Tier 2 Corporate Debt Securities definition

Tier 2 Corporate Debt Securities means Eligible Corporate Debt Securities which (1) are rated BB- or better by S&P and Ba3 or better by Moody’s, and (2) are not Tier 1 Corporate Debt Securities.
Tier 2 Corporate Debt Securities. Tier 3 Corporate Debt Securities”, and “Tier 4 Corporate Debt Securities” contained in Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

Related to Tier 2 Corporate Debt Securities

  • Debt Securities has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any debt security or debt securities, as the case may be, of any series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

  • Successor Capital Securities Guarantee Trustee means a successor Capital Securities Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Capital Securities Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.

  • Pledged Debt Securities has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.

  • 2021 Notes means the 4.700% Senior Notes due 2021, originally issued by Ensco plc (now Valaris), a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales.

  • Definitive Capital Securities means any Capital Securities in definitive form issued by the Trust.

  • 2019 Notes has the meaning set forth in the definition of “2018 Exchange Offers”.

  • 2026 Notes means those certain 3.850% Senior Notes due 2026, issued by the Company pursuant to the 2026 Notes Indenture, in an aggregate original principal amount of $300.0 million.

  • 2024 Notes means the 7.000% Senior Notes due 2024, issued pursuant to the 2024 Indenture.

  • Existing Subordinated Notes means any instrument or loan issued or incurred before 1 January 2013, whether publicly or privately placed, ranking or expressed to be ranking pari passu with all other subordinated obligations (except for those subordinated obligations expressed by their terms to rank junior), provided that should any such Existing Subordinated Notes be amended in any way (contractually or by statute) which would result in allowing the Issuer to issue subordinated notes ranking senior thereto, then such Subordinated Notes would be deemed to no longer constitute an Existing Subordinated Note. As a result, in the event of liquidation or bankruptcy of the Issuer or in the event of a Moratorium (as defined in Condition 3 of the Conditions of the Notes) with respect to the Issuer, the claims of the holders of the Subordinated Notes ("Subordinated Noteholders") against the Issuer will be:

  • 2023 Notes means the 6 7/8% Notes due 2023 issued by NTL pursuant to the 1988 Indenture.

  • Capital Securities Guarantee means the guarantee agreement that the Company enters into with Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee trustee, or other Persons that operates directly or indirectly for the benefit of holders of Capital Securities of the Trust.

  • Qualifying Capital Securities means securities (other than Common Stock, Rights to acquire Common Stock or securities exchangeable for or convertible into Common Stock) that, in the determination of the Corporation’s Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof) reasonably construing the definitions and other terms of this Replacement Capital Covenant, meet one of the following criteria:

  • Capital Securities Guarantee Trustee means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, until a Successor Capital Securities Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Capital Securities Guarantee and thereafter means each such Successor Capital Securities Guarantee Trustee.

  • Existing Senior Notes means the Existing 2020 Senior Notes and the Existing 2021 Senior Notes, collectively.

  • 2016 Notes means the aggregate principal amount of US$460,000,000 of 4.25% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2016 issued pursuant to the 2016 Note Indenture.

  • Holder of Debt Securities or other similar terms means, a Person in whose name a Debt Security is registered in the Debt Security Register (as defined in Section 2.07(a)).

  • 2022 Notes means the Borrower’s 5.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2022.

  • 2014 Notes means (i) the 4.850% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 issued by the Issuer on March 18, 2014 and (ii) the 4.45% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 and the 5.45% Senior Secured Notes due 2034 issued by the Issuer on August 21, 2014.

  • Equity Preferred Securities means, with respect to any Person, any trust preferred securities or deferrable interest subordinated debt securities issued by such Person or other financing vehicle of such Person that (i) have an original maturity of at least twenty years, and (ii) require no repayments or prepayments and no mandatory redemptions or repurchases, in each case, prior to the first anniversary of the latest Maturity Date.

  • Capital Securities means undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust which rank pari passu with Common Securities issued by the Trust; provided, however, that upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default (as defined in the Declaration), the rights of holders of such Common Securities to payment in respect of distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise are subordinated to the rights of holders of such Capital Securities.

  • Convertible Subordinated Notes means the Company's 7% Convertible Subordinated Notes issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of June 12, 1996, between the Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank (formerly known as Chemical Bank), as trustee.

  • Existing Unsecured Notes the Borrower’s 11.5% Senior Notes due 2018, issued pursuant to the Existing Unsecured Indenture, outstanding on the Closing Date or subsequently issued in exchange for or in respect of any such notes.

  • 2013 Notes means the 4.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2023 and the 5.950% Senior Secured Notes due 2043 issued by the Issuer on March 18, 2013.

  • 2015 Notes means the 8.375% senior notes due 2015 in the principal amounts of $615 million and €500 million issued pursuant to the 2015 Notes Indenture.

  • Subordinated Notes means the Initial Notes and the Exchange Notes and, more particularly, any Subordinated Note authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, including those Subordinated Notes issued or authenticated upon transfer, replacement or exchange.