EXHIBIT 99.k.4
TRUST AGREEMENT
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This TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of [ Date ] (this "Trust Agreement"),
among (i) [ISSUER], a [ ] corporation (the "Depositor"), (ii) State
Street Bank and Trust Company, a state chartered trust company organized under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as trustee, and (iii)
[ Name ] and [ Name ], as
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trustees (each of such trustees in (ii) and (iii) a "Trustee" and collectively,
the ("Trustees"). The Depositor and the Trustees hereby agree as follows:
1. The trust created hereby (the "Trust") shall be known as "[ Issuer ]
Capital Statutory Trust" in which name the Trustees, or the Depositor to the
extent provided herein, may engage in the transactions contemplated hereby, make
and execute contracts, and xxx and be sued.
2. The Depositor hereby assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the
Trustees the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00). The Trustees hereby acknowledge
receipt of such amount in trust from the Depositor, which amount shall
constitute the initial trust estate. The Trustees hereby declare that they will
hold the trust estate in trust for the Depositor. It is the intention of the
parties hereto that the Trust created hereby constitute a statutory trust under
Chapter 615 of Title 34 of the Connecticut General Statutes, Section 500, et
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seq., (the "Connecticut Statutory Trust Act"), and that this document constitute
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the governing instrument of the Trust. The Trustees are hereby authorized and
directed to execute and file a certificate of trust with the Connecticut
Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of the Connecticut
Statutory Trust Act substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto.
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3. The Depositor and the Trustees will enter into an Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement, satisfactory to each such party, to provide for the
contemplated operation of the Trust created hereby and the issuance of the
Preferred Securities and Common Securities referred to therein. Prior to the
execution and delivery of such Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, the
Trustees shall not have any duty or obligation hereunder or with respect to the
trust estate, except as otherwise required by applicable law or as may be
necessary to obtain prior to such execution and delivery of any licenses,
consents or approvals required by applicable law or otherwise.
4. This Trust Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts.
5. The number of Trustees initially shall be three (3) and thereafter the
number of Trustees shall be such number as shall be fixed from time to time by a
written instrument signed by the Depositor which may increase or decrease the
number of Trustees. Subject to the foregoing, the Depositor is entitled to
appoint or remove without cause any Trustee at any time. The Trustees may
resign upon thirty (30) days' prior notice to the Depositor.
6. This Trust Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the State of Connecticut (without regard to conflict of laws
of principles).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to
be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
[ISSUER], as Depositor
By:__________________________________
Name: [______________]
Title: [______________]
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY, as Trustee
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title _______________________________
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Name: , as Trustee
_____________________________________
Name: , as Trustee
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[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMONG
[ISSUER] AS DEPOSITOR,
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE
AND
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
DATED AS OF [_______________], 1999
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Table of Contents
ARTICLE I...................................................................................................... 1
SECTION 1.1. Definitions................................................................................. 1
ARTICLE II..................................................................................................... 8
SECTION 2.1. Name........................................................................................ 8
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Property Trustee, Principal Place of Business................................. 8
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses............................. 8
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities........................................................ 9
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Debentures.................. 9
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust........................................................................ 9
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter Into Certain Transactions............................................ 10
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust............................................................................. 12
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property..................................................................... 12
ARTICLE III.................................................................................................... 13
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account............................................................................. 13
ARTICLE IV..................................................................................................... 13
SECTION 4.1. Distributions............................................................................... 13
SECTION 4.2. Redemption.................................................................................. 14
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.......................................................... 15
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures.......................................................................... 16
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports..................................................................... 16
SECTION 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust................................................. 16
SECTION 4.7. Payments Under Indenture; Subordination Under Indenture..................................... 17
ARTICLE V...................................................................................................... 17
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership........................................................................... 17
SECTION 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates........................................................... 17
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates; Authentication..................... 17
SECTION 5.4. Legends..................................................................................... 18
SECTION 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers and Exchanges;
Preferred Securities Certificates.......................................................... 18
SECTION 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.......................... 19
SECTION 5.7. Persons Deemed Securityholders.............................................................. 20
SECTION 5.8. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses...................................... 20
SECTION 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................................. 20
SECTION 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent................................................................ 20
SECTION 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor................................................ 21
SECTION 5.12. Rights of Securityholders; Acceleration and Enforcement of Debentures...................... 21
ARTICLE VI..................................................................................................... 22
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights................................................................ 22
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings.......................................................................... 23
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Preferred Securityholders....................................................... 23
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights............................................................................... 24
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, Etc................................................................................ 24
SECTION 6.6. Securityholder Action by Written Consent.................................................... 24
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes................................................... 24
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Securityholders..................................................................... 24
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records....................................................................... 26
ARTICLE VII.................................................................................................... 26
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Bank and the Property Trustee......................... 26
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor................................................. 27
ARTICLE VIII................................................................................................... 27
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities......................................................... 27
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices............................................................................. 28
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.......................................................... 29
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities...................................... 31
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities......................................................................... 31
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees............................................................... 31
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees................................ 32
SECTION 8.8. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee............................................................ 32
SECTION 8.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........................................... 33
SECTION 8.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor..................................................... 35
SECTION 8.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business................................ 35
SECTION 8.12. Number of Trustees......................................................................... 35
SECTION 8.13. Delegation of Power........................................................................ 36
SECTION 8.14. Voting..................................................................................... 36
ARTICLE IX..................................................................................................... 36
SECTION 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date............................................................ 36
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination........................................................................... 36
SECTION 9.3. Termination................................................................................. 37
SECTION 9.4. Liquidation; Distribution of Debentures..................................................... 37
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the Trust......................... 38
ARTICLE X...................................................................................................... 39
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders.................................................... 39
SECTION 10.2. Amendment.................................................................................. 39
SECTION 10.3. Separability............................................................................... 41
SECTION 10.4. Governing Law.............................................................................. 41
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SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day........................................................... 41
SECTION 10.6. Successors................................................................................. 41
SECTION 10.7. Headings................................................................................... 41
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands............................................................... 41
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.................................................................. 42
SECTION 10.10. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture............................ 42
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of [_________________],
1999, among (i) [Issuer], a [ ] corporation (including any
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successors or assigns, the "Depositor" or "Company"), (ii) STATE STREET BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY, a state chartered trust company duly organized and existing under
the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as property trustee (the
"Property Trustee" and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its
capacity as Property Trustee, the "Bank"), (iii) [ Name ], an
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individual, and [ Name ], an individual, each of whose address is c/o
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Company (each an "Administrative Trustee" and collectively the "Administrative
Trustees") (the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees referred to
collectively as the "Trustees"), and (iv) the several Holders (as hereinafter
defined).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees desire to duly declare and establish a statutory trust pursuant to the
Connecticut Statutory Trust Act to provide for, among other things, (i) the
issuance of the Common Securities (as defined herein) by the Trust (as defined
herein) to the Depositor; (ii) the issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities
(as defined herein) by the Trust pursuant to the Trust Preferred Purchase
Agreement (as defined herein); (iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the
Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in the Debentures (as defined
herein); and (iv) the appointment of the Trustees;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth
herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the
other parties and for the benefit of the Securityholders (as defined herein),
hereby agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article I and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) 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
(c) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
"Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given
Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of additional interest
accrued on interest in arrears and paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of
Debentures for such period.
"Additional Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
"Administrative Trustee" means each of [ Name ] and [ Name ]
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individually in his capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Trust formed and
continued hereunder and not in his individual capacity, or such Administrative
Trustee's successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee
appointed as herein provided.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) any Person
directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to vote 10% or
more of the outstanding voting securities or other ownership interests of the
specified Person, (b) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting
securities or other ownership interests are directly or indirectly owned,
controlled or held with the power to vote by the specified Person; (c) any
Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common
control with the specified Person; (d) a partnership in which the specified
Person is a general partner; (e) any officer or director of the specified
Person; and (f) if the specified Person is an individual, any entity of which
the specified Person is an officer, director or general partner.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises adjudging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly
filed a petition seeking liquidation or reorganization of or in respect of such
Person under the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or any other
similar applicable federal or state law, and the continuance of any such decree
or order unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or the commencement of
an involuntary case under the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended,
in respect of such Person, which shall continue undismissed for a period of 90
days or entry of an order for relief in such case; or the entry of a decree or
order of a court having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment on the
ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a receiver, custodian, liquidator, trustee
or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of such Person or of its property, or
for the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order shall
have remained in force unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or
(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a
voluntary bankrupt, or the consent by such Person to the filing of a bankruptcy
proceeding against it, or the filing by such Person of a petition or answer or
consent seeking liquidation or reorganization under the United States Bankruptcy
Code of 1978, as amended, or other similar applicable Federal or State law, or
the consent by such Person to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a receiver or custodian
or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of such Person
or of its property, or if such Person shall make a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors.
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"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
of the Depositor to have been duly adopted by the Depositor's Board of
Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the
Depositor to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors has been
delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification,
and delivered to the appropriate Trustee.
"Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday or Sunday, a day on which
banking institutions in [ City/State ] are authorized
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or required by law, executive order or regulation to remain closed, or a day on
which the Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the Corporate Trust
Office of the Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
"Capital Event" means the receipt by the Trust of an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters (which may be counsel to the Company) that the
Company cannot, or within 90 days after the date of the Opinion of such Counsel,
will not be permitted by the applicable regulatory authorities, due to a change
in law, regulation, policy or guideline or interpretation or application of law
or regulation, policy or guideline, to account for the Preferred Securities as
Tier I capital under the capital guidelines or policies of the Federal Reserve
and other applicable federal or state banking regulations.
"Certificate of Trust" means the certificate of trust filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Connecticut with respect to the Trust, as
amended or restated from time to time.
"Change in 1940 Act Law" shall have the meaning set forth in the definition
of "Investment Company Event."
"Closing Date" means the date of execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any
successor statute, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing ownership of
Common Securities, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25.00 and having the rights provided
therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions
and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Company" means [Issuer].
"Connecticut Statutory Trust Act" means Chapter 615 of Title 34 of the
Connecticut General Statutes, Sections 500, et seq. as it may be amended from
time to time.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office at which, at any particular time,
the corporate trust business of the Property Trustee or the Debenture Trustee,
as the case may be, shall be principally administered, which office at the date
hereof, in each such case, is
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located at State Street Bank and Trust Company, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX
00000; Attention: Vice President, Corporate Trust Division.
"Debenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined in
Section 7.1 of the Indenture.
"Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures to be
redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption under the Indenture.
"Debenture Tax Event" means a "Tax Event" as specified in Section 1.1 of
the Indenture.
"Debenture Trustee" means State Street Bank and Trust Company, a state
chartered trust company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and any successors thereto, as trustee under the Indenture.
"Debentures" means the [ $ ] aggregate principal amount of the
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Depositor's % Subordinated Debentures due [ 2029 ], issued pursuant
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to the Indenture.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the Preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4. 1 (a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as
provided in Section 4. 1.
"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
(b) default by the 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
(c) default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any
Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of
any covenant or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than a
covenant or warranty a default in the performance of which or the breach of
which is dealt with in clause (b) or (c), 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 defaulting Trustee or Trustees by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate liquidation preference 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
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(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property
Trustee and the failure by the Depositor to appoint a successor Property Trustee
within 60 days thereof.
"Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities
between the Depositor and the Trust, substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit C, as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9. 1.
"Extended Interest Payment Period" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1
of the Indenture.
"Fund" means XXX Trust Preferred Fund I, the initial holder of the
Preferred Securities.
"Guarantee" means the Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement executed and
delivered by the Depositor and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as 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" means the Indenture, dated as of [ Date ], between the
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Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or supplemented from
time to time.
"Investment Company Act," means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, as in effect at the date of execution of this instrument.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Trust of an Opinion of
Counsel, by a law firm experienced in such matters, to the effect that, as a
result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a change in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority (a "Change in 1940 Act Law"),
the Trust is or shall be considered an "investment company" that is required to
be registered under the Investment Company Act, which Change in 1940 Act Law
becomes effective on or after the date of original issuance of the Preferred
Securities under this Trust Agreement.
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of
trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest
or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement
of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust Securities,
Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of
Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the Indenture and
the proceeds of which shall be used to pay the Redemption Price of such Trust
Securities; and (b) with respect to a distribution of Debentures to Holders of
Trust Securities in connection with a termination or liquidation of the Trust,
Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Debentures are distributed. Each
Debenture distributed pursuant to clause (b) above shall carry with it
accumulated interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid interest
then due on such Debentures.
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"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $25.00 per Trust Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Debentures are to be distributed
to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a termination and liquidation
of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4(a).
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the President or a
Vice President and by the Treasurer or the Controller or the Secretary, of the
Depositor, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee. Any Officers' Certificate
delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for
in this Trust Agreement shall include:
(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers' Certificate has
read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such officer
to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing of legal counsel, who may
be counsel for the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Depositor, but not an
employee of any thereof, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property
Trustee.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Preferred Securities, means, as of
the date of determination, all Preferred Securities theretofore executed and
delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Preferred Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or
delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b) 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
(c) Preferred Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu
of which other Preferred Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to
Sections 5.4 and 5.5; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders
of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities have
given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, Preferred Securities owned by the Depositor, any Trustee or any
Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee shall
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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
that 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, one or more of the Trustees and/or any
such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned which have been pledged in good
faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee's right so to act with
respect to such Preferred Securities to the exclusion of the Depositor or any
Affiliate of the Depositor.
"Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Preferred
Securities as reflected in the Securities Register.
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant
to Section 5.10 and shall initially be the Bank.
"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust
account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its trust department
for the benefit of the Securityholders in which all amounts paid in respect of
the Debentures shall be held and from which the Property Trustee shall make
payments to the Securityholders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Preferred Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets
of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25.00 and having the rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Preferred Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing ownership
of Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
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"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 heretofore formed and continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in
such capacity, or any successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed,
the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement;
provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated maturity of the
Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust Securities.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the Redemption Date, allocated on a pro rata basis (based on
Liquidation Amounts) among the Trust Securities.
"Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
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"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 5.5.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust Security
or Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be
deemed to be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Connecticut Statutory
Trust Act.
"Trust" means the Connecticut statutory trust created and continued hereby
and identified on the cover page to this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the
same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable
provisions hereof, including all exhibits hereto.
"Trust Preferred Purchase Agreement" means the Trust Preferred Purchase
Agreement dated as of [ Date ], among the Trust, the Depositor and the
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Purchaser named therein.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Debentures; (b) the rights of the Property
Trustee under the Guarantee; (c) any cash on deposit in, or owing to, the
Payment Account; and (d) 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 the trusts of this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the Preferred
Securities.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificate or the Preferred Securities Certificate.
"Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees.
ARTICLE II.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name.
The Trust created and continued hereby shall be known as "[Issuer] Capital
Statutory Trust," as such name may be modified from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust
Securities and the other Trustees, in which name the Trustees may engage in the
transactions contemplated hereby, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Property Trustee, Principal Place of Business.
The address of the Property Trustee is State Street Bank and Trust Company
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000; Attention: Vice President, Corporate
Trust Division.
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.
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The Trustees acknowledge receipt in trust from the Depositor the sum of
$10.00, which constitutes the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay
organizational expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any
Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such expenses paid by such
Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the
payment of such expenses.
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement,
(a) the Depositor and an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust shall
execute and deliver the Trust Preferred Securities Purchase Agreement, and (b)
an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance
with Section 5.2 and deliver in accordance with the Trust Preferred Securities
Purchase Agreement, the Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name
of the Securityholder in an aggregate amount of [$ ] Preferred
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Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of [$ ] million against
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receipt of the aggregate purchase price of such Preferred Securities of [$
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Property Trustee. No additional Preferred Securities (or Common Securities
other than those issued under Section 2.5) shall be issued at any time unless
and until the Trustees receive prior written authorization and direction to do
so from both (i) the Depositor and (ii) the holder(s) of at least a majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities, other than
additional Preferred Securities required to be sold under the Trust Preferred
Securities Purchase Agreement pursuant to the Underwriters exercise of their
Over-Allotment Option thereunder.
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
Debentures.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement,
an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance
with Section 5.2 and deliver to the Depositor, Common Securities Certificates,
registered in the name of the Depositor, in an aggregate amount of Common
Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of [$ ] against payment
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by the Depositor of such amount. Contemporaneously therewith, an Administrative
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe to and purchase from the
Depositor Debentures, registered in the name of the Property Trustee on behalf
of the Trust and having an aggregate principal amount equal to [$ ] and,
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in satisfaction of the purchase price for such Debentures, the Property Trustee,
on behalf of the Trust, shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of [$ ].
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SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are (a) to issue and sell
Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Debentures;
and (b) to engage in those activities necessary, convenient or incidental
thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Trustees as trustees of the Trust, to
have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the
Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares
that it shall hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Securityholders. The
Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth
herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to accomplishing the
purposes of the Trust.
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SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter Into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations
set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section 2.7 and Article VIII, and in
accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the Administrative
Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements
determined by the Administrative Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the
authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Administrative Trustees
under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof,
including without limitation, the following:
(i) As among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee, acting singly
or jointly, shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Trust
with respect to the following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver
and perform on behalf of the Trust, the Expense Agreement
and such other agreements or documents as may be necessary
or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of
the Trust;
(C) the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and
other information regarding the Trust Securities and the
Debentures to the Securityholders in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;
(D) the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating agent and
Securities Registrar in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(E) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding
up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust and the
preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of
Connecticut;
(F) 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
trust under the laws of the State of Connecticut and of each
other jurisdiction in which such existence is necessary to
protect the limited liability of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities or to enable the Trust to effect the
purposes for which the Trust was created; and
(G) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the
Administrative Trustees may from time to time determine is
necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this
Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders
(without
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consideration of the effect of any such action on any
particular Securityholder).
(ii) As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power,
duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the collection of interest, principal and any other payments
made in respect of the Debentures in the Payment Account;
(D) the distribution of amounts owed to the Securityholders in
respect of the Trust Securities in accordance with the terms
of this Trust Agreement;
(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of
a holder of the Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the
Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with
the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding
up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust;
(I) after an Event of Default, the taking of any action
incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may from
time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give
effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and
conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of the
Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any
such action on any particular Securityholder);
(J) registering transfers of the Trust Securities in accordance
with this Trust Agreement; and
(K) except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.7(a)(ii), the
Property Trustee shall have none of the duties, liabilities,
powers or the authority of the Administrative Trustees set
forth in Section 2.7(a)(i).
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust
(or the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any
business, activities or transactions 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, mortgage, pledge,
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set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein,
including to Securityholders, except as expressly provided herein; (iii) take
any action that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify as a "grantor
trust" for United States federal income tax purposes; (iv) incur any
indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt; or (v) take or consent
to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust
Property. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of all
Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to
the interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in their capacity as
Securityholders.
(c) In connection with the issue and 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:
(i) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and
delivery of, the Trust Preferred Purchase Agreement providing for the sale of
the Preferred Securities; and
(ii) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable
to carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to [use reasonable efforts
to] conduct the affairs of the Trust and to operate the Trust so that the Trust
shall not be deemed to be an "investment company" required to be registered
under the Investment Company Act, shall be classified as a "grantor trust" and
not as an association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income
tax purposes and so that the Debentures shall be treated as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. In this connection,
subject to Section 10.2, the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are
authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law or this
Trust Agreement, that each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees
determines in their discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes.
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust.
The assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by
the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Securityholders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III.
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall
establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and any agent of the
Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with
respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits and
withdrawals from the Payment
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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 of or interest on, and any
other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in the
Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending
distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV.
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.
(a) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and
shall accumulate (as provided in the following paragraph (b)) whether or not
there are funds of the Trust available for the payment of Distributions.
Distributions shall accumulate from the respective date of issuance of Preferred
Securities, and, except during any Extended Interest Payment Period with respect
to the Debentures (as provided in the Indenture), shall be payable quarterly in
arrears on the last calendar day of March, June, September and December of each
year, commencing on [ Date ]. If any date on which a Distribution is
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otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the
payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay) with the same force and effect as if made on such date (each date on
which distributions are payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a), a
"Distribution Date").
(b) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in
the Trust Property, and, as a practical matter, the Distributions on the Trust
Securities shall accrue and accumulate at a rate of [____%] per annum of the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities. The amount of Distributions payable
for any full period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. The amount of Distributions for any partial period shall be
computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve
30 day months. During any Extended Interest Payment Period with respect to the
Debentures, Distributions on the Preferred Securities shall be deferred for a
period equal to the Extended Interest Payment Period and shall be payable on the
date provided in the Indenture for payments of interest accruing during such
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 by the
Property Trustee solely from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each
Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and
immediately available in the Payment Account for the payment of such
Distributions.
(d) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the record holders thereof as they appear
on the
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Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date,
which shall be the 15th day of the month in which the Distribution is payable.
SECTION 4.2. Redemption.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of
the Debentures, the Trust shall be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust
Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed,
at such Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of
redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price and that payment will be made upon
presentation and surrender of the Trust Securities Certificates;
(iii) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification and the aggregate Liquidation
Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed
and that new Trust Securities Certificates will be issued
for the unredeemed portion; and
(iv) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price shall
become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be
redeemed and that Distributions thereon shall cease to
accumulate on and after said 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 Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and
the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent
that the Trust has immediately available funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect
of any Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, [ City/State of Depositor
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] time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee,
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subject to Section 4.2(c), shall deposit with the Paying Agent funds sufficient
to pay the applicable Redemption Price and shall give the Paying Agent
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the record
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 shall cease,
except the right of such Securityholders to receive the Redemption Price and
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any Distribution payable on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without
interest, and such Securities shall 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 that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment
in respect of any such delay). In the event that payment of the Redemption Price
in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld
or refused and not paid either by the Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the
Guarantee, Distributions on such Trust Securities shall continue to accumulate,
at the then applicable rate, from the Redemption Date originally established by
the Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption Price is
actually paid, in which case the actual payment date shall be the date fixed for
redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.
(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall be
made to the Securityholders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register
for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be the date 15
days prior to the relevant Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust
Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated on a
pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common Securities and
the Preferred Securities. The particular Preferred Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Property Trustee from the outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called
for redemption, by such method (including, without limitation, by lot) as the
Property Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to $25.00 or an integral multiple of
$25.00 in excess thereof) of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities of a
denomination larger than $25.00. 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.
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(f), pro rata among the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date or
Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including
Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or Redemption Price of, any Common
Security, and no other payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or
other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in
cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including Additional Amounts,
if applicable) on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution
periods terminating on or prior
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thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of
such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for
redemption, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds immediately
available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full
in cash of all Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on,
or the Redemption Price of, Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting
from a Debenture Event of Default, the record holder of Common Securities shall
be deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of
Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of
Default with respect to the Preferred Securities shall have been cured, waived
or otherwise eliminated. Until any such Event of Default under this Trust
Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities shall have been so cured,
waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf
of the record holders of the Preferred Securities and not the record holder of
the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities shall
have the right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures.
Payments of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) in
respect of the Preferred Securities shall be made by check mailed to the address
of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities
Register. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such
manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Common
Securityholder.
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.
The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared), at the
Depositor's expense, and file all United States federal, state and local tax and
information returns and reports required to be filed by or in respect of the
Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a) prepare and file
(or cause to be prepared and filed) the appropriate Internal Revenue Service
Form required to be filed in respect of the Trust in each taxable year of the
Trust; and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to
each Securityholder the appropriate Internal Revenue Service form required to be
furnished to such Securityholder or the information required to be provided on
such form. The Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor and Property
Trustee with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing
or furnishing. The Property Trustee shall comply with United States federal
withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting
requirements with respect to any payments to Securityholders under the Trust
Securities.
SECTION 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust.
Upon receipt under the Debentures of Additional Interest (as defined in
Section 1.1 of the Indenture), the Property Trustee, at the direction of an
Administrative Trustee or the Depositor, shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or
governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed
on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.
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SECTION 4.7. Payments Under Indenture; Subordination Under Indenture.
Any amount payable hereunder to any record holder of Preferred Securities
shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder has
directly received under the Indenture. Amounts paid by the Depositor to the
Trust or the holders of Preferred Securities under the Indenture or the
Guarantee or hereunder are subject to the subordination provisions of the
Indenture whereby the Depositor's payments to holders of Debentures are
subordinate in right of payment to the Depositor's payment of obligations to
certain other creditors, all as provided and set forth in the Indenture, and
similar subordination provisions in the Guarantee regarding the Depositor's
obligations thereunder.
ARTICLE V.
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership.
Upon the creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor
pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at
any time during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor shall
be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
SECTION 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates.
(a) The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of
the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrative
Trustee except as provided in Section 5.3; and the Property Trustee is
authorized to affix such facsimile signature upon written notice from the
President or Chief Financial Officer of the Depositor. Trust Securities
Certificates bearing the facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the
time when such signatures were made, 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 delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did
not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a
Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificates in
such transferee's name pursuant to Section 5.5.
(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 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates;
Authentication.
On the Closing Date and on the Option Closing Date, the Administrative
Trustee shall cause Trust Securities Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation
Amount as provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the
Trust by at least one of the Administrative Trustees and delivered to the
Property Trustee and upon such delivery the Property Trustee shall authenticate
such Trust Securities Certificates and deliver such
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Trust Securities Certificates upon the written order of the Trust in authorized
denominations.
SECTION 5.4. Legends.
Unless sold pursuant to an effective Registration Statement under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, all Trust Securities Certificates issued
hereunder shall bear the following legend:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN
THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM UNDER SAID ACT.
Prior to any transfer of any Trust Security Certificate bearing such
legend, in whole or in part (other than pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act), the Holder thereof shall furnish, at the
expense of such Holder, to the Depositor and the Trustees an Opinion of Counsel,
which shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to such parties, to
the effect that such transfer is exempt from registration under the Securities
Act and applicable state securities laws.
SECTION 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers
and Exchanges; Preferred Securities Certificates.
(a) The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept at its
Corporate Trust Office a register or registers for the purpose of registering
Common Securities Certificates and Preferred Securities Certificates and
transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates in which the
registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Preferred Securities (the
"Securities Register"), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Preferred Securities
Certificates and Common Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.11 in the
case of Common Securities Certificates) and registration of transfers and
exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided. Such
registrar is herein sometimes referred to as the "Securities Registrar." The
Property Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar" for the purpose of
registering Common Securities Certificates and Preferred Securities and
transfers of Preferred Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Security at
the offices or agencies of the Property Trustee designated for that purpose, the
Depositor shall (if such transfer complies with this Agreement, including
Section 5.4) execute and authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities of the same
series of any authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this Trust Agreement.
At the option of the Holder, Preferred Securities may be exchanged for
other Preferred Securities of any authorized denominations, of like tenor and
aggregate Liquidation Amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this
Trust Agreement, upon surrender of the Preferred Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Property Trustee
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shall execute and authenticate and deliver the Preferred Securities that the
Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Preferred Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Trust, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Trust Agreement, as the
Preferred Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Every Preferred Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange
shall (if so required by the Property Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Property Trustee and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder
thereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities, but the Property Trustee may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Preferred Securities.
Neither the Trust nor the Property Trustee shall be required, pursuant to
the provisions of this Section, (i) to issue, register the transfer of or
exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Preferred
Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of business on the day
of mailing of the notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or
exchange any Preferred Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part,
except, in the case of any such Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any
portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(b) Trust Securities may only be transferred, in whole or in part, in
accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement. Any
transfer or purported transfer of any Trust Security not made in accordance with
this Trust Agreement shall be null and void.
SECTION 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities certificate shall be surrendered to
the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence
to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities
Certificate; and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and
the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be required by
them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such
Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a bona fide purchaser
or other transferee, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf
of the Trust shall execute 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 Administrative Trustees or the Securities
Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate
Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute
conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the
Trust,
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corresponding to that evidenced by the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or
destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 5.7. Persons Deemed Securityholders.
The Trustees, the Securities Registrar or the Depositor shall treat the
Person in whose name any Trust Securities are issued as the owner of such Trust
Securities for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes
whatsoever, and none of the Trustees, the Administrative Trustees, the
Securities Registrar nor the Depositor shall be bound by any notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 5.8. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses.
Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the
Depositor, the Property Trustee, or the Administrative Trustees accountable by
reason of the disclosure of such Securityholder's name and address, regardless
of the source from which such information was derived.
SECTION 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the
Administrative Trustees, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, an
office or offices or agency or agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or redemption 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
State Street Bank and Trust Company, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000;
Attention: Vice President, Corporate Trust Division as its corporate trust
office for such purposes. The Property Trustee shall give prompt written notice
to the Depositor, the Administrative Trustees and to the Holders of any change
in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Securityholders from the
Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the
Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have
the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the
purpose of making the Distributions referred to above. The Property Trustee may
revoke such power and remove any Paying Agent in its sole discretion. The Paying
Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee. Any Person acting as Paying Agent
shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the
Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Depositor. In the event
that the Property Trustee shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor
Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the Property
Trustee shall appoint a successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) that
is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees to act as Paying Agent.
Such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the
Administrative Trustees shall execute and deliver to the Trustees an instrument
in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with
the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional
Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for
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payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. 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 8.1, 8.3 and 8.6 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 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.
At each time of delivery pursuant to Section 2.5, the Depositor shall
acquire and retain beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities
except (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into
another corporation or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to
Section 12.1 of the Indenture, or (ii) a transfer to an Affiliate of the
Depositor in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act of
1933, as amended and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the
fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities
shall be void except as contemplated by the following legend. The Administrative
Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor
to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO A
SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT."
SECTION 5.12. Rights of Securityholders; Acceleration and Enforcement of
Debentures.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively
in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section
2.9, and the Securityholders shall not have any right or title therein other
than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by
their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or
division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except as described below.
The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights
specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities
shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and delivered to
Holders of the Preferred Securities against payment of the purchase price
therefor, the Preferred Securities shall be fully paid and nonassessable
interests in the Trust. The Holders of the Preferred Securities, in their
capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal
liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized
under the Corporations law of the State of Connecticut.
(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding
and the Trust is a holder of Debentures, if, upon a Debenture Event of Default,
the Debenture Trustee fails or the holders of not less than 25% in principal
amount of the outstanding Debentures fail to declare the principal of all of the
Debentures to be immediately due and payable as permitted in the Indenture, the
Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then
Outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Depositor and
the Debenture Trustee; and upon any such declaration such principal amount of
and the accrued interest on all of the Debentures
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shall become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal
and interest on such Debentures shall remain subordinated to the extent provided
in the Indenture.
(c) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding,
if, upon a Debenture Event of Default arising from the failure to pay interest
or principal on the Debentures, the Holders of any Preferred Securities then
Outstanding shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have the right to
directly institute proceedings for enforcement of payment to such Holders of
principal of or interest on the Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holders.
ARTICLE VI.
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as provided in this Section 6.1, in Sections 5.12,
8.10 and 10.2 and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder
of record 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 Debentures are held by the Property Trustee,
the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture Trustee, or executing any
trust or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to such
Debentures; (ii) waive any past default which is waivable under Article VII of
the Indenture; (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that
the principal of all the Debentures shall be due and payable; or (iv) consent to
any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Debentures,
where such consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior
approval of the Holders of at least a majority in Liquidation Amount of all
Outstanding Preferred Securities; provided, however, that where a consent under
the Indenture would require the consent of each Holder of Outstanding Debentures
affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without
the prior 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
the Outstanding Preferred Securities, except by a subsequent vote of the Holders
of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee shall notify each
Holder of the Outstanding Preferred Securities of any notice of default received
from the Debenture Trustee with respect to the Debentures. In addition to
obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Preferred Securities,
prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Trustees shall, at the expense
of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to
the effect that the Trust shall continue to be classified as a grantor trust and
not as an association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income
tax purposes on account of such action. This paragraph governs the Trustees only
in their respective capacities as Trustees of the Trust, and not in any of their
other official capacities on behalf of other Persons, including
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without limitation as the Trustee under the Indenture or as officers of the
Depositor or otherwise.
(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or
the Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely
affect in any material respect the powers, preferences, privileges or special
rights of the Preferred Securities as provided in this Agreement, whether by way
of amendment to the 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
shall be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or
proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at
least 66 2/3 in Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. No
amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result of such amendment,
the Trust would cease to be classified as a grantor trust or would be classified
as an association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax
purposes.
(d) If any Distributions payable on the Preferred Securities are in
arrears for any reason for ten quarterly periods, the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, voting separately, as a class with any other Holders having similar
voting rights, may appoint a representative who shall be entitled to attend any
subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Depositor until such arrears
are paid, but such representative will not have any right to vote on matters
submitted for approval by the Board of Directors.
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings.
Notice of all meetings of the Preferred Securityholders, stating the time,
place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee
pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Preferred Securityholder of record, at his
registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the
meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so
considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned
meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Preferred Securityholders.
(a) 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 in respect of which Preferred Securityholders are entitled to
vote upon the written request of the Preferred Securityholders of 25% of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate 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 the Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote.
(b) Preferred Securityholders of record of 50% of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount), present in
person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Securityholders.
(c) If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the
Preferred Securityholders of record present, in person or by proxy, holding more
than a majority of the Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) held
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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 6.4. Voting Rights.
Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote for each $25.00 of
Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities in respect of any
matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, Etc.
At any meeting of Securityholders, any Securityholder entitled to vote
thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy, shall be voted at any meeting
unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or
with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the Administrative Trustees may
direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken.
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 6.6. Securityholder Action by Written Consent.
Any action which may be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be taken
without a meeting if Securityholders holding more than a majority of all
Outstanding Trust Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount)
entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof as
shall be required by any express provision of this Trust Agreement) shall
consent to the action in writing (based upon their aggregate Liquidation
Amount).
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
For the purposes of determining the Securityholders who are entitled to
notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in
any Distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is
not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any
other action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not
more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Securityholders or the
payment of Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date
for the determination of the identity of the Securityholders of record for such
purposes.
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Securityholders.
(a) 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 or owners in person or by an
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agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to an Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and
the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred
to as the "Act" of the Securityholders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such
agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject
to Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner
provided in this Section 6.8.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Preferred Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
(d) 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.
(e) 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, without duplication.
(f) A Securityholder may institute a legal proceeding directly
against the Depositor under the Guarantee to enforce its rights under the
Guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee
Trustee (as defined in the Guarantee), the Trust or any Person.
(g) For so long as the Trust is the registered holder of the
Debentures and the Fund is the sole Holder of the Preferred Securities, any
matter requiring the consent of the majority of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities or all of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, or other specified
percentage of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, such consent shall in
each case be evidenced by the consent of the manager of the Fund.
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SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection by Securityholders
during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such
Securityholder's interest as a Securityholder.
ARTICLE VII.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Bank and the Property
Trustee.
The Bank and the Property Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to
itself, as of the date hereof, and each Successor Property Trustee at the time
of the Successor Property Trustee's acceptance of its appointment as Property
Trustee hereunder hereby represents and warrants (as applicable) for the benefit
of the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(a) the Bank is a state chartered trust company duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Massachusetts;
(b) 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;
(c) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Property Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding
agreement of the Property Trustee 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;
(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee of
this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or
other action on the part of the Property Trustee and does not require any
approval of stockholders of the Bank and such execution, delivery and
performance shall not (i) violate the Bank's charter or by-laws; (ii) violate
any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a
default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any
properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any
indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or instrument
to which the Property Trustee or the Bank is a party or by which it is bound; or
(iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States or
the State of Massachusetts, as the case may be, governing the banking or trust
powers of the Bank or the Property Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any
order, judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Bank;
(e) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property
Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions
by the Property Trustee contemplated herein or therein requires the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any
other action with
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respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing federal law
governing the banking or trust powers of the Bank or the Property Trustee, as
the case may be, under the laws of the United States or the State of
Massachusetts; and
(f) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of the Property
Trustee's knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Bank or the Property
Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration
board or tribunal which, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and
adversely affect the Trust or would question the right, power and authority of
the Property Trustee to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the
Trustees under this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Securityholders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued on the Closing Date or
the Option Closing Date, if applicable, on behalf of the Trust have been duly
authorized and, shall have been duly and validly executed, issued and delivered
by the Administrative Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in
accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement and the
Securityholders shall be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this
Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by
the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf of the Trust) under the laws of the State
of Connecticut or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance by the Bank or the Property Trustee, as the
case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII.
TRUSTEES
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement. 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
it. None of the Trustees shall be liable for its acts or omissions hereunder
except as a result of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. 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 8.1. To the
extent that, at law or in equity, an Administrative Trustee has duties
(including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Trust or to
the Securityholders, such Administrative Trustee shall not be liable to the
Trust or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's good faith reliance on the
provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to
the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Administrative
Trustees otherwise
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existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the
Securityholders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the
Administrative Trustees, as the case may be.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in
respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds
from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient
revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a
Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each
Securityholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it shall look
solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally
available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are
not personally liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust
Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This
Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth
elsewhere in this Trust Agreement.
(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to
relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee,
unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in Liquidation Amount
of the Trust Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any
trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
(iii) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the
custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the Debentures and the
Payment Account shall be to deal with such Property in a similar manner as the
Property Trustee deals with similar property for its own account, subject to the
protections and limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under
this Trust Agreement;
(iv) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor
and money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds
held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by
law; and
(d) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the
compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with their respective
duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for
the negligence, default or misconduct of the Administrative Trustees or the
Depositor.
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices.
(a) Within one Business Day after the occurrence of any Event of
Default actually known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
transmit, in
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the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such Event of
Default to the Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor,
unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived. For purposes of
this Section 8.2 the term "Event of Default" means any event that is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall transmit, to the
Securityholders in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice
of the Depositor's election to begin or further extend an Extended Interest
Payment Period on the Debentures (unless such election shall have been revoked)
within the time specified for transmitting such notice to the holders of the
Debentures pursuant to the Indenture as originally executed.
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:
(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel,
certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of
auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action; or
(ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with other provisions contained
herein; or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any
provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the
Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust
Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Depositor
requesting written instructions of the Depositor as to the course of action to
be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or
to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided, however, that if the
Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within 10
Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably necessary
shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable
shall not be less than 2 Business Days), it may, but shall be under no duty to,
take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust
Agreement as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the
Securityholders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability
except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the Administrative
Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by
an Officers' Certificate;
(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be established before
undertaking,
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suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee (unless other
evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on
its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officer's Certificate which,
upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Depositor or
the Administrative Trustees;
(e) except pursuant to written instructions delivered to the Property
Trustee in accordance with the provisions herein the Property Trustee shall have
no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument
(including any financing or continuation statement, any filing under tax or
securities laws or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any rerecording,
refiling or reregistration thereof,
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice (which
counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates) and the advice
of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in reliance thereon and, in accordance with such advice, such counsel may be
counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its
employees; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any
court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless
such Securityholders shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction and such exercise
shall not be inconsistent with the terms of this Trust Agreement or contrary to
law;
(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond,
debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Securityholders, but the
Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its
agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible for
its own negligence or recklessness with respect to selection of any agent or
attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder the Property
Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of the Trust Securities
which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the
Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such
remedy, right or action; (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or
taking such other action until such instructions are received; and (iii) shall
be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions not inconsistent
with this Trust Agreement; and
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(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement,
the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that
is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement. No provision of
this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the
Property Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty
or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall
be illegal, or in which the Property Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent
in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to
exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or
authority available to the Property Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The Recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates
shall be taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Trustees do not assume
any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees shall not be accountable
for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Debentures.
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust
Securities and, except as provided in the definition of the term "Outstanding"
in Article I, may otherwise deal with the Trust with the same rights it would
have if it were not a Trustee or such other agent.
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.
The Depositor agrees:
(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by them hereunder (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust) as the Depositor and Trustee may from time to time agree in
writing;
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust
Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may be attributable to such Trustee's negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct (or, in the case of the Administrative Trustees, any such
expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its, his or her gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct); and
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustees or any predecessor Trustee for,
and to hold the Trustees harmless against, any loss, damage, claims, liability,
penalty or expense, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this Trust Agreement, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise
or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except any such loss,
damage, claims, liability, penalty or expense, as may be attributable to such
Trustee's negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (or, in the case of the
Administrative Trustees, any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to its, his or her gross negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct).
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No Trustee may claim any Lien or charge on any Trust Property as a result
of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a bank or trust
company organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or
the District of Columbia 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 8.7, 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 8.7, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article VIII.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity.
SECTION 8.8. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
(a) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of any
jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located,
the Depositor 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 the extent required by law to
act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as
may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or
Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed
necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section 8.8. If
the Depositor does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt
by it of a request so to do, or in case a Debenture Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee alone shall have power to make
such appointment. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this
Section 8.8 shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of
age and a resident of the United States; or (ii) a legal entity with its
principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or
more persons authorized to bind such entity.
(b) Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by
any co- trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to
such co- trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any
and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged, and
delivered by the Depositor if reasonable and appropriate under this Agreement.
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(c) 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 and delivered and
all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody
of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to be
deposited or pledged with, the Trustees specified hereunder, shall be exercised,
solely by such Trustees and not by such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(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 8.8, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have the 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 8.8.
(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 trustee hereunder.
(v) The Property Trustee and Administrative 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 8.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee")
and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.10.
(b) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant
Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Trust Securities by giving
written notice thereof to the Securityholders. If the instrument of acceptance
by the successor
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Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant
Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Depositor, any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Trust Securities.
(c) Unless a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, any Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Common
Securityholder. If a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Property Trustee may be removed at such time by Act of the
Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities,
delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and on behalf of
the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may be removed by the Common
Securityholder at any time.
(d) If any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting as Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for
any cause, at a time when no Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder
delivered to the retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or
Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, and the successor
Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.10. If the
Property Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to
act as the Property Trustee at a time when a Debenture Event of Default shall
have occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securityholders, by Act of the
Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
then Outstanding delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly
appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Trust
Securities and the Trust, and such successor Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.10. If an Administrative Trustee shall
resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a
time when a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to an
Administrative Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative
Trustee or Administrative Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the
Trust, and such successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.10. If no successor
Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall have been so
appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Preferred Securityholders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.10, any Securityholder
who has been a Securityholder of Trust Securities on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated may petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
(e) The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of a Relevant Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee
to all Securityholders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give
notice to the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust office if it is the Property
Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this
Trust Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee who is a natural person
dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Depositor, incompetent or incapacitated,
the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by
(a) the unanimous act of remaining Administrative Trustees if there are at least
two of them; or (b) otherwise by the
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Depositor (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the
eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 8.7).
SECTION 8.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, the retiring Relevant Trustee and
each successor Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute and
deliver an instrument hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or
desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all
the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust and upon the execution and
delivery of such instrument the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust; but, on request of
the Trust or any successor Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all Trust Property, all
proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.
(b) Upon request of any such successor 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 immediately preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
(c) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article VIII.
SECTION 8.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any Person into which any relevant Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation 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 VIII, without the execution or filing of any paper
or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
SECTION 8.12. Number of Trustees.
(a) There shall be one Property Trustee and two Administrative
Trustees, provided that the Holder of all of the Common Securities by written
instrument may increase or decrease the number of Administrative Trustees.
(b) If an Administrative Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason
and the number of Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section
8.12(a), or if the number of Administrative Trustees is increased pursuant to
Section 8.12(a), a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a
Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.
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(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 8.10, the Administrative
Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement), shall have all the powers granted to the
Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the
Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 8.13. Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent
with applicable law (subject to prior approval by the Depositor), delegate to
any other natural person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of
executing any documents contemplated in Section 2.7(a); and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from
time to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such
things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust or
the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative
Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by
applicable law or contrary to the provisions of the Trust, as set forth herein.
SECTION 8.14. Voting.
Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement, the consent or
approval of the Administrative Trustees shall require consent or approval by not
less than a majority of the Administrative Trustees, unless there are only two,
in which case both must consent.
ARTICLE IX.
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date
Unless earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on,
[__________, 2029] (the "Expiration Date") subject to distribution of the Trust
Property in accordance with Section 9.4..
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early Termination
Event":
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the
dissolution or liquidation of, the Depositor;
(b) delivery of written direction to the Property Trustee by the
Depositor at any time (which direction is wholly optional and within the
discretion of the Depositor) to dissolve the Trust and distribute the Debentures
to Securityholders in exchange for the Preferred Securities in accordance with
Section 9.4;
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(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in
connection with the redemption of all of the Debentures; and
(d) an order for dissolution of the Trust shall have been
entered by a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.3. Termination.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and the
Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of
the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Securityholders
upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the
redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2, of all
amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the final payment of the Trust
Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Trust; (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; and (d) the filing of a Certificate of Cancellation by the
Administrative Trustee under the Connecticut Statutory Trust Act.
SECTION 9.4. Liquidation; Distribution of Debentures.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b), or
(d) of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be
liquidated by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to be
possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the
Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount of
Debentures, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by
the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust
Securities at such Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All
notices of liquidation shall:
(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities shall no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities
Certificates not surrendered for exchange shall be deemed to represent a Like
Amount of Debentures; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics
by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates for Debentures, or,
if Section 9.4(d) applies, receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the
Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect
the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Debentures to
Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days prior to the Liquidation
Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of
a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
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(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the
Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities shall no longer be deemed to be
outstanding; (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Debentures shall 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 shall be
deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures, accruing interest at the rate
provided for in the Debentures from the last Distribution Date on which a
Distribution was made on such Trust Securities Certificates until such
certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered,
no payments of interest or principal shall be made to holders of Trust
Securities Certificates with respect to such Debentures); and (iv) all rights of
Securityholders holding Trust Securities shall cease, except the right of such
Securityholders to receive Debentures upon surrender of Trust Securities
Certificates.
(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this
Section 9.4, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Debentures in the
manner provided herein is reasonably determined by the Property Trustee not to
be practical, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Trust shall be
dissolved, wound-up or terminated, by the Property Trustee in such manner as the
Property Trustee reasonably determines. In such event, on the date of the
dissolution, winding-up or other termination of the Trust, Securityholders shall
be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust available for distribution
to Securityholders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust
as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per
Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of
payment (such amount being the "Liquidation Distribution"). If, upon any such
dissolution, winding-up or termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid
only in part because the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full
the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding
sentence, the amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid
on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The holder of the Common
Securities shall be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such
dissolution, winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with
Holders of Preferred securities, except that, if a Debenture Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securities shall have a priority
over the Common Securities.
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the
Trust.
The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be
replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other Person, except pursuant
to this Section 9.5. At the request of the Depositor, with the consent of the
Administrative Trustees and without the consent of the holders of the Preferred
Securities, or the Property Trustee, the Trust may merge with or into,
consolidate, amalgamate, be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such
under the laws of any state; provided, that (i) such successor entity either (a)
expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust with respect to the
Preferred Securities; or (b) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other
securities having substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (the
"Successor Securities") so long as the Successor Securities rank the same as the
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Preferred Securities rank in priority with respect to distributions and payments
upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise; (ii) the Depositor expressly
appoints a trustee of such successor entity possessing substantially the same
powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the holder of the Debentures; (iii)
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or
lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the
holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any
material respect; (iv) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Depositor has received an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely
affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Preferred
Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect; and (b)
following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor entity shall be required
to register as an "investment company" under the Investment Company Act; and (v)
the Depositor owns all of the Common Securities of such successor entity and
guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor
Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of holders of 100%
in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate,
merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other Person or permit
any other Person to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it
if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or replacement would cause the Trust
or the successor entity to be classified as other than a grantor trust for
United States federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders.
The death or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or
otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust
Agreement, nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any
Securityholder for such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring
any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding-up of the arrangements
contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and
liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
SECTION 10.2. 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)
as provided in Section 8.10 with respect to acceptance of appointment by a
successor Trustee; (ii) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any
provision herein or therein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein or therein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Trust Agreement, that shall not be inconsistent
with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement; or (iii) to modify, eliminate
or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be
necessary to ensure that the Trust shall be classified for United States federal
income tax purposes as a grantor trust at all times that any Trust Securities
are outstanding, to ensure that the Trust shall not be required to register as
an "investment company" under the Investment
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Company Act; or to ensure that the Preferred Securities are accounted as Tier I
capital under the capital guidelines or policies of the Federal Reserve and
other applicable federal or state banking regulations; provided, however, that
in the case of clause (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Securityholder, and any amendments of this
Trust Agreement shall become effective when notice thereof is given to the
Securityholders.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.1(c) or Section 10.2(c) hereof,
any provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trustees and the
Depositor (i) with the consent of Trust Securityholders representing not less
than a majority (based upon Liquidation Amounts) of the Trust Securities then
Outstanding; and (ii) upon 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 shall 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.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this
Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder (such
consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this Trust
Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of
any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a
specified date; or (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; notwithstanding
any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Securityholders
(such consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this
paragraph (c) of this Section 10.2 may not be amended.
(d)
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement to the
contrary, no Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust
Agreement which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status of an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act or to fail or cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary,
without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in
a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made,
the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of
such amendment.
(g) The Property Trustee shall not be required to enter into any
amendment to this Trust Agreement which affects its own rights, duties or
immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property Trustee shall be entitled
to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers' Certificate stating that any
amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement.
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SECTION 10.3. 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 10.4. Governing Law.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE
SECURITYHOLDERS, THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT
AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES THEREOF).
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that
is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may
be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (except as otherwise
provided in Sections 4.1(a) and 4.2(d)), with the same force and effect as
though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no distribution shall
accumulate thereon for the period after such date.
SECTION 10.6. Successors.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit
of any successor to the Depositor, the Trust or the Relevant Trustee(s),
including any successor by operation of law. Except in connection with a
consolidation, merger or sale involving the Depositor that is permitted under
Article XII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in
writing to perform the Depositor's obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall
not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 10.7. Headings.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not
affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands.
Any report, notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of
this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon
any Securityholder or the Depositor may be given or served in writing by deposit
thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, hand delivery
or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a
Preferred Securityholder, to such Preferred Securityholder as such
Securityholder's name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b)
in the case of the Common Securityholder or the Depositor, to
[ISSUER] [ ADDRESS ], Attention: [______]. Any notice to
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Preferred Securityholders shall also be given to such owners as have, within two
years preceding the giving of such notice, filed their names and addresses with
the Property Trustee for that purpose. Such notice, demand or other
communication to or
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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, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be given in
writing addressed (until another address is published by the Trust) as follows:
(a) with respect to the Trust or the Property Trustee to the State Street Bank
and Trust Company, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000; Attention: Vice
President; Corporate Trust Division and (b) with respect to the Administrative
Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked
"Attention: Administrative Trustees of [Issuer] Statutory Trust." Such notice,
demand or other communication to or upon the Trust or the Property Trustee or
the depositor or the Administrative Trustees under this Section 10.8 shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the
writing by the Trust or the Property Trustee or other such addressee.
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.
Each of the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the
Securityholders that, until at least one year and 1 day after the Trust has been
terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the
filing of, a petition against the Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law (including, without limitation, the United
States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended) (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 10.9, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders,
that at the expense of the Depositor (which expense shall be paid prior to the
filing), 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. The provisions of this Section 10.9 shall survive the termination of
this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.10. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY
OR ON BEHALF OF A SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE
OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL
ACCEPTANCE BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND
AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND
THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE TRUST, SUCH
SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST
AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND
SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement to be duly executed, and their respective corporate
seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, as applicable, all as of the day and
year first above written.
[ISSUER]
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
Attest:
__________________________
Name:
Title:
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, as Property
Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
[ ], as Administrative Trustee
By:_______________________________
Title:
[ ], as Administrative Trustee
By:_______________________________
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN THE
ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM UNDER SAID ACT.
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO THE DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF
THE DEPOSITOR IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.5 OF THE AMENDED
AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
CERTIFICATE NUMBER C-1 NUMBER OF COMMON SECURITIES ___
($_________ Aggregate Liquidation Amount)
CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING COMMON SECURITIES
OF
[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST
____% COMMON SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT [$_______] PER COMMON SECURITY)
[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST, a statutory trust created under the laws
of the State of Connecticut (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that [ISSUER] (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 $25.00 per Common
Security) (the "Common Securities"). Except in accordance with Section 5.5 of
the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Common Securities are not
transferable and any attempted transfer hereof other than in accordance thereof
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 [ Date ], as the same may
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be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement") among [Issuer], as
Depositor, State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Property Trustee and the
Holders of the Trust Securities, 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. Terms used but not
defined herein have the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate this [ Date ].
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[ISSUER]
By:______________________________
Name:
Administrative Trustee
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
as Securities Registrar
By:_____________________________
Authorized Signatory
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EXHIBIT B
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO THE DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF
THE DEPOSITOR IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.5 OF THE AMENDED
AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
CERTIFICATE NUMBER C-1 NUMBER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES ___
($_________ Aggregate Liquidation Amount)
CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING PREFERRED SECURITIES
OF
[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST
____% PREFERRED SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $25.00 PER PREFERRED SECURITY)
[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST, a statutory trust created under the laws
of the State of Connecticut (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that [ISSUER] (the
"Holder") is the registered owner of _____________________ preferred securities
of the Trust representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the
Trust and designated the Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $25.00 per
Preferred Security) (the "Preferred Securities"). Except in accordance with
Section 5.5 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Preferred Securities
are not transferable and any attempted transfer hereof other than in accordance
thereof shall be void. 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 [ Date ],
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as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement") among
[ISSUER], as Depositor, State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Property Trustee
and the Holders of the Trust Securities, 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. Terms used but not
defined herein have the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate this [ Date ].
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[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST
By:_______________________________
Name:
Administrative Trustee
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,
as Securities Registrar
By:_____________________________
Authorized Signatory
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EXHIBIT C
AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES
AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES (this "Agreement") dated as of
[ Date ], between [ISSUER], a [ State ] a corporation (the "Company"),
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and [ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST, a Connecticut statutory trust (the
"Trust").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue its common securities (the "Common
Securities") to, and receive Debentures from, the Company and to issue and sell
[ISSUER] Capital Statutory Trust ___% Cumulative 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 [ Date ], as the same may be amended from time to time
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(the "Trust Agreement");
WHEREAS, the Company shall directly or indirectly own all of the Common
Securities of the Trust and shall issue the Debentures;
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 shall be made in reliance
upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company, including in its
capacity as holder of the Common Securities, and the Trust hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
SECTION 1.1 GUARANTEE BY THE COMPANY.
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company, including in its
capacity as holder of the Common Securities, 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 costs, 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 1.2 TERM OF AGREEMENT.
This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon
the later of (a) the date on which full payment has been made of all amounts
payable to all holders of all the Preferred Securities (whether upon redemption,
liquidation, exchange or otherwise); and (b) 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 Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement dated the date
hereof by Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as guarantee trustee,
or under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever. This Agreement is continuing,
irrevocable, unconditional and absolute.
SECTION 1.3 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 Company hereby waives
presentment, demand for payment, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of
dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.
SECTION 1.4 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 1.5 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.
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ARTICLE II
SECTION 2.1 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 2.2 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 adverse to such Beneficiary or to the holders of the Preferred
Securities.
SECTION 2.3 NOTICES.
Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be
given hereunder shall be given in writing by delivering the same by facsimile
transmission (confirmed by mail), telex, or by registered or certified mail,
addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given when mailed or upon
receipt of an answerback, if sent by telex):
[Issuer]
______________________
______________________
______________________
Facsimile No.: _________________
Attention: ________________
[Issuer] Capital Statutory Trust
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Facsimile No.: _________________
Attention: Vice President, Corporate Trust Division
SECTION 2.4 This agreement shall be governed by and construed and
interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of [______] (without regard
to conflict of laws principles).
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THIS AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.
[ISSUER]
By:______________________________
[Authorized Officer]
[ISSUER] CAPITAL STATUTORY TRUST
By:______________________________
Name:
Administrative Trustee
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