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Exhibit 4.7-B
MONY CAPITAL TRUST II
FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
among
THE MONY GROUP INC.,
as Depositor,
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Property Trustee,
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE,
as Delaware Trustee,
and
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as Administrative Trustees
Dated as of ______, ____
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Defined Terms................................................................................. 1
Section 1.01 Definitions................................................................ 1
ARTICLE II Establishment of the Trust................................................................... 9
Section 2.01 Name....................................................................... 9
Section 2.02 Offices of the Trustees; Principal Place of Business....................... 10
Section 2.03 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses............ 10
Section 2.04 Issuance of the Preferred Securities....................................... 10
Section 2.05 Subscription and Purchase of Junior Subordinated Notes;
Issuance of the Common Securities ....................................... 10
Section 2.06 Declaration of Trust....................................................... 10
Section 2.07 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions........................... 11
Section 2.08 Assets of Trust............................................................ 15
Section 2.09 Title to Trust Property.................................................... 15
Section 2.10 Mergers and Consolidations of the Trust.................................... 16
ARTICLE III Payment Account............................................................................. 17
Section 3.01 Payment Account............................................................ 17
ARTICLE IV Distributions; Redemption.................................................................... 17
Section 4.01 Distributions.............................................................. 17
Section 4.02 Redemption................................................................. 19
Section 4.03 Subordination of Common Securities......................................... 20
Section 4.04 Payment Procedures......................................................... 21
Section 4.05 Tax Returns and Reports.................................................... 21
ARTICLE V Trust Securities Certificates................................................................. 21
Section 5.01 Initial Ownership.......................................................... 21
Section 5.02 The Trust Securities Certificates.......................................... 22
Section 5.03 Authentication of Trust Securities Certificates............................ 22
Section 5.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates. 22
Section 5.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates......... 23
Section 5.06 Persons Deemed Securityholders............................................. 23
Section 5.07 Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses..................... 23
Section 5.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................ 24
Section 5.09 Appointment of Paying Agent................................................ 24
Section 5.10 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor................................ 25
Section 5.11 Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common
Securities Certificate. ................................................. 25
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Section 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency................................................. 26
Section 5.13 Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates............................... 26
Section 5.14 Rights of Securityholders.................................................. 26
ARTICLE VI Acts of Securityholders; Meetings; Voting.................................................... 27
Section 6.01 Limitations on Voting Rights............................................... 27
Section 6.02 Notice of Meetings......................................................... 28
Section 6.03 Meetings of Preferred Securityholders...................................... 28
Section 6.04 Voting Rights.............................................................. 28
Section 6.05 Proxies, etc............................................................... 28
Section 6.06 Securityholder Action by Written Consent................................... 29
Section 6.07 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.................................. 29
Section 6.08 Acts of Securityholders.................................................... 29
Section 6.09 Inspection of Records...................................................... 30
ARTICLE VII Representations and Warranties of the Trustees.............................................. 30
Section 7.01 Representations and Warranties of the Trustees............................. 30
ARTICLE VIII The Trustees............................................................................... 32
Section 8.01 Certain Duties and Responsibilities........................................ 32
Section 8.02 Notice of Defaults......................................................... 33
Section 8.03 Certain Rights of Property Trustee......................................... 33
Section 8.04 Delaware Trustee........................................................... 35
Section 8.05 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities..................... 35
Section 8.06 May Hold Securities........................................................ 35
Section 8.07 Compensation; Fees; Indemnity.............................................. 35
Section 8.08 Trustees Required; Eligibility............................................. 36
Section 8.09 Conflicting Interests...................................................... 36
Section 8.10 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee........................................... 36
Section 8.11 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.......................... 37
Section 8.12 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor..................................... 39
Section 8.13 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business................ 39
Section 8.14 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust............... 39
Section 8.15 Reports by Property Trustee................................................ 40
Section 8.16 Reports to the Property Trustee............................................ 40
Section 8.17 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent........................... 40
Section 8.18 Number of Trustees......................................................... 40
Section 8.19 Delegation of Power........................................................ 41
Section 8.20 Enforcement of Rights of Property Trustee by Securityholders............... 41
ARTICLE IX Termination and Liquidation.................................................................. 42
Section 9.01 Termination Upon Expiration Date........................................... 42
Section 9.02 Early Termination.......................................................... 42
Section 9.03 Termination................................................................ 42
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Section 9.04 Liquidation................................................................ 43
Section 9.05 Bankruptcy................................................................. 44
ARTICLE X Miscellaneous Provisions...................................................................... 44
Section 10.01 Guarantee by the Depositor................................................. 44
Section 10.02 Limitation of Rights of Securityholders.................................... 44
Section 10.03 Amendment.................................................................. 45
Section 10.04 Separability............................................................... 46
Section 10.05 Governing Law.............................................................. 46
Section 10.06 Successors................................................................. 46
Section 10.07 Headings................................................................... 46
Section 10.08 Notice and Demand.......................................................... 46
Section 10.09 Agreement Not to Petition.................................................. 47
Section 10.10 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.......................................... 47
EXHIBIT A [INTENTIONALLY RESERVED]
EXHIBIT B [INTENTIONALLY RESERVED]
EXHIBIT C Form of Common Securities Certificate
EXHIBIT D Form of Expense Agreement
EXHIBIT E Form of Preferred Securities Certificate
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT is made as of ________, ___,
by and among (i) The MONY Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Depositor" or
the "Company"), (ii) The Chase Manhattan Bank, a banking corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, as trustee (the
"Property Trustee" and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its
capacity as Trustee, the "Bank"), (iii) Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, a banking
corporation duly organized under the laws of Delaware, as Delaware trustee (the
"Delaware Trustee" and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its
capacity as Delaware Trustee, the "Delaware Bank"), (iv) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, an
individual, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, an individual, as administrative trustees
(each an "Administrative Trustee" and together the "Administrative Trustees")
(the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees
referred to collectively as the "Trustees") and (v) the several Holders, as
hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly
declared and established a business trust pursuant to the Delaware Business
Trust Act by the entering into of that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of
January 10, 2000 (the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution and
filing by the Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, dated January 10, 2000; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original
Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other
things, (i) the addition of the Bank, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ as
trustees of the Trust, (ii) the acquisition by the Trust from the Depositor of
all of the right, title and interest in the Junior Subordinated Notes, (iii) the
issuance of the Common Securities by the Trust to the Depositor, and (iv) the
issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities by the Trust pursuant to the
Underwriting Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties
and for the benefit of the Securityholders, hereby amends and restates the
Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I
Defined Terms
Section 1.01 Definitions. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
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(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be,
of this Trust Agreement; and
(d) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.08.
"Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given
Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, an amount equal to the Additional
Interest (as defined in clause (ii) of the definition of "Additional Interest"
in the Subordinated Indenture) paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of Junior
Subordinated Notes for such period.
"Administrative Trustee" means each of the individuals identified as an
"Administrative Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in their
capacities as Administrative Trustees of the Trust formed and continued
hereunder and not in their individual capacities, or such trustee's successor(s)
in interest in such capacity, or any successor "Administrative Trustee"
appointed as herein provided.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(i) the entry of a decree or order by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises judging such Person a bankrupt or
insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition of or in
respect of such Person under federal bankruptcy law or any other
applicable federal or state law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of such
Person or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
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continuance of such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period
of 90 consecutive days; or
(ii) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization
or relief under federal bankruptcy law or any other applicable federal
or state law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to
the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of such Person or of any substantial
part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking
of action by such Person in furtherance of any such action.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.09.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Depositor to have been duly adopted
by the Depositor's Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof and
to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered
to the Trustees.
"Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates" means certificates
representing Preferred Securities issued in global, fully registered form to the
Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.11.
"Business Day" means a day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, (ii)
a day on which banks in New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust
Office or the Indenture Trustee's principal corporate trust office is closed for
business.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" means the agreement among the Trust,
the Property Trustee and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing
Agency, dated ______, ____, relating to the Preferred Securities Certificates,
as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. The Depository Trust
Company will be the initial Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after
the execution of
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this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now
assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such
duties at such time.
"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial ownership interest in
the assets of the Trust having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of a Common Security or Securities, substantially in the form attached
as Exhibit C.
"Company" means The MONY Group Inc., and its successors.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Property Trustee at
which its corporate trust business shall be principally administered.
"Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates" means either or both (as
the context requires) of (i) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in
certificated, fully registered form as provided in Section 5.11(a) and (ii)
Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered form
as provided in Section 5.13.
"Delaware Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code Section 3801 et seq., as it may be amended from time
to time.
"Delaware Trustee" means the commercial bank or trust company or any
other Person identified as the "Delaware Trustee" and has the meaning specified
in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as Delaware
Trustee of the Trust formed and continued hereunder and not in its individual
capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor
Delaware Trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Depositor" means the Company, in its capacity as "Depositor" under
this Trust Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust
Securities as provided in Section 4.01.
"Early Termination Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.02.
"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
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(i) the occurrence of an Indenture Event of Default; or
(ii) default by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution
when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a
period of 30 days; or
(iii) default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption
Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(iv) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than a covenant
or warranty a default in whose performance or breach is dealt with in
clause (ii) or (iii) above) and continuation of such default or breach
for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Trustees by the Holders of at least 10% in
Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(v) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the
Trust.
"Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities
between the Company and the Trust, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
D, as amended from time to time.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.01.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(b).
"Guarantee" means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the
Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities, as amended from time to time.
"Indenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined in
the Subordinated Indenture.
"Indenture Redemption Date" means "Redemption Date," as defined in the
Subordinated Indenture.
"Indenture Trustee" means the trustee under the Subordinated Indenture.
"Issue Date" means the date of the initial delivery of the Trust
Securities.
"Junior Subordinated Notes" means the $__________ aggregate principal
amount of the Depositor's Series __ ____% Junior Subordinated Notes due ____ __,
____, issued pursuant to the Subordinated Indenture.
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"Legal Action" has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(A)(iv).
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of
trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest
or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement
of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (i) Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount
equal to the principal amount of Junior Subordinated Notes to be
contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the Subordinated Indenture and the
proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such Trust
Securities and (ii) Junior Subordinated Notes having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Junior
Subordinated Notes are distributed.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $25 per Trust Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Junior Subordinated Notes
are to be distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a
dissolution and liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.04.
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section 9.05.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and
by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee. One of
the officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 8.16
shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the
Depositor. An Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:
(e) a statement that each officer signing the Officers'
Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions
relating thereto;
(f) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering
the Officers' Certificate;
(g) a statement that each such officer has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary, in such officer's
opinion, to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(h) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for the Trust, the Trustees or the Depositor, but not an employee of the
Trust or the Trustees, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property
Trustee. Any Opinion
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of Counsel pertaining to federal income tax matters may rely on published
rulings of the Internal Revenue Service.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the recitals to
this Trust Agreement.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Preferred Securities, means,
as of the date of determination, all Preferred Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(i) Preferred Securities theretofore cancelled by the Property
Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Preferred Securities for whose payment or redemption
money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Property Trustee or any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Preferred
Securities; provided that if such Preferred Securities are to be
redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to
this Trust Agreement; and
(iii) Preferred Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which
other Preferred Securities have been authenticated and delivered
pursuant to this Trust Agreement;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Preferred Securities owned by the Depositor, the Holder of the Common
Securities, any Administrative Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any
Administrative Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding,
except that (a) in determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying
upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Preferred Securities which such Trustee knows to be so owned shall
be so disregarded and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of
the outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by the Depositor, the Holder of
the Common Securities, one or more Administrative Trustees and/or any such
Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith
may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of
the Property Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the Depositor or any Affiliate
of the Depositor.
"Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of a Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificate as reflected in the records of the Clearing
Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the Owner, then as reflected
in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency
(directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 5.09 and shall initially be the Property Trustee.
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"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing trust account
maintained by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Securityholders in
which all amounts paid in respect of the Junior Subordinated Notes will be held
and from which the Property Trustee shall make payments to the Securityholders
in accordance with Section 4.01.
"Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Preferred Security" means an undivided beneficial ownership interest
in the assets of the Trust having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Preferred Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of a Preferred Security or Securities, substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit E.
"Property Trustee" means the commercial bank or trust company
identified as the "Property Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement
solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust formed and continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in
such capacity, or any successor "Property Trustee" as herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Indenture Redemption Date shall be a Redemption
Date for a Like Amount of Trust Securities.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any date fixed for redemption
of any Trust Security, the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus
accrued and unpaid Distributions to such date.
"Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" are described in
Section 5.04.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust
Security or Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any such Person
is a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
"Subordinated Indenture" means the Subordinated Note Indenture, dated
as of January __, 2000, between the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee, as
supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture.
"Supplemental Indenture" means the _____ Supplemental Indenture, dated
as of _______, ____, by and between the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee.
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"Trust" means the Delaware business trust continued hereby and
identified on the cover page to this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as
the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the
applicable provisions hereof, including all exhibits hereto, including, for all
purposes of this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and any modification,
amendment or supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are
deemed to be a part of and govern this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and
any such modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.
"Trustees" means the Persons identified as "Trustees" in the preamble
to this Trust Agreement solely in their capacities as Trustees of the Trust
formed and continued hereunder and not in their individual capacities, or their
successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as
herein provided.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force
at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in
the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust
Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trust Property" means (i) the Junior Subordinated Notes, (ii) any cash
on deposit in, or owing to, the Payment Account, and (iii) all proceeds and
rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the
time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to this
Trust Agreement.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificates or the Preferred Securities Certificates.
"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the
Preferred Securities.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement, dated
_____,_____, among the Trust, the Depositor and the underwriters named therein.
ARTICLE II
Establishment of the Trust
Section 2.01 Name. The Trust continued hereby shall be known as "MONY Capital
Trust II", in which name the Trustees may conduct the business of the Trust,
make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and ▇▇▇
and be sued. The Administrative Trustees may change the name of the Trust from
time to time following written notice to the other Trustees and the Holders.
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Section 2.02 Offices of the Trustees; Principal Place of Business. The
address of the Property Trustee is The Chase Manhattan Bank, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ or such other address as the Property Trustee
may designate by written notice to the Securityholders and the Depositor. The
principal place of business of the Delaware Trustee is ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, or such other address in Delaware as the Delaware
Trustee may designate by notice to the Depositor. The address of the
Administrative Trustees is c/o The MONY Group Inc., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Secretary. The principal place of business of
the Trust is c/o The MONY Group Inc., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
The Depositor may change the principal place of business of the Trust at any
time by giving notice thereof to the Trustees.
Section 2.03 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational
Expenses. The Delaware Trustee acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor
in connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which
constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of the Trustees,
promptly reimburse the Trustees for any such expenses paid by the Trustees. The
Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such
expenses.
Section 2.04 Issuance of the Preferred Securities. Contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, the Administrative
Trustees, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute and, upon the written order of
any Administrative Trustee, the Property Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
to the underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement Preferred Securities
Certificates, registered in the name of the nominee of the initial Clearing
Agency, in an aggregate amount of _________ Preferred Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $______, against receipt of the aggregate
purchase price of such Preferred Securities of $________, which amount the
Administrative Trustees shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee.
Section 2.05 Subscription and Purchase of Junior Subordinated Notes;
Issuance of the Common Securities. Contemporaneously with the execution and
delivery of this Trust Agreement, the Administrative Trustees, on behalf of the
Trust, shall execute and deliver to the Depositor Common Securities
Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor, in an aggregate amount of
_______ Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $_______,
against payment by the Depositor of such amount. Contemporaneously therewith,
the Administrative Trustees, on behalf of the Trust and the Holders, shall
subscribe to and purchase from the Depositor Junior Subordinated Notes,
registered in the name of the Property Trustee and having an aggregate principal
amount equal to $_______, and, in satisfaction of the purchase price for such
Junior Subordinated Notes, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall
deliver to the Depositor the sum of $_________.
Section 2.06 Declaration of Trust. The exclusive purposes and functions
of the Trust are (i) to issue and sell the Trust Securities and use the proceeds
from such sale to acquire the Junior Subordinated Notes, and (ii) to engage in
those activities necessary, incidental, appropriate or convenient thereto. The
Depositor hereby appoints each of the
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Bank, the Delaware Bank, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ as trustees of
the Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth
herein. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust
Property in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the
benefit of the Trust and the Securityholders. The Trustees shall have all
rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law
with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Delaware Trustee
shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee
have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of
the Trustees for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of
the Delaware Business Trust Act.
Section 2.07 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions. The
Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance with the terms of
this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph C of
this Section, and in accordance with the following paragraphs A and B, the
Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements
determined by the Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority,
express or implied, otherwise granted to the Trustees under this Trust
Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including without
limitation, the following:
A. As among the Trustees, the Administrative Trustees, acting singly or
jointly, shall have the exclusive power, duty and authority to act on behalf of
the Trust with respect to the following matters:
(i) to acquire the Junior Subordinated Notes with the proceeds
of the sale of the Trust Securities; provided, however, the
Administrative Trustees shall cause legal title to all of the Junior
Subordinated Notes to be vested in, and the Junior Subordinated Notes
to be held of record in the name of, the Property Trustee for the
benefit of the Trust and Holders of the Trust Securities;
(ii) to give the Depositor and the Property Trustee prompt
written notice of the occurrence of any Special Event (as defined in
the Supplemental Indenture) and to take any ministerial actions in
connection therewith; provided, that the Administrative Trustees shall
consult with the Depositor and the Property Trustee before taking or
refraining to take any ministerial action in relation to a Special
Event;
(iii) to establish a record date with respect to all actions
to be taken hereunder that require a record date be established,
including for the purposes of Section 316(c) of the Trust Indenture Act
and with respect to Distributions, voting rights, redemptions, and
exchanges, and to issue relevant notices to Holders of the Trust
Securities as to such actions and applicable record dates;
(iv) to bring or defend, pay, collect, compromise, arbitrate,
resort to legal action, or otherwise adjust claims or demands of or
against the Trust ("Legal Action"), unless pursuant to Section
2.07(B)(v), the Property Trustee has the power to bring such Legal
Action;
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(v) to employ or otherwise engage employees and agents (who
may be designated as officers with titles) and managers, contractors,
advisors, and consultants and pay reasonable compensation for such
services;
(vi) to cause the Trust to comply with the Trust's obligations
under the Trust Indenture Act;
(vii) to give the certificate to the Property Trustee required
by Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act, which certificate may
be executed by any Administrative Trustee;
(viii) to take all actions and perform such duties as may be
required of the Administrative Trustees pursuant to the terms of this
Trust Agreement;
(ix) to take all action that may be necessary or appropriate
for the preservation and the continuation of the Trust's valid
existence, rights, franchises and privileges as a statutory business
trust under the laws of the State of Delaware and of each other
jurisdiction in which such existence is necessary to protect the
limited liability of the Holders of the Trust Securities or to enable
the Trust to effect the purposes for which the Trust has been created;
(x) to take all action necessary to cause all applicable tax
returns and tax information reports that are required to be filed with
respect to the Trust to be duly prepared and filed by the
Administrative Trustees, on behalf of the Trust;
(xi) to issue and sell the Trust Securities;
(xii) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute,
deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the Expense Agreement and
the Certificate Depository Agreement and such other agreements as may
be necessary or desirable in connection with the consummation hereof;
(xiii) to assist in the registration of the Preferred
Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and under
state securities or blue sky laws, and the qualification of this Trust
Agreement as a trust indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;
(xiv) to assist in the listing of the Preferred Securities
upon such securities exchange or exchanges as shall be determined by
the Depositor and the registration of the Preferred Securities under
the Exchange Act, and the preparation and filing of all periodic and
other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing;
(xv) to send notices (other than notices of default) and other
information regarding the Trust Securities and the Junior Subordinated
Notes to the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
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(xvi) to appoint a Paying Agent (subject to Section 5.09),
authenticating agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;
(xvii) to register transfers of the Trust Securities in
accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(xviii) to assist in, to the extent provided in this Trust
Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and termination of the
Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and
(xix) to take any action incidental to the foregoing as the
Administrative Trustees may from time to time determine is necessary,
appropriate, convenient or advisable to protect and conserve the Trust
Property for the benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration
of the effect of any such action on any particular Securityholder).
B. As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the exclusive
power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the
following matters:
(i) engage in such ministerial activities as shall be
necessary or appropriate to effect promptly the redemption of the Trust
Securities to the extent the Junior Subordinated Notes are redeemed or
mature;
(ii) upon notice of distribution issued by the Administrative
Trustees in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement, engage
in such ministerial activities as shall be necessary or appropriate to
effect promptly the distribution pursuant to terms of this Trust
Agreement of Junior Subordinated Notes to Holders of Trust Securities;
(iii) subject to the terms hereof, exercise all of the rights,
powers and privileges of a holder of the Junior Subordinated Notes
under the Subordinated Indenture and, if an Event of Default occurs and
is continuing, enforce for the benefit of, and subject to the rights
of, the Holders of the Trust Securities, its rights as holder of the
Junior Subordinated Notes under the Subordinated Indenture;
(iv) take all actions and perform such duties as may be
specifically required of the Property Trustee pursuant to the terms of
this Trust Agreement;
(v) take any Legal Action specifically required of the
Property Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement which
arises out of or in connection with an Event of Default of which a
Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee has knowledge or the
Property Trustee's duties and obligations under this Trust Agreement,
the Delaware Business Trust Act or the Trust Indenture Act;
(vi) the establishment and maintenance of the Payment Account;
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(vii) the receipt of and holding of legal title to the Junior
Subordinated Notes as described herein;
(viii) the collection of interest, principal and any other
payments made in respect of the Junior Subordinated Notes in the
Payment Account;
(ix) if appointed Paying Agent pursuant to the terms hereof,
the distribution of amounts owed to the Securityholders in respect of
the Trust Securities;
(x) the sending of notices of default and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Junior Subordinated Notes to the
Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(xi) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with
the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(xii) as provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of
the affairs of and termination of the Trust and the preparation,
execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the
Secretary of State of Delaware; and
(xiii) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as
the Property Trustee may from time to time determine is necessary,
appropriate, convenient or advisable to protect and conserve the Trust
Property for the benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration
of the effect of any such action on any particular Securityholder).
C. So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or the
Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business,
activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated
hereby. In particular, the Trustees shall not (i) acquire any investments or
engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell,
assign, transfer, exchange, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the
Trust Property or interests therein, including to Securityholders, except as
expressly provided herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Trust to
fail or cease to qualify as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money, (v) take or consent to
any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust
Property, (vi) issue any securities other than the Trust Securities, or (vii)
have any power to, or agree to any action by the Depositor that would, vary the
investment (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-4(c)) of
the Trust or of the Securityholders. The Trustees shall defend all claims and
demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust
Property adverse to the interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in their
capacity as Securityholders.
D. In connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities,
the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Trust with
respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any actions
taken by the Depositor in furtherance
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of the following prior to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified
and confirmed in all respects):
(i) to prepare for filing by the Trust with the Commission a
registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, in relation to the Preferred Securities, including any
amendments thereto;
(ii) to determine the states in which to take appropriate
action to qualify or register for sale all or part of the Preferred
Securities and to do any and all such acts, other than actions which
must be taken by or on behalf of the Trust, and advise the Trustees of
actions they must take on behalf of the Trust, and prepare for
execution and filing any documents to be executed and filed by the
Trust or on behalf of the Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or
advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such
States;
(iii) to prepare for filing by the Trust an application to the
New York Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or the
NASDAQ National Market for listing upon notice of issuance of any
Preferred Securities;
(iv) to prepare for filing by the Trust with the Commission a
registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the registration of the
Preferred Securities under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, including
any amendments thereto;
(v) to negotiate the terms of the Underwriting Agreement
providing for the sale of the Preferred Securities and to execute,
deliver and perform the Underwriting Agreement on behalf of the Trust;
and
(vi) any other actions necessary, incidental, appropriate or
convenient to carry out any of the foregoing activities.
E. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative
Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and to
operate the Trust so that the Trust will not be deemed to be an "investment
company" required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, or taxed as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income
tax purposes and so that the Junior Subordinated Notes will be treated as
indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. In
this connection, the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to
take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust
or this Trust Agreement, that each of the Depositor and the Administrative
Trustees determines in its discretion to be necessary or desirable for such
purposes, as long as such action does not materially and adversely affect the
interests of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
Section 2.08 Assets of Trust. The assets of the Trust shall consist of
the Trust Property.
Section 2.09 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all Trust Property
shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such)
and shall be held and
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administered by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Securityholders and
the Trust in accordance with this Trust Agreement. The right, title and interest
of the Property Trustee to the Junior Subordinated Notes shall vest
automatically in each Person who may thereafter be appointed as Property Trustee
in accordance with the terms hereof. Such vesting and cessation of title shall
be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and
delivered.
Section 2.10 Mergers and Consolidations of the Trust. The Trust may not
consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by, or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any
corporation or other Person, except as described below or otherwise provided in
this Trust Agreement. The Trust may at the request of the Company, with the
consent of the Administrative Trustees and without the consent of the Holders of
the Trust Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be
replaced by a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided,
that (i) such successor entity either (x) expressly assumes all of the
obligations of the Trust with respect to the Trust Securities or (y) substitutes
for the Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same
terms as the Trust Securities (herein referred to as the "Successor Securities")
so long as the Successor Securities rank the same as the Trust Securities rank
in priority with respect to Distributions and payments upon liquidation,
redemption and otherwise, (ii) the Company expressly appoints a trustee of such
successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee
as the holder of legal title to the Junior Subordinated Notes, (iii) the
Preferred Securities or any Successor Securities are listed, or any Successor
Securities will be listed upon notification of issuance, on any national
securities exchange or other organization on which the Preferred Securities are
then listed, (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement does
not cause the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be
downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, (v)
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement does not adversely
affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Trust
Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, (vi)
such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the
Trust, (vii) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, or replacement,
the Company has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement does not adversely affect the
rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Trust Securities
(including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, and (B) following
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement, neither the Trust nor
such successor entity will be required to register as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and (viii) the Company guarantees the
obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to
the extent provided by the Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust
shall not, except with the consent of Holders of 100% in Liquidation Amount of
the Trust Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be
replaced by any other Person or permit any other Person to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger or replacement would cause the Trust or the successor
Person to be classified as other than a grantor trust for federal income tax
purposes.
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ARTICLE III
Payment Account
Section 3.01 Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Issue Date, the Property Trustee shall establish
the Payment Account. The Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole
right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of
making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with
this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held from time
to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the
Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for
distribution as herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of
payments provided for herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly
upon receipt, all payments of principal or interest on, and any other payments
or proceeds with respect to, the Junior Subordinated Notes. Upon any receipt by
the Property Trustee as holder of the Junior Subordinated Notes of amounts with
respect thereto, the Property Trustee shall cause such amounts to be distributed
to the Holders of the Trust Securities. The amount so distributed with respect
to each Trust Security shall correspond to the amount received by the Property
Trustee on each Junior Subordinated Note. Amounts held in the Payment Account
shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
Distributions; Redemption
Section 4.01 Distributions
(a) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative and
accrue from the Issue Date and, except in the event that the Depositor exercises
its right to extend the interest payment period for the Junior Subordinated
Notes pursuant to Section 1.04 of the Supplemental Indenture (in which event the
Distributions shall be as set forth in Section 4.01(b)), shall be payable
quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each
year, commencing on _____, ____. If any date on which Distributions are
otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the
payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day which is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay) except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar
year, payment of such Distribution shall be made on the immediately preceding
Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if made on such
date (each such date, a "Distribution Date").
(b) Distributions payable on the Trust Securities shall be fixed at a
rate of ___% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities. The
amount of
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Distributions payable for any full quarterly period shall be computed on the
basis of twelve 30-day months and a 360-day year. If the interest payment period
for the Junior Subordinated Notes is extended pursuant to Section 1.04 of the
Supplemental Indenture (an "Extension Period"), then (a) the Distributions on
the Trust Securities will also be deferred and (b) the rate per annum at which
Distributions on the Trust Securities accumulate shall be increased by an amount
such that the aggregate amount of Distributions that accumulate on all Trust
Securities during any such Extension Period is equal to the aggregate amount of
interest (including interest payable on unpaid interest at the percentage rate
per annum set forth above, compounded quarterly) that accrues during any such
Extension Period on the Junior Subordinated Notes. The payment of such deferred
interest, together with interest thereon, will be distributed to the Holders of
the Trust Securities as received at the end of any Extension Period. The amount
of Distributions payable for any period shall include the Additional Amounts, if
any.
(c) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made and shall be
deemed payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has
legally and immediately available funds in the Payment Account for the payment
of such Distributions.
(d) Distributions, including Additional Amounts, if any, on the Trust
Securities on each Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as
they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant
record date, which shall be the close of business on the fifteenth calendar day
prior to the relevant Distribution Date. Each Trust Security upon registration
of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Trust Security shall
carry the rights of Distributions accrued (including Additional Amounts, if any)
and unpaid, and to accrue (including Additional Amounts, if any), which were
carried by such other Trust Security.
The Depositor, subject to the next succeeding sentence, (a) shall not
declare or pay any dividend or make any distributions with respect to, or
redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of
its capital stock, and (b) shall not make any payment of interest, principal or
premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities
(including guarantees other than the Guarantee) issued by the Depositor which
rank pari passu with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Notes, (x) if at such
time the Depositor shall have given notice of its election to extend an interest
payment period for the Junior Subordinated Notes and such extension shall be
continuing, or (y) if at such time the Depositor shall be in default with
respect to its payment or other obligations under the Guarantee with respect to
the Trust Securities. The preceding sentence, however, shall not restrict (i)
any of the actions described in the preceding sentence resulting from any
reclassification of the Depositor's capital stock or the exchange or conversion
of one class or series of the Depositor's capital stock for another class or
series of the Depositor's capital stock, (ii) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Depositor's capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged, or (iii) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of
the Depositor's capital stock in connection with any employment contract,
benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees,
officers, directors or consultants.
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Section 4.02 Redemption.
(a) Upon repayment of the Junior Subordinated Notes in whole or in
part, whether at maturity or at redemption, the proceeds from such repayment or
payment shall be simultaneously applied to redeem a Like Amount of Trust
Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed,
at such Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of
redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the CUSIP number;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to
be redeemed, the total Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities to be
redeemed; and
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and
that Distributions thereon will cease to accrue on and after such date.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption of Junior Subordinated Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities
shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be deemed payable on each
Redemption Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds legally and
immediately available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption
Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of
any Preferred Securities and sufficient funds are on deposit in the Payment
Account, then, by 2:00 p.m. New York time, on the Redemption Date, subject to
Section 4.02(c), the Property Trustee will, so long as the Preferred Securities
are in book-entry only form, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing Agency for
the Preferred Securities funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption
Price. If the Preferred Securities are no longer in book-entry only form, the
Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.02(c), shall irrevocably deposit with the
Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will
give the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions to pay the Redemption Price to
the Holders thereof upon surrender of their Preferred Securities Certificates.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the
Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable
to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the Securities
Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related
Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds
deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of
Securityholders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease,
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except the right of such Securityholders to receive the Redemption Price, but
without interest, and such Securities will cease to be outstanding. In the event
that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business Day,
then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date shall be made on the
next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other
payment in respect of any such delay) except that, if such Business Day is in
the next succeeding calendar year, payment of such Redemption Price shall be
made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same
force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the
Redemption Price in respect of Trust Securities is improperly withheld or
refused and not paid either by the Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the
Guarantee, Distributions on such Trust Securities will continue to accrue at the
then applicable rate, from such Redemption Date originally established by the
Trust for such Preferred Securities to the date such Redemption Price is
actually paid.
(e) If less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be
redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust
Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated 3% to the Common Securities and 97%
to the Preferred Securities, with such adjustments that each amount so allocated
shall be divisible by $25. The particular Preferred Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Property Trustee from the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called
for redemption, by such method as the Property Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions
(equal to $25 or integral multiple thereof) of the Liquidation Amount of
Preferred Securities of a denomination larger than $25; provided, however, that
before undertaking redemption of the Preferred Securities on other than a pro
rata basis, the Property Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel that
the status of the Trust as a grantor trust for federal income tax purposes would
not be adversely affected. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the
Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Preferred Securities selected for partial
redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of
this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of
any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
(f) Subject to the foregoing provisions of Section 4.02 and to
applicable law (including, without limitation, United States federal securities
laws), the Company or its Affiliates may, at any time and from time to time,
purchase outstanding Preferred Securities by tender, in the open market or by
private agreement.
Section 4.03 Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made pro rata based on the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities; provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date or Redemption
Date an Indenture Event of Default shall have
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occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including Additional
Amounts, if applicable) on, or Redemption Price of, any Common Security, and no
other payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of
Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in cash of all
accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all distribution periods
terminating on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption
Price the full amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred
Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds immediately
available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full
in cash of all Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on,
or Redemption Price of, Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Indenture Event of Default,
the Holder of Common Securities will be deemed to have waived any such Event of
Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of
Default with respect to the Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or
otherwise eliminated. Until any such Events of Default under this Trust
Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities have been so cured, waived or
otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities and not the Holder of the Common Securities,
and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct
the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
Section 4.04 Payment Procedures. Payments in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register or, if the
Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be
made to the Clearing Agency, which shall credit the relevant Persons' accounts
at such Clearing Agency on the applicable distribution dates. Payments in
respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be
mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holder of the Common
Securities.
Section 4.05 Tax Returns and Reports. The Administrative Trustee(s)
shall prepare (or cause to be prepared), at the Depositor's expense, and file
all United States federal, state and local tax and information returns and
reports required to be filed by or in respect of the Trust. The Administrative
Trustee(s) shall provide or cause to be provided on a timely basis to each
Holder any Internal Revenue Service form required to be so provided in respect
of the Trust Securities.
ARTICLE V
Trust Securities Certificates
Section 5.01 Initial Ownership. Upon the creation of the Trust by the
contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.03 and until the issuance of
the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are
outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
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Section 5.02 The Trust Securities Certificates. Each of the Preferred
and Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of
$25 and integral multiples in excess thereof. The Trust Securities Certificates
shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of at
least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the
manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such
signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust,
shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so
authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and
delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust
Securities Certificate shall become a Securityholder, and shall be entitled to
the rights and subject to the obligations of a Securityholder hereunder, upon
due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee's name
pursuant to Section 5.04.
Section 5.03 Authentication of Trust Securities Certificates. On the
Issue Date, the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities
Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 2.04
and 2.05, to be executed on behalf of the Trust, and the property Trustee shall
cause such Trust Securities Certificates to be authenticated and delivered, to
or upon the written order of the Depositor signed by its Chairman of the Board,
its President or any Vice President, without further corporate action by the
Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Trust Securities Certificate shall
entitle its holder to any benefit under this Trust Agreement, or shall be valid
for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such Trust Securities Certificate
a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit E
or Exhibit C, as applicable, executed by the Property Trustee by manual
signature; such authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that such
Trust Securities Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. All Trust Securities Certificates shall be dated the date of their
authentication.
Section 5.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates. The Securities Registrar shall keep or cause to be
kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.08, a Securities
Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
the Securities Registrar shall provide for the registration of Preferred
Securities Certificates and the Common Securities Certificates (subject to
Section 5.10 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and registration
of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein
provided. The Property Trustee shall be the initial Securities Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities
Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.08, the
Administrative Trustees shall execute, and the Property Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of
authentication by Property Trustee. The Securities Registrar shall not be
required to register the transfer of any Preferred Securities that have been
called for redemption. At the option of a Holder, Preferred Securities
Certificates may be exchanged for other
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Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the same class
and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the Preferred
Securities Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained
pursuant to Section 5.08.
Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Property Trustee
and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly
authorized in writing. Each Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently
disposed of by the Securities Registrar in accordance with its customary
practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar or
the Property Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.
Section 5.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be
surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall
receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Trust Securities Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities
Registrar and the Property Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required
by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such
Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected purchaser,
the Administrative Trustees or any one of them on behalf of the Trust shall
execute, and the Property Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like
class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust
Securities Certificate under this Section, the Property Trustee or the
Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall
constitute conclusive evidence of an ownership interest in the Trust, as if
originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities
Certificate shall be found at any time.
Section 5.06 Persons Deemed Securityholders. Prior to due presentation
of a Trust Securities Certificate for registration of transfer, the Trustees or
the Securities Registrar shall treat the Person in whose name any Trust
Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the
owner of such Trust Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving
Distributions (subject to Section 4.01(d)) and for all other purposes
whatsoever, and neither the Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall be bound
by any notice to the contrary.
Section 5.07 Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses.
The Administrative Trustees shall furnish or cause to be furnished to (i) the
Depositor and the Property Trustee semi-annually, not later than June 1 and
December 1 in each year, and (ii) the Depositor or the Property Trustee, as the
case may be, within 15 days after receipt
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by any Administrative Trustee of a request therefor from the Depositor or the
Property Trustee, as the case may be, in writing, a list, in such form as the
Depositor or the Property Trustee, as the case may be, may reasonably require,
of the names and addresses of the Securityholders as of a date not more than 15
days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that no such
list need be furnished to the Property Trustee so long as the Property Trustee
is the Securities Registrar. If three or more Securityholders or one or more
Holders of Trust Securities Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the
outstanding Liquidation Amount apply in writing to the Administrative Trustees,
and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Trust Agreement or under
the Trust Securities Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy
of the communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the
Administrative Trustees shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of
such application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to
the current list of Securityholders. Each Holder, by receiving and holding a
Trust Securities Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold either
the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees accountable by reason of the
disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
Section 5.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Property Trustee
shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, an office or offices or
agency or agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served.
The Property Trustee initially designates the Corporate Trust Office as its
principal agency for such purposes. The Property Trustee shall give prompt
written notice to the Depositor and to the Securityholders of any change in the
location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
Section 5.09 Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
Distributions and other payments provided hereby to Securityholders from the
Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions and payments
to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall
have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account for the
purpose of making the Distributions and payments provided hereby. The
Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if
such Trustees determine in their sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall
have failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material
respect. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee, and it may
choose any co-paying agent that is acceptable to the Administrative Trustees and
the Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as
Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the
Depositor. In the event that a Paying Agent shall resign or be removed, the
Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor that is acceptable to the
Depositor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The
Administrative Trustees shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any
additional Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees to execute and
deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent shall agree
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with the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to
the Securityholders in trust for the benefit of the Securityholders entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Securityholders. The Paying Agent
shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a
Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to
the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 8.01, 8.03 and 8.06 shall apply
to the Property Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the
Property Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any
other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the
Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires
otherwise.
Section 5.10 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor. On the Issue
Date, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter retain, beneficial and record
ownership of the Common Securities. Any attempted transfer of the Common
Securities, except for transfers by operation of law, shall be void. The
Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to
the Depositor to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE".
Section 5.11 Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common
Securities Certificate.
(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates, upon original issuance, will
be issued in the form of a typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate or
Certificates representing Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates, to be
delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or
on behalf of, the Trust. Such Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates
shall initially be registered on the Securities Register in the name of Cede &
Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Owner will receive a
definitive Preferred Securities Certificate representing such beneficial owner's
interest in such Preferred Securities, except as provided in Section 5.13.
Unless and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates have been issued
to Owners pursuant to Section 5.13:
(i) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall be in full
force and effect;
(ii) the Securities Registrar and the Trustees shall be
entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Trust Agreement relating to the Book-Entry Preferred Securities
Certificates (including the payment of principal of and interest on the
Book-Entry Preferred Securities and the giving of instructions or
directions to Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities) as the sole
Holder of Book-Entry Preferred Securities and shall have no obligations
to the Owners thereof;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section
conflict with any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, the
provisions of this Section shall control; and
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(iv) the rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificates shall be exercised only through the Clearing
Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements
between such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency
Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement, unless
and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates are issued
pursuant to Section 5.13, the Clearing Agency will make book-entry
transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and
transmit payments on the Preferred Securities to such Clearing Agency
Participants.
(b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common
Securities Certificate.
Section 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency. To the extent a notice or
other communication to the Owners is required under this Trust Agreement, unless
and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall have been issued to
Owners pursuant to Section 5.13, the Trustees shall give all such notices and
communications specified herein to be given to Owners to the Clearing Agency,
and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
Section 5.13 Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates. If (i) the
Depositor advises the Administrative Trustees in writing that the Clearing
Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities
with respect to the Preferred Securities Certificates, and the Depositor is
unable to locate a qualified successor, or (ii) the Depositor at its option
advises the Administrative Trustees in writing that it elects to terminate the
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, then the Administrative Trustees
shall notify the Clearing Agency, the Property Trustee and Holders of the
Preferred Securities. Upon surrender to the Property Trustee of the typewritten
Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Book-Entry
Preferred Securities Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by
registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall
execute and the Property Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing
Agency. Neither the Securities Registrar nor the Trustees shall be liable for
any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and
shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates, the Trustees shall recognize the
Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates as Securityholders.
The Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall be printed, lithographed
or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Trustees, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them.
Section 5.14 Rights of Securityholders. The legal title to the Trust
Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such)
in accordance with Section 2.09, and the Securityholders shall not have any
right or title therein other than the beneficial ownership interest in the
assets of the Trust conferred by their Trust Securities, and they shall have no
right to call for any partition or division of property,
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profits or rights of the Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities
shall be personal property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein
and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or
other similar rights and when issued and delivered to Securityholders against
payment of the purchase price therefor, except as otherwise provided in the
Expense Agreement and Section 10.01 hereof, will be fully paid and nonassessable
by the Trust. Except as otherwise provided in the Expense Agreement and Section
10.01 hereof, the Holders of the Trust Securities shall be entitled to the same
limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware.
ARTICLE VI
Acts of Securityholders; Meetings; Voting
Section 6.01 Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as provided in this Section, in Section 8.10 or Section
10.03 of this Trust Agreement, in the Subordinated Indenture, and as otherwise
required by law, no Holder of Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote
or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management
of the Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein
set forth, or contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be
construed so as to constitute the Securityholders from time to time as partners
or members of an association.
(b) So long as any Junior Subordinated Notes are held by the Property
Trustee, the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee, or
executing any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee with respect to
such Junior Subordinated Notes, (ii) waive any past default which is waivable
under Section 513 of the Subordinated Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to
rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Junior Subordinated
Notes shall be due and payable or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or
termination of the Subordinated Indenture or the Junior Subordinated Notes,
where such consent shall be required, or to any other action, as holder of the
Junior Subordinated Notes, under the Subordinated Indenture, without, in each
case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of over 50% in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities; provided, however, that where a consent
under the Subordinated Indenture would require the consent of each holder of
Junior Subordinated Notes affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by
the Trustees without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred
Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or
approved by a vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities, except pursuant to a
subsequent vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee
shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any notice of default
received from the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Junior Subordinated
Notes. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Trustees
shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced
in such matters to the effect that the
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Trust will not be classified as other than a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes on account of such action.
(c) If any proposed amendment to this Trust Agreement provides for, or
the Administrative Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that
would adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of the
Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to this Trust Agreement or
otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust,
other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of
Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such
amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective
except with the approval of the Holders of more than 50% in Liquidation Amount
of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. In addition to obtaining the foregoing
approvals of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the
foregoing actions, the Trustees shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain
an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that the Trust
will not be classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal
income tax purposes on account of such action.
Section 6.02 Notice of Meetings. Notice of all meetings of the
Preferred Securityholders, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting,
shall be given by the Administrative Trustees pursuant to Section 10.08 to each
Preferred Securityholder of record, at his registered address, at least 15 days
and not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business
properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the
notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without
further notice.
Section 6.03 Meetings of Preferred Securityholders. No annual meeting
of Securityholders is required to be held. The Administrative Trustees, however,
shall call a meeting of Securityholders to vote on any matter upon the written
request of the Preferred Securityholders of record of 25% of the Preferred
Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount) and the Administrative Trustees
or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of
Preferred Securityholders to vote on any matters as to which Preferred
Securityholders are entitled to vote. Preferred Securityholders of record of 50%
of the Preferred Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount), present in
person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Securityholders.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Preferred
Securityholders of record present, in person or by proxy, holding more than 50%
of the Preferred Securities (based upon their Liquidation Amount) held by the
Preferred Securityholders of record present, either in person or by proxy, at
such meeting shall constitute the action of the Securityholders, unless this
Trust Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.
Section 6.04 Voting Rights. Securityholders shall be entitled to one
vote for each $25 of Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities in
respect of any matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
Section 6.05 Proxies, ▇▇▇.▇▇ any meeting of Securityholders, any
Securityholder entitled to vote may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall
be voted at any meeting
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unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or
with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the Administrative Trustees may
direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken.
Only Securityholders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities
are held jointly by several Persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in
person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of
them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint
owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote
shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to
be executed by or on behalf of a Securityholder shall be deemed valid unless
challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity
shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years
after its date of execution.
Section 6.06 Securityholder Action by Written Consent. Any action which
may be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if
Securityholders holding more than 50% of all outstanding Trust Securities
entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such other proportion thereof as
shall be required by any express provision of this Trust Agreement) shall
consent to the action in writing (based upon their Liquidation Amount).
Section 6.07 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes. For the
purposes of determining the Securityholders who are entitled to notice of and to
vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any Distribution
on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise
provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other action,
the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90
days prior to the date of any meeting of Securityholders or the payment of
Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the
determination of the identity of the Securityholders of record for such
purposes.
Section 6.08 Acts of Securityholders. Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or
permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken by Securityholders
may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Securityholders in person or by an agent appointed
in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action
shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Administrative Trustees. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of
the Securityholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section 8.01)
conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this
Section.
The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a
certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by
a signer acting in a capacity other than his
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individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other manner which the Administrative Trustees deem
sufficient.
The ownership of Preferred Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind every future
Securityholder of the same Trust Security and the Securityholder of every Trust
Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to
be done by the Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled hereunder to
take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so
with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security
or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.
Section 6.09 Inspection of Records. Upon reasonable notice to the
Administrative Trustees, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection by
Securityholders during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related
to such Securityholder's interest as a Securityholder.
ARTICLE VII
Representations and Warranties of the Trustees
Section 7.01 Representations and Warranties of the Trustees.
(a) The Bank hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(i) the Bank is a banking corporation or trust company duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
State of New York;
(ii) the Bank has full corporate power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(iii) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Bank and constitutes the valid and legally binding
agreement of the Bank, enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and
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similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors' rights and to general equity principles;
(iv) the execution, delivery and performance by the Bank of
this Trust Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of the Bank and do not require any
approval of stockholders of the Bank and such execution, delivery and
performance will not (i) violate the Bank's Charter or By-laws, or (ii)
violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States
or the State of New York governing the banking or trust powers of the
Bank or any order, judgment or decree applicable to the Bank; and
(v) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the
Bank of this Trust Agreement, nor the consummation of any of the
transactions by the Bank contemplated herein or therein, nor the
issuance of the Trust Securities Certificates pursuant to this Trust
Agreement require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to,
the registration with or the taking of any other action with respect to
any governmental authority or agency under any existing federal or New
York law governing the banking or trust powers of the Bank.
(b) The Delaware Trustee hereby represents and warrants for the benefit
of the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(i) the Delaware Trustee is a banking corporation or trust
company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the State of Delaware;
(ii) the Delaware Bank has full corporate power, authority and
legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this
Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the
execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(iii) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Delaware Bank and constitutes the valid and
legally binding agreement of the Delaware Bank, enforceable against it
in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to
general equity principles;
(iv) the execution, delivery and performance by the Delaware
Bank of this Trust Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of the Delaware Bank and the Delaware
Trustee and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Delaware
Bank and such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate
the Delaware Bank's Charter or By-laws, or (ii) violate any law,
governmental rule or regulation of the United States or the State of
Delaware governing the banking or trust powers of the Delaware Bank and
the Delaware Trustee, or any order, judgment or decree applicable to
the Delaware Bank or the Delaware Trustee; and
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(v) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the
Delaware Bank of this Trust Agreement, nor the consummation of any of
the transactions by the Delaware Bank or the Delaware Trustee
contemplated herein or therein, nor the issuance of the Trust
Securities Certificates pursuant to this Trust Agreement require the
consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with
or the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental
authority or agency under any existing federal or Delaware law
governing the banking or trust powers of the Delaware Bank, other than
the filing of the Certificate of Trust with the Delaware Secretary of
State.
ARTICLE VIII
The Trustees
Section 8.01 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The rights, duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, the
Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust
Agreement shall require the Trustees to expend or risk their own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of their
duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their rights or powers, if they
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
them. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
(b) The Trustees, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and
after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred,
shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in
this Trust Agreement, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Trust
Agreement against the Trustees. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that
has not been cured or waived), the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in them by this
Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise
thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in
the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(c) All payments made by the Property Trustee in respect of the Trust
Securities shall be made only from the income and proceeds from the Trust
Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient income or
proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee to make payments
in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Securityholder, by its acceptance of a
Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the income and proceeds from
the Trust Property to the extent available for distribution to it as herein
provided and that the Trustees are not personally liable to it for any amount
distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in
respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.01(c) does not limit the liability
of the Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the
case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.
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Section 8.02 Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the occurrence of
any default, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the
extent provided in Section 10.08, notice of any default known to the Property
Trustee to the Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived. For the purpose of this
Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
Section 8.03 Certain Rights of Property Trustee. Subject to the
provisions of Section 8.01 and except as provided by law:
(i) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution,
Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a
Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, appraisal, bond or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(ii) if (A) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative
courses of action, or (B) in construing any of the provisions
in this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee finds the same
ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained
herein, or (C) the Property Trustee is unsure of the
application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then,
except as to any matter as to which the Preferred
Securityholders are entitled to vote under the terms of this
Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice
to the Depositor requesting written instructions of the
Depositor as to the course of action to be taken. The Property
Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking such
action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing
to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Depositor;
provided, however, that if the Property Trustee does not
receive such instructions of the Depositor within ten Business
Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably
shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the
extent practicable shall not be less than two Business Days),
it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from
taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust Agreement
as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the
Securityholders, in which event the Property Trustee shall
have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or
willful misconduct;
(iii) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection
and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any
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action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good
faith and in reliance thereon;
(iv) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust
Agreement at the request or direction of any of the
Securityholders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such
Securityholders shall have offered to the Property Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses
and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance
with such request or direction;
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or
other document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or
more Securityholders;
(vi) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or
by or through its agents or attorneys, provided that the
Property Trustee shall be responsible for its own negligence
or recklessness with respect to selection of any agent or
attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(vii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the
Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(viii) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the custody,
safe keeping and physical preservation of the Trust Securities
Certificates shall be to deal with such property in a similar
manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property for
its own account, subject to the protections and limitations
afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
(ix) the Property Trustee shall have no duty or liability for or
with respect to the value, genuineness, existence or
sufficiency of the Trust Securities Certificates or the
payment of any taxes or assessments levied thereon or in
connection therewith; and
(x) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring
the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor
with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor
shall the Property Trustee be liable for any default or
misconduct of the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor.
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Section 8.04 Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall not be
entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the
duties and responsibilities of the Trustees described in this Trust Agreement
(except as required under the Delaware Business Trust Act). The Delaware Trustee
shall be a Trustee for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the
requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act. In the event
the Delaware Trustee shall at any time be required to take any action or perform
any duty hereunder with respect to the Trust, the Delaware Trustee shall be
entitled to the benefits of Section 8.03.
Section 8.05 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be
taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Trustees do not assume any
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees shall not be accountable for
the use or application by the Trust of the proceeds of the Trust Securities in
accordance with Section 2.05.
The Property Trustee may conclusively assume that any funds held by it
hereunder are legally available unless an officer of the Property Trustee shall
have received written notice from the Company, any Holder or any other Trustee
that such funds are not legally available.
Section 8.06 May Hold Securities. Except as provided in the definition
of the term "Outstanding" in Article I, any Trustee or any other agent of the
Trustees or the Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and may otherwise deal with the Trust with
the same rights it would have if it were not a Trustee or such other agent.
Section 8.07 Compensation; Fees; Indemnity. The Depositor agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustees from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by the Trustees hereunder (which compensation shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust
Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and
disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to their willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustees for, and to hold the Trustees harmless
against, any and all loss, damage, claims, liability or expense incurred without
willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this Trust Agreement,
including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim or
liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers
or duties hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 8.07 shall survive the resignation or
removal of any Trustee and the termination of this Trust Agreement.
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Section 8.08 Trustees Required; Eligibility.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that has
a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of
this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to
be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such
entity.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who
is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a
legal entity authorized to conduct a trust business and with its principal place
of business in the State of Delaware that shall act through one or more persons
authorized to bind such entity.
Section 8.09 Conflicting Interests. If the Property Trustee has or
shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture
Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the
extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the
Trust Indenture Act and this Trust Agreement.
Section 8.10 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee. At any time or times,
for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or
of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be
located, the Holder of the Common Securities and the Property Trustee shall have
power to appoint, and upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the
Depositor shall for such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the
execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary
or proper to appoint, one or more Persons approved by the Property Trustee
either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any
part of such Trust Property, or to act as separate trustee of any such Trust
Property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument
of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid,
any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to
the other provisions of this Section. If the Depositor does not join in such
appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, or in
case an Indenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property
Trustee alone shall have power to make such appointment. Any co-trustee or
separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section shall satisfy the
requirements of Section 8.07.
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Should any written instrument from the Depositor be reasonably required
by any co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to
such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any
and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged, and
delivered by the Depositor.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms,
namely:
(i) The Trust Securities shall be executed, authenticated and
delivered and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereunder in
respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property
held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Trustees
hereunder, shall be exercised, solely by the Trustees.
(ii) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby
conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any
property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon
and exercised or performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property
Trustee and such co-trustee or separate trustee jointly, as shall be
provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee or separate
trustee, except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in
which any particular act is to be performed, the Property Trustee shall
be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event such
rights, powers, duties, and obligations shall be exercised and
performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(iii) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in
writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor,
may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate
trustee appointed under this Section, and, in case an Indenture Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall
have power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee
or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the
written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall join with
the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery, and performance of all
instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such
resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate
trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided
in this Section.
(iv) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property
Trustee, or any other such trustee hereunder.
(v) The Trustees shall not be liable by reason of any act of a
co-trustee or separate trustee.
(vi) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee
shall be deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and
separate trustee.
Section 8.11 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. No
resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee") and no
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successor Relevant Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until
the acceptance of appointment by the successor Relevant Trustee in accordance
with the applicable requirements of Section 8.12.
The Relevant Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Securityholders. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor
Relevant Trustee required by Section 8.12 shall not have been delivered to the
Relevant Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation,
the resigning Relevant Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
Unless an Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Relevant Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holder
of the Common Securities. If an Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Relevant Trustee may be removed at such time by Act of
the Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities Certificates, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual
capacity and on behalf of the Trust).
If the Relevant Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
continuing to act as Trustee at a time when no Indenture Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, the Holder of the Common Securities, by Act of
the Holder of the Common Securities delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee,
shall promptly appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees, and the
retiring Relevant Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Section 8.12. If the Relevant Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of continuing to act as the Relevant Trustee at a time when an
Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders of
Preferred Securities, by Act of the Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities then outstanding delivered to the retiring
Relevant Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or
Trustees, and the Relevant Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements
of Section 8.12. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been so appointed
in accordance with this Section 8.11 and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 8.12, any Securityholder who has been a Securityholder of
Trust Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
The retiring Relevant Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of the Relevant Trustee, and each appointment of a successor
Trustee to all Securityholders in the manner provided in Section 10.08 and shall
give notice to the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it
is the Property Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is
a natural person dies or becomes incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy
created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by (i) the act
of the remaining Administrative Trustee or (ii) otherwise by the Depositor (with
the successor in each case being an
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individual who satisfies the eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees
set forth in Section 8.07). Additionally, notwithstanding the foregoing or any
other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event the Depositor believes
that any Administrative Trustee has become incompetent or incapacitated, the
Depositor, by notice to the remaining Trustees, may terminate the status of such
Person as an Administrative Trustee (in which case the vacancy so created will
be filled in accordance with the preceding sentence).
Section 8.12 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. In case of the
appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, every such successor
Relevant Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Trust and to the retiring Relevant Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Relevant Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee; but, on the request
of the Depositor or the successor Relevant Trustee, such retiring Relevant
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Relevant Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and
deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all property and money held by such
retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Relevant
Trustee, the Trust shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and
certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such
rights, powers and trusts referred to in the preceding section. No successor
Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
Section 8.13 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business. Any Person into which the Property Trustee, Delaware Trustee or any
Administrative Trustee which is not a natural person may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or
any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant Trustee
hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under
this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of any of the parties hereto.
Section 8.14 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or
Trust. If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Depositor or the Trust (or any other obligor upon the Junior Subordinated Notes
or the Trust Securities), the Property Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Depositor or Trust (or any such other obligor). For purposes of Section
311(b)(4) and (6) of the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) "cash transaction" means any transaction in which full payment for
goods or securities sold is made within seven days after delivery of the goods
or securities in currency or in checks or other orders drawn upon banks or
bankers and payable upon demand; and
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(b) "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, ▇▇▇▇ of exchange,
acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or incurred by the
Depositor or the Trust (or any such obligor) for the purpose of financing the
purchase, processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares
or merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to, possession
of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the receivables or
proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or merchandise previously
constituting the security, provided the security is received by the Property
Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the creditor relationship with the
Depositor or the Trust (or any such obligor) arising from the making, drawing,
negotiating or incurring of the draft, ▇▇▇▇ of exchange, acceptance or
obligation.
Section 8.15 Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with May 15,
20__, if required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property
Trustee shall transmit a brief report dated as of such May 15 with respect to
any of the events specified in such Section 313(a) that may have occurred since
the later of the date of this Trust Agreement or the preceding May 15.
(b) The Property Trustee shall transmit to Securityholders the reports
required by Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act at the times specified
therein.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in the manner
and to the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and (d) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
Section 8.16 Reports to the Property Trustee. The Depositor and the
Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide to the Property
Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of
the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and, within 120 days after the end of each
fiscal year of the Depositor, the compliance certificate required by Section
314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form and in the manner required by
Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 8.17 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. Each of
the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall
provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that relate to any of
the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any
certificate or opinion required to be given pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the
Trust Indenture Act shall comply with Section 314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 8.18 Number of Trustees.
(a) The number of Trustees shall initially be four, provided that the
Depositor by written instrument may increase or decrease the number of
Administrative Trustees.
(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the number of
Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 8.18(a), or if the
number of
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Trustees is increased pursuant to Section 8.18(a), a vacancy shall occur. The
vacancy shall be filled with a Trustee appointed in accordance with Section
8.11.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy,
incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not operate
to annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees
shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the appointment of an
Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 8.11, the Administrative
Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and notwithstanding any other
provision of this Trust Agreement), shall have all powers granted to the
Administrative Trustees and shall discharge the duties imposed upon the
Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
Section 8.19 Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent
with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 his
or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section
2.07(A), including any registration statement or amendment thereto filed with
the Commission, or making any other governmental filing; and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time
to time to such of their number the doing of such things and the execution of
such instruments either in the name of the Trust or the names of the
Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative Trustees may deem
expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or
contrary to the provisions of the Trust, as set forth herein.
Section 8.20 Enforcement of Rights of Property Trustee by
Securityholders. If (i) the Trust fails to pay Distributions in full on the
Preferred Securities for more than 20 consecutive quarterly distribution
periods, or (ii) an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then the Holders
of Preferred Securities will rely on the enforcement by the Property Trustee of
its rights against the Company as the holder of the Junior Subordinated Notes.
In addition, the Holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the time, method, and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee or
to direct the exercise of any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee
under this Trust Agreement, including the right to direct the Property Trustee
to exercise the remedies available to it as a holder of the Junior Subordinated
Notes, provided that such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Trust Agreement, and could not involve the Property Trustee in
personal liability in circumstances where reasonable indemnity would not be
adequate. If the Property Trustee fails to enforce its rights under the Junior
Subordinated Notes, a Holder of Preferred Securities may, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, institute a legal proceeding against the Company to
enforce the Property Trustee's rights under this Trust Agreement without first
instituting any legal proceeding against the Property Trustee or any other
Person, including the Trust; it being understood and intended that no one or
more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue of,
or by availing of, any
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provision of this Trust Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other of such Holders or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Trust Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and
ratable benefit of all such Holders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Holder of
Preferred Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against the
Company, without first instituting a legal proceeding against or requesting or
directing that action be taken by the Property Trustee or any other Person, for
enforcement of payment to such Holder of principal of or interest on the Junior
Subordinated Notes having a principal amount equal to the aggregate stated
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder on or after the
due dates therefor specified or provided for in the Junior Subordinated Notes.
The Company shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders of Preferred
Securities in respect of any amounts paid to such Holders by the Company
pursuant to this Section.
ARTICLE IX
Termination and Liquidation
Section 9.01 Termination Upon Expiration Date. The Trust shall
automatically terminate on December 31, 200__ (the "Expiration Date") or earlier
pursuant to Section 9.02.
Section 9.02 Early Termination. Upon the first to occur of any of the
following events (such first occurrence, an "Early Termination Event"), the
Trust shall be dissolved and terminated in accordance with the terms hereof:
(i) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of the
Depositor, dissolution or liquidation of the Depositor, or the
dissolution of the Trust pursuant to judicial decree;
(ii) the delivery of written direction to the Property Trustee
by the Depositor at any time (which direction is optional and wholly
within the discretion of the Depositor) to terminate the Trust and
distribute the Junior Subordinated Notes to Securityholders as provided
in Section 9.04; and
(iii) the payment at maturity or redemption of all of the
Junior Subordinated Notes, and the consequent payment of the Preferred
Securities.
Section 9.03 Termination. The respective obligations and
responsibilities of the Trust and the Trustees created hereby shall terminate
upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property
Trustee to Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section
9.04, or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section
4.02, of all amounts or instruments required to be distributed hereunder upon
the final payment of the Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed
by the Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the
Administrative Trustees, including the performance of any tax reporting
obligations with respect to the Trust or the Securityholders.
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Section 9.04 Liquidation.
(a) If any Early Termination Event specified in clause (ii) of Section
9.02 occurs, the Trust shall be liquidated and the Property Trustee shall
distribute the Junior Subordinated Notes to the Securityholders as provided in
this Section 9.04.
(b) In connection with a distribution of the Junior Subordinated Notes,
each Holder of Trust Securities shall be entitled to receive, after the
satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust (as evidenced by a
certificate of the Administrative Trustees), a Like Amount of Junior
Subordinated Notes. Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Trustees by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than 30 nor more than 60
days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at such
Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of
liquidation shall:
(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust
Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Junior Subordinated Notes; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics
by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates for Junior
Subordinated Notes as the Administrative Trustees or the Property
Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(c) In order to effect the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of
the Junior Subordinated Notes to Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees
shall establish a record date for such distribution (which shall be not more
than 45 days prior to the Liquidation Date) and, either with the Property
Trustee or acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate
exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as they shall deem appropriate
to effect the distribution of Junior Subordinated Notes in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(d) After the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer
be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of
Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued to Holders of Trust Securities
Certificates, upon surrender of such certificates to the Administrative Trustees
or their agent for exchange, (iii) any Trust Securities Certificates not so
surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Junior
Subordinated Notes, accruing interest at the rate provided for in the Junior
Subordinated Notes from the last Distribution Date on which a Distribution was
made on such Trust Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and
until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal
will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such
Junior Subordinated Notes) and (iv) all rights of Securityholders holding Trust
Securities will cease, except the right of such Securityholders to receive
Junior Subordinated Notes upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.
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(e) The Depositor will use its best efforts to have the Junior
Subordinated Notes that are distributed in exchange for the Preferred Securities
to be listed on such securities exchange as the Preferred Securities are then
listed. The Depositor may elect to have the Junior Subordinated Notes issued in
book-entry form to the Clearing Agency or its nominee.
Section 9.05 Bankruptcy. If an Early Termination Event specified in
clause (i) of Section 9.02 has occurred, the Trust shall be liquidated. The
Property Trustee shall distribute the Junior Subordinated Notes to the
Securityholders as provided in Section 9.04, unless such distribution is
determined by the Administrative Trustees not to be practical, in which event
the Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust available
for distribution to Securityholders, after satisfaction of liabilities to
creditors, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus
accrued and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount
being the "Liquidation Distribution"). If such Liquidation Distribution can be
paid only in part because the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in
full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next
succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities
shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder
of the Common Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions
upon any such dissolution, winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as
aforesaid) with Holders of Preferred Securities, except that, if an Indenture
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securities shall
have a priority over the Common Securities.
ARTICLE X
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 10.01 Guarantee by the Depositor. Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, the Depositor irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to
each Person to whom the Trust is now or hereafter becomes indebted or liable
(the "Beneficiaries") the full payment, when and as due, of any and all
Obligations (as hereinafter defined) to such Beneficiaries. As used herein,
"Obligations" means any indebtedness, expenses or liabilities of the Trust,
other than obligations of the Trust to pay to Holders of any Preferred
Securities or other similar interests in the Trust the amounts due such Holders
pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities or such other similar
interests, as the case may be. This guarantee is intended to be for the benefit
of, and to be enforceable by, all such Beneficiaries, whether or not such
Beneficiaries have received notice hereof.
Section 10.02 Limitation of Rights of Securityholders. The death or
incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in a Trust
Security shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor entitle the
legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any Securityholder for such
Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in and
for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor
otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto
or any of them.
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Section 10.03 Amendment.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the
Trustees and the Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) to
cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions
with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which
shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, or
(ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to
such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust will not be
classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes at any time that any Trust Securities are outstanding; provided,
however, that, except in the case of clause (ii), such action shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Securityholder
and, in the case of clause (i), any amendments of this Trust Agreement shall
become effective when notice thereof is given to the Securityholders.
(b) Except as provided in Section 10.03(c) hereof, any provision in
this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trust or the Trustees with (i) the
consent of Securityholders representing more than 50% (based upon Liquidation
Amounts) of the Trust Securities then Outstanding and (ii) receipt by the
Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment or the
exercise of any power granted to the Trustees in accordance with such amendment
will not affect the Trust's status as a grantor trust for United States federal
income tax purposes or the Trust's exemption from status of an "investment
company" under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this
Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder (such
consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.03 or 6.06 hereof), this
Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of
any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a
specified date, (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date, or (iii) change
the consent required pursuant to Section 10.03.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, the
Trustees shall not enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust
Agreement which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status of an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended.
(e) Without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not
be amended in a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor.
In executing any amendment permitted by this Trust Agreement, the Trustees shall
be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 8.01) shall be fully protected
in relying upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
amendment is authorized or permitted by this Trust Agreement and that all
conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such amendment have been
satisfied. Any Trustee may, but shall not be
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obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects such Trustee's own
rights, duties, immunities or liabilities under this Trust Agreement or
otherwise.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made,
the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of
such amendment.
Section 10.04 Separability. In case any provision in this Trust
Agreement or in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 10.05 Governing Law. THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND
OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE SECURITYHOLDERS, THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEES WITH
RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE;
PROVIDED THAT THE IMMUNITIES AND STANDARD OF CARE OF THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY NEW YORK LAW.
Section 10.06 Successors. This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon
and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to both the Trust and the
Trustees, including any successor by operation of law.
Section 10.07 Headings. The Article and Section headings are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
Section 10.08 Notice and Demand. Any notice, demand or other
communication which by any provision of this Trust Agreement is required or
permitted to be given or served to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor
may be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage
prepaid, in the United States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in
each case, addressed, (i) in the case of a Preferred Securityholder, to such
Preferred Securityholder as such Securityholder's name and address appear on the
Securities Register and (ii) in the case of the Common Securityholder or the
Depositor, to The MONY Group Inc., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇,
Attention: Corporate Secretary, with a copy to ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. Such
notice, demand or other communication to or upon a Securityholder shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand
delivery, mailing or transmission.
Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of
this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon
the Trust or the Trustees shall be given in writing addressed (until another
address is published by the Trust) as follows: (i) with respect to the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, at the address for such Trustee set forth in
Section 2.02; and (ii) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at
the address above for notices to the Depositor,
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marked Attention: Administrative Trustees of MONY Capital Trust II c/o Corporate
Secretary with a copy to ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Facsimile No. (212)
259-6333. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Trust or the
Trustees shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon
actual receipt of the writing by the applicable Trustee.
Section 10.09 Agreement Not to Petition. Each of the Trustees and the
Depositor agrees for the benefit of the Securityholders that, until at least one
year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance with Article
IX, it shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Trust
under any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, liquidation or
other similar law (including, without limitation, the United States Bankruptcy
Code) (collectively, "Bankruptcy Laws") or otherwise join in the commencement of
any proceeding against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event the
Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 10.09, the Property Trustee
agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders, that it shall file an answer with
the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition
by the Depositor against the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise
the defense that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and
should be stopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as
counsel for the Trustees or the Trust may assert. The provisions of this Section
10.09 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.
Section 10.10 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Trustee Agreement and shall,
to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee which is a Trustee
for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Trust Agreement by any
of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.
(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement
shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity securities
representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON
BEHALF OF A SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR
FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE
BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST
SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND AGREEMENT
TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND THE
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SUBORDINATED INDENTURE AND THE AGREEMENT OF THE TRUST, SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND
SUCH OTHERS THAT THOSE TERMS AND PROVISIONS SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND
EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Trust
Agreement or have caused this Trust Agreement to be executed on their behalf,
all as of the day and year first above written.
THE MONY GROUP INC.,
as Depositor
By: ___________________________________________
Name:
Title:
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Property Trustee
By: ___________________________________________
Name:
Title:
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK DELAWARE,
as Delaware Trustee
By: ___________________________________________
Name:
Title:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
as Administrative Trustee
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
as Administrative Trustee
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EXHIBIT A
[INTENTIONALLY RESERVED]
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EXHIBIT B
[INTENTIONALLY RESERVED]
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EXHIBIT C
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE
Certificate Number Number of Common Securities
C-1 ________
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities
of
MONY Capital Trust II
Common Securities
(liquidation amount $25 per Common Security)
MONY Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust created under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that The MONY
Group Inc. (the "Holder") is the registered owner of _____________ (_______)
common securities of the Trust representing undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Trust and designated the Common Securities (liquidation amount
$25 per Common Security) (the "Common Securities"). In accordance with Section
5.10 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below) the Common Securities are not
transferable, except by operation of law, and any attempted transfer hereof
shall be void. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences
and other terms and provisions of the Common Securities are set forth in, and
this certificate and the Common Securities represented hereby are issued and
shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of ______, _____, as the same may
be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement"), including the designation
of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The Trust will
furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written
request to the Trust at its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Administrative Trustees of the Trust have
executed this certificate this ____ day of _____, ____.
MONY Capital Trust II
By:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
as Administrative Trustee and not in his
individual capacity
By:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
as Administrative Trustee and not in his
individual capacity
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Common Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
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as Property Trustee
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EXHIBIT D
AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES
THIS AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES (this "Agreement") is
made as of _______, ____, between The MONY Group Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), and MONY Capital Trust II, a Delaware business trust (the
"Trust").
WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue its Common Securities (the "Common
Securities") to and receive Junior Subordinated Notes from the Company and to
issue and sell MONY Capital Trust II ___% Trust Preferred Securities (the
"Preferred Securities") with such powers, preferences and special rights and
restrictions as are set forth in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust dated as of ________, ____ as the same may be amended from time to time
(the "Trust Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the Company is the issuer of the Junior Subordinated Notes.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each holder of the
Preferred Securities, which purchase the Company hereby agrees shall benefit the
Company and which purchase the Company acknowledges will be made in reliance
upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company and the Trust
hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Section 1.01. Guarantee by the Company. Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, the Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees
to each person or entity to whom the Trust is now or hereafter becomes indebted
or liable (the "Beneficiaries") the full payment, when and as due, of any and
all Obligations (as hereinafter defined) to such Beneficiaries. As used herein,
"Obligations" means any indebtedness, expenses or liabilities of the Trust,
other than obligations of the Trust to pay to holders of any Preferred
Securities or other similar interests in the Trust the amounts due such holders
pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities or such other similar
interests, as the case may be. This Agreement is intended to be for the benefit
of, and to be enforceable by, all such Beneficiaries, whether or not such
Beneficiaries have received notice hereof.
Section 1.02. Term of Agreement. This Agreement shall terminate and be
of no further force and effect upon the date on which there are no Beneficiaries
remaining; provided, however, that this Agreement shall continue to be effective
or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any holder of
Preferred Securities or any Beneficiary must restore payment of any sums paid
under the Preferred Securities, under any Obligation, under the Guarantee
Agreement dated the date hereof by the Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
guarantee trustee, or under this Agreement for any
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reason whatsoever. This Agreement is continuing, irrevocable, unconditional and
absolute.
Section 1.03. Waiver of Notice. The Company hereby waives notice of
acceptance of this Agreement and of any Obligation to which it applies or may
apply, and the Company hereby waives presentment, demand for payment, protest,
notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other
notices and demands.
Section 1.04. No Impairment. The obligations, covenants, agreements and
duties of the Company under this Agreement shall in no way be affected or
impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following:
(a) the extension of time for the payment by the Trust of all
or any portion of the Obligations or for the performance of any other
obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the
Obligations;
(b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the
part of the Beneficiaries to enforce, assert or exercise any right,
privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Beneficiaries with respect
to the Obligations or any action on the part of the Trust granting
indulgence or extension of any kind; or
(c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution,
sale of any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy,
assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement,
composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings
affecting, the Trust or any of the assets of the Trust. There shall be
no obligation of the Beneficiaries to give notice to, or obtain the
consent of, the Company with respect to the happening of any of the
foregoing.
Section 1.05. Enforcement. A Beneficiary may enforce this Agreement
directly against the Company and the Company waives any right or remedy to
require that any action be brought against the Trust or any other person or
entity before proceeding against the Company.
ARTICLE II
Section 2.01. Binding Effect. All guarantees and agreements contained
in this Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and
representatives of the Company and shall inure to the benefit of the
Beneficiaries.
Section 2.02. Amendment. So long as there remains any Beneficiary or
any Preferred Securities of any series are outstanding, this Agreement shall not
be modified or amended in any manner materially adverse to such Beneficiary or
to the holders of the Preferred Securities.
Section 2.03. Notices. Any notice, request or other communication
required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be given in writing by
delivering the same against receipt therefor by facsimile transmission
(confirmed by mail) or by registered or
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certified mail, addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given
when mailed), to-wit:
MONY Capital Trust II
▇/▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
[ ]
[ ]
Facsimile No.: (_____) _______
Attention: Corporate Trustee
Administration Department
The MONY Group Inc.
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Facsimile No.: (212) _______
Attention: Corporate Secretary
with a copy to:
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Facsimile No.: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Section 2.04. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND
INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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THIS AGREEMENT is executed as of the date and year first above written.
THE MONY GROUP INC.
By:
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MONY CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇,
as Administrative Trustee and not in
his individual capacity
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EXHIBIT E
Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to MONY Capital
Trust II or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and
any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other
name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is
made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), any transfer, pledge, or other use hereof for value or
otherwise by or to any person is wrongful inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
Certificate Number Number of Preferred Securities
_______________
P-1 CUSIP NO. _______
Certificate Evidencing Preferred Securities
of
MONY Capital Trust II
______% Trust Preferred Securities
(Liquidation amount $25 per Preferred Security)
MONY Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust created under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that Cede & Co.
(the "Holder") is the registered owner of _____ MILLION (_______) preferred
securities of the Trust representing undivided beneficial interests in the
assets of the Trust and designated the MONY Capital Trust II ____% Trust
Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Preferred Security) (the
"Preferred Securities"). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books
and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon
surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as
provided in Section 5.04 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The
designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and
provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate
and the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all
respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of ______, ____, as the same may be
amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement"), including the designation of
the terms of Preferred Securities as set forth therein. The holder of this
certificate is entitled to the benefits of a guarantee by The MONY Group Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), pursuant to a Guarantee Agreement between
the Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as guarantee trustee, dated as of
_______, ____, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Guarantee"),
to the extent provided therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust
Agreement and the Guarantee to the
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holder of this certificate without charge upon written request to the Trust at
its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the holder of this certificate is
bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Administrative Trustees of the Trust have
executed this certificate this ____ day of ______, ____.
MONY CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
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as Administrative Trustee and not in
his individual capacity
By:
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as Administrative Trustee and not in
his individual capacity
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
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as Property Trustee
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred
Security to:
(Insert assignee's social security or tax identification number)
(Insert address and zip code of assignee)
and irrevocably appoints
agent to transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the
Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date:
Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred
Securities Certificate)