CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
CALENERGY COMPANY, INC.
Dated as of ____________ ___, 1997
CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
This CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
(the "Preferred Securities Guarantee"), dated as of __________ ___, 1997, is
executed and delivered by CalEnergy Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the "Guarantor"), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation,
as trustee (the "Preferred Guarantee Trustee"), for the benefit of the
Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Preferred Securities (as
defined herein) of CalEnergy Capital Trust III, a Delaware statutory business
trust (the "Issuer").
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of
Trust (the "Declaration"), dated as of __________ ___, 1997, among the trustees
of the Issuer named therein, the Guarantor, as sponsor, and the holders from
time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer, the
Issuer is issuing on the date hereof ____________ Preferred Securities, having
an aggregate stated liquidation preference of $____________, designated the
_____% Trust Convertible Preferred Securities (plus up to an additional
____________ Trust Convertible Preferred Securities, having an aggregate
liquidation preference of $____________, to cover over-allotments) (the
"Preferred Securities");
WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the
Preferred Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to
agree, to the extent set forth in this Preferred Securities Guarantee, to pay
to the Holders of the Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined
herein) and to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set
forth herein; and
WHEREAS, the Guarantor is also executing and delivering a
guarantee agreement (the "Common Securities Guarantee") in substantially
identical terms to this Preferred Securities Guarantee for the benefit of the
holders of the Common Securities (as defined herein) except that if an Event of
Default (as defined in the Indenture (as defined herein)), has occurred and is
continuing, the rights of holders of the Common Securities to receive Guarantee
Payments under the Common Securities Guarantee are subordinated to the rights
of
Holders of Preferred Securities to receive Guarantee Payments under this
Preferred Securities Guarantee.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each
Holder of Preferred Securities, which purchase the Guarantor hereby agrees
shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Preferred
Securities Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1.1 Definitions and Interpretation
In this Preferred Securities Guarantee, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(a) Capitalized terms used in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee but not defined in the preamble above have
the respective meanings assigned to them in this
Section 1.1;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Preferred
Securities Guarantee has the same meaning
throughout;
(c) all references to "the Preferred Securities
Guarantee" or "this Guarantee" are to this Preferred
Securities Guarantee as modified, supplemented or
amended from time to time;
(d) all references in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee to Articles and Sections are to Articles
and Sections of this Preferred Securities Guarantee
unless otherwise specified;
(e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the
same meaning when used in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee unless otherwise defined in this Preferred
Securities Guarantee or unless the context otherwise
requires; and
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(f) a reference to the singular includes the
plural and vice versa.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in
Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule
thereunder.
"Authorized Person" of a Person means any Person that is
authorized to bind such Person provided, however that the Authorized Officer
signing an Officer's Certificate given pursuant to Section 314(a)(4) of the
Trust Indenture Act shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting
officer of such Person.
"Common Securities" means the convertible common securities
representing common undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer.
"Covered Person" means any Holder or beneficial
owner of Preferred Securities.
"Debentures" means the series of convertible junior
subordinated debt securities of the Guarantor designated the ______%
Convertible Junior Subordinated Debentures Due 2012 held by the Property
Trustee of the
Issuer.
"Event of Default" means a default by the Guarantor on any of
its payment or other obligations under this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
"Guarantee Payments" means the following payments or
distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Preferred Securities,
to the extent not paid or made by the Issuer: (i) any accrued and unpaid
Distributions (as defined in the Declaration) that are required to be paid on
such Preferred Securities to the extent the Issuer shall have funds available
therefore, (ii) the amount payable upon redemption to the extent the Issuer has
funds available therefor, with respect to any Preferred Securities called for
redemption by the Issuer, and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary
dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Issuer (other than in connection
with the distribution of Debentures to the Holders in exchange for Preferred
Securities as provided in the Declaration), the lesser of (a) the aggregate of
the liquidation preference and all accrued and unpaid
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Distributions on the Preferred Securities to the date of payment, to the extent
the Issuer shall have funds available therefor, and (b) the amount of assets of
the Issuer remaining available for distribution to Holders upon liquidation of
the Issuer (in either case, the "Liquidation Distribution"). If an event of
default under the Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the rights of
holders of the Common Securities to receive payments under the Common
Securities Guarantee are subordinated to the rights of Holders of Preferred
Securities to receive Guarantee Payments.
"Holder" shall mean any holder, as registered on the books
and records of the Issuer of any Preferred Securities; provided, however, that,
in determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Preferred
Securities have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
"Holder" shall not include the Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Guarantor.
"Indemnified Person" means the Preferred Guarantee Trustee,
any Affiliate of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, or any officers, directors,
shareholders, members, partners, employees, representatives or agents of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
"Indenture" means the Indenture dated as of __________ ___,
1997, among the Guarantor (the "Debenture Issuer") and The Bank of New York, as
trustee, and any indenture supplemental thereto pursuant to which the
Debentures are to be issued to the Property Trustee of the Issuer.
"Majority in liquidation preference of the Securities" means,
except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Holder(s) of Preferred
Securities, voting separately as a class, representing more than 50% of the
stated liquidation preference (including the stated amount that would be paid
on redemption, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions
to the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of all Preferred
Securities then outstanding.
"Officer's Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed by an Authorized Officer of such Person. Any Officer's
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
pro-
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vided for in this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall
include:
(a) a statement that the officer signing the Certificate has
read the covenant or condition and the definition relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation undertaken upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such Certificate are based;
(c) a statement that, in such officer's opinion, such officer
has made or caused to be made such examination or investigation as 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
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such
officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Person" means a legal person, including any individual,
corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock
company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity
of whatever nature.
"Preferred Guarantee Trustee" means The Bank of New York
until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has
accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Preferred Securities
Guarantee and thereafter means each such Successor Preferred
Guarantee Trustee.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, the chairman of the board of directors, the president, any
vice president, any assistant vice president, the secretary, any assistant
secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or
assistant trust officer or any other officer of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate
trust matter, any other
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officer to whom such matter is referred because of that officer's knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee" means a
successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as
Preferred Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended.
ARTICLE II
TRUST INDENTURE ACT
SECTION 2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application.
(a) This Preferred Securities Guarantee is subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, which are incorporated by reference hereto, and
shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions; and
(b) if and to the extent that any provision of this Preferred
Securities Guarantee limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by
Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties
shall control;
SECTION 2.2 Lists of Holders of Securities.
(a) The Guarantor shall provide the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee (i) within 14 days after January 1 and June 30 of each year, a list, in
such form as the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders of the Preferred Securities ("List of
Holders") as of such date, and (ii) at any other time, within 30 days of
receipt by the Guarantor of a written request for a List of Holders as of a
date no more than 14 days before such List of Holders is given to the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, provided that the Guarantor shall not be obligated to
provide such List of Holders at any time the List of Holders does not differ
from the most recent List of Holders given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
by the Guarantor or the
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Preferred Securities are represented by one or more Global Securities (as
defined in the Indenture). The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List
of Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its
obligations under Sections 311(a), 311(b) and 312(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
SECTION 2.3 Reports by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
Within 60 days after May 15 of each year, the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the Preferred Securities such
reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in
the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act.
The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of
Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.4 Periodic Reports to Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
The Guarantor shall provide to the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 (if
any) and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section
314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.5 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
The Guarantor shall provide to the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any,
provided for in this Preferred Securities Guarantee which 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) may
be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate.
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SECTION 2.6 Events of Default; Waiver.
The Holders of a Majority in liquidation preference of
Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all of the
Preferred Securities, waive any past Event of Default and its consequences.
Upon such waiver, any such Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Preferred Securities Guarantee, but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 2.7 Event of Default; Notice.
(a) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days
after the occurrence of an Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class
postage prepaid, to the Holders of the Preferred Securities, notices of all
Events of Default known to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, unless such
defaults have been cured before the giving of such notice, provided, that, the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if
and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust
committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the
interests of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to
have knowledge of any Event of Default except any Event of Default as to which
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have received written notice or a
Responsible Officer charged with the administration of the Declaration shall
have obtained actual knowledge.
SECTION 2.8 Conflicting Interests.
The Declaration shall be deemed to be specifically described
in this Preferred Securities Guarantee for the purposes of clause (i) of the
first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
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ARTICLE III
POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF
PREFERRED GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
SECTION 3.1 Powers and Duties of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(a) This Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be held by the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, and the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this
Guarantee Agreement to any Person except a Holder of Preferred Securities
exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section 5.4(b) or to a Successor
Preferred Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Preferred Guarantee
Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee. The
right, title and interest of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
automatically vest in any Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee, and such
vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing
documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such
Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Preferred Securities
Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(c) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of
any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may
have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically
set forth in this Preferred Securities Guarantee, and no implied covenants
shall be read into this Preferred Securities Guarantee against the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been
cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Preferred
Securities Guarantee, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise
thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in
the conduct of his or her own affairs.
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(d) No provision of this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall
be construed to relieve the Preferred Guarantee Trustee from liability for its
own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default
and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may
have occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be determined solely by the express
provisions of this Preferred Securities Guarantee, and the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of
such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Preferred Securities Guarantee
against the Preferred Guarantee Trustee; and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part
of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates
or opinions furnished to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Preferred Securities Guarantee;
but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be
under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Preferred Securities Guarantee;
(ii) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be
liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible
Officer of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved
that the Preferred Guarantee
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Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the per-
tinent facts upon which such judgment was made;
(iii) the Preferred Guarantee 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 preference of the Preferred
Securities at the time outstanding, relating to the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this Preferred
Securities Guarantee; and
(iv) no provision of this Preferred Securities
Guarantee shall require the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or
liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 3.2 Certain Rights of Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:
(i) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may rely and
shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note,
other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by
it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the
proper party or parties;
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(ii) any direction or act of the Preferred
Securities Guarantor contemplated by this Preferred Securities
Guarantee shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certifi-
cate;
(iii) whenever, in the administration of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and
rely upon an Officers' Certificate which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor;
(iv) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have no
duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument
(or any rerecording, refiling or registration thereof);
(v) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may consult
with counsel of its selection, and the advice or opinion of such
counsel with respect to legal matters 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 accordance with such
advice or opinion. Such counsel may be counsel to the Guarantor or any
of its Affiliates and may include any of the Guarantor's employees.
The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to
seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee
Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(vi) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be under
no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by
this Preferred Securities Guarantee at the request or direction of any
Holder, unless such Holder shall have provided to the Preferred
Guarantee
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Trustee such adequate security and indemnity reasonably satisfactory
to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, against the costs, expenses
(including attorneys' fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be
incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including
such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee; provided that nothing contained in this Section
3.2(a)(vi) shall be taken to relieve the Preferred Guarantee Trustee,
upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Preferred
Securities Guarantee;
(vii) the Preferred Guarantee 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, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note,
other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;
(viii) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may execute
any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder
either directly or by or through agents or attorneys, and the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any
misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(ix) any action taken by the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee or its agents hereunder shall bind the Holders of the
Preferred Securities, and the signature of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and effective to
perform any such action. No third party shall be required to inquire
as to the authority of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to so act or as
to its compliance with any of the terms and provisions of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, both of
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which shall be conclusively evidenced by the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee's or its agent's taking such action; and
(x) whenever in the administration of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing
any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee (i) may request instructions from the
Holders of the Preferred Securities or the Guarantor, (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.
(b) No provision of this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall
be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Preferred Guarantee 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 Preferred Guarantee 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 Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be
a duty.
SECTION 3.3. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee.
The recitals contained in this Preferred Securities Guarantee
shall be taken as the statements of the Guarantor, and the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee does not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Preferred
Guarantee Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of
this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
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ARTICLE IV
PREFERRED GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Preferred Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.
(a) There shall at all times be a Preferred
Guarantee Trustee which shall:
(i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and
(ii) be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America or any State or
Territory thereof or of the District of Columbia, or a corporation or
Person permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission to act as
an institutional trustee under the Trust Indenture Act, authorized
under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined
capital and surplus of at least 50 million U.S. dollars ($50,000,000),
and subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State,
Territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of the supervising or examining authority referred
to above, then, for the purposes of this Section 4.1(a)(ii), the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be
its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published.
(b) If at any time the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
cease to be eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in
Section 4.2(c).
(c) If the Preferred Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any
"conflicting interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all
respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
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SECTION 4.2 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Preferred
Guarantee Trustee.
(a) Subject to ss. 4.2(b), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
may be appointed or removed without cause at any time by the Guarantor.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in
accordance with ss. 4.2(a) until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee has
been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed
by such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor.
(c) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee appointed to office shall
hold office until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have been
appointed or until its removal or resignation. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee
may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an
instrument in writing executed by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and delivered
to the Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a Successor
Preferred Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such
appointment by instrument in writing executed by such Successor Preferred
Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and the resigning Preferred
Guarantee Trustee.
(d) If no Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have
been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within
60 days after delivery of an instrument of removal or resignation, the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee resigning or being removed may petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Preferred Guarantee
Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper, appoint a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(e) No Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be liable for the
acts or omissions to act of any Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(f) Upon termination of this Preferred Securities Guarantee
or removal or resignation of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this
Section 4.2, the Guarantor shall pay to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
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all amounts accrued and payable to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to the date
of such termination, removal or resignation.
ARTICLE V
GUARANTEE
SECTION 5.1 Guarantee.
The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay
in full to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of amounts
theretofore paid by the Issuer), as and when due, regardless of any defense,
right of set-off or counterclaim that the Issuer may have or assert. The
Guarantor's obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct
payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing
the Issuer to pay such amounts to the Holders.
SECTION 5.2 Subordination
If an Event of Default (as defined in the Indenture), has
occurred and is continuing, the rights of Holders of the Common Securities to
receive Guarantee Payments under the Common Securities Guarantee are
subordinated to the rights of Holders of Preferred Securities to receive
Guarantee Payments under this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
SECTION 5.3 Waiver of Notice and Demand.
The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee and of any liability to which it applies or may
apply, presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first
against the Issuer or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor,
protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all
other notices and demands.
SECTION 5.4 Obligations Not Affected.
The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the
Guarantor under this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall in no way be affected
or impaired by
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reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following:
(a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise,
of the performance or observance by the Issuer of any express or implied
agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Preferred Securities to
be performed or observed by the Issuer;
(b) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer of
all or any portion of the Distributions, the amount payable upon redemption,
Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the terms of the
Preferred Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other
obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Preferred
Securities (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions, the
amount payable upon redemption, Liquidation Distribution or other sum payable
that results from the extension of any interest payment period on the
Debentures or any extension of the maturity date of the Debentures permitted by
the Indenture);
(c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the
part of the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power
or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred
Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer granting indulgence or
extension of any kind;
(d) 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 Issuer or
any of the assets of the Issuer;
(e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in the
Preferred Securities;
(f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation
guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or
(g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise
constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being
the intent of this Section 5.4 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereun-
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der shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.
There shall be no obligation of the Holders or any other
Person to give notice to, or obtain consent of, the Guarantor with respect to
the happening of any of the foregoing.
SECTION 5.5 Rights of Holders.
(a) The Holders of a Majority in liquidation preference of
the Preferred Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee in respect of this Preferred Securities Guarantee or exercising any
trust or power conferred upon the Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this
Preferred Securities Guarantee.
(b) If the Preferred Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, any Holder of Preferred Securities may directly
institute a legal proceeding against the Guarantor to enforce the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee's rights under this Preferred Securities Guarantee without
first instituting a legal proceeding against the Trust, the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee or any other Person.
(c) If an Event of Default with respect to the Debentures (an
"Indenture Event of Default"), constituting the failure to pay interest or
principal on the Debentures on the date such interest or principal is otherwise
payable (or in the case of any redemption, the redemption date) has occurred
and is continuing, then a Holder of Preferred Securities may directly, at any
time, institute a proceeding for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the
principal of or interest on the Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder on
or after the respective due date (or redemption date) specified in the
Debentures.
SECTION 5.6 Guarantee of Payment.
This Preferred Securities Guarantee creates a guarantee of
payment and not of collection.
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SECTION 5.7 Subrogation.
The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all (if any) rights of
the Holders of Preferred Securities against the Issuer in respect of any
amounts paid to such Holders by the Guarantor under this Preferred Securities
Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the
extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or
exercise any right that it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity,
reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under
this Preferred Securities Guarantee, if, at the time of any such payment, any
amounts are due and unpaid under this Preferred Securities Guarantee. If any
amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence,
the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay
over such amount to the Holders.
SECTION 5.8 Independent Obligations.
The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are
independent of the obligations of the Issuer with respect to the Preferred
Securities, and that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor
hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Preferred
Securities Guarantee notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in
subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.4 hereof.
SECTION 5.9 Conversion
The Guarantor acknowledges its obligation to issue and
deliver common stock upon the conversion of the Preferred Securities.
ARTICLE VI
LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION
SECTION 6.1 Limitation of Transactions.
So long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, if at
such time (i) the Guarantor has exercised its option to defer interest payments
on the Debentures and such deferral is continuing, (ii) the Guarantor
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shall be in default with respect to its payment or other obligations under this
Preferred Securities Guarantee or (iii) there shall have occurred and be
continuing any event that, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or
both, would constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture, then the
Guarantor shall not (a) declare or pay any dividend on, make any distributions
with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of its capital stock (other than (1) purchases or
acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by
the Guarantor of its obligations under any employee benefit plans, (2) as a
result of a reclassification of capital stock of the Guarantor or the exchange
or conversion of one class or series of the Guarantor's capital stock for
another class or series of capital stock of the Guarantor, (3) the purchase of
fractional interests in shares of the Guarantor's capital stock pursuant to the
conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock of the Guarantor or the
security being converted or exchanged or (4) stock dividends paid by the
Guarantor which consist of stock of the same class as that on which the
dividend is being paid), (b) make any payment of interest, principal or
premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities issued
by the Guarantor after the date hereof that ranks pari passu with or junior to
the Debentures and (c) make any guarantee payments with respect to the
foregoing (other than pursuant to this Preferred Securities Guarantee).
SECTION 6.2 Ranking.
This Preferred Securities Guarantee will constitute an
unsecured obligation of the Guarantor and will rank (i) subordinate and junior
in right of payment to all other liabilities of the Guarantor, except any
liabilities that may be made pari passu expressly by their terms, (ii) pari
passu with the most senior preferred or preference stock now or hereafter
issued by the Guarantor and with any guarantee now or hereafter entered into by
the Guarantor in respect of any preferred or preference stock or Preferred
Security of any Affiliate of the Guarantor, and (iii) senior to the Guarantor's
common stock.
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ARTICLE VII
TERMINATION
SECTION 7.1 Termination.
This Preferred Securities Guarantee shall terminate upon (i)
full payment of the amount payable upon redemption of all Preferred Securities,
(ii) the distribution of the Guarantor's common stock to the Holders in respect
of the conversion of the Preferred Securities into the Guarantor's common stock
or the distribution of the Debentures to the Holders of all of the Preferred
Securities or (iii) full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with the
Declaration upon liquidation of the Issuer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
Preferred Securities Guarantee will continue to be effective or will be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder of Preferred
Securities must restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred Securities
or under this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
ARTICLE VIII
INDEMNIFICATION
SECTION 8.1 Exculpation.
(a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or
accountable in damages or otherwise to the Guarantor or any Covered Person for
any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed
or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith in accordance with this
Preferred Securities Guarantee and in a manner that such Indemnified Person
reasonably believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such
Indemnified Person by this Preferred Securities Guarantee or by law, except
that an Indemnified Person shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim
incurred by reason of such Indemnified Person's negligence or willful
misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.
(b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying
in good faith upon the records of the Guarantor and upon such information,
opinions, reports or statements presented to the Guarantor by any Person as to
matters the Indemnified Person reasonably
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believes are within such other Person's professional or expert competence and
who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Guarantor,
including information, opinions, reports or statements as to the value and
amount of the assets, liabilities, profits, losses, or any other facts
pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from which Distributions to
Holders of Preferred Securities might properly be paid.
SECTION 8.2 Indemnification.
(a) The Guarantor agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person
for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless against, any and all loss,
liability or expense including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of
such Indemnified Person) incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part,
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration or the
trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) of defending itself against or
investigating any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The obligation to
indemnify as set forth in this Section 8.2 shall survive the termination of
this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
(b) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
expenses (including legal fees and expenses) incurred by an Indemnified Person
in defending any claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding shall, from time to
time, be advanced by the Guarantor prior to the final disposition of such
claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding upon receipt by the Guarantor of an
undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person to repay such amount if
it shall be determined that the Indemnified Person is not entitled to be
indemnified as authorized in Section 8.2(a).
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ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.1 Successors and Assigns.
All guarantees and agreements contained in this Preferred
Securities Guarantee shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees
and representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities then outstanding. Except in connection with
any merger or consolidation of the Guarantor with or into another entity or any
sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the Guarantor's assets
to another entity as permitted under Article Eight of the Indenture, the
Guarantor may not assign its rights or delegate its obligations under the
Preferred Securities Guarantee without the prior approval of the Holders of a
Majority in liquidation preference of the Preferred Securities then
outstanding.
SECTION 9.2 Amendments.
Except with respect to any changes that do not materially
adversely affect the rights of Holders (in which case no consent of Holders
will be required), this Preferred Securities Guarantee may only be amended with
the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in liquidation
preference (including the stated amount that would be paid on redemption,
liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to the date
upon which the voting percentages are determined) of all the outstanding
Preferred Securities. The provisions of Section 12.2 of the Declaration with
respect to meetings of Holders of the Securities apply to the giving of such
approval.
SECTION 9.3 Notices.
All notices provided for in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and
shall be delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail, as follows:
(a) If given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, at the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee's mailing address set forth below (or such other
address as the Preferred
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Guarantee Trustee may give notice of to the Holders of the Preferred
Securities):
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
00 Xxxx
Attention: Corporate Trust
Trustee Administration
New York, New York 10286
(b) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor's mailing
address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may give notice
of to the Holders of the Preferred Securities):
CalEnergy Company, Inc.
000 Xxxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
with a copy to: General Counsel
(c) If given to any Holder of Preferred Secu- rities, at the
address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer.
All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when
received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class
mail, postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused
delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice
was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered
on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver.
SECTION 9.4 Benefit.
This Preferred Securities Guarantee is solely for the benefit
of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and, subject to Section 3.1(a), is
not separately transferable from the Preferred Securities.
SECTION 9.5 Governing Law.
THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS.
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THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE is executed as of the day
and year first above written.
CALENERGY COMPANY, INC.,
as Guarantor
By:
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Name: Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice Presi-
dent and General
Counsel
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as
Preferred Guarantee Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
