest
payable to or upon the written order of the holders of Securities entitled
thereto as they shall appear on the Security register; provided, that, with
respect to any holder of Securities with an aggregate principal amount equal to
or in excess of $[5,000,000], at the request of such holder in writing to the
Company at least five (5) days prior to the date set for payment of interest
(who shall then furnish notice to such effect to the Trustee), interest on such
holder's Securities shall be paid by wire transfer in immediately available
funds in accordance with the wire transfer instructions supplied by such holder
to the Trustee and paying agent (if different from the Trustee).
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Section 5.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in
Chicago, Illinois, an office or agency where the Securities may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or for
conversion or redemption and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the
location, of such office or agency not designated or appointed by the Trustee.
If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or
agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency of the Trustee in
[__________________].
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all
such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided
that, no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company
of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in Chicago, Illinois, for such
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the holders of any such
designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other
office or agency.
The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as paying agent,
Security registrar, Custodian and conversion agent, and each of the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee and the office or agency of the Trustee in
[______________] as the office or agency of the Company for each of the
aforesaid purposes.
The Trustee agrees to mail, or cause to be mailed, the notices set forth in
Section 8.10(a) and the third paragraph of Section 8.11.
Section 5.3. Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office. The
Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee,
will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 8.10, a Trustee, so that there
shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 5.4. Provisions as to Paying Agent.
(a) If the Company shall appoint a paying agent other than the
Trustee, or if the Trustee shall appoint such a paying agent, it will cause
such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section 5.4:
(1) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or
by any other
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obligor on the Securities) in trust for the benefit of the holders of
the Securities;
(2) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the
Company (or by any other obligor on the Securities) to make any
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities when the same shall be due and payable; and
(3) that at any time during the continuance of an Event of
Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust.
The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, deposit with the paying
agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, or interest,
and (unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly
notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action; provided that, if
such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit shall be received by the
paying agent by 10:00 a.m. [a.m./p.m.] (Chicago time), on such date.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own paying agent, it will, on or
before each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the holders of the Securities a sum sufficient to pay such principal,
premium, if any, or interest so becoming due and will notify the Trustee of
any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company (or any
other obligor under the Securities) to make any payment of the principal
of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities when the same shall
become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section 5.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be
paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or any paying
agent hereunder as required by this Section 5.4, such sums to be held by
the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment by the
Company or any paying agent to the Trustee, the Company or such paying
agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
sums.
(d) Anything in this Section 5.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 5.4 is subject
to Sections 13.3 and 13.4.
Section 5.5. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article XII, the Company will
do or cause to be done all things necessary to
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preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 5.6. Amendments to Junior Notes, Warrants or New Preferred Stock.
Without the consent of at least a majority in principal a mount of the
Securities then outstanding, the Company shall not amend, modify or alter the
terms of the Junior Notes, the Warrants or the New Preferred Stock in any way
that will (i) increase the amount of cash interest payable on any Junior Notes
or advance dates on which such cash interest is payable, (ii) advance the final
maturity date of any Junior Notes, or (iii) otherwise be materially adverse to
the interests of the holders of the Securities as the holders of debt securities
of the Company.
Section 5.7. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon,
plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of,
any stay, extension or 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 the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do
so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and
covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede
the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and
permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.
Section 5.8. Compliance Certificate. The Company shall deliver to the
Trustee within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company
(beginning with the fiscal year ending October 31, 1997) an Officers'
Certificate as to the signer's knowledge of the Company's compliance with all
conditions and covenants on its part contained in this Indenture and stating
whether or not the signers know of any Event of Default that occurred during
such period. If they do, such Officers' Certificate shall describe the Event of
Default and its status and the Company's efforts to remedy the same.
Section 5.9. No Prepayment of Junior Notes at the Option of the Company.
The Company shall not prepay the principal, premium, if an y, or interest on the
Junior Notes prior to the stated payment date unless (i) such payments are made
by the Company with the proceeds from the issuance of (y) Indebtedness having a
lower effective interest rate than the terms of the Junior Notes and a maturity
date not earlier than the maturity date of the Securities or (z) capital stock
of the Company and (ii) the average Closing Price of the Common Stock during the
sixty (60) Trading Days immediately preceding the second Business
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Day prior to the date of such prepayment is at least equal to 130% of
the Conversion Price.
Section 5.10. No Repurchase of Warrants. The Company shall not repurchase
any of the Warrants or any rights associated therewith for so long as any
Securities are outstanding.
Section 5.11. Liquidation. Subject to the provisions of Article IV, so far
as they may be applicable hereto, the Board of Directors or the stockholders of
the Company may not adopt a plan of liquidation which plan provides for,
contemplates or the effectuation of which is preceded by (a) the sale, lease,
conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company otherwise than substantially as an entirety (Article XII of this
Indenture being the Article which governs any such sale, lease, conveyance or
other disposition substantially as an entirety), and (b) the distribution of all
or substantially all of the proceeds of such sale, lease, conveyance or other
disposition and of the remaining assets of the Company to the holders of the
capital stock of the Company, unless the Company shall in connection with the
adoption of such plan make provision for, or agree that prior to making any
liquidating distributions it will make provision for, the satisfaction of the
Company's obligations hereunder and under the Securities as to the payment of
the principal and interest. The Company shall be deemed to make provision for
such payments only if (1) the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the
Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations maturing as to principal and
interest in such amounts and at such times as are sufficient, without
consideration of any reinvestment of such interest, to pay the principal of and
interest on the Securities then outstanding to maturity and to pay all other
sums payable by it hereunder, or (2) there is an express assumption of the due
and punctual payment of the Company's obligations hereunder and under the
Securities and the performance and observance of all covenants and conditions to
be performed by the Company hereunder, by the execution and delivery of a
supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee, by a person who
acquires, or will acquire (otherwise than pursuant to a lease) a portion of the
assets of the Company, and which person will have assets (immediately after the
acquisition) and aggregate earnings (for such person's four full fiscal quarters
immediately preceding such acquisition) equal to not less than the assets of the
Company (immediately preceding such acquisition) and the aggregate earnings of
the Company (for its four full fiscal quarters immediately preceding the
acquisition), respectively, and which is a corporation organized under the laws
of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia; provided,
however, that the Company shall not make any liquidating distribution until
after the Company shall have certified to the Trustee with an Officers'
Certificate at least five days prior to the making of any liquidating
distribution that it has complied with the provisions of this Section 5.11.
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Section 5.12. Notice of Defaults. In the event that Indebtedness of the
Company in an aggregate amount in excess of $10,000,000 is declared due and
payable before its maturity because of the occurrence of any default under such
Indebtedness, the Company will promptly give written notice to the Trustee of
such declaration or of the occurrence of any event which, with the giving of
notice or the passage of time, or both, would entitle the holder or holders of
such Indebtedness to declare such Indebtedness due and payable before its
maturity.
Section 5.13. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The Company will pay or
discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become
delinquent, (1) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied
or imposed upon the Company, directly or by reason of its ownership of any
Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company, and (2) all
material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies, which, if unpaid,
might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid
or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount,
applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for which adequate provision has been made.
Section 5.14. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee,
the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such
further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more
effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
ARTICLE VI.
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY
THE COMPANY AND TRUSTEE
Section 6.1. Securityholders' Lists. The Company covenants and agrees that
it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, semiannually, not more
than fifteen (15) days after each February 1 and August 1 in each year beginning
with February 1, 1998, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of any such
request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to
enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list
in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of
the holders of Securities as of a date not more than fifteen (15) days (or such
other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such
notices) prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such
list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Security registrar.
Section 6.2. Preservation and Disclosure of Lists.
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(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the holders
of Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided
in Section 6.1 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it
as provided in Section 6.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Securityholders to communicate with other holders
of Securities with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under
the Securities, and the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee,
shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Securityholder, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of holders of
Securities made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.3. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after August 1 of each year commencing with the
year 1998, the Trustee shall transmit to holders of Securities such reports
dated as of August 1 of the year in which such reports are made concerning
the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided
pursuant thereto.
(b) A copy of such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
holders of Securities, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange and
automated quotation system upon which the Securities are listed and with
the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee in writing within a
reasonable time when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange and
automated quotation system.
Section 6.4. Reports by Company. The Company shall file with the Trustee
(and the Commission if at any time the Indenture becomes qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act), and transmit to holders of Securities, such information,
documents and other reports and such summaries thereof, as may be required
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided
pursuant to such Act; provided that, any such information, documents or reports
required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within fifteen (15) days after the
same are so required to be filed with the Commission.
ARTICLE VII.
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REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 7.1. Events of Default. In case one or more of the following Events
of Default (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) shall have occurred and be continuing:
(a) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any of
the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable, and
continuance of such default for a period of thirty (30) days, whether or
not such payment is permitted under Article IV hereof; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on
any of the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable
either at maturity or in connection with any redemption pursuant to Article
III or repurchase pursuant to Article XVI, by acceleration or otherwise,
whether or not such payment is permitted under Article IV hereof; or
(c) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform (i)
any of its obligations under Section 5.6, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 12.1 or 15.1 of
this Indenture (immediately upon the giving of notice described below,
without the passage of time) or (ii) any other of the covenants or
agreements on the part of the Company in the Securities or in this
Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement a default in whose
performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section 7.1 specifically
dealt with) continued for a period of thirty (30) days after the date on
which written notice of such failure, requiring the Company to remedy the
same, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee, or to the
Company and a Responsible Officer of the Trustee by the holders of at least
25 percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the
time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 9.4; or
(d) failure on the part of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary
with respect to its obligation to pay principal of or interest on
indebtedness for borrowed money in excess of $10 million; or
(e) default by the Company with respect to any indebtedness for
borrowed money of the Company, which default results in acceleration of any
such indebtedness which is in an amount of in excess of $10 million
without such indebtedness having been discharged, or such acceleration
having been rescinded or annulled for a period of ten (10) days; or
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(f) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a
voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or
other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the
appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar
official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to
any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such
official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it,
or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall
fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or
(g) an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced
against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary seeking liquidation,
reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or
seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or
other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and
such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and
unstayed for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or
(h) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of a
final judgment, decree or order against the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary which shall require the payment by the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries of an amount (to the extent not covered by
insurance) in excess of $1 million and the continuance of any such
judgment, decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60)
consecutive days which is not being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings;
then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified
in Section 7.1(f) or (g)), unless the principal of all of the Securities shall
have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the holders of not
less than 25 percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then
outstanding hereunder determined in accordance with Section 9.4, by notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may
declare the principal of all the Securities and the interest accrued thereon to
be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall
become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or
in the Securities contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of
Default specified in Section 7.1(f) or (g) occurs, the principal of all the
Securities and the interest accrued thereon shall be immediately and
automatically due and payable without necessity of further action. This
provision, however, is subject to the condition that if, at any time after the
principal of the Securities shall have been so declared due and payable, and
before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been
obtained
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or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with
the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon
all Securities and the principal of and premium, if any, on any and all
Securities which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with
interest on overdue installments of interest (to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law) and on such principal and premium,
if any, at the rate borne by the Securities, to the date of such payment or
deposit) and amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.6, and if any and
all defaults under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of principal of and
premium, if any, and accrued interest on Securities which shall have become due
by acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 7.7, then
and in every such case the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Securities then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 9.4, by
written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all defaults or
Events of Default and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect
any subsequent default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent
thereon. The Company shall notify a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, promptly
upon becoming aware thereof, of any Event of Default.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this
Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because
of such waiver or rescission and annulment or for any other reason or shall have
been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the
Company, the holders of Securities, and the Trustee shall be restored
respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights,
remedies and powers of the Company, the holders of Securities, and the Trustee
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.
Section 7.2. Payments of Securities on Default; Suit Therefor. The Company
covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment of any
installment of interest upon any of the Securities as and when the same shall
become due and payable, and such default shall have continued for a period of
thirty (30) days, or (b) in case default shall be made in the payment of the
principal of or premium, if any, on any of the Securities as and when the same
shall have become due and payable, whether at maturity of the Securities or in
connection with any redemption or repurchase, under this Indenture, by
declaration or otherwise, then, upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay
to the Trustee, for the benefit of the holders of the Securities, the whole
amount that then shall have become due and payable on all such Securities for
principal and premium, if any, or interest, or both, as the case may be, with
interest upon the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent that
payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) upon the overdue
installments of interest at the rate borne by the
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Securities and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient
to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including compensation to the
Trustee, its agents, attorney and counsel, and any expenses or liabilities
incurred by the Trustee hereunder. Until such demand by the Trustee, the Company
may pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities to
the registered holders, whether or not the Securities are overdue.
In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall
be entitled and empowered to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in
equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such
judgment or final decree against the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or any other obligor on the Securities wherever situated the monies
adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In the case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for
the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Securities under
Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a
receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken
possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or
such other obligor, or in the case of any other judicial proceedings relative to
the Company or such other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors or
property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of
whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee
shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 7.2, shall
be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to
file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal, premium, if
any, and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities, and, in case of
any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee and of the Securityholders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative
to the Company or any other obligor on the Securities, its or their creditors,
or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other
property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same
after the deduction of any amounts due the Trustee under Section 8.6 and any
receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,
custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the
Securityholders 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
Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for reasonable
compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including counsel fees
incurred by it up to the date of such
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distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation,
expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings
shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien
on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies,
securities and other property which the holders of the Securities may be
entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any
plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under
any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of
any of the Securities, or the production thereof at any trial or other
proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for 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 any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving
the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall
be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the holders of the
Securities, and it shall not be necessary to make any holders of the Securities
parties to any such proceedings.
Section 7.3. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article VII shall be applied in the
order following, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution
of such monies, upon presentation of the several Securities, and stamping
thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if
fully paid:
First: to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
8.6;
Second: subject to the provisions of Article IV, in case the principal
of the outstanding Securities shall not have become due and be unpaid, to
the payment of interest on the Securities in default in the order of the
maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent
that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue
installments of interest at the rate borne by the Securities, such payments
to be made ratably to the persons entitled thereto;
Third: subject to the provisions of Article IV, in case the principal
of the outstanding Securities shall have become due, by declaration or
otherwise, and be unpaid, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and
unpaid upon the Securities for principal and premium, if any, and interest,
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with interest on the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the
extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue
payments of interest at the rate borne by the Securities and in case such
monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and
unpaid upon the Securities, then to the payment of such principal and
premium, if any, and interest without preference or priority of principal
and premium, if any, over interest, or of interest over principal and
premium, if any, or of any installment of interest over any other
installment of interest, or of any Security over any other Security,
ratably to the aggregate of such principal and premium, if any, and accrued
and unpaid interest; and
Fourth: subject to the provisions of Article IV, to the payment of the
remainder, if any, to the Company or any other person lawfully entitled
thereto.
Section 7.4. Proceedings by Securityholder. No holder of any Security shall
have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to
institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written
notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore
provided, and unless also the holders of not less than 25 percent (25%) in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding determined in
accordance with Section 9.4 shall have made written request upon the Trustee to
institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder
and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may
require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or
thereby, and the Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any
such action, suit or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written
request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.7, it being
understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and holder
of every Security with every other taker and holder and the Trustee, that no one
or more holders of Securities 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 holder of Securities, or to obtain or seek
to obtain priority over or preference to any other such holder, or to enforce
any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal, ratable and common benefit of all holders of Securities (except as
otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section
7.4, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such
relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of
any Security, the right of any holder of any Security to receive payment of the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on such Security, on or after the
respective due dates therefor, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after such respective dates against the Company shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such holder.
Anything in this Indenture or the Securities to the contrary
notwithstanding, the holder of any Security, without the consent of either the
Trustee or the holder of any other Security, in his own behalf and for his own
benefit, may enforce, and may institute and maintain any proceeding suitable to
enforce, his rights of conversion as provided herein.
Section 7.5. Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested
in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee
shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by
suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in
this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture,
or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this
Indenture or by law.
Section 7.6. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the
last paragraph of Section 2.6, all powers and remedies given by this Article VII
to the Trustee or to the Securityholders shall, to the extent permitted by law,
be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and
remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Securities, by judicial
proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the
covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission
of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Securities to exercise any right
or power accruing upon any default or Event of Default occurring and continuing
as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a
waiver of any such default or any acquiescence therein and, subject to the
provisions of Section 7.4, every power and remedy given by this Article VII or
by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to
time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders.
Section 7.7. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of
Securityholders. The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 9.4
shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or
power conferred on the Trustee; provided, however, that (a) such direction shall
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conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee may
take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent
with such direction. The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 9.4
may on behalf of the holders of all of the Securities waive any past default or
Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except (i) a default in the
payment of interest or premium, if any, on, or the principal of, the Securities,
(ii) a failure by the Company to convert any Securities into Common Stock, (iii)
a default in the payment of redemption price pursuant to Article III or
repurchase price pursuant to Article XVI or (iv) a default in respect of a
covenant or provisions hereof which under Article XI cannot be modified or
amended without the consent of the holders of all Securities then outstanding.
Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Securities
shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or
impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any default or Event of Default
hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 7.7, said default
or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Securities and this Indenture
be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing but no such waiver shall
extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Section 7.8. Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, within ninety (90) days
after a Responsible Officer has knowledge of the occurrence of a default, mail
to all Securityholders, as the names and addresses of such holders appear upon
the Security register, notice of all defaults known to a Responsible Officer,
unless such defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such
notice and provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of the
principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities, the
Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a trust
committee of directors and/or officers of the Trustee in good faith determine
that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders.
Section 7.9. Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to
have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any
party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due
regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party
litigant; provided that, the provisions of this Section 7.9 (to the extent
permitted by law) shall not apply
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to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Securityholder, or group of Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than
ten percent (10%) in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding
determined in accordance with Section 9.4, or to any suit instituted by any
Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any Security on or after the due date therefor
or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Security in
accordance with the provisions of Article XV or to require the Company to
repurchase any Security in accordance with Article XVI.
ARTICLE VIII.
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 8.1. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee. The Trustee, prior to
the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of
Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of
Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the Trustee shall
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use
the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
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
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the
curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:
(1) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and the Trust
Indenture Act, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the
performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set
forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall
be read into this Indenture or the Trust Indenture Act against the
Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith and willful misconduct on the
part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee
and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture but, in the case
of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof
are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee
shall be
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under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Securities at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 9.4
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
(d) whether or not therein provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or
affording protection to, the Trustee as trustee, paying agent, Security
registrar, Custodian or conversion agent shall be subject to the provisions
of this Section.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers.
Section 8.2. Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 8.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting upon any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, bond, Note, Security, coupon or other paper or
document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate (unless
other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) and
any resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by
a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice or Opinion of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect
of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
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(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(e) 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, note 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;
provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the
Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it
in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not
reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the
terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity
against such expenses or liability as a condition to so proceeding and the
reasonable expenses of every such examination shall be paid by the Company
or, if paid by the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee, shall be repaid by
the Company upon demand;
(f) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed by it with due
care hereunder; and
(g) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of an Event of
Default or of any event or conditions which, with the giving of notice, the
passage of time, or both, might constitute an Event of Default unless (i)
the Trustee has received written notice thereof from the Company or any
Securityholder or (ii) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have
actual knowledge thereof.
Section 8.3. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals contained
herein and in the Securities (except in the Trustee's certificate of
authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee
assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of any
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Securities or the proceeds of any Securities authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 8.4. Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Registrar May Own
Securities. The Trustee, any paying agent, any conversion agent or Security
registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
paying agent, conversion agent or Security registrar.
Section 8.5. Monies to Be Held in Trust. Subject to the provisions of
Section 13.4, all monies received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as
herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as may be
agreed from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.
Section 8.6. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company covenants
and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be
entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder
in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust), and the Company will pay or
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of
all persons not regularly in its employ), except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may arise from its negligence, willful misconduct, recklessness or
bad faith. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee in any capacity
under this Indenture and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to
hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence, willful misconduct, recklessness, or bad faith on the part of the
Trustee or such agent or authenticating agent, as the case may be, and arising
out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or
in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending
themselves against any claim of liability in the premises. All indemnifications
and releases from liability granted hereunder to the Trustee shall extend to its
officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns. The obligations
of the Company under this Section 8.6 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and
to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall
be secured by a lien prior to that of the Securities upon all property and funds
held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the
benefit of the holders of particular Securities. The obligation of the Company
under this
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Section shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
When the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses
or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 7.1(f) or (g)
occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or
similar laws.
Section 8.7. Officers' Certificate as Evidence. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 8.1, wherever in the administration of the provisions of
this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be
proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such
matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence, willful misconduct, recklessness,
or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and
established by an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee.
Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests of Trustee. If the Trustee has or shall
acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act,
the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in
the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture
Act and this Indenture.
Section 8.9. Eligibility of Trustee. There shall at all times be a Trustee
hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act to act as such and which shall have (or, in the case of a
corporation included in a bank holding company system, the related bank holding
company shall have) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If
such person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such person shall
be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. If at any time the 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 8.10. Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of
such resignation to the Company and to the holders of Securities. Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of
the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to
the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no
successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted
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within sixty (60) days after the mailing of such notice of resignation to
the Securityholders, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or Securities
for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section 7.9, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such
court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon,
after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a
successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 8.8 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder who
has been a bona fide holder of a Security or Securities for at least
six months; or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Section 8.9 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company or by any such Securityholder; 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 take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of
the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to
the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject
to the provisions of Section 7.9, any Securityholder who has been a bona
fide holder of a Security or Securities 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. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if
any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee.
(c) The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and
nominate a successor trustee which shall be deemed appointed as successor
trustee, unless within ten (10) days after notice to the Company of such
nomination, the Company objects thereto, in which case the
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Trustee so removed or any Securityholder, upon the terms and conditions and
otherwise as in Section 8.10(a) provided, may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 8.10
shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor
trustee as provided in Section 8.11.
Section 8.11. Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee
appointed as provided in Section 8.10 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as
if originally named as trustee herein but, nevertheless, on the written request
of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall,
upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section
8.6, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee
all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any
such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall,
nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property and funds held or collected by
such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of holders
of particular Securities, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the
provisions of Section 8.6.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section
8.11 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be
qualified under the provisions of Section 8.8 and be eligible under the
provisions of Section 8.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this
Section 8.11, the Company (or the former trustee, at the written direction of
the Company) shall mail or cause to be mailed notice of the succession of such
trustee hereunder to the holders of Securities at their addresses as they shall
appear on the Security register. If the Company fails to mail such notice within
ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the
successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the
Company.
Section 8.12. Succession by Merger, Etc. 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
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a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee (including any trust created by this
Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the
parties hereto, provided that in the case of any corporation succeeding to all
or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee such
corporation shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 8.8 and eligible
under the provisions of Section 8.9.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Securities shall have been
authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent
appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Securities so
authenticated and in case at that time any of the Securities shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed
by such successor trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of
any predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee and in
all such cases such certificates shall have the full force of the Securities and
this Indenture; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Securities in the name
of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by
merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 8.13. Limitation on Rights of Trustee as Creditor. If and when the
Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon
the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act regarding the collection of the claims against the Company (or any
such other obligor).
ARTICLE IX.
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
Section 9.1. Action by Securityholders. When in this Indenture it is
provided that the holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities may take any action (including the making of any demand
or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any
other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the holders
of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any
instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by
Securityholders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by
the record of the holders of Securities voting in favor thereof at any meeting
of Securityholders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of
Article X, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any
such record of such a meeting of Securityholders. Whenever the Company or the
Trustee solicits
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the taking of any action by the holders of the Securities, the Company or the
Trustee may fix in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for
determining holders entitled to take such action. The record date shall be not
more than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of
such action.
Section 9.2. Proof of Execution by Securityholders. Subject to the
provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.2 and 10.5, proof of the execution of any
instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made
in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by
the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The
holding of Securities shall be proved by the registry of such Securities or by a
certificate of the Security registrar.
The record of any Securityholders' meeting shall be proved in the manner
provided in Section 10.6.
Section 9.3. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, any other
obligor on the Securities, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any paying
agent, any conversion agent and any Security registrar may deem the person in
whose name such Security shall be registered upon the Security register to be,
and may treat him as, the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such
Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other
writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Security, for conversion of
such Security and for all other purposes and neither the Company nor any other
obligor on the Securities nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any
conversion agent nor any authenticating agent nor any Security registrar shall
be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any
holder for the time being, or upon his order, shall be valid, and, to the extent
of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for
monies payable upon any such Security.
Section 9.4. Company-Owned Security Disregarded. In determining whether
the holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Securities have
concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this
Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities or by any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by
or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any other obligor
on the Securities shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the
purpose of any such determination; provided that, for the purposes of
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such
direction, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible
Officer knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged
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in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section
9.4 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee's right to vote such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company,
any other obligor on the Securities or a person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Company or any such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right,
any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full
protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying
all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the
account of any of the above-described persons and, subject to Section 8.1, the
Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate as conclusive
evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not
listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
Section 9.5. Revocation of Consents: Future Holders Bound. At any time
prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section
9.1, of the taking of any action by the holders of the percentage in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities specified in this Indenture in connection
with such action, any holder of a Security which is shown by the evidence to be
included in the Securities the holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and
upon proof of holding as provided in Section 9.2, revoke such action so far as
it concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the
holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon
all future holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in
exchange or substitution therefor, irrespective of whether any notation in
regard thereto is made upon such Security or any Security issued in exchange or
substitution therefor.
ARTICLE X.
SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS
Section 10.1. Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Securityholders may be
called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this
Article X for any of the following purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give
any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent
to the waiving of any default or Event of Default hereunder and its
consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by
Securityholders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article VII;
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(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant
to the provisions of Article VIII;
(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.2; or
(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf
of the holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the
Securities under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable
law.
Section 10.2. Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time
call a meeting of Securityholders to take any action specified in Section 10.1,
to be held at such time and at such place at a location within ten (10) miles of
the Corporate Trust Office or the principal executive office of the Company, as
the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Securityholders,
setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the
action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record
date pursuant to Section 9.1, shall be mailed to holders of Securities at their
addresses as they shall appear on the Security register. Such notice shall also
be mailed to the Company. Such notices shall be mailed not less than fifteen
(15) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
Any meeting of Securityholders shall be valid without notice if the holders
of all Securities then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if
notice is waived before or after the meeting by the holders of all Securities
outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly
authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
Section 10.3. Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders. In case at
any time the Company, pursuant to a resolution of its Board of Directors, or
the holders of at least ten percent (10%) in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting
of Securityholders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the
action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have
mailed the notice of such meeting within ten (10) days after receipt of such
request, then the Company or such Securityholders may determine the time and the
place at any location within 10 miles of the Corporate Trust Office or the
principal executive offices of the Company for such meeting and may call such
meeting to take any action authorized in Section 10.1, by mailing notice thereof
as provided in Section 10.2.
Section 10.4. Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any
meeting of Securityholders a person shall (a) be a holder of one or more
Securities on the record date pertaining to
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such meeting or (b) be a person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy
by a holder of one or more Securities. The only persons who shall be entitled to
be present or to speak at any meeting of Securityholders shall be the persons
entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of
the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its
counsel.
Section 10.5. Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem
advisable for any meeting of Securityholders, in regard to proof of the holding
of Securities and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of
proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other
matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Securityholders as provided in Section 10.3, in which case the
Company or the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in
like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Securities represented at the meeting and entitled to
vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 9.4, at any meeting each
Securityholder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000
principal amount of Securities held or represented by such Securityholder;
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in
respect of any Security challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman
of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no
right to vote other than by virtue of Securities held by him or instruments in
writing as aforesaid duly designating him as the proxy to vote on behalf of
other Securityholders. Any meeting of Securityholders duly called pursuant to
the provisions of Section 10.2 or 10.3 may be adjourned from time to time by the
holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Securities
represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
Section 10.6. Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting
of Securityholders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the
signatures of the holders of Securities or of their representatives by proxy and
the principal amount of the Securities held or represented by them. The
permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who
shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who
shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written
reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in
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duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Securityholders shall be
prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said
record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot
taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the
facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said
notice was mailed as provided in Section 10.2. The record shall show the
principal amount of the Securities voting in favor of or against any resolution.
The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent
chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be
delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the
Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the
matters therein stated.
Section 10.7. No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing in this Article X
contained shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any
call of a meeting of Securityholders or any rights expressly or impliedly
conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of
any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Securityholders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the
Securities.
ARTICLE XI.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 11.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders.
The Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors, and
the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of the
holders of Securities pursuant to the requirements of Section 15.6 or the
repurchase obligations of the Company pursuant to the requirements of
Section 16.5;
(b) subject to Article IV, to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or
pledge to the Trustee as security for the Securities, any property or
assets;
(c) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company,
or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor corporation
of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company pursuant to
Article XII;
(d) to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions or conditions as the Board
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of Directors and the Trustee shall consider to be for the benefit of the
holders of Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and
continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or
conditions a default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of
all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set
forth; provided, however, that in respect of any such additional covenant,
restriction or condition such supplemental indenture may provide for a
particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or
longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for
an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies
available to the Trustee upon such default;
(e) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of Securities in
coupon form (including Securities registrable as to principal only) and to
provide for exchangeability of such Securities with the Securities issued
hereunder in fully registered form and to make all appropriate changes for
such purpose;
(f) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any
supplemental indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not
materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Securities;
(g) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities; or
(h) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture
to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this
Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, or under any similar federal
statute hereafter enacted.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution
of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements
and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance,
transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be
obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section
11.1 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the
holders of any of the Securities at the
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time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 11.2.
Section 11.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article IX) of th e holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
outstanding determined in accordance with Section 9.4, the Company, when
authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors, and the Trustee may
from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or any
supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders
of the Securities; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall
(i) extend the fixed maturity of any Security, or reduce the rate or extend the
time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce the principal amount thereof or
premium, if any, thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof, or
impair the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for the payment
thereof, or make the principal thereof or interest or premium, if any, thereon
payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Securities, or
modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the subordination of the
Securities in a manner adverse to the Securityholders in any material respect,
or change the obligation of the Company to repurchase any Security upon the
occurrence of a Change in Control in a manner adverse to the holder of
Securities, or impair the right to convert the Securities into Common Stock in
any material respect, without the consent of the holder of each Security so
affected, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities, the holders of
which are required to consent to any such supplemental indenture, without the
consent of the holders of all Securities then outstanding.
Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of the resolutions
of the Board of Directors certified by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the
filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders as
aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such
supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which
case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under this
Section 11.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
Section 11.3. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Any supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to the provisions of this Article XI shall comply with the
Trust Indenture Act, as
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then in effect. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Article XI, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be
modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights,
limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of
the Trustee, the Company and the holders of Securities shall thereafter be
determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and
conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 11.4. Notation on Security. Securities authenticated and delivered
after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of
this Article XI may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the
Trustee shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this
Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company's
expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated by the Trustee
(or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section
17.11) and delivered in exchange for the Securities then outstanding, upon
surrender of such Securities then outstanding.
Section 11.5. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be
Furnished Trustee. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 8.1 and
8.2, may receive an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as
conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto
complies with the requirements of this Article XI.
ARTICLE XII.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
Section 12.1. Company May Consolidate Etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to
the provisions of Section 12.2, nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of
the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or
into any other corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the
Company), or successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its
successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale,
conveyance or lease (or successive sales, conveyances or leases) of the property
of the Company, substantially as an entirety, to any other corporation (whether
or not affiliated with the Company), authorized to acquire and operate the same
and which, in each case, shall be organized under the laws of the United States
of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; provided, that upon
any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, (i) the
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due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest
on all of the Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual
performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this
Indenture to be performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed, by
supplemental indenture satisfactory in form to the Trustee, executed and
delivered to the Trustee by the corporation (if other than the Company) formed
by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by
the corporation which shall have acquired or leased such property, and such
supplemental indenture shall provide for the applicable conversion rights set
forth in Section 15.6 and (ii) immediately before and immediately after giving
effect to such transaction, no default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing.
Section 12.2. Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case of any such
consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease and upo n the assumption by the
successor corporation, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the
Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment
of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Securities
and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of
this Indenture to be performed by the Company, such successor corporation shall
succeed to and be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had
been named herein as such. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be
signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any
or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have
been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee and, upon the order of
such successor corporation instead of the Company and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall
authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any
Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers
of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such
successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects
have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities
theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture
as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance (but
not in the event of any such lease), the person named as the "Company" in the
first paragraph of this Indenture or any successor which shall thereafter have
become such in the manner prescribed in this Article XII shall be released from
its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Securities and from its obligations
under this Indenture.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such
changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
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Section 12.3. Opinion of Counsel to Be Given Trustee. The Trustee, subject
to Sections 8.1 and 8.2, shall receive an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale,
conveyance or lease and any such assumption complies with the provisions of this
Article XII.
ARTICLE XIII.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section 13.1. Discharge of Indenture. When (a) the Company shall deliver
to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities theretofore authenticated (other
than any Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or
in substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and
delivered) and not theretofore canceled, or (b) all the Securities not
theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have
become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within
one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, monies sufficient to pay at
maturity or upon redemption of all of the Securities (other than any Securities
which shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in
substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and
delivered) not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and interest due or to
become due to such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, and
if in either case the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of
further effect (except as to (i) remaining rights of registration of transfer,
substitution and exchange and conversion of Securities, (ii) rights hereunder of
Securityholders to receive payments of principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on, the Securities and the other rights, duties and obligations of
Securityholders, as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so
deposited with the Trustee and (iii) the rights, obligations and immunities of
the Trustee hereunder), and the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by
an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as required by Section 17.5
and at the cost and use of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture; the Company,
however, hereby agreeing to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses
thereafter reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee and to compensate the
Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the
Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Securities.
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Section 13.2. Deposited Monies to Be Held in Trust by Trustee. Subject to
Section 13.4, all monies deposited with the Trustee pursu ant to Section 13.1
and not in violation of Article IV shall be held in trust for the sole benefit
of the Securityholders and not to be subject to the subordination provisions of
Article IV, and such monies shall be applied by the Trustee to the payment,
either directly or through any paying agent (including the Company if acting as
its own paying agent), to the holders of the particular Securities for the
payment or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the Trustee,
of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest and
premium, if any.
Section 13.3. Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held. Upon the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, all monies then held by any paying agent for the
Securities (other than the Trustee) shall, upon written request of the Company,
be repaid to the Company or paid to the Trustee, and thereupon such paying agent
shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.
Section 13.4. Return of Unclaimed Monies. Subject to the requirements of
applicable law, any monies deposited with or paid to the Trustee for payment of
the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on Securities and not applied but
remaining unclaimed by the holders of Securities for two years after the date
upon which the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on such Securities, as
the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall be repaid to the
Company by the Trustee on demand and all liability of the Trustee shall
thereupon cease with respect to such monies and the holder of any of the
Securities shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment which such
holder may be entitled to collect unless an applicable abandoned property law
designates another Person.
Section 13.5. Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the paying agent is unable
to apply any money in accordance with Section 13.2 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 13.1 until such time as the Trustee or
the paying agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section
13.2; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of interest or
premium, if any, on or principal of any Security following 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 held by the Trustee or
paying agent.
ARTICLE XIV.
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IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS,
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Section 14.1. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations. No
recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof,
and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the
Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any Security,
or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had
against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, agent, officer, or director or
subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor
corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor
corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or
by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, it being expressly
understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a
condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and
the issue of the Securities.
ARTICLE XV.
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
Section 15.1. Right to Convert. Subject to and upon compliance with the
provisions of this Indenture, the holder of any Security shall have the right,
at any time prior to the close of business on August 1, 2002 (except that, with
respect to any Security or portion of a Security which shall be called for
redemption, such right shall terminate, except as provided in Section 15.2 or
Section 3.4, at the close of business on the fifth Business Day preceding the
date fixed for redemption of such Security or portion of a Security, unless the
Company shall default in payment due upon redemption thereof) to convert the
principal amount of any such Security, or any portion of such principal amount
which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into that number of fully paid
and non-assessable shares of Common Stock (as such shares shall then be
constituted) obtained by dividing the principal amount of the Security or
portion thereof surrendered for conversion by the Conversion Price in effect at
such time, by surrender of the Security so to be converted in whole or in part
in the manner provided, together with any required funds, in Section 15.2. A
holder of Securities is not entitled to any rights of a holder of Common Stock
until such holder has converted his Securities to Common Stock, and only to the
extent such Securities are deemed to have been converted to Common Stock under
this Article XV.
Section 15.2. Exercise of Conversion Privilege; Issuance of Common Stock
on Conversion; No Adjustment for Interest or Dividends. In order to exercise the
conversion privilege with respect to any Security, the holder of any such
Security to be
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converted in whole or in part shall surrender such Security, duly endorsed, at
an office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 5.2,
accompanied by the funds, if any, required by the last paragraph of this Section
15.2, and shall give written notice of conversion in the form provided on the
Securities (or such other notice which is acceptable to the Company) to the
office or agency that the holder elects to convert such Security or the portion
thereof specified in said notice. Such notice shall also state the name or names
(with address or addresses) in which the certificate or certificates for shares
of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion shall be issued, and
shall be accompanied by transfer taxes, if required pursuant to Section 15.7.
Each such Security surrendered for conversion shall, unless the shares issuable
on conversion are to be issued in the same name as the registration of such
Security, be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by instruments of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the holder or his duly
authorized attorney.
As promptly as practicable after satisfaction of the requirements for
conversion set forth above, subject to compliance with any restrictions on
transfer if shares issuable on conversion are to be issued in a name other than
that of the Securityholder (as if such transfer were a transfer of the Security
or Securities (or portion thereof) so converted), the Company shall issue and
shall deliver to such holder at the office or agency maintained by the Company
for such purpose pursuant to Section 5.2, a certificate or certificates for the
number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of such
Security or portion thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Article
and a check or cash in respect of any fractional interest in respect of a share
of Common Stock arising upon such conversion, as provided in Section 15.3. In
case any Security of a denomination greater than $1,000 shall be surrendered for
partial conversion, and subject to Section 2.3, the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the holder of the Security so
surrendered, without charge to him, a new Security or Securities in authorized
denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion
of the surrendered Security.
Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such
Security (or portion thereof) on the date on which the requirements set forth
above in this Section 15.2 have been satisfied as to such Security (or portion
thereof), and the person in whose name any certificate or certificates for
shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon such conversion shall be deemed to
have become on said date the holder of record of the shares represented thereby;
provided, however, that any such surrender on any date when the stock transfer
books of the Company shall be closed shall constitute the person in whose name
the certificates are to be issued as the record holder thereof for all purposes
on the next succeeding day on which such stock transfer books are open, but such
conversion shall be at the Conversion Price in effect on the date upon which
such Security shall be surrendered.
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Any Security or portion thereof surrendered for conversion during the
period from the close of business on the record date for any interest payment
date to the close of business on the Business Day next preceding the following
interest payment date shall (unless such Security or portion thereof being
converted shall have been called for redemption during the period from the close
of business on such record date to the close of business on the Business Day
next preceding the following interest payment date) be accompanied by payment,
in immediately available funds or other funds acceptable to the Company, of an
amount equal to the interest payable on such interest payment date on the
principal amount being converted; provided, however, that no such payment need
be made if there shall exist at the time of conversion a default in the payment
of interest on the Securities. In the event a Security or portion thereof is
called for redemption and the holder elects to convert such Security after
it has been called for redemption, the holder will be entitled to receive
interest on such Security for the period from the last interest payment date
through the date of conversion. Except as provided above in this Section 15.2,
no adjustment shall be made for interest accrued on any Security converted or
for dividends on any shares issued upon the conversion of such Security as
provided in this Article.
Section 15.3. Cash Payments in Lieu of Fractional Shares. No fractional
shares of Common Stock or scrip representing fractional sha res shall be issued
upon conversion of Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered
for conversion at one time by the same holder, the number of full shares which
shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof to
the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. If any fractional share of stock
would be issuable upon the conversion of any Security or Securities, the Company
shall make an adjustment and payment therefor in cash at the current market
value thereof to the holder of Securities. The current market value of a share
of Common Stock shall be the Closing Price on the first Trading Day immediately
preceding the day on which the Securities (or specified portions thereof) are
deemed to have been converted.
Section 15.4. Conversion Price. The conversion price shall be as specified
in the form of Security (herein called the "Conversion Price") attached as
Exhibit A hereto, subject to adjustment as provided in this Article XV.
Section 15.5. Adjustment of Conversion Price. The Conversion Price shall be
adjusted from time to time by the Company as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall hereafter pay a dividend or make a
distribution to all holders of the outstanding
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Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Price in effect at
the opening of business on the date following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other
distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such Conversion Price by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares
and the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other
distribution, such reduction to become effective immediately after the
opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such
determination. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any
distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section
15.5(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Price shall
again be adjusted to the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if
such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b) In case the Company shall issue rights or warrants to all holders
of its outstanding shares of Common Stock entitling them (for a period
expiring within 45 days after the date fixed for determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants) to subscribe for
or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the
Current Market Price (as defined below) on the date fixed for determination
of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants, the Conversion
Price shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined
by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the date
fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or
warrants by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights and warrants
plus the number of shares which the aggregate offering price of the total
number of shares so offered would purchase at such Current Market Price,
and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on the date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to
receive such rights and warrants plus the total number of additional shares
of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase. Such adjustment shall
be successively made whenever any such rights and warrants are issued, and
shall become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day
following the date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to
receive such rights or warrants. To the extent that shares of Common Stock
are not delivered after the expiration of such rights or warrants, the
Conversion Price shall be readjusted to the Conversion Price which would
then be in effect had the adjustments made upon the issuance of such rights
or
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warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of
Common Stock actually delivered. In the event that such rights or warrants
are not so issued, the Conversion Price shall again be adjusted to be the
Conversion Price which would then be in effect if such date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants
had not been fixed. In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle
the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less
than such Current Market Price, and in determining the aggregate offering
price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any
consideration received by the Company for such rights or warrants, the
value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the
Board of Directors.
(c) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided
into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Price in
effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which
such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and
conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined
into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Price in
effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which
such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, such
reduction or increase, as the case may be, to become effective immediately
after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision or combination becomes effective.
(d) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute
to all holders of its Common Stock shares of any class of capital stock of
the Company (other than any dividends or distributions to which Section
15.5(a) applies) or evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including
securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in Section
15.5(b), and excluding any dividend or distribution paid exclusively in
cash (any of the foregoing hereinafter in this Section 15.5(d) called the
"New Securities")), then, in each such case (unless the Company elects to
reserve such New Securities for distribution to the Securityholders upon
the conversion of the Securities so that any such holder converting
Securities will receive upon such conversion, in addition to the shares of
Common Stock to which such holder is entitled, the amount and kind of such
New Securities which such holder would have received if such holder had
converted its Securities into Common Stock immediately prior to the Record
Date (as defined in Section 15.5(h) for such distribution of the New
Securities)), the Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall
be equal to the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in
effect on the Record Date with respect to such distribution by a fraction
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which the numerator shall be the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock on such Record Date less the fair market value (as determined
by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive, and
described in a resolution of the Board of Directors) on the Record Date of
the portion of the Securities so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock and the denominator shall be the Current Market Price per
share of the Common Stock, such reduction to become effective immediately
prior to the opening of business on the day following such Record Date;
provided, however, that in the event the then fair market value (as so
determined) of the portion of the New Securities so distributed applicable
to one share of Common Stock is equal to or greater than the Current
Market Price of the Common Stock on the Record Date, in lieu of the
foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each
Securityholder shall have the right to receive upon conversion the amount
of New Securities such holder would have received had such holder converted
each Security on the Record Date. In the event that such dividend or
distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Price shall again be
adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if such
dividend or distribution had not been declared. If the Board of Directors
determines the fair market value of any distribution for purposes of this
Section 15.5(d) by reference to the actual or when issued trading market
for any securities, it must in doing so consider the prices in such market
over the same period used in computing the Current Market Price of the
Common Stock.
In the event the Company implements a stockholder rights plan, such
rights plan shall provide that upon conversion of the Securities the
holders will receive, in addition to the Common Stock issuable upon such
conversion, the rights issued under such rights plan (notwithstanding the
occurrence of an event causing such rights to separate from the Common
Stock at or prior to the time of conversion).
Rights or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of Common
Stock entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of
the Company's capital stock (either initially or under certain
circumstances), which rights or warrants, until the occurrence of a
specified event or events ("Trigger Event"): (i) are deemed to be
transferred with such shares of Common Stock, (ii) are not exercisable, and
(iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, shall
be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 15.5
(and no adjustment to the Conversion Price under this Section 15.5 will be
required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon
such rights and warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an
appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Price shall
be made under this Section 15.5(d). If any such right or warrant, including
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such existing rights or warrants distributed prior to the date of this
Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights
or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences
of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and
each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and record
date with respect to new rights or warrants with such rights (and a
termination or expiration of the existing rights or warrants without
exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any
distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants, or any Trigger
Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with
respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution
amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Price under this Section
15.5 was made, (1) in the case of any such rights or warrants which shall
all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders
thereof, the Conversion Price shall be readjusted upon such final
redemption or repurchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger
Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to
the per share redemption or repurchase price received by a holder or
holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights or warrants (assuming
such holder had retained such rights or warrants), made to all holders of
Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase, and (2) in
the case of such rights or warrants which shall have expired or been
terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Price
shall be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had not been issued.
For purposes of this Section 15.5(d) and Sections 15.5(a) and (b), any
dividend or distribution to which this Section 15.5(d) is applicable that
also includes shares of Common Stock, or rights or warrants to subscribe
for or purchase shares of Common Stock shall be deemed instead to be (1) a
dividend or distribution of the evidences of indebtedness, assets or shares
of capital stock other than such shares of Common Stock or rights or
warrants (and any further Conversion Price reduction required by this
Section 15.5(d) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be
made) immediately followed by (2) a dividend or distribution of such shares
of Common Stock or such rights or warrants (and any further Conversion
Price reduction required by Sections 15.5(a) and (b) with respect to such
dividend or distribution shall then be made), except (A) the Record Date of
such dividend or distribution shall be substituted as "the date fixed for
the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
other distribution" and "the date fixed for such determination" within the
meaning of Sections 15.5(a) and (b) and (B) any shares of Common Stock
included in such dividend or distribution shall not be deemed "outstanding
at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination" within
the meaning of Section 15.5(a).
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(e) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to
all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding any cash that is
distributed upon a merger or consolidation to which Section 15.6 applies or
as part of a distribution referred to in Section 15.5(d)) in an aggregate
amount that, combined together with (1) the aggregate amount of any other
such distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in
cash within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such
distribution, and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this
Section 15.5(e) has been made, and (2) the aggregate of any cash plus the
fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the
Board of Directors) of consideration payable in respect of any tender offer
by the Company for all or any portion of the Common Stock concluded within
the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such distribution, and in
respect of which no adjustment pursuant to Section 15.5(f) has been made,
exceeds 10% of the product of the Current Market Price (determined as
provided in Section 15.5(h)) on the Record Date with respect to such
distribution times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such
date, then, immediately after the close of business on such date, the
Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall equal the price
determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior
to the close of business on such Record Date by a fraction (i) the
numerator of which shall be equal to the Current Market Price on the Record
Date less an amount equal to the quotient of (x) the excess of such
combined amount over such 10% and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on the Record Date and (ii) the denominator of which shall be
equal to the Current Market Price on such Record Date; provided, however,
that, if the portion of the cash so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock is equal to or greater than the Current Market Price of the
Common Stock on the Record Date, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment,
adequate provision shall be made so that each Securityholder shall have the
right to receive upon conversion the amount of cash such holder would have
received had such Holder converted such Security immediately prior to such
Record Date. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the
Conversion Price shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price which
would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been
declared.
(f) In case a tender offer made by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries for all or any portion of the Common Stock expires and such
tender offer (as amended upon the expiration thereof) requires the payment
to stockholders (based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in
the terms of the tender offer) of Purchased Shares (as defined below)) of
an aggregate consideration having a fair market
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value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall
be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors)
that, combined together with (1) the aggregate of the cash plus the fair
market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of
Directors), as of the expiration of such tender offer, of consideration
payable in respect of any other tender offers, by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries for all or any portion of the Common Stock expiring within the
12 months preceding the expiration of such tender offer and in respect of
which no adjustment pursuant to this Section 15.5(f) has been made and (2)
the aggregate amount of any distributions to all holders of the Common
Stock made exclusively in cash within 12 months preceding the expiration of
such tender offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to Section
15.5(e) has been made, exceeds 10% of the product of the Current Market
Price (determined as provided in Section 15.5(h)) as of the last time (the
"Expiration Time") tenders could have been made pursuant to such tender
offer (as it may be amended) times the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding (including any tendered shares) at the Expiration Time, then,
and in each such case, immediately prior to the opening of business on the
day after the date of the Expiration Time, the Conversion Price shall be
adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying
the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business
on the date of the Expiration Time by a fraction of which the numerator
shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any
tendered shares) at the Expiration Time multiplied by the Current Market
Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration
Time and the denominator shall be the sum of (x) the fair market value
(determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate consideration payable to
stockholders based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the
terms of the tender offer) of all shares validly tendered and not withdrawn
as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed so accepted, up to any such
maximum, being referred to as the "Purchased Shares") and (y) the product
of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (less any Purchased
Shares) at the Expiration Time and the Current Market Price of the Common
Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time, such
reduction (if any) to become effective immediately prior to the opening of
business on the day following the Expiration Time. If the Company is
obligated to purchase shares pursuant to any such tender offer, but the
Company is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such
purchases or all such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Price shall
again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect
if such tender offer had not been made. If the application of this Section
15.5(f) to any tender offer would result in an
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increase in the Conversion Price, no adjustment shall be made for such
tender offer under this Section 15.5(f).
(g) In case of a tender or exchange offer made by a person other than
the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for an amount which increases
the offeror's ownership of Common Stock to more than 20% of the Common
Stock outstanding and shall involve the payment by such person of
consideration per share of Common Stock having a fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
conclusive, and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors) at the
Expiration Time that exceeds the Current Market Price of the Common Stock
on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time, and in which, as of
the Expiration Time the Board of Directors is not recommending rejection of
the offer, the Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall
equal the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect
immediately prior to the Expiration Time by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
(including any tendered or exchanged shares) on the Expiration Time
multiplied by the Current Market Price of the Common Stock on the Trading
Day next succeeding the Expiration Time and the denominator shall be the
sum of (x) the fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate
consideration payable to stockholders based on the acceptance (up to any
maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of all
shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the Expiration
Time (the shares deemed so accepted, up to any such maximum, being referred
to as the "Purchased Shares") and (y) the product of the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding (less any Purchased Shares) on the Expiration
Time and the Current Market Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day
next succeeding the Expiration Time, such reduction to become effective as
of immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the
Expiration Time. In the event that such person is obligated to purchase
shares pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer, but such person is
permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchases
or all such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Price shall again be
adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if such
tender or exchange offer had not been made. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the adjustment described in this Section 15.5(g) shall not be made if, as
of the Expiration Time, the offering documents with respect to such offer
disclose a plan or intention to cause the Company to engage in any
transaction described in Article XII.
(h) For purposes of this Section 15.5, the following terms shall have
the meaning indicated:
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(1) "Closing Price" with respect to any securities on any day
shall mean the closing sale price regular way on such day or, in case
no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the reported
closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in each case on the New
York Stock Exchange, or, if such security is not listed or admitted to
trading on such Exchange, on the principal national security exchange
or quotation system on which such security is quoted or listed or
admitted to trading, or, if not quoted or listed or admitted to
trading on any national securities exchange or quotation system, the
average of the closing bid and asked prices of such security on the
over-the-counter market on the day in question as reported by the
National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, or a similar generally
accepted reporting service, or if not so available, in such manner as
furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm selected from
time to time by the Board of Directors for that purpose, or a price
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors or, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, a duly authorized committee thereof,
whose determination shall be conclusive.
(2) "Current Market Price" shall mean the average of the daily
Closing Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten consecutive
Trading Days immediately prior to the date in question; provided,
however, that (1) if the "ex" date (as hereinafter defined) for any
event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring such
computation) that requires an adjustment to the Conversion Price
pursuant to Section 15.5(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) occurs
during such ten consecutive Trading Days, the Closing Price for each
Trading Day prior to the "ex" date for such other event shall be
adjusted by multiplying such Closing Price by the same fraction by
which the Conversion Price is so required to be adjusted as a result
of such other event, (2) if the "ex" date for any event (other than
the issuance or distribution requiring such computation) that requires
an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to Section 15.5(a),
(b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) occurs on or after the "ex" date for
the issuance or distribution requiring such computation and prior to
the day in question, the Closing Price for each Trading Day on and
after the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by
multiplying such Closing Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by
which the Conversion Price is so required to be adjusted as a result
of such other event, and (3) if the "ex" date for the issuance or
distribution requiring such computation is prior to the day in
question, after taking into account any adjustment required pursuant
to clause (1) or (2) of this proviso, the Closing Price for each
Trading Day on
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or after such "ex" date shall be adjusted by adding thereto the amount
of any cash and the fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, a duly
authorized committee thereof in a manner consistent with any
determination of such value for purposes of Section 15.5(d), (f) or
(g), whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a
resolution of the Board of Directors or such duly authorized committee
thereof, as the case may be) of the evidences of indebtedness, shares
of capital stock or assets being distributed applicable to one share
of Common Stock as of the close of business on the day before such
"ex" date. For purposes of any computation under Section 15.5(f) or
(g), the Current Market Price of the Common Stock on any date shall be
deemed to be the average of the daily Closing Prices per share of
Common Stock for such day and the next two succeeding Trading Days;
provided, however, that if the "ex" date for any event (other than the
tender or exchange offer requiring such computation) that requires an
adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to Section 15.5(a), (b),
(c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) occurs on or after the Expiration Time for
the tender or exchange offer requiring such computation and prior to
the day in question, the Closing Price for each Trading Day on and
after the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by
multiplying such Closing Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by
which the Conversion Price is so required to be adjusted as a result
of such other event. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "ex"
date, (1) when used with respect to any issuance or distribution,
means the first date on which the Common Stock trades regular way on
the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the Closing
Price was obtained without the right to receive such issuance or
distribution, (2) when used with respect to any subdivision or
combination of shares of Common Stock, means the first date on which
the Common Stock trades regular way on such exchange or in such market
after the time at which such subdivision or combination becomes
effective, and (3) when used with respect to any tender or exchange
offer means the first date on which the Common Stock trades regular
way on such exchange or in such market after the Expiration Time of
such offer.
(3) "fair market value" shall mean the amount which a willing
buyer would pay a willing seller in an arm's length transaction.
(4) "Record Date" shall mean, with respect to any dividend,
distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of
Common Stock have the right to
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receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common
Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted
into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date
fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such cash,
securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board
of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).
(5) "Trading Day" shall mean (x) if the applicable security is
listed or admitted for trading on the New York Stock Exchange or
another national security exchange, a day on which the New York Stock
Exchange or another national security exchange is open for business or
(y) if the applicable security is quoted on the Nasdaq National
Market, a day on which trades may be made thereon or (z) if the
applicable security is not so listed, admitted for trading or quoted,
any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which banking
institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by
law or executive order to close.
(i) The Company may make such reductions in the Conversion Price, in
addition to those required by Sections 15.5(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and
(g), as the Board of Directors considers to be advisable to avoid or
diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase
Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock (or
rights to acquire stock) or from any event treated as such for income tax
purposes.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company from time to
time may reduce the Conversion Price by any amount for any period of time
if the period is at least thirty (30) days, the reduction is irrevocable
during the period and the Board of Directors shall have made a
determination that such reduction would be in the best interests of the
Company, which determination shall be conclusive. Whenever the Conversion
Price is reduced pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company shall mail
to holders of record of the Securities a notice of the reduction at least
fifteen (15) days prior to the date the reduced Conversion Price takes
effect, and such notice shall state the reduced Conversion Price and the
period during which it will be in effect.
(j) No adjustment in the Conversion Price shall be required unless
such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one
percent (1%) in such price; provided, however, that any adjustments which
by reason of this Section 15.5(j) are not required to be made shall be
carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All
calculations under this Article XV shall be
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made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest
one hundredth of a share, as the case may be.
(k) Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted as herein provided, the
Company shall promptly file with the Trustee and any conversion agent other
than the Trustee an Officers' Certificate setting forth the Conversion
Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the
facts requiring such adjustment. Promptly after delivery of such
certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the
Conversion Price setting forth the adjusted Conversion Price and the date
on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall mail notice of such
adjustment of the Conversion Price to the holder of each Security at his
last address appearing on the Security register provided for in Section 2.5
of this Indenture, within ten (10) days after execution thereof. Failure to
deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such
adjustment.
(l) In any case in which this Section 15.5 provides that an adjustment
shall become effective immediately after a record date for an event, the
Company may defer until the occurrence of such event (i) issuing to the
holder of any Security converted after such record date and before the
occurrence of such event the additional shares of Common Stock issuable
upon such conversion by reason of the adjustment required by such event
over and above such conversion by reason of the adjustment required by such
event and above the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion before
giving effect to such adjustment and (ii) paying to such holder any amount
in cash in lieu of any fraction pursuant to Section 15.5.
(m) For purposes of this Section 15.5, the number of shares of Common
Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury
of the Company but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip
certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The
Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of
Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
Section 15.6. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale.
If any of the following events occur, namely (i) any ▇▇▇▇▇ ssification or change
of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (other than a subdivision or
combination to which Section 15.5(c) applies), (ii) any consolidation, merger or
combination of the Company with another corporation as a result of which holders
of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, securities or other property
or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock,
or (iii) any sale or conveyance of the properties and assets of the Company as,
or substantially as, an entirety to any other
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corporation as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to
receive stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) with
respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock, then the Company or the
successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute with the
Trustee a supplemental indenture (which shall comply with the Trust Indenture
Act as in force at the date of execution of such supplemental indenture)
providing that such Security shall be convertible into the kind and amount of
shares of stock and other securities or property or assets (including cash)
receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger,
combination, sale or conveyance by a holder of a number of shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of such Securities (assuming, for such purposes,
a sufficient number of authorized shares of Common Stock available to convert
all such Securities) immediately prior to such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance assuming such holder of
Common Stock did not exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or
amount of shares of stock and other securities or property or assets (including
cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger,
combination, sale or conveyance (provided that, if the kind or amount of shares
of stock and other securities or property or assets (including cash) receivable
upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or
conveyance is not the same for each share of Common Stock in respect of which
such rights of election shall not have been exercised ("nonelecting share"),
then for the purposes of this Section 15.6, the kind and amount of shares of
stock and other securities or property or assets (including cash) receivable
upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or
conveyance for each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount
so receivable per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares). Such
supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly
equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this
Article.
The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental
indenture to be mailed to each holder of Securities, at his address appearing on
the Security register provided for in Section 2.5 of this Indenture, within ten
(10) days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not
affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.
The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive
reclassifications, changes, consolidations, mergers, combinations, sales and
conveyances.
If this Section 15.6 applies to any event or occurrence, Section 15.5 shall
not apply.
Section 15.7. Taxes on Shares Issued. The issue of stock certificates on
conversions of Securities shall be made without
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charge to the converting Securityholder for any tax in respect of the issue
thereof. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be
payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of stock
in any name other than that of the holder of any Security converted, and the
Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any such stock certificate
unless and until the person or persons requesting the issue thereof shall have
paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the
satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 15.8. Reservation of Shares to Be Fully Paid; Compliance with
Governmental Requirements; Listing of Common Stock. The Company shall reserve,
free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares
held in treasury sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for the conversion
of the Securities from time to time as such Securities are presented for
conversion.
Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment reducing the
Conversion Price below the then par value, if any, of the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Securities, the Company will take all corporate
action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the
Company may validly and legally issue shares of such Common Stock at such
adjusted Conversion Price.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be issued
upon conversion of Securities will upon issue be fully paid and non-assessable
by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the
issue thereof.
The Company covenants that if any shares of Common Stock to be provided for
the purpose of conversion of Securities hereunder require registration with or
approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before
such shares may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will in good
faith and as expeditiously as possible endeavor to secure such registration or
approval, as the case may be.
The Company further covenants that if at any time the Common Stock shall be
listed on the New York Stock Exchange or any other national securities exchange
the Company will, if permitted by the rules of such exchange, list and keep
listed so long as the Common Stock shall be so listed on such exchange, all
Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities.
Section 15.9. Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other
conversion agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to
any holder of Securities to determine whether any facts exist which may require
any adjustment of the Conversion Price, or with respect to the nature or extent
or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method
employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture
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