Exhibit 4.3
State Street Bank and Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Trustee
By __________________________________
Name: _______________________________
Title: ______________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
not in his individual capacity but solely as Trustee
Xxxx X. Xxxx
not in her individual capacity but solely as Trustee
CTBI PREFERRED CAPITAL TRUST
AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
among
COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP, INC., as Depositor
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, as Property Trustee
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Delaware Trustee,
and
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
Dated as of _________ ___, 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
1. Defined terms...................................................................... 2
1.1 Definitions................................................................... 2
2. Establishment Of The Trust......................................................... 11
2.1 Name.......................................................................... 11
2.2 Office of the Delaware Trust; Principal Place of Business..................... 11
2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses............... 11
2.4 Issuance of the Preferred Securities.......................................... 11
2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Debentures.... 12
2.6 Declaration of Trust.......................................................... 12
2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.............................. 12
2.8 Assets of Trust............................................................... 16
2.9 Title to Trust Property....................................................... 16
3. Payment Account.................................................................... 16
3.1 Payment Account............................................................... 16
4. Distributions, Redemption.......................................................... 16
4.1 Distributions................................................................. 16
4.2 Redemption.................................................................... 17
4.3 Subordination of Common Securities............................................ 19
4.4 Payment Procedures............................................................ 20
4.5 Tax Returns and Reports....................................................... 20
4.6 Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. Of The Trust................................... 20
4.7 Payments Under Indenture...................................................... 20
5. Trust Securities Certificates...................................................... 20
5.1 Initial Ownership............................................................. 21
5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates............................................. 21
5.3 Execution And Delivery Of Trust Securities Certificates....................... 21
5.4 Registration Of Transfer And Exchange Of Preferred Securities Certificates.... 21
5.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost Or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates............ 22
5.6 Persons Deemed Securityholders................................................ 23
5.7 Access To List Of Securityholders' Name And Addresses......................... 23
5.8 Maintenance Of Office Or Agency............................................... 23
5.9 Appointment Of Paying Agent................................................... 23
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
5.10 Ownership Of Common Securities By Depositor..................................... 24
5.11 Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities
Certificate.................................................................. 24
5.12 Notices To Clearing Agency...................................................... 25
5.13 Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates.................................... 25
5.14 Rights Of Securityholders....................................................... 26
6. Acts Of Securityholders; Meetings; Voting............................................. 27
6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights..................................................... 27
6.2 Notice of Meetings............................................................... 28
6.3 Meetings of Preferred Securityholders............................................ 28
6.4 Voting Rights.................................................................... 28
6.5 Proxies, Etc..................................................................... 28
6.6 Securityholder Action by Written Consent......................................... 29
6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes........................................ 29
6.8 Acts of Securityholders.......................................................... 29
6.9 Inspection of Records............................................................ 30
7. Representations And Warranties........................................................ 30
7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Bank....................................... 30
7.2 Representations and Warranties of the Delaware Bank.............................. 31
7.3 Representations and Warranties of Depositor...................................... 32
8. The Trustees.......................................................................... 33
8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities............................................... 33
8.2 Certain Notices................................................................... 34
8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee................................................ 35
8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities............................ 37
8.5 May Hold Securities............................................................... 37
8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees..................................................... 37
8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees...................... 37
8.8 Conflicting Interests............................................................. 38
8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.................................................. 38
8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor................................ 40
8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor........................................... 41
8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business...................... 42
8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust..................... 42
8.14 Reports by Property Trustee...................................................... 42
8.15 Reports to the Property Trustee.................................................. 43
8.16 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent................................. 43
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
8.17 Number of Trustees.................................................. 43
8.18 Delegation of Power................................................. 43
8.19 Voting.............................................................. 44
9. Termination, Liquidation And Merger...................................... 44
9.1 Termination upon Expiration Date..................................... 44
9.2 Early Termination.................................................... 44
9.3 Termination.......................................................... 44
9.4 Liquidation.......................................................... 44
9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the Trust.. 46
10. Miscellaneous Provisions................................................. 47
10.1 Limitation of Rights of Securityholders............................ 47
10.2 Amendment.......................................................... 47
10.3 Separability....................................................... 48
10.4 Governing Law...................................................... 48
10.5 Payments Due on Non-Business Day................................... 49
10.6 Successors......................................................... 49
10.7 Headings........................................................... 49
10.8 Reports, Notices and Demands....................................... 49
10.9 Agreement not to Petition.......................................... 50
10.10 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act............ 50
10.11 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture... 50
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EXHIBITS
Description Exhibit
Certificate of Trust........................................................ A
Certificate Depository Agreement............................................ B
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities.................................... C
Form of Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities............................ D
Certificate Evidencing Preferred Securities................................. E
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
Section of Section of
Trust Indenture Act Indenture
of 1939, As Amended
310(a)(1)................................................................. 8.7
310(a)(2)................................................................. 8.7
310(a)(3)................................................................. 8.7
310(a)(4)............................................................. 2.7(a)(1)
310(b).................................................................... 8.8
311(a).................................................................... 8.13
311(b).................................................................... 8.13
312(a).................................................................... 5.7
312(b).................................................................... 5.7
312(c).................................................................... 5.7
313(a)................................................................. 8.14(a)
313(a)(4).............................................................. 8.14(b)
313(b)................................................................. 8.14(b)
313(c)................................................................. 8.14(b)
313(d)................................................................. 8.14(c)
314(a).................................................................... 8.15
314(b).......................................................... Not Applicable
314(c)(1)................................................................. 8.16
314(c)(2)................................................................. 8.16
314(c)(3)....................................................... Not Applicable
314(d).......................................................... Not Applicable
314(e)................................................................ 1.1, 8.16
315(a).......................................................... 8.1(a), 8.3(a)
315(b).................................................................... 8.2
315(c)................................................................. 8.1(a)
315(d)................................................................ 8.1, 8.3
315(e).......................................................... Not Applicable
316(a).......................................................... Not Applicable
316(a)(1)(A).................................................... Not Applicable
316(a)(1)(B).................................................... Not Applicable
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316(a)(2)................................ Not Applicable
316(b)................................... Not Applicable
316(c).............................................. 6.7
317(a)(1)................................ Not Applicable
317(a)(2)................................ Not Applicable
317(b).............................................. 5.9
318(a)............................................. 10.10
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT is entered into and effective as of
April ____, 1997, by and between (i) COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP, INC., a Kentucky
corporation (including any successors or assigns, the "Depositor"), (ii) STATE
STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Massachusetts corporation duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Massachusetts, as property trustee (the
"Property Trustee" and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its
capacity as Property Trustee, the "Bank"), (iii) WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a
Delaware banking corporation, duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee (the "Delaware Trustee" and, in its
separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as Delaware Trustee, the
"Delaware Bank"), (iv) XXXX X. XXXX, an individual, and XXXXXXX X. XXXX, an
individual, each of whose address is c/o Community Trust Bancorp, Inc., 000
Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 (each an "Administrative Trustee"
and collectively the "Administrative Trustees") (the Property Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee and Administrative Trustees referred to collectively as the
"Trustees") and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
RECITALS:
A. Whereas, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly
declared and established a business trust pursuant to the Delaware Business
Trust Act by the entering into of that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of
March 18, 1997 (the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution and filing
by the Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of
the Certificate of Trust, filed on March 18, 1997 the form of which is attached
as Exhibit A; and
B. Whereas, the Depositor, the Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees desire to amend and restate the Original Trust Agreement
in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (i) the
issuance of the Common Securities by the Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the
issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities by the Trust pursuant to the
Underwriting Agreement, (iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the Depositor of
all of the right, title and interest in the Debentures and (iv) the appointment
of the Property Trustee;
Agreement:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth
herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the
Securityholders, hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its
entirety and agrees as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS.
1.1 Definitions.
(a) For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Section have the meanings assigned
to them in this Section and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a
"Section" refers to a Section, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement;
and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words
of similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Section or other subdivision.
(b) "Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
(c) "Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a
given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of additional
interest accrued on interest in arrears and paid by the Depositor on a Like
Amount of Debentures for such period.
(d) "Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 2.5(c) of
the Indenture.
(e) "Administrative Trustee" means each of Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx and Xxxx X.
Xxxx solely in their capacity as an Administrative Trustee of the Trust formed
and continued hereunder and not in their individual capacity, or such
Administrative Trustee's successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
(f) "Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
(g) "Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
(h) "Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
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(1) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction
in the premises adjudging such Person as bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking liquidation or
reorganization of or in respect of such Person under the Federal Bankruptcy
Code or any other similar applicable Federal or State law, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unvacated and unstayed for a period
of 90 days; or the commencement of an involuntary case under the Federal
Bankruptcy Code in respect of such Person, which shall continue undismissed
for a period of 90 days or entry of an order for relief in such case; or
the entry of a decree or order of a court having jurisdiction in the
premises for the appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a
receiver, custodian, liquidator, trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or
insolvency of such Person or of its property, or for the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order shall have remained in
force unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or
(2) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be
adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or the consent by such Person to the
filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or the filing by such Person
of a petition or answer or consent seeking liquidation or reorganization
under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or other similar applicable Federal or
State law, or the consent by such Person to the filing of any such petition
or to the appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a
receiver or custodian or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or
insolvency of such Person or of its property, or shall make a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors.
(i) "Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.
(j) "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Depositor to have been duly adopted
by the Depositor's Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of
Directors or officers of the Depositor to which authority to act on behalf of
the Board of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on
the date of such certification, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee.
(k) "Book Entry Preferred Securities Certificates" means certificates
representing Preferred Securities issued in global, fully registered form to the
Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.11.
(l) "Business Day" means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday,
(b) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized
or required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (c) a day on which
the Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the Corporate Trust Office of
the Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
(m) "Capital Event" means that CTBI Trust has received an opinion of
independent counsel experienced in such matters that the Company cannot, or
within 90 days of such opinion, will not be permitted by the applicable
regulatory authorities, due to a change in law, regulation,
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policy or guideline, to account for the Preferred Securities as Tier I Capital
under the capital guidelines or policies of the Federal Reserve.
(n) "Certificate Depository Agreement" Trust, means the agreement
among the Depositor and The Depositary Trust Company, as the initial
Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date, relating to the Trust Securities
Certificates, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B, as the same may
be amended and supplemented from time to time.
(o) "Certificate of Trust" means the certificate of trust filed with
the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware with respect to the Trust, as
amended or restated from time to time.
(p) "Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. The Depository Trust Company will be the initial Clearing Agency.
(q) "Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.
(r) "Closing Date" means the date of execution and delivery of this
Trust Agreement.
(s) "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(t) "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
(u) "Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the
assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
(v) "Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
(w) "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust
office of the Property Trustee located at Two International Place, 4th Floor,
Boston, Massachusetts 02110.
(x) "Debenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as
defined in the Indenture.
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(y) "Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures
to be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption under the
Indenture.
(z) "Debenture Tax Event" means a "Tax Event" as defined in the
Indenture.
(aa) "Debenture Trustee" means State Street Bank and Trust Company, a
Massachusetts banking corporation organized under the laws of the State of
Massachusetts and any successor thereto, as trustee under the Indenture.
(bb) "Debentures" means the $_____________ aggregate principal amount
of the Depositor's _______% Subordinated Debentures, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
(cc) "Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates" means either or
both (as the context requires) of (a) Preferred Securities Certificates issued
as Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates as provided in Section
5.11(a) and 5.11(b) and (b) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in
certificated, fully registered form as provided in Section 5.13.
(dd) "Delaware Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Trust Agreement.
(ee) "Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Delaware Code Sections 3801 et seq, as it may be amended from
time to time.
(ff) "Delaware Trustee" means the commercial bank or trust company
identified as the "Delaware Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement
solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust performed and continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in
such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
(gg) "Depositor" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Trust Agreement.
(hh) "Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).
(ii) "Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust
Securities as provided in Section 4.1.
(jj) "Event of Default" means any one of the following events
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary
or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(1) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
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(2) default by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution when
it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(3) default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price
of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, in any material
respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement
(other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance of which or the
breach of which is dealt with in clause (b) or (c), above) and continuation of
such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the defaulting Trustee or Trustees by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate liquidation preference of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder; or
(5) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the
Property Trustee and the failure by the Depositor to appoint a successor
Property Trustee within 60 days thereof.
(kk) "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
(ll) "Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and
Liabilities between the Depositor and the Trust, substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit D, as amended from time to time.
(mm) "Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
(nn) "Extended Interest Payment Period" has the meaning specified in
Section 4.1 of the Indenture.
(oo) "Guarantee" means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered
by the Depositor and State Street Bank and Trust Company as trustee,
contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for
the benefit of the holders of the Preferred Securities, as amended from time to
time.
(pp) "Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of ___________ ____,
1997, between the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or
supplemented from time to time.
(qq) "Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Trust of an
Opinion of Counsel, rendered by a law firm experienced in such matters, to the
effect that, as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a
change in interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative
body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority (a "Change in 1940 Act
Law"), the Trust is or will be considered an "investment company" that is
required
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to be registered under the 1940 Act, which Change in 1940 Act Law becomes
effective on or after the date of original issuance of the Preferred Securities
under this Trust Agreement.
(rr) "Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage,
deed of trusty, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security
interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential
arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.
(ss) "Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust
Securities, Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal
amount of Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the
Indenture and the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of
such Trust Securities and (b) with respect to a distribution of Debentures to
Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a termination or liquidation of
the Trust, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount
of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Debentures are distributed.
(tt) "Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $25 per Trust
Security.
(uu) "Liquidation Date" means the date on which Debentures are to be
distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a termination and
liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 904(a).
(vv) "Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section
9.4(d).
(ww) "1940 Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(xx) "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or
the Controller or an Assistant Controller or the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee. One of
the officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 816
shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the
Depositor. Any Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided in this Trust Agreement shall include:
(1) a statement that each officer signing the Officers'
Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating
thereto;
(2) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officers'
Certificate;
(3) a statement that each such officer has made such examination
or investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such
officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
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(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
(yy) "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may
be counsel for the Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or the
Depositor, but not an employee of any thereof, and who shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Property Trustee.
(zz) "Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the
recitals to this Trust Agreement.
(aaa) "Outstanding", when used with respect to Preferred Securities,
means, as of the date of determination, all Preferred Securities theretofore
executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(1) Preferred securities theretofore canceled by the Property
Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(2) Preferred Securities for whose payment or redemption money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or
any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Preferred Securities; provided that, if
such Preferred Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(3) Preferred Securities which have been paid or in exchange for
or in lieu of which other Preferred Securities have been executed and delivered
pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.11 and 5.13; provided, however, that in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Preferred Securities owned by
the Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in
determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or wavier, only
Preferred Securities that such Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the
outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of the
Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned which have
been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee's
right so to the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
(bbb) "Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of a Book
Entry Preferred Securities Certificate as reflected in the records of the
Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the Owner, then as
reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an
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account with such Clearing Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with
the rules of such clearing Agency).
(ccc) "Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent
appointed pursuant to Section 5.9 and shall initially be the Bank.
(ddd) "Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing
corporate trust account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its
trust department for the benefit of the Securityholders in which all amounts
paid in respect of the Debentures will be held and from which the Property
Trustee shall make payments to the Securityholders in accordance with Sections
4.1 and 4.2.
(eee) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
(fff) "Preferred Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in
the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the
rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
(ggg) "Preferred Securities Certificate", means a certificate
evidencing ownership of Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached
as Exhibit E.
(hhh) "Property Trustee" means the commercial bank or trust company
identified as the "Property Trustee", in the preamble to this Trust Agreement
solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust heretofore formed and
continued hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in
interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee appointed as herein
provided.
(iii) "Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to
be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated maturity
of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust
Securities.
(jjj) "Redemption Price" means with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of the premium, if
any, paid by the Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount of
Debentures, allocated on a pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among
the Trust Securities.
(kkk) "Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section
8.10.
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(lll) "Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 5.4.
(mmm) "Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a
Trust Security or Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any such
Person is a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business Trust
Act.
(nnn) "Tax Event" means the receipt by the Trust of an Opinion of
Counsel, rendered by a law firm experienced in such matters, to the effect that,
as a result of any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective
change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of
any official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
which pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of
the Preferred Securities under this Trust Agreement, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that (i) the Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the
date of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States federal income tax
with respect to income received or accrued on the Debentures, (ii) interest
payable by the Depositor on the Debentures is not, or within 90 days after the
date of such Opinion of Counsel, will not be, deductible by the Depositor, in
whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes or (iii) the
Trust is, or will be within 90 days after the date of such Opinion of Counsel,
subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties, assessments or
other governmental charges.
(ooo) "Trust" means the Delaware business trust created and continued
hereby and identified on the cover page to this Trust Agreement.
(ppp) "Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement, as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance
with the applicable provisions hereof, including all exhibits hereto, including,
for all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, respectively.
(qqq) "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided,
however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such
date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment,
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
(rrr) "Trust Property" means (a) the Debentures, (b) the rights of the
Property Trustee under the Guarantee, (c) any cash on deposit in, or owing to,
the Payment Account and (d) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing
and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held
by the Property Trustee pursuant to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.
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(sss) "Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the
Preferred Securities.
(ttt) "Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common
Securities Certificates or the Preferred Securities Certificates.
(uuu) "Trustee" means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees.
(vvv) "Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement, dated
as of _________ ____, 1997, among the Trust, the Depositor and the Underwriter
named therein.
2. Establishment Of The Trust.
2.1 Name. The trust created and continued hereby shall be known as "CTBI
Preferred Capital Trust," as such name may be modified from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust
Securities and the other Trustees, in which name the Trustees may engage in the
transactions contemplated hereby, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued.
2.2 Office of the Delaware Trust; Principal Place of Business. The address
of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is c/o Wilmington Trust
Company, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in the State of Delaware
as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Securityholders
and the Depositor. The principal executive office of the Trust is c/o Community
Trust Bancorp, Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000.
2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses. The
trustees acknowledge receipt in trust from the Depositor in connection with the
Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which constituted the initial Trust
Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they
arise or shall, upon request of any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for
any such expenses paid by such Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon
the Trust Property for the payment of such expenses.
2.4 Issuance of the Preferred Securities. On _________ ____, 1997, the
Depositor, on behalf of the Trust and pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement,
executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement. Contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on
behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.2 and deliver in
accordance with the Underwriting Agreement Preferred Securities Certificates,
registered in the name of the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, in an
aggregate amount of ___________. Preferred Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of $_________, against receipt of the aggregate purchase
price of such Preferred Securities of
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$_____________, which amount such Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver
to the Property Trustee.
2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
Debentures.
(a) Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute and
deliver Common Securities certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor,
in an aggregate amount of ________ Common Securities having an aggregate
liquidation amount of $____________, against receipt of the aggregate purchase
price of such Common Securities of $___________, which amount such
Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee.
(b) Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall subscribe to
and purchase from the Depositor, Debentures, registered in the name of the
Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust and having an aggregate principal amount
equal to $_____________, and, in satisfaction of the purchase price for such
Debentures, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall transfer
$___________ to the Depositor.
2.6 Declaration of Trust. The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust
are (a) to issue and sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale
to acquire the Debentures, and (b) to engage in those activities necessary,
convenient or incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Trustees as
trustees of the Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent
set forth herein, and the Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property
Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in trust upon and
subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the
Securityholders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and
duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to
accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be
entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the
duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the Administrative
Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the Trustees of
the Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of
Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance
with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in
paragraph (b) of this Section and Section 8, and in accordance with the
following provisions (i) and (ii), the Administrative Trustees shall have the
authority to enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the
Administrative Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express
or implied, otherwise granted to the Administrative Trustees under this Trust
Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including without
limitation, the following:
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(1) As among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee, acting singly
or jointly, shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Trust
with respect to the following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver
and perform on behalf of the Trust, the Expense Agreement and the
Certificate Depository Agreement and such other agreements or documents as
may be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function
of the Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Preferred Securities
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and under state securities or
blue sky laws, and the qualification of this Trust Agreement as a trust
indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;
(D) assisting in the listing of the Preferred Securities upon
the NASDAQ National Market or such securities exchange or exchanges as
shall be determined by the Depositor and the registration of the Preferred
Securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other
documents pursuant to the foregoing;
(E) the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and
other information regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the
Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating agent and
Securities Registrar in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding
up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust and the preparation,
execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware;
(H) to take all action that may be necessary or appropriate for
the preservation and the continuation of the Trust's valid existence,
rights, franchises and privileges as a statutory business trust under the
laws of the State of Delaware and of each other jurisdiction in which such
existence is necessary to protect the limited liability of the Holders of
the Preferred Securities or to enable the Trust to effect the purposes for
which the Trust was created; and
(I) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the
Administrative Trustees may from time to time determine is necessary or
advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement for the
benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any
such action on any particular Securityholder).
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(2) As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power,
duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the collection of interest, principal and any other payments
made in respect of the Debentures in the Payment Account;
(D) the distribution of amounts owed to the Securityholders in
respect of the Trust Securities in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement;
(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of
a holder of the Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the Securityholders in
accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with
the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding
up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust;
(I) after an Event of Default the taking of any action
incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may from time to time
determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this
Trust Agreement and protect and conserve the Trust Property for the benefit
of the Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any such
action on any particular Securityholder);
(J) registering transfers of the Trust Securities in accordance
with this Trust Agreement; and
(K) except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.7(a)(2), the
Property Trustee shall have none of the duties, liabilities, powers or the
authority of the Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 2.7(a)(1).
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or
the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business,
activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated
hereby. In particular, the Trustees shall not (i) acquire any investments or
engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell,
assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of
any of the Trust
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Property or interests therein, including to Securityholders, except as expressly
provided herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Trust to fail or
cease to qualify as a "grantor trust" for United States federal income tax
purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt
or (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a
Lien on any of the Trust Property. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all
claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the
Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in
their capacity as Securityholders.
(c) In connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred
Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the
Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any
actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date
of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):
(1) the preparation and filing by the Trust with the Commission
and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a registration statement on the
appropriate form in relation to the Preferred Securities and the
Debentures, including any amendments thereto;
(2) the determination of the states in which to take appropriate
action to qualify or, register for sale all or part of the Preferred
Securities and to do any and all such acts, other than actions which must
be taken by or on behalf of the Trust, and advise the Trustees of actions
they must take on behalf of the Trust, and prepare for execution and filing
any documents to be executed and filed by the Trust or on behalf of the
Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply
with the applicable laws of any such states;
(3) the preparation for filing by the Trust and execution on
behalf of the Trust of an application to the NASDAQ National Market or a
national stock exchange or other organizations for listing upon notice of
issuance of any Preferred Securities and to file or cause an Administrative
Trustee to file thereafter with such exchange or organization such
notifications and documents as may be necessary from time to time;
(4) the preparation for filing by the Trust with the Commission
and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a registration statement on
Form 8-A relating to the registration of the Preferred Securities under
Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, including any amendments
thereto;
(5) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution an
delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale of the
Preferred Securities; and
(6) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to
carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of
the Trust and to operate the Trust so that the
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Trust will not be deemed to be an "investment company" required to be registered
under the 1940 Act, will be classified as a "grantor trust" and not as an
association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax
purposes and so that the Debentures will be treated as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes. In this connection,
subject to Section 10.2, the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are
authorized to take any action, not in consistent with applicable law or this
Trust Agreement, that each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees
determines in their discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes.
2.8 Assets of Trust. The assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust
Property.
2.9 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all Trust Property shall be
vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall
be held and administered by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the
Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
3. Payment Account.
3.1 Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall
establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and any agent of the
Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with
respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits and
withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment
Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the
exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for distribution as herein
provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for
herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account,
promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and any
other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in the
Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending
distribution thereof.
4. Distributions, Redemption.
4.1 Distributions.
(a) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and
will accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Trust available for the
payment of Distributions. Distributions shall accumulate from _________, 1997,
and, except during any Extended Interest Payment Period with respect to the
Debentures, shall be payable quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30,
September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on June 30, 1997 (each
date on which distributions are payable in accordance with the foregoing a
"Distribution Date").
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If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities
is not a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall be made on
the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any additional
Distributions, interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), in each
case with the same force and effect as if made on the date such payment was
originally payable.
(b) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in
the Trust Property, and the Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be
payable at a rate of _____% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities. The amount of Distributions payable for any full period shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The amount of
Distributions for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the
number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30 day months. During any
Extended Interest Payment Period with respect to the Debentures, Distributions
on the Preferred Securities will be deferred for a period equal to the Extended
Interest Payment Period. The amount of Distributions payable for any period
shall include the Additional Amounts, if any.
(c) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the
Property Trustee solely from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each
Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and
immediately available in the Payment Account for the payment of such
Distributions.
(d) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on the
Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which
shall be one Business Day prior to such Distribution Date; provided, however,
that in the event that the Preferred Securities do not remain in book-entry-only
form, the relevant record date shall be the 15th day of the month in which the
relevant Distribution Date occurs.
4.2 Redemption.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of
the Debentures, the Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust
Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed,
at such Xxxxxx's address appearing in the Securities Register. The Property
Trustee shall have no responsibility for the accuracy of any CUSIP number
contained in such notice. All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
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(3) the CUSIP number;
(4) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification and the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
particular Trust Securities to be redeemed; and
(5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that
Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after said date.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption of Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and
the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent
that the Trust has immediately available funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of
any Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, so long
as the Preferred Securities are in book-entry-only form, deposit with the
Clearing Agency for the Preferred Securities funds sufficient to pay the
applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable
instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the holders thereof.
If the Preferred Securities are no longer in book-entry-only form, the Property
Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c), will deposit with the Paying Agent funds
sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the
Holders thereof upon surrender of their Preferred Securities Certificates.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the
Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable
to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the Register for the
Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related Distribution
Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds deposited as
required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Securityholders
holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except the right
of such Securityholders to receive the Redemption Price and any Distribution
payable on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and such
Securities will cease to be Outstanding. In the event that any date on which any
Redemption Price is payable is not a Business Day, then payment of the
Redemption Price payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day
that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of
any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on such date. In the
event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities
called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by
the Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee, Distributions on such
Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, at the then applicable rate, from
the Redemption Date originally established by the Trust for such Trust
Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the
actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of
calculating the Redemption Price.
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(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall be
made to the record holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for
the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be one Business
Day prior to the relevant Redemption Date; provided, however, that in the event
that the Preferred Securities do not remain in book-entry-only form, the
relevant record date shall be a date at least fifteen days prior to the relevant
Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust
Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated on a
pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common Securities and
the Preferred Securities. The particular Preferred Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Property Trustee from the outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called
for redemption, by such method (including, without limitation, by lot) as the
Property Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to $25 or an integral multiple of
$25 in excess thereof) of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities of a
denomination larger than $25. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the
Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Preferred Securities selected for partial
redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of
this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of
any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
4.3 Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(f), pro rata among the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date or
Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including
Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or Redemption Price of, any Common
Security, and no other payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or
other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in
cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including Additional Amounts,
if applicable) on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution
periods terminated on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the
Redemption Price the full amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding
Preferred Securities then called for redemption, shall have been made or
provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property Trustee shall
first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all Distributions (including
Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or the Redemption Price of, Preferred
Securities then due and payable.
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(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting
from a Debenture Event of Default, the Holder of Common Securities will be
deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of Default
under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of Default with
Respect to the Preferred Securities shall have been cured, waived or otherwise
eliminated. Until any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement with
respect to the Preferred Securities shall have been so cured, waived or
otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities and not the Holder of the Common Securities,
and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct
the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
4.4 Payment Procedures. Payments of Distributions (including Additional
Amounts, if applicable) in respect of the Preferred Securities shall be made by
check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear on the Securities Register or, if the Preferred Securities are held by a
Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency in
immediately available funds, which shall credit the relevant Persons' accounts
at such Clearing Agency on the applicable distribution dates. Payments in
respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be
mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Common Securityholder.
4.5 Tax Returns and Reports. The Administrative Trustees shall prepare
(or cause to be prepared), at the Depositor's expense, and file all United
States federal, state and local tax and information returns and reports required
to be filed by or in respect of the Trust. In this regard, the Administrative
Trustees shall (a) prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) the
appropriate Internal Revenue Service Form required to be filed in respect of the
Trust in each taxable year of the Trust and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to
be prepared and furnished) to each Securityholder the appropriate Internal
Revenue Service Form required to be furnished to such Securityholder or the
information required to be provided on such form. The Administrative Trustees
shall provide the Depositor with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly
after such filing or furnishing. The Property Trustee shall comply with the
United States federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and
information reporting requirements with respect to any payments to
Securityholders under the Trust Securities.
4.6 Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. Of The Trust. Upon receipt under the
Debentures of Additional Sums, the Property Trustee, at the direction of an
Administrative Trustee or the Depositor, shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or
governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed
on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.
4.7 Payments Under Indenture. Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder
of Preferred Securities shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding
payment such Holder has directly received under the Indenture pursuant to
Section 5.14(b) or 5.14(c) hereof.
5. Trust Securities Certificates.
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5.1 Initial Ownership. Upon the creation of the Trust and the
contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of
the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are
outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates. The Preferred Securities
Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $25 Liquidation Amount
and integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof, and the Common Securities
Certificates shall be issued in denominations of $25 Liquidation Amount and
integral multiples thereof. The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed
on behalf of the Trust by manual signature of at least one Administrative
Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual signatures of
individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed,
authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled
to the benefits of the Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such
Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of
delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust
Securities Certificate shall become a Securityholder, and shall be entitled to
the rights and subject to the obligations of a Securityholder hereunder, upon
due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee's name
pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.11 and 5.13.
5.3 Execution And Delivery Of Trust Securities Certificates. On the
Closing Date and on the date on which the Underwriter exercises the Option, as
applicable (the "Option Closing Date"), the Administrative Trustees shall cause
Trust Securities Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in
Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the Trust by at least one of
the Administrative Trustees and delivered to or upon the written order of the
Depositor, signed by its President, any Vice President, the Treasurer or any
Assistant Treasurer without further corporate action by the Depositor, in
authorized denominations.
5.4 Registration Of Transfer And Exchange Of Preferred Securities
Certificates.
(a) The Depositor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or
agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, a register or registers for the
purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges
of Preferred Securities Certificates (herein referred to as the "Securities
Register") in which the registrar designated by the Depositor (the "Securities
Registrar"), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall
provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common
Securities Certificates (subject to Section in the case of the Common Securities
Certificates) and registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred
Securities Certificates as herein provided. The Property Trustee shall be the
initial Securities Registrar.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred
Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section
5.8, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and deliver,
in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or
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more new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like
aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Administrative
Trustee or Trustees. The Securities Registrar shall not be required to register
the transfer of any Preferred Securities that have been called for redemption.
At the option of a Holder, Preferred Securities Certificates may be exchanged
for other Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the
same class and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the
Preferred Securities Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency
maintained pursuant to Section 5.8.
(c) Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Property Trustee and the
Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized
in writing. Each Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the
Property Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. The Trust shall not
be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Preferred
Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 calendar days
before the date of mailing of a notice of redemption of any Preferred Securities
called for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such
mailing or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Securities so
selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
any such Preferred Securities being redeemed in part.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer
or exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge
that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates.
5.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost Or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities certificate shall be surrendered to the
Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to
its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities
Certificate and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and the
Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust
Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the
Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Trust shall
execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust
Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with
the issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section, the
Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued
pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided
beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, as if originally issued, whether
or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found
at any time.
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5.6 Persons Deemed Securityholders. The Trustees, the Paying Agent and
the Securities Registrar shall treat the Person in whose name any Trust
Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the
owner of such Trust Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving
Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Trustees
nor the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
5.7 Access To List Of Securityholders' Name And Addresses. At any time
when the Property Trustee is not also acting as the Securities Registrar, the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor shall furnish or cause to be furnished
to the Property Trustee (a) semi-annually on or before January 15 and July 15 in
each year, a list, in such form as the Property Trustee may reasonably require,
of the names and addresses of the Securityholders as of the most recent record
date and (b) promptly after receipt by any Administrative Trustee or the
Depositor of a request therefor from the Property Trustee in order to enable the
Property Trustee to discharge its obligations under this Trust Agreement, in
each case to the extent such information is in the possession or control of the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor and is not identical to a previously
supplied list or has not otherwise been received by the Property Trustee in its
capacity as Securities Registrar. The rights of Securityholders to communicate
with other Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Trust
Agreement or under the Trust Securities, and the corresponding rights of the
Trustee shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act. Each Holder, by
receiving and holding a Trust Securities Certificate, and each owner shall be
deemed to have agreed not to hold the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and
address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.
5.8 Maintenance Of Office Or Agency. The Administrative Trustees shall
maintain in Boston, Massachusetts, an office or offices or agency or agencies
where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Trustees in
respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The Administrative
Trustees initially designate the principal corporate trust office of the
Property Trustee, at Two International Place, 4th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts
02110, Attention: Corporate Trust Department as the principal corporate trust
office for such purposes. The Administrative Trustees shall give prompt written
notice to the Depositor and to the Securityholders of any change in the location
of the Securities Registrar or any such office or agency.
5.9 Appointment Of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
Distributions to Securityholders from the Payment Account and shall report the
amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from
the Payment Account for the purpose of making the Distributions referred to
above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying
Agent if such Trustees determine in their sole discretion that the Paying Agent
shall have failed to perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement in any
material respect. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee, and
any co-paying agent chosen by the Property Trustee, and acceptable to the
Administrative Trustees, and the Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying
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Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice
to the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Depositor. In the
event that the Property Trustee shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a
successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the
Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor that is acceptable to the
Property Trustee and the Depositor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank
or trust company). The Administrative Trustees shall cause such successor Paying
Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees to
execute and deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying
Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustees that as Paying
Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all
sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Securityholders in trust for the
benefit of the Securityholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Securityholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the
Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also
return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of
Sections 8.1, and 8.6 shall apply to the Property Trustee also in its role as
Paying Agent, for so long as the Property Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and,
to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any
reference to this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying
agent unless the context requires otherwise.
5.10 Ownership Of Common Securities By Depositor. On the Closing Date,
the Depositor shall acquire and retain beneficial and record ownership of the
Common Securities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted
transfer of the Common Securities (other than a transfer in connection with a
merger or consolidation of the Depositor into another corporation pursuant to
Section 12.1 of the Indenture) shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall
cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a
legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE".
5.11 Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities
Certificate.
(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates, upon original issuance,
will be issued in the form of a typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate or
Certificates representing Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates, to be
delivered to or held on behalf of the Depositary Trust Company, the initial
Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Trust. Such Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificate or Certificates shall initially be registered on the
Securities Register in the name of Cede & Co. the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no beneficial owner will receive a Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificate representing such beneficial owner's interest in such
Preferred Securities, except as provided in Section 5.13 unless and until
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates have been issued to beneficial
owners pursuant to Section 5.13:
(1) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall be in full
force and effect;
(2) the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Trustees
shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Trust Agreement relating to the Book
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Entry Preferred Securities Certificates (including the payment of the
Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities) as the sole Holder of Book-Entry Preferred Securities and shall
have no obligations to the Owners thereof;
(3) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 5.11
conflict with any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, the provisions
of the Section 5.11 shall control; and
(4) the rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificates shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency
and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between
such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency
Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and
until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to
Section 5.13, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers
among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments on
the Preferred Securities to such Clearing Agency Participants. Any Clearing
Agency designated pursuant hereto will not be deemed an agent of the
Trustees for any purpose.
(b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common
Securities Certificate.
5.12 Notices To Clearing Agency. To the extent that a notice or other
communication to the Owners is required under this Trust Agreement, unless and
until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall have been issued to
Owners pursuant to Section 5.13, the Trustees shall give all such notices and
communications specified herein to be given to Owners to the Clearing Agency,
and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
5.13 Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates. If (a) the Depositor
advises the Trustees in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or
able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Preferred
Securities Certificates, and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified
successor, or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency
registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, at a time when
the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as such depositary, (b)
the Depositor at its option advises the Trustees in writing that it elects to
terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, or (c) after the
occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default, Owners of Preferred Securities
Certificates representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority
of the Liquidation Amount advise the Property Trustee in writing that the
continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in
the best interests of the Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates, then the
Property Trustee shall notify the Clearing Agency, and the Clearing Agency shall
notify all Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates, of the occurrence of any
such event and of the availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates to owners of such class or classes, as applicable, requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Property Trustee of the typewritten Preferred
Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by
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registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them,
shall execute the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance
with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither the Securities Registrar
nor the Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions
and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates,
the Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates as Securityholders. The Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in
any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees, as
evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of
them.
5.14 Rights Of Securityholders.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and
the Securityholders shall not have any right or title therein other than the
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by their
Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or
division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except as described below.
The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights
specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities
shall have no preemptive or similar rights. When issued and delivered to the
Holders of the Preferred Securities against payment of the purchase price
therefor, the Preferred Securities will be fully paid and nonassessable
interests in the Trust. The Holders of the Preferred Securities, in their
capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal
liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if,
upon a Debenture Event of Default, the Debenture Trustee fails or the holders of
not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Debentures fail to
declare the principal of all of the Debentures to be immediately due and
payable, the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee; and upon any such declaration such
principal amount of and the accrued interest on all of the Debentures shall
become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal and
interest on such Debentures shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in
the Indenture.
(c) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, if,
upon a Debenture Event of Default, arising from the failure to pay interest or
principal on the Debentures, the Holders of any Preferred Securities then
Outstanding shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have the right to
directly institute proceedings for enforcement of payment to such Holders of
principal of or interest on the Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holders.
6. Acts Of Securityholders; Meetings; Voting.
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6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as provided in this Section, in Sections 5.14, 8.10 and
10.2 and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of
Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise
control the administration, operation and management of the Trust or the
obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or
contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as
to constitute the Securityholders from time to time as partners or members of an
association.
(b) So long as any Debentures are held by the Property Trustee, the
Property Trustee shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture Trustee, or executing
any trust or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to such
Debentures, (ii) waive any past default which is waivable under Section 6 of the
Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the
principal of all the Debentures shall be due and payable or (iv) consent to any
amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Debentures, where
such consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior
approval of the Holders of at least a majority in Liquidation Amount of all
Outstanding Preferred Securities; provided, however, that where a consent under
the Indenture would require the consent of each Holder of Outstanding Debentures
affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without
the prior written consent of each holder of Preferred Securities. The Property
Trustee shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote
of the Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities, except by a subsequent
vote of the Holders of the outstanding Preferred Securities. The Property
Trustee shall notify each Holder of the Outstanding Preferred Securities of any
notice of default received from the Debenture Trustee with respect to the
Debentures. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of
the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the
Property Trustee shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that the Trust will continue
to be classified as a grantor trust and not as an association taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes on account of such
action.
(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or
the Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely
affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the
Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust Agreement or
otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust,
other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of
Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such
amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective
except with the approval of the Holders of at least a majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. No amendment to this Trust
Agreement may be made if, as a result of such amendment, the Trust would cease
to be classified as a grantor trust or would be classified as an association
taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
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6.2 Notice of Meetings. Notice of all meetings of the Preferred
Securityholders, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be
given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Preferred
Securityholder of record, at his registered address, at least 15 days and not
more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business
properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the
notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without
further notice.
6.3 Meetings of Preferred Securityholders.
(a) No annual meeting of Securityholders is required to be held. The
Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of Securityholders to
vote on any matter upon the written request of the Preferred Securityholders of
25% of the Outstanding Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may,
at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of Preferred Securityholders to
vote on any matters as to which the Preferred Securityholders are entitled to
vote.
(b) Preferred Securityholders of record of 50% of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount), present in
person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Securityholders.
(c) If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the
Preferred Securityholders of record present, in person or by proxy, holding more
than a majority of the Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) held by the Preferred Securityholders of record present,
either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the
Securityholders, unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of
affirmative votes.
6.4 Voting Rights. Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote for each
$25 of Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities in respect of
any matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
6.5 Proxies, Etc. At any meeting of Securityholders, any Securityholder
entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy, shall be
voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the
Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the
Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at which
such vote shall be taken. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several
persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in
respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present
at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so
present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in
respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on
behalf of a Securityholder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior
to its exercise, and, the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the
challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of
execution.
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6.6 Securityholder Action by Written Consent. Any action which may be
taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if
Securityholders holding more than a majority of all Outstanding Trust Securities
(based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount) entitled to vote in respect of
such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any
express provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in
writing (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount).
6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes. For the purposes of
determining the Securityholders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any
meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any Distribution on the
Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for
in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other action, the
Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days
prior to the date of any meeting of Securityholders or the payment of a
Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the
determination of the identity of the Securityholders of record for such
purposes.
6.8 Acts of Securityholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be
given, made or taken by Securityholders or Owners may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Securityholders or owners in person or by an agent duly appointed in
writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to an
Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of
the Securityholders or Owners signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall
be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section
8.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this
Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Preferred Securityholders shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
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(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind every
future Securityholder of the same Trust Security and the Securityholder of every
Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to
be done by the Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
(e) Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled
hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust
Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of
such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do
so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such
liquidation amount.
(f) Securityholder may institute a legal proceeding directly against
the Depositor under the Guarantee to enforce its rights under the Guarantee
without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee Trust (as
defined in the Guarantee), the Trust or any Person.
6.9 Inspection of Records. Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative
Trustees and the Property Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to
inspection by Securityholders during normal business hours for any purpose
reasonably related to such Securityholder's interest as a Securityholder.
7. Representations And Warranties.
7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Bank. The Bank, as of the date
hereof, and each Successor Property Trustee at the time of the Successor
Property Trustee's acceptance of its appointment as Property Trustee hereunder
(the term "Bank" being used to refer to such Successor Property Trustee in its
separate corporate capacity) hereby represents and warrants (as applicable) for
the benefit of the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(a) the Bank is a Massachusetts banking corporation duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Massachusetts;
(b) the Bank has full corporate power, authority and legal right to
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has
taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance
by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized executed and
delivered by the Bank and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of
the Bank enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors, rights
and to general equity principles;
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(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Bank of this Trust
Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on
the part of the Bank and does not require any approval of stockholders of the
Bank and such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the
Bank's charter or by-laws, (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or
without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of, any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property
pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement,
license or other agreement or instrument to which the Bank is a party or by
which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of
the United States or the State of Massachusetts, as the case may be, governing
the banking or trust powers of the Bank or any order, judgment or decree
applicable to the Bank;
(e) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Bank of
this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the
Property Trustee contemplated herein or therein requires the consent or approval
of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any other
action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing
federal law governing the banking or trust powers of the Bank under the laws of
the United States or the State of Massachusetts, and
(f) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of the Bank's
knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Bank in any court or before any
governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal which,
individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the
Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Bank to enter into
or perform its obligations as one of the Trustees under this Trust Agreement.
7.2 Representations and Warranties of the Delaware Bank. The Delaware
Bank, as of the date hereof, and each Successor Delaware Trustee at the time of
the Successor Delaware Trustee's acceptance of appointment as Delaware Trustee
hereunder (the term "Delaware Bank" being used to refer to such Successor
Delaware Trustee in its separate corporate capacity), hereby represents and
warrants (as applicable) for the benefit of the Depositor and the
Securityholders that:
(a) the Delaware Bank is a Delaware banking corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware;
(b) the Delaware Bank has full corporate power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement
and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding
agreement of the Delaware Bank enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
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transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting creditors, rights and to general equity principles;
(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Delaware Bank of
this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or
other action on the part of the Delaware Bank and does not require any approval
of stockholders of the Delaware Bank and such execution, delivery and
performance will not (i) violate the Delaware Bank's charter or by-laws, (ii)
violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of
time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on
any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any
indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or instrument
to which the Delaware Bank is a party or by which it is bound, or (iii) violate
any law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States or the State of
Delaware, as the case may be, governing the banking or trust powers of the
Delaware Bank or any order, judgment or decree applicable to the Delaware Bank;
(e) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Delaware
Bank of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions by
the Delaware Bank contemplated herein or therein requires the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any
other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any
existing federal law governing the banking or trust powers of the Delaware Bank
under the laws of the United States or the State of Delaware; and
(f) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of the Delaware
Bank's knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Delaware Bank in any court
or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal
which, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect
the Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Delaware
Trustee to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Trustees under
this Trust Agreement.
7.3 Representations and Warranties of Depositor. The Depositor hereby
represents and warrants for the benefit of the Securityholders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued on the Closing Date or
the Option Closing Date, if applicable, on behalf of the Trust have been duly
authorized and will have been, duly and validly executed, issued and delivered
by the Administrative Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in
accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement and the
Securityholders will be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust
Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by
the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf of the Trust) under the laws of the State
of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance by the Bank, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
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8. The Trustees.
8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Trust Agreement shall require the Trustees to expend or risk their own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of their
duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their rights or powers, if they
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it. No Administrative Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be liable for its
acts or omissions hereunder except as a result of its own gross negligence or
willful misconduct. The Property Trustee's liability shall be determined under
the Trust Indenture Act. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the
liability of or affording protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the
provisions of this Section. To the extent that, at law or in equity, the
Delaware Trustee or an Administrative Trustee has duties (including fiduciary
duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Trust or to the Securityholders,
the Delaware Trustee or such Administrative Trustee shall not be liable to the
Trust or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's good faith reliance on the
provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to
the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Delaware Trustee
or the Administrative Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are
agreed by the Depositor and the Securityholders to replace such other duties and
liabilities of the Delaware Trustee or Administrative Trustees.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in
respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds
from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient
revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a
Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each
Securityholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look
solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally
available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are
not personally liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust
Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This
Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth
elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve
the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee,
unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts;
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(2) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Trust Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any
trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
(3) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the custody,
safe keeping and physical preservation of the Debentures and the Payment Account
shall be to deal with such Property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee
deals with similar property for its own account, subject to the protections and
limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust
Agreement and the Trust Indenture Act;
(4) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on
any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor and
money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held
by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property
Trustee pursuant to Section and except to the extent otherwise required by law;
and
(5) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring
the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with their
respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be
liable for the negligence, default or misconduct of the Administrative Trustees
or the Depositor.
8.2 Certain Notices.
(a) Within five Business Days after the occurrence of any Event of
Default actually known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8 notice of
such Event of Default to the Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees and
the Depositor, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived. For
purposes of this Section the term "Event of Default" means any event that is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall transmit, to the Securityholders
in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8 notice of the
Depositor's election to begin or further extend an Extended Interest Payment
Period on the Debentures (unless such election shall have been revoked) within
the time specified for transmitting such notice to the holders of the Debentures
pursuant to the Indenture as originally executed.
8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
Section 8.1:
(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel,
certificate, written representation
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of a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper
or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action or
(ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with other provisions contained
herein or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any
provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the
Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust
Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Depositor
requesting written instructions of the Depositor as to the course of action to
be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or
to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided, however, that if the
Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within ten
Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonable shorter
period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable shall
not be less than two Business Days), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take
or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust Agreement as
it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Securityholders, in
which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad
faith, negligence or willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the Administrative
Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by
an Officers' Certificate;
(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be established before
undertaking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee
(unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officer's
Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by
the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees;
(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording,
filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or
continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any
rerecording, refiling or reregistration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice (which
counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates) and the advice
of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in reliance thereon and in accordance with such advice, such counsel may be
counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its
employees; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any
court of competent jurisdiction;
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(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless
such Securityholders shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond,
debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Securityholders, but the
Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its
agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible for
its own negligence or recklessness with respect to selection of any agent or
attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property
Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of the Trust Securities
which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the
Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such
remedy, right or action, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or
taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall
be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions; and
(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement,
the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that
is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement. No provision of
this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the
Property Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty
or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall
be illegal, or in which the Property Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent
in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to
exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or
authority available to the Property Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. The recitals
contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Trust, and the Trustees do not assume any responsibility for
their correctness. The Trustees shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Debentures.
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8.5 May Hold Securities. Any Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or
the Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13 and except as
provided in the definition of the term "Outstanding" in Section 1, may otherwise
deal with the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not a Trustee
or such other agent.
8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees. The Depositor agrees:
(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by them hereunder (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust
Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may be attributable to such Trustee's negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct (or, in the case of the Administrative Trustees or the
Delaware Trustee, any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to his or her gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct);
and
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustees or any predecessor Trustee for,
and to hold the Trustees harmless against, any loss, damage, claims, liability,
penalty or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising
out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Trust
Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its
powers or duties hereunder, except as any such indemnification is attributable
to such Trustee's negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (or, in the case
of the Administrative Trustees or the Delaware Trustee, any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to his or her gross negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct).
(d) No Trustee may claim any lien or charge on any Trust Property as a
result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.
8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be
its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect
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to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Section.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who
is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a
legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and
that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law that shall act
through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.
8.8 Conflicting Interests. If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a
conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property
Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the
manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act
and this Trust Agreement.
8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
(a) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the
Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust
Property may at the time be located, the Depositor shall have power to appoint,
and upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall for
such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and
performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint,
one or more Persons approved by the Property Trustee either to act as co-
trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust
Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any
such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the
instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity
aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable,
subject to the other provisions of this Section. If the Depositor does not join
in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to
do, or in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Property Trustee alone shall have power to make such appointment. Any co-trustee
or separate trustee pointed pursuant to this Section shall either be (i) a
natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United
States or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United
States that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such
entity.
(b) Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by
any co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to
such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any
and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged, and
delivered by the Depositor.
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(c) Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following
terms, namely:
(1) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered and all
rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody
of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to be
deposited or pledged with, the Trustees specified hereunder, shall be
exercised, solely by such Trustees and not by such co-trustees or separate
trustee.
(2) The rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby conferred
or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any property covered by
such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-
trustee or separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument
appointing such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that
under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be
performed, the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
perform such act, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or separate
trustee.
(3) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing
executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor, may accept
the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed
under this Section, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have the power to accept the
resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without
the concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property
Trustee, the Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the
execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor
to any co-trustee or separate trustee so resigned or removed may be
appointed in the manner provided in this Section 8.9.
(4) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property Trustee
or any other trustee hereunder.
(5) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act
of a co-trustee or separate trustee.
(6) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be
deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.
8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee")
and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Section shall become
effective until the
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acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.11.
(a) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant
Xxxxxxx may resign at any time with respect to the Trust Securities by giving
written notice thereof to the Securityholders. If the instrument of acceptance
by the successor Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered
to the Relevant Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Depositor,
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
(c) Unless a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, any Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Common
Securityholder. If a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may
be removed at such time by Act of the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its
individual capacity and on behalf of the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may
be removed by the Common Securityholder at any time.
(d) If any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting as Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for
any cause, at a time when no Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder
delivered to the retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or
Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, and the successor
Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of continuing to act as the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee,
as the case may be, at a time when a Debenture Event of Default shall have
occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securityholders, by Act of the
Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
then Outstanding delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly
appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Trust
Securities and the Trust, and such successor Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If an Administrative Trustee shall
resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a
time when a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to an
Administrative Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative
Trustee or Administrative Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the
Trust, and such successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor
Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall have been so
appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Preferred Securityholders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Securityholder
who has been a Securityholder of Trust Securities on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated may petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
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(e) The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of a Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all
Securityholders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give notice to
the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant
Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust office if it is the Property
Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is
a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Depositor, incompetent
or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity
may be filled by: (1) the unanimous act of remaining Administrative Trustees if
there are at least two of them; or (2) otherwise by the Depositor (with the
successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement
for Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 8.7).
8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, the retiring
Relevant Trustee and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust
Securities shall execute and deliver an instrument wherein each successor
Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which shall contain such
provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Trust and upon the execution and delivery of such instrument the resignation
or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent
provided therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities
and the Trust; but, on request of the Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee
such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money
held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities and the Trust.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Trust
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
(c) No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be
qualified and eligible under this Section.
8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. Any
Person into which the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or any
Administrative Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
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conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant
Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust. If and
when the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall be or become a creditor
of the Depositor or the Trust (or any other obligor upon the Debentures or the
Trust Securities), the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may
be, shall be subject to and shall take all actions necessary in order to comply
with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of
claims against the Depositor or Trust (or any such other obligor).
8.14 Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) Not later than July 15 of each year commencing with July 15, 1997,
the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Securityholders in accordance with
Section , and to the Depositor, a brief report dated as of such May 15 with
respect to:
(1) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to
be the best of its knowledge it has continued to be eligible under said
Section, a written statement to such effect; and
(2) any change in the property and funds in its possession as
Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any action taken by
the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder which it has
not previously reported and which in its opinion materially affects the
Trust Securities.
(b) In addition the Property Trustee shall transmit to Securityholders
such reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust
Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with the NASDAQ National Market or
other organization upon which the Trust Securities are listed, with the
Commission and with the Depositor.
8.15 Reports to the Property Trustee. The Depositor and the Administrative
Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such
documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a)
of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required
by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
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8.16 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. Each of the
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide
to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that relate to any of
the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any
certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section
314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers'
Certificate.
8.17 Number of Trustees.
(a) The number of Trustees shall be four, provided that the Holder of
all of the Common Securities by written instrument may increase or decrease the
number of Administrative Trustees. The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee
may be the same Person.
(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the number
of Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 8.17(a), or if the
number of Trustees is increased pursuant to Section 8.17(a), a vacancy shall
occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a Trustee appointed in accordance with
Section 8.10.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy,
incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not operate
to annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees
shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the appointment of an
Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 8.10, the Administrative
Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement), shall have all the powers granted to the
Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the
Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
8.18 Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent
with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 his
or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section
2.7(a); and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time
to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such things and
the execution of such instruments either in the name of the trust or the names
of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative Trustees may
deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable
law or contrary to the provisions of the Trust, as set forth herein.
8.19 Voting. Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement, the
consent or approval of the Administrative Trustees shall require consent or
approval by not less than a majority of the Administrative Trustees unless there
are only two, in which case both must consent.
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9. Termination, Liquidation And Merger.
9.1 Termination upon Expiration Date. Unless earlier dissolved, the Trust
shall automatically dissolve on March 31, 2036 (the "Expiration Date") subject
to distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with Section 9.4.
9.2 Early Termination. The first to occur of any of the following events is
an "Early Termination Event":
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the
dissolution or liquidation of, the Depositor;
(b) delivery of written direction to the Property Trustee by the
Depositor at any time (which direction is optional and wholly within the
discretion of the Depositor) to dissolve the Trust and distribute the Debentures
to Securityholders in exchange for the Preferred Securities in accordance with
Section 9.4;
(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection
with the redemption of all of the Debentures; and
(d) an order for dissolution of the Trust shall have been entered by a
court of competent jurisdiction.
9.3 Termination. The respective obligations and responsibilities of the
Trustees and the Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the
latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee
to Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or
upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2, of
all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the final payment of the
Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Trust; (c) the
discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including
the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust or
the Securityholders, and (d) the filing of a certificate of cancellation by the
Administrative Trustee under the Business Trust Act.
9.4 Liquidation.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b), or (d)
of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be liquidated
by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to be possible by
distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as
provided by applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount of Debentures,
subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property
Trustee by first-class mail, postage pre-paid, mailed not later than 30 nor more
than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at
such holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of
liquidation shall:
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(1) state the Liquidation Date;
(2) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust
Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Debentures; and
(3) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by
which Holders may exchange Trust Securities certificates for Debentures, or
if Section 9.4(d) applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the
Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect
the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Debentures to
Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days prior to the Liquidation
Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of
a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the
Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be
outstanding, (ii) certificates (or, at the election of the Depositor a Global
Debenture, subject to the provisions of the Indenture) representing a Like
Amount of Debentures will be issued to holders of Trust Securities Certificates
upon surrender of such certificates to the Administrative Trustees or their
agent for exchange, (iii) the Depositor shall use its reasonable efforts to have
the Debentures listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market or on such
other securities exchange or other organization as the Preferred Securities are
then listed or traded, (iv) any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered
for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures, accruing
interest at the rate provided for in the Debentures from the last Distribution
Date on which a Distribution was made on such Trust Securities Certificates
until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so
surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be made to holders of
Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such Debentures) and (v) all
rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right
of such Securityholders to receive Debentures upon surrender of Trust Securities
Certificates.
(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this
Section 9.4, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Debentures in the
manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be
practical, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Trust shall be
dissolved, wound-up or terminated, by the Property Trustee in such manner as the
Property Trustee determines. In such event, on the date of the dissolution,
winding-up or other termination of the Trust, Securityholders will be entitled
to receive out of the assets of the Trust available for distribution to
Securityholders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as
provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust
Security plus
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accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount
being the "Liquidation Distribution"). If, upon any such dissolution, winding-up
or termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because
the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate
Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the
amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata
basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The holder of the Common Securities will
be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such dissolution,
winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of
Preferred securities, except that, if a Debenture Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Preferred Securities shall have a priority over the
Common Securities.
9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the Trust.
The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced
by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any corporation or other Person, except pursuant to this Section
9.5. At the request of the Depositor, with the consent of the Administrative
Trustees and without the consent of the holders of the Preferred Securities, the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, the Trust may merge with or into,
consolidate, amalgamate, be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such
under the laws of any state; provided, that (i) such successor entity either (a)
expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust with respect to the
Preferred Securities or (b) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other
securities having substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (the
"Successor Securities") so long as the Successor Securities rank the same as the
Preferred Securities rank in priority with respect to distributions and payments
upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) the Depositor expressly
appoints a trustee of such successor entity possessing substantially the same
powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the holder of the Debentures, (iii)
the Successor Securities are listed or traded, or any Successor Securities will
be listed or traded upon notification of issuance, on the NASDAQ National Market
or any national securities exchange or other organization on which the Preferred
Securities are then listed, if any, (iv) such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely
affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Preferred
Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect (v) such
successor entity has a purpose identical to that of the Trust, (vi) prior to
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or
lease, the Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a)
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or
lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the
holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any
material respect, and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor
entity will be required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act
and (vii) the Depositor owns all of the Common Securities of such successor
entity and guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the
Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of
holders of 100% in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease
its properties and assets
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substantially as entirety to any other Person or permit any other Person to
consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such
consolidation, amalgamation, merger or replacement would cause the Trust or the
successor entity to be classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes.
10. Miscellaneous Provisions.
10.1 Limitation of Rights of Securityholders. The death or incapacity of
any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities
shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor entitle the legal
representatives or heirs of such Person or any Securityholder for such Person,
to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for
a partition or winding-up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise
affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of
them.
10.2 Amendment.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the
Trustees and the Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) as
provided in Section 8.11 with respect to acceptance of appointment by a
successor Trustee, (ii) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any
provision herein or therein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein or therein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Trust Agreement, that shall not be inconsistent
with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, or (iii) to modify, eliminate
or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be
necessary to ensure that the Trust will be classified for United States federal
income tax purposes as a grantor trust at all times that any Trust Securities
are outstanding or to ensure that the Trust will not be required to register as
an "investment company" under the 1940 Act; provided, however, that in the case
of clause (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect
the interests of any Securityholder; and any amendments of this Trust Agreement
shall become effective when notice thereof is given to the Securityholders.
(b) Except as provided in Section 6.1(c) or Section 10.2(c) hereof, any
provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trustees and the
Depositor (i) with the consent of Trust Securityholders representing not less
than a majority (based upon Liquidation Amounts) of the Trust Securities then
Outstanding and (ii) upon receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the
Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not affect the Trust's status as
a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or the Trust's
exemption from status as an "investment company" under the 1940 Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust
Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder (such consent
being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this Trust
Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the
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amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust
Securities as of a specified date or (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder
to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date;
notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the
Securityholders (such consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or
6.6 hereof), this paragraph (c) of this Section 10.2 may not be amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no
Administrative Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this
Trust Agreement which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status of an "investment company" under the 1940 Act or to fail
or cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income
tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary,
without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in
a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made,
the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of
such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be
required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement which affects its
own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property
Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers'
Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance
with this Trust Agreement.
10.3 Separability. In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the
Trust Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be
in any way affected or impaired thereby.
10.4 Governing Law. This Trust Agreement and the Rights and Obligations of
Each of the Securityholders, the Trust and the Trustees with Respect to this
Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities Shall Be Construed in Accordance with
and Governed by the Laws of the State of Delaware (Without Regard to Conflict of
Laws Principles).
10.5 Payments Due on Non-Business Day. If the date fixed for any payment on
any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business Day, then such payment
need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day which
is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the date
fixed for such payment, and no distribution shall accumulate thereon for the
period after such date.
10.6 Successors. This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure
to the benefit of any successor to the Depositor, the Trust or the Relevant
Trustee(s), including any successor
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by operation of law. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale
involving the Depositor that is permitted under Section 12 of the Indenture and
pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor's
obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.
10.7 Headings. The Section headings are for convenience only and shall not
affect the Construction of this Trust Agreement.
10.8 Reports, Notices and Demands.
(a) Any report, notice, demand or other communication which by any
provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served
to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor may be given or served in writing
by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, hand
delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of
a Preferred Securityholder, to such Preferred Securityholder as such
Securityholder's name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b)
in the case of the Common Securityholder or the Depositor, to Community Trust
Bancorp, Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
Treasurer, facsimile no. (000) 000-0000. Any notice to Preferred
Securityholders shall also be given to such owners as have, within two years
preceding the giving of such notice, filed their names and addresses with the
Property Trustee for that purpose. Such notice, demand or other communication
to or upon a Securityholder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or
made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission.
(b) Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision
of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or
upon CTBI Trust, the Delaware Trustee the Property Trustee or the Administrative
Trustees shall be given in writing addressed (until another address is published
by the Trust) as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee to State
Street Bank and Trust Company, Two International Place, 4th Floor, Boston,
Massachusetts 02110, Attention: Corporate Trust Department; (b) with respect to
the Delaware Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Trustee Administration; and (c) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to
them at the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked "Attention:
Administrative Trustees of CTBI Preferred Capital Trust." Such notice, demand or
other communication to or upon the Trust or the Property Trustee shall be deemed
to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing
by the Trust or the Property Trustee.
10.9 Agreement not to Petition. Each of the Trustees and the Depositor
agree for the benefit of the Securityholders that, until at least one year and
one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance with Section 9, they
shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Trust under any
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including, without
limitation, the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, "Bankruptcy
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Laws") or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Trust
under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event the Depositor takes action in violation
of this Section 10.9, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of
Securityholders, that at the expense of the Depositor (which expense shall be
paid prior to the filing), it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or
otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against
the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the
Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be stopped
and precluded therefrom. The provisions of this Section 10.9 shall survive the
termination of this Trust Agreement.
10.10 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Trust Agreement and shall, to
the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee which is a trustee
for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with
another provision hereof which is required to be included in this Trust
Agreement by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required
provision shall control. If any provision of this Trust Agreement modifies or
excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or
excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement
as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement
shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity securities
representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
10.11 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee and Indenture. The
Receipt and Acceptance of a Trust Security or Any Interest Therein by or on
Behalf of a Securityholder or Any Beneficial Owner, Without Any Signature or
Further Manifestation of Assent, Shall Constitute the Unconditional Acceptance
by the Securityholder and All Others Having a Beneficial Interest in Such Trust
Security of All of the Terms and Provisions of this Trust Agreement and
Agreement to the Subordination Provisions and Other Terms of the Guarantee and
the Indenture, and Shall Constitute the Agreement of the Trust, Such
Securityholder and Such Others That the Terms and Provisions of this Trust
Agreement Shall Be Binding, Operative and Effective as Between the Trust and
Such Securityholder and Such Others.
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
as Depositor
By:
__________________________________
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
State Street Bank and Trust Company
as Property Trustee
By:
__________________________________
Name: ___________________________
Title: __________________________
Wilmington Trust Company
as Delaware Trustee
By:
__________________________________
Name: ___________________________
Title: __________________________
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Xxxx X. Xxxx
as Administrative Trustee
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
as Administrative Trustee
Exhibit "A"
Certificate of Trust of
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
This Certificate of Trust of the CTBI PREFERRED STOCK TRUST (the
"Trust"), dated March 18, 1997, is being duly executed and filed by WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee, to form a business
trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. C.(S) 3801 et seq.)
1. NAME. The name of the business trust formed hereby is CTBI Preferred
Capital Trust.
2. DELAWARE TRUSTEE. The name and business address of the trustee of the
Trust in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx
Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, 00000-
0000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration.
3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon
filing with the Secretary of State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustees of the Trust,
has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above written.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
By \s\ X. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx______
Title: Senior Financial Services Officer
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Exhibit "B"
Certificate Depository Agreement
__________ ___, 1997
The Depository Trust Company
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
Attention: __________________________
General Counsel's Office
Re: CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
Cumulative Trust Preferred Securities
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The purpose of this letter is to set forth certain matters relating to the
issuance and deposit with The Depository Trust Company ("DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY") of CTBI Preferred Capital Trust Cumulative Trust Preferred Securities
(the "Preferred Securities"), of CTBI Preferred Capital Trust, a Delaware
business trust (the "Issuer"), created pursuant to a Trust Agreement between
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. a Kentucky corporation ("CTBI"), State Street Bank
and Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware
and the Administrative Trustees named therein. The payment of distributions on
the Preferred Securities and payments due upon liquidation of Issuer or
redemption of the Preferred Securities, to the extent the Issuer has funds
available for the payment thereof, are guaranteed by CTBI to the extent set
forth in a Guarantee Agreement, dated ___________ ___, 1997, by CTBI with
respect to the Preferred Securities. CTBI and the Issuer propose to sell the
Preferred Securities to Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Company, Inc. and J.J.B. Xxxxxxxx, X. X.
Xxxxx, Inc. (the"Underwriters") pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated
_________, ___, 1997, by and among the Underwriters, the Issuer and CTBI, and
the Underwriters wish to take delivery of the Preferred Securities through
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY. State Street Bank and Trust Company is acting as
transfer agent and registrar with respect to the Preferred Securities (the
"Transfer Agent and Registrar").
To induce DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY to accept the Preferred Securities as
eligible for deposit at DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, and to act in accordance with
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's rules with respect to the Preferred Securities, the
Issuer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar and DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY agree
among each other as follows:
1. Prior to the closing of the sale of the Preferred Securities to the
Underwriter, which is expected to occur on or about April 9, 1997, there shall
be deposited with DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY one or more global certificates
(individually and collectively, the "Global
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Certificate") registered in the name of DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's Preferred
Securities nominee, Cede & Co., representing an aggregate of 1,200.000 Preferred
Securities (Liquidation Amount $25 per Preferred Security) and bearing the
following legend:
Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY"), to Issuer 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 DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (and any payment
is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), 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.
2. The Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer provides for the
voting by holders of the Preferred Securities under certain limited
circumstances. The Issuer shall establish a record date for such purposes and
shall, to the extent possible, give DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY notice of such
record date not less than 15 calendar days in advance of such record date.
3. In the event of a stock split, conversion, recapitalization,
reorganization or any other similar transaction resulting in the cancellation of
all or any part of the Preferred Securities outstanding, the Issuer or the
Transfer Agent and Registrar shall send DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY a notice of
such event at least 5 business days prior to the effective date of such event.
4. In the event of distribution on, or an offering or issuance of rights
with respect to, the Preferred Securities outstanding, the Issuer or the
Transfer Agent and Registrar shall send DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY a notice
specifying: (a) the amount of and conditions, if any, applicable to the payment
of any such distribution or any such offering or issuance of rights; (b) any
applicable expiration or deadline date, or any date by which any action on the
part of the holders of Preferred Securities is required; and (c) the date any
required notice is to be mailed by or on behalf of the Issuer to holders of
Preferred Securities or published by or on behalf of the Issuer (whether by mail
or publication, the "Publication Date"). Such notice shall be sent to
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY by a secure means (e.g., legible telecopy, registered
or certified mail, overnight delivery) in a timely manner designed to assure
that such notice is in DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's possession no later than the
close of business on the business day before the Publication Date. The Issuer
or the Transfer Agent and Registrar will forward such notice either in a
separate secure transmission for each CUSIP number or in a secure transmission
of multiple CUSIP numbers (if applicable) that includes a manifest or list of
each CUSIP number submitted in that transmission. (The party sending such
notice shall have a method to verify subsequently the use of such means and the
timeliness of such notice.) The Publication Date shall be not less than 30
calendar days nor more than 60 calendar days prior to the payment of any such
distribution or any such offering or issuance of rights with respect to the
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Preferred Securities. After establishing the amount of payment to be made on
the Preferred Securities, the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar will
notify DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's Dividend Department of such payment 5 business
days prior to payment date. Notices to DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's Dividend
Department by telecopy shall be sent to (000) 000-0000. Such notices by mail or
by any other means shall be sent to:
Manager, Announcements
Dividend Department
The Depository Trust Company
0 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
The Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall confirm DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY's receipt of such telecopy by telephoning the Dividend Department
at (000) 000-0000.
5. In the event of a redemption by the Issuer of the Preferred
Securities, notice specifying the terms of the redemption and the Publication
Date of such notice shall be sent by the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and
Registrar to DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY not less than 30 calendar days prior to
such event by a secure means in the manner set forth in paragraph 4. Such
redemption notice shall be sent to DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's Call Notification
Department at (000) 000-0000 or (000) 000-0000, and receipt of such notice shall
be confirmed by telephoning (000) 000-0000. Notice by mail or by any other
means shall be sent to:
Call Notification Department
The Depository Trust Company
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
6. In the event of any invitation to tender the Preferred Securities,
notice specifying the terms of the tender and the Publication Date of such
notice shall be sent by the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar to
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY by a secure means and in a timely manner as described
in paragraph 4. Notices to DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY pursuant to this paragraph
and notices of other corporate actions (including mandatory tenders, exchanges
and capital changes), shall be sent, unless notification to another department
is expressly provided for herein, by telecopy to DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY's
Reorganization Department at (000) 000-0000 or (000) 000-0000 and receipt of
such notice shall be confirmed by telephoning (000) 000-0000 or by mail or any
other means to:
Manager, Reorganization Department
Reorganization Window
The Depository Trust Company
0 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
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7. All notices and payment advices sent to DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY shall
contain the CUSIP number or numbers of the Preferred Securities and the
accompanying designation of the Preferred Securities, which, as of the date of
this letter, is "CTBI Preferred Capital Trust Cumulative Trust Preferred
Securities."
8. Distribution payments or other cash payments with respect to the
Preferred Securities evidenced by the Global Certificate shall be received by
Cede & Co., as nominee of DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, or its registered assigns in
next day funds on each payment date (or in accordance with existing arrangements
between the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar and DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY). Such payments shall be made payable to the order of Cede & Co., and
shall be addressed as follows:
NDFS Redemption Department
The Depository Trust Company
0 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000
9. DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY may by prior written notice direct the Issuer
and the Transfer Agent and Registrar to use any other telecopy number or address
of DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY as the number or address to which notices or
payments may be sent.
10. In the event of a conversion, redemption, or any other similar
transaction (e.g., tender made and accepted in response to the Issuer's or the
Transfer Agent and Registrar's invitation) necessitating a reduction in the
aggregate number of Preferred Securities outstanding evidenced by the Global
Certificate, DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, in its discretion: (a) may request the
Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar to issue and countersign a new Global
Certificate; or (b) may make an appropriate notation on the Global Certificate
indicating the date and amount of such reduction.
11. DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY may discontinue its services as a securities
depository with respect to the Preferred Securities at any time by giving at
least 90 days' prior written notice to the Issuer and the Transfer Agent and
Registrar (at which time DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY will confirm with the Issuer
or the Transfer Agent and Registrar the aggregate number of Preferred Securities
deposited with it) and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto
under applicable law. Under such circumstances, the Issuer may determine to
make alternative arrangements for book-entry settlement for the Preferred
Securities, make available one or more separate global certificates evidencing
Preferred Securities to any Participant having Preferred Securities credited to
its DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY account, or issue definitive Preferred Securities
to the beneficial holders thereof, and in any such case, DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY agrees to cooperate fully with the Issuer and the Transfer Agent and
Registrar and to return the Global Certificate, duly endorsed for transfer as
directed by the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, together with any
other documents of transfer reasonably requested by the Issuer or the Transfer
Agent and Registrar.
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12. In the event that the Issuer determines that beneficial owners of
Preferred Securities shall be able to obtain definitive Preferred Securities,
the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall notify DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY of the availability of certificates. In such event, the Issuer or the
Transfer Agent and Registrar shall issue, transfer and exchange certificates in
appropriate amounts, as required by DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY and others, and
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY agrees to cooperate fully with the Issuer and the
Transfer Agent and Registrar and to return the Global Certificate, duly endorsed
for transfer as directed by the Issuer or the Transfer Agent and Registrar,
together with any other documents of transfer reasonably requested by the Issuer
or the Transfer Agent and Registrar.
13. This letter may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Nothing herein shall be deemed to require the Transfer Agent and Registrar
to advance funds on behalf of CTBI Preferred Capital Trust.
Very truly yours,
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
(As Issuer)
By: ____________________________
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
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State Street Bank and Trust Company
As Property Trustee and as Transfer
Agent and Registrar
By: ____________________________
Name: __________________________
Title: _________________________
RECEIVED AND ACCEPTED:
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
By: ____________________________
Name: __________________________
Title: _________________________
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Exhibit "C"
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities
Certificate Number _______ Number of Common Securities
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities
of
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
% Common Securities
(liquidation amount $25 per Common Security)
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust, a statutory business trust created under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that COMMUNITY
TRUST BANCORP, INC. (the "Holder") is the registered owner of Thirty-Six
Thousand (36,000) common securities of the Trust representing undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust and designated the __________%
Common Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Common Security) (the "Common
Securities"). In accordance with Section 5.10 of the Trust Agreement (as
defined below), the Common Securities are not transferable and any attempted
transfer hereof shall be void. The designations, rights, privileges,
restrictions, preferences, and other terms and provisions of the Common
Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common Securities
represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms
and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated
as of __________ _____, 1997, as the same may be amended from time to time (the
"Trust Agreement"), including the designation of the terms of the Common
Securities as set forth therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust
Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at its
principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
In Witness Whereof, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate this ____ day of ________, 1997.
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
By:___________________________
Name: _____________________
Title: Administrative Trustee
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Exhibit "D"
Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities
AGREEMENT dated as of ____________ ____, 1997, between COMMUNITY TRUST
BANCORP, INC., a Kentucky corporation ("CTBI"), and CTBI Preferred Capital
Trust, a Delaware business trust (the "Trust").
WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue its common securities (the "Common
Securities") to, and receive Debentures from, CTBI and to issue and sell ____%
Cumulative Trust Preferred Securities (the "Preferred Securities") with such
powers, preferences and special rights and restrictions as are set forth in the
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of _____________
____, 1997, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Trust
Agreement");
WHEREAS, CTBI will directly or indirectly own all of the Common Securities
of the Trust and will issue the Debentures;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each holder of the
Preferred Securities, which purchase CTBI hereby agrees shall benefit CTBI and
which purchase CTBI acknowledges will be made in reliance upon the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, CTBI, including in its capacity as holder of the
Common Securities, and the Trust hereby agree as follows:
1. Section I.
1.1 Guarantee by CTBI. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, CTBI,
including in its capacity as holder of the Common Securities, hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally guarantees to each person or entity to whom the Trust is now
or hereafter becomes indebted or liable (the "Beneficiaries") the full payment
when and as due, of any and all Obligations (as hereinafter defined) to such
Beneficiaries. As used herein, "Obligations" means any costs, expenses or
liabilities of the Trust other than obligations of the Trust to pay to holders
of any Preferred Securities or other similar interests in the Trust the amounts
due such holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities or such other
similar interests, as the case may be. This Agreement is intended to be for the
benefit of, and to be enforceable by, all such Beneficiaries, whether or not
such Beneficiaries have received notice hereof.
1.2 Term of Agreement. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no
further force and effect upon the later of (a) the date on which full payment
has been made of all amounts payable to all holders of all the Preferred
Securities (whether upon redemption, liquidation, exchange or otherwise) and (b)
the date on which there are no Beneficiaries remaining; provided, however, that
this Agreement shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated, as the
case may be, if at any time any holder of Preferred Securities or any
Beneficiary must restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred
Securities, under any obligation, under the Guarantee Agreement, dated
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the date hereof by CTBI and State Street Bank and Trust Company as guarantee
trustee or under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever. This Agreement is
continuing, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute.
1.3 Waiver of Notice. CTBI hereby waives notice of acceptance of this
Agreement and of any obligation to which it applies or may apply, and CTBI
hereby waives presentment, demand for payment, protest, notice of nonpayment,
notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.
1.4 No Impairment. The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of
CTBI under this Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of
the happening from time to time of any of the following:
(a) the extension of time for the payment by the Trust of all or any
portion of the obligations or for the performance of any other obligation under,
arising gout of, or in connection with, the obligations;
(b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of
the Beneficiaries to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or
remedy conferred on the Beneficiaries with respect to the obligations or any
action on the part of the Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind; or
(c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any
collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of
creditors, reorganization, arrangement composition or readjustment of debt of,
or other similar proceedings affecting, the Trust or any of the assets of the
Trust.
(d) There shall be no obligation of the Beneficiaries to give notice
to, or obtain the consent of, CTBI with respect to the happening of any of the
foregoing.
1.5 Enforcement. A Beneficiary may enforce this Agreement directly
against CTBI, and CTBI waives any right or remedy to require that any action be
brought against the Trust or any other person or entity before proceeding
against CTBI.
2. Section II.
2.1 Binding Effect. All guarantees and agreements contained in this
Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and
representatives of CTBI and shall inure to the benefit of the Beneficiaries.
2.2 Amendment. So long as there remains any Beneficiary or any Preferred
Securities of any series are outstanding, this Agreement shall not be modified
or amended in any manner adverse to such Beneficiary or to the holders of the
Preferred Securities.
2.3 Notices. Any notice, request or other communication required or
permitted to be given hereunder shall be given in writing by delivering the same
by facsimile transmission (confirmed
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by mail), telex, or by registered or certified mail, addressed as follows (and
if so given, shall be deemed given when mailed or upon receipt of an answer
back, if sent by telex):
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
c/o Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxx
P.O. Box 2947
Pikeville, Kentucky 41502
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
2.4 Governing Law. Agreement shall be governed by and construed and
interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Kentucky (without regard
to conflict of laws principles).
THIS AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
By:_________________________________
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
By:_________________________________
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Administrative Trustee
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Exhibit "E"
Certificate Evidencing Preferred Securities
This Preferred Security is a Global Certificate within the meaning of the
Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York Corporation ("DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY") or
a nominee of the DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY. This Preferred Security is
exchangeable for Preferred Securities registered in the name of a person other
than the DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Trust Agreement (as defined below) and no
transfer of this Preferred Security (other than a transfer of this Preferred
Security as a whole by the DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY to a nominee of the
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY or by a nominee of the DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY to the
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY or another nominee of the DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY) may
be registered except in limited circumstances.
Unless this Preferred Security is presented by an authorized representative
of the DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY to CTBI Preferred Capital Trust or its agent for
registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is
registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name as is requested by an
authorized representative of DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (and any payment hereon is
made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, 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.
Certificate Number Number of Preferred Securities
P -
CUSIP NO. __________________________
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Certificate Evidencing Cumulative Trust Preferred Securities
of
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
% Cumulative Trust Preferred Securities
(liquidation amount $25 per Preferred Security)
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust, a statutory business trust created under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that CEDE & CO.
(the "Holder") is the registered owner of One Million, Two Hundred Thousand
(1,200.000) preferred securities of the Trust representing undivided beneficial
interests in the assets of the Trust and designated the _________% Cumulative
Trust Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Preferred Security) (the
"Preferred Securities"). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books
and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon
surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as
provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The
designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences, and other terms and
provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate
and the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all
respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of ________ ______, 1997, as the same may
be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement"), including the designation
of the terms of Preferred Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is
entitled to the benefits of the Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement entered
into by Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. a Kentucky corporation, and as guarantee
trustee, dated as of _________ _____, 1997 (the "Guarantee"), to the extent
provided therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the
Guarantee to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at its
principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
In Witness Whereof, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has
executed this certificate this ____ day of ________, 1997.
CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
By:_________________________
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Administrative Trustee
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