Exhibit 4(a)
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Between
GOLD BANC CORPORATION, INC.
and
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
(as Trustee)
dated as of
__________, 1999
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GBCI CAPITAL TRUST II
Certain Sections of this Junior Subordinated Indenture relating
to Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Junior Subordinated
Act Section Indenture Section
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Section 310 (a)(1).................................................. 6.9
(a)(2).................................................. 6.9
(a)(3).................................................. Not Applicable
(a)(4).................................................. Not Applicable
(a)(5).................................................. 6.9
(b)..................................................... 6.8, 6.10
Section 311 (a)..................................................... 6.13
(b)..................................................... 6.13
(b)(2).................................................. 7.3(a)
Section 312 (a)..................................................... 7.1, 7.2(a)
(b)..................................................... 7.2(b)
(c)..................................................... 7.2(c)
Section 313 (a)..................................................... 7.3(a)
(a)(4).................................................. 7.3(a)
(b)..................................................... 7.3(b)
(c)..................................................... 7.3(a)
(d)..................................................... 7.3(c)
Section 314 (a)..................................................... 7.4
(b)..................................................... 7.4
(c)(1).................................................. 1.2
(c)(2).................................................. 1.2
(c)(3).................................................. Not Applicable
(e)..................................................... 1.2
Section 315 (a)..................................................... 6.1(a)
(b)..................................................... 6.2, 7.3
(c)..................................................... 6.1(b)
(d)..................................................... 6.1(c)
(e)..................................................... 5.14
Section 316 (a)..................................................... 5.12
(a)(1)(A)............................................... 5.12
(a)(1)(B)............................................... 5.13
(a)(2).................................................. Not Applicable
(b)..................................................... 5.8
(c)..................................................... 1.4(f)
Section 317 (a)(1).................................................. 5.3
(a)(2).................................................. 5.4
(b)..................................................... 10.3
Section 318 (a)..................................................... 1.7
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
a part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF
GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1. Definitions............................................................. 1
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificate and Opinions..................................... 11
Section 1.3. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee................................. 12
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders......................................................... 12
Section 1.5. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company.................................... 14
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver............................................... 15
Section 1.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act....................................... 15
Section 1.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents................................ 15
Section 1.9. Successors and Assigns.................................................. 15
Section 1.10. Separability Clause..................................................... 15
Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture................................................... 16
Section 1.12. Governing Law........................................................... 16
Section 1.13. Non-Business Days....................................................... 16
ARTICLE II. SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1. Forms Generally......................................................... 16
Section 2.2. Form of Face of Security................................................ 17
Section 2.3. Form of Reverse of Security............................................. 21
Section 2.4. Additional Provisions Required in Global Security....................... 24
Section 2.5. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication......................... 25
ARTICLE III. THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1. Title and Terms......................................................... 25
Section 3.2. Denominations........................................................... 26
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.......................... 26
Section 3.4. Temporary Securities.................................................... 27
Section 3.5. Global Securities....................................................... 28
Section 3.6. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally;
Certain Transfers and Exchanges;
Securities Act Legends.................................................. 29
Section 3.7. Mutilated, Lost and Stolen Securities................................... 31
Section 3.8. Payment of Interest and Additional Interest;
Interest Rights Preserved............................................... 32
Section 3.9. Persons Deemed Owners................................................... 34
Section 3.10. Cancellation............................................................ 34
Section 3.11. Computation of Interest................................................. 34
Section 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates..................................... 34
Section 3.13. Right of Set-Off........................................................ 35
Section 3.14. Agreed Tax Treatment.................................................... 36
Section 3.15. CUSIP Numbers........................................................... 36
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Section 3.16. Shortening of Stated Maturity........................................... 36
ARTICLE IV. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture................................. 37
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Money.............................................. 38
ARTICLE V. REMEDIES
Section 5.1. Events of Default....................................................... 38
Section 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment...................... 39
Section 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustee.............................................. 40
Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim........................................ 40
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without
Possession of Securities................................................ 41
Section 5.6. Application of Money Collected.......................................... 42
Section 5.7. Limitation on Suits..................................................... 43
Section 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest; Direct Action by Holders
of Preferred Securities................................................. 43
Section 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies...................................... 43
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.......................................... 43
Section 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver............................................ 44
Section 5.12. Control by Holders...................................................... 43
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults................................................. 44
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs................................................... 45
Section 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws................................. 45
ARTICLE VI. THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities..................................... 46
Section 6.2. Notice of Defaults...................................................... 47
Section 6.3. Certain Rights of Trustee............................................... 47
Section 6.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.................. 48
Section 6.5. May Hold Securities..................................................... 48
Section 6.6. Money Held in Trust..................................................... 48
Section 6.7. Compensation and Reimbursements......................................... 49
Section 6.8. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests................................. 50
Section 6.9. Corporate Trustee Required;
Eligibility............................................................. 50
Section 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor............................................................ 52
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor............................................................... 51
Section 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business.................................................. 52
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company................................................................. 52
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Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent..................................... 53
ARTICLE VII. HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE,
PAYING AGENT AND COMPANY
Section 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders.................................................... 54
Section 7.2. Preservation of Information,
Communications to Holders............................................... 54
Section 7.3. Reports by Trustee and Paying Agent..................................... 54
Section 7.4. Reports by Company...................................................... 55
ARTICLE VIII. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms........................................................ 56
Section 8.2. Successor Company Substituted........................................... 57
ARTICLE IX. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent
of Holders.............................................................. 57
Section 9.2. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of
Holders................................................................. 58
Section 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.................................... 59
Section 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures....................................... 59
Section 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..................................... 60
Section 9.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures.............................................................. 60
ARTICLE X. COVENANTS
Section 10.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.............................. 60
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency......................................... 60
Section 10.3. Money for Security Payments to be Held in
Trust................................................................... 61
Section 10.4. Statement as to Compliance.............................................. 62
Section 10.5. Waiver of Certain Covenants............................................. 62
Section 10.6. Additional Sums......................................................... 63
Section 10.7. Additional Covenants.................................................... 63
Section 10.8. Federal Tax Reports..................................................... 64
ARTICLE XI. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.1. Applicability of This Article........................................... 64
Section 11.2. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee................................... 65
Section 11.3. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.................................. 65
Section 11.4. Notice of Redemption.................................................... 65
Section 11.5. Deposit of Redemption Price............................................. 66
Section 11.6. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption............................. 66
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Section 11.7. Right of Redemption of Securities
Initially Issued to the Issuer Trust.................................... 67
ARTICLE XII. SINKING FUNDS
Sinking Funds........................................................... 67
ARTICLE XIII. SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 13.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness........................... 67
Section 13.2. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness
in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds
Upon Dissolution, Etc................................................... 68
Section 13.3 Payment Permitted If No Default......................................... 69
Section 13.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of
Senior Indebtedness..................................................... 69
Section 13.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights............................. 70
Section 13.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination..................................... 70
Section 13.7. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions................................... 71
Section 13.8. Notice to Trustee....................................................... 71
Section 13.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent........................................ 72
Section 13.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of
Senior Indebtedness..................................................... 72
Section 13.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior
Indebtedness; Preservation of Trustee's Rights.......................... 72
Section 13.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents..................................... 72
Section 13.13. Certain Conversions or Exchanges
Deemed Payment.......................................................... 73
ANNEX A Form of Restricted Securities Certificate
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
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THIS JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of __________, 1999
between GOLD BANC CORPORATION, INC., a Kansas corporation (the "Company"),
having its principal office at 00000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, 00000 and
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee, having its principal office at Four Albany
Street, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10006 (the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance of its unsecured junior subordinated
deferrable interest debentures due ____________, 2029 (the "Securities") of
substantially the tenor hereinafter provided, including Securities issued to
evidence loans made to the Company from the proceeds from the issuance from time
to time by GBCI Capital Trust II, a Delaware business trust (the "Issuer Trust")
of undivided preferred beneficial interests in the assets of such Issuer Trust
(the "Preferred Securities") and common undivided interests in the assets of
such Issuer Trust (the "Common Securities" and, collectively with the Preferred
Securities, the "Trust Securities"), and to provide the terms and conditions
upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders (as such term is defined in Section 1.1 hereof)
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate
benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, and intending
to be legally bound hereby, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) 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;
(c) the words "include," "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to
be followed by the phrase "without limitation";
(d) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as
in effect at the time of computation;
(e) whenever the context may require, any gender shall be deemed to
include the other;
(f) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be,
of this Indenture; and
(g) the words "hereby", "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"25% Capital Limitation" means the limitation imposed by the Federal
Reserve that the proceeds of certain qualifying securities similar to the Trust
Securities will qualify as Tier 1 capital of the Company up to an amount not to
exceed, when taken together with all cumulative preferred stock of the Company,
if any, 25% of the Company's Tier 1 capital, or any subsequent limitation
adopted by the Federal Reserve.
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning specified in
Section 1.4.
"Additional Interest" means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on
any interest on the Securities of any series the payment of which has not been
made on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at the rate
per annum specified or determined as specified in such Security.
"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 10.6.
"Additional Taxes" means any additional taxes, duties and other
governmental charges to which the Issuer Trust has become subject from time to
time as a result of a Tax Event.
"Administrator" means, in respect of the Issuer Trust, each Person
appointed in accordance with the Trust Agreement, solely in such Person's
capacity as Administrator of the Issuer Trust and not in such Person's
individual capacity, or any successor Administrator appointed as therein
provided.
"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
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indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
"Agent Member" means any member of, or participant in, the Depositary.
"Applicable Procedures" means, with respect to any transfer or
transaction involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the
rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Global Security, in each case to
the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or the
executive committee of the board of directors of the Company (or any other
committee of the board of directors of the Company performing similar functions)
or, for purposes of this Indenture, a committee designated by the board of
directors of the Company (or such committee), comprised of two or more members
of the board of directors of the Company or officers of the Company, or both.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers
of the Company 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 Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a
day on which banking institutions in the State of Kansas or the City of New York
are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (c) a
day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or, with respect to the
Securities initially issued to the Issuer Trust, the "Corporate Trust Office"
(as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee under the Trust Agreement, is closed for business.
"Capital Treatment Event" means, in respect of the Issuer Trust, the
reasonable determination by the Company that, as a result of the occurrence of
any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in, the
laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of the United States or any
political subdivision thereof or therein, or as a result of any official or
administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
such pronouncement, action or decision is announced on or after the date of the
issuance of the Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the Company will not be entitled to treat an amount
equal to the Liquidation Amount (as such term is defined in the Trust Agreement)
of such Preferred Securities as "Tier 1 Capital" (or the then equivalent
thereof), except as otherwise restricted under the 25% Capital Limitation, for
purposes of the risk-based capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve,
as then in effect and applicable to the Company.
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"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, 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 on such date.
"Common Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of
this Indenture.
"Common Stock" means the common stock, $1.00 par value per share, of
the Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the preamble of
this instrument until a successor entity shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean
such successor entity.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, the written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by any Chairman of the Board
of Directors, any Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive
Officer, President or a Vice President, and by its Chief Financial Officer, its
Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered,
which office at the date hereof is located at Four Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
"Creditor" has the meaning specified in Section 6.7.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.8.
"Delaware Trustee" means, with respect to the Issuer Trust, the Person
identified as the "Delaware Trustee" in the Trust Agreement, solely in its
capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust under the Trust Agreement and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor Delaware trustee appointed as therein provided.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities issuable or issued
in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person
designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1 (or any
successor thereto).
"Discount Security" means any security that provides for an amount less
than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of
acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2.
"Dollar" or "$" means the currency of the United States of America
that, as at the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts.
The term "entity" includes a bank, corporation, association, company,
limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
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"Event of Default," has the meaning specified in Article V.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.
"Federal Reserve" means Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
"Global Security" means a Security in the form prescribed in Section
2.4 evidencing all or part of the Securities, issued to the Depositary or its
nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or its nominee.
"Guarantee" means, with respect to the Issuer Trust, the Guarantee
Agreement, dated ___________, 1999, executed by the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust as modified,
amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Securities Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Institutional Accredited Investor" means an institutional accredited
investor within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D
under the Securities Act.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an installment of
interest on such Securities.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and
any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an
Opinion of Counsel, rendered by counsel experienced in such matters, to the
effect that, as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a
written change (including any announced prospective change) in interpretation or
application of law or regulation by any legislative body, court, governmental
agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an insubstantial risk that
the Issuer Trust is or will be considered an "investment company" that is
required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, which change or
prospective change becomes effective or would become effective, as the case may
be, on or after the date of the issuance of the Preferred Securities of the
Issuer Trust.
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"Issuer Trust" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
"Liquidation Amount" has the meaning assigned in the Trust Agreement.
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security means the date on
which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 5.1(c).
"Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer,
President or a Vice President, and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, an
Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of such Person, and delivered to the Trustee. Any Officers'
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers' Certificate that
such officer has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating
thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that 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
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such
condition or covenant has been complied with;
provided, however, that the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to the
provisions of Section 10.4 hereof shall comply with the provisions of Section
314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for or an employee of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
"Original Issue Date" means the date of issuance specified as such in
each Security.
"Outstanding" means, when used in reference to any Securities, as of
the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities for whose payment money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the
Holders of such Securities; and
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(c) Securities in substitution for or in lieu of other Securities which
have been authenticated and delivered or that have been paid pursuant to Section
3.6, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such
Securities are held by Holders in whose hands such Securities are valid, binding
and legal obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the
Issuer Trust to which Securities of the applicable series were initially issued)
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities that the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of
the Company or such other obligor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the
Issuer Trust). Upon the written request of the Trustee, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying
all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the
account of the Company, or any other obligor on the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or such obligor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the
Issuer Trust), and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall
be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence of the
facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein
are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
"Outstanding Preferred Securities" means the $ 28,750,000 aggregate
liquidation amount of 8.75% Preferred Securities issued by GBCI Capital Trust.
"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any Person authorized by the
Company to pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, or other
amounts in respect of any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, trust, unincorporated
organization or entity (as defined herein) or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities, the place or
places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities are payable pursuant to Section 3.1.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security. For the purposes of this definition, any security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.7 in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
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"Preferred Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital
of this Indenture.
"Principal Subsidiary Bank" means each of (a) Exchange National Bank,
Provident Bank, f.s.b, Farmers National Bank, Peoples National Bank, Citizens
State Bank and Trust Company, First National Bank in Xxxx, Farmers State Bank,
The First State Bank and Trust Company, Peoples State Bank, The Trust Company,
and Citizens Bank of Tulsa, (b) any other banking subsidiary of the Company the
consolidated assets of which constitute 20% or more of the consolidated assets
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, (c) any other banking
subsidiary designated as a Principal Subsidiary Bank pursuant to a Board
Resolution and set forth in an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee,
and (d) any subsidiary of the Company that owns, directly or indirectly, any
voting securities, or options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or purchase
voting securities, of any Principal Subsidiary Bank under clause (a), (b) or
(c), and in the case of clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) their respective successors
(whether by consolidation, merger, conversion, transfer of substantially all
their assets and business or otherwise) so long as any such successor is a
banking subsidiary (in the case of clause (a), (b) or (c)) or a subsidiary (in
the case of clause (d)) of the Company.
"Proceeding" has the meaning specified in Section 13.2.
"Property Trustee" means, with respect to the Issuer Trust, the Person
identified as the "Property Trustee" in the Trust Agreement, solely in its
capacity as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust under the Trust Agreement and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor property trustee appointed as therein provided.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture or the terms of such Security.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date with respect to the Securities means, unless otherwise provided pursuant to
Section 3.1 with respect to the Securities, the close of business on March 15,
June 15, September 15 or December 15 next preceding such Interest Payment Date
(whether or not a Business Day).
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Property Trustee
means any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any managing
director, principal, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant
treasurer, assistant secretary or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and having direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Security" means each Security required pursuant to Section
3.6(c) to bear a Restricted Securities Legend.
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"Restricted Securities Certificate" means a certificate substantially
in the form set forth in Annex A.
"Restricted Securities Legend" means a legend substantially in the form
of the legend required in the form of Security set forth in Section 2.2 to be
placed upon a Restricted Security.
"Rights Plan" means any plan of the Company providing for the issuance
by the Company to all holders of its Common Stock, $1.00 par value per share, of
rights entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of any
class or series of capital stock of the Company which rights (a) are deemed to
be transferred with such shares of such Common Stock, (b) are not exercisable,
and (c) are also issued in respect of future issuances of such Common Stock, in
each case until the occurrence of a specified event or events.
"Securities" or "Security" means any debt securities or debt security,
as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 3.6.
"Senior Indebtedness" means, whether recourse is to all or a portion of
the assets of the Company and whether or not contingent, (a) every obligation of
the Company for money borrowed; (b) every obligation of the Company evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, including obligations
incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses;
(c) every reimbursement obligation of the Company with respect to letters of
credit, bankers' acceptances or similar facilities issued for the account of the
Company; (d) every obligation of the Company issued or assumed as the deferred
purchase price of property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable or
accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business); (e) every
capital lease obligation of the Company; (f) every obligation of the Company for
claims (as defined in Section 101(4) of the United States Bankruptcy Code of
1978, as amended) in respect of derivative products such as interest and foreign
exchange rate contracts, commodity contracts and similar arrangements; and (g)
every obligation of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (f) of another
person and all dividends of another person the payment of which, in either case,
the Company has guaranteed or is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly,
as obligor or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
Senior Indebtedness shall include __________________. Senior Indebtedness shall
not include (a) any obligations which, by their terms, are expressly stated to
rank pari passu in right of payment with, or to not be superior in right of
payment to, the Junior Subordinated Debentures, (b) any Senior Indebtedness of
the Company which when incurred and without respect to any election under
Section 1111(b) of the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, was
without recourse to the Company, (c) any indebtedness of the Company to any of
its subsidiaries, (d) indebtedness to any executive officer or director of the
Company, or (e) any indebtedness in respect of debt securities issued to any
trust, or a trustee of such trust,
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partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company that is a financing
entity of the Company in connection with the issuance of such financing entity
of securities that are similar to the Preferred Securities, including the
obligations associated with the Outstanding Preferred Securities.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.8.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
pursuant to the terms of such Security as the fixed date on which the principal
of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and
payable, as such date may, in the case of such principal, be shortened or
extended as provided pursuant to the terms of such Security and this Indenture.
"Subsidiary" means an entity more than 50% of the outstanding voting
stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or
more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries.
For purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock that ordinarily has
voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long
as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Successor Security" of any particular Security means every Security
issued after, and evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by, such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.7 in exchange for or in
lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an Opinion of
Counsel, rendered by counsel 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 or administrative pronouncement or action 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 of the Issuer Trust, there is more than
an insubstantial risk that (a) the Issuer Trust is, or will be within 90 days of
the delivery of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to United States federal income
tax with respect to income received or accrued on the corresponding series of
Securities issued by the Company to the Issuer Trust, (b) interest payable by
the Company on the Securities is not, or within 90 days of the delivery of such
Opinion of Counsel will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part,
for United States federal income tax purposes, or (c) the Issuer Trust is, or
will be within 90 days of the delivery of such Opinion of Counsel, subject to
more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental
charges.
"Trust Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated
as of __________, 1999, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time,
among the trustees of the Issuer Trust named therein, the Company, as depositor,
and the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial ownership interests in
the assets of the Issuer Trust.
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"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the preamble of
this Indenture, solely in its capacity as such and not in its individual
capacity, until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder and, if at any time there is
more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities
shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, or any successor statute, in each
case as amended from time to time, except as provided in Section 9.5.
"Trust Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of
this Indenture.
"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company, means any duly
appointed vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificate and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent
(including covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent),
if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, all such conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with
which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this
Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than the
certificates provided pursuant to Section 10.4) shall include:
(a) a statement by each individual signing such certificate or opinion
that such individual has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions of such individual contained
in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he or she has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has
been complied with; and
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(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by,
or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based
are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar
as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions, or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments is or are
delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders
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 Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section 1.4.
(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 the certificate of any 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 or her the execution
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thereof. Where such execution is by a Person acting in other than his or her
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his or her authority.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may
also be provided in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient and in
accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(f) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or take
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by
Holders of Securities, provided that the Company may not set a record date for,
and the provisions of this Section 1.4(f) shall not apply with respect to, the
giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in
Section 1.4(g). If any record date is set pursuant to this Section 1.4(f), the
Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders,
shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date, provided, however that no such action
shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date (as defined below) by Holders of the requisite principal amount
of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this Section 1.4(f)
shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this Section
1.4(f) (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no
action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this Section
1.4(f) shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of
the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on the date such action
is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this Section 1.4(f),
the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the
proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the
Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6.
(g) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving
or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration
referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred
to in Section 5.7(b), or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 5.12, in each
case with respect to Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this
Section 1.4(g), the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and
no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request
or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date,
provided, however that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken
on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount
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of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this Section 1.4(g)
shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this Section
1.4(g) (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no
action by any Person be canceled and of no effect) and nothing in this paragraph
shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the
requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on the date such action is
taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the
proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the
Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6.
(h) With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 1.4,
the party hereto that sets such record date may designate any day as the
"Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any
earlier or later day, provided that no such change shall be effective unless
notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in
writing, and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6
on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not
designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the
party hereto that set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this Section 1.4(h). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall
be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
(i) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take
any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with
regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such 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 principal amount.
Section 1.5. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the Trustee by any Holder, any holder of Preferred Securities or
the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred
Securities shall be sufficient for every purpose (except as otherwise provided
in Section 5.1) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
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Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities
Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest
date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. If, by reason of the suspension
of or irregularities in regular mail services or for any other reason, it shall
be impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders when said
notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture or of
the Securities, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory
to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. In any
case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of
notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be
a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
Section 1.7. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision
of the Trust Indenture Act that is required thereunder to be a part of and
govern this Indenture, the provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control.
If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the
Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision
shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as
the case may be.
Section 1.8. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.9. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.10. Separability Clause.
If any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and
assigns, the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities and,
to the extent expressly provided in Sections 5.2, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, 9.1 and
9.2, the holders of Preferred Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.12. Governing Law.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 1.13. Non-Business Days.
If any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any
Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision
of this Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and
premium, if any) or other amounts in respect of such Security need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no
interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for
the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity, as the case may be, until such next succeeding Business Day) except
that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment
shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day (in each case with the
same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date
or at the Stated Maturity).
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1. Forms Generally.
(a) The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication
shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article II, or in such
other form or forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution
or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as
may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any
securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such securities, as evidenced by their execution of the
Securities. If the form of Securities is established by action taken pursuant to
a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order
contemplated by Section 3.3 with respect to the authentication and delivery of
such Securities.
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(b) The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods, if required by any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner
permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be
listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
(c) Securities distributed to holders of Global Preferred Securities
(as defined in the Trust Agreement) upon the dissolution of the Issuer Trust
shall be distributed in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in
the name of a Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the Securities
Registrar, as custodian for such Depositary, or with such Depositary, for credit
by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of the
Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct).
Securities distributed to holders of Preferred Securities other than Global
Preferred Securities upon the dissolution of the Issuer Trust shall not be
issued in the form of a Global Security or any other form intended to facilitate
book-entry trading in beneficial interests in such Securities.
Section 2.2. Form of Face of Security.
GOLD BANC CORPORATION, INC.
_____% Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due ____________, 2029
[If the Security is a Restricted Security, insert - THE SECURITIES
EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT") AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT (A) BY AN INITIAL INVESTOR THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(I) TO A PERSON WHO THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE
144A, (II) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION COMPLYING WITH THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 903
OR RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (III) PURSUANT TO AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144
THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE), OR (B) BY AN INITIAL INVESTOR THAT IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER OR BY ANY SUBSEQUENT INVESTOR, AS SET FORTH IN (A) ABOVE
AND, IN ADDITION, TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR IN A TRANSACTION
EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, AND, IN EACH
CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE STATES AND OTHER
JURISDICTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT
WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS. SECURITIES OWNED BY AN INITIAL
INVESTOR THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER MAY NOT BE HELD IN GLOBAL
FORM AND MAY NOT BE
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TRANSFERRED WITHOUT CERTIFICATION THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS, AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION
CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR
RESALES OF THE SECURITIES.]
No. $__________
Gold Banc Corporation, Inc., a Kansas corporation (hereinafter called
the "Company", which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to GBCI
Capital Trust II, or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ Dollars
on ____________, 2029, or such other principal amount represented hereby as may
be set forth in the records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to
in accordance with the Indenture provided that the Company may shorten the
Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security to a date not earlier than
____________, 2004. The Company further promises to pay interest on said
principal from __________, 1999, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date
to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly (subject to
deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31 of each year, commencing ____________, 1999 at the rate of _____%
per annum, together with Additional Sums, if any, as provided in Section 10.6 of
the Indenture, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made
available for payment; provided that any overdue principal, premium or
Additional Sums and any overdue installment of interest shall bear Additional
Interest at the rate of _____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable), compounded quarterly from the dates such
amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such
interest shall be payable on demand. The amount of interest payable for any
period less than a full interest period shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual days elapsed in a partial
month in such period. The amount of interest payable for any full interest
period shall be computed by dividing the applicable rate per annum by four. The
interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment,
which shall be the 15th day of March, June, September and December (whether or
not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment
Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may
either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series
not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said
Indenture.
So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Company shall have the right, at any time during the term of this Security, from
time to time to defer the payment of
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interest on this Security for up to 20 consecutive quarterly interest payment
periods with respect to each deferral period (each an "Extension Period"),
during which Extension Periods the Company shall have the right to make partial
payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date, and at the end of which the
Company shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid including Additional
Interest, as provided below; provided however, that no Extension Period shall
extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security, as then in
effect, and no such Extension Period may end on a date other than an Interest
Payment Date; and provided further, however, that during any such Extension
Period, the Company shall not (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions
on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to,
any of the Company's capital stock, or (b) make any payment of principal of or
interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt
securities of the Company that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in
interest to this Security, including the Company's obligation associated with
the Outstanding Preferred Securities (other than (i) repurchases, redemptions or
other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with
any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for
the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in
connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in
connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities
convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification, an exchange or conversion of any class
or series of the Company's capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary
of the Company) for any class or series of the Company's capital stock or of any
class or series of the Company's indebtedness for any class or series of the
Company's capital stock, (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of
the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (iv) any
declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, or the issuance of
rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or
repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (v) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable
upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock). Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Company
may further defer the payment of interest, provided that no Extension Period
shall exceed 20 consecutive quarterly interest payment periods, extend beyond
the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security or end on a date other
than an Interest Payment Date. Upon the termination of any such Extension Period
and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional
Interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Company may elect to begin a
new Extension Period, subject to the above conditions. No interest shall be due
and payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof, but each
installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during
such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of _____% per
annum, compounded quarterly and calculated as set forth in the first paragraph
of this Security, from the date on which such amounts would otherwise have been
due and payable until paid or made available for payment. The Company shall give
the Holder of this Security and the Trustee notice of its election to begin any
Extension Period at least one Business Day prior to the next succeeding Interest
Payment Date on which interest on this Security would be payable but for such
deferral or so long as such securities are held by GBCI Capital Trust II, or at
least one Business Day prior to the earlier of (a) the next
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succeeding date on which Distributions on the Preferred Securities of the Issuer
Trust would be payable but for such deferral, and (b) the date on which the
Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust is required to give notice to holders of
such Preferred Securities of the record date or the date such Distributions are
payable, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such record
date.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this
Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose in the United States, in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; provided however, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made (a) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register, or (b) if to a
Holder of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate principal amount of this Security, by
wire transfer in immediately available funds upon written request to the Trustee
not later than 15 calendar days prior to the date on which the interest is
payable.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided
in the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payments to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this
Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take
such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination
so provided, and (c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any
and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof,
waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained
herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now
outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon
said provisions.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or facsimile signature,
this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
GOLD BANC CORPORATION, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
Attest:
--------------------------------
Secretary or Assistant Secretary
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
Section 2.3. Form of Reverse of Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued under the
Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of __________, 1999 (herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee (herein
called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, the holders of
Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in
aggregate principal amount to $____________.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture or,
if not defined in the Indenture, in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
dated as of __________, 1999 (as modified, amended or supplemented from time to
time the "Trust Agreement"), relating to GBCI Capital Trust II (the "Issuer
Trust") among the Company, as Depositor, the Trustees named
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therein and the Holders from time to time of the Trust Securities issued
pursuant thereto shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture or
the Trust Agreement, as the case may be.
The Company has the right to redeem this Security (a) on or after
____________, 2004, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, or (b) in
whole (but not in part), at any time within 90 days following the occurrence and
during the continuation of a Tax Event, Investment Company Event, or Capital
Treatment Event, in each case at the Redemption Price described below, and
subject to possible regulatory approval. The Redemption Price shall equal 100%
of the principal amount hereof being redeemed, together with accrued interest to
but excluding the date fixed for redemption.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the
name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
[If applicable, insert - The Indenture contains provisions for
defeasance at any time [of the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or]
[certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this
Security] [, in each case] upon compliance by the Company with certain
conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
Company and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or
indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations
of the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent of the
Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of
all Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of
the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their
consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or
in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent
or waiver is made upon this Security.
[If the Security is not a Discount Security, insert - As provided in
and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then
and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare the
principal amount of all the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a
notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders),
provided that, if upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or such Holders fail to
declare the principal of all the Outstanding Securities to be immediately due
and payable, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities then outstanding shall have the right to make such
declaration by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee; and upon any
such declaration the principal amount of and the accrued interest (including any
Additional Interest) on all the Securities shall become immediately due and
payable, provided that the payment of principal and interest
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(including any Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain subordinated
to the extent provided in Article XIII of the Indenture.]
[If the Security is a Discount Security, insert - As provided in and
subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect
to the Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in
every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare an amount of
principal of the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), provided that,
if upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or such Holders fail to declare such
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities to be immediately due and
payable, the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities then outstanding shall have the right to make such
declaration by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee. The principal
amount payable upon such acceleration shall be equal to [insert formula for
determining the amount]. Upon any such declaration, such amount of the principal
of and the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the
Securities shall become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment
of such principal and interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the
Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIII of
the Indenture. Upon payment (a) of the amount of principal so declared due and
payable and (b) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in
each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the
principal of and premium and interest, if any, on this Security shall
terminate.]
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest (including Additional Interest) on this Security at the times, place
and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company maintained under Section 10.2 of the Indenture
for such purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of like tenor, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
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Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial
interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial
interest in, this Security agrees that for United States federal, state and
local tax purposes it is intended that this Security constitute indebtedness.
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
THIS SECURITY IS A DIRECT AND UNSECURED OBLIGATION OF THE COMPANY, DOES
NOT EVIDENCE DEPOSITS AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER INSURER OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY.
Section 2.4. Additional Provisions Required in Global Security.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, any Global
Security issued hereunder shall, in addition to the provisions contained in
Sections 2.2 and 2.3, bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED
IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
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Section 2.5. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
Dated: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1. Title and Terms.
(a) The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is $____________.
(b) Subject to Section 3.16, the Securities' Stated Maturity shall be
____________, 2029.
(c) The Securities, established pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall
bear interest at a per annum rate equal to _____% from __________, 1999 or from
the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, as the case may be, payable quarterly (subject to deferral as set
forth in Section 3.12), in arrears, on March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31 of each year, commencing ____________, 1999, until the principal
thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will compound quarterly
and will accrue at a per annum rate equal to 8.50% to the extent permitted by
applicable law, on any interest installment in arrears for more than one
quarterly period or during an extension of an interest payment period as set
forth below in Section 3.12.
(d) The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities shall be payable at the office or agency of the Paying Agent in the
United States maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency
maintained by the Company for such purpose in such coin or currency of the
United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment
of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the
Company payment of interest may be made (i) by check mailed to the address of
the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security
Register or (ii) if to a Holder of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate principal
amount of this Security, by wire transfer in immediately available funds
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upon written request to the Trustee not later than 15 calendar days prior to the
date on which the interest is payable, at such place and to such account as may
be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Security
Register.
(e) Securities may be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one
or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary for such Global
Securities shall be The Depository Trust Company.
(f) The securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness as provided in Article XIII.
Section 3.2. Denominations.
The Securities shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be
issuable in denominations of $__ and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
(a) The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive
Officer, President or one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by its Secretary
or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
(b) Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities. At any time and from
time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may
deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication,
together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall
authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities
have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as
permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1, in authenticating such Securities, and
accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to
such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to
Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating:
(i) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 2.1, that such
form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(ii) if the terms of such Securities have been established by
or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 3.1, that such
terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture; and
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(iii) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered
by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to
any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute
valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in
accordance with their 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.
(c) If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall
not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner that
is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and Section 3.3(b),
if all Securities are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be
necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to
Section 3.1 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required
pursuant to Section 3.3(b) at or prior to the authentication of each Security if
such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original
issuance of the first Security to be issued.
(e) Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
(f) No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security
a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by the manual or facsimile signature of one of its
authorized officers, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such security has been duly authenticated
and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall
have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the
Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 3.10, for all purposes of this Indenture
such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.4. Temporary Securities.
(a) Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may
execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
(b) If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be
exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary
Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose
without
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charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive securities,
of any authorized denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated
Maturity and having the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
Section 3.5. Global Securities.
(a) Each Global Security issued under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary designated by the Company for such
Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a
nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall
constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global
Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no
transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name
of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee
thereof unless (i) such Depositary advises the Trustee in writing that such
Depositary is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities as Depositary with respect to such Global Security, and the
Company is unable to locate a qualified successor within 90 days of receipt of
such notice from the Depositary, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the
Trustee a Company Order stating that the Company elects to terminate the
book-entry system through the Depositary, or (iii) there shall have occurred and
be continuing an Event of Default.
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or
cancelled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Depositary or
its nominee to the Securities Registrar for exchange or cancellation as provided
in this Article III. If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other
Securities or canceled in part, or if another Security is to be exchanged in
whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global Security, then either
(i) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as
provided in this Article III or (ii) the principal amount thereof shall be
reduced, or increased by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so
exchanged or canceled, or equal to the principal amount of such other Security
to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, by
means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Securities
Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures,
shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a
corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment
of a Global Security by the Depositary, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Trustee shall, subject to Section 3.6(b) and as otherwise
provided in this Article III, authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable
in exchange for such Global Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with
the instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be liable for any
delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall
be fully protected in relying on, such instructions.
(d) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion
thereof, whether pursuant to this
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Article III, Section 9.6 or 11.6 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and
delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security
is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global
Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) The Depositary or its nominee, as the registered owner of a Global
Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under
this Indenture and the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a
Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Procedures.
Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest in a Global Security shall be
shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through,
records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or agent. Neither the
Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of any
transfers effected by the Depositary.
(f) The rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security
shall be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such owners and the Depositary and/or
its Agent Members.
Section 3.6. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain
Transfers and Exchanges; Securities Act Legends.
(a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee a register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it
may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and
transfers of Securities. Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the
"Securities Register." The Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar"
for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at the
offices or agencies of the Company designated for that purpose, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any
authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and
bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other
Securities of any authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this
Indenture, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall
be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled
to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon
such transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall
(if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
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No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any transfer or exchange of Securities.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required, pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, (i) to issue, exchange or register the transfer of
any Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before
the day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant to Article XI and
ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice of
redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such
Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(b) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture, transfers and exchanges of Securities and
beneficial interests in a Global Security shall be made only in accordance with
this Section 3.6(b).
(i) Restricted Non-Global Security to Global Security. If the
Holder of a Restricted Security (other than a Global Security) wishes
at any time to transfer all or any portion of such Security to a Person
who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial
interest in a Global Security, such transfer may be effected only in
accordance with the provisions of this clause (b)(i) and subject to the
Applicable Procedures. Upon receipt by the Securities Registrar of (A)
such Security as provided in Section 3.6(a) and instructions
satisfactory to the Securities Registrar directing that a beneficial
interest in the Global Security in a specified principal amount not
greater than the principal amount of such Security be credited to a
specified Agent Member's account and (B) a Restricted Securities
Certificate duly executed by such Holder or such Holder's attorney duly
authorized in writing, then the Securities Registrar shall cancel such
Security (and issue a new Security in respect of any untransferred
portion thereof) as provided in Section 3.6(a) and increase the
aggregate principal amount of the Global Security by the specified
principal amount as provided in Section 3.5(c).
(ii) Non-Global Security to Non-Global Security. A Security
that is not a Global Security may be transferred, in whole or in part,
to a Person who takes delivery in the form of another Security that is
not a Global Security as provided in Section 3.6(a), provided that if
the Security to be transferred in whole or in part is a Restricted
Security, the Securities Registrar shall have received a Restricted
Securities Certificate duly executed by the transferor Holder or such
Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(iii) Exchanges Between Global Security and Non-Global
Security. A beneficial interest in a Global Security may be exchanged
for a Security that is not a Global Security as provided in Section
3.5.
(iv) Certain Initial Transfers of Non-Global Securities. In
the case of Securities initially issued other than in global form, an
initial transfer or exchange of such
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Securities that does not involve any change in beneficial ownership may
be made to an Institutional Accredited Investor or Investors as if such
transfer or exchange were not an initial transfer or exchange;
provided, however that written certification shall be provided by the
transferee and transferor of such Securities to the Securities
Registrar that such transfer or exchange does not involve a change in
beneficial ownership.
(c) Restricted Securities Legend. Except as set forth below, all
Securities shall bear a Restricted Securities Legend:
(i) subject to the following clauses of this Section 3.6(c), a
Security or any portion thereof that is exchanged, upon transfer or
otherwise, for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall bear the
Restricted Securities Legend while represented thereby;
(ii) subject to the following clauses of this Section 3.6(c),
a new Security which is not a Global Security and is issued in exchange
for another Security (including a Global Security) or any portion
thereof, upon transfer or otherwise, shall, if such new Security is
required pursuant to Section 3.6(b)(ii) or (iii) to be issued in the
form of a Restricted Security, bear a Restricted Securities Legend;
(iii) a new Security (other than a Global Security) that does
not bear a Restricted Security Legend may be issued in exchange for or
in lieu of a Restricted Security or any portion thereof that bears such
a legend if, in the Company's judgment, placing such a legend upon such
new Security is not necessary to ensure compliance with the
registration requirements of the Securities Act, and the Trustee, at
the written direction of the Company in the form of an Officer's
Certificate, shall authenticate and deliver such a new Security as
provided in this Article III;
(iv) notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section
3.6(c), a Successor Security of a Security that does not bear a
Restricted Securities Legend shall not bear such form of legend unless
the Company has reasonable cause to believe that such Successor
Security is a "restricted security" within the meaning of Rule 144, in
which case the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company in the
form of an Officer's Certificate, shall authenticate and deliver a new
Security bearing a Restricted Securities Legend in exchange for such
Successor Security as provided in this Article III; and
(v) Securities distributed to a holder of Preferred Securities
upon dissolution of an Issuer Trust shall bear a Restricted Securities
Legend if the Preferred Securities so held bear a similar legend.
Section 3.7. Mutilated, Lost and Stolen Securities.
(a) If any mutilated Security, including any temporary Securities, is
surrendered to the Trustee together with such security or indemnity as may be
required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them harmless, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security, of like tenor and aggregate
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principal amount, bearing the same legends, and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
(b) If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the
Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser or a
protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and
bearing the same legends as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(c) If any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
(d) Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 3.7, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
(e) Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
(f) The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 3.8. Payment of Interest and Additional Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved.
(a) Interest and Additional Interest on any Security that is payable,
and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, shall
be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest in respect of Securities, except that, unless otherwise
provided in the Securities, interest payable on the Stated Maturity of the
principal of a Security shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid.
The initial payment of interest on any Security that is issued between a Regular
Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date shall be payable as provided
in such Security or in the Board Resolution pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect
to the Securities.
(b) Any interest on any Security that is due and payable, but is not
timely paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities
(herein called "Defaulted Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date
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by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by
the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii)
below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities in respect of
which interest is in default (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed
in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and which shall be fixed
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount
of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect
of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to
the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment,
such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided.
Thereupon, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment
of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be not more than 15 days and
not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to each Holder of a Security at the address of such Holder as
it appears in the Securities Register not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the
name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be
published at least once in a newspaper, customarily published in the
English language on each Business Day and of general circulation in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, but such publication shall
not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid,
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to
the following clause (ii).
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities in respect of which
interest is in default may be listed and, upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not
listed), if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the
proposed payment pursuant to this clause (ii), such payment shall be
deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(c) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue interest, that were carried by such other Security.
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Section 3.9. Persons Deemed Owners.
(a) The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered as the
owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and
(subject to Section 3.8) any interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the
Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
(b) No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on
its behalf by a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with
respect to such Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of
such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or
other authorization furnished by a Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary
and such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices
governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary (or its nominee) as
Holder of any Security.
Section 3.10. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or
exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities, and Securities surrendered
directly to the Trustee for any such purpose, shall be promptly canceled by it.
The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company may
have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be
promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section 3.10,
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall
be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver to the Company a
certificate of such destruction.
Section 3.11. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Securities for any period shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual number of days
elapsed in any partial month in such period, and interest on the Securities for
a full period shall be computed by dividing the rate per annum by the number of
interest periods that together constitute a full twelve months.
Section 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates.
(a) So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Company shall have the right, at any time during the term of the Securities,
from time to time to defer the payment of interest on such Securities for such
period or periods (each an "Extension Period") not to exceed the number of
consecutive interest periods that equal 20 consecutive quarterly periods with
respect to each Extension Period, during which Extension Periods the Company
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shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest
Payment Date. No Extension Period shall end on a date other than an Interest
Payment Date. At the end of any such Extension Period, the Company shall pay all
interest then accrued and unpaid on the Securities (together with Additional
Interest thereon, if any, at the rate specified for the Securities to the extent
permitted by applicable law); provided, however, that no Extension Period shall
extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities; and
provided further, however, that, during any such Extension Period, the Company
shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem,
purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the
Company's capital stock, or (ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or
premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the
Company that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the
Securities, including the Company's obligations associated with the Outstanding
Preferred Securities (other than (A) repurchases, redemptions or other
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any
employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the
benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in
connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in
connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities
convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period,
(B) as a result of a reclassification, an exchange or conversion of any class or
series of the Company's capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary of
the Company) for any class or series of the Company's capital stock or of any
class or series of the Company's indebtedness for any class or series of the
Company's capital stock, (C) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of
the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (D) any
declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, or the issuance of
rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or
repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (E) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable
upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock). Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Company
may further defer the payment of interest, provided that no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing and provided further, that no Extension Period shall
exceed the period or periods specified in such Securities, extend beyond the
Stated Maturity of the principal of such Securities or end on a date other than
an Interest Payment Date. Upon the termination of any such Extension Period and
upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Interest
then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Company may elect to begin a new
Extension Period, subject to the above conditions. No interest or Additional
Interest shall be due and payable during an Extension Period, except at the end
thereof, but each installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and
payable during such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest. The Company
shall give the Holders of the Securities and the Trustee notice of its election
to begin any such Extension Period at least one Business Day prior to the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date on which interest on Securities would be
payable but for such deferral or, with respect to any Securities issued to the
Issuer Trust, so long as any such Securities are held by the Issuer Trust, at
least one Business Day prior to the earlier of (x) the next succeeding date on
which Distributions (as defined in the Trust Agreement) on the Preferred
Securities of the Issuer Trust would be payable but for such deferral, and (y)
the date on which the Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust is required to give
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notice to holders of such Preferred Securities of the record date or the date
such Distributions are payable, but in any event not less than one Business Day
prior to such record date.
(b) The Trustee shall promptly give notice of the Company's election to
begin any such Extension Period to the Holders of the Outstanding Securities.
Section 3.13. Right of Set-Off.
With respect to the Securities initially issued to the Issuer Trust,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the
right to set off any payment it is otherwise required to make in respect of any
such Security to the extent the Company has theretofore made, or is concurrently
on the date of such payment making, a payment under the Guarantee or to a holder
of Preferred Securities pursuant to an action undertaken under Section 5.8 of
this Indenture.
Section 3.14. Agreed Tax Treatment.
Each Security issued hereunder shall provide that the Company and, by
its acceptance of a Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of,
and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Security agree that
for United States federal, state and local tax purposes it is intended that such
Security constitutes indebtedness.
Section 3.15. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company, in issuing the Securities, may use "CUSIP" numbers (if
then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in
notice of redemption and other similar or related materials as a convenience to
Holders; provided that any such notice or other materials may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed
on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or other materials
and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed
on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect
in or omission of such numbers.
Section 3.16. Shortening of Stated Maturity.
The Company shall have the right to shorten the Stated Maturity of the
principal of the Securities at any time to any date not earlier than
____________, 2004, provided that the Company shall give notice to the Holders,
the Trustee and, in the case of Securities issued to an Issuer Trust, the Issuer
Trust of such shortening no less than 90 days prior to the effectiveness
thereof.
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ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further
effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for and as otherwise provided
in this Section 4.1) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the
Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when:
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
(other than (A) Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and
that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.7 and (B)
Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in
trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section 10.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(A) have become due and payable,
(B) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year of the date of deposit, or
(C) are to be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving
of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of subclause (ii)(A), (B) or (C) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
such purpose an amount in the currency or currencies in which the Securities are
payable sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for the
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest)
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and
payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.
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Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7, the obligations of
the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (ii) of clause (a) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and the last
paragraph of Section 10.3 shall survive.
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust
and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities
and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if
any) and interest and Additional Interest for the payment of which such money or
obligations have been deposited with or received by the Trustee.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 5.1. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to the
Securities, 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):
(a) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security, including
any Additional Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (subject to the deferral of
any due date in the case of an Extension Period);
(b) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on)
any Security at its Stated Maturity;
(c) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any
other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in the
Securities or in this Indenture for a period of 90 days after the date on which
written notice of such failure (a "Notice of Default"), requiring the Company to
remedy the same, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee by
registered or certified mail or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of
at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; or
(d) the occurrence of the appointment of a receiver or other similar
official in any liquidation, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect to
the Company or all or substantially all of its property; or a court or other
governmental agency shall enter a decree or order
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appointing a receiver or similar official and such decree or order shall remain
unstayed and undischarged for a period of 60 days.
Section 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
(a) If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.1(d)) with respect to Securities at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then, and in every such case, the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare
the principal amount (or, if the Securities are Discount Securities, such
portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms) of all the
Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), provided, however that, if,
upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities fail to declare the principal of
all the Outstanding Securities to be immediately due and payable, the holders of
at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement)
of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust then outstanding shall
have the right to make such declaration by a notice in writing to the Company
and the Trustee; and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or
specified portion thereof) of and the accrued interest (including any Additional
Interest) on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable. If an
Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) with respect to Securities at the
time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities (or, if the
Securities are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such
Securities as may be specified by the terms) shall automatically, and without
any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become
immediately due and payable. Payment of principal and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent
provided in Article XIII notwithstanding that such amount shall become
immediately due and payable as herein provided.
(b) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect
to the Securities has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of
the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V,
provided the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all
Securities;
(B) any accrued Additional Interest on all
Securities;
(C) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities that have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional
Interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities; and
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(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to Securities, other
than the non-payment of the principal of Securities that has become due
solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.13.
(c) If the Holders of Securities fail to annul such declaration and
waive such default, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount
(as defined in the Trust Agreement) of Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
Trust then outstanding shall also have the right to rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences by written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in clauses (a)
and (b) above of this Section 5.2.
(d) No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.
(a) The Company covenants that if:
(i) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security when such
interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days or
(ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Stated Maturity thereof,
then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities, the whole amount then due and payable
on the Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including
any Additional Interest), and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing the
Trustee under Section 6.7.
(b) If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities
and collect the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities, wherever situated.
(c) If an Event of Default with respect to Securities occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its
rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate judicial
proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any
such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
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covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial or
administrative proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors,
(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration
or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand
on the Company for the payment of overdue principal (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest)) shall be entitled and empowered,
by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional
Interest) owing and unpaid in respect to the Securities and to file
such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable and to
take any and all actions as are authorized under the Trust Indenture
Act in order to have the claims of the Holders and any predecessor to
the Trustee under Section 6.7 allowed in any such judicial or
administrative proceedings; and
(ii) in particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect
and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same in accordance with Section 5.6;
and
(b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator, conservator (or other similar official) in any such judicial or
administrative proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such
payments to the Trustee for distribution in accordance with Section 5.6, and in
the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly
to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it and any predecessor
Trustee under Section 6.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however,
that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a
trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or
other similar committee.
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee
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shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall, subject to Article XIII and after provision for the
payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under
Section 6.7, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders
of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.6. Application of Money Collected.
Any money or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with
respect to the Securities pursuant to this Article V shall be applied in the
following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money or property on account of principal (and premium, if
any) or interest (including any Additional Interest), upon presentation of the
Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and
upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7;
SECOND: Subject to Article XIII, to the payment of the amounts then due
and unpaid upon Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest
(including any Additional Interest) in respect of which or for the benefit of
which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of
any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional
Interest), respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
Section 5.7. Limitation on Suits.
Subject to Section 5.8, no Holder of any Securities shall have any
right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator (or other similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless:
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, as herein before
provided;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
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(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; it being understood
and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this
Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of
Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
Section 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest; Direct Action by Holders of Preferred
Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to
Sections 3.8 and 3.12) interest (including any Additional Interest) on such
Security on the Stated Maturity (or in the case of redemption, on the Redemption
Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such
right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Any registered
holder of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust shall have the
right, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section 5.1(a) or
5.1(b), to institute a suit directly against the Company for enforcement of
payment to such holder of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to
Sections 3.8 and 3.12) interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities having a principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount
(as defined in the Trust Agreement) of such Preferred Securities held by such
holder.
Section 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred Securities issued
by the Issuer Trust has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for
any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee, such Holder or such
holder of Preferred Securities, then, and in every such case, the Company, the
Trustee, such Holders and such holder of Preferred Securities shall, subject to
any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee, such Holder and such holder of Preferred Securities shall continue as
though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.7, no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or the Holders
is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
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Section 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
(a) No delay or omission of the Trustee, any Holder of any Security
with respect to the Securities or any holder of any Preferred Security to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default with respect to
the Securities shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of
any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
(b) Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the
Trustee or to the Holders and the right and remedy given to the holders of
Preferred Securities by Section 5.8 may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee, the Holders or the holders of
Preferred Securities, as the case may be.
Section 5.12. Control by Holders.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee
or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Securities, provided that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture,
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
that is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have
the right to decline to follow such direction if a Responsible Officer or
Officers of the Trustee shall, in good faith, determine that the proceeding so
directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not joining in any such
direction or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.
(a) The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities affected thereby and, the holders of a
majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of
the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust may waive any past default
hereunder and its consequences except a default:
(i) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security (unless
such default has been cured and the Company has paid to or deposited
with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of
interest (including Additional Interest) and all principal of (and
premium, if any on) all Securities due otherwise than by acceleration),
or
(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under
Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each
Holder of any Outstanding Security affected thereby.
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(b) Any such waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of
all the Securities, or in the case of waiver by holders of Preferred Securities
issued by the Issuer Trust, by all holders of Preferred Securities issued by the
Issuer Trust.
(c) Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in
its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may, in its
discretion, assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant, but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in
the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the
payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity.
Section 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
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ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture, but in the case of any such certificates or opinions
that by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished
to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same
to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
his or her own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act or its own willful misconduct except that:
(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of subsection (a) of this Section 6.1;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the 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 Holders pursuant to Section 5.12 relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend
or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable grounds for believing
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that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
Section 6.2. Notice of Defaults.
Within 90 days after actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee of the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the
Securities, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities, as
their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register, notice of such
default, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however,
that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any
Security, the 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 Trustee in good faith determines
that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of
Securities; and provided further, that, in the case of any default of the
character specified in Section 5.1(c), no such notice to Holders of Securities
shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the
purpose of this Section 6.2, the term "default" means any event that is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities.
Section 6.3. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, Security 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) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice and the advice
of such counsel or any Opinion of 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;
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(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction; provided, however, that nothing herein shall relieve the
Trustee of its obligations upon the occurrence of an Event of Default that has
not been cured or waived to exercise with respect to the Securities such of the
rights and powers vested in the Trustee by this Indenture, and to use the same
degree of care and skill in exercising such rights and powers as a reasonably
prudent person would use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own
affairs.
(f) the 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, indenture,
Security or other paper or document, but the Trustee in its discretion may make
such inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and,
if the Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall
be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney; and
(g) the 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 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.
Section 6.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to
the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.5. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections
6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would
have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Securities
Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.6. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
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Section 6.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.
(a) The Company agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time
reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in such
amounts as the Company and the Trustee shall agree from time to time (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the
compensation of a trustee of an express trust).
(b) The Company agrees to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for
all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (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 its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
(c) Since the Issuer Trust is being formed solely to facilitate an
investment in the Preferred Securities, the Company, as Holder of the Common
Securities, hereby covenants to pay all debts and obligations (other than with
respect to the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities) and all
reasonable costs and expenses of the Issuer Trust (including without limitation
all costs and expenses relating to the organization of the Issuer Trust, the
fees and expenses of the trustees and all reasonable costs and expenses relating
to the operation of the Issuer Trust) and to pay any and all taxes, duties,
assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature (other than withholding
taxes) imposed on the Issuer Trust by the United States, or any taxing
authority, so that the net amounts received and retained by the Issuer Trust and
the Property Trustee after paying such expenses will be equal to the amounts the
Issuer Trust and the Property Trustee would have received had no such costs or
expenses been incurred by or imposed on the Issuer Trust. The foregoing
obligations of the Company are for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by,
any person to whom any such debts, obligations, costs, expenses and taxes are
owed (each, a "Creditor") whether or not such Creditor has received notice
thereof. Any such Creditor may enforce such obligations directly against the
Company, and the Company irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that
any such Creditor take any action against the Issuer Trust or any other person
before proceeding against the Company. The Company shall execute such additional
agreements as may be necessary or desirable to give full effect to the
foregoing.
(d) The Company shall indemnify the Trustee, its directors, officers,
employees and agents for, and hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel) incurred without negligence, bad faith
or willful misconduct, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust or the performance of its duties hereunder,
including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending against any claim or
liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or
duties hereunder. This indemnification shall survive the termination of this
Indenture or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(e) When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event
of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) occurs, the expenses and the compensation
for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 or any successor statute.
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Section 6.8. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee for the Securities issued hereunder shall be subject to,
and shall comply fully with, the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act. Nothing herein shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the
Commission the application referred to in the second to last paragraph of said
Section 310(b).
Section 6.9. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to the Securities
issued hereunder which shall be:
(a) a Person organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America or of any state or territory thereof or of the District of
Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and
subject to supervision or examination by federal, state, territorial or District
of Columbia authority, or
(b) an entity organized and doing business under the laws of a foreign
government that is permitted to act as Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or
order of the Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust
powers, and subject to supervision or examination by authority of such foreign
government or a political subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to
supervision or examination applicable to United States institutional trustees;
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such
entity publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then, for
the purposes of this Section 6.9, the combined capital and surplus of such
entity 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 Trustee
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 Article VI. Neither the Company nor any Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company shall serve
as Trustee for the Securities issued hereunder.
Section 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities
by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance
by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30
days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
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(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (x) the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a
Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect to the Securities issued
hereunder, or (y) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of such Holder and
all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities issued hereunder and
the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with
respect to the Securities, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly
appoint a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities. If, within one year
after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such
vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities shall be appointed
by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the
successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such
appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities and
supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities shall have been so appointed by the
Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter
provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least
six months may, subject to Section 5.14, on behalf of such Holder and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities and each appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities by mailing written notice of
such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities as
their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register. Each notice shall
include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office.
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Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request
of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon
payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such
successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property
and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred to
in Section 6.11(a).
(c) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless, at the
time of such acceptance, such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article VI.
Section 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any entity
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such entity
shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the
parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not
delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or
consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and
deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such
Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in the name of such
successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of authentication shall have
the full force which it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this
Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
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Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
(a) The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with
respect to the Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities issued upon original issue and upon exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section
3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated
by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all
times be an entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America, or of any state or territory thereof or of the District of
Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a
combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such Authenticating
Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating
Agent 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 an Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 6.14, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect specified in this Section 6.14.
(b) Any entity into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be
a party, or any entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate
trust business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating
Agent hereunder, provided such entity shall be otherwise eligible under this
Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
(c) An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof
to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent, which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such
appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.6 to all Holders of Securities.
Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance hereunder shall become vested
with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like
effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provision of
this Section.
(d) The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payment, subject to the
provisions of Section 6.7.
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(e) If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section 6.14, the
Securities may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate
of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following
form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned
Indenture.
Dated: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:
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As Authenticating Agent
By:
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As Authenticating Agent
ARTICLE VII
HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE,
PAYING AGENT AND COMPANY
Section 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) quarterly, not more than 15 days after March 15, June 15, September
15, and December 15 in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such dates,
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Securities Registrar, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished, excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the
Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar.
Section 7.2. Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
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(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 7.3. Reports by Trustee and Paying Agent.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the
Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act, at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not
more than 12 months shall be transmitted within 60 days of January 31 in each
calendar year, commencing with January 31, 2000.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each securities exchange upon which any
Securities are listed and also with the Commission. The Company will notify the
Trustee when any Securities are listed on any securities exchange.
(d) The Paying Agent shall comply with all withholding, backup
withholding, tax and information reporting requirements under the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury Regulations issued thereunder
with respect to payments on, or with respect to, the Securities.
Section 7.4. Reports by Company.
The Company shall file or cause to be filed with the Trustee and with
the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other
reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in the Trust Indenture
Act. In the case of information, documents or reports required to be filed with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
the Company shall file or cause the filing of such information documents or
reports with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is required to be filed
with the Commission.
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ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge into the
Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to the Company, unless:
(a) if the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, the entity formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer, or
that leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an
entirety shall be an entity organized and existing under the laws of the United
States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to
the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment
of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on all the Securities of every series and the performance
of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed
or observed; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be deemed to restrict
or prohibit, and no supplemental indenture shall be required in the case of, the
merger of a Principal Subsidiary Bank with and into a Principal Subsidiary Bank
or the Company, the consolidation of Principal Subsidiary Banks into a Principal
Subsidiary Bank or the Company, or the sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of any Principal Subsidiary Bank to another
Principal Subsidiary Bank or the Company, if, in any such case in which the
surviving, resulting or acquiring entity is not the Company, the Company would
own, directly or indirectly, at least 80% of the voting securities of the
Principal Subsidiary Bank (and of any other Principal Subsidiary Bank any voting
securities of which are owned, directly or indirectly, by such Principal
Subsidiary Bank) surviving such merger, resulting from such consolidation or
acquiring such assets;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event that, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would
constitute an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger,
conveyance, transfer or lease and any such supplemental indenture comply with
this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with and, in the case of a transaction
subject to this Section 8.1 but not requiring a supplemental indenture under
paragraph (a) of this Section 8.1, an Officer's Certificate or Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that the surviving, resulting or successor entity is
legally bound by the Indenture and the Securities; and the Trustee, subject to
Section 6.1, may rely upon such Officers' Certificates and Opinions of Counsel
as conclusive evidence that such transaction complies with this Section 8.1.
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Section 8.2. Successor Company Substituted.
(a) Upon any consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any
other Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance
with Section 8.1, the successor entity formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is
made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any
such conveyance, transfer or lease the Company shall be discharged from all
obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities.
(b) Such successor Person may cause to be executed, and may issue
either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the
Securities issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not have been signed by the
Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities that previously shall have been signed and
delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication
pursuant to such provisions and any Securities that such successor Person
thereafter shall cause to be executed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf
for the purpose pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued shall
in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the
Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture.
(c) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or
lease, such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities
thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may amend
or waive any provision of this Indenture or enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the
following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and
in the Securities contained;
(b) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or
with the Trustee or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company;
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(c) to facilitate the issuance of Securities in certificated or other
definitive form;
(d) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the Company;
(e) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities;
(f) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided that any such change or elimination shall not apply to any Outstanding
Securities;
(g) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or
to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under
this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this clause (g) shall not
adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities in any material
respect or, in the case of the Securities issued to the Issuer Trust and for so
long as any of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust shall remain
outstanding, the holders of such Preferred Securities;
(h) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder
by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities and to add to or change
any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b); or
(i) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to
effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture
Act.
Section 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders of Securities under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of interest (including any Additional Interest) on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable
upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of principal of a Discount
Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
Stated Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, or change the place of payment
where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption,
on or after the Redemption Date),
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(b) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any
waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.5, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain
other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Security affected thereby;
provided, further, that, in the case of the Securities issued to the Issuer
Trust, so long as any of the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust
remains outstanding, (i) no such amendment shall be made that adversely affects
the holders of such Preferred Securities in any material respect, and no
termination of this Indenture shall occur, and no waiver of any Event of Default
or compliance with any covenant under this Indenture shall be effective, without
the prior consent of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate
Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of such Preferred
Securities then outstanding unless and until the principal of (and premium, if
any, on) the Securities and all accrued and (subject to Section 3.8) unpaid
interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon have been paid in full, and
(ii) no amendment shall be made to Section 5.8 of this Indenture that would
impair the rights of the holders of Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer
Trust provided therein without the prior consent of the holders of each such
Preferred Security then outstanding unless and until the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) the Securities of such series and all accrued and (subject
to Section 3.8) unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon have
been paid in full.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of
such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and
that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such action have
been complied with. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into
any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of
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this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.5. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and shall if required by
the Company, bear a notation in form approved by the Company as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Company, to any
such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding
Securities.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
Section 10.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Securities that
it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities in accordance
with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
(a) The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment an office or
agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where
Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where
notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this
Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints the Trustee, acting
through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said purposes. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of
any such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain
such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands.
(b) The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any
or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designations;
provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner
relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each
Place of Payment for Securities for such purposes. The Company
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will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation and any
change in the location of any such office or agency.
Section 10.3. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
(a) If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to the Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any of
the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest (including Additional Interest) so becoming due until such sums shall
be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will
promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.
(b) Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will,
prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of
(or premium, if any) or interest, including Additional Interest on any
Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal
(and premium, if any) or interest, including Additional Interest so becoming
due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to
such principal (and premium, if any) or interest, including Additional Interest,
and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify
the Trustee of its failure so to act.
(c) The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on
the Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of
as herein provided;
(ii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
any other obligor upon such Securities) in the making of any payment of
principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional
Interest) in respect of any Security;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any default with
respect to the Securities, upon the written request of the Trustee,
forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying
Agent; and
(iv) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
applicable to it as a Paying Agent.
(d) The Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same terms as those upon which such sums were
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held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying
Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such money.
(e) Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then
held by the Company in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or
interest (including Additional Interest) has become due and payable shall
(unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or
abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to the Company,
or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory
provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and
all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to
be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily
published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of
Manhattan, the City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from
the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining
will be repaid to the Company.
Section 10.4. Statement as to Compliance.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate covering the preceding calendar year, stating whether or not to the
best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the
performance, observance or fulfillment of or compliance with any of the terms,
provisions, covenants and conditions of this Indenture, and if the Company shall
be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge. For the purpose of this Section 10.4, compliance
shall be determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice
provided pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
Section 10.5. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
Subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Securities specified in
Section 9.2, if any, the Company may omit in any particular instance to comply
with any covenant or condition provided pursuant to Section 3.1, 9.1(c) or
9.1(d) with respect to the Securities, if before or after the time for such
compliance the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or
condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or
condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall
become effective, the obligations of the Company in respect of any such covenant
or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
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Section 10.6. Additional Sums.
So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and
except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.1 or Section 3.1, if:
(a) the Issuer Trust is the Holder of all of the Outstanding Securities, and (b)
a Tax Event described in clause (a) or (c) of the definition of "Tax Event" in
Section 1.1 hereof has occurred and is continuing in respect of the Issuer
Trust, the Company shall pay the Issuer Trust (and its permitted successors or
assigns under the Trust Agreement) for so long as the Issuer Trust (or its
permitted successor or assignee) is the registered holder of the Outstanding
Securities, such additional sums as may be necessary in order that the amount of
Distributions (including any Additional Amount (as defined in the Trust
Agreement)) then due and payable by the Issuer Trust on the Preferred Securities
and Common Securities that at any time remain outstanding in accordance with the
terms thereof shall not be reduced as a result of such Additional Taxes (the
"Additional Sums"). Whenever in this Indenture or the Securities there is a
reference in any context to the payment of principal of or interest on the
Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payments of
the Additional Sums provided for in this paragraph to the extent that, in such
context, Additional Sums are, were or would be payable in respect thereof
pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph and express mention of the payment
of Additional Sums (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be
construed as excluding Additional Sums in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made; provided, however, that the deferral of the payment
of interest pursuant to Section 3.12 or the Securities shall not defer the
payment of any Additional Sums that may be due and payable.
Section 10.7. Additional Covenants.
The Company covenants and agrees with each Holder of Securities that it
shall not: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem,
purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of
the Company's capital stock, or (b) make any payment of principal of or interest
or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the
Company that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the
Securities, including the Company's obligations associated with the Outstanding
Preferred Securities, (other than (i) repurchases, redemptions or other
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any
employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the
benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in
connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in
connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities
convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period or
other event referred to below, (ii) as a result of a reclassification, exchange
or conversion of any class or series of the Company's capital stock (or any
capital stock of a Subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the
Company's capital stock or of any class or series of the Company's indebtedness
for any class or series of the Company's capital stock, (iii) the purchase of
fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the
conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being
converted or exchanged, (iv) any declaration of a dividend in connection with
any Rights Plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any
Rights Plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (v)
any dividend in the form of stock,
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warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable
upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock) if at such time (A) there shall have occurred any event (x) of which
the Company has actual knowledge that with the giving of notice or the lapse of
time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities, and (y) which the Company shall not have taken reasonable steps to
cure, (B) if the Securities are held by the Issuer Trust, the Company shall be
in default with respect to its payment of any obligations under the Guarantee
relating to the Preferred Securities issued by the Issuer Trust, or (C) the
Company shall have given notice of its election to begin an Extension Period
with respect to the Securities as provided herein and shall not have rescinded
such notice, or such Extension Period, or any extension thereof, shall be
continuing.
The Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities issued to the
Issuer Trust (a) to hold, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Common Securities
of the Issuer Trust, provided that any permitted successor of the Company as
provided under Section 8.2 may succeed to the Company's ownership of such Common
Securities, (b) as holder of such Common Securities, not to voluntarily
terminate, windup or liquidate the Issuer Trust, other than (i) in connection
with a distribution of the Securities to the holders of the Preferred Securities
in liquidation of the Issuer Trust, or (ii) in connection with certain mergers,
consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the Trust Agreement, and (c) to use
its reasonable efforts, consistent with the terms and provisions of the Trust
Agreement, to cause the Issuer Trust to continue not to be taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
Section 10.8. Federal Tax Reports.
On or before December 15 of each year during which any Securities are
outstanding, the Company shall furnish to each Paying Agent such information as
may be reasonably requested by each Paying Agent in order that each Paying Agent
may prepare the information which it is required to report for such year on
Internal Revenue Service Forms 1096 and 1099 pursuant to Section 6049 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Such information shall include the
amount of original issue discount includible in income for each authorized
minimum denomination of principal amount at Stated Maturity of outstanding
Securities during such year.
ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.1. Applicability of this Article.
Redemption of Securities as permitted or required by any form of
Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such
form of Security and this Article; provided, however, that, if any provision of
any such form of Security shall conflict with any provision of this Article XI,
the provision of such form of Security shall govern.
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Section 11.2. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election
of the Company, the Company shall, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior
to the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee and, in the case of Securities held by the Issuer
Trust, the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement of such date and of the
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and provide the additional
information required to be included in the notice or notices contemplated by
Section 11.4; provided, that, for so long as such Securities are held by the
Issuer Trust, such notice shall be given not less than 45 nor more than 75 days
prior to such Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to
the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement). In the case of any redemption
of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption
provided in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee
with an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance
with such restriction.
Section 11.3. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.
(a) If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities not previously
called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion
of the principal amount of any Security, provided that the unredeemed portion of
the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination
(which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such
Security.
(b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for partial redemption and the principal amount thereof to
be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security that has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 11.4. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not later than the thirtieth day, and not earlier than the
sixtieth day, prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be
redeemed, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities
Register.
With respect to Securities to be redeemed, each notice of redemption
shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be
calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of
the Redemption Price provided pursuant to
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the Indenture together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the
actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to
the Redemption Date (if such an estimate of the Redemption Price is given, a
subsequent notice shall be given as set forth above setting forth the Redemption
Price promptly following the calculation thereof);
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal
amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that interest
thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price;
(f) such other provisions as may be required in respect of the terms of
the Securities; and
(g) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
The notice, if mailed in the manner provided above, shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such
notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the
notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in
part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any
other Security.
Section 11.5. Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date
specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in Section 11.4, the
Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or if
the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company will segregate and
hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money sufficient to pay
the Redemption Price of, and any accrued interest (including Additional
Interest) on, all the Securities (or portions thereof) that are to be redeemed
on that date.
Section 11.6. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.
(a) If any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section
11.4, the Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice
has been given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or
places stated in such notice at the applicable Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date. On
presentation and surrender of such Securities at a Place of Payment in said
notice specified, the said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be
paid and
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redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date;
provided, however, that, installments of interest (including Additional
Interest) whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant record
dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.8.
(b) Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities, of
authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed
portion of the Security so presented and having the same Original Issue Date,
Stated Maturity and terms.
(c) If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid under
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, on such
Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate
prescribed therefor in the Security.
Section 11.7. Right of Redemption of Securities Initially Issued to the
Issuer Trust.
(a) The Company, at its option, may redeem such Securities (i) on or
after _________, 2004, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, or
(ii) upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tax Event, an
Investment Company Event or a Capital Treatment Event, at any time within 90
days following the occurrence and during the continuation of such Tax Event,
Investment Company Event or Capital Treatment Event, in whole (but not in part),
in each case at a Redemption Price specified in such Security, together with
accrued interest (including Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date.
(b) If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the aggregate
principal amount of such Securities remaining Outstanding after giving effect to
such redemption shall be sufficient to satisfy any provisions of the Trust
Agreement.
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
Except as may be provided in any supplemental or amended indenture, no
sinking fund shall be established or maintained for the retirement of
Securities.
ARTICLE XIII
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
Section 13.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in
the manner hereinafter set forth
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in this Article, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest (including any Additional Interest) on each and all of the Securities
are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
Section 13.2. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default; Payment Over
of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
(a) If the Company shall default in the payment of any principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest on any Senior Indebtedness when the same becomes
due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by
declaration of acceleration or otherwise, then, upon written notice of such
default to the Company by the holders of Senior Indebtedness or any trustee
therefor, unless and until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall
have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property,
securities, by set-off or otherwise) shall be made or agreed to be made on
account of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including
Additional Interest) on any of the Securities, or in respect of any redemption,
repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition of any of the Securities.
(b) In the event of (i) any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition or other similar
proceeding relating to the Company, its creditors or its property, (ii) any
proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Company,
voluntary or involuntary, whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy
proceedings, (iii) any assignment by the Company for the benefit of creditors or
(iv) any other marshalling of the assets of the Company (each such event, if
any, herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding"), all Senior Indebtedness
(including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such
proceedings) shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution,
whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any Holder on
account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or
other property (other than securities of the Company or any other entity
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which
is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination
provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to the
payment of all Senior Indebtedness at the time outstanding and to any securities
issued in respect thereof under any such plan of reorganization or
readjustment), which would otherwise (but for these subordination provisions) be
payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities shall be paid or delivered
directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness in accordance with the priorities
then existing among such holders until all Senior Indebtedness (including any
interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any Proceeding) shall have
been paid in full.
(c) In the event of any Proceeding, after payment in full of all sums
owing with respect to Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities,
together with the holders of any obligations of the Company ranking on a parity
with the Securities, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of
the Company the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities and such other
obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property
or otherwise, shall be made on account of any capital stock or any obligations
of the Company ranking junior to the Securities, and such other obligations. If,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of any character or
any security, whether in cash, securities or other property (other
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than securities of the Company or any other entity provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least to
the extent provided in these subordination provisions with respect to the
indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness at the time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect
thereof under any plan of reorganization or readjustment), shall be received by
the Trustee or any Holder in contravention of any of the terms hereof and before
all Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, such payment or
distribution or security shall be received in trust for the benefit of, and
shall be paid over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities then
existing among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior
Indebtedness in full. In the event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder
to endorse or assign any such payment, distribution or security, each holder of
Senior Indebtedness is hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the
same.
(d) The Trustee and the Holders shall take such action (including,
without limitation, the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for the holders
of Senior Indebtedness or consent to the filing of a financing statement with
respect hereto) as may, in the opinion of counsel designated by the holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Senior Indebtedness at the time outstanding,
be necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination
effected by these provisions.
(e) The provisions of this Section 13.2 shall not impair any rights,
interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Company in respect
of any security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the
provisions of this Indenture.
(f) The securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise ranking
on a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities shall not be
deemed to prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations
ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities.
Section 13.3. Payment Permitted if No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in any of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time, except
during the pendency of the conditions described in the first paragraph of
Section 13.2 or of any Proceeding referred to in Section 13.2, from making
payments at any time of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest
(including Additional Interest) on the Securities, or (b) the application by the
Trustee of any monies deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on
account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on the Securities or the retention of such payment by the
Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it did not have
knowledge that such payment would have been prohibited by the provisions of this
Article.
Section 13.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on
all Senior Indebtedness, or the provision for such payment in cash or cash
equivalents or otherwise in a
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manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the
Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions
made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of
this Article (equally and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the
Company that by its express terms is subordinated to Senior Indebtedness of the
Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated to
the Senior Indebtedness and is entitled to like rights of subrogation by reason
of any payments or distributions made to holders of such Senior Indebtedness) to
the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments and
distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the Senior
Indebtedness until the principal of (and premium if any) and interest (including
Additional Interest) on the Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of
such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the
Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this
Article, and no payments pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee,
shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior
Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or
distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior Indebtedness.
Section 13.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article XIII are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing
contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the
Securities is intended to or shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the
Holders of the Securities, the obligations of the Company, which are absolute
and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms; (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders
of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than their rights in
relation to the holders of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent the Trustee or
the Holder of any Security (or to the extent expressly provided herein, the
holder of any Preferred Security) from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, including filing
and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this
Article XIII of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, property and
securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
Section 13.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes
and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided
in this Article XIII and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.
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Section 13.7 No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
(a) No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness
to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this
Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or
be otherwise charged with.
(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of Section 13.7(a), the
holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without
the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities,
without incurring responsibility to such Holders of the Securities and without
impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article XIII or the
obligations hereunder of such Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place
or terms of payment or extent the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior
Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Indebtedness
or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior
Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with
any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Indebtedness; (iii)
release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior
Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against
the Company and any other Person.
Section 13.8. Notice to Trustee.
(a) The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XIII or any other provision of
this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence
of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee
in respect of the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received
written notice thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or
from any trustee, agent or representative therefor; provided, however, that if
the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at
least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any
monies may become payable for any purpose (including, the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any, on) or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such
monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and
shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received by it
within two Business Days prior to such date.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall be
entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a
trustee or attorney-in-fact therefor) to establish that such notice has been
given by a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or attorney-in-fact
therefor). In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or
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distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request such Person to
furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount
of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is
entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts
pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article, and if such evidence
is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending
judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 13.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating
Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to
in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, and the
Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is
pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, conservator,
liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to
the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XIII.
Section 13.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not
be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and
shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay
over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other
Person cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness
shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
Section 13.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the
rights set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness that
may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.
Section 13.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have
been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee"
as used in this Article XIII shall in such case (unless the context otherwise
requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were
named in this Article in addition to or in place of the Trustee.
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Section 13.13. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed Payment.
For purposes of this Article only, (a) the issuance and delivery of
junior securities upon conversion or exchange of Securities shall not be deemed
to constitute a payment or distribution on account of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on such
Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of such
Securities, and (b) the payment, issuance or delivery of cash, property or
securities (other than junior securities) upon conversion or exchange of a
Security shall be deemed to constitute payment on account of the principal of
such security. For the purposes of this Section, the term "junior securities"
means (i) shares of any stock of any class of the Company, and (ii) securities
of the Company that are subordinated in right of payment to all Senior
Indebtedness that may be outstanding at the time of issuance or delivery of such
securities to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the
Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article.
* * * *
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
[SIGNATURES APPEAR ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
GOLD BANC CORPORATION, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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ANNEX A
FORM OF RESTRICTED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
RESTRICTED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
(For transfers pursuant to Section 3.6(b) of
the Indenture referred to below)
[ ],
as Securities Registrar
[address]
Re: __ % Junior Subordinated Debentures of Gold Banc Corporation, Inc.
(the "Securities")
Reference is made to the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of
______ __, 1999 (the "Indenture"), between Gold Banc Corporation, Inc., a Kansas
corporation, and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee. Terms used herein and
defined in the Indenture or in Regulation S, Rule 144A or Rule 144 under the
U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") are used here as
so defined.
This certificate relates to $________ aggregate principal amount of
Securities, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):
CUSIP No(s).
CERTIFICATE No(s).
CURRENTLY IN GLOBAL FORM: Yes No (check one)
--- ---
The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the
"Undersigned") hereby certifies that either (a) it is the sole beneficial owner
of the Specified Securities or (b) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial
owners of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so. Such
beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the "Owner".
If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security, they are held
through a Depositary or an Agent Member in the name of the Undersigned, as or on
behalf of the Owner. If the Specified Securities are not represented by a Global
Security, they are registered in the name of the Undersigned, as or on behalf of
the Owner.
The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred to
a person (the "Transferee") who will take delivery in the form of a Restricted
Security. In connection with such transfer, the Owner hereby certifies that,
unless such transfer is being effected pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act, it is being effected in accordance with Rule
144A, Rule 904 of Regulation S or Rule 144 under the Securities Act and all
applicable securities laws of the states of the United States and other
jurisdictions. Accordingly, the Owner hereby further certifies that:
(a) Rule 144A Transfers. If the transfer is being effected in
accordance with Rule 144A:
(i) the Specified Securities are being transferred to a person
that the Owner and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe
is a "qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A,
acquiring for its own account or for the account of a qualified
institutional buyer; and
(ii) the Owner and any person acting on its behalf have taken
reasonable steps to ensure that the Transferee is aware that the Owner may
be relying on Rule 144A in connection with the transfer; and
(b) Rule 904 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected in accordance
with Rule 904:
(i) the Owner is not a distributor of theSecurities, an
affiliate of the Company or any such distributor or a person acting in
behalf of any of the foregoing;
(ii) the offer of the Specified Securities was not made to a
person in the United States;
(iii) either;
(A) at the time the buy order was
originated, the Transferee was outside the United States or
the Owner and any person acting on its behalf reasonably
believed that the Transferee was outside the United States, or
(B) the transaction is being executed in, on
or through the facilities of the Eurobond market, as regulated
by the Association of International Bond Dealers, or another
designated offshore securities market and neither the Owner
nor any person acting on its behalf know that the transaction
has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States;
(iv) no directed selling efforts within the meaning of Rule
902 of Regulation S have been made in the United States by or on behalf of
the Owner or any affiliate thereof; and
(v) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade
the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
(c) Rule 144 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected pursuant to
Rule 144:
(i) the transfer is occurring after a holding period of at
least one year (computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule 144) has
elapsed since the date the Specified Securities were acquired from the
Company or from an affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the
Company, whichever is later, and is being effected in accordance with the
applicable amount, manner of sale and notice requirements of paragraphs
(e), (f) and (h) of Rule 144;
(ii) the transfer is occurring after a holding period by the
Owner of at least three years has elapsed since the date the Specified
Securities were acquired from the Company or from an affiliate (as such
term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, whichever is later, and the
Owner is not, and during the preceding three months has not been, an
affiliate of the Company; or
(iii) the Owner is a Qualified Institutional Buyer under Rule
144A or has acquired the Securities otherwise in accordance with Sections
(a), (b) or (c) hereof and is transferring the Securities to an
institutional accredited investor in a transaction exempt from the
requirements of the Securities Act.
This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your
benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Underwriters (as defined in the
Trust Agreement relating to the Issuer Trust to which the Securities were
initially issued).
(Print the name of the Undersigned, as such
term is defined in the second paragraph of
this certificate)
Dated: By:
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Name:
Title:
(If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or fiduciary, the title of the
person signing on behalf of the Undersigned must be stated.)
