Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor (a) On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain, beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. Neither the Depositor nor any successor Holder of the Common Securities may transfer less than all the Common Securities, and the Depositor or any such successor Holder may transfer the Common Securities only (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person (in which event such Common Securities will be transferred to such surviving entity, transferee or lessee, as the case may be), pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Indenture or (ii) to the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor, in each such case in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act, and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a legend stating substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT.”
Ownership of Trust Property Legal title to all of the Trust Property shall at all times be considered to be vested in the Trust, except that the Board of Trustees shall have the power to cause legal title to any Trust Property to be held by or in the name of any Person as nominee, on such terms as the Board of Trustees may determine, in accordance with applicable law.
Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates At the Time of Delivery, the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, executed by one authorized officer thereof, without further corporate action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations.
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.
Voting of Trust Shares With respect to any matter put to vote by the holders of Trust shares ("Voting Shares"), the Company will provide "pass-through" voting privileges to owners of Contracts registered with the SEC as long as the 1940 Act requires such privileges in such cases. In cases in which "pass-through" privileges apply, the Company will (i) solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners of SEC-registered Contracts; (ii) vote Voting Shares attributable to Contract Owners in accordance with instructions or proxies timely received from such Contract Owners; and (iii) vote Voting Shares held by it that are not attributable to reserves for SEC-registered Contracts or for which it has not received timely voting instructions in the same proportion as instructions received in a timely fashion from Owners of SEC-registered Contracts. The Company shall be responsible for ensuring that it calculates "pass-through" votes for the Account in a manner consistent with the provisions set forth above and with other Participating Insurance Companies. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates will in any way recommend action in connection with, or oppose or interfere with, the solicitation of proxies for the Trust shares held for such Contract Owners, except with respect to matters as to which the Company has the right under Rule 6e-2 or 6e-3(T) under the 1940 Act, to vote Voting Shares without regard to voting instructions from Contract Owners.
The Trust Agreement The Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES Section 5.1. Initial Ownership...............................................21 Section 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates; Execution and Delivery Thereof................................................21 Section 5.3. Form of Trust Securities Certificates...........................22 Section 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Capital Securities Certificates.........................................23 Section 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates....................................................24 Section 5.6. Persons Deemed Securityholders..................................24 Section 5.7. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses..........24 Section 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency for Transfers...................24 Section 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent.....................................25 Section 5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.....................25 Section 5.11. Book-Entry Interests............................................25 Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency......................................28 Section 5.13. Procedures for Issuance of Definitive Capital Securities Certificates....................................................28 Section 5.14. Rights of Securityholders.......................................29
Repayment of Trust Certificates In the event of an optional purchase pursuant to Section 8.01(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trust Certificates will be prepaid in whole, but not in part, at an aggregate prepayment price equal to the aggregate Certificate Balance of all the Trust Certificates plus accrued interest thereon at the Certificate Rate. ARTICLE FOUR ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
Voting Trust Certificates The Trustee shall issue to each of the Shareholders a Voting Trust Certificate for the number of shares represented by the certificates of Common Stock by such Shareholder transferred to the Trustee. Each such Voting Trust Certificate shall state that it is issued under the Agreement, and shall set forth the nature and proportional amount of the beneficial interest thereunder of the person to whom it is issued, and shall be assignable, subject to the provisions of the Shareholders' Agreement, in the manner of certificates of stock on books to be kept by the Trustee. The Trustee shall keep a list of the shares of the Trust transferred to them, and shall also keep a record of all Voting Trust Certificates issued or transferred on its books, which records shall contain the names of the Voting Trust Certificate holders and the number of shares of Common Stock represented by each such certificate. Such list and record shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection upon the books of the Trustee by any Voting Trust Certificate holder. The Voting Trust Certificate shall be substantially in the following form: VOTING TRUST CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the undersigned Trustee has received a certificate or certificates issued in the name of _______________________, evidencing the ownership of _______ shares of Class A Common Stock of Eagle-Picher Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and that such shares are held subject to all the terms and conditions of the Voting Trust Agreement, dated as of November 16, 1998, by and between Granaria Industries B.V., as Trustee, and certain shareholders of the Company. During the term of the voting trust, the Trustee, or its successors, shall, as provided in said agreement, possess and be entitled to exercise the voting power and otherwise represent all of the said shares for all purposes, being agreed that no voting right shall pass to the holder hereof by virtue of the ownership of this certificate. Upon the termination of said voting trust, this certificate shall be surrendered to the Trustee by the holder hereof upon delivery to such holder of a stock certificate representing a like number of shares. The undersigned Trustee has executed this certificate as of the ___ day of __________________, ____. GRANARIA HOLDINGS, B.V., Trustee By: ________________________________
Beneficial Ownership of Shares; Certificate Registration The Participant hereby authorizes the Company, in its sole discretion, to deposit for the benefit of the Participant with any broker with which the Participant has an account relationship of which the Company has notice any or all shares acquired by the Participant pursuant to the exercise of the Option. Except as provided by the preceding sentence, a certificate for the shares as to which the Option is exercised shall be registered in the name of the Participant, or, if applicable, in the names of the heirs of the Participant.
