Exhibit (a)15
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BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION,
as Issuer,
the GUARANTORS named herein,
as Guarantors,
and
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IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Company
as Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of April 30, 1999
up to $400,000,000
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10 1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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310(a)(1).............. 7.10
(a)(2).............. 7.10
(a)(3).............. N.A.
(a)(4).............. N.A.
(a)(5).............. 7.08; 7.10
(b)................. 7.08; 7.10; 13.02
(c)................. N.A.
311(a)................. 7.11
(b)................. 7.11
(c)................. N.A.
312(a)................. 2.05
(b)................. 13.03
(c)................. 13.03
313(a)................. 7.06
(b)(1).............. 7.06
(b)(2).............. 7.06
(c)................. 7.06; 13.02
(d)................. 7.06
314(a)................. 4.08; 4.10; 13.02
(b)................. N.A.
(c)(1).............. 7.02; 13.04; 13.05
(c)(2).............. 7.02; 13.04; 13.05
(c)(3).............. N.A.
(d)................. N.A.
(e)................. 13.05
(f)................. N.A.
315(a)................. 7.01(b)
(b)................. 7.05
(c)................. 7.01
(d)................. 6.05; 7.01(c)
(e)................. 6.11
316(a)(last sentence).. 2.09
(a)(1)(A)........... 6.05
(a)(1)(B)........... 6.04
(a)(2).............. 9.05
(b)................. 6.07
(c)................. 9.05
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N.A. means Not Applicable
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture
317(a)(1).............. 6.08
(a)(2).............. 6.09
(b)................. 2.04
318(a)................. 13.01
(c)................. 13.01
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N.A. means Not Applicable
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.............................................. 1
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of TIA........................ 37
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction.................................... 38
ARTICLE TWO
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating.......................................... 38
SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication............................. 39
SECTION 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent............................... 40
SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust..................... 41
SECTION 2.05. Holder Lists............................................. 42
SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.................................... 42
SECTION 2.07. Replacement Securities................................... 43
SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Securities................................... 44
SECTION 2.09. Treasury Securities...................................... 44
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities..................................... 45
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation............................................. 45
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest....................................... 45
SECTION 2.13. CUSIP Number............................................. 46
SECTION 2.14. Deposit of Moneys........................................ 46
SECTION 2.15. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities.............. 46
SECTION 2.16. Special Transfer Provisions.............................. 48
ARTICLE THREE
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. Notices to Trustee....................................... 52
SECTION 3.02. Selection of Securities To Be Redeemed................... 52
SECTION 3.03. Notice of Redemption..................................... 53
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SECTION 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption........................... 54
SECTION 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price.............................. 54
SECTION 3.06. Securities Redeemed in Part.............................. 55
ARTICLE FOUR
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. Payment of Securities.................................... 55
SECTION 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.......................... 55
SECTION 4.03. Limitation on Restricted Payments........................ 56
SECTION 4.04. Limitation on Incurrence of
Additional Indebtedness................................ 59
SECTION 4.05. Corporate Existence...................................... 59
SECTION 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims........................ 60
SECTION 4.07. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance.................. 60
SECTION 4.08. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default................ 61
SECTION 4.09. Compliance with Laws..................................... 62
SECTION 4.10. Reports to Holders....................................... 62
SECTION 4.11. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.................. 63
SECTION 4.12. Limitations on Transactions with Affiliates.............. 64
SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions
Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries...................... 66
SECTION 4.14. Limitation on Liens...................................... 67
SECTION 4.15. Change of Control........................................ 68
SECTION 4.16. Limitation on Asset Sales................................ 71
SECTION 4.17. Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior Subordinated Debt.... 75
SECTION 4.18. Additional Subsidiary Guarantees......................... 75
SECTION 4.19. Conduct of Business...................................... 76
ARTICLE FIVE
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets................. 76
SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted........................ 79
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ARTICLE SIX
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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SECTION 6.01. Events of Default........................................ 79
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration............................................. 81
SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies........................................... 82
SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults.................................. 83
SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority...................................... 83
SECTION 6.06. Limitation on Suits...................................... 83
SECTION 6.07. Rights of Holders To Receive Payment..................... 84
SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee............................... 84
SECTION 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim......................... 85
SECTION 6.10. Priorities............................................... 85
SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs.................................... 86
ARTICLE SEVEN
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee........................................ 86
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee........................................ 88
SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee............................. 90
SECTION 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer..................................... 90
SECTION 7.05. Notice of Default........................................ 90
SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders............................ 91
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity............................... 91
SECTION 7.08. Replacement of Trustee................................... 93
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc......................... 94
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification............................ 94
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company........................................ 95
ARTICLE EIGHT
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. Termination of the Company's Obligations................. 95
SECTION 8.02. Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance................. 97
SECTION 8.03. Conditions to Legal Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance................................. 99
SECTION 8.04. Application of Trust Money............................... 101
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SECTION 8.05. Repayment to the Company................................. 102
SECTION 8.06. Reinstatement............................................ 102
ARTICLE NINE
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of Holders............................... 103
SECTION 9.02. With Consent of Holders.................................. 104
SECTION 9.03. Effect on Senior Debt.................................... 105
SECTION 9.04. Compliance with TIA...................................... 105
SECTION 9.05. Revocation and Effect of Consents........................ 106
SECTION 9.06. Notation on or Exchange of Securities.................... 107
SECTION 9.07. Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc.......................... 107
ARTICLE TEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 10.01. Securities Subordinated to Senior Debt................... 107
SECTION 10.02. Suspension of Payment When Senior
Debt Is in Default..................................... 108
SECTION 10.03. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All
Senior Debt on Dissolution, Liquidation or
Reorganization of Company.............................. 110
SECTION 10.04. Payments May Be Paid Prior to Dissolution................ 112
SECTION 10.05. Holders To Be Subrogated to Rights
of Holders of Senior Debt.............................. 113
SECTION 10.06. Obligations of the Company Unconditional................. 113
SECTION 10.07. Notice to Trustee........................................ 114
SECTION 10.08. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent....................... 114
SECTION 10.09. Trustee's Relation to Senior Debt........................ 115
SECTION 10.10. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or
Omissions of the Company or Holders of Senior Debt..... 115
SECTION 10.11. Securityholders Authorize Trustee To
Effectuate Subordination of Securities................. 116
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SECTION 10.12. This Article Ten Not To Prevent Events of Default........ 117
SECTION 10.13. Trustee's Compensation Not Prejudiced.................... 117
ARTICLE ELEVEN
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. Unconditional Guarantee.................................. 117
SECTION 11.02. Limitations on Guarantees................................ 119
SECTION 11.03. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee...................... 120
SECTION 11.04. Release of a Guarantor................................... 121
SECTION 11.05. Waiver of Subrogation.................................... 122
SECTION 11.06. Immediate Payment........................................ 122
SECTION 11.07. No Set-Off............................................... 123
SECTION 11.08. Obligations Absolute..................................... 123
SECTION 11.09. Obligations Continuing................................... 123
SECTION 11.10. Obligations Not Reduced.................................. 124
SECTION 11.11. Obligations Reinstated................................... 124
SECTION 11.12. Obligations Not Affected................................. 124
SECTION 11.13. Waiver................................................... 126
SECTION 11.14. No Obligation To Take Action Against the Company......... 126
SECTION 11.15. Dealing with the Company and Others...................... 126
SECTION 11.16. Default and Enforcement.................................. 127
SECTION 11.17. Amendment, Etc........................................... 128
SECTION 11.18. Acknowledgment........................................... 128
SECTION 11.19. Costs and Expenses....................................... 128
SECTION 11.20. No Merger or Waiver; Cumulative Remedies................. 128
SECTION 11.21. Survival of Obligations.................................. 129
SECTION 11.22. Guarantee in Addition to Other Obligations............... 129
SECTION 11.23. Severability............................................. 129
SECTION 11.24. Successors and Assigns................................... 129
ARTICLE TWELVE
SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTEE
SECTION 12.01. Guarantee Obligations Subordinated
to Guarantor Senior Debt............................... 130
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SECTION 12.02. Suspension of Guarantee Obligations
When Guarantor Senior Debt Is in Default............... 130
SECTION 12.03. Guarantee Obligations Subordinated
to Prior Payment of All Guarantor
Senior Debt on Dissolution, Liquidation
or Reorganization of Such Guarantor.................... 132
SECTION 12.04. Payments May Be Paid Prior to Dissolution................ 134
SECTION 12.05. Holders of Guarantee Obligations To Be
Subrogated to Rights of Holders of Guarantor
Senior Debt............................................ 135
SECTION 12.06. Obligations of the Guarantors Unconditional.............. 135
SECTION 12.07. Notice to Trustee........................................ 136
SECTION 12.08. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent...................................... 136
SECTION 12.09. Trustee's Relation to Guarantor Senior Debt.............. 137
SECTION 12.10. Subordination Rights Not Impaired
by Acts or Omissions of the Guarantors
or Holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.................... 138
SECTION 12.11. Holders Authorize Trustee To Effectuate
Subordination of Guarantee Obligations................. 138
SECTION 12.12. This Article Twelve Not To
Prevent Events of Default.............................. 139
SECTION 12.13. Trustee's Compensation Not Prejudiced.................... 139
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 13.01. TIA Controls............................................. 140
SECTION 13.02. Notices.................................................. 140
SECTION 13.03. Communications by Holders with Other Holders............. 141
SECTION 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent....... 142
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SECTION 13.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion............ 142
SECTION 13.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar................ 143
SECTION 13.07. Legal Holidays........................................... 143
SECTION 13.08. Governing Law............................................ 143
SECTION 13.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements............ 143
SECTION 13.10. No Recourse Against Others............................... 143
SECTION 13.11. Successors............................................... 144
SECTION 13.12. Duplicate Originals...................................... 144
SECTION 13.13. Severability............................................. 144
Signatures .............................................................. S-1
Exhibit A - Form of Note
Exhibit B - Form of Legends
Exhibit C - Form of Certificate To Be Delivered in Connection with Transfers
to Non-QIB Accredited Investors
Exhibit D - Form of Certificate To Be Delivered in Connection with Transfers
Pursuant to Regulation S
Exhibit E - Form of Guarantee
Note: This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part
of the Indenture
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INDENTURE dated as of April 30, 1999 among BUILDING ONE SERVICES
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), as Issuer, each of the
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Guarantors named herein, as Guarantors, and IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Company
a [ ] corporation, as Trustee (the "Trustee").
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The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of 10 1/2%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009 and, to provide therefor, the Company has
duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture. All things
necessary to make the Securities, when duly issued and executed by the Company
and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid and binding obligations of
the Company and to make this Indenture a valid and binding agreement of the
Company have been done.
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of each other
party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.
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"Acquired Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of a Person or any of its
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Restricted Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or at the time it merges or consolidates with or into
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or is assumed in connection with the
acquisition of assets from such Person and in each case whether or not incurred
by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such
Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or such acquisition,
merger or consolidation.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
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Person who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls,
or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person.
The term "control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings
correlative of the foregoing.
"Affiliate Transaction" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.12.
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"Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar.
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"Asset Acquisition" means (a) an Investment by the Company or any
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Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any other Person pursuant to which such
Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company, or shall be merged with or into the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or (b) the acquisition by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of the assets of any Person (other than
a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) which constitute all or substantially
all of the assets of such Person or comprises any operating unit, division or
line of business of such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person
other than in the ordinary course of business.
"Asset Sale" means any direct or indirect sale, issuance, conveyance,
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transfer, lease (other than operating leases entered into in the ordinary course
of business), assignment or other transfer for value by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) to
any Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company of (a) any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or
(b) any other property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company other than in the ordinary course of business; provided, however,
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that Asset Sales shall not include: (i) a transaction or series of related
transactions for which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries receive
aggregate consideration of less than $1.5 million; (ii) the sale, lease,
conveyance, disposition or other transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company as permitted under Section 5.01; (iii) any Restricted
Payment permitted by Section 4.03 or that constitutes a Permitted Investment;
(iv) sales of
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damaged, worn-out or obsolete equipment or assets that, in the Company's
reasonable judgment, are no longer either used or useful in the business of
the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries; and (v) the sale of accounts
receivable pursuant to a Qualified Receivables Transaction.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal,
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state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means, as to any Person, the board of directors
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of such Person or any duly authorized committee thereof.
"Board Resolution" means, with respect to any Person, a copy of a
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resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person
to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in
full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any
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other day on which banking institutions in the City of New York are required or
authorized by law or other governmental action to be closed.
"Capital Stock" means (i) with respect to any Person that is a
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corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including
each class of Common Stock and Preferred Stock of such Person (but shall not
include, prior to any conversion thereof, the Convertible Subordinated Notes),
and (ii) with respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all
partnership, membership or other equity interests of such Person.
"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means, as to any Person, the
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obligations of such Person under a lease that are required to be classified and
accounted for as capital lease obligations under GAAP and, for purposes of this
definition, the amount of such obligations at any date shall be the capitalized
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amount of such obligations at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.
"Cash Equivalents" means (i) marketable direct obligations issued by,
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or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States Government or issued by any
agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in
each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof; (ii)
marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of
America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public
instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings
obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Ratings Group ("S&P") or Xxxxx'x
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Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"); (iii) commercial paper maturing no more
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than one year from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition,
having a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody's; (iv)
certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances maturing within one year from
the date of acquisition thereof issued by any bank organized under the laws of
the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or
any U.S. branch of a foreign bank having at the date of acquisition thereof
combined capital and surplus of not less than $250.0 million; (v) repurchase
obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of
the types described in clause (i) above entered into with any bank meeting the
qualifications specified in clause (iv) above; and (vi) investments in money
market funds which invest substantially all their assets in securities of the
types described in clauses (i) through (v) above.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of one or more of the
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following events: (i) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one
transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Company to any Person or group of related Persons for purposes
of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (a "Group"), together with any Affiliates
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thereof (whether or not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this
Indenture), other than to the Permitted Holders; (ii) the approval by the
holders of Capital Stock of the Company of any plan or proposal for the
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tion or dissolution of the Company (whether or not otherwise in compliance with
the provisions of this Indenture); (iii) any Person or Group (other than the
Permitted Holders) shall become the owner, directly or indirectly, beneficially
or of record, of shares representing more than 50% of the aggregate ordinary
voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the
Company; or (iv) the replacement of a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Company over a two-year period from the directors who constituted the Board of
Directors of the Company at the beginning of such period, and such replacement
shall not have been approved by the Permitted Holders or a vote of at least a
majority of the Board of Directors of the Company then still in office who
either were members of such Board of Directors at the beginning of such period
or whose election as a member of such Board of Directors was previously so
approved.
"Change of Control Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.15.
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"Change of Control Offer" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.15.
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"Change of Control Payment Date" has the meaning set forth in Section
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4.15.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"Common Stock" of any Person means any and all shares, interests or
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other participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and whether
voting or non-voting) of such Person's common stock, whether outstanding on the
Issue Date or issued after the Issue Date, and includes, without limitation, all
series and classes of such common stock.
"Company" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
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successor replaces it pursuant to this Indenture and thereafter shall mean such
successor corporation.
"Consolidated EBITDA" means, with respect to any Person, for any
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period, the sum (without duplication) of (i) Consolidated Net Income and (ii) to
the extent Consolidated Net
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Income has been reduced thereby, (A) all income taxes of such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries paid or accrued in accordance with GAAP for such
period (other than income taxes attributable to extraordinary, unusual or
nonrecurring gains), (B) Consolidated Interest Expense and (C) Consolidated
Non-cash Charges less any non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income
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for such period, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Person
and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" means, with respect to any
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Person, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person during the four full
fiscal quarters (the "Four Quarter Period") ending prior to the date of the
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transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio for which financial statements are available (the "Transaction
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Date") to Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person for the Four Quarter Period.
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In addition to and without limitation of the foregoing, for purposes of this
definition, "Consolidated EBITDA" and "Consolidated Fixed Charges" shall be
calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis for the period of such
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calculation to (i) the incurrence or repayment of any Indebtedness of such
Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and the application of the
proceeds thereof) giving rise to the need to make such calculation and any
incurrence or repayment of other Indebtedness (and the application of the
proceeds thereof), other than the incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness in the
ordinary course of business for working capital purposes pursuant to working
capital facilities, occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time
subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the
Transaction Date, as if such incurrence or repayment, as the case may be (and
the application of the proceeds thereof), occurred on the first day of the Four
Quarter Period and (ii) any Asset Sales or other dispositions or Asset
Acquisitions (including, without limitation, any Asset Acquisition giving rise
to the need to make such calculation as a result of such Person or one of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Person who becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary as a result of the Asset Acquisition) incurring, assuming or
otherwise being liable for Acquired Indebtedness and also including any
Consolidated EBITDA (including any pro forma expense and cost
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reductions, adjustments and other operating improvements or synergies both
achieved by such Person during such period and to be achieved by such Person and
with respect to the acquired assets, all as determined in good faith by a
responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company and as reported on or
otherwise confirmed, consistent with applicable standards of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, to the Company by an independent
public accounting firm) attributable to the assets which are the subject of the
Asset Acquisition or Asset Sale or other disposition during the Four Quarter
Period) occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to
the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date,
as if such Asset Sale or other disposition or Asset Acquisition (including the
incurrence, assumption or liability for any such Acquired Indebtedness) occurred
on the first day of the Four Quarter Period. If such Person or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries directly or indirectly guarantees Indebtedness of a
third Person, the preceding sentence shall give effect to the incurrence of such
guaranteed Indebtedness as if such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such
Person had directly incurred or otherwise assumed such guaranteed Indebtedness.
Furthermore, in calculating "Consolidated Fixed Charges" for purposes of
determining the denominator (but not the numerator) of this "Consolidated Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio," (1) interest on outstanding Indebtedness determined on a
fluctuating basis as of the Transaction Date and which will continue to be so
determined thereafter shall be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum
equal to the rate of interest on such Indebtedness in effect on the Transaction
Date; and (2) notwithstanding clause (1) above, interest on Indebtedness
determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is covered by
agreements relating to Interest Swap Obligations, shall be deemed to accrue at
the rate per annum resulting after giving effect to the operation of such
agreements.
"Consolidated Fixed Charges" means, with respect to any Person for any
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period, the sum, without duplication, of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense
(excluding (x) amortization or write-off of deferred financing costs, (y)
interest paid on Convertible Subordinated Notes in the form of Convertible
Subordinated Notes or Qualified Capital Stock and (z) one-time ac-
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celerated interest payments due upon the conversion of the Convertible
Subordinated Notes prior to May 1, 2004) plus (ii) the product of (x) the
amount of all dividend payments on any series of Preferred Stock of such
Person (other than dividends paid in Qualified Capital Stock) paid, accrued
or scheduled to be paid or accrued during such period times (y) a fraction,
the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the
then current effective consolidated federal, state and local tax rate of such
Person, expressed as a decimal.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" means, with respect to any Person for
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any period, the sum of, without duplication: (i) the aggregate of the interest
expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without
limitation, (a) any amortization of debt discount and amortization or write-off
of deferred financing costs (including the amortization of costs relating to
interest rate caps or other similar agreements), (b) the net costs under
Interest Swap Obligations, (c) all capitalized interest and (d) the interest
portion of any deferred payment obligation; and (ii) the interest component of
Capitalized Lease Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or
accrued by such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period as
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, minus interest
income for such period.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, with respect to any Person, for any
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period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance
with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded therefrom (a) after-tax gains
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or losses from Asset Sales (without regard to the $1.5 million limitation set
forth in the definition thereof) or abandonments or reserves relating thereto,
(b) items classified as extraordinary, nonrecurring or unusual gains or losses
on an after-tax basis (including, but not limited to, fees and expenses related
to the Transactions and non-cash charges related to the acceleration of the
vesting of options), (c) the net income of any Person acquired in a "pooling of
interests" transaction accrued prior to the date it becomes a Restricted
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sidiary of the referent Person or is merged or consolidated with the referent
Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person, (d) the net income
(but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person to the extent
that the declaration of dividends and the making of loans or advances or similar
distributions, loans or advances by that Restricted Subsidiary of that income is
restricted by a contract, operation of law or otherwise, (e) the net income of
any Person, other than a Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person, except to
the extent of cash dividends or distributions paid to the referent Person or to
a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person by such Person, (f)
in the case of a successor to the referent Person by consolidation or merger or
as a transferee of the referent Person's assets, any earnings of the successor
corporation prior to such consolidation, merger or transfer of assets and (g)
the effect of changes in accounting principles after the Issue Date.
For purposes of Section 4.03 only, "Consolidated Net Income" shall be
calculated without taking into account cash interest payments (and the related
tax effects) on the Convertible Subordinated Notes.
"Consolidated Non-cash Charges" means, with respect to any Person, for
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any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses
of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income
of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Convertible Subordinated Notes" means the $100 million aggregate
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principal amount of the Company's 7 1/2% Convertible Junior Subordinated Notes
due 2012 and any additional Convertible Subordinated Notes issued in lieu of
cash interest thereon in accordance with the terms of the Convertible
Subordinated Notes as in effect on the Issue Date.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02.
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"Credit Agreement" means the Credit Agreement dated as of the Issue
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Date, between the Company, the lenders party
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thereto in their capacities as lenders thereunder, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co., as
documentation agent, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Barney Inc., as syndication agent, and
Bankers Trust Company, as administrative agent, together with the related
documents thereto (including, without limitation, any guarantee agreements and
security documents), in each case as such agreements may be amended (including
any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time, including any agreement extending the maturity of, refinancing,
replacing or otherwise restructuring (including increasing the amount of
available borrowings thereunder or adding Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company
as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder) all or any portion of the
Indebtedness under such agreement or any successor or replacement agreement and
whether by the same or any other agent, lender or group of lenders.
"Credit Facilities" means one or more debt facilities (including,
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without limitation, the Credit Agreement) or commercial paper facilities with
banks or other institutional lenders providing for revolving credit loans, term
loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such
lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders
against such receivables) and/or letters of credit or banker's acceptances.
"Currency Agreement" means any foreign exchange contract, currency
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swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company against fluctuations in
currency values.
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
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sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"Default" means an event or condition the occurrence of which is, or
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with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of
Default.
"Default Notice" has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02.
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"Depository" shall mean The Depository Trust Company, New York, New
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York, or a successor thereto registered under the Exchange Act or other
applicable statute or regulation.
"Designated Senior Debt" means (i) Indebtedness under or in respect of
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the Credit Agreement and (ii) any other Indebtedness constituting Senior Debt
which, at the time of determination, has an aggregate principal amount of at
least $25.0 million and is specifically designated in the instrument evidencing
such Senior Debt as "Designated Senior Debt" by the Company.
"Disqualified Capital Stock" means that portion of any Capital Stock
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which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is
convertible or for which it is exchangeable at the option of the holder
thereof), or upon the happening of any event (other than an event which would
constitute a Change of Control or Asset Sale), matures or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable
at the sole option of the holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the
occurrence of a Change of Control or Asset Sale), on or prior to the Maturity
Date of the Securities.
"Domestic Restricted Subsidiary" means a Restricted Subsidiary
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incorporated or otherwise organized or existing under the laws of the United
States, any state thereof or any territory or possession of the United States.
"Equity Offering" means a public or private offering of Qualified
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Capital Stock (other than public offerings with respect to the Company's Common
Stock on Form S-8 or any replacement form for such Form S-8) of the Company for
aggregate net cash proceeds to the Company of at least $20 million.
"Event of Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
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"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
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or any successor statute or statutes thereto.
"Exchange Securities" means securities issued in exchange for the
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Securities pursuant to the terms of the Regis-
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tration Rights Agreement, or, in the case of Securities issued after the Issue
Date, any other registration rights agreement.
"fair market value" means, with respect to any asset or property, the
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price which could be negotiated in an arm's-length, free market transaction
between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is under
undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the
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opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession of the United States, which are in effect as of the Issue Date.
"Global Security" shall mean one or more IAI Global Securities,
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Regulation S Global Securities and 144A Global Securities.
"Guarantee Obligations" has the meaning set forth in Section 12.01.
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"Guarantees" means the guarantees of the Securities by the Guarantors.
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"Guarantor" means (i) each of the Company's Restricted Subsidiaries as
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of the Issue Date and (ii) each of the Company's Restricted Subsidiaries that in
the future executes a supplemental indenture in which such Restricted Subsidiary
agrees to be bound by the terms of this Indenture as a Guarantor; provided that
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any Person constituting a Guarantor as described above shall cease to constitute
a Guarantor when its respective Guarantee is released in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture.
"Guarantor Payment Blockage Period" has the meaning set forth in
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Section 12.02.
"Guarantor Senior Debt" means with respect to any Guarantor, the
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principal of, premium, if any, and interest (in-
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cluding any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition of
bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto,
whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable law) on any
Indebtedness of such Guarantor, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or
thereafter created, incurred or assumed, unless, in the case of any particular
Indebtedness, the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding expressly provides that such Indebtedness shall
not be senior in right of payment to the Guarantee of such Guarantor. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, "Guarantor Senior Debt" shall also
include the principal of, premium, if any, interest (including any interest
accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition of bankruptcy at the rate
provided for in the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such
interest is an allowed claim under applicable law) on, and all other amounts
owing in respect of, (x) all monetary obligations of every nature of such
Guarantor under, or with respect to, the Credit Agreement, including, without
limitation, obligations to pay principal and interest, reimbursement obligations
under letters of credit, fees, expenses and indemnities (including guarantees
thereof), (y) all Interest Swap Obligations (and guarantees thereof) and (z) all
obligations (and guarantees thereof) under Currency Agreements, in each case
whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter incurred. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, "Guarantor Senior Debt" shall not include (i) any Indebtedness of
such Guarantor to a Subsidiary of such Guarantor, (ii) Indebtedness to, or
guaranteed on behalf of, any shareholder, director, officer or employee of such
Guarantor or any Subsidiary of such Guarantor (including, without limitation,
amounts owed for compensation) other than a shareholder who is also a lender (or
an Affiliate of a lender) under the Credit Facilities (including the Credit
Agreement), (iii) Indebtedness to trade creditors and other amounts incurred in
connection with obtaining goods, materials or services, (iv) Indebtedness
represented by Disqualified Capital Stock, (v) any liability for federal, state,
local or other taxes owed or owing by such Guarantor, (vi) that portion of any
Indebtedness incurred in violation of the provisions of Section 4.04 (but, as to
any such obligation, no such violation shall be deemed to exist for purposes of
this clause (vi) if the holder(s) of such obligation or their representative
shall have received an officers'
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certificate of the Company to the effect that the incurrence of such
Indebtedness does not (or, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness, that
the incurrence of the entire committed amount thereof at the date on which the
initial borrowing thereunder is made would not) violate such provisions of this
Indenture), (vii) Indebtedness which, when incurred and without respect to any
election under Section 1111(b) of Xxxxx 00, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Code, is without
recourse to the Company and (viii) any Indebtedness which is, by its express
terms, subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of such
Guarantor.
"incur" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04.
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"Indebtedness" means with respect to any Person, without duplication,
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(i) all Obligations of such Person for borrowed money (including, without
limitation, Senior Debt), (ii) all Obligations of such Person evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) all Capitalized
Lease Obligations of such Person, (iv) all Obligations of such Person issued or
assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional sale
obligations and all Obligations under any title retention agreement (but
excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business that are not overdue by 90 days or more or are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and
diligently conducted), (v) all Obligations for the reimbursement of any obligor
on any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar credit transaction, (vi)
guarantees and other contingent obligations in respect of Indebtedness referred
to in clauses (i) through (v) above and clause (viii) below, (vii) all
Obligations of any other Person of the type referred to in clauses (i) through
(vi) which are secured by any lien on any property or asset of such Person, the
amount of such Obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the fair market value
of such property or asset or the amount of the Obligation so secured, (viii) all
Obligations under currency agreements and interest swap agreements of such
Person and (ix) all Disqualified Capital Stock issued by such Person with the
amount of Indebtedness represented by such Disqualified Capital Stock being
equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and
its maximum fixed re-
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purchase price, but excluding accrued dividends, if any. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this definition, Indebtedness shall not include any
contingent purchase price obligations or other earnout obligations of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with acquisitions, which
obligations are not required to be included as indebtedness on the face of the
Company's consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP. For purposes
hereof, the "maximum fixed repurchase price" of any Disqualified Capital Stock
which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance
with the terms of such Disqualified Capital Stock as if such Disqualified
Capital Stock were purchased on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required
to be determined pursuant to this Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or
measured by, the fair market value of such Disqualified Capital Stock, such fair
market value shall be determined reasonably and in good faith by the Board of
Directors of the issuer of such Disqualified Capital Stock.
"Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time
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to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
"Independent Financial Advisor" means a firm (i) which does not, and
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whose directors, officers and employees or Affiliates do not, have a direct or
indirect financial interest in the Company and (ii) which, in the judgment of
the Board of Directors of the Company, is otherwise independent and qualified to
perform the task for which it is to be engaged.
"Initial Purchasers" means BT Alex. Xxxxx Incorporated, Bear, Xxxxxxx
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& Co. Inc., Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co., Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Barney Inc., Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx & Company, Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc. and Fleet Securities, Inc.
"Institutional Accredited Investor" or "IAI" means an institution that
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is an "accredited investor" as that term is defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3)
or (7) under the Securities Act.
"Interest Payment Date" means the stated maturity of an installment of
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interest on the Securities.
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"Interest Swap Obligations" means the obligations of any Person
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pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person, whereby, directly or
indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic
payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest on
a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such other
Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same
notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate swaps,
caps, floors, collars and similar agreements.
"Investment" means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect
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loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee)
or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property
to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of
others), or any purchase or acquisition by such Person of any Capital Stock,
bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness issued
by, any Person. "Investment" shall exclude extensions of trade credit by the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on commercially reasonable terms in
accordance with normal trade practices of the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be.
For purposes of Section 4.03: (1) "Investment" shall include and be
valued at the fair market value of the net assets of any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated an
Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Company and shall exclude the fair market value
of the net assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Company at the time that
such Unrestricted Subsidiary is designated a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company; and (2) the amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such
Investment plus the cost of all additional Investments by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries, without any adjustments for increases or decreases
in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such
Investment, reduced by the payment of dividends or distributions in connection
with such Investment or any other amounts received in respect of such
Investment; provided that no such payment of dividends or distributions or
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receipt of any such other amounts shall reduce the amount of any Investment if
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dividends or distributions or receipt of any such amounts would be included in
Consolidated Net Income.
If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company sells or
otherwise disposes of any Common Stock of any direct or indirect Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company such that, after giving effect to any such sale or
disposition, the Company no longer owns, directly or indirectly, 100% of the
outstanding Common Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be
deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition
equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary
not sold or disposed of.
"Investors' Rights Agreement" means the Investors' Rights Agreement,
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dated March 22, 1999, among the Company and certain of its investors.
"Issue Date" means the date of original issuance of any Securities
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under this Indenture.
"Legal Defeasance" has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02.
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"Lien" means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, security
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interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and any
agreement to give any security interest).
"Maturity Date" means May 1, 2009.
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"Net Cash Proceeds" means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the
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proceeds in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents including payments in respect
of deferred payment obligations when received in the form of cash or Cash
Equivalents (other than the portion of any such deferred payment constituting
interest) received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from
such Asset Sale net of (a) reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating
to such Asset Sale (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and
investment banking fees and sales commissions), (b) taxes paid or payable after
taking into account any reduction in consolidated tax li-
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ability due to available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing
arrangements, (c) repayment of Indebtedness that is required to be repaid in
connection with such Asset Sale, (d) appropriate amounts to be provided by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, as a reserve, in
accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale
and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be,
after such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, pension and other post-
employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters and
liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset
Sale, and (e) all distributions and other payments required to be made to
minority interest holders in Restricted Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a
result of such Asset Sale.
"Net Proceeds Offer" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.16.
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"Net Proceeds Offer Amount" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.16.
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"Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date" has the meaning set forth in
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Section 4.16.
"Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date" has the meaning set forth in
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Section 4.16.
"Non-payment Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02.
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"Non-U.S. Person" has the meaning assigned to such term in
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Regulation S.
"Obligations" means all obligations for principal, premium, interest,
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penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities
payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
"Officer" means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the
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Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief
Financial Officer, the Controller, or the Secretary of such Person.
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"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by two Officers of
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the Company.
"144A Global Security" means a permanent global security in registered
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form representing the aggregate principal amount of Securities sold in reliance
on Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel which
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opinion and counsel are reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"Participants" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15.
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"Paying Agent" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03.
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"Payment Blockage Period" has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02.
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"Payment Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02.
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"Permitted Holders" means Apollo Management, L.P. and its Affiliates
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and management of the Company.
"Permitted Indebtedness" means, without duplication, each of the
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following:
(i) Indebtedness under the Securities and the Guarantees issued on
the Issue Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200 million;
(ii) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $375.0
million less the amount of all repayments and permanent commitment
reductions under the Credit Agreement with the Net Cash Proceeds of an
Asset Sale applied thereto as required by Section 4.16; provided that the
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amount of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to the Credit
Agreement in accordance with this clause (ii) shall be in addition to any
Indebt-
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edness permitted to be incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement in
reliance on and in accordance with clause (xvi) below; provided, further,
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that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted to be
incurred under this clause (ii) shall be reduced dollar for dollar by any
Indebtedness outstanding under clause (xv) below;
(iii) Indebtedness under the Convertible Subordinated Notes reduced
by any principal payments or conversions thereof;
(iv) other Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries outstanding on the Issue Date reduced by the amount of any
scheduled amortization payments or mandatory prepayments when actually paid
or permanent reductions thereon;
(v) Interest Swap Obligations of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company covering Indebtedness of the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that such Interest Swap
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Obligations are entered into to protect the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries from fluctuations in interest rates on their outstanding
Indebtedness to the extent the notional principal amount of such Interest
Swap Obligations does not, at the time of the incurrence thereof, exceed
the principal amount of the Indebtedness to which such Interest Swap
Obligations relate;
(vi) Indebtedness under Currency Agreements; provided that in the
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case of Currency Agreements which relate to Indebtedness, such Currency
Agreements do not increase the Indebtedness of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding other than as a result of fluctuations
in foreign currency exchange rates or by reason of fees, indemnities and
compensation payable thereunder;
(vii) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the
Company or to a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company for so
long as such Indebtedness is held by the Company, a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or the lenders or collateral agent un-
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der the Credit Agreement, in each case subject to no Lien held by a Person
other than the Company, a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company
or the lenders or collateral agent under the Credit Agreement; provided
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that if as of any date any Person other than the Company, a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or the lenders or collateral agent
under the Credit Agreement owns or holds any such Indebtedness or holds a
Lien in respect of such Indebtedness, such date shall be deemed the
incurrence of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness by the
issuer of such Indebtedness;
(viii) Indebtedness of the Company to a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or the lenders or collateral agent under the
Credit Agreement for so long as such Indebtedness is held by a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or the lenders or collateral agent
under the Credit Agreement in each case subject to no Lien; provided that
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(a) any Indebtedness of the Company to any Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company is unsecured and subordinated, pursuant to a
written agreement, to the Company's obligations under this Indenture and
the Securities and (b) if as of any date any Person other than a Wholly
Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or the lenders or collateral
agent under the Credit Agreement owns or holds any such Indebtedness or any
Person holds a Lien (other than a Lien in favor of the lenders or
collateral agent under the Credit Agreement) in respect of such
Indebtedness, such date shall be deemed the incurrence of Indebtedness not
constituting Permitted Indebtedness by the Company;
(ix) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other
financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently
(except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient
funds in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such
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Indebtedness is extinguished within two business days of incurrence;
(x) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries represented by letters of credit for
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the account of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be, in order to provide security for workers' compensation claims, payment
obligations in connection with self-insurance or similar requirements in
the ordinary course of business;
(xi) Indebtedness represented by Capitalized Lease Obligations and
Purchase Money Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
incurred in the ordinary course of business not to exceed $20.0 million at
any one time outstanding; provided that all or a portion of the $20 million
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permitted to be incurred pursuant to this clause (xi) may, at the option of
the Company, be incurred under the Credit Agreement instead of pursuant to
Capitalized Lease Obligations or Purchase Money Indebtedness;
(xii) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company providing for indemnification,
adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, in each case, incurred
or assumed in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or a
Subsidiary, other than guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any Person
acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or a Subsidiary for
the purpose of financing such acquisition; provided, however, that (a) such
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Indebtedness is not reflected on the balance sheet of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (contingent obligations referred to in
a footnote to financial statements and not otherwise reflected on the
balance sheet will not be deemed to be reflected on such balance sheet for
purposes of this clause (a)) and (b) the maximum assumable liability in
respect of all such Indebtedness shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds
including non-cash proceeds (the fair market value of such non-cash
proceeds being measured at the time it is received and without giving
effect to any subsequent changes in value) actually received by the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition;
(xiii) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries in respect of performance bonds, bankers' acceptances,
workers' compensation claims, surety
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or appeal bonds, payment obligations in connection with self-insurance or
similar obligations, and bank overdrafts (and letters of credit in respect
thereof);
(xiv) Refinancing Indebtedness;
(xv) the incurrence by a Receivables Subsidiary of Indebtedness in a
Qualified Receivables Transaction that is without recourse to the Company
or to any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or their assets (other than
such Receivables Subsidiary and its assets), and is not guaranteed by any
such Person; provided that any outstanding Indebtedness incurred under this
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clause (xv) shall reduce the aggregate amount permitted to be incurred
under clause (ii) above to the extent set forth therein; and
(xvi) additional Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $20.0 million
at any one time outstanding (which amount may, but need not, be incurred in
whole or in part under the Credit Agreement).
For purposes of determining compliance with Section 4.04, in the event
that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the
categories of Permitted Indebtedness described in clauses (i) through (xvi)
above or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to the Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio provisions of Section 4.04, the Company shall, in its sole
discretion, classify (or later reclassify) such item of Indebtedness in any
manner that complies with Section 4.04. Accrual of interest, accretion or
amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any
Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, and the
payment of dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock in the form of additional
shares of the same class of Disqualified Capital Stock will not be deemed to be
an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of Disqualified Capital Stock for
purposes of Section 4.04.
"Permitted Investments" means:
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(i) Investments by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company in any Person that is or will become immediately after such Investment a
Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or that will merge or
consolidate into the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company;
(ii) Investments in the Company by any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company; provided that any Indebtedness evidencing such Investment is unsecured
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and subordinated, pursuant to a written agreement, to the Company's obligations
under the Securities and this Indenture;
(iii) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;
(iv) loans and advances to employees and officers of the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business for bona fide
business purposes not in excess of $5.0 million at any one time outstanding;
(v) Currency Agreements and Interest Swap Obligations entered into in
the ordinary course of the Company's or its Restricted Subsidiaries' businesses
and otherwise in compliance with this Indenture;
(vi) additional Investments (including joint ventures) not to exceed
$10.0 million at any one time outstanding;
(vii) Investments in securities of trade creditors or customers
received pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the
bankruptcy or insolvency of such trade creditors or customers;
(viii) Investments made by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries
as a result of consideration received in connection with an Asset Sale made in
compliance with Section 4.16 or any Investment made by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a transaction that would be an Asset
Sale if it involved aggregate consideration of $1.5 million or more;
(ix) Investments of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at
the time such Person becomes a Restricted Sub-
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sidiary of the Company or at the time such Person merges or consolidates with
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in either case in compliance
with this Indenture; provided that such Investments were not made by such Person
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in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person
becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or such merger or consolidation;
(x) repurchases of Capital Stock of the Company deemed to occur upon
the exercise of stock options if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the
exercise price thereof;
(xi) Investments made by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in
connection with purchase price adjustments, contingent purchase price payments
or other earnout payments required in connection with Investments otherwise
permitted under this Indenture;
(xii) Investments in securities received in settlement of trade
obligations in the ordinary course of business; and
(xiii) Investments in the Securities.
"Permitted Liens" means the following types of Liens:
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(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims
either (a) not delinquent or (b) contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and as to which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries
shall have set aside on its books such reserves as may be required pursuant
to GAAP;
(ii) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers,
warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materialmen, repairmen and other Liens
imposed by law incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not yet
delinquent or being contested in good faith, if such reserve or other
appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been
made in respect thereof;
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(iii) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of
business in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance
and other types of social security, including any Lien securing letters of
credit issued in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice in connection therewith, or to secure the performance of tenders,
statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government
contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar
obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money);
(iv) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default so long
as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate legal proceedings
which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment shall
not have been finally terminated or the period within which such
proceedings may be initiated shall not have expired;
(v) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions and other similar
charges or encumbrances in respect of real property not interfering in any
material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(vi) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease
Obligation; provided that such Liens do not extend to any property or asset
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which is not leased property subject to such Capitalized Lease Obligation;
(vii) Liens securing Capitalized Lease Obligations and Purchase
Money Indebtedness permitted pursuant to clause (xi) of the definition of
"Permitted Indebtedness" above; provided, however, that in the case of
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Purchase Money Indebtedness (a) the Indebtedness shall not exceed the cost
of such property or assets and shall not be secured by any property or
assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company other
than the property and assets so acquired and (b) the Lien securing such
Indebtedness shall be created within 180 days of such acquisition or
construction or, in the case of a refinancing of any Pur-
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chase Money Indebtedness, within 180 days of such refinancing;
(viii) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and
proceeds of any Person securing such Person's obligations in respect of
bankers' acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to
facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other
goods;
(ix) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to
commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other property
relating to such letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof;
(x) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations arising
from statutory, regulatory, contractual, or warranty requirements of the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including rights of offset
and set-off;
(xi) Liens securing Interest Swap Obligations which Interest Swap
Obligations relate to Indebtedness that is otherwise permitted under this
Indenture;
(xii) Liens in the ordinary course of business not exceeding $5
million at any one time outstanding that (a) are not incurred in connection
with borrowing of money and (b) do not materially detract from the value of
the property or materially impair its use;
(xiii) Liens by reason of judgment or decree not otherwise
resulting in an Event of Default;
(xiv) Liens securing Indebtedness under Currency Agreements
permitted under this Indenture;
(xv) Liens securing Acquired Indebtedness incurred in accordance
with Section 4.04; provided that: (a) such Liens secured such Acquired
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Indebtedness at the time of and prior to the incurrence of such Acquired
Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and
were not granted in connection with, or in anticipa-
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tion of, the incurrence of such Acquired Indebtedness by the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; and (b) such Liens do not extend to
or cover any property or assets of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries other than the property or assets that secured the Acquired
Indebtedness prior to the time such Indebtedness became Acquired
Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and
are no more favorable to the lienholders than those securing the Acquired
Indebtedness prior to the incurrence of such Acquired Indebtedness by the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; and
(xvi) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant
to clause (xvi) of the definition of "Permitted Indebtedness."
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited
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liability company, unincorporated organization, trust or joint venture, or a
governmental agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Physical Securities" shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01.
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"Preferred Stock" of any Person means any Capital Stock of such Person
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that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of such Person with
respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation.
"principal" of any Indebtedness (including the Securities) means the
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principal amount of such Indebtedness plus the premium, if any, on such
Indebtedness.
"Private Placement Legend" means the legends initially set forth on
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the Securities in the form set forth in Exhibit B.
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"Purchase Money Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company and
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its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred in the normal course of business for the
purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price, or the cost of
installation,
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construction or improvement, of property or equipment and any Refinancings
thereof.
"Qualified Capital Stock" means any Capital Stock that is not
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Disqualified Capital Stock.
"Qualified Institutional Buyer" or "QIB" shall have the meaning
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specified in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
"Qualified Receivables Transaction" means any transaction or series of
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transactions that may be entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (i) a Receivables Subsidiary (in the
case of a transfer by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) and
(ii) any other Person (in the case of transfer by a Receivables Subsidiary), or
may grant a security interest in, any accounts receivable (whether now existing
or arising in the future) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
and any assets related thereto, including, without limitation, all collateral
securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and all guarantees or other
obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts
receivable and other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect of
which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset
securitization transactions involving accounts receivable.
"Receivables Subsidiary" means a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of
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the Company that engages in no activities other than in connection with the
financing of accounts receivable and that is designated by the Board of
Directors of the Company (as provided below) as a Receivables Subsidiary (a) no
portion of the Indebtedness or any other Obligations (contingent or otherwise)
of which (i) is guaranteed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company (excluding guarantees of Obligations (other than the principal of, and
interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to representations, warranties, covenants
and indemnities entered into in the ordinary course of business in connection
with a Qualified Receivables Transaction), (ii) is recourse to or obligates the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any way other than
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pursuant to representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into
in the ordinary course of business in connection with a Qualified Receivables
Transaction, or (iii) subjects any property or asset of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, directly or indirectly, contingently or
otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to representations,
warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into in the ordinary course of
business in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction, (b) with which
neither the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company has any
material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms
no less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that
might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the
Company, other than fees payable in the ordinary course of business in
connection with servicing accounts receivable, and (c) with which neither the
Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company has any obligation to
maintain or preserve such Restricted Subsidiary's financial condition or cause
such Restricted Subsidiary to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any
such designation by the Board of Directors of the Company shall be evidenced to
the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a Board Resolution giving effect to such
designation and an Officers' Certificate certifying that such designation
complied with the foregoing conditions.
"Record Date" means the applicable Record Date specified in the
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Securities; provided that if any such date is not a Business Day, the Record
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Date shall be the first day immediately preceding such specified day that is a
Business Day.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
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redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to this Indenture
and the Securities.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
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redeemed, means the price fixed for such redemption, payable in immediately
available funds, pursuant to this Indenture and the Securities.
"Reference Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.03.
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"Refinance" means, in respect of any security or Indebtedness, to
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refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or
to issue a security or Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for, such
security or Indebtedness in whole or in part. "Refinanced" and "Refinancing"
shall have correlative meanings.
"Refinancing Indebtedness" means any Refinancing by the Company or any
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Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of Indebtedness incurred or existing in
accordance with Section 4.04 (other than pursuant to clause (ii), (v), (vi),
(vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xv) or (xvi) of the definition
of "Permitted Indebtedness"), in each case that does not (1) result in an
increase in the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of such Person as of
the date of such proposed Refinancing (plus the amount of any premium required
to be paid under the terms of the instrument governing such Indebtedness and
plus the amount of reasonable expenses incurred by the Company in connection
with such Refinancing) or (2) create Indebtedness with (A) a Weighted Average
Life to Maturity that is less than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the
Indebtedness being Refinanced or (B) a final maturity earlier than the final
maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced; provided that (x) if such
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Indebtedness being Refinanced is Indebtedness of the Company, then such
Refinancing Indebtedness shall be Indebtedness solely of the Company and (y) if
such Indebtedness being Refinanced is subordinate or junior to the Securities,
then such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be subordinate to the Securities at
least to the same extent and in the same manner as the Indebtedness being
Refinanced.
"Registrar" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03.
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"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights
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Agreement dated as of the Issue Date among the Company, the Guarantors and the
Initial Purchasers.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act.
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"Regulation S Global Security" means a permanent global security in
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registered form representing the aggregate principal amount of Securities sold
in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.
"Replacement Assets" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.16.
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"Representative" means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent
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or representative in respect of any Designated Senior Debt; provided that if,
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and for so long as, any Designated Senior Debt lacks such a representative, then
the Representative for such Designated Senior Debt shall at all times constitute
the holders of a majority in outstanding principal amount of such Designated
Senior Debt in respect of any Designated Senior Debt.
"Responsible Officer" means, when used with respect to the Trustee,
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any officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee including any vice
president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, treasurer, assistant
treasurer, or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs
functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be
such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred
because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
"Restricted Payment" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.03.
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"Restricted Security" means a Security that constitutes a "Restricted
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Security" within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act;
provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to request and
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conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any Security
constitutes a Restricted Security.
"Restricted Subsidiary" of any Person means any Subsidiary of such
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Person which at the time of determination is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"Rule 144A" means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
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"Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any direct or indirect
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arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person is a party, providing
for the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property,
whether owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary at the Issue Date or
later acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds
have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property.
"Securities" means, collectively, the Company's 10 1/2% Senior
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Subordinated Notes due 2009 issued in accordance with Section 2.02 (whether on
the Issue Date or thereafter) treated as a single class of securities under this
Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any
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successor statute or statutes thereto.
"Securities Purchase Agreement" means the Securities Purchase
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Agreement, dated as of March 22, 1999, between Boss Investment, LLC and the
Company.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means the Person in whose name a Security
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is registered on the Registrar's books.
"Senior Debt" means the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
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(including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition of
bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto,
whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable law) on any
Indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter
created, incurred or assumed, unless, in the case of any particular
Indebtedness, the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding expressly provides that such Indebtedness shall
not be senior in right of payment to the Securities. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, "Senior Debt" shall also include the principal of,
premium, if any, interest (including any interest accruing subsequent to the
filing of a petition of bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation
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respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under
applicable law) on, and all other amounts owing by the Company in respect of,
(i) all monetary obligations of every nature of the Company under, or with
respect to, the Credit Agreement, including, without limitation, obligations to
pay principal and interest, reimbursement obligations under letters of credit,
fees, expenses and indemnities, (ii) all Interest Swap Obligations (including
guarantees thereof) and (iii) all obligations under Currency Agreements
(including guarantees thereof), in each case whether outstanding on the Issue
Date or thereafter incurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, "Senior Debt" shall
not include (i) any Indebtedness of the Company to a Subsidiary of the Company,
(ii) Indebtedness to, or guaranteed on behalf of, any shareholder, director,
officer or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including,
without limitation, amounts owed for compensation) other than a shareholder who
is a lender (or an Affiliate of a lender) under the Credit Facilities (including
the Credit Agreement), (iii) Indebtedness to trade creditors and other amounts
incurred in connection with obtaining goods, materials or services, (iv)
Indebtedness represented by Disqualified Capital Stock, (v) any liability for
federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by the Company, (vi) that
portion of any Indebtedness incurred in violation of Section 4.04 (but, as to
any such obligation, no such violation shall be deemed to exist for purposes of
this clause (vi) if the holder(s) of such obligation or their representative
shall have received an Officers' Certificate of the Company to the effect that
the incurrence of such Indebtedness does not (or, in the case of revolving
credit Indebtedness, that the incurrence of the entire committed amount thereof
at the date on which the initial borrowing thereunder is made would not) violate
such provisions of this Indenture), (vii) Indebtedness represented by the
Convertible Subordinated Notes, (viii) Indebtedness which, when incurred and
without respect to any election under Section 1111(b) of Xxxxx 00, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Code, is without recourse to the Company and (ix) any Indebtedness which is, by
its express terms, subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of
the Company.
"Significant Subsidiary," with respect to any Person, means any
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Restricted Subsidiary of such Person that satisfies
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the criteria for a "significant subsidiary" set forth in Rule 1.02(w) of
Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act based upon the most recent pro forma
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annual financial information filed by the Company with the Commission.
"Subsidiary," with respect to any Person, means (i) any corporation of
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which the outstanding Capital Stock having at least a majority of the votes
entitled to be cast in the election of directors under ordinary circumstances
shall at the time be owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or (ii) any
other Person of which at least a majority of the voting interest under ordinary
circumstances is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person.
"Surviving Entity" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01.
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"Tender Offer" means the purchase of the Company's common stock,
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including shares underlying certain options, pursuant to the Company's offer to
purchase dated February 19, 1999, as amended through the Issue Date.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S)(S) 77aaa-
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77bbbb), as amended, as in effect on the date of the execution of this Indenture
until such time as this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, and thereafter as
in effect on the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, except
as otherwise provided in Section 9.03.
"Trust Officer" means any officer or assistant officer of the Trustee
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assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters or, in the
case of a successor trustee, an officer assigned to the department, division or
group performing the corporate trust work of such successor.
"Trustee" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
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successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and
thereafter means such successor.
"Unrestricted Securities" means one or more Securities that do not and
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are not required to bear the Private
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Placement Legend in the form set forth in Exhibit B, including, without
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limitation, the Exchange Securities.
"Unrestricted Subsidiary" of any Person means (i) any Subsidiary of
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such Person that at the time of determination shall be or continue to be
designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of such Person
in the manner provided below and (ii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted
Subsidiary. The Board of Directors may designate any Subsidiary (including any
newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary
unless such Subsidiary owns any Capital Stock of, or owns or holds any Lien on
any property of, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company that is not
a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated; provided that (x) the
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Company certifies to the Trustee that such designation complies with Section
4.03 and (y) each Subsidiary to be so designated and each of its Subsidiaries
has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter, create, incur,
issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable with
respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of
the assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. The Board of
Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted
Subsidiary only if (x) immediately after giving effect to such designation, the
Company is able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than
Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.04 and (y) immediately
before and immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Any such designation by
the Board of Directors shall be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with
the Trustee a copy of the Board Resolution giving effect to such designation and
an Officers' Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the
foregoing provisions.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means direct obligations of, and
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obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America for the payment of which
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged and which
are not callable or redeemable at the issuer's option.
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"U.S. Legal Tender" means such coin or currency of the United States
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of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
"Weighted Average Life to Maturity" means, when applied to any
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Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (a) the then
outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness into (b) the sum of
the total of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then
remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment
of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii)
the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) which will elapse
between such date and the making of such payment.
"Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary" of any Person means any Wholly
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Owned Subsidiary of such Person which at the time of determination is a
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person.
"Wholly Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means any Subsidiary of such
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Person of which all the outstanding voting securities (other than in the case of
a foreign Subsidiary, directors' qualifying shares or an immaterial amount of
shares required to be owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law) are
owned by such Person or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such Person.
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of TIA.
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Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such
provision is incorporated by reference in, and made a part of, this Indenture.
The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"indenture securities" means the Securities.
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"indenture security holder" means a Holder or a Securityholder.
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"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
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"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee.
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"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company, any Guarantor
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or any other obligor on the Securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule
and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction.
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Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the
plural include the singular;
(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and
(6) "herein," "hereof" and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other subdivision.
ARTICLE TWO
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating.
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The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall
be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The Securities may have
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notations, legends or endorse-
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ments required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. The Company shall
approve the form of the Securities and any notation, legend or endorsement on
them. Each Security shall be dated the date of its issuance and show the date
of its authentication. Each Security shall have an executed Guarantee from
each of the Guarantors endorsed thereon substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
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The terms and provisions contained in the Securities and the
Guarantees shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantors and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to
such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.
Securities offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144 and Securities
offered and sold in reliance on Regulation S shall be issued initially in the
form of one or more Global Securities, substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit A, deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depository, duly
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executed by the Company (and having an executed Guarantee from each of the
Guarantors endorsed thereon) and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter
provided and shall bear the legends set forth in Exhibit B. The aggregate
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principal amount of the Global Securities may from time to time be increased or
decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for
the Depository, as hereinafter provided.
Securities issued in exchange for interests in a Global Security
pursuant to Section 2.16 may be issued in the form of permanent certificated
Securities in registered form in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A
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(the "Physical Securities").
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SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication.
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Two Officers, or an Officer and an Assistant Secretary, shall sign, or
one Officer shall sign and one Officer or an Assistant Secretary (each of whom
shall, in each case, have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate
actions) shall attest to, the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile
signature.
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If an Officer whose signature is on a Security or Guarantee, as the
case may be, was an Officer at the time of such execution but no longer holds
that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Security, the Security
shall nevertheless be valid.
A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Security. The
signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated
under this Indenture.
The Trustee shall authenticate Securities for original issue on the
Issue Date in the aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 upon a written
order of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate. In addition, the
Trustee shall authenticate Securities for original issue after the Issue Date in
the aggregate principal amount of up to $200,000,000 upon a written order of the
Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate. Each such Officers'
Certificate shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the
date on which the Securities are to be authenticated. The aggregate principal
amount of Securities outstanding at any time may not exceed $400,000,000, except
as provided in Section 2.07.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably acceptable
to the Company to authenticate Securities. Unless otherwise provided in the
appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company and Affiliates of the Company.
The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
SECTION 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent.
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The Company shall maintain an office or agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, where (a) Securi-
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ties may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange ("Registrar"), (b) Securities may be presented or surrendered for
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payment ("Paying Agent") and (c) notices and demands to or upon the Company
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in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company
may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies
where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided,
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however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve
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the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, for such purposes. The Company may act as its
own Registrar, Paying Agent or Calculation Agent except that for the purposes of
Articles Three and Eight and Sections 4.15 and 4.16, neither the Company nor any
Affiliate of the Company shall act as Paying Agent. The Registrar shall keep a
register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The Company, upon
notice to the Trustee, may have one or more co-Registrars and one or more
additional paying agents reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The term "Paying
Agent" includes any additional paying agent. The Company initially appoints the
Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent until such time as the Trustee has
resigned or a successor has been appointed.
The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any
Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall implement the
provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall
notify the Trustee, in advance, of the name and address of any such Agent. If
the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act
as such.
SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust.
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The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
agree in writing that, subject to Article Four and Article Twelve, each Paying
Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all assets
held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, or interest on, the
Securities (whether such assets have been distributed to it by the Company or
any other obligor on the Securities),
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and shall notify the Trustee of any Default by the Company (or any other obligor
on the Securities) in making any such payment. If the Company or a Subsidiary
acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate such assets and hold them as a separate
trust fund. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to distribute all
assets held by it to the Trustee and account for any assets disbursed and the
Trustee may at any time during the continuance of any payment Default, upon
written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to distribute all
assets held by it to the Trustee and to account for any assets distributed. Upon
distribution to the Trustee of all assets that shall have been delivered by the
Company to the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability
for such assets.
SECTION 2.05. Holder Lists.
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The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee on or before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the
Trustee may request in writing a list in such form and as of such date as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders, which
list may be conclusively relied upon by the Trustee.
SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.
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Subject to Sections 2.15 and 2.16, when Securities are presented to
the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register the transfer of such
Securities or to exchange such Securities for an equal principal amount of
Securities of other authorized denominations, the Registrar or co-Registrar
shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its
requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the
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Securities surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Registrar or co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof
or his attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit registrations of
transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the
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Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar's or co-Registrar's
request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The
Registrar or co-Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of or
exchange of any Security (i) during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, (ii) selected for
redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article Three, except the unredeemed
portion of any Security being redeemed in part, and (iii) during a Change of
Control Offer or an Net Proceeds Offer if such Security is tendered pursuant to
such Change of Control Offer or Net Proceeds Offer and not withdrawn.
Any Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Security shall, by
acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that transfers of beneficial
interests in such Global Securities may be effected only through a book entry
system maintained by the Holder of such Global Security (or its agent), and that
ownership of a beneficial interest in the Security shall be required to be
reflected in a book entry system.
SECTION 2.07. Replacement Securities.
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If a mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder
of a Security claims that the Security has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully
taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement
Security if the Trustee's requirements are met. If required by the Trustee or
the Company, such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other indemnity,
sufficient in the judgment of both the Company and the Trustee, to protect the
Company, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them may suffer if
a Security is replaced. The Company may charge such Holder for its reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses in replacing a Security pursuant to this Section 2.07,
including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel.
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Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company
and every replacement Guarantee shall constitute an additional obligation of the
Guarantors.
SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Securities.
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Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities that have
been authenticated by the Trustee except those cancelled by it, those delivered
to it for cancellation and those described in this Section as not outstanding.
A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company, the Guarantors
or any of their respective Affiliates holds the Security (subject to the
provisions of Section 2.09).
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 (other than a
mutilated Security surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding
unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security
is held by a bona fide purchaser. A mutilated Security ceases to be outstanding
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upon surrender of such Security and replacement thereof pursuant to Section
2.07. If the principal amount of any Security is considered paid under Section
4.01, it ceases to be outstanding and interest ceases to accrue.
If on a Redemption Date or the Maturity Date the Paying Agent (other
than the Company or a Subsidiary) holds U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government
Obligations sufficient to pay all of the principal and interest due on the
Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities
cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.
SECTION 2.09. Treasury Securities.
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In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of
Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned
by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates
shall be disregarded, except that, for the purposes of determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent,
only Securities that the Trustee knows or has reason to know are so owned shall
be disregarded.
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SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities.
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Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may
prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities. Temporary
Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may
have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities.
Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall
authenticate definitive Securities in exchange for temporary Securities. Until
such exchange, temporary Securities shall be entitled to the same rights,
benefits and privileges as definitive Securities. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, so long as the Securities are represented by a Global Security, such
Global Security may be in typewritten form.
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation.
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The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee
any Securities surrendered to them for transfer, exchange or payment. The
Trustee, or at the direction of the Trustee, the Registrar or the Paying Agent
(other than the Company or a Subsidiary), and no one else, shall cancel and, at
the written direction of the Company, shall dispose of all Securities
surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation. Subject to Section
2.07, the Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has
paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. If the Company or any
Guarantor shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not
operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such
Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.11.
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest.
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If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Securities, it
shall, unless the Trustee fixes another record date pursuant to Section 6.10,
pay the defaulted interest, plus (to the extent lawful) any interest payable on
the defaulted interest, in any lawful manner. The Company may pay
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the defaulted interest to the persons who are Holders on a subsequent special
record date, which date shall be the fifteenth day next preceding the date fixed
by the Company for the payment of defaulted interest or the next succeeding
Business Day if such date is not a Business Day. At least 15 days before any
such subsequent special record date, the Company shall mail to each Holder, with
a copy to the Trustee, a notice that states the subsequent special record date,
the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest, and interest payable on
such defaulted interest, if any, to be paid.
SECTION 2.13. CUSIP Number.
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The Company in issuing the Securities may use a "CUSIP" number, and if
so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP number in notices of redemption or exchange
as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state
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that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP
number printed in the notice or on the Securities, and that reliance may be
placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities.
SECTION 2.14. Deposit of Moneys.
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Prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on each Interest Payment Date,
Maturity Date, Redemption Date, Change of Control Payment Date and Net Proceeds
Offer Payment Date, the Company shall have deposited with the Paying Agent in
immediately available funds money sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due
on such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Redemption Date, Change of Control
Payment Date and Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, as the case may be, in a
timely manner which permits the Paying Agent to remit payment to the Holders on
such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Redemption Date, Change of Control
Payment Date and Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.15. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Securities.
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(a) The Global Securities initially shall (i) be registered in the
name of the Depository or the nominee of such Depository, (ii) be delivered to
the Trustee as custodian for
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such Depository and (iii) bear legends as set forth in Exhibit B.
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Members of, or participants in, the Depository ("Participants") shall
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have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on
their behalf by the Depository, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under the
Global Security, and the Depository may be treated by the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of the Global
Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the
Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other
authorization furnished by the Depository or impair, as between the Depository
and Participants, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of
the rights of a Holder of any Security.
(b) Transfers of Global Securities shall be limited to transfers in
whole, but not in part, to the Depository, its successors or their respective
nominees. Interests of beneficial owners in the Global Securities may be
transferred or exchanged for Physical Securities in accordance with the rules
and procedures of the Depository and the provisions of Section 2.16. In
addition, Physical Securities shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in
exchange for their beneficial interests in Global Securities if (i) the
Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depository for any Global Security and a successor Depository is not appointed
by the Company within 90 days of such notice or (ii) an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has received a request from the
Depository to issue Physical Securities.
(c) In connection with any transfer or exchange of a portion of the
beneficial interest in a Global Security to beneficial owners pursuant to
paragraph (b), the Registrar shall (if one or more Physical Securities are to be
issued) reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the
principal amount of such Global Security in an amount equal to the principal
amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Security to be transferred, and
the Company shall execute, and
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the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Physical Securities
of authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Security so
transferred.
(d) In connection with the transfer of a Global Security as an
entirety to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 2.15,
such Global Security shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation, and the Company shall execute, the Guarantors shall execute
Guarantees on and the Trustee shall upon written instructions from the Company
authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depository
in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Security, an equal
aggregate principal amount of Physical Securities of authorized denominations.
(e) Any Physical Security constituting a Restricted Security delivered
in exchange for an interest in a Global Security pursuant to paragraph (b) or
(c) of this Section 2.15 shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.16,
bear the Private Placement Legend.
(f) The Holder of any Global Security may grant proxies and otherwise
authorize any Person, including Participants and Persons that may hold interests
through Participants, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take
under this Indenture or the Securities.
SECTION 2.16. Special Transfer Provisions.
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(a) Transfers to Non-QIB Institutional Accredited Investors and Non-
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U.S. Persons. The following additional provisions shall apply with respect to
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the registration of any proposed transfer of a Restricted Security to any
Institutional Accredited Investor which is not a QIB or to any Non-U.S. Person:
(i) the Registrar shall register the transfer of any Restricted
Security, whether or not such Security bears the Private Placement Legend,
if (x) the requested transfer is after the second anniversary of the Issue
Date; provided, however, that neither the Company nor any Af-
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filiate of the Company has held any beneficial interest in such Security,
or portion thereof, at any time on or prior to the second anniversary of
the Issue Date or (y) (1) in the case of a transfer to an Institutional
Accredited Investor which is not a QIB (excluding Non-U.S. Persons), the
proposed transferee has delivered to the Registrar a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto and any legal opinions and
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certifications required thereby and (2) in the case of a transfer
to a Non-U.S. Person, the proposed transferor has delivered to the
Registrar a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto;
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(ii) if the proposed transferee is a Participant and the Securities
to be transferred consist of Physical Securities which after transfer are
to be evidenced by an interest in the IAI Global Security or Regulation S
Global Security, as the case may be, upon receipt by the Registrar of (x)
written instructions given in accordance with the Depository's and the
Registrar's procedures and (y) the appropriate certificate, if any,
required by clause (y) of paragraph (i) above, the Registrar shall register
the transfer and reflect on its books and records the date and an increase
in the principal amount of the IAI Global Security or Regulation S Global
Security, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the principal amount of
Physical Securities to be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the
Physical Securities so transferred; and
(iii) if the proposed transferor is a Participant seeking to
transfer an interest in a Global Security, upon receipt by the Registrar of
(x) written instructions given in accordance with the Depository's and the
Registrar's procedures and (y) the appropriate certificate, if any,
required by clause (y) of paragraph (i) above, the Registrar shall register
the transfer and reflect on its books and records the date and (A) a
decrease in the principal amount of the Global Security from which such
interests are to be transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount
of the Securities to be transferred and (B) an increase in the principal
amount of the IAI Global Security or the Regulation S Global Security, as
the case may be,
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in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Securities to be
transferred.
(b) Transfers to QIBs. The following provisions shall apply with
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respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Restricted Security to
a QIB:
(i) the Registrar shall register the transfer of any Restricted
Security, whether or not such Security bears the Private Placement Legend,
if (x) the requested transfer is after the second anniversary of the Issue
Date; provided, however, that neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the
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Company has held any beneficial interest in such Security, or portion
thereof, at any time on or prior to the second anniversary of the Issue
Date or (y) such transfer is being made by a proposed transferor who has
checked the box provided for on the form of Security stating, or has
otherwise advised the Company and the Registrar in writing, that the sale
has been made in compliance with the provisions of Rule 144A to a
transferee who has signed the certification provided for on the form of
Security stating, or has otherwise advised the Company and the Registrar in
writing, that it is purchasing the Security for its own account or an
account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and
that it and any such account is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A, and
is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and
acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as
it has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request
such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon
its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from
registration provided by Rule 144A;
(ii) if the proposed transferee is a Participant and the Securities
to be transferred consist of Physical Securities which after transfer are
to be evidenced by an interest in the 144A Global Security, upon receipt by
the Registrar of written instructions given in accordance with the
Depository's and the Registrar's procedures, the Registrar shall register
the transfer and reflect on its book and records the date and an increase
in the principal
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amount of the 144A Global Security in an amount equal to the principal
amount of Physical Securities to be transferred, and the Trustee shall
cancel the Physical Securities so transferred; and
(iii) if the proposed transferor is a Participant seeking to
transfer an interest in the IAI Global Security or the Regulation S Global
Security, upon receipt by the Registrar of written instructions given in
accordance with the Depository's and the Registrar's procedures, the
Registrar shall register the transfer and reflect on its books and records
the date and (A) a decrease in the principal amount of the IAI Global
Security or the Regulation S Global Security, as the case may be, in an
amount equal to the principal amount of the Securities to be transferred
and (B) an increase in the principal amount of the 144A Global Security in
an amount equal to the principal amount of the Securities to be
transferred.
(c) Restrictions on Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities.
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, a Global Security may
not be transferred as a whole except by the Depository to a nominee of the
Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another
nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a
successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository.
(d) Private Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or
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replacement of Securities not bearing the Private Placement Legend, the
Registrar or co-Registrar shall deliver Securities that do not bear the Private
Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Securities
bearing the Private Placement Legend, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall
deliver only Securities that bear the Private Placement Legend unless (i) there
is delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee to the effect that neither such legend nor the related
restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the
provisions of the Securities Act or (ii) such Security has been sold pursuant to
an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.
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(e) General. By its acceptance of any Security bearing the Private
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Placement Legend, each Holder of such a Security acknowledges the restrictions
on transfer of such Security set forth in this Indenture and in the Private
Placement Legend and agrees that it will transfer such Security only as provided
in this Indenture.
The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other
written communications received pursuant to Section 2.15 or this Section 2.16.
The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters,
notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving
of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.
ARTICLE THREE
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. Notices to Trustee.
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If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to Paragraph 6 or
Paragraph 7 of the Securities, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the
Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and the principal amount of Securities to
be redeemed. The Company shall give notice of redemption to the Paying Agent
and Trustee at least 45 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption
Date (unless a shorter notice shall be agreed to by the Trustee in writing),
together with an Officers' Certificate stating that such redemption will comply
with the conditions contained herein.
SECTION 3.02. Selection of Securities To Be Redeemed.
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In the event that less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed
at any time, selection of such Securities for redemption will be made by the
Trustee in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities
exchange, if any, on which such Securities are listed or, if such Securities are
not then listed on a national securities exchange, on a pro rata basis, by lot
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or by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate; provided,
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a principal amount of $1,000 or less shall be redeemed in part; and provided,
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further, that if a partial redemption is made with the net cash proceeds of an
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Equity Offering, selection of the Securities or portions thereof for redemption
shall be made by the Trustee only on a pro rata basis or on as nearly a pro
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rata basis as is practicable (subject to the procedures of the Depository),
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unless such method is otherwise prohibited.
SECTION 3.03. Notice of Redemption.
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At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date,
the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first class mail, postage
prepaid, to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed at its registered
address. At the Company's request, the Trustee shall give the notice of
redemption in the Company's name and at the Company's expense. Each notice for
redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price and the amount of accrued interest, if
any, to be paid;
(3) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
(4) that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to
the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if
any;
(5) that, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption
payment, interest on Securities called for redemption ceases to accrue on
and after the Redemption Date, and the only remaining right of the Holders
of such Securities is to receive payment of the Redemption Price upon
surrender to the Paying Agent of the Securities redeemed;
(6) if any Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the
principal amount of such Security to be redeemed and that, after the
Redemption Date, and upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or
Securities in
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aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will
be issued;
(7) if fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification of the particular Securities (or portion thereof) to be
redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be
redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be outstanding
after such partial redemption; and
(8) the Paragraph of the Securities pursuant to which the
Securities are to be redeemed.
The notice, if mailed in a manner herein provided, shall be
conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives
such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in
the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption in whole or
in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of
any other Security.
SECTION 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption.
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Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.03,
Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date
and at the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any. Upon surrender to
the Trustee or Paying Agent, such Securities called for redemption shall be paid
at the Redemption Price (which shall include accrued interest thereon to the
Redemption Date), but installments of interest, the maturity of which is on or
prior to the Redemption Date, shall be payable to Holders of record at the close
of business on the relevant Record Dates.
SECTION 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price.
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On or before 11:00 a.m. New York time on the Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay
the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Securities to be
redeemed on that date.
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If the Company complies with the preceding paragraph, then, unless the
Company defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued interest,
if any, interest on the Securities to be redeemed will cease to accrue on and
after the applicable Redemption Date, whether or not such Securities are
presented for payment.
SECTION 3.06. Securities Redeemed in Part.
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Upon surrender of a Security that is to be redeemed in part only, the
Trustee shall upon written instruction from the Company authenticate for the
Holder a new Security or Securities in a principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.
ARTICLE FOUR
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. Payment of Securities.
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The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on the Securities
in the manner provided in the Securities. An installment of principal of or
interest on the Securities shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the
Trustee or Paying Agent holds on that date U.S. Legal Tender designated for and
sufficient to pay the installment. Interest on the Securities will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
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The Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, the office or agency required under Section 2.03. The Company shall
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to
maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee
with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands
may be made or served at the address of the Trustee set forth in Section 13.02.
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The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any
or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency.
The Company hereby initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as such
office of the Company in accordance with Section 2.03.
SECTION 4.03. Limitation on Restricted Payments.
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The Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, (a) declare or pay any
dividend or make any distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable
in Qualified Capital Stock of the Company) on or in respect of shares of the
Company's Capital Stock to holders of such Capital Stock, (b) purchase, redeem
or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company or any
warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any class of such
Capital Stock, (c) make (i) any principal payment on, purchase, defease, redeem,
prepay, decrease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to any
scheduled final maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment,
any Indebtedness of the Company that is subordinate or junior in right of
payment to the Securities, including, without limitation, the Convertible
Subordinated Notes (except a conversion thereof into Qualified Capital Stock)
and (ii) any cash interest payments on the Convertible Subordinated Notes or (d)
make any Investment (other than Permitted Investments) (each of the foregoing
actions set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) being referred to as a
"Restricted Payment"), if immediately after giving effect to the Restricted
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Payment, (i) a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or (ii) the Company is not able to incur at least $1.00 of additional
Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.04
or (iii) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments (including such proposed
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quent to the Issue Date (the amount expended for such purposes, if other than in
cash, being the fair market value of such property as determined reasonably and
in good faith by senior management or, in the case of any such property in
excess of $5 million, by the Board of Directors of the Company) shall exceed the
sum of: (w) 50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income (or if cumulative
Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss) of the Company
earned subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the date the Restricted
Payment occurs (the "Reference Date") (treating such period as a single
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accounting period); plus (x) 100% of (1) the aggregate net cash proceeds
received by the Company from any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company)
from the issuance and sale subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the
Reference Date of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company and (2) the fair market
value (as determined in good faith by senior management or, in the case of a
fair market value in excess of $5 million, by the Board of Directors of the
Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company issued subsequent
to the Issue Date and on or prior to the Reference Date in connection with Asset
Acquisitions and other acquisitions of property after the Issue Date; plus (y)
without duplication of any amounts included in clause (iii)(x) above, 100% of
(1) the aggregate net cash proceeds and (2) the fair market value of property
other than cash (as determined in good faith by senior management or, in the
case of a fair market value in excess of $5 million, by the Board of Directors
of the Company), in each case of any equity contribution received by the Company
from a holder of the Company's Capital Stock subsequent to the Issue Date and on
or prior to the Reference Date; plus (z) without duplication, the sum of (1) the
aggregate amount returned in cash on or with respect to Investments (other than
Permitted Investments) made subsequent to the Issue Date whether through
interest payments, principal payments, dividends or other distributions or
payments, (2) the net cash proceeds received by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries from the disposition of all or any portion of such
Investments (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) and (3) upon
redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the fair
market value of such Subsidiary; provided, however, that the sum of clauses
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(1), (2) and (3) above shall not exceed the aggregate amount of all such
Investments made subsequent to the Issue Date.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions set forth in the
immediately preceding paragraph do not prohibit: (1) the payment of any
dividend within 60 days after the date of declaration of such dividend if the
dividend would have been permitted on the date of declaration; (2) if no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the acquisition of
any shares of Capital Stock of the Company, either (i) solely in exchange for
shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (ii) through the application
of net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a
Subsidiary of the Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company;
(3) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
acquisition of any Indebtedness of the Company that is subordinate or junior in
right of payment to the Securities either (i) solely in exchange for shares of
Qualified Capital Stock of the Company, or (ii) through the application of net
proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary
of the Company) of (A) shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (B)
Refinancing Indebtedness; (4) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, repurchases by the Company of Common Stock of
the Company from employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or their
authorized representatives upon the death, disability or termination of
employment of such employees, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5 million in
any calendar year; (5) the consummation of the Tender Offer; (6) so long as no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing, the
declaration and payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of
Preferred Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) issued
after the Issue Date, provided that after giving effect to such issuance on a
pro forma basis, the Company would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of
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additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) pursuant to Section
4.04; (7) cash payments in lieu of payment of (i) fractional Convertible
Subordinated Notes in lieu of cash interest thereon or (ii) fractional shares of
Common Stock of the Company upon conversion of Convertible Subordinated Notes;
and (8) other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2.0
million. In determining the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made
subsequent to the Issue Date in accordance with clause (4)(iii) of the
immediately preceding paragraph, amounts expended pursuant to clauses (1),
(2)(ii), (4) and (6) shall be included in such calculation.
Not later than the date of making any Restricted Payment, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
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Certificate stating that such Restricted Payment complies with this Indenture
and setting forth in reasonable detail the basis upon which the required
calculations were computed, which calculations may be based upon the Company's
latest available internal quarterly financial statements.
SECTION 4.04. Limitation on Incurrence of
Additional Indebtedness.
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The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee,
acquire, become liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to, or otherwise
become responsible for payment of (collectively, "incur") any Indebtedness
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(other than Permitted Indebtedness); provided, however, that if no Default or
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Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or as a
consequence of the incurrence of any such Indebtedness, the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries that is or, upon such incurrence, becomes a
Guarantor may incur Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Acquired
Indebtedness) and any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is not and will
not, upon such incurrence, become a Guarantor may incur Acquired Indebtedness,
in each case if on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving
effect to the incurrence thereof, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
of the Company is greater than 2.25 to 1.0 if such incurrence is on or prior to
November 1, 2000 and 2.5 and 1.0 if such incurrence is thereafter.
SECTION 4.05. Corporate Existence.
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Except as otherwise permitted by Article Five, the Company shall do or
cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and
effect its corporate existence and the corporate, partnership or other existence
of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with the respective
organizational documents of each such Restricted Subsidiary and the rights
(charter and statutory) and material franchises of the Company and each of its
Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
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required to preserve any such right, franchise or corporate existence with
respect to each such Restricted Subsidiary if the Board of Directors of the
Company shall determine that the loss thereof is not, and will not be, adverse
in any material respect to the Holders.
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SECTION 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
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The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (a) all material taxes, assessments and
governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or
upon the income, profits or property of it or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
and (b) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, in each case,
if unpaid, might by law become a material liability or Lien upon the property of
it or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company
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shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any
such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, (i) the applicability or
validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for
which appropriate provision has been made or (ii) where the failure to effect
such payment or discharge is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 4.07. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance.
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(a) The Company shall cause all material properties owned by or
leased by it or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries used or useful to the conduct
of its business or the business of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to be
maintained and kept in normal condition, repair and working order and supplied
with all necessary equipment and shall cause to be made all repairs, renewals,
replacements, and betterments thereof, all as in its judgment may be necessary,
so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and
advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this
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Section 4.07 shall prevent the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
from discontinuing the use, operation or maintenance of any of such properties,
or disposing of any of them, if such discontinuance or disposal is, in the
judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company or any such Restricted
Subsidiary desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company or any such
Restricted Subsidiary, and if such discontinuance or disposal is not adverse in
any material respect to the Holders; provided, further, that nothing in this
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Section 4.07 shall prevent the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
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discontinuing or disposing of any properties to the extent otherwise
permitted by this Indenture.
(b) The Company shall maintain, and shall cause its Restricted
Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible carriers against such risks
and in such amounts, and with such deductibles, retentions, self-insured amounts
and co-insurance provisions, as are customarily carried by similar businesses of
similar size, including property and casualty loss, workers' compensation and
interruption of business insurance.
SECTION 4.08. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default.
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(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after
the close of each fiscal year an Officers' Certificate stating that a review of
the activities of the Company has been made under the supervision of the signing
officers with a view to determining whether it has kept, observed, performed and
fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture and further stating, as to each
such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of such Officer's
knowledge, the Company during such preceding fiscal year has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled each and every such covenant and no Default or Event of
Default occurred during such year and at the date of such certificate there is
no Default or Event of Default that has occurred and is continuing or, if such
signers do know of such Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall
describe its status with particularity. The Officers' Certificate shall also
notify the Trustee should the Company elect to change the manner in which it
fixes its fiscal year end.
(b) The annual financial statements delivered pursuant to Section
4.10 shall be accompanied by a written report of the Company's independent
accountants (who shall be a firm of established national reputation) that in
conducting their audit of such financial statements nothing has come to their
attention that would lead them to believe that the Company has violated any
provisions of Article Four, Five or Six of this Indenture insofar as they relate
to accounting matters or, if any such violation has occurred, specifying the
nature and period of existence thereof, it being understood that such
accountants
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shall not be liable directly or indirectly to any Person for any failure to
obtain knowledge of any such violation.
(c) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon becoming
aware of any Default or Event of Default in the performance of any covenant,
agreement or condition contained in this Indenture, an Officers' Certificate
specifying the Default or Event of Default and describing its status with
particularity.
SECTION 4.09. Compliance with Laws.
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The Company shall comply, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to
comply, with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders and
restrictions of the United States, all states and municipalities thereof, and of
any governmental department, commission, board, regulatory authority, bureau,
agency and instrumentality of the foregoing, in respect of the conduct of their
respective businesses and the ownership of their respective properties, except
for such noncompliances as would not in the aggregate have a material adverse
effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
SECTION 4.10. Reports to Holders.
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Whether or not required by the rules and regulations of the
Commission, so long as any Securities are outstanding, the Company shall furnish
the Holders of Securities:
(1) all quarterly and annual financial information that would be
required to be contained in a filing with the Commission on Forms 10-Q and
10-K if the Company were required to file such Forms, including a
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations" that describes the financial condition and results of
operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries (showing in
reasonable detail, either on the face of the financial statements or in the
footnotes thereto, the financial condition and results of operations of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial
condition and results of operations of
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the Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Company, if any) and, with respect to
the annual information only, a report thereon by the Company's certified
independent accountants; and
(2) all current reports that would be required to be filed with the
Commission on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports,
in each case within two days after the time periods specified in the
Commission's rules and regulations.
In addition, following the consummation of the exchange offer
contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement, whether or not required by
the rules and regulations of the Commission, the Company will file a copy of all
such information and reports with the Commission for public availability within
the time periods specified in the Commission's rules and regulations (unless the
Commission will not accept such a filing) and make such information available to
securities analysts and prospective investors upon request. In addition, for so
long as any Securities remain outstanding, the Company shall furnish to the
Holders and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their
request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4)
under the Securities Act.
SECTION 4.11. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
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Each of the Company and each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that
it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in
any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or
extension law or any usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the
Company or such Guarantor from paying all or any portion of the principal of
and/or interest on the Securities or the Guarantee of any such Guarantor as
contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or
which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture, and (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) each hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer
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execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 4.12. Limitations on Transactions with Affiliates.
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(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any
transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation,
the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any
service) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates (each an "Affiliate
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Transaction"), other than (x) Affiliate Transactions permitted under paragraph
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(b) below and (y) Affiliate Transactions on terms that are no less favorable
than those that might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable transaction
at such time on an arm's-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary. All Affiliate Transactions (and each
series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common
plan) involving aggregate payments or other property with a fair market value in
excess of $3.0 million shall be approved by the Board of Directors of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, such approval to be
evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that such Board of Directors has
determined that such transaction complies with the foregoing provisions. If the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company enters into an Affiliate
Transaction (or a series of related Affiliate Transactions related to a common
plan) that involves an aggregate fair market value of more than $10.0 million,
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall, prior to
the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such
transaction or series of related transactions to the Company or the relevant
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view, from
an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Trustee.
(b) The restrictions set forth in clause (a) shall not apply to (i)
reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of,
officers, directors, employees, consultants or investment bankers of the Company
or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as determined in good
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faith by the Company's Board of Directors or senior management; (ii)
transactions exclusively between or among the Company and any of its Wholly
Owned Restricted Subsidiaries or exclusively between or among such Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiaries,
provided such transactions are not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture; (iii)
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any agreement as in effect as of the Issue Date or any amendment thereto or any
transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto)
or any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or
replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material
respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (iv)
Restricted Payments permitted by this Indenture; (v) transactions in which the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to
the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such
transaction is fair to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a
financial point of view or meets the requirements of the first sentence of this
Section 4.12; (vi) the existence of, or the performance by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, the
Investors' Rights Agreement, the Securities Purchase Agreement, any stockholders
agreement (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement
related thereto) to which it is a party as of the Issue Date and any similar
agreements which it may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the
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existence of, or the performance by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries of obligations under, any future amendment to any such existing
agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall
only be permitted by this clause (vi) to the extent that the terms of any such
amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous to the Holders of
the Securities in any material respect; (vii) the issuance of securities or
other payments, awards or grants, in cash, securities or otherwise, pursuant to,
or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership
plans approved by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith and loans
to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries which are approved by senior
management of the Company in good faith; (viii) the payment of all fees and
expenses related to the Transactions; (ix) transactions with customers, clients,
suppliers, purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the
ordinary
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course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this
Indenture, which are fair to the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the
reasonable determination of senior management of the Company, or are on terms at
least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an
unaffiliated party; and (x) transactions reasonably related to (x) the exercise
of rights and remedies with respect to the Convertible Subordinated Notes or (y)
the conversion or exchange of the Convertible Subordinated Notes (each to the
extent not otherwise prohibited in this Indenture).
SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting
Restricted Subsidiaries.
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The Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or
permit to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the
ability of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to (a) pay dividends or make
any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock; (b) make loans or
advances or to pay any Indebtedness or other obligation owed to the Company or
any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or (c) transfer any of its
property or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company, except, with respect to each of clauses (a), (b) or (c), for such
encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of: (1) applicable
law; (2) this Indenture; (3) customary non-assignment provisions of any contract
or any lease governing a leasehold interest of, or any license held by, any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; (4) any instrument governing Acquired
Indebtedness, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person,
or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person or the
properties or assets of the Person so acquired; (5) the Credit Agreement; (6)
agreements existing on the Issue Date to the extent and in the manner such
agreements are in effect on the Issue Date; (7) an agreement governing
Indebtedness incurred to Refinance the Indebtedness issued, assumed or incurred
pursuant to an agreement referred to in clauses (2), (4), (5) or (6) above and
(8) and (10) below; provided, however, that the provisions relating to such
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encumbrance or restriction contained in any such
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Indebtedness are no less favorable to the Company in any material respect as
determined by the Board of Directors of the Company or senior management in its
reasonable and good faith judgment than the provisions relating to such
encumbrance or restriction contained in agreements referred to in such clause
(2), (4), (5), (6), (8) and (10); (8) purchase money obligations for property
acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions of the
nature discussed in clause (c) above on the property so acquired; (9) contracts
for the sale of assets, including without limitation, customary restrictions
with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to an agreement
that has been entered into for the sale or disposition of the Capital Stock or
assets of such Restricted Subsidiary; (10) secured Indebtedness otherwise
permitted to be incurred pursuant to Sections 4.04 and 4.14 that limits the
right of the debtor to dispose of the assets securing such Indebtedness; (11)
customary provisions in joint venture agreements, licenses and leases and other
similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business; (12) net
worth provisions in leases and other agreements entered into by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary; and (13) an agreement governing Indebtedness
(including any Credit Facilities) permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section
4.04; provided that provisions relating to such encumbrance or restriction
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contained in such Indebtedness are no less favorable to the Company in any
material respect as determined by senior management of the Company in its
reasonable and good faith judgment than the provisions contained in the
Credit Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date.
SECTION 4.14. Limitation on Liens.
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The Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or
permit or suffer to exist any Liens of any kind against or upon any property or
assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries whether owned on the
Issue Date or acquired after the Issue Date, or any proceeds therefrom, or
assign or otherwise convey any right to receive income or profits therefrom
unless (i) in the case of Liens securing Indebtedness that is expressly
subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Securities, the Securities are
secured
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by a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to
such Liens and (ii) in all other cases, the Securities are equally and ratably
secured, except for (A) Liens existing as of the Issue Date to the extent and
in the manner such Liens are in effect on the Issue Date; (B) Liens securing
Senior Debt and Liens securing Guarantor Senior Debt; (C) Liens securing the
Securities and the Guarantees; (D) Liens of the Company or a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company on assets of any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company; (E) Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness which is incurred
to Refinance any Indebtedness which has been secured by a Lien permitted under
this Indenture and which has been incurred in accordance with the provisions
of this Indenture; provided, however, that such Liens (x) are no less favorable
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to the Holders and are not more favorable to the lienholders with respect to
such Liens than the Liens in respect of the Indebtedness being Refinanced and
(y) do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries not securing the Indebtedness so Refinanced; and
(F) Permitted Liens.
SECTION 4.15. Change of Control.
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(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall be
obligated to make an offer to purchase (the "Change of Control Offer"), and
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shall purchase, on a Business Day (the "Change of Control Payment Date") as
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described below, all of the then outstanding Securities at a purchase price
equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest,
if any, thereon to the Change of Control Payment Date. The Change of Control
Offer shall remain open for at least 20 Business Days and until the close of
business on the Change of Control Payment Date.
(b) Prior to the mailing of the notice referred to below, but in any
event within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company covenants to
(i) repay in full and terminate all commitments under Indebtedness under the
Credit Agreement and all other Senior Debt the terms of which require repayment
upon a Change of Control or offer to repay in full and terminate all commitments
under all Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement and all other such Senior Debt
and to repay
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the Indebtedness owed to each lender which has accepted such offer or (ii)
obtain the requisite consents under the Credit Agreement and all other Senior
Debt to permit the repurchase of the Securities as provided below. The
Company shall first comply with the covenant in the immediately preceding
sentence before it shall be required to repurchase Securities pursuant to the
provisions described below. The Company's failure to comply with the covenant
described in the second preceding sentence may (with notice and lapse of time)
constitute an Event of Default described in clause (c) of Section 6.01 but shall
not constitute an Event of Default described in clause (b) of Section 6.01.
(c) Within 30 days following the date upon which a Change of Control
occurs (the "Change of Control Date"), the Company shall send, by first class
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mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, which notice shall
govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer. The notice to the Holders
shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to
tender Securities pursuant to the Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall
state:
(1) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this
Section 4.15 and that all Securities tendered and not withdrawn will be
accepted for payment;
(2) the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest)
and the Change of Control Payment Date, which shall be a Business Day, that
is not earlier than 30 days or later than 60 days from the date such notice
is mailed;
(3) that any Security not tendered will continue to accrue
interest;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor,
any Security accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer
shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Payment Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have a Security purchased pursuant to
a Change of Control Offer will be re-
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quired to surrender the Security, with the form entitled "Option of
Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Security completed, to
the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to the
close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of
Control Payment Date;
(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Paying Agent receives, not later than the second Business Day prior to the
Change of Control Payment Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission
or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the
Securities the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such
Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Security purchased;
(7) that Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part will
be issued new Securities in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased
portion of the Securities surrendered; and
(8) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of
Control.
On or before the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall (i)
accept for payment Securities or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the
Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender
sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, of all
Securities so tendered and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Securities so accepted
together with an Officers' Certificate stating the Securities or portions
thereof being purchased by the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to
the Holders of Securities so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase
price plus accrued interest, if any, and upon written order of the Company the
Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail to such Holders new Securities
equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Securities
surrendered. Any Securities not so accepted shall be promptly mailed by the
Company to the Holder thereof. For purposes of this Section 4.15, the Trustee
shall act as the Paying Agent.
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Any amounts remaining with the Paying Agent after the purchase of
Securities pursuant to a Change of Control Offer shall be returned by the
Trustee to the Company.
The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
repurchase of Securities pursuant to a Change of Control Offer. To the extent
the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the
provisions of this Section 4.15, the Company shall comply with the applicable
securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its
obligations under this Section 4.15 by virtue thereof.
SECTION 4.16. Limitation on Asset Sales.
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The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless (i) the Company or the
applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at
the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the fair market value of the
assets sold or otherwise disposed of (as determined in good faith by senior
management or, in the case of an Asset Sale in excess of $5 million, by the
Company's Board of Directors); (ii) at least 75% of the consideration received
by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from such Asset
Sale shall be in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents and is received at the
time of such disposition; provided that the amount of (a) any liabilities (as
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shown on the Company's or such Restricted Subsidiary's most recent balance
sheet) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that
are by their terms subordinated to the Securities) that are assumed by the
transferee of any such assets, and (b) any notes or other obligations received
by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are
converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash within 180 days
after such Asset Sale (to the extent of the cash received) shall be deemed to be
cash for the purposes of this provision; and (iii) upon the consummation of an
Asset Sale, the Company shall apply, or cause such Restricted Subsidiary to
apply, the Net Cash Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale within 360 days of
receipt thereof either (A) to prepay any Senior Debt or Guarantor Senior Debt
and, in the case of any Senior Debt or Guarantor Senior Debt under any revolving
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ity, effect a permanent reduction in the availability under such revolving
credit facility, (B) to make an Investment in properties and assets that
replace the properties and assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale
or in properties and assets that will be used in the business of the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries as existing on the Issue Date or in businesses
reasonably related, complementary or ancillary thereto or a reasonable expansion
thereof ("Replacement Assets"), and/or (C) a combination of prepayment and
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investment permitted by the foregoing clauses (iii)(A) and (iii)(B). On the
361st day after an Asset Sale or such earlier date, if any, as the senior
management or Board of Directors, as the case may be, of the Company or of such
Restricted Subsidiary determines not to apply the Net Cash Proceeds relating to
such Asset Sale as set forth in clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B) and (iii)(C) of the
next preceding sentence (each, a "Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date"), such
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aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds which have not been applied on or before
such Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date as permitted in clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B)
and (iii)(C) of the next preceding sentence (each a "Net Proceeds Offer Amount")
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shall be applied by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to make an offer
to purchase (the "Net Proceeds Offer") on a date (the "Net Proceeds Offer
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Payment Date") not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the applicable
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Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date, from all Holders on a pro rata basis, that
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amount of Securities equal to the Net Proceeds Offer Amount at a price equal to
100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be purchased, plus accrued and
unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of purchase; provided, however,
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that if at any time any non-cash consideration received by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, in connection with any
Asset Sale is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash (other
than interest received with respect to any such non-cash consideration), then
such conversion or disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale
hereunder and the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with
this Section 4.16. The Company may defer the Net Proceeds Offer until there is
an aggregate unutilized Net Proceeds Offer Amount equal to or in excess of $10.0
million resulting from one or more Asset Sales (at which time, the entire
unutilized Net Proceeds Offer Amount, and not just the amount in excess of $10.0
million, shall be applied as required pursuant to this paragraph).
In the event of the transfer of substantially all (but not all) of the
property and assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as an
entirety to a Person in a trans-
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action permitted under Section 5.01, which transaction does not constitute a
Change of Control, the successor corporation shall be deemed to have sold the
properties and assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries not so
transferred for purposes of this Section 4.16, and shall comply with the
provisions of this Section 4.16 with respect to such deemed sale as if it
were an Asset Sale. In addition, the fair market value of such properties
and assets of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries deemed to be sold
shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds for purposes of this Section
4.16.
Notwithstanding the first two paragraphs of this Section 4.16, the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will be permitted to consummate an Asset
Sale without complying with such paragraphs to the extent that:
(1) at least 75% of the consideration for such Asset Sale constitutes
Replacement Assets; and
(2) such Asset Sale is for fair market value;
provided that any consideration not constituting Replacement Assets received by
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the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any Asset
Sale permitted to be consummated under this paragraph shall constitute Net Cash
Proceeds subject to the provisions of the first two paragraphs of this Section
4.16.
Notice of each Net Proceeds Offer pursuant to this Section 4.16 shall
be mailed or caused to be mailed, by first class mail, by the Company within 30
days following the applicable Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date to all Holders at
their last registered addresses, with a copy to the Trustee. A Net Proceeds
Offer shall remain open for a period of 20 Business Days or such longer period
as may be required by law. The notice shall contain all instructions and
materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Securities pursuant to the
Net Proceeds Offer and shall state the following terms:
(1) that the Net Proceeds Offer is being made pursuant to this
Section 4.16 and that all Securities tendered will be accepted for payment;
provided, however, that if
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the principal amount of Securities tendered in the Net Proceeds Offer
exceeds the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds Offer Amount, the Company
shall select the Securities to be purchased on a pro rata basis;
(2) the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest,
if any) and the purchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor
later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may
be required by applicable law);
(3) that any Security not tendered will continue to accrue
interest;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor,
any Security accepted for payment pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer shall
cease to accrue interest after the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have a Security purchased pursuant to
the Net Proceeds Offer will be required to surrender the Security, with the
form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the
Security completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the
notice prior to the close of business on the Net Proceeds Offer Payment
Date;
(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Paying Agent receives, not later than the second Business Day prior to the
Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, a facsimile transmission or letter setting
forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security the
Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is
withdrawing his election to have such Security purchased; and
(7) that Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part will
be issued new Securities in a principal amount at maturity equal to the
unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered.
On or before the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, the Company shall
(i) accept for payment Securities or portions
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thereof tendered pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer, (ii) deposit with the
Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay the purchase price, plus
accrued interest, if any, of all Securities to be purchased and (iii) deliver to
the Trustee Securities so accepted together with an Officers' Certificate
stating the Securities or portions thereof being purchased by the Company. The
Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of Securities so accepted
payment in an amount equal to the purchase price, plus accrued interest, if any,
thereon set forth in the notice of such Net Proceeds Offer. Any Security not so
accepted shall be promptly mailed by the Company to the Holder thereof. For
purposes of this Section 4.16, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent. Any
amounts remaining after the purchase of Securities pursuant to a Net Proceeds
Offer shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company.
The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
repurchase of Securities pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer. To the extent that
the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the
provisions of this Section 4.16, the Company shall comply with the applicable
securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its
obligations under this Section 4.16 by virtue thereof.
SECTION 4.17. Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior Subordinated Debt.
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The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary
that is a Guarantor to, incur or suffer to exist Indebtedness that is senior in
right of payment to the Securities or such Guarantor's Guarantee, as the case
may be, and subordinate in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the
Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be.
SECTION 4.18. Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.
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If the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries transfers or
causes to be transferred, in one transaction or a series of related
transactions, any property to any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary that is not a
Guarantor, or if the Com-
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pany or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall organize, acquire or otherwise
invest in another Domestic Restricted Subsidiary having total assets with a book
value in excess of $1 million, then such transferee or acquired or other
Restricted Subsidiary shall (i) execute and deliver to the Trustee a
supplemental indenture in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee pursuant
to which such Restricted Subsidiary shall unconditionally guarantee all of the
Company's obligations under the Securities and this Indenture on the terms set
forth in this Indenture and (ii) deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by such Restricted Subsidiary and constitutes a legal, valid, binding
and enforceable obligation of such Restricted Subsidiary. Thereafter, such
Restricted Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor for all purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 4.19. Conduct of Business.
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The Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not engage in any
businesses which are not substantially related, ancillary or complementary to
the businesses in which the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged
on the Issue Date or a reasonable expansion thereof.
ARTICLE FIVE
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets.
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(a) The Company shall not, in a single transaction or series of
related transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any Person, or sell,
assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of (or cause or permit any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of) all or substantially all of the Company's assets
(determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and the Company's Restricted
Subsidiaries) whether as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any
Person unless: (i) either (1) the Company shall be the surviving or continuing
corporation or (2) the Person (if other than the
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Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or
other disposition the properties and assets of the Company and of the Company's
Restricted Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety (the "Surviving Entity");
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(x) shall be a corporation, partnership, trust or a limited liability company
organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States or any
State thereof or the District of Columbia and (y) shall expressly assume, by
supplemental indenture (in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee),
executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Securities and
the performance of every covenant of the Securities, this Indenture and the
Registration Rights Agreement on the part of the Company to be performed or
observed; provided that if at any time the Company or the Surviving Entity is
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a limited liability company, partnership or trust, there shall be a co-issuer of
the Securities that is a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and that is a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any
State thereof or the District of Columbia; (ii) immediately after giving effect
to such transaction and the assumption contemplated by clause (i)(2)(y) above
(including giving effect to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred
or anticipated to be incurred in connection with or in respect of such
transaction), the Company or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be shall be
able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted
Indebtedness) pursuant to Section 4.04; (iii) immediately before and immediately
after giving effect to such transaction and the assumption contemplated by
clause (i)(2)(y) above (including, without limitation, giving effect to any
Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred
and any Lien granted in connection with or in respect of the transaction), no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing; and (iv) the
Company or the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and,
if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction,
such supplemental indenture comply with the ap-
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plicable provisions of this Indenture and that all conditions precedent in this
Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the merger of the Company with an Affiliate incorporated solely for
the purpose of reincorporating the Company in another jurisdiction shall be
permitted.
(b) For purposes of the foregoing paragraph (a), the transfer (by
lease, assignment, sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of
transactions) of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of one or
more Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company the Capital Stock of which
constitutes all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the
Company, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the
properties and assets of the Company.
(c) Each Guarantor (other than any Guarantor whose Guarantee is to be
released in accordance with the terms of the Guarantee and this Indenture in
connection with any transaction complying with the provisions of Section 4.16)
shall not, and the Company shall not cause or permit any Guarantor to,
consolidate with or merge with or into any Person other than the Company or any
other Guarantor unless: (i) the entity formed by or surviving any such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Guarantor) is a corporation,
partnership, trust or limited liability company organized and existing under the
laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia; (ii)
such entity assumes by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the
Guarantor on the Guarantee; (iii) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing; and (iv) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the
use of any net proceeds therefrom on a pro forma basis, the Company could
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satisfy the provisions of clause (a) (ii) of this Section 5.01. Any merger or
consolidation of a Guarantor with and into the Company (with the Company being
the surviving entity) or another Guarantor that is a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company need only comply with clause (a) (iv) of Section 5.01.
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SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted.
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Upon any consolidation, combination or merger or any transfer of all
or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section
5.01 in which the Company is not the continuing corporation, the successor
Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to
which such conveyance, lease or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under
this Indenture and the Securities with the same effect as if such Surviving
Entity had been named as such.
ARTICLE SIX
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default.
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Each of the following shall be an "Event of Default":
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(a) the failure to pay interest on any Securities when the same
becomes due and payable and the default continues for a period of 30 days
(whether or not such payment shall be prohibited by Article Ten or Article
Twelve of this Indenture);
(b) the failure to pay the principal on any Securities, when such
principal becomes due and payable, at maturity, upon redemption or
otherwise (including the failure to make a payment to purchase Securities
tendered pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or a Net Proceeds Offer on
the date specified for such payment in the applicable offer to purchase)
(whether or not such payment shall be prohibited by Article Ten or Article
Twelve of this Indenture);
(c) a default in the observance or performance of any other covenant
or agreement contained in this Indenture, which default continues for a
period of 30 days after the Company receives written notice specifying the
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fault (and demanding that such default be remedied) from the Trustee or
the Holders of at least 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the
Securities;
(d) the failure to pay at final maturity (giving effect to any
applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) the principal amount
of any Indebtedness of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the
Company which failure continues for at least 20 days, or the acceleration
of the final stated maturity of any such Indebtedness (which acceleration
is not rescinded, annulled or otherwise cured within 20 days of receipt by
the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of notice of any such
acceleration) if the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness,
together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness in
default for failure to pay principal at final maturity or which has been
accelerated (in each case with respect to which the 20-day period described
above has passed), aggregates $10.0 million or more at any time;
(e) one or more judgments in an aggregate amount in excess of $10.0
million (exclusive of amounts covered by insurance) shall have been
rendered against the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries and
such judgments remain undischarged, unpaid or unstayed for a period of 60
days after such judgment or judgments become final and non-appealable;
(f) the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries (i) commences
a voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to
itself, (ii) consents to the entry of a judgment, decree or order for
relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy
Law, (iii) consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for
substantially all of its property, (iv) consents to or acquiesces in the
institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it, (v)
makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (vi) takes
any corporate action to authorize or effect any of the foregoing;
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(g) a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree or
order for relief in respect of the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law,
which shall (i) approve as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in respect of the
Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, (ii) appoint a Custodian of
the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or for substantially all
of any of its property or (iii) order the winding-up or liquidation of its
affairs; and such judgment, decree or order shall remain unstayed and in
effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(h) any Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full
force and effect or any Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary is declared
to be null and void and unenforceable or any Guarantee of a Significant
Subsidiary is found to be invalid or any Guarantor that is a Significant
Subsidiary denies its liability under its Guarantee (other than by reason
of release of a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Indenture).
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration.
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If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
either clause (f) or (g) of Section 6.01 above with respect to the Company)
shall occur and be continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of outstanding Securities may declare the principal of and
accrued interest on all the Securities to be due and payable by notice in
writing to the Company and the Trustee specifying the respective Event of
Default and that it is a "notice of acceleration" (the "Acceleration Notice"),
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and the same (i) shall become immediately due and payable or (ii) if there are
any amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement, shall become immediately due
and payable upon the first to occur of an acceleration under the Credit
Agreement or 5 business days after receipt by the Company and the Representative
under the Credit Agreement of such Acceleration Notice but only if such Event of
Default is then continuing. If an Event of Default specified in either clause
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with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, then all unpaid principal
of, and premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the
outstanding Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and
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payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any
Holder.
At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the
Securities as described in the preceding paragraph, the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Securities may rescind and cancel such declaration and
its consequences (i) if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or
decree, (ii) if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except
nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of the
acceleration, (iii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful,
interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal, which has
become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid,
(iv) if the Company has paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and
reimbursed the Trustee for its expenses, disbursements and advances and (v) in
the event of the cure or waiver of an Event of Default of the type described in
either clause (f) or (g) of Section 6.01, the Trustee shall have received an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel that such Event of Default has
been cured or waived. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or
impair any right consequent thereto.
SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies.
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If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the
payment of principal of or interest on the Securities or to enforce the
performance of any provision of the Securities or this Indenture.
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any
of the Securities or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or
omission by the Trustee or any Securityholder in exercising any right or remedy
accruing upon an Event of De-
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fault shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or
acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other
remedy. All available remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law.
SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults.
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Subject to Sections 2.09, 6.07 and 9.02, the Holders of not less than
a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities by notice to the
Trustee may waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences,
except a Default in the payment of principal of or interest on any Security as
specified in clauses (a) and (b) of Section 6.01. The Company shall deliver to
the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that the requisite percentage of
Holders have consented to such waiver and attaching copies of such consents.
When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is cured and ceases.
SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority.
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The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities may direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or
power conferred on it. Subject to Section 7.01, however, the Trustee may refuse
to follow any direction that conflicts with any law or this Indenture, that the
Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of another
Securityholder, or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided
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that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is
not inconsistent with such direction.
In the event the Trustee takes any action or follows any direction
pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification
satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against any loss or expense caused by
taking such action or following such direction.
SECTION 6.06. Limitation on Suits.
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A Securityholder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this
Indenture or the Securities unless:
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(1) the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice of a continuing
Event of Default;
(2) the Holder or Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the outstanding Securities make a written request to the Trustee to pursue
the remedy;
(3) such Holder or Holders offer and, if requested, provide to the
Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability
or expense;
(4) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 45 days
after receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision
of indemnity; and
(5) during such 45-day period the Holder or Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the outstanding Securities do not give the Trustee a
direction which, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with the
request.
A Securityholder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of
another Securityholder or to obtain a preference or priority over such other
Securityholder.
SECTION 6.07. Rights of Holders To Receive Payment.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of
any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on a Security, on or
after the respective due dates expressed in such Security, or to bring suit for
the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not
be impaired or affected without the consent of the Holder.
SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee.
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If an Event of Default in payment of principal or interest specified
in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01 occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the
Company or any other obligor on the Securities for the whole amount of principal
and accrued interest and fees remaining unpaid, together with interest on
overdue principal and, to the extent
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that payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments of
interest, in each case at the rate per annum borne by the Securities and such
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further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
SECTION 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
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The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the
Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relating to the Company, its
creditors or its property and shall be entitled and empowered to collect and
receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceedings
is hereby authorized by each Securityholder to make such payments to the Trustee
and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agent and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.07. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee
to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.10. Priorities.
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If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article
Six, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:
First: to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 7.07;
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Second: to Holders for interest accrued on the Securities, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due
and payable on the Securities for interest;
Third: to Holders for principal amounts due and unpaid on the
Securities, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on the Securities for principal; and
Fourth: to the Company or, if applicable, the Guarantors, as their
respective interests may appear.
The Trustee, upon prior notice to the Company, may fix a record date
and payment date for any payment to Securityholders pursuant to this Section
6.10.
SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs.
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In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by
it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party
litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the
court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant.
This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder
pursuant to Section 6.07, or a suit by a Holder or Holders of more than 10% in
principal amount of the outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE SEVEN
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee.
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(a) If a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the
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rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care
and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of
Default:
(1) The Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically
set forth herein or in the TIA and no duties, covenants, responsibilities
or obligations shall be implied in this Indenture against the Trustee.
(2) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates (including Officers'
Certificates) or opinions (including Opinions of Counsel) furnished to the
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However, the
Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or
not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Trustee may
not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of
this Section 7.01.
(2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 6.05.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
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financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or to take
or omit to take any action under this Indenture or take any action at the
request or direction of Holders if it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds is not assured to it.
(e) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to this Section 7.01.
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.
Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.
(g) In the absence of bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct on
the part of the Trustee, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the
application of any money by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee.
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee.
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Subject to Section 7.01:
(a) The Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Trustee
need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require
an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, which shall conform to
the provisions of Section 13.05. The Trustee shall not be liable for any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such
certificate or opinion.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall
not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent (other
than an agent who is an employee of the Trustee) appointed with due care.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith which it reasona-
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xxx believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers.
(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice or opinion of
such counsel as to matters of law shall be full and complete authorization
and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or
suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or
opinion of such counsel.
(f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may
be incurred therein or thereby.
(g) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate (including any
Officers' Certificate), statement, instrument, opinion (including any
Opinion of Counsel), notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion,
may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters
as it may see fit and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further
inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled, upon reasonable notice to
the Company, to examine the books, records, and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney.
(h) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in
respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder.
(i) The permissive rights of the Trustee to do things enumerated in
this Indenture shall not be construed as duties.
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SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee.
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The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company, its
Subsidiaries, or their respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have
if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. However,
the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
SECTION 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer.
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The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation
as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not
be accountable for the Company's use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it
shall not be responsible for any statement of the Company in this Indenture or
any document issued in connection with the sale of Securities or any statement
in the Securities other than the Trustee's certificate of authentication. The
Trustee makes no representations with respect to the effectiveness or adequacy
of this Indenture.
SECTION 7.05. Notice of Default.
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If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and the
Trustee receives actual notice of such Default or Event of Default, the Trustee
shall mail to each Securityholder notice of the uncured Default or Event of
Default within 60 days after such Default or Event of Default occurs. Except in
the case of a Default or an Event of Default in payment of principal of, or
interest on, any Security, including an accelerated payment and the failure to
make payment on the Change of Control Payment Date pursuant to a Change of
Control Offer or the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date pursuant to a Net Proceeds
Offer, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as the Board of
Directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors and/or
Responsible Officers, of the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding
the notice is in the interest of the Securityholders.
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SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders.
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Within 60 days after each April 1, beginning with the first April 1
following the date of this Indenture, the Trustee shall, to the extent that any
of the events described in TIA (S) 313(a) occurred within the previous twelve
months, but not otherwise, mail to each Securityholder a brief report dated as
of such date that complies with TIA (S) 313(a). The Trustee also shall comply
with TIA (S)(S) 313(b), 313(c) and 313(d).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders
shall be mailed to the Company and filed with the Commission and each securities
exchange, if any, on which the Securities are listed.
The Company shall notify the Trustee if the Securities become listed
on any securities exchange or of any delisting thereof and the Trustee shall
comply with TIA (S) 313(d).
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity.
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The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services hereunder. The Trustee's compensation shall not
be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The
Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable
disbursements, expenses and advances (including reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel) incurred or made by it in addition to the compensation for its
services, except any such disbursements, expenses and advances as may be
attributable to the Trustee's negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. Such
expenses shall include the reasonable fees and expenses of the Trustee's agents
and counsel.
The Company shall indemnify the Trustee and its agents, employees,
officers, stockholders and directors for, and hold them harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred by them except for such actions to the
extent caused by any negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on their part,
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this
trust including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending themselves
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claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of the
Trustee's rights, powers or duties hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the
Company promptly of any claim asserted against the Trustee or any of its agents,
employees, officers, stockholders and directors for which it may seek indemnity.
The Company may, subject to the approval of the Trustee, defend the claim and
the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee and its agents,
employees, officers, stockholders and directors subject to the claim may have
separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of
such counsel; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to pay
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such fees and expenses if, subject to the approval of the Trustee, it assumes
the Trustee's defense and there is no conflict of interest between the Company
and the Trustee and its agents, employees, officers, stockholders and directors
subject to the claim in connection with such defense as reasonably determined by
the Trustee. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its
written consent. The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against
any loss or liability to the extent incurred by the Trustee through its
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the
Trustee shall have a senior claim prior to the Securities against all money or
property held or collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee. The
obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under this Section shall not be
subordinated to the payment of Senior Debt pursuant to Article Ten or Article
Twelve except assets or money held in trust to pay principal of or interest on
particular Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in clause (f) or (g) of Section 6.01 occurs, such expenses and
the compensation for such services shall be paid to the extent allowed under any
Bankruptcy Law.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the foregoing
provisions of this Section 7.07 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of
the Indenture or the appointment of a successor Trustee.
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SECTION 7.08. Replacement of Trustee.
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The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Company in
writing. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Company and the Trustee
and may appoint a successor Trustee. The Company may remove the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(2) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent;
(3) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee
or its property; or
(4) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall notify each Holder of such
event and shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the
successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that,
the retiring Trustee shall transfer, after payment of all sums then owing to the
Trustee pursuant to Section 7.07, all property held by it as Trustee to the
successor Trustee, subject to the Lien provided in Section 7.07, the resignation
or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor
Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this
Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail notice of its succession to each
Securityholder.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the
Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may
petition any
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court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Securityholder
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee.
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.
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If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall, if such resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is
otherwise eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee; provided that such
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corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article Seven.
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification.
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This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirement of TIA (S)(S) 310(a)(1), 310(a)(2) and 310(a)(5). The Trustee shall
have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 as set forth in its
most recent published annual report of condition. In addition, if the Trustee
is a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the Trustee,
independently of the bank holding company, shall meet the capital requirements
of TIA (S) 310(a)(2). The Trustee shall comply with TIA (S) 310(b); provided,
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however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA (S) 310(b)(1)
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any indenture or indentures under which other securities, or certificates of
interest or participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding,
if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA (S) 310(b)(1) are met.
The provisions of TIA (S) 310 shall apply to the Company and any other obligor
of the Securities.
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SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company.
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The Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee hereunder shall comply with
TIA (S) 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA (S) 311(b). A
Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA (S) 311(a) to
the extent indicated.
ARTICLE EIGHT
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. Termination of the Company's Obligations.
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The Company may terminate its obligations under the Securities and
this Indenture, except those obligations referred to in the penultimate
paragraph of this Section 8.01, if all Securities previously authenticated and
delivered (other than destroyed, lost or stolen Securities which have been
replaced or paid or Securities for whose payment U.S. Legal Tender has
theretofore been deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the
Company, as provided in Section 8.05) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation and the Company has paid all sums payable by it hereunder, or if:
(a) either (i) pursuant to Article Three, the Company shall have
given notice to the Trustee and mailed a notice of redemption to each
Holder of the redemption of all of the Securities in accordance with the
provisions hereof or (ii) all Securities have otherwise become due and
payable hereunder;
(b) the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee or a trustee satisfactory to the Trustee, under
the terms of an irrevocable trust agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee, as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit
of the Holders of that purpose, U.S. Legal Tender in
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such amount as is sufficient without consideration of reinvestment of such
interest, to pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
outstanding Securities to maturity or redemption; provided that the Trustee
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shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such U.S. Legal Tender to
the payment of said principal, premium, if any, and interest with respect
to the Securities and provided, further, that from and after the time of
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deposit, the money deposited shall not be subject to the rights of holders
of Senior Debt or Guarantor Senior Debt pursuant to the provisions of
Article Ten or Twelve, as the case may be;
(c) no Default or Event of Default with respect to this Indenture or
the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such
deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit and such deposit will
not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
other instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(d) the Company shall have paid all other sums payable by it
hereunder; and
(e) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent providing for or relating to the termination of the Company's
obligations under the Securities and this Indenture have been complied
with. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also state that such satisfaction and
discharge does not result in a default under the Credit Agreement or any
other material agreement or instrument then known to such counsel that
binds or affects the Company.
Subject to the next sentence and notwithstanding the foregoing
paragraph, the Company's obligations in Sections 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 4.01,
4.02, 7.07, 8.05 and 8.06 shall survive until the Securities are no longer
outstanding pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 2.08. After the
Securities are no longer outstanding, the Company's obligations in Sections
7.07, 8.05 and 8.06 shall survive.
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After such delivery or irrevocable deposit, the Trustee upon request
shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of the Company's obligations under
the Securities and this Indenture except for those surviving obligations
specified above.
SECTION 8.02. Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance.
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(a) The Company may, at its option by Board Resolution of the Board
of Directors of the Company, at any time, elect to have either paragraph (b) or
(c) below be applied to all outstanding Securities upon compliance with the
conditions set forth in Section 8.03.
(b) Upon the Company's exercise under paragraph (a) hereof of the
option applicable to this paragraph (b), the Company shall, subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.03, be deemed to have been
discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Securities on
the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "Legal
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Defeasance"). For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall
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be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the
outstanding Securities, which shall thereafter be deemed to be "outstanding"
only for the purposes of Section 8.04 hereof and the other Sections of this
Indenture referred to in (i) and (ii) below, and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Securities and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand
of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), and Holders of the Securities and any amounts deposited
under Section 8.03 hereof shall cease to be subject to any obligations to, or
the rights of, any holder of Senior Debt under Article Ten or otherwise, except
for the following provisions, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or
discharged hereunder: (i) the rights of Holders of outstanding Securities to
receive solely from the trust fund described in Section 8.04 hereof, and as more
fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of
premium, if any, and interest on such Securities when such payments are due,
(ii) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under Article Two
and Section 4.02 hereof, (iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder and the Company's obligations in connection
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therewith and (iv) this Article Eight. Subject to compliance with this
Article Eight, the Company may exercise its option under this paragraph (b)
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under paragraph (c) hereof.
(c) Upon the Company's exercise under paragraph (a) hereof of the
option applicable to this paragraph (c), the Company shall, subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.03 hereof, be released
from its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 4.03, 4.04 and
Sections 4.12 through 4.19 and Article Five hereof with respect to the
outstanding Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth below are
satisfied (hereinafter, "Covenant Defeasance"), and the Securities shall
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thereafter be deemed not "outstanding" for the purposes of any direction,
waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any
thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed
"outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such
Securities shall not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes) and Holders
of the Securities and any amounts deposited under Section 8.03 hereof shall
cease to be subject to any obligations to, or the rights of, any holder of
Senior Debt under Article Ten or otherwise. For this purpose, such Covenant
Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Securities, the Company
may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or
by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or
in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default
or an Event of Default under Section 6.01(c) hereof, but, except as specified
above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected
thereby. In addition, upon the Company's exercise under paragraph (a) hereof of
the option applicable to this paragraph (c), subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 8.03 hereof, Sections 6.01(c), 6.01(d) and
6.01(e) shall not constitute Events of Default.
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SECTION 8.03. Conditions to Legal Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance.
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The following shall be the conditions to the application of either
Section 8.02(b) or 8.02(c) hereof to the outstanding Securities:
In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance:
(a) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust,
for the benefit of the Holders, U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government
Obligations or a combination thereof which through the scheduled payment of
principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms,
will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment on
the Securities, U.S. Legal Tender in such amounts as will be sufficient, in
the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities on the stated date for payment thereof or on the applicable
redemption date, as the case may be;
(b) in the case of an election under Section 8.02(b) hereof, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the
United States reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (A) the
Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal
Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this Indenture, there has
been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to
the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm
that, the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had
not occurred;
(c) in the case of an election under Section 8.02(c) hereof, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
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Opinion of Counsel in the United States reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee confirming that the Holders of the Securities will not recognize
income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such
Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the
case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;
(d) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of
Default resulting from the incurrence of Indebtedness all or a portion of
the proceeds of which will be used to defease the Securities pursuant to
this Article Eight concurrently with such incurrence) or insofar as
Sections 6.01(f) and 6.01(g) hereof are concerned, at any time in the
period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit;
(e) such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under this Indenture, the
Credit Agreement or any other material agreement or instrument to which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is bound;
(f) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the
intent of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Company or
with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other
creditors of the Company or others;
(g) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for or relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant
Defeasance have been complied with; and
(h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that (i) the trust funds will not be subject to any
rights of any holders of
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Senior Debt, including, without limitation, those arising under this
Indenture, and (ii) assuming no intervening bankruptcy or insolvency of the
Company between the date of deposit and the 91st day following the deposit
and that no Holder is an insider of the Company, after the 91st day
following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of
any applicable Bankruptcy Law.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Opinion of Counsel required by
clause (b) above of this Section 8.03 with respect to a Legal Defeasance need
not be delivered if all Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation (i) have become due and payable or (ii) will become due and payable
on the Maturity Date within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and
at the expense, of the Company.
SECTION 8.04. Application of Trust Money.
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The Trustee or Paying Agent shall hold in trust U.S. Legal Tender or
U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this Article Eight,
and shall apply the deposited U.S. Legal Tender and the money from U.S.
Government Obligations in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of
principal of and interest on the Securities. The Trustee shall be under no
obligation to invest said U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations
except as it may agree with the Company.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee
or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Legal Tender or U.S.
Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 8.03 hereof or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee
or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the
outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article Eight to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the Company's
request any U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as
provided in Section 8.03 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
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written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the
amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an
equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
SECTION 8.05. Repayment to the Company.
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Subject to this Article Eight, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall
promptly pay to the Company upon request any excess U.S. Legal Tender or U.S.
Government Obligations held by them at any time and thereupon shall be relieved
from all liability with respect to such money. The Trustee and the Paying Agent
shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of
principal or interest that remains unclaimed for two years; provided that the
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Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any payment, may at
the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of New York or mail to each Holder entitled to such
money notice that such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified
therein which shall be at least 30 days from the date of such publication or
mailing any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the
Company. After payment to the Company, Holders entitled to such money must look
to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable law
designates another Person.
SECTION 8.06. Reinstatement.
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If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. Legal
Tender or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article Eight by
reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any
court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to this Article Eight until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all such U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations in
accordance with this Article Eight; provided that if the Company has made any
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payment of interest on or principal of any Securities because of the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company
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shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive
such payment from the U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations held by
the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE NINE
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of Holders.
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The Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, together, may amend or
supplement this Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees without notice to or
consent of any Securityholder:
(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;
(2) to evidence the succession in accordance with Article Five
hereof of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such
successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities;
(3) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in
place of certificated Securities;
(4) to make any other change that does not adversely affect the
rights of any Securityholders hereunder in any material respect;
(5) to comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection
with the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA; or
(6) to add or release any Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture;
provided that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and
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an Officers' Certificate, each stating that such amendment or supplement
complies with the provisions of this Section 9.01.
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SECTION 9.02. With Consent of Holders.
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Subject to Section 6.07, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee,
together, with the written consent of the Holder or Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities, may amend
or supplement this Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees, without notice
to any other Securityholders. Subject to Section 6.07, the Holder or Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may waive
compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture, the Securities
or the Guarantees without notice to any other Securityholder. Without the
consent of each Securityholder affected, however, no amendment, supplement or
waiver, including a waiver pursuant to Section 6.04, may:
(1) reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to
an amendment, supplement or waiver;
(2) reduce the rate of or change or have the effect of changing the
time for payment of interest, including default interest, on any
Securities;
(3) reduce the principal of or change or have the effect of
changing the fixed maturity of any Securities, or change the date on which
any Securities may be subject to redemption or repurchase, or reduce the
redemption or purchase price therefor;
(4) make any Securities payable in money other than that stated in
the Securities;
(5) make any change in provisions of this Indenture protecting the
right of each Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on
such Security on or after the due date thereof or to bring suit to enforce
such payment, or permitting Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Securities to waive Defaults or Events of Default;
(6) modify or change any provision of this Indenture or the related
definitions affecting the subordination or ranking of the Securities or any
Guarantee, in a manner which adversely affects the Holders;
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(7) after the Company's obligation to purchase Securities arises
thereunder, amend, modify or change in any material respect the obligation
of the Company to make and consummate a Change of Control Offer in the
event of a Change of Control or make and consummate a Net Proceeds Offer
with respect to any Asset Sale that has been consummated, or modify any of
the provisions or definitions with respect thereto; or
(8) release any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary from any
of its obligations under its Guarantee or this Indenture otherwise than in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or
waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance
thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02
becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a
notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of
the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in
any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 9.03. Effect on Senior Debt.
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No amendment of this Indenture shall adversely affect the rights of
any holder of Senior Debt or Guarantor Senior Debt under Article Ten or Article
Twelve, as the case may be, of this Indenture, without the consent of such
holder.
SECTION 9.04. Compliance with TIA.
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From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA,
every amendment, waiver or supplement of this Indenture, the Securities or the
Guarantees shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.
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SECTION 9.05. Revocation and Effect of Consents.
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Until an amendment, waiver or supplement becomes effective, a consent
to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent
Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as
the consenting Holder's Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on
any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the
consent as to his Security or portion of his Security by notice to the Trustee
or the Company received before the date on which the Trustee receives an
Officers' Certificate certifying that the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Securities have consented (and not theretofore revoked such consent)
to the amendment, supplement or waiver.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for
the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
supplement or waiver which record date shall be at least 30 days prior to the
first solicitation of such consent. If a record date is fixed, then
notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, those
Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies),
and only those Persons, shall be entitled to revoke any consent previously
given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record
date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days after
such record date.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall
bind every Securityholder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses
(1) through (9) of Section 9.02, in which case, the amendment, supplement or
waiver shall bind only each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and
every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences
the same debt as the consenting Holder's Security; provided that any such waiver
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shall not impair or affect the right of any Holder to receive payment of
principal of and interest on a Security, on or after the respective due dates
expressed in such Security, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after such respective dates without the consent of such Holder.
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SECTION 9.06. Notation on or Exchange of Securities.
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If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security,
the Company may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee.
The Company shall provide the Trustee with an appropriate notation on the
Security about the changed terms and cause the Trustee to return it to the
Holder at the Company's expense. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee
so determines, the Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the
Trustee shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms.
Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Security shall not
affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 9.07. Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc.
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The Trustee shall execute any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to this Article Nine; provided that the Trustee may, but
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shall not be obligated to, execute any such amendment, supplement or waiver
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers' Certificate
each stating that the execution of any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to this Article Nine is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture and constituted the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Company enforceable in accordance with its terms. Such Opinion of Counsel shall
be at the expense of the Company.
ARTICLE TEN
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 10.01. Securities Subordinated to
Senior Debt.
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Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company, for
itself and its successors, and each Holder, by his or her acceptance of
Securities, agrees that the payment of all
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Obligations owing to the Holders in respect of the Securities is subordinated,
to the extent and in the manner provided in this Article Ten, to the prior
payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for
to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior Debt, of all Obligations on Senior
Debt (including the Obligations with respect to the Credit Agreement).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, payments and distributions made relating to the
Notes pursuant to the trust described under Article Eight shall not be so
subordinated in right of payment.
This Article Ten shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons
who become holders of, or continue to hold, Senior Debt, and such provisions are
made for the benefit of the holders of Senior Debt and such holders are made
obligees hereunder and any one or more of them may enforce such provisions.
SECTION 10.02. Suspension of Payment When Senior
Debt Is in Default.
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(a) Unless Section 10.03 shall be applicable, if any default occurs
and is continuing in the payment when due, whether at maturity, upon any
redemption, by declaration or otherwise, of any principal of, interest on,
unpaid drawings for letters of credit issued in respect of, or regularly
accruing fees with respect to, any Senior Debt (a "Payment Default"), then no
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payment of any kind or character shall be made by or on behalf of the Company or
any other Person on its or their behalf with respect to any Obligations on or
relating to the Securities or to acquire any of the Securities for cash or
property or otherwise and until such Payment Default shall have been cured or
waived or shall have ceased to exist or such Senior Debt as to which such
Payment Default relates shall have been discharged or paid in full in cash or
Cash Equivalents, after which the Company shall resume making any and all
required payments in respect of the Securities, including any missed payments.
(b) Unless Section 10.03 shall be applicable, if any other event of
default (other than a Payment Default) occurs and is continuing with respect to
any Designated Senior Debt
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(as such event of default is defined in the instrument creating or evidencing
such Designated Senior Debt) permitting the holders of such Designated Senior
Debt then outstanding to accelerate the maturity thereof (a "Non-payment
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Default") and if the Representative for the respective issue of Designated
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Senior Debt gives notice of the event of default to the Trustee (a "Default
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Notice"), then, unless and until all events of default have been cured or waived
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or have ceased to exist or the Trustee receives notice thereof from the
Representative for the respective issue of Designated Senior Debt terminating
the Payment Blockage Period (as defined below), during the 180 days after the
delivery of such Default Notice (the "Payment Blockage Period"), neither the
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Company nor any other Person on its behalf shall (x) make any payment of any
kind or character with respect to any Obligations on or with respect to the
Securities or (y) acquire any of the Securities for cash or property or
otherwise. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) in no event will
a Payment Blockage Period extend beyond 180 days from the date the payment on
the Securities was due and (y) only one such Payment Blockage Period may be
commenced within any 360 consecutive days. For all purposes of this Section
10.02(b), no event of default which existed or was continuing on the date of the
commencement of any Payment Blockage Period with respect to the Designated
Senior Debt shall be, or be made, the basis for the commencement of a second
Payment Blockage Period by the Representative of such Designated Senior Debt
whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such event of
default shall have been cured or waived for a period of not less than 90
consecutive days (it being acknowledged that any subsequent action, or any
breach of any financial covenants for a period commencing after the date of
commencement of such Payment Blockage Period that, in either case, would give
rise to an event of default pursuant to any provisions under which an event of
default previously existed or was continuing shall constitute a new event of
default for this purpose).
(c) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
shall be received by the Trustee or any Holder when such payment is prohibited
by the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.02, such payment shall be held in
trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders
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of Senior Debt (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the respective amount
of Senior Debt held by such holders) or their respective Representatives, as
their respective interests may appear. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on
information regarding amounts then due and owing on the Senior Debt, if any,
received from the holders of Senior Debt (or their Representatives) or, if such
information is not received from such holders or their Representatives, from the
Company and only amounts included in the information provided to the Trustee
shall be paid to the holders of Senior Debt.
Nothing contained in this Article Ten shall limit the right of the
Trustee or the Holders of Securities to take any action to accelerate the
maturity of the Securities pursuant to Section 6.02 or to pursue any rights or
remedies hereunder; provided that all Senior Debt thereafter due or declared to
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be due shall first be paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents before the
Holders are entitled to receive any payment of any kind or character with
respect to Obligations on the Securities.
SECTION 10.03. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior Debt on
Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of Company.
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(a) Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon
any liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, assignment for the
benefit of creditors or marshaling of assets of the Company or in a bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding relating to
the Company or its property, whether voluntary or involuntary, all Obligations
due or to become due upon all Senior Debt shall first be paid in full in cash or
Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of Senior Debt, before any payment or distribution of any kind or
character is made on account of any Obligations on or relating to the
Securities, or for the acquisition of any of the Securities for cash or property
or otherwise. Upon any such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation,
reorganization, receivership or similar proceeding, any payment or distribution
of assets of the Company of any kind or charac-
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ter, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Holders of the
Securities or the Trustee under this Indenture would be entitled, except for the
provisions hereof, shall be paid by the Company or by any receiver, trustee in
bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or
distribution, or by the Holders or by the Trustee under this Indenture if
received by them, directly to the holders of Senior Debt (pro rata to such
holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Debt held by such
holders) or their respective Representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Debt may have been
issued, as their respective interests may appear, for application to the payment
of Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all such Senior Debt has been paid in full
in cash or Cash Equivalents after giving effect to any concurrent payment,
distribution or provision therefor to or for the holders of Senior Debt.
(b) To the extent any payment of Senior Debt (whether by or on behalf
of the Company, as proceeds of security or enforcement of any right of setoff or
otherwise) is declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required
to be paid to any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or
other similar Person under any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, fraudulent
conveyance or similar law, then, if such payment is recovered by, or paid over
to, such receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other
similar Person, the Senior Debt or part thereof originally intended to be
satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment
had not occurred.
(c) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, shall be received by any Holder when such payment or
distribution is prohibited by this Section 10.03(c), such payment or
distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over
or delivered to, the holders of Senior Debt (pro rata to such holders on the
basis of the respective amount of Senior Debt held by such holders) or their
respective Representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture
pursuant to which any of such Senior Debt may have been issued,
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as their respective interests may appear, for application to the payment of
Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all such Senior Debt has been paid in full
in cash or Cash Equivalents, after giving effect to any concurrent payment,
distribution or provision therefor to or for the holders of such Senior Debt.
(d) The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the
Company with or into, another corporation, partnership, trust or limited
liability company or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the
conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, to another
corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company upon the terms and
conditions provided in Article Five hereof and as long as permitted under the
terms of the Senior Debt shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section if such other
corporation shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or
transfer, assume the Company's obligations hereunder in accordance with Article
Five hereof.
SECTION 10.04. Payments May Be Paid Prior
to Dissolution.
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Nothing contained in this Article Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture
shall prevent (i) the Company, except under the conditions described in Sections
10.02 and 10.03, from making payments at any time for the purpose of making
payments of principal of and interest on the Securities, or from depositing with
the Trustee any moneys for such payments, or (ii) in the absence of actual
knowledge by the Trustee that a given payment would be prohibited by Section
10.02 or 10.03, the application by the Trustee of any moneys deposited with it
for the purpose of making such payments of principal of, and interest on, the
Securities to the Holders entitled thereto unless at least two Business Days
prior to the date upon which such payment would otherwise become due and payable
a Trust Officer shall have actually received the written notice provided for in
the first sentence of Section 10.02(b) or in Section 10.07 (provided that,
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notwithstanding the foregoing, such application shall otherwise be subject to
the provisions of Section 10.02(a) and Section 10.03). The Company shall give
prompt written notice
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to the Trustee of any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization
of the Company.
SECTION 10.05. Holders To Be Subrogated to Rights
of Holders of Senior Debt.
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Subject to the payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all
Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of
the holders of Senior Debt to receive payments or distributions of cash,
property or securities of the Company applicable to the Senior Debt until the
Securities shall be paid in full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no
such payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt by or on behalf
of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Holders by virtue of this Article Ten,
which otherwise would have been made to the Holders shall, as between the
Company and the Holders, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on
account of the Senior Debt, it being understood that the provisions of this
Article Ten are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative
rights of the Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of Senior Debt, on the
other hand.
SECTION 10.06. Obligations of the Company Unconditional.
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Nothing contained in this Article Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its
creditors other than the holders of Senior Debt, and the Holders, the obligation
of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders the
principal of and any interest on the Securities as and when the same shall
become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or
shall affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of the Company
other than the holders of the Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or therein
prevent the Holder of any Security or the Trustee on its behalf from exercising
all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this
Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, in respect of cash, property or
securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
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SECTION 10.07. Notice to Trustee.
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The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this
Article Ten. Regardless of anything to the contrary contained in this Article
Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of the existence of any default or event of default with respect to
any Senior Debt or of any other facts which would prohibit the making of any
payment to or by the Trustee unless and until the Trustee shall have received
notice in writing from the Company, or from a holder of Senior Debt or a
Representative therefor, together with proof satisfactory to the Trustee of such
holding of Senior Debt or of the authority of such Representative, and, prior to
the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee shall be entitled to assume
(in the absence of actual knowledge to the contrary) that no such facts exist.
In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that any
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article Ten, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amounts of Senior Debt held by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such
Person under this Article Ten, and if such evidence is not furnished the Trustee
may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the
right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 10.08. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
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Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to
in this Article Ten, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article Seven
hereof, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any
order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which any
insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, dissolution, winding-up,
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liquidation, reorganization or similar case or proceeding is pending, or upon a
certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee,
assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other person making such payment
or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, for
the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such payment
or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other Indebtedness of the
Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
Ten.
SECTION 10.09. Trustee's Relation to Senior Debt.
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The Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article Ten with respect to any
Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it in its individual or any other
capacity to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt and nothing in
this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee or any such agent of any of its rights
as such holder.
With respect to the holders of Senior Debt, the Trustee undertakes to
perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Article Ten, and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Debt shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any
fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders or
owners of Senior Debt, the distribution may be made and the notice may be given
to their Representative, if any.
SECTION 10.10. Subordination Rights Not Impaired
by Acts or Omissions of the Company
or Holders of Senior Debt.
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No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Debt to
enforce subordination as provided herein shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or
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failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in
good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with
the terms of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any
such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph,
the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to time, without the
consent of or notice to the Trustee, without incurring responsibility to the
Trustee or the Holders of the Securities and without impairing or releasing the
subordination provided in this Article Ten or the obligations hereunder of the
Holders of the Securities to the holders of the Senior Debt, do any one or more
of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend
the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt, or otherwise amend or
supplement in any manner Senior Debt, or any instrument evidencing the same or
any agreement under which Senior Debt is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise
securing Senior Debt; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the
payment or collection of Senior Debt; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
SECTION 10.11. Securityholders Authorize Trustee To
Effectuate Subordination of Securities.
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Each Holder of Securities by its acceptance of them authorizes and
expressly directs the Trustee on its behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate, as between the holders of Senior Debt
and the Holders of Securities, the subordination provided in this Article Ten,
and appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for such purposes, including, in
the event of any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, reorganization or
similar proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of credits or
otherwise) tending towards liquidation of the business and assets of the
Company, the filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of its Securities and
accrued interest in the form required in those proceedings.
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If the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the
form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the
time to file such claim or claims, then the holders of the Senior Debt or their
Representative are or is hereby authorized to have the right to file and are or
is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the
Holders of said Securities. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Debt or their Representative to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee or the holders
of Senior Debt or their Representative to vote in respect of the claim of any
Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 10.12. This Article Ten Not To
Prevent Events of Default.
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The failure to make a payment on account of principal of or interest
on the Securities by reason of any provision of this Article Ten will not be
construed as preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default.
SECTION 10.13. Trustee's Compensation
Not Prejudiced.
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Nothing in this Article Ten will apply to amounts due to the Trustee
pursuant to other sections of this Indenture.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. Unconditional Guarantee.
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Subject to the provisions of this Article Eleven, each of the
Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably
guarantees, on a senior subordinated basis (such guarantees to be referred to
herein as a "Guarantee") to each Holder of a Security authenticated and
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delivered
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by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective
of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Securities or the
obligations of the Company or any other Guarantors to the Holders or the Trustee
hereunder or thereunder, that: (a) the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the Securities shall be duly and punctually paid in full when due,
whether at maturity, upon redemption at the option of Holders pursuant to the
provisions of the Securities relating thereto, by acceleration or otherwise, and
interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by law) interest,
if any, on the Securities and all other obligations of the Company or the
Guarantors to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder (including
amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof) and all other obligations
shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms
hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or
renewal of any Securities or any of such other obligations, the same shall be
promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the
extension or renewal, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing
payment when due of any amount so guaranteed, or failing performance of any
other obligation of the Company to the Holders under this Indenture or under the
Securities, for whatever reason, each Guarantor shall be obligated to pay, or to
perform or cause the performance of, the same immediately. An Event of Default
under this Indenture or the Securities shall constitute an event of default
under this Guarantee, and shall entitle the Holders of Securities to accelerate
the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in the same manner and to the same
extent as the obligations of the Company.
Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder
shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or
enforceability of the Securities or this Indenture, the absence of any action to
enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Securities with
respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, any release of any other Guarantor,
the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the
same, whether or not a Guarantee is affixed to any particular Security, or any
other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable
discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each of the Guarantors hereby
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waives the benefit of 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 and covenants that its Guarantee shall not be discharged
except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Securities,
this Indenture and this Guarantee. This Guarantee is a guarantee of payment and
not of collection. If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or
otherwise to return to the Company or to any Guarantor, or any custodian,
trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company
or such Guarantor, any amount paid by the Company or such Guarantor to the
Trustee or such Holder, this Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged,
shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor further agrees
that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders of Securities and the
Trustee, on the other hand, (a) subject to this Article Eleven, the maturity of
the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article Six
hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction
or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations
guaranteed hereby, and (b) in the event of any acceleration of such obligations
as provided in Article Six hereof, such obligations (whether or not due and
payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for the
purpose of this Guarantee.
No stockholder, officer, director, employee or incorporator, past,
present or future, or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any personal liability
under this Guarantee by reason of his, her or its status as such stockholder,
officer, director, employee or incorporator.
Each Guarantor that makes a payment or distribution under its
Guarantee shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor,
determined in accordance with GAAP.
SECTION 11.02. Limitations on Guarantees.
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The obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee are limited to
the maximum amount which, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed
liabilities of such Guarantor
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and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf
of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor
under its Guarantee or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this
Indenture, will result in the obligations of such Guarantor under the Guarantee
not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under federal or
state law. Each Guarantor that makes a payment or distribution under a Guarantee
shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor in an amount pro
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rata, based on the net assets of each Guarantor, determined in accordance with
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GAAP.
SECTION 11.03. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.
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To further evidence the Guarantee set forth in Section 11.01, each
Guarantor hereby agrees that a notation of such Guarantee, substantially in the
form of Exhibit E hereto, shall be endorsed on each Security authenticated and
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delivered by the Trustee. Such Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of each
Guarantor by either manual or facsimile signature of one Officer of each
Guarantor who shall have been duly authorized to so execute by all requisite
corporation action. The validity and enforceability of any Guarantee shall not
be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Security.
Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in
Section 11.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure
to endorse on each Security a notation of such Guarantee.
If an Officer of a Guarantor whose signature is on this Indenture or a
Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the
Security on which such Guarantee is endorsed or at any time thereafter, such
Guarantor's Guarantee of such Security shall nevertheless be valid.
The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication
thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of any Guarantee set forth in
this Indenture on behalf of each Guarantor.
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SECTION 11.04. Release of a Guarantor.
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(a) If no Default exists or would exist under this Indenture, upon
the sale or disposition of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor by the
Company, in a transaction or series of related transactions that either (i) does
not constitute an Asset Sale or (ii) constitutes an Asset Sale the Net Cash
Proceeds of which are applied in accordance with Section 4.16, or upon the
consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into any Person in compliance
with Article Five (in each case, other than to the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company), or if any Guarantor is dissolved or liquidated in accordance with
this Indenture, such Guarantor's Guarantee will be automatically discharged and
released from all obligations under this Article Eleven without any further
action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. Any Guarantor not so
released or the entity surviving such Guarantor, as applicable, shall remain or
be liable under its Guarantee as provided in this Article Eleven.
(b) The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing
the release of a Guarantor upon receipt of a request by the Company or such
Guarantor accompanied by an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
certifying as to the compliance with this Section 11.04; provided, however, that
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the legal counsel delivering such Opinion of Counsel may rely as to matters of
fact on one or more Officers' Certificates of the Company.
The Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably requested by the
Company or a Guarantor in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from
its obligations under its Guarantee endorsed on the Securities and under this
Article Eleven.
Except as set forth in Articles Four and Five and this Section 11.04,
nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent
any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or 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.
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SECTION 11.05. Waiver of Subrogation.
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Until this Indenture is discharged and all of the Securities are
discharged and paid in full, each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives and agrees
not to exercise any claim or other rights which it may now or hereafter acquire
against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or
enforcement of the Company's obligations under the Securities or this Indenture
and such Guarantor's obligations under this Guarantee and this Indenture, in any
such instance including, without limitation, any right of subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, indemnification, and any right to
participate in any claim or remedy of the Holders against the Company, whether
or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute
or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from
the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or
in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other
rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the
preceding sentence and any amounts owing to the Trustee or the Holders of
Securities under the Securities, this Indenture, or any other document or
instrument delivered under or in connection with such agreements or instruments,
shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall have been deemed to have
been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the
benefit of, the Trustee or the Holders and shall forthwith be paid to the
Trustee for the benefit of itself or such Holders to be credited and applied to
the obligations in favor of the Trustee or the Holders, as the case may be,
whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits
from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that the
waiver set forth in this Section 11.05 is knowingly made in contemplation of
such benefits.
SECTION 11.06. Immediate Payment.
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Each Guarantor agrees to make immediate payment to the Trustee on
behalf of the Holders of all Obligations owing or payable to the respective
Holders upon receipt of a demand
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for payment therefor by the Trustee to such Guarantor in writing.
SECTION 11.07. No Set-Off.
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Each payment to be made by a Guarantor hereunder in respect of the
Obligations shall be payable in the currency or currencies in which such
Obligations are denominated, and shall be made without set-off, counterclaim,
reduction or diminution of any kind or nature.
SECTION 11.08. Obligations Absolute.
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The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are and shall be absolute
and unconditional and any monies or amounts expressed to be owing or payable by
each Guarantor hereunder which may not be recoverable from such Guarantor on the
basis of a Guarantee shall be recoverable from such Guarantor as a primary
obligor and principal debtor in respect thereof.
SECTION 11.09. Obligations Continuing.
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The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be continuing and
shall remain in full force and effect until all the obligations have been paid
and satisfied in full. Each Guarantor agrees with the Trustee that it will from
time to time deliver to the Trustee suitable acknowledgments of this continued
liability hereunder and under any other instrument or instruments in such form
as counsel to the Trustee may advise and as will prevent any action brought
against it in respect of any default hereunder being barred by any statute of
limitations now or hereafter in force and, in the event of the failure of a
Guarantor so to do, it hereby irrevocably appoints the Trustee the attorney and
agent of such Guarantor to make, execute and deliver such written acknowledgment
or acknowledgments or other instruments as may from time to time become
necessary or advisable, in the judgment of the Trustee on the advice of counsel,
to fully maintain and keep in force the liability of such Guarantor hereunder.
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SECTION 11.10. Obligations Not Reduced.
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The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be satisfied,
reduced or discharged solely by the payment of such principal, premium, if any,
interest, fees and other monies or amounts as may at any time prior to discharge
of this Indenture pursuant to Article Eight be or become owing or payable under
or by virtue of or otherwise in connection with the Securities or this
Indenture.
SECTION 11.11. Obligations Reinstated.
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The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall continue to be
effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment
which would otherwise have reduced the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder
(whether such payment shall have been made by or on behalf of the Company or by
or on behalf of a Guarantor) is rescinded or reclaimed from any of the Holders
upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company or
any Guarantor or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. If
demand for, or acceleration of the time for, payment by the Company is stayed
upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company,
all such Indebtedness otherwise subject to demand for payment or acceleration
shall nonetheless be payable by each Guarantor as provided herein.
SECTION 11.12. Obligations Not Affected.
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The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected,
impaired or diminished in any way by any act, omission, matter or thing
whatsoever, occurring before, upon or after any demand for payment hereunder
(and whether or not known or consented to by any Guarantor or any of the
Holders) which, but for this provision, might constitute a whole or partial
defense to a claim against any Guarantor hereunder or might operate to release
or otherwise exonerate any Guarantor from any of its obligations hereunder or
otherwise affect such obligations, whether occasioned by default of any of the
Holders or otherwise, including, without limitation:
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(a) any limitation of status or power, disability, incapacity or
other circumstance relating to the Company or any other Person, including
any insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, readjustment,
composition, dissolution, winding-up or other proceeding involving or
affecting the Company or any other Person;
(b) any irregularity, defect, unenforceability or invalidity in
respect of any indebtedness or other obligation of the Company or any other
Person under this Indenture, the Securities or any other document or
instrument;
(c) any failure of the Company, whether or not without fault on its
part, to perform or comply with any of the provisions of this Indenture or
the Securities, or to give notice thereof to a Guarantor;
(d) the taking or enforcing or exercising or the refusal or neglect
to take or enforce or exercise any right or remedy from or against the
Company or any other Person or their respective assets or the release or
discharge of any such right or remedy;
(e) the granting of time, renewals, extensions, compromises,
concessions, waivers, releases, discharges and other indulgences to the
Company or any other Person;
(f) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any
other term of, any of the Securities, or any other amendment, variation,
supplement, replacement or waiver of, or any consent to departure from, any
of the Securities or this Indenture, including, without limitation, any
increase or decrease in the principal amount of or premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Securities;
(g) any change in the ownership, control, name, objects, businesses,
assets, capital structure or constitution of the Company or a Guarantor;
(h) any merger or amalgamation of the Company or a Guarantor with any
Person or Persons;
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(i) the occurrence of any change in the laws, rules, regulations or
ordinances of any jurisdiction by any present or future action of any
governmental authority or court amending, varying, reducing or otherwise
affecting, or purporting to amend, vary, reduce or otherwise affect, any of
the Obligations or the obligations of a Guarantor under its Guarantee; and
(j) any other circumstance, including release of the Guarantor
pursuant to Section 11.04 (other than by complete, irrevocable payment)
that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense
of the Company under this Indenture or the Securities or of a Guarantor in
respect of its Guarantee hereunder.
SECTION 11.13. Waiver.
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Without in any way limiting the provisions of Section 11.01 hereof,
each Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance hereof, notice of any
liability of any Guarantor hereunder, notice or proof of reliance by the Holders
upon the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder, and diligence, presentment,
demand for payment on the Company, protest, notice of dishonor or non-payment of
any of the Obligations, or other notice or formalities to the Company or any
Guarantor of any kind whatsoever.
SECTION 11.14. No Obligation To Take Action Against
the Company.
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Neither the Trustee nor any other Person shall have any obligation to
enforce or exhaust any rights or remedies or to take any other steps under any
security for the Obligations or against the Company or any other Person or any
property of the Company or any other Person before the Trustee is entitled to
demand payment and performance by any or all Guarantors of their liabilities and
obligations under their Guarantees or under this Indenture.
SECTION 11.15. Dealing with the Company and Others.
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The Holders, without releasing, discharging, limiting or otherwise
affecting in whole or in part the obligations and
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liabilities of any Guarantor hereunder and without the consent of or notice to
any Guarantor, may
(a) grant time, renewals, extensions, compromises, concessions,
waivers, releases, discharges and other indulgences to the Company or any
other Person;
(b) take or abstain from taking security or collateral from the
Company or from perfecting security or collateral of the Company;
(c) release, discharge, compromise, realize, enforce or otherwise
deal with or do any act or thing in respect of (with or without
consideration) any and all collateral, mortgages or other security given by
the Company or any third party with respect to the obligations or matters
contemplated by this Indenture or the Securities;
(d) accept compromises or arrangements from the Company;
(e) apply all monies at any time received from the Company or from
any security upon such part of the Obligations as the Holders may see fit
or change any such application in whole or in part from time to time as the
Holders may see fit; and
(f) otherwise deal with, or waive or modify their right to deal with,
the Company and all other Persons and any security as the Holders or the
Trustee may see fit.
SECTION 11.16. Default and Enforcement.
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If any Guarantor fails to pay in accordance with Section 11.06 hereof,
the Trustee may proceed in its name as trustee hereunder in the enforcement of
the Guarantee of any such Guarantor and such Guarantor's obligations thereunder
and hereunder by any remedy provided by law, whether by legal proceedings or
otherwise, and to recover from such Guarantor the obligations.
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SECTION 11.17. Amendment, Etc.
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No amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this
Indenture relating to any Guarantor or consent to any departure by any Guarantor
or any other Person from any such provision will in any event be effective
unless it is signed by such Guarantor and the Trustee.
SECTION 11.18. Acknowledgment.
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Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges communication of the terms of this
Indenture and the Securities and consents to and approves of the same.
SECTION 11.19. Costs and Expenses.
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Each Guarantor shall pay on demand by the Trustee any and all costs,
fees and expenses (including, without limitation, legal fees on a solicitor and
client basis) incurred by the Trustee, its agents, advisors and counsel or any
of the Holders in enforcing any of their rights under any Guarantee.
SECTION 11.20. No Merger or Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.
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No Guarantee shall operate by way of merger of any of the obligations
of a Guarantor under any other agreement, including, without limitation, this
Indenture. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of
the Trustee or the Holders, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or
under this Indenture or the Securities, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege
hereunder or under this Indenture or the Securities preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges in the Guarantee and
under this Indenture, the Securities and any other document or instrument
between a Guarantor and/or the Company and the Trustee are cumulative and not
exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privilege provided by law.
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SECTION 11.21. Survival of Obligations.
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Without prejudice to the survival of any of the other obligations of
each Guarantor hereunder, the obligations of each Guarantor under Section 11.01
shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and shall be enforceable
against such Guarantor without regard to and without giving effect to any
defense, right of offset or counterclaim available to or which may be asserted
by the Company or any Guarantor.
SECTION 11.22. Guarantee in Addition to Other Obligations.
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The obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee and this
Indenture are in addition to and not in substitution for any other obligations
to the Trustee or to any of the Holders in relation to this Indenture or the
Securities and any guarantees or security at any time held by or for the benefit
of any of them.
SECTION 11.23. Severability.
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Any provision of this Article Eleven which is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions
and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not
invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction
unless its removal would substantially defeat the basic intent, spirit and
purpose of this Indenture and this Article Eleven.
SECTION 11.24. Successors and Assigns.
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Each Guarantee shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each
Guarantor and the Trustee and the other Holders and their respective successors
and permitted assigns, except that no Guarantor may assign any of its
obligations hereunder or thereunder.
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ARTICLE TWELVE
SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTEE
SECTION 12.01. Guarantee Obligations Subordinated
to Guarantor Senior Debt.
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Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each of the
Guarantors, for itself and its successors, and each Holder, by his or her
acceptance of Guarantees, agrees that the payment of all Obligations owing to
the Holders in respect of its Guarantee (collectively, as to any Guarantor, its
"Guarantee Obligations") is subordinated, to the extent and in the manner
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provided in this Article Twelve, to the prior payment in full in cash or Cash
Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the
holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, of all Obligations on Guarantor Senior Debt of
such Guarantor.
This Article Twelve shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons
who become holders of, or continue to hold, Guarantor Senior Debt, and such
provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt and
such holders are made obligees hereunder and any one or more of them may enforce
such provisions.
SECTION 12.02. Suspension of Guarantee Obligations
When Guarantor Senior Debt Is in Default.
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(a) Unless Section 12.03 shall be applicable, if any Payment Default
occurs and is continuing with respect to any Guarantor Senior Debt, then no
payment of any kind or character shall be made by or on behalf of such Guarantor
or any other Person on its behalf with respect to any Guarantee Obligations or
to acquire any of the Securities for cash or property or otherwise and until
such Payment Default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to
exist or such Guarantor Senior Debt shall have been discharged or paid in full
in cash or Cash Equivalents, after which such Guarantor shall resume making any
and all required payments in respect of its obligations under this Guarantee,
including any missed payments.
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(b) Unless Section 12.03 shall be applicable, if any Non-payment
Default occurs and is continuing with respect to any Designated Senior Debt
under which a Guarantor is a primary obligor or which is guaranteed by a
Guarantor (which obligation or guarantee constitutes Guarantor Senior Debt of
such Guarantor) (as such event of default is defined in the instrument creating
or evidencing such Designated Senior Debt) and if the Representative for the
respective issue of Designated Senior Debt gives a Default Notice to the
Trustee, then, unless and until all events of default have been cured or waived
or have ceased to exist or the Trustee receives notice thereof from the
Representative for the respective issue of Designated Senior Debt terminating
the Guarantor Payment Blockage Period (as defined below), during the 180 days
after the delivery of such Default Notice (the "Guarantor Payment Blockage
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Period"), neither such Guarantor nor any other Person on its behalf shall (x)
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make any payment of any kind or character with respect to any Obligations on its
Guarantee or (y) acquire any of the Securities for cash or otherwise.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) in no event will a
Guarantor Payment Blockage Period extend beyond 180 days from the date the
payment on a Guarantee was due and (y) only one such Guarantor Payment Blockage
Period may be commenced within any 360 consecutive days. For all purposes of
this Section 12.02(b), no event of default which existed or was continuing on
the date of the commencement of any Guarantor Payment Blockage Period with
respect to the Designated Senior Debt of a Guarantor shall be, or be made, the
basis for the commencement of a second Guarantor Payment Blockage Period by the
Representative of such Designated Senior Debt whether or not within a period of
360 consecutive days, unless such event of default shall have been cured or
waived for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days (it being acknowledged
that any subsequent action, or any breach of any financial covenants for a
period commencing after the date of commencement of such Guarantor Payment
Blockage Period that, in either case, would give rise to an event of default
pursuant to any provisions under which an event of default previously existed or
was continuing shall constitute a new event of default for this purpose).
(c) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
shall be received by the Trustee or any Holder
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when such payment is prohibited by the foregoing provisions of this Section
12.02, such payment shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid
over or delivered to, the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt (pro rata to such
holders on the basis of the respective amount of Guarantor Senior Debt held by
such holders) or their respective Representatives, as their respective interests
may appear. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on information regarding
amounts then due and owing on the Guarantor Senior Debt, if any, received from
the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt (or their Representatives) or, if such
information is not received from such holders or their Representatives, from a
Guarantor and only amounts included in the information provided to the Trustee
shall be paid to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.
SECTION 12.03. Guarantee Obligations Subordinated
to Prior Payment of All Guarantor
Senior Debt on Dissolution, Liquidation
or Reorganization of Such Guarantor.
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(a) Upon any payment or distribution of assets of any Guarantor of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors
upon any liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, assignment for
the benefit of creditors or marshaling of assets of such Guarantor or in a
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding
relating to such Guarantor or its property, whether voluntary or involuntary,
all Obligations due or to become due upon all Guarantor Senior Debt shall first
be paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, or such payment duly provided for
to the satisfaction of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, before any payment
or distribution of any kind or character is made on account of any Guarantee
Obligations or for the acquisition of any of the Securities for cash or property
or otherwise. Upon any such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation,
reorganization, receivership or similar proceeding, any payment or distribution
of assets of such Guarantor of any kind or character, whether in cash, property
or securities, to which the Holders or the Trustee under this Indenture would be
entitled, except for the provisions hereof, shall be paid by such Guarantor or
by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other
Person making such payment or dis-
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tribution, or by the Holders or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received
by them, directly to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt (pro rata to such
holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Guarantor Senior Debt held by
such holders) or their respective Representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Guarantor Senior Debt may have
been issued, as their respective interests may appear, for application to the
payment of Guarantor Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all such Guarantor
Senior Debt has been paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents after giving
effect to any concurrent payment, distribution or provision therefor to or for
the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.
(b) To the extent any payment of Guarantor Senior Debt (whether by or
on behalf of a Guarantor, as proceeds of security or enforcement of any right of
setoff or otherwise) is declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or
required to be paid to any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee,
agent or other similar Person under any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership,
fraudulent conveyance or similar law, then, if such payment is recovered by, or
paid over to, such receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent
or other similar Person, the Guarantor Senior Debt or part thereof originally
intended to be satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if
such payment had not occurred.
(c) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, shall be received by any Holder when such payment or
distribution is prohibited by this Section 12.03(c), such payment or
distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over
or delivered to, the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt (pro rata to such holders
on the basis of the respective amount of Guarantor Senior Debt held by such
holders) or their respective Representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Guarantor Senior Debt may have
been issued, as their respective interests may appear, for application to the
payment of Guarantor Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all such Guarantor
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Debt has been paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, after giving
effect to any concurrent payment, distribution or provision therefor to or for
the holders of such Guarantor Senior Debt.
(d) The consolidation of any Guarantor with, or the merger of any
Guarantor with or into, another corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of
a Guarantor following the conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of
its assets, to another corporation upon the terms and conditions provided in
Article Five hereof and as long as permitted under the terms of the Guarantor
Senior Debt shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or
reorganization for the purposes of this Section if such other corporation shall,
as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, assumes the
Guarantee of such Guarantor hereunder in accordance with Article Five hereof.
SECTION 12.04. Payments May Be Paid Prior
to Dissolution.
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Nothing contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this
Indenture shall prevent (i) any Guarantor, except under the conditions described
in Sections 12.02 and 12.03, from making payments at any time for the purpose of
making payments on Guarantee Obligations, or from depositing with the Trustee
any moneys for such payments, or (ii) in the absence of actual knowledge by the
Trustee that a given payment would be prohibited by Section 12.02 or 12.03, the
application by the Trustee of any moneys deposited with it for the purpose of
making such payments on Guarantee Obligations to the Holders entitled thereto
unless at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which such payment
would otherwise become due and payable a Trust Officer shall have actually
received the written notice provided for in the first sentence of Section
12.02(b) or in Section 12.07 (provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, such
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application shall otherwise be subject to the provisions of Section 12.02(a) and
Section 12.03). Each Guarantor shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee
of any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of such Guarantor.
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SECTION 12.05. Holders of Guarantee Obligations
To Be Subrogated to Rights of
Holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.
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Subject to the payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all
Guarantor Senior Debt, the Holders of Guarantee Obligations of any Guarantor
shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt of
such Guarantor to receive payments or distributions of cash, property or
securities of such Guarantor applicable to such Guarantor Senior Debt until all
amounts owing on or in respect of the Guarantee Obligations shall be paid in
full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no such payments or
distributions to the holders of such Guarantor Senior Debt by or on behalf of
such Guarantor, or by or on behalf of the Holders by virtue of this Article
Twelve, which otherwise would have been made to the Holders shall, as between
such Guarantor and the Holders, be deemed to be a payment by such Guarantor to
or on account of such Guarantor Senior Debt, it being understood that the
provisions of this Article Twelve are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of
Guarantor Senior Debt, on the other hand.
SECTION 12.06. Obligations of the Guarantors Unconditional.
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Nothing contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Guarantees is intended to or shall impair, as among the
Guarantors, their creditors other than the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, and
the Holders, the obligation of the Guarantors, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders all amounts due and payable under the
Guarantees as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the
Holders and creditors of the Guarantors other than the holders of the Guarantor
Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent any Holder or the
Trustee on its behalf from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any,
in respect of cash, property or securities of the Guarantors received upon the
exercise of any such remedy.
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SECTION 12.07. Notice to Trustee.
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Each Guarantor shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
fact known to such Guarantor which would prohibit the making of any payment to
or by the Trustee in respect of the Guarantees pursuant to the provisions of
this Article Twelve. Regardless of anything to the contrary contained in this
Article Twelve or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged
with knowledge of the existence of any default or event of default with respect
to any Guarantor Senior Debt or of any other facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee unless and until the Trustee shall
have received notice in writing from a Guarantor, or from a holder of Guarantor
Senior Debt or a Representative therefor, together with proof satisfactory to
the Trustee of such holding of Guarantor Senior Debt or of the authority of such
Representative, and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the
Trustee shall be entitled to assume (in the absence of actual knowledge to the
contrary) that no such facts exist.
In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that any
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Guarantor Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Article Twelve, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to
the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amounts of Guarantor Senior
Debt held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the
rights of such Person under this Article Twelve, and if such evidence is not
furnished the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial
determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 12.08. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
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Upon any payment or distribution of assets of a Guarantor referred to
in this Article Twelve, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article Seven
hereof, and the Holders shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made
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court of competent jurisdiction in which any insolvency, bankruptcy,
receivership, dissolution, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or similar
case or proceeding is pending, or upon a certificate of the trustee in
bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, receiver, assignee for the benefit of
creditors, agent or other person making such payment or distribution, delivered
to the Trustee or the Holders, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons
entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the
Guarantor Senior Debt and other Indebtedness of such Guarantor, the amount
thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon
and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article Twelve.
SECTION 12.09. Trustee's Relation to Guarantor Senior Debt.
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The Trustee and any agent of a Guarantor or the Trustee shall be
entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article Twelve with respect to any
Guarantor Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it in its individual or
any other capacity to the same extent as any other holder of Guarantor Senior
Debt and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee or any such agent
of any of its rights as such holder.
With respect to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt, the Trustee
undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations
as are specifically set forth in this Article Twelve, and no implied covenants
or obligations with respect to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed
to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders or
owners of Guarantor Senior Debt, the distribution may be made and the notice may
be given to their Representative, if any.
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SECTION 12.10. Subordination Rights Not Impaired
by Acts or Omissions of the Guarantors
or Holders of Guarantor Senior Debt.
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No right of any present or future holders of any Guarantor Senior Debt
to enforce subordination as provided herein shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of any Guarantor
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by any Guarantor with the terms of this Indenture, regardless of
any knowledge thereof which any such holder may have or otherwise be charged
with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph,
the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of or notice to the Trustee, without incurring
responsibility to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities and without
impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article Twelve or the
obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of
Guarantor Senior Debt, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the
manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or
alter, Guarantor Senior Debt, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner
Guarantor Senior Debt, or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement
under which Guarantor Senior Debt is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release
or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing
Guarantor Senior Debt; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the
payment or collection of Guarantor Senior Debt; and (iv) exercise or refrain
from exercising any rights against the Guarantors and any other Person.
SECTION 12.11. Holders Authorize Trustee To Effectuate
Subordination of Guarantee Obligations.
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Each Holder of Guarantee Obligations by its acceptance of them
authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee on its behalf to take such action
as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate, as between the holders of
Guarantor Senior Debt and the Holders, the subordination provided in this
Article Twelve, and appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for
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such purposes, including, in the event of any dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation or reorganization of any Guarantor (whether in bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership, reorganization or similar proceedings or upon an
assignment for the benefit of credits or otherwise) tending towards liquidation
of the business and assets of any Guarantor, the filing of a claim for the
unpaid balance under its Guarantee Obligations and accrued interest in the form
required in those proceedings.
If the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the
form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the
time to file such claim or claims, then the holders of the Guarantor Senior Debt
or their Representative are or is hereby authorized to have the right to file
and are or is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf
of the Holders of said Guarantee Obligations. Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the Trustee or the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt or their
Representative to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Guarantee Obligations or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to
authorize the Trustee or the holders of Guarantor Senior Debt or their
Representative to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 12.12. This Article Twelve Not To
Prevent Events of Default.
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The failure to make a payment on account of principal of or interest
on the Guarantees by reason of any provision of this Article Twelve will not be
construed as preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default.
SECTION 12.13. Trustee's Compensation
Not Prejudiced.
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Nothing in this Article Twelve will apply to amounts due to the
Trustee pursuant to other sections of this Indenture.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 13.01. TIA Controls.
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If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts
with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the
TIA, the required provision shall control.
SECTION 13.02. Notices.
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Any notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder
shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery,
by telex, by telecopier or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return
receipt requested, addressed as follows:
if to the Company or a Guarantor:
Building One Services Corporation
000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Xxxxxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP
0000 X Xxxxxx, XX
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
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if to the Trustee:
[ ]
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Telephone:
Facsimile:
Each of the Company and the Trustee by written notice to each other
such Person may designate additional or different addresses for notices to such
Person. Any notice or communication to the Company and the Trustee, shall be
deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally
delivered; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt is acknowledged, if
telecopied; and five (5) calendar days after mailing if sent by registered or
certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a notice of change of address shall
not be deemed to have been given until actually received by the addressee).
Any notice or communication mailed to a Securityholder shall be mailed
to him by first class mail or other equivalent means at his address as it
appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently
given to him if so mailed within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder or any
defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other
Securityholders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided
above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
SECTION 13.03. Communications by Holders
with Other Holders.
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Securityholders may communicate pursuant to TIA (S) 312(b) with other
Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture, the
Securities or the Guarantees. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any
other Person shall have the protection of TIA (S) 312(c).
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SECTION 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as
to Conditions Precedent.
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Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at the
request of the Trustee:
(1) an Officers' Certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Trustee, stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions
precedent to be performed or effected by the Company, if any, provided for
in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with;
and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, any and all such conditions precedent have been complied with.
SECTION 13.05. Statements Required in
Certificate or Opinion.
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Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture, other than the Officers'
Certificate required by Section 4.08, shall include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express
an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has
been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of each such
Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with; provided,
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however, that with respect to
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matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers'
Certificate or certificates of public officials.
SECTION 13.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar.
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The Trustee, Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for
its functions.
SECTION 13.07. Legal Holidays.
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If a payment date is not a Business Day, payment may be made on the
next succeeding day that is a Business Day.
SECTION 13.08. Governing Law.
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THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES AND THE GUARANTEES WILL BE GOVERNED BY
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED
TO CONTRACTS MADE AND PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO
PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW. Each of the parties hereto agrees to submit to
the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in any action or
proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture, the Securities or the
Guarantees.
SECTION 13.09. No Adverse Interpretation
of Other Agreements.
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This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or
debt agreement of any of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any such
indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 13.10. No Recourse Against Others.
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A director, officer, employee, stockholder or incorporator, as such,
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries shall not have any liability for any
obligations of the Company under the Securities, this Indenture or the
Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such
obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security
waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
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SECTION 13.11. Successors.
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All agreements of the Company and the Guarantors in this Indenture,
the Securities and the Guarantees shall bind their respective successors. All
agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.
SECTION 13.12. Duplicate Originals.
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All parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each
signed copy or counterpart shall be an original, but all of them together shall
represent the same agreement.
SECTION 13.13. Severability.
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In case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture, in the
Securities or in the Guarantees shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any
such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the
provisions hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.
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SIGNATURES
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of the date first written above.
BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION,
as Issuer
By:
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Name:
Title:
[ ],
as Guarantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
[ ],
as Guarantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
[ ],
as Guarantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
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[ ],
as Guarantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
[ ],
as Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION
10 1/2% Senior Subordinated Note
due May 1, 2009
CUSIP No.
No. $
BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company", which term includes any successor corporation), for value received
promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of
on May 1, 2009.
Interest Payment Dates: May 1 and November 1, commencing
, 1999.
Record Dates: April 15 and October 15.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security contained
herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be signed
manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.
Dated: April [ ], 1999
BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION
By: ______________________
Name:
Title:
By: ______________________
Name
Title:
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[FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION]
This is one of the 10 1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009
described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: April [ ], 1999 IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Company
as Trustee
By:____________________________
Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)
BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION
10 1/2% Senior Subordinated Note
due May 1, 2009
1. Interest.
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BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at
the rate per annum shown above. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on
May 1 and November 1 of each year (the "Interest Payment Date"), commencing
November 1, 1999. Interest on this Security will accrue from the most recent
date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from
November 1, 1999. Interest on this Security will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time
on demand at the rate borne by this Security plus 2% and on overdue installments
of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent
lawful.
2. Method of Payment.
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The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted
interest) to the persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business
on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the
Securities are cancelled on registration of transfer or registration of exchange
after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to
collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and interest in
money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for
payment of public and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender"). However, the Company
may pay principal and interest by wire transfer of Federal funds, or interest by
check payable in such U.S. Legal Tender. The Company may deliver any such
interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered
address.
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3. Paying Agent and Registrar.
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Initially, IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Company (the "Trustee") will
act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent,
Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders. The Company or any of
its Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as Registrar or co-
Registrar.
4. Indenture.
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The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture, dated as of
April [ ], 1999 (the "Indenture"), among the Company, the Guarantors named
therein and the Trustee. This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of
Securities of the Company designated as its [ ]% Senior Subordinated Notes due
2009 (the "Securities"). The Securities are treated as a single class of
securities under the Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture.
Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise
defined herein. The terms of the Securities include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S)(S) 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect
on the date of the Indenture until such time as the Indenture is qualified under
the TIA, and thereafter as in effect on the date on which the Indenture is
qualified under the TIA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the
Securities are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Securities are referred
to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Securities are
general obligations of the Company limited in aggregate principal amount to
$400,000,000.
5. Subordination.
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The Securities are subordinated in right of payment, in the manner and
to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to the prior payment in full in cash
or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Debt of the Company, whether outstanding on
the date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred, assumed or
guaranteed. Each Holder by his acceptance hereof agrees to be bound by such
provisions and authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee, on his behalf, to
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided
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for in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such
purposes.
6. Optional Redemption.
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The Securities will be redeemable, at the Company's option, in whole
at any time or in part from time to time, on and after May 1, 2004, upon not
less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the following redemption prices
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount) if redeemed during the
twelve-month period commencing on May 1 of the years set forth below, plus, in
each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of
redemption:
Year Percentage
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2004.............................. 105.438%
2005.............................. 104.350%
2006.............................. 103.263%
2007.............................. 102.175%
2008.............................. 101.088%
2009.............................. 100.000%
7. Optional Redemption upon Equity Offerings.
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At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to May 1, 2002, the
Company may, at its option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity
Offerings to redeem up to 35% aggregate principal amount of the Securities
issued pursuant to the Indenture at a redemption price equal to 110.875% of the
principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to
the date of redemption; provided that after any such redemption the aggregate
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principal amount of Securities outstanding must equal at least 65% of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities issued pursuant to the Indenture.
In order to effect the foregoing redemption with the net cash proceeds of any
Equity Offering, the Company shall make such redemption not more than 90 days
after the consummation of any such Equity Offering.
As used in the preceding paragraph, "Equity Offering" means a public
or private offering of Qualified Capital Stock (other than public offerings with
respect to the Company's Common Stock on Form S-8 or any replacement form for
the Form S-8)
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of the Company for aggregate net cash proceeds to the Company of at least $20
million.
8. Notice of Redemption.
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Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than
60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed
at such Holder's registered address. Securities in denominations of $1,000 may
be redeemed only in whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions
(equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal of
Securities that have denominations larger than $1,000.
If any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of
redemption that relates to such Security shall state the portion of the
principal amount thereof to be redeemed. A new Security in a principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued in the name of the Holder
thereof upon cancellation of the original Security. On and after the Redemption
Date, interest will cease to accrue on Securities or portions thereof called for
redemption.
9. Change of Control Offer.
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Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company will be
required to offer to purchase all of the outstanding Securities at a purchase
price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, thereon to the date of repurchase.
10. Limitation on Asset Sales.
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The Company is, subject to certain conditions, obligated to make an
offer to purchase Securities at 100% of their principal amount, plus accrued and
unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of repurchase with certain net cash
proceeds of certain sales or other dispositions of assets in accordance with the
Indenture.
11. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.
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The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder shall
register the transfer of or exchange
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Securities in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder,
among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents
and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in
connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not
register the transfer of or exchange any Securities or portions thereof selected
for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any security being redeemed in
part.
12. Persons Deemed Owners.
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The registered Holder of a Security shall be treated as the owner of
it for all purposes.
13. Unclaimed Funds.
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If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for
one year, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company
at its request. After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent
with respect to such funds shall cease.
14. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity.
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The Company and the Guarantors may be discharged from their
obligations under the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees except for
certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply
with certain covenants contained in the Indenture, the Securities and the
Guarantees, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in
the Indenture.
15. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.
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Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture, the Securities and the
Guarantees may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the
Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
then outstanding, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance
with any provision may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding. Without
notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement
the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees to, among other things, cure
any
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ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Securities in
addition to or in place of certificated Securities or comply with any
requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of the
Indenture under the TIA, or make any other change that does not materially
adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Security.
16. Restrictive Covenants.
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The Indenture contains certain covenants that, among other things,
limit the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to make
restricted payments, to incur indebtedness, to create liens, to sell assets, to
permit restrictions on dividends and other payments by Restricted Subsidiaries
of the Company to the Company, to consolidate, merge or sell all or
substantially all of its assets or to engage in transactions with affiliates.
The limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and
exceptions. The Company must annually report to the Trustee on compliance with
such limitations.
17. Defaults and Remedies.
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If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Securities then
outstanding may declare all the Securities to be due and payable immediately in
the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Holders of Securities
may not enforce the Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees except as
provided in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the
Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees unless it has received indemnity
satisfactory to it. The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations
therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust
or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Securities notice of certain
continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest.
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18. Trustee Dealings with Company.
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The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal
with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates as if it were
not the Trustee.
19. No Recourse Against Others.
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No stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such,
of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall have any liability for any
obligation of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder of a Security by accepting a Security waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the
issuance of the Securities.
20. Authentication.
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This Security shall not be valid until the Trustee or authenticating
agent signs the certificate of authentication on this Security.
21. Abbreviations and Defined Terms.
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Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a
Security or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act).
22. Governing Law.
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This Security shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to applicable principles
of conflicts of laws to the extent that the application of the laws of another
jurisdiction would be required thereby.
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23. CUSIP Numbers.
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Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform
Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be
printed on the Securities as a convenience to the Holders of the Securities. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Securities and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
24. Registration Rights./*/
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Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company and the
Guarantors will be obligated to consummate an exchange offer pursuant to which
the Holder of this Security shall have the right to exchange this Security for a
[ ]% Senior Subordinated Note due 2009 of the Company which shall have been
registered under the Securities Act, in like principal amount and having terms
identical in all material respects as this Security. The Holders shall be
entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such
exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all
pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.
25. Indenture.
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Each Holder, by accepting a Security, agrees to be bound by all of the
terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended from time to
time. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
26. Guarantees.
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This Security will be entitled to the benefits of certain senior
subordinated Guarantees made for the benefit of the Holders. Reference is
hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, du-
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/*/ Not applicable to Form of Exchange Securities.
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ties and obligations thereunder of the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.
The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Security upon written
request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:
BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION, 000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX
00000, Attention: Office of General Counsel.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
I or we assign and transfer this Security to
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or
transferee)
_______________________________________________________________
(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee
or transferee)
and irrevocably appoint _______________________________________ agent to
transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute
another to act for him.
Dated: _________________ Signed: _________________________
(Sign exactly as name
appears on the other
side of this Security)
Signature Guarantee: ______________________________________
Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee
Medallion Program (or other signature
guarantor program reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee)
In connection with any transfer of this Security occurring prior to
the date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the
Commission of the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") covering resales of this Security
(which effectiveness shall not have been suspended or terminated at the date of
the transfer) and (ii) April [ ], 2001 the undersigned confirms that it has not
utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the
transfer:
[Check One]
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(1) ___ to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or
(2) ___ pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended; or
(3) ___ to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing
certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
be obtained from the Trustee); or
(4) ___ outside the United States to a "foreign purchaser" in compliance with
Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended; or
(5) ___ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
(6) ___ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended; or
(7) ___ pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
statement requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Security
is not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):
The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.
Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item
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(3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior
to registering any such transfer of the Securities, in their sole discretion,
such written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in
the case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company
have
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reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant
to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar
shall not be obligated to register this Security in the name of any person other
than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of
registration set forth herein and in Section 2.16 of the Indenture shall have
been satisfied.
Dated: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as name appears
on the other side of this
Security)
Signature Guarantee:
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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises
sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the
Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined
not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is
relying upon the undersigned's foregoing representations in order to claim the
exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.
Dated:
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NOTICE: To be executed by an
executive officer
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
Section 4.15 [ ] Section 4.16 [ ]
If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by
the Company pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, state the
amount: $
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Dated: _________________ Signed: _________________________
(Sign exactly as name
appears on the other
side of this Security)
Signature Guarantee: ______________________________________
Participant in a recognized Signature
Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor program reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee)
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FORM OF LEGENDS
Each Global Note and Physical Note that constitutes a Restricted
Security or is sold in compliance with Regulation S shall bear the following
legend (the "Private Placement Legend") on the face thereof until after the
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second anniversary of the Issue Date, unless otherwise agreed by the Issuer and
the Holder thereof:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR
SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S.
PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1)
REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE
144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING
THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL
ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A)
TO THE COMPANY THEREOF OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES
TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR (AS
DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3), OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AN
"ACCREDITED INVESTOR") THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES (OR HAS FURNISHED
ON ITS BEHALF BY A U.S. BROKER-DEALER) TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING
CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER
OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE FOR
THIS SECURITY), (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN
COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), (E) PURSUANT
TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
(IF AVAILABLE), OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS
SECURITY IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IN
CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN TWO YEARS
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AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY, IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN
ACCREDITED INVESTOR, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE
TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION
AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING
MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS
"OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE MEANING GIVEN
TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
Each Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall also
bear the following legend:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A
NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY OR A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. THIS SECURITY IS NOT
EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN
THE DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED
IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER
OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE
COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN
SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND
ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE
HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS
THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN
WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF
OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S NOMINEE
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AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO
TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN
SECTION 2.16 OF THE INDENTURE.
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EXHIBIT C
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Form of Certificate To Be
Delivered in Connection with
Transfers to Non-QIB Accredited Investors
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of [ ]% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2009 (the "Notes") of BUILDING ONE SERVICES CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), we confirm that:
1. We have received a copy of the Offering Memorandum (the "Offering
Memorandum"), dated April [ ], 1999, relating to the Securities and such other
information as we deem necessary in order to make our investment decision. We
acknowledge that we have read and agreed to the matters stated in the section
entitled "Transfer Restrictions" of such Offering Memorandum, including the
restrictions on duplication and circulation of the Offering Memorandum.
2. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Securities is
subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the Indenture
relating to the Securities (the "Indenture") as described in the Offering
Memorandum and the undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge
or otherwise transfer the Securities except in compliance with, such
restrictions and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), and all applicable State securities laws.
3. We understand that the offer and sale of the Securities have not
been registered under the Securities Act, and that the Securities may not be
offered or sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree, on our
own behalf
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and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as hereinafter stated,
that if we should sell any Securities, we will do so only (i) to the Company or
any of its subsidiaries, (ii) inside the United States in accordance with Rule
144A under the Securities Act to a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined
in Rule 144A under the Securities Act), (iii) inside the United States to an
institutional "accredited investor" (as defined below) that, prior to such
transfer, furnishes (or has furnished on its behalf by a U.S. broker-dealer) to
the Trustee (as defined in the Indenture) a signed letter containing certain
representations and agreements relating to the restrictions on transfer of the
Securities (the form of which letter can be obtained from the Trustee), (iv)
outside the United States in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S
promulgated under the Securities Act to non-U.S. persons, (v) pursuant to the
exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act (if
available), or (vi) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act, and we further agree to provide to any person purchasing any of
the Securities from us a notice advising such purchaser that resales of the
Securities are restricted as stated herein.
4. We are not acquiring the Securities for or on behalf of, and will
not transfer the Securities to, any pension or welfare plan (as defined in
Section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), except as
permitted in the section entitled "Transfer Restrictions" of the Offering
Memorandum.
5. We understand that, on any proposed resale of any Securities, we
will be required to furnish to the Trustee and the Company such certification,
legal opinions and other information as the Trustee and the Company may
reasonably require to confirm that the proposed sale complies with the foregoing
restrictions. We further understand that the Securities purchased by us will
bear a legend to the foregoing effect.
6. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and have
such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable
of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Securities, and we
and any accounts for which we are acting are
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each able to bear the economic risk of our or their investment, as the case
may be.
7. We are acquiring the Securities purchased by us for our account or
for one or more accounts (each of which is an institutional "accredited
investor") as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion.
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You, the Company, the Trustee and others are entitled to rely upon
this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy
hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or
official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferee]
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT D
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Form of Certificate To Be Delivered
in Connection with Transfers
Pursuant to Regulation S
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[ ]
[ ]
Re: Building One Services Corporation (the
"Company") [ ]% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2009 (the "Securities")
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed sale of [$ ] aggregate
principal amount of the Securities, we confirm that such sale has been effected
pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and, accordingly, we represent that:
(1) the offer of the Securities was not made to a person in the United
States;
(2) either (a) at the time the buy offer was originated, the
transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our
behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United
States, or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the
facilities of a designated off-shore securities market and neither we nor
any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been pre-
arranged with a buyer in the United States;
(3) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in
contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of
Regulation S, as applicable;
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(4) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
registration requirements of the Securities Act; and
(5) we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions
applicable to the Securities.
You, the Company and counsel for the Company are entitled to rely upon
this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy
hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or
official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this
certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]
By:
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Authorized Signature
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EXHIBIT E
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GUARANTEE
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For value received, each of the undersigned hereby unconditionally
guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holder of this
Security the cash payments in United States dollars of principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on this Security in the amounts and at the times when due and
interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, of
this Security, if lawful, and the payment or performance of all other
obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the
Securities, to the Holder of this Security and the Trustee, all in accordance
with and subject to the terms and limitations of this Security, Article Eleven
of the Indenture and this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in
accordance with Article Eleven of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced
therein. The validity and enforceability of any Guarantee shall not be affected
by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Security.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Indenture dated as of April [ ], 1999, among Building
One Services Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the "Company"), the
Guarantors named therein and [ ], as trustee (the "Trustee"), as
amended or supplemented (the "Indenture").
The obligations of the undersigned to the Holders of Securities and to
the Trustee pursuant to this Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth
in Article Eleven of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture
for the precise terms of the Guarantee and all of the other provisions of the
Indenture to which this Guarantee relates.
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OF
CONFLICTS OF LAW. The undersigned Guarantor hereby agrees to submit to the
jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in any action or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this Guarantee.
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This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the
Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Guarantor has caused its Guarantee to be duly
executed.
Date: April [ ], 1999
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By:
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Name:
Title:
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By:
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Name:
Title:
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By:
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Name:
Title:
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By:
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Name:
Title:
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