FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this "SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE"),
dated as of November 1, 1999, among WASHINGTON EQUIPMENT COMPANY, an Illinois
corporation (the "GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY"), a subsidiary of Columbus XxXxxxxx
Corporation (or its permitted successor), a New York corporation (the
"COMPANY"), the Company, the other Guarantors (as defined in the Indenture
referred to herein) and State Street Bank and Trust Company, N.A., as trustee
under the indenture referred to below (the "TRUSTEE").
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to
the Trustee an indenture (the "INDENTURE"), dated as of March 31, 1998 providing
for the issuance of an aggregate principal amount of up to $300.0 million of 8
1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 (thE "NOtes");
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain
circumstances the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the
Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary
shall unconditionally guarantee all of the Company's Obligations under the Notes
and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein (a "SUBSIDIARY
GUARANTEE"); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the
Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged,
the Guaranteeing Subsidiary and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the
equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:
1. CAPITALIZED TERMS. Capitalized terms used herein
without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
2. AGREEMENT TO GUARANTEE. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary
hereby agrees as follows:
(a) Along with all Guarantors named in the Indenture, to
jointly and severally Guarantee to each Holder of a
Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and
to the Trustee and its successors and assigns,
irrespective of the validity and enforceability of
the Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the
Company hereunder or thereunder, that:
(i) the principal of and interest on the Notes
will be promptly paid in full when due,
whether at maturity, by acceleration,
redemption or otherwise, and interest on the
overdue principal of and interest on the
Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other
obligations of the Company to the Holders or
the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be
promptly paid in full or performed, all in
accordance with the terms hereof and
thereof; and
(ii) in case of any extension of time of payment
or renewal of any Notes or any of such other
obligations, that same will be promptly paid
in full when due or performed in accordance
with the terms of the extension or renewal,
whether at stated maturity, by acceleration
or otherwise. Failing payment when due of
any amount so guaranteed or any performance
so guaranteed for whatever reason, the
Guarantors shall be jointly and severally
obligated to pay the same immediately.
(b) The obligations hereunder shall be unconditional,
irrespective of the validity, regularity or
enforceability of the Notes or the Indenture, the
absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver
or consent by any Holder of the Notes with respect to
any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any
judgment against the Company, any action to enforce
the same or any other circumstance which might
otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge
or defense of a guarantor.
(c) The following is hereby waived: diligence
presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with
a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of
the Company, any right to require a proceeding first
against the Company, protest, notice and all demands
whatsoever.
(d) The Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be discharged
except by complete performance of the obligations
contained in the Notes and the Indenture.
(e) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court
or otherwise to return to the Company, the
Guarantors, or any Custodian, Trustee, liquidator or
other similar official acting in relation to either
the Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid by
either to the Trustee or such Holder, the Subsidiary
Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged,
shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
(f) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall not be entitled to
any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders
in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until
payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby.
(g) As between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the
Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the
maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be
accelerated as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture
for the purposes of the Subsidiary Guarantee,
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other
prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect
of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the
event of any declaration of acceleration of such
obligations as provided in Article 6 of the
Indenture, such obligations (whether or not due and
payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by
the Guarantors for the purpose of the Subsidiary
Guarantee.
(h) The Guarantors shall have the right to seek
contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as
the exercise of such right does not impair the rights
of the Holders under the Subsidiary Guarantee.
(i) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the
Subsidiary Guarantee would constitute or result in a
violation of any applicable fraudulent conveyance or
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similar law of any relevant jurisdiction, the
liability of the Guaranteeing Subsidiary under this
Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Subsidiary
Guarantee shall be reduced to the maximum amount
permissible under such fraudulent conveyance or
similar law.
3. SUBORDINATION. Payment of principal, premium, if any,
and interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, on the Subsidiary Guarantee is
subordinated to the prior payment in full of Senior Debt on the terms provided
in the Indenture.
4. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary
agrees that the Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such
Subsidiary Guarantee.
5. GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON
CERTAIN TERMS.
(a) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary may not consolidate with
or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor
is the surviving Person) another corporation, Person
or entity whether or not affiliated with such
Guarantor unless:
(i) subject to Section 11.05 of the Indenture,
the Person formed by or surviving any such
consolidation or merger (if other than a
Guarantor or the Company) unconditionally
assumes all the obligations of such
Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental
indenture in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, under the
Notes, the Indenture and the Subsidiary
Guarantee on the terms set forth herein or
therein; and
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Default or Event of Default
exists.
(b) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or
conveyance and upon the assumption by the successor
corporation, by supplemental indenture, executed and
delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to
the Trustee, of the Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed
upon the Notes and the due and punctual performance
of all of the covenants and conditions of the
Indenture to be performed by the Guarantor, such
successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as
if it had been named herein as a Guarantor. Such
successor corporation thereupon may cause to be
signed the Subsidiary Guarantee to be endorsed upon
all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore
shall not have been signed by the Company and
delivered to the Trustee. The Subsidiary Guarantee so
issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank
and benefit under the Indenture as the Subsidiary
Guarantee theretofore and thereafter issued in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture as though
the Subsidiary Guarantee had been issued at the date
of the execution hereof.
(c) Except as set forth in Articles 4 and 5 of the
Indenture, and notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b)
above, nothing contained in the Indenture or in any
of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or
merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or
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another Guarantor, or shall prevent any sale or
conveyance of the property of a Guarantor as an
entirety or substantially as an entirety to the
Company or another Guarantor.
6. RELEASES.
(a) In the event of a sale or other disposition of all of
the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger,
consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other
disposition of all of the capital stock of any
Guarantor, then such Guarantor (in the event of a
sale or other disposition, by way of merger,
consolidation or otherwise, of all of the capital
stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation acquiring
the property (in the event of a sale or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets
of such Guarantor) will be released and relieved of
any obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee;
PROVIDED that the Net Proceeds of such sale or other
disposition are applied in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the Indenture, including
without limitation, Section 4.10 of the Indenture.
Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that such sale or other disposition was
made by the Company in accordance with the provisions
of the Indenture, including without limitation
Section 4.10 of the Indenture, the Trustee shall
execute any documents reasonably required in order to
evidence the release of any Guarantor from its
obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee.
(b) Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under
its Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain liable for the
full amount of principal of and interest on the Notes
and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under
the Indenture as provided in Article 11 of the
Indenture.
7. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. No past, present or
future director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or agent of the
Guaranteeing Subsidiary, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations
of the Company or any Guaranteeing Subsidiary under the Notes, any Subsidiary
Guarantees, the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based
on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each
Holder of the Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.
The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal
securities laws and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver is against
public policy.
8. NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE BUT
WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT
THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED
THEREBY.
9. COUNTERPARTS. The parties may sign any number of
copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original,
but all of them together represent the same agreement.
10. EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Section headings herein are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
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11. THE TRUSTEE. The Trustee shall not be responsible in
any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this
Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein,
all of which recitals are made solely by the Guaranteeing Subsidiary and the
Company.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
caused this Fourth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all
as of the date first above written.
Dated: November 1, 1999
WASHINGTON EQUIPMENT COMPANY
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
G.L. INTERNATIONAL INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
XXXXXX, INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
HANDLING SYSTEMS AND CONVEYORS, INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
LARCO MATERIAL HANDLING INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
XXXXX-XXXX XXXXX, INC..
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS, INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Treasurer
LICO STEEL, INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Treasurer
COLUMBUS XxXXXXXX CORPORATION
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
YALE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, INC.
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
as Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Assistant Secretary
