Contract
Exhibit 99.1
Replacement Capital Covenant, dated as of March 29, 2007 (this “Replacement
Capital Covenant”), by The Chubb Corporation, a New Jersey corporation (together with its
successors and assigns, including any entity surviving or resulting from a merger, consolidation,
binding share exchange, sale, lease or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or other
business combination, the “Corporation”), in favor of and for the benefit of each Covered
Debtholder (as defined below).
Recitals
A. On the date hereof, the Corporation is issuing $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
its 6.375% Directly-Issued Subordinated Capital Securities (DISCSsm) due 2067 (the “Debentures”).
B. This Replacement Capital Covenant is the “Replacement Capital Covenant” referred to in the
Prospectus Supplement, dated March 26, 2007 (the “Prospectus Supplement”), relating to the
Debentures.
C. The Corporation is entering into and disclosing the content of this Replacement Capital
Covenant in the manner provided below with the intent that the covenants provided for in this
Replacement Capital Covenant be enforceable by each Covered Debtholder and that the Corporation be
estopped from disregarding the covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant, in each case to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
D. The Corporation acknowledges that reliance by each Covered Debtholder upon the covenants in
this Replacement Capital Covenant is reasonable and foreseeable by the Corporation and that, were
the Corporation to disregard its covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant, each Covered
Debtholder would have sustained an injury as a result of its reliance on such covenants.
Now, Therefore, the Corporation hereby covenants and agrees as follows in favor of
and for the benefit of each Covered Debtholder.
SECTION 1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Replacement Capital Covenant
(including the Recitals) have the meanings set forth in Schedule I hereto.
SECTION 2. Limitations on Redemption and Purchase of Debentures. The Corporation hereby
promises and covenants to and for the benefit of each Covered Debtholder that the Corporation shall
not repay, redeem, defease or purchase, and no Subsidiary of the Corporation shall purchase, all or
any part of the Debentures prior to March 29, 2047, except to the extent that the principal amount
repaid or defeased or the applicable redemption or purchase price does not exceed the sum of the
following amounts:
(i) the Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount of (a) the net cash proceeds the
Corporation and its Subsidiaries have received from the sale of Common Stock and rights to
acquire Common Stock to Persons other than the Corporation and its Subsidiaries, (b) the
Market Value of any Common Stock (or rights to acquire Common Stock) the Corporation and its
Subsidiaries have delivered as consideration for property or assets in an arms length
transaction
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and (c) the Market Value of any Common Stock that the Corporation and its Subsidiaries
have issued to persons other than the Corporation and its Subsidiaries in connection with
the conversion of any convertible or exchangeable securities, other than securities for
which the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries have received equity credit from any NRSRO,
in each case within a Measurement Period (without double counting proceeds received in any
prior Measurement Period); plus
(ii) the aggregate amount of net cash proceeds the Corporation and its Subsidiaries
have received within a Measurement Period (without double counting proceeds received in any
prior Measurement Period) from the sale of Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, Debt
Exchangeable for Common Equity, Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity and Qualifying
Capital Securities to Persons other than the Corporation and its Subsidiaries
provided that the limitations in this Section 2 shall not restrict the repayment, redemption or
other purchase of any Debentures that the Corporation has previously defeased in accordance with
this Replacement Capital Covenant.
SECTION 3. Covered Debt. (a) The Corporation represents and warrants that the Initial
Covered Debt is Eligible Senior Debt.
(b) On or during the 30-day period immediately preceding any Redesignation Date with respect
to the Covered Debt then in effect, the Corporation shall identify the series of Eligible Debt that
will become the Covered Debt on and after such Redesignation Date in accordance with the following
procedures:
(i) the Corporation shall identify each series of its then outstanding unsecured,
long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Debt;
(ii) if only one series of the Corporation’s then outstanding unsecured, long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed is Eligible Debt, such series shall become the Covered Debt
commencing on the related Redesignation Date;
(iii) if the Corporation has more than one outstanding series of unsecured, long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Debt, then the Corporation shall identify
the series that has the latest stated final maturity date as of the date the Corporation is
applying the procedures in this Section 3(b) and such series shall become the Covered Debt
on the related Redesignation Date;
(iv) the series of outstanding long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is
determined to be Covered Debt pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) above shall be the Covered
Debt for purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant for the period commencing on the
related Redesignation Date and continuing to but not including the Redesignation Date as of
which a new series of outstanding unsecured, long-term indebtedness is next determined to be
the Covered Debt pursuant to the procedures set forth in this Section 3(b); and
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(v) in connection with such identification of a new series of Covered Debt, the
Corporation shall, as provided for in Section 3(c), give a notice and file with the
Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form) under the Securities
Exchange Act including or incorporating by reference this Replacement Capital Covenant as an
exhibit within the time frame provided for in such section.
(c) Notice. In order to give effect to the intent of the Corporation described in Recital C,
the Corporation covenants that (i) simultaneously with the execution of this Replacement Capital
Covenant or as soon as practicable after the date hereof, it shall (x) give notice to the Holders
of the Initial Covered Debt, in the manner provided in the indenture relating to the Initial
Covered Debt, of this Replacement Capital Covenant and the rights granted to such Holders hereunder
and (y) file a copy of this Replacement Capital Covenant with the Commission as an exhibit to a
Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form) under the Securities Exchange Act; (ii) so long
as the Corporation is a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act, the Corporation will
include in each Annual Report on Form 10-K (or any successor form) filed with the Commission under
the Securities Exchange Act a description of the covenant set forth in Section 2 and identify the
series of long-term indebtedness for borrowed money that is Covered Debt as of the date such Form
10-K (or any successor form) is filed with the Commission; (iii) if a series of the Corporation’s
long-term indebtedness for money borrowed (1) becomes Covered Debt or (2) ceases to be Covered
Debt, the Corporation will give notice of such occurrence within 30 days to the holders of such
long-term indebtedness for money borrowed in the manner provided for in the indenture, fiscal
agency agreement or other instrument under which such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed was
issued and report such change in a Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form), which must
include or incorporate by reference this Replacement Capital Covenant, and in the Corporation’s
next Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (or any successor form) or Annual Report on Form 10-K (or any
successor form), as applicable; (iv) upon succession of any new entity as the Corporation hereunder
as a result of a merger, consolidation, binding share exchange, sale, lease or transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets or other business combination of the Corporation as it existed
prior thereto, the Corporation will give notice of such occurrence within 30 days to the holders of
each series of Covered Debt in the manner provided for in the indenture, fiscal agency agreement or
other instrument under which such series of Covered Debt was issued and report such change in a
Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form), which must include or incorporate by reference
this Replacement Capital Covenant, and in the Corporation’s next Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (or
any successor form) or Annual Report on Form 10-K (or any successor form), as applicable; (v) if,
and only if, the Corporation ceases to be a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act,
the Corporation will (A) post on its website (or any other similar electronic platform generally
available to the public) the information otherwise required to be included in Securities Exchange
Act filings pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) of this Section 3(c) and (B) cause a notice of the
execution of this Replacement Capital Covenant to be posted on the Bloomberg screen for the Initial
Covered Debt or any successor Bloomberg screen and each similar third-party vendor’s screen the
Corporation reasonably believes is appropriate (each an “Investor Screen”) and cause a hyperlink to
the execution copy of this Replacement Capital Covenant to be included on the Investor Screen for
each series of Covered Debt, in each case to the extent permitted by Bloomberg or such similar
third-party vendor, as the case may be; and (vi) promptly upon request by any Holder of Covered
Debt, the Corp
oration will provide such Holder with a copy of this executed Replacement Capital
Covenant.
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SECTION 4. Termination, Amendment and Waiver. (a) The obligations of the Corporation
pursuant to this Replacement Capital Covenant shall remain in full force and effect until the
earliest date (the “Termination Date”) to occur of (i) March 29, 2047, or, if earlier, the date on
which the Debentures are otherwise repaid, redeemed, defeased, satisfied and discharged or
purchased in full (in compliance with the terms of this Replacement Capital Covenant), (ii) the
date, if any, on which the Holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding principal amount
of the then-effective series of Covered Debt consent or agree in writing to the termination of this
Replacement Capital Covenant and the obligations of the Corporation hereunder and (iii) the date on
which the Corporation ceases to have any series of outstanding Eligible Senior Debt or Eligible
Subordinated Debt (in each case without giving effect to the rating requirement in clause (b) of
the definition of each such term). Moreover, if an event of default under the Supplemental
Indenture resulting in an acceleration of the Debentures occurs, this Replacement Capital Covenant
shall, without any further action, immediately terminate upon such acceleration. From and after
the Termination Date, the obligations of the Corporation pursuant to this Replacement Capital
Covenant shall be of no further force and effect.
(b) This Replacement Capital Covenant may be amended or supplemented from time to time by a
written instrument signed by the Corporation with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority
of the then outstanding principal amount of the then-effective series of Covered Debt, provided
that this Replacement Capital Covenant may be amended or supplemented from time to time by a
written instrument signed only by the Corporation (and without the consent of the Holders of the
then-effective series of Covered Debt) if any of the following apply (it being understood that any
such amendment or supplement may fall into one or more of the following): (i) the effect of such
amendment or supplement is solely to impose additional restrictions on, or to eliminate certain of,
the types of securities qualifying as Replacement Capital Securities and an officer of the
Corporation has delivered to the Holders of the then-effective series of Covered Debt in the manner
provided for in the indenture, fiscal agency agreement or other instrument with respect to such
Covered Debt a written certificate to that effect, (ii) such amendment or supplement is not adverse
to the rights of the Covered Debtholders hereunder and an officer of the Corporation has delivered
to the Holders of the then-effective series of Covered Debt in the manner provided for in the
indenture, fiscal agency agreement or other instrument with respect to such Covered Debt a written
certificate stating that, in his or her determination, such amendment or supplement is not adverse
to the Covered Debtholders, or (iii) such amendment or supplement eliminates Common Stock and/or
Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock as Replacement Capital Securities if, in the case of this
clause (iii), an accounting standard or interpretive guidance of an existing accounting standard
issued by an organization or regulator that has responsibility for establishing or interpreting
accounting standards in the United States becomes effective, which, as a result, causes the
Corporation to believe that there is more than an insubstantial risk that the failure to do so
would result in a reduction in the Corporation’s earnings per share as calculated for financial
reporting purposes.
(c) For purposes of Sections 4(a) and 4(b), the Holders whose consent or agreement is required
to terminate, amend or supplement the obligations of the Corporation under this Replacement Capital
Covenant shall be the Holders of the then-effective Covered Debt as of a record date established by
the Corporation that is not more than 30 days prior to the date on which the Corporation proposes
that such termination, amendment or supplement becomes effective.
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SECTION 5. Miscellaneous. (a) This Replacement Capital Covenant shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
(b) This Replacement Capital Covenant shall be binding upon the Corporation and its successors
and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the Covered Debtholders as they exist from
time-to-time (it being understood and agreed by the Corporation that any Person who is a Covered
Debtholder at the time such Person acquires, holds or sells Covered Debt shall retain its status as
a Covered Debtholder for so long as the series of long-term indebtedness for borrowed money owned
by such Person is Covered Debt and, if such Person initiates a claim or proceeding to enforce its
rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant after the Corporation has violated its covenants in
Section 2 and before the series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed held by such Person is
no longer Covered Debt, such Person’s rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant shall not
terminate by reason of such series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed no longer being
Covered Debt). Other than the Covered Debtholders as provided in the previous sentence, no other
Person shall have any rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant or be deemed a third party
beneficiary of this Replacement Capital Covenant. In particular, no holder of the Debentures is a
third party beneficiary of this Replacement Capital Covenant, it being understood that such holders
may have rights under the Subordinated Indenture.
(c) All demands, notices, requests and other communications to the Corporation under this
Replacement Capital Covenant shall be deemed to have been duly given and made if in writing and (i)
if served by personal delivery upon the Corporation, on the day so delivered (or, if such day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) or (ii) if delivered by registered post or
certified mail, return receipt requested, or sent to the Corporation by a national or international
courier service, on the date of receipt by the Corporation (or, if such date of receipt is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), and in each case to the Corporation at the address
set forth below, or at such other address as the Corporation may thereafter notify to Covered
Debtholders or post on its website (or any other similar electronic platform generally available to
the public) as the address for notices under this Replacement Capital Covenant:
The Chubb Corporation | ||
15 Mountain View Road, X.X. Xxx 0000 | ||
Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000 | ||
Attention: Chief Financial Officer |
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In Witness Whereof, the Corporation has caused this Replacement Capital Covenant to
be executed by its duly authorized officer, as of the day and year first above written.
THE CHUBB CORPORATION | ||||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx X’Xxxxxx | |||||
Name: | Xxxxxxx X’Xxxxxx | |||||
Title: | Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer |
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Annex I
DEFINITIONS
“Alternative Payment Mechanism” means, with respect to any securities or combination of
securities (together in this definition, “securities”), provisions in the related transaction
documents that require the Corporation to issue (or use commercially reasonable efforts to issue)
one or more types of APM Qualifying Securities raising eligible proceeds at least equal to the
deferred Distributions on such securities and apply the proceeds to pay deferred Distributions on
such securities, commencing on the earlier of (x) the first Distribution Date after commencement of
a deferral period on which the Corporation pays current Distributions on such securities and (y)
the fifth anniversary of the commencement of such deferral period if on such date such deferral
period has not ended, and that
(a) define “eligible proceeds” to mean, for purposes of such Alternative Payment
Mechanism, the net proceeds (after underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, commissions or
discounts and other expenses relating to the issuance or sale of the relevant securities,
where applicable) that the Corporation has received during the 180 days prior to the related
Distribution Date from the issuance of APM Qualifying Securities to persons that are not
Subsidiaries of the Corporation up to the Preferred Cap in the case of APM Qualifying
Securities that are Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock;
(b) permit the Corporation to pay current Distributions on any Distribution Date out of
any source of funds but (x) require the Corporation to pay deferred Distributions only out
of eligible proceeds and (y) prohibit the Corporation from paying deferred Distributions out
of any source of funds other than eligible proceeds, unless an event of default has occurred
and is continuing;
(c) if deferral of Distributions continues for more than one year, require the
Corporation not to redeem or purchase any of its securities ranking junior to or pari passu
with any APM Qualifying Securities the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred
interest during the relevant deferral period until at least one year after all deferred
Distributions have been paid, except in circumstances substantially similar to those listed
in “Description of the Debentures – Dividend and Other Payment Stoppages during Interest
Deferral and under Certain Other Circumstances” in the Prospectus Supplement (a “Repurchase
Restriction”);
(d) limit the obligation of the Corporation to issue (or use commercially reasonable
efforts to issue) APM Qualifying Securities up to:
(i) in the case of APM Qualifying Securities that are Common Stock or rights to
purchase Common Stock, during the first five years of any deferral period a number
of shares of Common Stock or rights to purchase a number of shares of Common Stock
not in excess of 2% of the number of shares of outstanding Common Stock set forth in
the Corporation’s most recently published financial statements (the “Common Cap”);
and
(ii) in the case of APM Qualifying Securities that are Qualifying Preferred
Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, an amount from the issuance of
such Qualifying Preferred Stock and then still-outstanding Mandatorily Convertible
Preferred Stock pursuant to the related Alternative Payment Mechanism (including, in
the case of Qualifying Preferred Stock, at any point in time from all prior
issuances thereof pursuant to such Alternative Payment Mechanism) equal to 25% of
the liquidation or principal
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amount of the securities that are the subject of the related Alternative
Payment Mechanism (the “Preferred Cap”);
(e) permit the Corporation, at its option, to impose a limitation on the issuance of
APM Qualifying Securities consisting of Common Stock and rights to purchase Common Stock, in
each case to a maximum issuance cap to be set at the Corporation’s discretion and otherwise
substantially similar to the “share cap” as defined in the Prospectus Supplement, provided
that such share cap will be subject to the Corporation’s agreement to use commercially
reasonable efforts (i) to increase the share cap when reached to enable it to simultaneously
satisfy its future fixed or contingent obligations under such securities and other
securities and derivative instruments that provide for settlement or payment in shares of
Common Stock or (ii) if the Corporation cannot increase the share cap as contemplated in the
preceding clause, by requesting its board of directors to adopt a resolution for shareholder
vote at the next annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation to
increase the number of shares of the Corporation’s authorized common stock for purposes of satisfying the
Corporation’s obligations to pay deferred distributions;
(f) in the case of securities other than Qualifying Preferred Stock, include a
Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision; and
(g) permit the Corporation, at its option, to provide that if the Corporation is
involved in a merger, consolidation, amalgamation, binding share exchange or conveyance,
transfer or lease of assets substantially as an entirety to any other person or a similar
transaction (a “business combination”) where immediately after the consummation of the
business combination more than 50% of the voting stock of the surviving or resulting entity
or the person to whom all or substantially all of the Corporation’s property or assets are
conveyed, transferred or leased in such business combination is owned by the shareholders of
the other party to the business combination or person to whom all or substantially all of
the Corporation’s property or assets are conveyed, transferred or leased, or Continuing
Directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the directors of the surviving or
resulting entity or person to whom all or substantially all of the Corporation’s property or
assets are conveyed, transferred or leased, then clauses (a), (b) and (c) above will not
apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next interest payment date following
the date of consummation of the business combination;
provided (and it being understood) that:
(1) the Corporation shall not be obligated to issue (or use commercially reasonable
efforts to issue) APM Qualifying Securities for so long as a Market Disruption Event has
occurred and is continuing;
(2) if, due to a Market Disruption Event or otherwise, the Corporation is able to raise
and apply some, but not all, of the eligible proceeds necessary to pay all deferred
Distributions on any Distribution Date, the Corporation will apply any available eligible
proceeds to pay accrued and deferred Distributions on the applicable Distribution Date in
chronological order subject to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap, and any share cap referred
to above, as applicable; and
(3) if the Corporation has outstanding more than one class or series of securities
under which it is obligated to sell a type of APM Qualifying Securities and apply some part
of the proceeds to the payment of deferred Distributions, then on any date and for any
period the
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amount of net proceeds received by the Corporation from those sales and available for
payment of deferred Distributions on such securities shall be applied to such securities on
a pro rata basis up to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap and any share cap referred to
above, as applicable, in proportion to the total amounts that are due on such securities.
“APM Qualifying Securities” means, with respect to an Alternative Payment Mechanism, one or
more of the following (as designated in the transaction documents for the Qualifying Capital
Securities that include an Alternative Payment Mechanism):
(i) Common Stock;
(ii) rights to purchase Common Stock;
(iii) Qualifying Preferred Stock; and
(iv) Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock.
“Applicable Percentage” means 1 divided by i) 75% with respect to any repayment, redemption,
defeasance or purchase prior to April 15, 2017, ii) 50% with respect to any repayment, redemption
defeasance or purchase on or after April 15, 2017 and prior to April 15, 2037 and iii) 25% with
respect to any repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase on or after April 15, 2037.
“Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision” means, with respect to any securities or combination
of securities that have an Alternative Payment Mechanism or a Mandatory Trigger Provision (together
in this definition, “securities”), provisions in the terms thereof or of the related transaction
agreements that, upon any liquidation, dissolution, winding up or reorganization or in connection
with any insolvency, receivership or proceeding under any bankruptcy law with respect to the
issuer, limit the claim of the holders of such securities to Distributions that accumulate during
(A) any deferral period, in the case of securities that have an Alternative Payment Mechanism or
(B) any period in which the Corporation fails to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth in
the terms of such securities or related transaction agreements, in the case of securities having a
Mandatory Trigger Provision, to:
(i) in the case of securities having an Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory
Trigger Provision with respect to which the APM Qualifying Securities do not include
Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, 25% of the stated or
principal amount of such securities then outstanding; and
(ii) in the case of any other securities, the amount of accumulated and deferred
Distributions (including compounded amounts) that relate to the earliest two years of the
portion of the deferral period for which Distributions have not been paid; provided,
however, that holders of such securities may have an additional claim that is senior to the
Corporation’s Common Stock and is or would be pari passu with any Qualifying Preferred Stock
in respect of deferred Distributions which are in excess of Distributions that relate to the
earliest two years of the portion of the deferral period for which Distributions have not
been paid on such securities, up to the amount equal to their pro rata shares of any unused
portion of the Preferred Cap.
“Business Day” means each day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday or (b) a day on which
banking institutions in New York, New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to
remain closed or (c) on or after April 15, 2017, a day that is not a London business day. A
“London business day” is any day on which dealings in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London
interbank market.
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“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor
agency.
“Common Cap” has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism.
“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Corporation (including treasury shares of common
stock), common stock issued pursuant to any dividend reinvestment plan or employee benefit plans, a
security of the Corporation ranking upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up junior to the
Qualifying Preferred Stock and pari passu with the Corporation’s common stock, that tracks the
performance of, or relates to the results of, a business, unit or division of the Corporation, and
any securities issued in exchange therefor in connection with a merger, consolidation, binding
share exchange, business combination, recapitalization or other similar event.
“Continuing Directors” means a director who was a director of the Corporation at the time the
definitive agreement relating to the business combination described in paragraph (g) of the
definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism above was approved by the Corporation’s Board of
Directors.
“Corporation” has the meaning specified in the introduction to this instrument.
“Covered Debt” means (a) at the date of this Replacement Capital Covenant and continuing to
but not including the first Redesignation Date, the Initial Covered Debt and (b) thereafter,
commencing with each Redesignation Date and continuing to but not including the next succeeding
Redesignation Date, the Eligible Debt identified pursuant to Section 3(b) as the Covered Debt for
such period.
“Covered Debtholder” means each Person (whether a Holder or a beneficial owner holding through
a participant in a clearing agency) that buys, holds or sells long-term indebtedness for money
borrowed of the Corporation during the period that such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed
is Covered Debt, provided that, except as provided in Section 5(b), a Person who has sold all of
its right, title and interest in Covered Debt shall cease to be a Covered Debtholder at the time of
such sale if, at such time, the Corporation has not breached or repudiated, or threatened to breach
or repudiate, its obligations hereunder.
“Debentures” has the meaning specified in Recital A.
“Debt Exchangeable for Common Equity” means a security or combination of securities (together
in this definition, “such securities”) that:
(i) gives the holder a beneficial interest in (i) debt securities of the Corporation
that are not redeemable prior to settlement of the stock purchase contract referred to in
subclause (ii) hereof and (ii) a fractional interest in a stock purchase contract for a
share of common stock of the Corporation that will be settled in three years or less, with
the number of shares of common stock purchasable pursuant to such stock purchase contract
to be within a range established at the time of issuance of such debt securities;
(ii) provides that the investors directly or indirectly grant to the Corporation a
security interest in such debt securities and their proceeds (including any substitute
collateral
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permitted under the transaction documents) to secure the investors’ direct or indirect
obligation to purchase common stock of the Corporation pursuant to such stock purchase
contracts;
(iii) includes a remarketing feature pursuant to which the debt securities of the
Corporation are remarketed to new investors commencing not later than the settlement date
of the purchase contract; and
(iv) provides for the proceeds raised in the remarketing to be used to purchase common
stock of the Corporation under the stock purchase contracts and, if there has not been a
successful remarketing by the settlement date of the purchase contract, provides that the
stock purchase contracts will be settled by the Corporation acquiring its debt securities
or other collateral directly or indirectly pledged by investors in the Debt Exchangeable
for Common Equity.
“Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity” means a security or combination of securities
(together in this definition, “securities”) that:
(i) gives the holder a beneficial interest in (a) debt securities of the Corporation or
its subsidiaries (in this definition, the “issuer”) that are Non-Cumulative and include a
provision requiring it to issue (or use commercially reasonable efforts to issue) one or
more types of APM Qualifying Securities raising proceeds at least equal to the deferred
distributions on such debt securities commencing not later than two years after the issuer
first defers distributions on such securities and that are the most junior subordinated debt
of the issuer (or rank pari passu with the most junior subordinated debt of the issuer) and
(b) a fractional interest in a stock purchase contract for Qualifying Preferred Stock;
(ii) provides that the holders directly or indirectly grant to the issuer a security
interest in such debt securities and their proceeds (including any substitute collateral
permitted under the transaction documents) to secure the holders’ direct or indirect
obligation to purchase stock pursuant to such stock purchase contracts;
(iii) includes a remarketing feature pursuant to which such debt securities of the
issuer are remarketed to new holders commencing within five years from the date of issuance
of the security or earlier in the event of an early settlement event based on (a) one or
more financial tests set forth in the terms of the instrument governing such debt
exchangeable for preferred equity or (b) the dissolution of the issuer;
(iv) provides for the proceeds raised in the remarketing to be used to purchase
Qualifying Preferred Stock under the stock purchase contracts and, if there has not been a
successful remarketing by the first Distribution Date that is six years after the date of
issuance of such debt securities of the issuer, provides that the stock purchase contracts
will be settled by the issuer exercising its remedies as a secured party with respect to
such debt securities or other collateral directly or indirectly pledged by holders in the
Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity;
(v) includes a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant, provided that such replacement
capital covenant will apply to such securities and to the Qualifying Preferred Stock and
will not include Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity as a replacement security for such
securities or the Qualifying Preferred Stock; and
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(vi) after the issuance of such Qualifying Preferred Stock, provides the holder of the
security with a beneficial interest in such Qualifying Preferred Stock.
“Distribution Date” means, as to any securities or combination of securities, the dates on
which Distributions on such securities are scheduled to be made.
“Distribution Period” means, as to any securities or combination of securities, each period
from and including a Distribution Date for such securities to but not including the next succeeding
Distribution Date for such securities.
“Distributions” means, as to a security or combination of securities, dividends, interest or
other income distributions to the holders or beneficial owners thereof that are not Subsidiaries of
the Corporation.
“Eligible Debt” means, at any time, Eligible Subordinated Debt or, if no Eligible Subordinated
Debt is then outstanding, Eligible Senior Debt.
“Eligible Senior Debt” means, at any time in respect of any issuer, each series of outstanding
unsecured long-term indebtedness for money borrowed of such issuer that (a) upon a bankruptcy,
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer, ranks most senior among the issuer’s then
outstanding series of unsecured indebtedness for money borrowed, (b) is then assigned a rating by
at least one NRSRO (provided that this clause (b) shall apply on a Redesignation Date only if on
such date the issuer has outstanding senior long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that
satisfies the requirements of clauses (a), (c) and (d) that is then assigned a rating by at least
one NRSRO), (c) has an outstanding principal amount of not less than $100,000,000, and (d) was
issued through or with the assistance of a commercial or investment banking firm or firms acting as
underwriters, initial purchasers or placement or distribution agents. For purposes of this
definition as applied to securities with a CUSIP number, each issuance of long-term indebtedness
for money borrowed that has (or, if such indebtedness is held by a trust or other intermediate
entity established directly or indirectly by the issuer, the securities of such intermediate entity
that have) a separate CUSIP number shall be deemed to be a series of the issuer’s long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed that is separate from each other series of such indebtedness.
“Eligible Subordinated Debt” means, at any time in respect of any issuer, each series of the
issuer’s then-outstanding unsecured long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that (a) upon a
bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer, ranks subordinate to the issuer’s
then outstanding series of unsecured indebtedness for money borrowed that ranks most senior upon
the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, (b) is then assigned a rating by at
least one NRSRO (provided that this clause (b) shall apply on a Redesignation Date only if on such
date the issuer has outstanding subordinated long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that
satisfies the requirements in clauses (a), (c) and (d) that is then assigned a rating by at least
one NRSRO), (c) has an outstanding principal amount of not less than $100,000,000, and (d) was
issued through or with the assistance of a commercial or investment banking firm or firms acting as
underwriters, initial purchasers or placement or distribution agents. For purposes of this
definition as applied to securities with a CUSIP number, each issuance of long-term indebtedness
for money borrowed that has (or, if such indebtedness is held by a trust or other intermediate
entity established directly or indirectly by the issuer, the securities of such intermediate entity
that have) a separate CUSIP number shall be deemed to be a series of the issuer’s long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed that is separate from each other series of such indebtedness.
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“Holder” means, as to the Covered Debt then in effect, each holder of such Covered Debt as
reflected on the securities register maintained by or on behalf of the Corporation with respect to
such Covered Debt.
“Initial Covered Debt” means the Corporation’s 6.8% Debentures due November 15, 2031, CUSIP
No. 000000XX0.
“Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure” means, as to any security or combination of securities,
that the issuer has publicly stated its intention, either in the prospectus or other offering
document under which such securities were initially offered for sale or in filings with the
Commission made by the issuer under the Securities Exchange Act prior to or contemporaneously with
the issuance of such securities, that the issuer will redeem, purchase or defease such securities
only with the proceeds of replacement capital securities that have terms and provisions at the time
of redemption, purchase or defeasance that are as or more equity-like than the securities then
being redeemed, purchased or defeased, and which proceeds were raised within 180 days prior to the
applicable redemption, purchase or defeasance date.
“Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock” means preferred stock with (a) no prepayment
obligation of the liquidation preference on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at the election
of the holders or otherwise, and (b) a requirement that the preferred stock convert into common
stock of the Corporation within three years from the date of its issuance at a conversion ratio
within a range established at the time of issuance of the preferred stock.
“Mandatory Trigger Provision” means, as to any security or combination of securities,
provisions in the terms thereof or of the related transaction agreements that:
(i) require, or at its option in the case of non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock,
permit the issuer of such securities to make payment of Distributions on such securities
only pursuant to the issuance and sale of APM Qualifying Securities, within two years of a
failure to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth in the terms of such securities or
related transaction agreements, in an amount such that the net proceeds of such sale at
least equal the amount of deferred Distributions on such securities (including without
limitation all deferred and accumulated amounts) and in either case require the application
of the net proceeds of such sale to pay such deferred Distributions on those securities,
provided that (A) if the Mandatory Trigger Provision does not require such issuance and sale
within one year of such failure, the amount of common stock or rights to acquire common
stock the net proceeds of which the issuer must apply to pay such Distributions pursuant to
such provision may not exceed the Common Cap, and (B) the amount of Qualifying Preferred
Stock and then still-outstanding Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock the net proceeds of
which the issuer may apply to pay such Distributions pursuant to such provision may not
exceed the Preferred Cap;
(ii) if the provisions described in clause (i) immediately above do not require such
issuance and sale within one year of such failure, include a Repurchase Restriction;
(iii) other than in the case of non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, prohibit the
issuer of such securities from redeeming or purchasing any of its securities ranking junior
to or pari passu with any APM qualifying securities upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest
during the relevant
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deferral period prior to the date six months after the issuer applies the net proceeds
of the sales described in clause (i) immediately above to pay such deferred Distributions in
full; and
(iv) other than in the case of non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, include a
Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision.
No remedy other than Permitted Remedies will arise by the terms of such securities or related
transaction agreements in favor of the holders of such securities as a result of the issuer’s
failure to pay Distributions because of the Mandatory Trigger Provision until Distributions have
been deferred for one or more Distribution Periods that total together at least ten years.
“Market Disruption Events” means one or more events or circumstances substantially similar to
those listed as “Market Disruption Events” in the Supplemental Indenture.
“Market Value” means, on any date, (i) in the case of Common Stock, the closing sale price per
share of Common Stock (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask
prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask
prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions by the New York Stock Exchange or, if
the Common Stock is not then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported by the principal
U.S. securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded or quoted; if the Common Stock is not
either listed or quoted on any U.S. securities exchange on the relevant date, the market price will
be the average of the mid-point of the bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on the relevant date
submitted by at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by
the Corporation for this purpose and (ii) in the case of rights to acquire Common Stock, a value
determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm or other third party
valuation firm selected by the Corporation for this purpose.
“Measurement Date” means, with respect to any repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase of
the Debentures (i) on or prior to the Scheduled Maturity, the date 180 days prior to delivery of
notice of such repayment, defeasance or redemption or the date of such purchase and (ii) after the
Scheduled Maturity, the date 90 days prior to the date of such repayment, redemption, defeasance or
purchase, except that, if during the 90 days (or any shorter period) preceding the date that is 90
days prior to the date of such repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase, net cash proceeds
were received but no repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase was made in connection
therewith, the measurement date shall be the date upon which such 90-day (or shorter) period prior
to the 90-day period prior to the date such repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase began.
“Measurement Period” with respect to any notice date or purchase date means the period (i)
beginning on the Measurement Date with respect to such notice date or purchase date and (ii) ending
on such notice date or purchase date. Measurement Periods cannot run concurrently.
“Non-Cumulative” means, with respect to any securities, that the issuer may elect not to make
any number of periodic Distributions without any remedy arising under the terms of the securities
or related agreements in favor of the holders, other than one or more Permitted Remedies.
Securities that include an Alternative Payment Mechanism shall also be deemed to be Non-Cumulative,
other than for the purposes of the definitions of APM Qualifying Securities and Qualifying
Preferred Stock.
“NRSRO” means a nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of
Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Securities Exchange Act or any successor provision or,
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upon adoption, any rule for the registration of nationally recognized statistical rating
organizations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Optional Deferral Provision” means, as to any securities, provisions in the terms thereof or
of the related transaction agreements to the effect of either (a) or (b) below:
(a) (i) the issuer of such securities may, in its sole discretion, defer in whole or in
part payment of Distributions on such securities for one or more consecutive Distribution
Periods of up to five years or, if a Market Disruption Event is continuing, ten years,
without any remedy other than Permitted Remedies and (ii) an Alternative Payment Mechanism
(provided that such Alternative Payment Mechanism need not apply during the first 5 years of
any deferral period and need not include a Common Cap or a Preferred Cap); or
(b) the issuer of such securities may, in its sole discretion, defer in whole or in
part payment of Distributions on such securities for one or more consecutive Distribution
Periods up to ten years, without any remedy other than Permitted Remedies;
provided that Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision does not apply.
“Permitted Remedies” means, with respect to any securities, one or more of the following
remedies:
(a) rights in favor of the holders of such securities permitting such holders to elect
one or more directors of the issuer (including any such rights required by the listing
requirements of any stock or securities exchange on which such securities may be listed or
traded); and
(b) complete or partial prohibitions on the issuer paying Distributions on or
purchasing common stock or other securities that rank pari passu with or junior as to
Distributions to such securities for so long as Distributions on such securities, including
deferred Distributions, remain unpaid.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited
liability company, corporation or other entity, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Preferred Cap” has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism.
“Prospectus Supplement” has the meaning specified in Recital B.
“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:
(i) in connection with any repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase of Debentures
prior to April 15, 2017:
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(A) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (1) rank pari
passu with or junior to the Debentures upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding-up of the Corporation, (2) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60
years and (3)(i) are Non-Cumulative and are subject to a Qualifying Replacement
Capital Covenant or (ii) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional Deferral
Provision and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure; or
(B) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (a) rank pari
passu with or junior upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation to the Debentures, (b) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 40
years, (c) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant and (d) have a
Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional Deferral Provision; or
(ii) in connection with any repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase of Debentures
on or after April 15, 2017 and prior to April 15, 2037:
(A) all types of securities described that would be Qualifying Capital
Securities on or prior to April 15, 2017;
(B) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (a) rank pari
passu with or junior to the Debentures upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding-up of the Corporation, (b) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60
years, (c) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant and (d) have an
Optional Deferral Provision;
(C) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (1) rank pari
passu with or junior to the Debentures upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation, (2) are Non-Cumulative, (3) have no maturity or a maturity of at
least 60 years and (4) are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;
(D) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (a) rank pari
passu with or junior to the Debentures upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding-up of the Corporation, (b) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 40
years and (c) (i) are Non-Cumulative and subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital
Covenant or (ii) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional Deferral
Provision and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;
(E) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (1) rank
junior to all of the senior and subordinated debt of the Corporation other than the
Debentures upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation and
the pari passu securities, (2) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional
Deferral Provision and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and (3)
have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years;
(F) cumulative preferred stock issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries
that (a) has no prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at
the election of the holders or otherwise, (b) has no maturity or a maturity of at
least 60 years and (c) is subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant; or
(G) other securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (1)
rank upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation either (a)
pari passu
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with or junior to the Debentures upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding
up of the Corporation or (b) pari passu with the claims of the Corporation’s trade
creditors and junior to all of the Corporation’s long-term indebtedness for money
borrowed upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation (other
than the Corporation’s long-term indebtedness for money borrowed from time to time
outstanding that by its terms ranks pari passu with such securities on a
liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation); and (2) either (x) have
no maturity or a maturity of at least 40 years, have a Mandatory Trigger Provision
and an Optional Deferral Provision and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement
Disclosure or (y) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 30 years, are subject
to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant and have a Mandatory Trigger Provision
and an Optional Deferral Provision; or
(iii) in connection with any repayment, redemption, defeasance or purchase of
Debentures at any time after April 15, 2037:
(A) all types of securities described that would be Qualifying Capital
Securities prior to April 15, 2037;
(B) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (1) rank pari
passu with or junior to the Debentures upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding
up, (2) either (a) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and have
Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure or (b) have no maturity or a maturity of at
least 30 years and are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant and (3)
have an Optional Deferral Provision;
(C) securities issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (1) rank
junior to all of the senior and subordinated debt of the Corporation other than the
Debentures and any other pari passu securities upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation, (2) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision, an Optional
Deferral Provision and Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and (3) have no maturity
or a maturity of at least 30 years; or
(D) preferred stock issued by the Corporation or its Subsidiaries that either
(1) has no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and Intent-Based Replacement
Disclosure or (2) has a maturity of at least 40 years and is subject to a Qualifying
Replacement Capital Covenant.
“Qualifying Preferred Stock” means non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock issued by the
Corporation or its Subsidiaries that (a) ranks pari passu with or junior to all other outstanding
preferred stock of the issuer, other than a preferred stock that is issued or issuable pursuant to
a stockholders’ rights plan or similar plan or arrangement, and (b) contains no remedies other than
Permitted Remedies and either (i) is subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and has a
provision that prohibits the issuer from making any Distributions thereon upon the Corporation’s
failure to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth therein or (ii) is subject to a Qualifying
Replacement Capital Covenant.
“Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant” means (a) a replacement capital covenant
substantially similar to this Replacement Capital Covenant applicable to the Debentures or (b) a
replacement capital covenant, as identified by the Corporation’s Board of Directors, or a duly
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committee thereof, acting in good faith and in its reasonable discretion and reasonably
construing the definitions and other terms of this Replacement Capital Covenant, (i) entered into
by a company that at the time it enters into such replacement capital covenant is a reporting
company under the Securities Exchange Act and (ii) that restricts the related issuer from redeeming
or purchasing identified securities except out of the proceeds of specified Replacement Capital
Securities that have terms and provisions at the time of redemption or purchase that are as or more
equity-like than the securities then being redeemed or purchased, raised within 180 days prior to
the applicable redemption or purchase date.
“Redesignation Date” means, as to the Covered Debt in effect at any time, the earliest of (a)
the date that is two years prior to the final maturity date of such Covered Debt, (b) if the
Corporation elects to redeem, or the Corporation or a Subsidiary of the Corporation elects to
purchase, such Covered Debt either in whole or in part with the consequence that after giving
effect to such redemption or purchase the outstanding principal amount of such Covered Debt is less
than $100,000,000, the applicable redemption or purchase date and (c) if such Covered Debt is not
Eligible Subordinated Debt of the Corporation, the date on which the Corporation issues long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Subordinated Debt.
“Replacement Capital Covenant” has the meaning specified in the introduction to this
instrument.
“Replacement Capital Securities” means
(a) Common Stock and rights to acquire Common Stock;
(b) Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock;
(c) Debt Exchangeable for Common Equity;
(d) Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity; and
(e) Qualifying Capital Securities.
“Repurchase Restriction” has the meaning specified in clause (c) of the definition of
“Alternative Payment Mechanism.”
“Rights to acquire Common Stock” includes any right to acquire Common Stock, including any
right to acquire Common Stock pursuant to a stock purchase plan or employee benefit plan.
“Scheduled Maturity” means April 15, 2037.
“Securities Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to
time, including any successor statute.
“Subordinated Indenture” means the Junior Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of March ,
2007, between the Corporation and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, as amended
and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture and as further amended and supplemented from time to
time in accordance with its terms.
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“Supplemental Indenture” means the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 29, 2007,
between the Corporation and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, as amended and
supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.
“Subsidiary” means, at any time, any Person the shares of stock or other ownership interests
of which having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other
managers of such Person are at the time owned, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries (including other Subsidiaries) or both, by another Person.
“Termination Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4(a).
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