-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, NeIo7BUpPEepyJEFUf+70xgNK0Y97PDztG6H2rOO2FaFxbW4SuSk+5EwSMJ3az+z ZwDpkaRJYb7Y4zpvvPQMIw== 0001104659-10-053776.txt : 20101026 0001104659-10-053776.hdr.sgml : 20101026 20101026165118 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-10-053776 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 6 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20101026 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20101026 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101026 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: UNITED RENTALS NORTH AMERICA INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001047166 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-EQUIPMENT RENTAL & LEASING, NEC [7359] IRS NUMBER: 061493538 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-13663 FILM NUMBER: 101142690 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: FIVE GREENWICH OFFICE PARK CITY: GREENWICH STATE: CT ZIP: 06830 BUSINESS PHONE: 2036223131 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: FOUR GREENWICH OFFICE PARK CITY: GREENWICH STATE: CT ZIP: 06830 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: UNITED RENTALS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19971020 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: UNITED RENTALS INC /DE CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001067701 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-EQUIPMENT RENTAL & LEASING, NEC [7359] IRS NUMBER: 061522496 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-14387 FILM NUMBER: 101142691 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: FOUR GREENWICH OFFICE PARK CITY: GREENWICH STATE: CT ZIP: 06830 BUSINESS PHONE: 2036223131 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: FOUR GREENWICH OFFICE PARK CITY: GREENWICH STATE: CT ZIP: 06830 8-K 1 a10-19587_58k.htm 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): October 26, 2010

 

UNITED RENTALS, INC.
UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Delaware

 

001-14387

 

06-1522496

Delaware

 

001-13663

 

06-1493538

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation)

 

(Commission
File Number)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

Five Greenwich Office Park
Greenwich, CT

 

06831

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (203) 622-3131

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions ( see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o            Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 



 

Item 1.01               Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On October 26, 2010, United Rentals (North America), Inc. (“URNA”), the wholly-owned subsidiary of United Rentals, Inc. (“URI”), completed an offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”).  The Notes were sold pursuant to URI and URNA’s shelf registration statements on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-166214 and 160884) (collectively, the “Registration Statement”) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as supplemented by the final prospectus supplement dated October 21, 2010 and filed with the SEC on October 25, 2010.

 

The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of October 26, 2010, among URNA, URI, certain domestic subsidiaries of URNA (the “Subsidiary Guarantors” and, together with URI, the “Guarantors”) and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

The Notes mature on September 15, 2020 and bear interest at a rate of 8.375% per year payable semi-annually in cash in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, starting on March 15, 2011.

 

The Notes are senior subordinated obligations of URNA and rank junior in right of payment to all of URNA’s existing and future senior indebtedness, including URNA’s borrowings under the senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility (the “ABL Facility”), senior in right of payment to any future indebtedness expressly subordinated to the Notes and equally in right of payment with all of URNA’s existing and future senior subordinated debt.

 

The Notes are guaranteed on a senior subordinated basis by URI and the Subsidiary Guarantors.  The guarantees will be senior subordinated obligations of the Guarantors and will rank junior in right of payment to all of the Guarantors’ existing and future senior indebtedness, including the Guarantors’ borrowings under the ABL Facility, senior in right of payment to any future indebtedness expressly subordinated to the guarantees and equally in right of payment with all of the Guarantors’ existing and future senior subordinated indebtedness.  The Notes will not be guaranteed by URNA’s foreign subsidiaries.

 

URNA may redeem some or all of the Notes, at its option, at any time on or after September 15, 2015, at the following redemption prices, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date:

 

Year

 

Redemption Price

 

2015

 

104.188

%

2016

 

102.792

%

2017

 

101.396

%

2018 and thereafter

 

100.000

%

 

At any time prior to September 15, 2015, URNA may redeem some or all of the Notes at a price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus a “make-whole” premium and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date.  In addition, at any time prior to September 15, 2013, URNA may, at its option, on one or more occasions,

 

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redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes with the net cash proceeds of certain equity offerings at a price equal to 108.375% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date. Upon the occurrence of certain change of control events, URNA must offer to repurchase the Notes at a price of 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the purchase date.

 

The Indenture governing the Notes contains certain covenants applicable to URNA and its restricted subsidiaries, including limitations on:  (1) indebtedness; (2) restricted payments; (3) liens; (4) asset sales; (5) issuance of preferred stock of restricted subsidiaries; (6) transactions with affiliates; (7) dividend and other payment restrictions affecting restricted subsidiaries; (8) designations of unrestricted subsidiaries; (9) additional subsidiary guarantees; and (10) mergers, consolidations or sales of substantially all of its assets.  Each of these covenants is subject to important exceptions and qualifications.

 

The Indenture provides for customary events of default, including the following (subject to any applicable cure period):  nonpayment, breach of covenants in the Indenture, payment defaults under or acceleration of certain other indebtedness, failure to discharge certain judgments and certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganization. If an event of default occurs or is continuing, the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to be due and payable immediately.

 

The description above is qualified in its entirety by the Indenture (including the Form of Note for the Notes), which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this current report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.

 

Item 2.03             Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

 

Information set forth in Item 1.01 above is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

 

Item 8.01               Other Events.

 

In connection with the Notes offering, on October 21, 2010, URNA, URI and the subsidiaries of URNA named therein entered into an underwriting agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, relating to the sale of the Notes (the “Underwriting Agreement”).  A copy of the Underwriting Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Also in connection with the offering, URI and URNA are filing legal opinions regarding the validity of the Notes as Exhibits 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 to this Form 8-K, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 9.01               Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

URI and URNA hereby incorporate Exhibits 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 23.1, 23.2 and 23.3 into the Registration Statement.

 

Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated October 21, 2010, among United Rentals (North America) , Inc. (the “Company”), United Rentals, Inc., each of the Company’s subsidiaries named therein and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several Underwriters named therein.

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.1

 

Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2010, among the Company, United Rentals, Inc., the Company’s subsidiaries named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (including the Form of Note).

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.2

 

Opinion of Haynes and Boone, LLP

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.3

 

Opinion of K&L Gates LLP

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

Consent of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.2

 

Consent of Haynes and Boone, LLP (included in Exhibit 5.2)

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.3

 

Consent of K&L Gates LLP (included in Exhibit 5.3)

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

Date:  October 26, 2010.

 

 

UNITED RENTALS, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Jonathan M. Gottsegen

 

Name:

Jonathan M. Gottsegen

 

Title:

Senior Vice President, General
Counsel and Corporate Secretary

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Jonathan M. Gottsegen

 

Name:

Jonathan M. Gottsegen

 

Title:

Senior Vice President, General
Counsel and Corporate Secretary

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

 

 

1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated October 21, 2010, among United Rentals (North America) , Inc. (the “Company”), United Rentals, Inc., each of the Company’s subsidiaries named therein and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several Underwriters named therein.

 

 

 

4.1

 

Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2010, among the Company, United Rentals, Inc., the Company’s subsidiaries named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (including the Form of Note).

 

 

 

5.1

 

Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

 

 

 

5.2

 

Opinion of Haynes and Boone, LLP

 

 

 

5.3

 

Opinion of K&L Gates LLP

 

 

 

23.1

 

Consent of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

 

 

23.2

 

Consent of Haynes and Boone, LLP (included in Exhibit 5.2)

 

 

 

23.3

 

Consent of K&L Gates LLP (included in Exhibit 5.3)

 

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EX-1.1 2 a10-19587_5ex1d1.htm EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

 

$750,000,000

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

 

8.375% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2020

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

October 21, 2010

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
Banc of America Securities LLC

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

As Representatives of the Several Underwriters

c/o Morgan Stanley & Co Incorporated

1585 Broadway

New York, NY 10036

 

Dear Sirs:

 

1.  Introductory.  United Rentals (North America), Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), agrees with the several Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (“Underwriters”) to issue and sell to the several Underwriters $750,000,000 principal amount of its 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be unconditionally guaranteed (each, a “Guaranty”) on a senior basis by United Rentals, Inc., a Delaware corporation and parent of the Company (“Holdings”), and each of the Company’s subsidiaries listed on Schedule B hereto (the “Subsidiary Guarantors” and, together with Holdings, the “Guarantors”).  The Notes will also be guaranteed by each subsequently organized domestic subsidiary of the Company that becomes a guarantor pursuant to the Indenture (as hereinafter defined).  The Notes will be issued under an indenture, dated as of October 26, 2010 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”).  The Notes and the Guaranties are together referred to as the “Offered Securities”.

 

This Agreement, the Indenture, the Notes and the Guaranties are referred to herein as the “Operative Documents”.

 

The Company and the Guarantors jointly and severally agree with the several Underwriters as follows:

 

For purposes of this Agreement:

 



 

430B Information” means information included in a prospectus then deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B(e) or retroactively deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B(f).

 

430C Information” means information included in a prospectus then deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430C.

 

Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Applicable Time” means 12:00 p.m. New York City time on the date of this Agreement.

 

Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 3 hereof.

 

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Effective Time” of the Registration Statement relating to the Offered Securities means the time of the first contract of sale for the Offered Securities.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Final Prospectus” means the Statutory Prospectus that discloses the public offering price, other 430B Information and other final terms of the Offered Securities and otherwise satisfies Section 10(a) of the Act.

 

General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by its being so specified in Schedule C to this Agreement.

 

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, relating to the Offered Securities in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g).

 

Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

Rules and Regulations” means the rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

Securities Laws” means, collectively, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley”), the Act, the Exchange Act, the Trust Indenture Act, the Rules and Regulations, the auditing principles, rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors of “issuers” (as defined in Sarbanes-Oxley) promulgated or approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (“Exchange Rules”).

 

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Statutory Prospectus” with reference to any particular time means the prospectus relating to the Offered Securities that is included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to that time, including all 430B Information and all 430C Information with respect to the Registration Statement.  For purposes of the foregoing definition, 430B Information shall be considered to be included in the Statutory Prospectus only as of the actual time that form of prospectus (including a prospectus supplement) is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and not retroactively.

 

Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

 

Unless otherwise specified, a reference to a “rule” is to the indicated rule under the Act.

 

2.  Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Guarantors.  The Company and the Guarantors jointly and severally represent and warrant to, and agree with, the several Underwriters that:

 

(a)  The Company has filed with the Commission registration statements on Form S-3 (Nos. 333-160884 and 333-166214), including a related prospectus or prospectuses, covering the registration of the Offered Securities under the Act, which have become effective.  “Registration Statement” at any particular time means the latest filed of such registration statements (No. 333-166214) in the form then filed with the Commission, including any amendment thereto, any document incorporated by reference therein and all 430B Information and all 430C Information with respect to such registration statement, that in any case has not been superseded or modified.  “Registration Statement” without reference to a time means the Registration Statement as of the Effective Time.  For purposes of this definition, 430B Information shall be considered to be included in the Registration Statement as of the time specified in Rule 430B.

 

(b)  (i)(A) At the time the Registration Statement initially became effective, (B) at the time of each amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether by post-effective amendment, incorporated report or form of prospectus), (C) at the Effective Time relating to the Offered Securities and (D) on the Closing Date, the Registration Statement conformed and will conform in all respects to the requirements of the Act the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (ii) (A) on its date, (B) at the time of filing the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) and (C) on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus will conform in all respects to the requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules and Regulations, and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.  The preceding sentence does not

 

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apply to statements in or omissions from any such document based upon written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information is as such as will be described in a separate letter agreement between the parties hereto.

 

(c)  The date of this Agreement is not more than three years subsequent to the more recent of the initial effective time of the Registration Statement or December 1, 2005.  If, immediately prior to the third anniversary of the more recent of the initial effective time of the Registration Statement or December 1, 2005, any of the Offered Securities remain unsold by the Underwriters, the Company will prior to that third anniversary file, if it has not already done so, a new shelf registration statement relating to the Offered Securities, in a form satisfactory to the Representatives, will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective within 180 days after that third anniversary, and will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Offered Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired registration statement relating to the Offered Securities.  References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new shelf registration statement.

 

(d)  As of the date of this Agreement, Holdings is an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405, as a result of facts that are disclosed in the General Disclosure Package (as hereinafter defined).

 

(e)  As of the Applicable Time, neither (i) the General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, the preliminary prospectus supplement, dated October 20, 2010, including the base prospectus, dated May 7, 2010, (which is the most recent Statutory Prospectus distributed to investors generally), and the other information, if any, stated in Schedule C to this Agreement to be included in the General Disclosure Package, all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), nor (ii) any individual Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Statutory Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein; it being understood and agreed that the only such information is as such as will be described in a separate letter agreement between the parties hereto.

 

(f)  Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the

 

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Offered Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representatives as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement.  If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement or as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if republished immediately following such event or development, would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (i) the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Representatives and (ii) the Company has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.

 

(g)  Each of the Company and Holdings has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and each of the Company and Holdings is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect (as hereinafter defined).

 

(h)  Each subsidiary of the Company or Holdings that is a corporation has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and each subsidiary of the Company that is a corporation is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(i)  Each subsidiary of the Company or Holdings that is a limited partnership has been duly formed and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, with power and authority (partnership and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and each subsidiary of the Company that is a limited partnership is duly qualified to do business as a foreign limited partnership in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where

 

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the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(j)  Each subsidiary of the Company or Holdings that is a limited liability company has been duly formed and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, with power and authority (limited liability company and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and each subsidiary of the Company or Holdings that is a limited liability company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign limited liability company in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(k)  With the exception of United Rentals Trust I and United Rentals Receivables LLC II, the Subsidiary Guarantors listed on Schedule B hereto are the only wholly owned, domestic subsidiaries of the Company.

 

(l)  All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Holdings, the Company and each subsidiary of the Company that is a corporation has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable; the capital stock of the Company will be owned, as of the Closing Date, free from liens and encumbrances, except liens and encumbrances arising under the Credit Agreement, dated as of June 9, 2008, among Holdings, the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company and the lenders referred to therein (the “Credit Agreement”), and the capital stock of each subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or indirectly, will be owned, as of the Closing Date, free from liens, encumbrances and defects, except liens and encumbrances arising under the Credit Agreement.

 

(m)  All of the outstanding partnership interests of each subsidiary of the Company that is a limited partnership have been issued in accordance with the applicable limited partnership law; and the partnership interests of each such subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or indirectly, will be owned, as of the Closing Date, free from liens, encumbrances and defects, except liens and encumbrances arising under the Credit Agreement.

 

(n)  All of the outstanding limited liability company interests of each subsidiary of the Company or Holdings that is a limited liability company have been issued in accordance with the applicable limited liability company law; and the limited liability company interests of each such subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or indirectly, will be owned, as of the Closing Date, free from liens, encumbrances and defects, except liens and encumbrances arising under the Credit Agreement.

 

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(o)  The Notes have been duly authorized by the Company; each Guaranty has been duly authorized by each respective Guarantor; the Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and each Guarantor and has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; on the Closing Date, the Indenture will have been duly executed and delivered, and, when the Offered Securities are delivered and paid for pursuant to this Agreement on the Closing Date, such Offered Securities will have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered, will conform in all material respects to the description thereof in the General Disclosure Package and will conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Final Prospectus, and the Indenture and such Offered Securities will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and each Guarantor, 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.

 

(p)  No consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by each of the Operative Documents in connection with the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities by the Company.

 

(q)  Neither Holdings nor any of its subsidiaries is in (i) violation of its respective charter, by-laws or other constitutive documents or (ii) default in the performance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease or other agreement or instrument that is material to Holdings and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to which Holdings or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which Holdings or any of its subsidiaries or their respective properties is bound, except for any default that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(r)  The execution, delivery and performance of each of the Operative Documents, and the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities and compliance with the terms and provisions thereof, will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, any rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Holdings or any subsidiary of Holdings or any of their respective properties, or any agreement or instrument to which Holdings or any such subsidiary is a party or by which Holdings or any such subsidiary is bound or to which any of the properties of Holdings or any such subsidiary is subject, or the charter or by-laws of Holdings or any such subsidiary.  The Company has full power and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Notes, and each Guarantor has full power and authority to authorize and deliver the Guaranties, as contemplated by this Agreement.

 

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(s)  This Agreement (i) has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and each Guarantor and (ii) conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package.

 

(t)  Holdings and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real property described in the General Disclosure Package as owned by Holdings and its subsidiaries and good title to all other properties described in the General Disclosure Package as owned by them, in each case, free and clear as of the Closing Date of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (i) are pursuant to the Credit Agreement as described in the General Disclosure Package or (ii) do not individually or in the aggregate materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by Holdings or any of its subsidiaries; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of Holdings and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and under which Holdings or any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in the General Disclosure Package, are in full force and effect, and neither Holdings nor any such subsidiary has any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of Holdings or any such subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of Holdings or such subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease, which claim, if upheld, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(u)  Holdings and its subsidiaries possess adequate certificates, authorities or permits issued by appropriate governmental agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, except where the lack thereof would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and Holdings and its subsidiaries have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authority or permit that, if determined adversely to Holdings or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), business, properties, results of operations or prospects of Holdings and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (“Material Adverse Effect”).

 

(v)  No labor dispute with the employees of Holdings or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company or Holdings, is imminent that would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(w)  Holdings and its subsidiaries own, possess or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate trademarks, trade names and other rights to inventions, know-how, patents, copyrights, confidential information and other intellectual property (collectively, “intellectual property rights”) necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, or presently employed by them (except where the lack thereof would not have a Material Adverse Effect), and have not received any notice of infringement of, or conflict, with asserted rights

 

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of others with respect to any intellectual property rights that, if determined adversely to Holdings or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(x)  Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, neither Holdings nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “environmental laws”), or (i) owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that could be expected to require remediation or result in liability pursuant to any environmental laws, (ii) is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any environmental laws, or (iii) is subject to any claim relating to any environmental laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; and neither the Company nor Holdings is aware of any pending investigation which could reasonably be expected to lead to such a claim.

 

(y)  To the knowledge of the Company or Holdings, there are no costs or liabilities associated with environmental laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with environmental laws or any certificates, authorities or permits, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would individually or in the aggregate be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(z)  Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against or affecting Holdings, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if determined adversely to Holdings or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely affect the ability of Holdings, the Company or the Guarantors to perform their obligations under any Operative Document or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Offered Securities; and no such actions, suits or proceedings are, to the knowledge of the Company or Holdings, threatened or contemplated.

 

(aa)  The accountants, Ernst & Young LLP, that have certified the financial statements and supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus are a registered public accounting firm and independent public accountants with respect to Holdings, the Company and the Guarantors, as required by the Act and the Exchange Act.  The historical financial statements, together with related schedules and notes, set forth or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus comply as to form in all material

 

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respects with the accounting requirements of the Act and the related published Rules and Regulations.

 

(bb)  The historical financial statements, together with related schedules and notes forming part of the General Disclosure Package, present fairly the consolidated financial position, results of operations and changes in financial position of Holdings and its subsidiaries on the basis stated in the General Disclosure Package at the respective dates or for the respective periods to which they apply; such statements and related schedules and notes have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States consistently applied throughout the periods involved, except as disclosed therein; and the other financial and statistical information and data set forth in the General Disclosure Package are, in all material respects, accurately presented and prepared on a basis consistent with such financial statements and the books and records of the Company and Holdings.

 

(cc)  Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties, results of operations or prospects of Holdings and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and, except as disclosed in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by Holdings on any class of its capital stock.

 

(dd)  None of the Company or any Guarantor is an open-end investment company, unit investment trust or face-amount certificate company that is or is required to be registered under Section 8 of the United States Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”); and none of the Company or any Guarantor is and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the General Disclosure Package, will be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act.

 

(ee)  On the Closing Date, the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act, and the Rules and Regulations applicable to an indenture which is qualified thereunder.

 

(ff)  There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or any Guarantor and any person granting such person the right to require the Company or such Guarantor to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company or such Guarantor or to require the Company or such Guarantor to include such securities with the Offered Securities registered pursuant to any Registration Statement, except for (i) the

 

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Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 10, 2008, among Holdings, Apollo Investment Fund IV, L.P., Apollo Overseas Partners IV, L.P. and J.P. Morgan Partners (BHCA), L.P., (ii) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 9, 2009, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Purchasers (as defined in such agreement), (iii) the confirmations entered into on November 10, 2009 and November 13, 2009 between Holdings and each of (A) Bank of America, N.A., (B) Citibank, N.A., (C) Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and (D) Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Wachovia Bank, National Association and (iv) other agreements pursuant to which Holdings has already filed a registration statement covering all the securities entitled to registration thereunder.

 

(gg)  Neither Holdings nor any of its subsidiaries nor any agent thereof acting on the behalf of them has taken, and none of them will take, any action that might cause this Agreement or the issuance or sale of the Offered Securities to violate Regulation T (12 C.F.R. Part 220), Regulation U (12 C.F.R. Part 221) or Regulation X (12 C.F.R. Part 224) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

(hh)  No “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Act (i) has imposed (or has informed the Company or any Guarantor that it is considering imposing) any condition (financial or otherwise) on the Company’s or any Guarantor’s retaining any rating assigned to the Company, any Guarantor, or any securities of the Company or any Guarantor or (ii) has indicated to the Company or any Guarantor that it is considering (A) the downgrading, suspension, or withdrawal of, or any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change in, any rating so assigned or (B) any change in the outlook for any rating of the Company, any Guarantor or any securities of the Company or any Guarantor.

 

(ii)  Each certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any Guarantor and delivered to the Underwriters or counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company or such Guarantor to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.

 

(jj)  Neither Holdings nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, nor any director, officer, or employee, nor, to Holdings’ knowledge, any agent or representative of Holdings or of any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, has taken or will take any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment or giving of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any “government official” (including any officer or employee of a government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party

 

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or party official or candidate for political office) to influence official action or secure an improper advantage; and Holdings and its subsidiaries and affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and have instituted and maintained and will continue to maintain, policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and with the representation and warranty contained herein.

 

(kk)  The operations of Holdings and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where Holdings and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving Holdings or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of Holdings, threatened.

 

(ll)  (i)  Neither Holdings nor any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or any of its subsidiaries, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative of Holdings or any of its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity that is, or is owned or controlled by an individual or entity that is:

 

(A)  the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union (“EU”), Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), or

 

(B)  located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

 

(ii)  The Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity:

 

(A)  to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any individual or entity or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions; or

 

(B)  in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any individual or entity (including any individual or

 

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entity participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).

 

(iii)  Neither Holdings nor any of its subsidiaries has knowingly engaged in, is now knowingly engaged in, or will engage in, any dealings or transactions with any individual or entity, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions.

 

(mm)  Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between Holdings or the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against Holdings, the Company or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Company, any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering.

 

(nn)  Neither Holdings nor the Company has taken, directly or indirectly, any action that is designed to or that has constituted or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of Holdings or the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.

 

(oo)  Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, Holdings, its subsidiaries and Holdings’ Board of Directors (the “Board”) are in compliance in all material respects with Sarbanes-Oxley and all applicable Exchange Rules. Holdings maintains a system of internal controls, including, but not limited to, disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls over accounting matters and financial reporting, an internal audit function and legal and regulatory compliance controls (collectively, “Internal Controls”) that comply with the Securities Laws and are sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.  The Internal Controls are overseen by the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board in accordance with Exchange Rules. Holdings has not publicly disclosed or reported to the Audit Committee or the Board, and within the next 90 days Holdings does not reasonably expect to publicly disclose or report to the Audit Committee or the Board, a significant deficiency, material weakness, change in Internal Controls or fraud involving management or other employees who have a significant role in Internal Controls (each, an “Internal Control Event”), any violation of, or failure to comply with, the Securities Laws,

 

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or any matter which, if determined adversely, would have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be delivered to the Underwriters pursuant to Section 7 hereof, counsel to the Company and the Guarantors and counsel to the Underwriters will rely upon the accuracy and truth of the foregoing representations and hereby consents to such reliance.

 

3.  Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities.  On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of 97.75% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest from October 26, 2010, to the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined), the respective principal amounts of Offered Securities set forth opposite the names of the Underwriters in Schedule A hereto.

 

The Company will deliver against payment of the purchase price the Offered Securities in the form of one or more permanent Global Securities in definitive form (the “Global Securities”) deposited with the Trustee as custodian for The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC. Interests in any permanent Global Securities will be held only in book-entry form through DTC, except in the limited circumstances described in the General Disclosure Package. Payment for the Offered Securities shall be made by the Underwriters in Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to the Representatives on October 26, 2010, or at such other time not later than seven full business days thereafter as the Representatives and the Company determine, such time being herein referred to as the “Closing Date”, against delivery to the Trustee as custodian for DTC of the Global Securities representing all of the Offered Securities at the office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019 at 10:00 A.M. (New York time) on such date.  The Global Securities will be made available for checking at the above office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP at least 24 hours prior to the Closing Date.

 

4.  Offering by Underwriters.  It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Offered Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.

 

5.  Certain Agreements of the Company.  The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:

 

(a)  The Company has filed or will file each Statutory Prospectus (including the Final Prospectus) pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 424(b)(2) (or, if applicable, subparagraph (5)) not later than the second business day following the earlier of the date it is first used or the execution and

 

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delivery of this Agreement.  The Company has complied and will comply with Rule 433.

 

(b)  The Company will promptly advise the Representatives of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or any Statutory Prospectus at any time and will offer the Representatives a reasonable opportunity to comment on any such amendment or supplement; and the Company will also advise the Representatives promptly of (i) the filing of any such amendment or supplement, (ii) any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment to the Registration Statement, for any supplement to any Statutory Prospectus or for any additional information, (iii) the institution by the Commission of any stop order proceedings in respect of the Registration Statement or the threatening of any proceeding for that purpose, and (iv) the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Offered Securities in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceedings for such purpose.  The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the suspension of any such qualification and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

 

(c)  If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Offered Securities is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) required to be delivered under the Act by any Underwriter or dealer, any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company will promptly notify the Representatives of such event and will promptly prepare and file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and the dealers and any other dealers upon request of the Representatives, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance.  Neither the Representatives’ consent to, nor the Underwriters’ delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 7 hereof.

 

(d)  As soon as practicable, but not later than 16 months, after the date of this Agreement, the Company will make generally available to its securityholders an earnings statement covering a period of at least 12 months beginning after the date of this Agreement and satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.

 

(e)  The Company will furnish to the Representatives copies of the Registration Statement, including all exhibits, any Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case

 

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as soon as available and in such quantities as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request.  The Company will pay the expenses of printing and distributing to the Underwriters all such documents.

 

(f)  The Company will promptly from time to time take such action as any Underwriter may reasonably request to arrange for the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale and the determination of their eligibility for investment under the laws of such jurisdictions in the United States and Canada as any Underwriter designates and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any such state or province.

 

(g)  During a period of five years hereafter, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and, upon request, to each of the other Underwriters, as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, a copy of its annual report to stockholders for such year; and the Company will furnish to the Representatives and, upon request, to each of the other Underwriters (i) as soon as available, a copy of each report and any definitive proxy statement of the Company filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act or mailed to stockholders, and (ii) from time to time, such other public information concerning the Company as the Representatives may reasonably request; provided, however, that any such document filed with the Commission that is publicly available in electronic form on the Commission’s EDGAR system or on the Company’s website shall not be provided.

 

(h)  The Company will pay all expenses incidental to the performance of its obligations under the Operative Documents, including (i) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and its professional advisers; (ii) all expenses in connection with the execution, issue, authentication, packaging and delivery of the Offered Securities, the preparation and printing of this Agreement, the Offered Securities, the Indenture, the Preliminary Prospectus, any other documents comprising any part of the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus, all amendments and supplements thereto, and any other document relating to the issuance, offer, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities; (iii) any expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred in connection with qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions in the United States and Canada as any Underwriter designates and the printing of memoranda relating thereto; (iv) any fees charged by investment rating agencies for the rating of the Offered Securities; (v) expenses incurred in distributing the Preliminary Prospectus, any other documents comprising any part of the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including any amendment and supplements thereto) to the Underwriters; (vi) costs and expenses related to the review by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) of the Offered Securities (including filing fees and the fees and expenses of counsel for the

 

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Underwriters relating to such review); and (vii) all travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company in connection with attending meetings with prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities.  It is understood that, except as provided in this Section and in Sections 8 and 10 hereof, the Underwriters will pay for all travel expenses of the Underwriters’ employees and any other out-of-pocket expenses of the Underwriters in connection with attending or hosting meetings with prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities, the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on the resale of any of the Offered Securities by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they make.

 

(i)  The Company will use the net proceeds received in connection with this offering in the manner described in the “Use of Proceeds” section of the Final Prospectus and in accordance with the covenants contained in the debt instruments described in the “Description of Our Other Indebtedness” section of the Final Prospectus and, except as disclosed in the Final Prospectus in compliance with Rule 2720 of the rules of FINRA, the Company does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities hereunder to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of any Underwriter.

 

(j)  The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any securities of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.

 

(k)  For a period beginning on the date hereof and ending 30 days after the Closing Date, the Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to any United States dollar-denominated debt securities that are substantially similar to the Offered Securities and are issued or guaranteed by the Company or guaranteed by Holdings, and having a maturity of more than one year from the date of issue, without the prior written consent of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.

 

(l)  The Company will obtain the approval of DTC for “book-entry” transfer of the Offered Securities, and will comply with all of its agreements set forth in the representation letters of the Company and the Guarantors to DTC relating to the approval of the Offered Securities by DTC for “book-entry” transfer.

 

(m)  The Company will not voluntarily claim, and will actively resist any attempts to claim, the benefit of any usury laws against the holders of any Notes and the related Guaranties.

 

(n)  The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to do and perform all things required or necessary to be done and performed under this Agreement by it

 

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prior to the Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Offered Securities.

 

6.  Free Writing Prospectuses.  (a)  The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Offered Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,”  as defined in Rule 405, required to be filed with the Commission.  Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company and the Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.”  The Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely Commission filing where required, legending and record keeping.

 

(b)  The Company will prepare a final term sheet relating to the Offered Securities, containing only information that describes the final terms of the Offered Securities and otherwise in a form consented to by the Representatives, and will file such final term sheet within the period required by Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) following the date such final terms have been established for all classes of the offering of the Offered Securities.  Any such final term sheet is an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of this Agreement.  The Company also consents to the use by any Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that contains only (i)(x) information describing the preliminary terms of the Offered Securities or their offering or (y) information that describes the final terms of the Offered Securities or their offering and that is included in the final term sheet of the Company contemplated in the first sentence of this subsection or (ii) other information that is not “issuer information,” as defined in Rule 433, it being understood that any such free writing prospectus referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above shall not be an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of this Agreement.

 

7.  Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters.  The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Offered Securities will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and each Guarantor herein, to the accuracy of the statements of officers of the Company and each Guarantor made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and each Guarantor of their respective obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:

 

(a)  The Underwriters shall have received on the date hereof a letter, dated the date of this Agreement, of Ernst & Young LLP confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published Rules and Regulations and the Public Company

 

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Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the “PCAOB”) and to the effect that:

 

(i)  in their opinion, the financial statements audited by them and included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package comply as to form in all material respects with the accounting requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act and the related published Rules and Regulations;

 

(ii)  they have performed the procedures specified by the PCAOB for a review of interim financial information as described in AU 722, Interim Financial Information, on the unaudited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package;

 

(iii)  on the basis of the review referred to in clause (ii) above, a reading of the latest available interim financial statements of the Company, inquiries of officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters and other specified procedures, nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that:

 

(A)  the unaudited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package do not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related published Rules and Regulations adopted by the Commission or any material modifications should be made to such unaudited financial statements for them to be in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles;

 

(B)  at the date of the latest available balance sheet read by such accountants, or at a subsequent specified date not more than three business days prior to the date of this Agreement, there was any change in the consolidated capital stock or any increase in short-term indebtedness or long-term indebtedness of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries or, at the date of the latest available balance sheet read by such accountants, there was any decrease in consolidated net current assets, as compared with amounts shown on the latest balance sheet included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package; or

 

(C)  for the period from the closing date of the latest income statement included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package to the closing date of the latest available income statement read by such accountants there were any decreases, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, in total consolidated revenues, gross profit,  net operating income, consolidated income before extraordinary items or net income;

 

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except in all cases set forth in clauses (B) and (C) above for changes, increases or decreases which are described in such letter; and

 

(iv)  they have compared specified dollar amounts (or percentages derived from such dollar amounts) and other financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package (in each case to the extent that such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial information are derived from the general accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries subject to the internal controls of the Company’s accounting system or are derived directly from such records by analysis or computation) with the results obtained from inquiries, a reading of such general accounting records and other procedures specified in such letter and have found such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial information to be in agreement with such results, except as otherwise specified in such letter.

 

(b)  The Final Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with the Rules and Regulations and Section 5(a) hereof. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Underwriter, shall be contemplated by the Commission.

 

(c)  Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole which, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of any debt securities of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act), or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any suspension or limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange, or any suspension of trading of any securities of Holdings or the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market; (iv) any banking moratorium declared by U.S. Federal or New York authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; or (v) any outbreak or escalation of major hostilities in which the United States is involved, any declaration of war by Congress or any other substantial national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the Representatives, the

 

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effect of any such outbreak, escalation, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the offering or sale of and payment for the Offered Securities being issued.

 

(d)  The Underwriters shall have received from (i) Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Company and the Guarantors (other than InfoManager, Inc. and United Rentals Northwest, Inc.), their opinion, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex I hereto, and their letter, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex II hereto, (ii) K&L Gates LLP, counsel for United Rentals Northwest, Inc., their opinion, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex III hereto and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, (iii) Haynes & Boone LLP, counsel to InfoManager, Inc., their opinion, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex IV hereto and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, and (iv) Jonathan Gottsegen, General Counsel to the Company, his opinion, to the effect set forth in Annex V hereto.

 

(e)  The Underwriters shall have received from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.

 

(f)  The Underwriters shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of the President or any Vice President and a principal financial or accounting officer of each of the Company and the Guarantors in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge and belief, shall state that: the representations and warranties of the Company or the applicable Guarantor (as the case may be) in this Agreement are true and correct; the Company or the applicable Guarantor (as the case may be) has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the best of their knowledge and after reasonable investigation, are contemplated by the Commission; and, subsequent to the dates of the most recent consolidated financial statements of Holdings included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of Holdings and its subsidiaries, including the Company, taken as a whole except as set forth in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package or as described in such certificate.

 

(g)  The Underwriters shall have received a letter, dated the Closing Date, of Ernst & Young LLP which meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this

 

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Section, except that the specified date referred to in such subsection will be a date not more than three days prior to the Closing Date for the purposes of this subsection.

 

(h)  The Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee shall have entered into the Indenture, and the Underwriters shall have received an executed counterpart thereof.

 

The Company will furnish the Underwriters with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Underwriters reasonably request.  Representatives may in their discretion waive on behalf of the Underwriters compliance with any conditions to the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder.

 

8.  Indemnification and Contribution.  (a)  The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its partners, directors and officers, each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act (each, an “Indemnified Party”), against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Act or the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any part of the Registration Statement at any time, any Statutory Prospectus as of any time, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, including any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising out of or based upon the Company’s failure to perform its obligations under Section 5(c) of this Agreement, and, subject to Section 8(c) of this Agreement, will reimburse each Indemnified Party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein.

 

(b)  Each Underwriter will severally and not jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantors, their respective directors and officers, each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of the Company and the Guarantors within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act (each, an “Underwriter Indemnified Party”), against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which such Underwriter Indemnified

 

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Party may become subject, under the Act or the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any part of the Registration Statement at any time, any Statutory Prospectus as of any time, the Final Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company or a Guarantor (as the case may be) by such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Underwriter shall not be liable for any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising out of or based upon the Company’s failure to perform its obligations under Section 5(c) of this Agreement.

 

(c)  Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under subsection (a) or (b) above notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party under this Section except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section, as the case may be, for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the indemnifying party has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party; (iii) the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying

 

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party; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them.  It is understood and agreed that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all indemnified parties, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.  Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by the Representatives and any such separate firm for the Company, the Guarantors, their directors and officers and any control persons of the Company shall be designated in writing by the Company. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement includes (i) an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.  An indemnifying party shall not be required to indemnify an indemnified party hereunder with respect to any settlement or compromise of, or consent to entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder if (i) such settlement, compromise or consent is entered into or made or given by the indemnified party without the consent of the indemnifying party and (ii) the indemnifying party has not unreasonably withheld or delayed any such consent.

 

(d)  If the indemnification provided for in this Section is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Offered Securities (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Guarantors bear to the total discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters from the Company under this Agreement.  The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission

 

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or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or any Guarantor or the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission.  The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d).  Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the discounts and commissions such Underwriter received in connection with the purchase of the Offered Securities exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.  The Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.

 

(e)  The obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under this Section shall be in addition to any liability which the Company or any Guarantor may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act; and the obligations of the Underwriter under this Section shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Guarantor within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act.

 

9.  Default of Underwriters.  If any Underwriter or Underwriters default in their obligations to purchase Offered Securities hereunder and the aggregate principal amount of Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the total principal amount of Offered Securities, the Representatives may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons, including any of the Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by the Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase.  If any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate principal amount of Offered Securities with respect to which such default or defaults occur exceeds 10% of the total principal amount of Offered Securities and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company, except as provided in Section 10. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section. Nothing herein will relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.

 

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10.  Qualified Independent Underwriter.  The Company hereby confirms that at its request Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated has without compensation acted as “qualified independent underwriter” (in such capacity, the “QIU”) within the meaning of Rule 2720 of the Conduct Rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.  The Company and each Guarantor jointly and severally will indemnify and hold harmless the QIU, its directors, officers, employees and agents and each person, if any, who controls the QIU within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which the QIU may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act, other federal or state statutory law or regulation or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon the QIU’s acting (or alleged failing to act) as such “qualified independent underwriter” and will reimburse the QIU for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the QIU in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred.

 

11.  Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations.  The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Guarantors or their officers and of the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation, or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective representatives, officers or directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9 or if for any reason the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company shall remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by it pursuant to Section 5(h) and the respective obligations of the Company, the Guarantors and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8 shall remain in effect.  If the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 or the occurrence of any event specified in clause (iii) (excluding suspension of trading of any securities of Holdings or the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market), (iv) or (v) of Section 7(c), the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.

 

12.  Notices.  All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if sent to the Underwriters will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Underwriters, c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, 1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to it at Five Greenwich Office Park, Greenwich, CT 06830, Attention:  Corporate Secretary; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 8 will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to such Underwriter.

 

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13.  Representation of the Underwriters.  The Representatives will act for the several Underwriters in connection with this Underwriting Agreement, and any action under this Agreement taken by the Underwriter will be binding upon all the Underwriters.

 

14.  Successors.  This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and affiliates, and controlling persons referred to in Section 8, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

15.  Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement.

 

16.  No Fiduciary Duties.  The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities (i) the Underwriters have acted at arms length, are not agents of, and owe no fiduciary duties to, the Company or any other person, (ii) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth herein and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement), if any, and (iii) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company.  The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.

 

17.  Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

The Company and the Guarantors hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Underwriters understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to us one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the Company, Holdings, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS, INC.

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

INFOMANAGER, INC.

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:  William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:    Vice President

 



 

 

UNITED RENTALS HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGIES GULF, LLC, BY UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., ITS SOLE INITIAL MEMBER

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:  William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS NORTHWEST, INC.

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:  William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:    Vice President

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS REALTY, LLC, BY UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., ITS MANAGING MEMBER

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

WYNNE SYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:  William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:    Vice President

 



 

The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed
and accepted as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED,

 

 

 

Acting on behalf of itself and as a
Representative of the several Underwriters.

 

 

 

by

 

 

/s/ Nicholas Romig

 

 

Name: Nicholas Romig

 

 

Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

 



 

The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed
and accepted as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,

 

 

 

Acting on behalf of itself and as a
Representative of the several Underwriters.

 

 

 

by

 

 

/s/ Christopher Kelly Wall

 

 

Name: Christopher Kelly Wall

 

 

Title:    Managing Director

 

 



 

The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed
and accepted as of the date first above written.

 

 

 

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,

 

 

 

Acting on behalf of itself and as a
Representative of the several Underwriters.

 

 

 

by

 

 

/s/ Jeffrey M. Foley

 

 

Name: Jeffrey M. Foley

 

 

Title:    Managing Director

 

 



 

SCHEDULE A

 

Underwriter

 

Principal Amount
of Notes
to be Purchased

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

 

$

270,000,000

 

Banc of America Securities LLC

 

$

165,000,000

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

$

165,000,000

 

Barclays Capital Inc.

 

$

42,000,000

 

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

 

$

33,000,000

 

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

 

$

33,000,000

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

$

13,500,000

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

$

12,000,000

 

BNY Capital Markets, LLC

 

$

8,250,000

 

Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.

 

$

8,250,000

 

 

 

 

 

Total:

 

$

750,000,000

 

 



 

SCHEDULE B

 

Guarantor

 

Place of Formation

 

 

 

InfoManager, Inc.

 

Texas

 

 

 

United Rentals Highway Technologies Gulf, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

United Rentals Northwest, Inc.

 

Oregon

 

 

 

United Rentals Realty, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Wynne Systems, Inc.

 

California

 



 

SCHEDULE C

 

1.                                      General Use Free Writing Prospectus (included in the General Disclosure Package)

 

“General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” includes each of the following documents:

 

1.                                       Final term sheet, dated October 21, 2010, a copy of which is attached hereto as Schedule C-1.

 

2.                                      Other Information Included in the General Disclosure Package

 

The following information is also included in the General Disclosure Package:

 

None.

 



 

SCHEDULE C-1

 

Filed pursuant to Rule 433

Free Writing Prospectus dated October 21, 2010

Registration Statement Nos. 333-166214 and 333-160884

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.
Pricing Term Sheet — October 21, 2010
$750,000,000 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020

 

The following information, filed pursuant to Rule 433, supplements the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated October 20, 2010, to the accompanying Prospectus dated May 7, 2010, filed as part of Registration Statement Nos. 333-166214 and 333-160884.

 

Issuer:

 

United Rentals (North America), Inc.  (the “Issuer”)

 

 

 

Title of Securities:

 

8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”)

 

 

 

Aggregate Principal Amount:

 

$750,000,000

 

 

 

Gross Proceeds:

 

$750,000,000

 

 

 

Net Proceeds (before expenses):

 

$733,125,000

 

 

 

Maturity:

 

September 15, 2020

 

 

 

Issue Price:

 

100% plus accrued interest, if any, from October 26, 2010

 

 

 

Coupon:

 

8.375%

 

 

 

Yield to Maturity:

 

8.375%

 

 

 

Spread to Maturity:

 

+586 bps

 

 

 

Benchmark:

 

2.625% due August 15, 2020

 

 

 

Interest Payment Dates:

 

March 15 and September 15

 

 

 

Record Dates

 

March 1 and September 1

 

 

 

First Interest Payment Date:

 

March 15, 2011

 



 

Optional Redemption:

 

Except as set forth below under “Optional Redemption with Equity Proceeds” and “Make-Whole Redemption”, the Issuer will not be entitled to redeem the Notes at its option prior to September 15, 2015.

 

The Issuer may redeem some or all of the Notes, at its option, at any time on or after September 15, 2015, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth below plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes redeemed, to the applicable redemption date, if redeemed during the twelve month period beginning on September 15 of the years indicated below, subject to the rights of holders on the relevant record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date:

 

 

 

 

 

Year

 

Percentage

 

 

 

2015

 

104.188

%

 

 

2016

 

102.792

%

 

 

2017

 

101.396

%

 

 

2018 and thereafter

 

100.000

%

 

Optional Redemption with Equity Proceeds:

 

At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to September 15, 2013, the Issuer may, at its option, redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes with the net cash proceeds of certain equity offerings at a price equal to 108.375% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes redeemed to the applicable redemption date, provided that at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes remains outstanding immediately after such redemption.

 

 

 

Make-Whole Redemption:

 

At any time, or from time to time, prior to September 15, 2015, the Issuer may, at its option, redeem some or all of the Notes at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus a “make-whole” premium of T+ .50%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.

 

 

 

Change of Control:

 

Upon certain change of control events, putable at 101% of principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.

 

 

 

Use of Proceeds (new information in the Prospectus Supplement):

 

The Issuer expects to use the net proceeds from this offering to redeem $468 million principal amount of its 7¾% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 and $253 million principal amount of its 7% Senior Subordinated Notes dues 2014 and to pay for call premiums and accrued but unpaid interest to the date of redemption of such notes and to pay related expenses.  The Issuer expects to temporarily apply the net proceeds of this

 

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offering to reduce outstanding borrowings under its ABL facility and the accounts receivable securitization facility during the redemption notice periods for its 7¾% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 and its 7% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014.

 

 

 

Capitalization (new information in the Prospectus Supplement):

 

 

 

Pro Forma
as adjusted
for this
offering

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

170

 

 

 

Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

URNA and subsidiaries debt:

 

 

 

 

 

$1.360 billion ABL facility

 

$

712

 

 

 

Accounts receivable securitization facility

 

240

 

 

 

9.25% Senior Notes due 2019

 

492

 

 

 

10.875% Senior Notes due 2016

 

487

 

 

 

Notes offered hereby

 

750

 

 

 

7 ¾% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013

 

 

 

 

7% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014

 

 

 

 

1 7/8% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2023

 

22

 

 

 

Other debt, including capital leases

 

21

 

 

 

Total URNA and subsidiaries debt

 

$

2,724

 

 

 

Holdings:

 

 

 

 

 

4% Convertible Senior Notes

 

122

 

 

 

Total debt

 

2,846

 

 

 

Subordinated convertible debentures

 

124

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ deficit

 

(28

)

 

 

Total capitalization

 

$

2,942

 

 

 

Net debt

 

$

2,676

 

 

Trade Date:

 

October 21, 2010

 

 

 

Settlement Date:

 

October 26, 2010 (T + 3)

 

 

 

CUSIP/ISIN Numbers:

 

911365 AW4 / US911365AW41

 

 

 

Bookrunners:

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
Banc of America Securities LLC

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

 

 

Co-Managers:

 

Barclays Capital Inc.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

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Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.

RBS Securities Inc.

 

The Issuer has previously filed a registration statement (including a prospectus and the related preliminary prospectus supplement) on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the offering to which this communication relates, which registration statement became effective on May 7, 2010.  Before you invest, you should read the preliminary prospectus supplement to the prospectus in that registration statement and the other documents the Issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, a copy of the prospectus supplement relating to this offering may also be obtained by contacting Morgan Stanley at 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, Attn: Prospectus Department, (866) 718-1649 or via email at prospectus@morganstanley.com; BofA Merrill Lynch at 4 World Financial Center, New York, NY, 10080, Attention: Syndicate Operations, (800) 294-1322 or via email at dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; or Wells Fargo Securities at 301 South College Street, 6th Floor, Charlotte, NC, 28202, Attention: High Yield Syndicate, (704) 715-7035.

 

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ANNEX I

 

FORM OF OPINION OF SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 7(D).

 

[REDACTED]

 



 

ANNEX II

 

FORM OF LETTER OF SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 7(D)

 

[REDACTED]

 



 

ANNEX III

 

FORM OF OPINION OF K&L GATES LLP TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 7(D)

 

[REDACTED]

 



 

ANNEX IV

 

FORM OF OPINION OF HAYNES & BOONE LLP TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 7(D)

 

[REDACTED]

 



 

ANNEX V

 

FORM OF OPINION OF JONATHAN GOTTSEGEN TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 7(D)

 

[REDACTED]

 


EX-4.1 3 a10-19587_5ex4d1.htm EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

 

as the Company

 

and

 

UNITED RENTALS, INC.

 

and

 

THE SUBSIDIARIES NAMED HEREIN

 

as Guarantors

 

to

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

 

as Trustee

 


 

Indenture

 

Dated as of October 26, 2010

 


 

$750,000,000

 

8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2020

 



 

CROSS REFERENCE TABLE(1)

 

Trust Indenture Act

 

Indenture

 

Selection

 

Section

 

 

 

 

 

310(a)(1)

 

6.09

 

310(a)(2)

 

6.09

 

310(a)(3)

 

N.A.

(2)

310(a)(4)

 

N.A.

 

310(a)(5)

 

N.A.

 

310(b)

 

6.08; 6.10

 

310(c)

 

N.A.

 

311(a)

 

6.13

 

311(b)

 

6.13

 

311(c)

 

N.A.

 

312(a)

 

7.01; 7.02

 

312(b)

 

7.02

 

312(c)

 

7.02

 

313(a)

 

7.03

 

313(b)

 

7.03

 

313(c)

 

1.06; 7.03

 

313(d)

 

7.03

 

314(a)

 

7.04

 

314(a)(4)

 

1.03; 10.19

 

314(b)

 

N.A.

 

314(c)(1)

 

1.02

 

314(c)(2)

 

1.02

 

314(c)(3)

 

N.A.

 

314(d)

 

N.A.

 

314(e)

 

1.02

 

314(f)

 

N.A.

 

315(a)

 

6.01

 

315(b)

 

6.02

 

315(c)

 

6.01

 

315(d)

 

6.01

 

315(e)

 

5.14

 

316(a)(1)(A)

 

5.12

 

316(a)(1)(B)

 

5.13

 

316(a)(2)

 

N.A.

 

316(a)(last sentence)

 

1.01

(3)

 


(1)  Note:  This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed part of this Indenture.

 

(2)  Not Applicable.

 

(3)  Definition of “Outstanding.”

 

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316(b)

 

5.07; 5.08

 

316(c)

 

1.04

 

317(a)(1)

 

5.03

 

317(a)(2)

 

5.04

 

317(b)

 

10.03

 

318(a)

 

1.07

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

 

 

 

SECTION 1.01.

Definitions

1

SECTION 1.02.

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

30

SECTION 1.03.

Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

31

SECTION 1.04.

Acts of Holders; Record Dates

31

SECTION 1.05.

Notices to Trustee, the Company or a Guarantor

34

SECTION 1.06.

Notice to Holders; Waiver

34

SECTION 1.07.

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

34

SECTION 1.08.

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

34

SECTION 1.09.

Successors and Assigns

35

SECTION 1.10.

Separability Clause

35

SECTION 1.11.

Benefits of Indenture

35

SECTION 1.12.

Governing Law

35

SECTION 1.13.

Legal Holidays

35

SECTION 1.14.

Waiver of Jury Trial

35

SECTION 1.15.

Force Majeure

35

 

 

 

ARTICLE II

 

Security Forms

 

 

 

SECTION 2.01.

Form and Dating

36

 

 

 

ARTICLE III

 

The Securities

 

 

 

SECTION 3.01.

Title and Terms

36

SECTION 3.02.

Denominations

37

SECTION 3.03.

Execution and Authentication

37

SECTION 3.04.

Temporary Securities

38

SECTION 3.05.

Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

38

SECTION 3.06.

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

39

SECTION 3.07.

Payment of Interest; Rights Preserved

40

SECTION 3.08.

Persons Deemed Owners

41

SECTION 3.09.

Cancellation

41

SECTION 3.10.

Computation of Interest

41

SECTION 3.11.

CUSIP and CINS Numbers

42

SECTION 3.12.

Deposits of Monies

42

SECTION 3.13.

Issuance of Additional Securities

42

 

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ARTICLE IV

 

Satisfaction and Discharge

 

 

 

SECTION 4.01.

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

43

SECTION 4.02.

Application of Trust Money

44

 

 

 

ARTICLE V

 

Remedies

 

 

 

SECTION 5.01.

Events of Default

44

SECTION 5.02.

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

46

SECTION 5.03.

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

47

SECTION 5.04.

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

48

SECTION 5.05.

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

49

SECTION 5.06.

Application of Money Collected

49

SECTION 5.07.

Limitation on Suits

49

SECTION 5.08.

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest

50

SECTION 5.09.

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

50

SECTION 5.10.

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

50

SECTION 5.11.

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

51

SECTION 5.12.

Control by Holders

51

SECTION 5.13.

Waiver of Past Defaults

51

SECTION 5.14.

Undertaking for Costs

51

SECTION 5.15.

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

52

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI

 

The Trustee

 

 

 

SECTION 6.01.

Certain Duties and Responsibilities

52

SECTION 6.02.

Notice of Defaults

53

SECTION 6.03.

Certain Rights of Trustee

53

SECTION 6.04.

Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

55

SECTION 6.05.

May Hold Securities

55

SECTION 6.06.

Money Held in Trust

55

SECTION 6.07.

Compensation and Reimbursement

55

SECTION 6.08.

Conflicting Interests

56

SECTION 6.09.

Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

56

SECTION 6.10.

Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

56

SECTION 6.11.

Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

58

SECTION 6.12.

Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

58

 

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SECTION 6.13.

Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company or a Guarantor

59

SECTION 6.14.

Appointment of Authenticating Agent

59

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII

 

Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

 

 

 

SECTION 7.01.

Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

60

SECTION 7.02.

Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

60

SECTION 7.03.

Reports by Trustee

61

SECTION 7.04.

Reports by Company

61

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease

 

 

 

SECTION 8.01.

Company May Consolidate, Etc. Only on Certain Terms

61

SECTION 8.02.

Successor Substituted

63

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX

 

Amendments; Waivers; Supplemental Indentures

 

 

 

SECTION 9.01.

Amendments, Waivers and Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

63

SECTION 9.02.

Modifications, Amendments and Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

64

SECTION 9.03.

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

65

SECTION 9.04.

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

65

SECTION 9.05.

Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

65

SECTION 9.06.

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

66

SECTION 9.07.

Waiver of Certain Covenants

66

SECTION 9.08.

No Liability for Certain Persons

66

 

 

 

ARTICLE X

 

Covenants

 

 

 

SECTION 10.01.

Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

66

SECTION 10.02.

Maintenance of Office or Agency

67

SECTION 10.03.

Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust

67

SECTION 10.04.

Existence; Activities

68

SECTION 10.05.

Maintenance of Properties

68

 

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SECTION 10.06.

Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

69

SECTION 10.07.

Maintenance of Insurance

69

SECTION 10.08.

Limitation on Indebtedness

69

SECTION 10.09.

Limitation on Restricted Payments

73

SECTION 10.10.

Limitation on Preferred Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries

77

SECTION 10.11.

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates

78

SECTION 10.12.

Limitation on Liens

79

SECTION 10.13.

Change of Control

79

SECTION 10.14.

Disposition of Proceeds of Asset Sales

80

SECTION 10.15.

Limitation on Dividends and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries

83

SECTION 10.16.

Additional Subsidiary Guarantees

84

SECTION 10.17.

Limitations on Designation of Unrestricted Subsidiaries

84

SECTION 10.18.

Provision of Financial Information

85

SECTION 10.19.

Statement by Officers as to Default; Compliance Certificates

85

SECTION 10.20.

Limitation of the Issuance of Subordinated Indebtedness

86

 

 

 

ARTICLE XI

 

Redemption of Securities

 

 

 

SECTION 11.01.

Right of Redemption/Mandatory Redemption

86

SECTION 11.02.

Applicability of Article

86

SECTION 11.03.

Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

86

SECTION 11.04.

Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

86

SECTION 11.05.

Notice of Redemption

87

SECTION 11.06.

Deposit of Redemption Price

88

SECTION 11.07.

Securities Payable on Redemption Date

88

SECTION 11.08.

Securities Redeemed in Part

88

 

 

 

ARTICLE XII

 

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

 

 

 

SECTION 12.01.

Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

89

SECTION 12.02.

Defeasance and Discharge

89

SECTION 12.03.

Covenant Defeasance

89

SECTION 12.04.

Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

90

SECTION 12.05.

Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions

92

SECTION 12.06.

Reinstatement

92

 

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ARTICLE XIII

 

Guarantee

 

 

 

SECTION 13.01.

Guarantee

93

SECTION 13.02.

Limitation on Liability

95

SECTION 13.03.

Execution and Delivery of Guarantees

95

SECTION 13.04.

Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms

96

SECTION 13.05.

Release of Guarantors

96

SECTION 13.06.

Successors and Assigns

96

SECTION 13.07.

No Waiver, etc

96

SECTION 13.08.

Modification, etc

96

SECTION 13.09.

Subordination of Guarantee

97

 

ARTICLE XIV

 

Subordination

 

 

 

SECTION 14.01.

Agreement to Subordinate, Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness and Senior to Subordinated Indebtedness

97

SECTION 14.02.

Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc

97

SECTION 14.03.

No Payment When Designated Senior Indebtedness is in Default

98

SECTION 14.04.

Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness

99

SECTION 14.05.

Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights

99

SECTION 14.06.

Trustee to Effectuate Subordination

99

SECTION 14.07.

No Waiver of Subordination Provisions

100

SECTION 14.08.

Notice to Trustee

100

SECTION 14.09.

Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent

101

SECTION 14.10.

Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness

101

SECTION 14.11.

Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights

101

SECTION 14.12.

Article Applicable to Paying Agents

102

 

 

 

Schedule A

The Guarantors

 

Appendix

Provisions Relating to the Securities

 

Exhibit A

Form of Security

 

Exhibit B

Form of Notation on Security Relating to Guarantee

 

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of October 26, 2010, among UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at Five Greenwich Office Park, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830, UNITED RENTALS, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called “Holdings”), the Subsidiaries of the Company named in Schedule A and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation, having its principal corporate trust office at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

 

The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2020 of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture.

 

Each Guarantor desires to make the Guarantee provided herein and has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture.

 

All things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the Company, authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, and each Guarantee, when executed and delivered hereunder by each Guarantor, the valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and each Guarantor, and to make this Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and each Guarantor, in accordance with their and 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 thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application

 

SECTION 1.01. Definitions.  For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in

 



 

this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;

 

(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

 

(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP (whether or not such is indicated herein);

 

(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture;

 

(5) the words “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;

 

(6) each reference herein to a rule or form of the Commission shall mean such rule or form and any rule or form successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time;

 

(7) “or” is not exclusive;

 

(8) “including” means including without limitation;

 

(9) unsecured Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be subordinate or junior to secured Indebtedness merely by virtue of its nature as unsecured Indebtedness;

 

(10) the principal amount of any non-interest bearing or other discount security at any date shall be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of the issuer dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP;

 

(11) the principal amount of any Preferred Stock shall be (i) the maximum liquidation value of such Preferred Stock or (ii) the maximum mandatory redemption or mandatory repurchase price with respect to such Preferred Stock, whichever is greater; and

 

(12) all references to the date the Securities were originally issued shall refer to the Issue Date, except as otherwise specified.

 

Whenever this Indenture requires that a particular ratio or amount be calculated with respect to a specified period after giving effect to certain transactions or events on a pro forma basis, such calculation shall be made as if the transactions or events occurred on the first day of such period, unless otherwise specified.

 

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17/8% Convertible Notes” means the $115 million aggregate principal amount of 17/8% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due October 15, 2023 issued by the Company under an indenture, dated as of October 31, 2003, among the Company, as issuer, Holdings, as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

4% Notes” means the $173 million aggregate principal amount of the 4% Convertible Senior Notes due 2015 issued by Holdings under an indenture dated as of November 17, 2009, between Holdings and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

7% Notes” means the $261 million aggregate principal amount of 7% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 issued by the Company under an indenture, dated as of January 25, 2004, among the Company, as issuer, Holdings and certain of the Company’s United States subsidiaries, as guarantors, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

7¾% Notes” means the $484 million aggregate principal amount of  7¾% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 issued by the Company under an indenture, dated as of November 12, 2003, among the Company, as issuer, Holdings and certain of the Company’s United States subsidiaries, as guarantors, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

9.25% Notes” means the $500 million aggregate principal amount of 9.25% Senior Notes due 2019 issued by the Company under an indenture, dated as of November 17, 2009, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

10.875% Notes” means the $500 million aggregate principal amount of 10.875% Senior Notes due 2016 issued by the Company under an indenture, dated as of June 9, 2009, among the Company, as issuer, Holdings and certain of the Company’s United States subsidiaries, as guarantors, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

 

Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of a Person (a) assumed in connection with an Asset Acquisition from such Person or (b) existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of any other Person and not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Asset Acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary.

 

Act,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.04.

 

Additional Securities” means, subject to the Company’s compliance with Section 10.08, 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2020 issued from time to time after the Issue Date under the terms of this Indenture (other than pursuant to Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06 or 11.08 of this Indenture).

 

Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, (i) any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person, (ii) any other Person that owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of such specified Person’s Capital Stock or (iii) any officer or

 

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director of (A) any such specified Person, (B) any Subsidiary of such specified Person or (C) any Person described in clause (i) or (ii) above.

 

Asset Acquisition” means (a) an Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any other Person pursuant to which such Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary, or shall be merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or a transaction pursuant to which the Company merges with or into any other Person and such Person assumes the obligations of the Company in accordance with Article VIII or (b) the acquisition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the assets of any Person which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person, any division or line of business of such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person other than in the ordinary course of business.

 

Asset Sale” means any sale, issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, of (a) any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary; (b) all or substantially all of the properties and assets of any division or line of business of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; or (c) any other properties or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, other than in the case of clause (a), (b) or (c) above, (i) sales, conveyances, transfers, leases or other dispositions of obsolete, damaged or used equipment or other equipment or inventory in the ordinary course of business, (ii) sales, conveyances, transfers, leases or other dispositions of assets in one or a series of related transactions for an aggregate consideration of less than $35,000,000, (iii) for purposes of Section 10.14 only, (x) a disposition that constitutes a Restricted Payment permitted by Section 10.09 or a Permitted Investment, (y) a disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Company in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII and (z) any sale, issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of properties or assets in connection with a Securitization Transaction, (iv) any exchange of like property pursuant to or intended to qualify under Section 1031 (or any successor section) of the Code, and to be used in a Related Business, (v) any disposition arising from foreclosure, condemnation or similar action with respect to any property or other assets, or exercise of termination rights under any lease, license, concession or agreement and (vi) a disposition of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to an agreement or other obligation with or to a Person (other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) from which such Restricted Subsidiary was acquired, or from whom such Restricted Subsidiary acquires its business and assets (having been newly formed in connection with such acquisition), entered into in connection with such acquisition.

 

Asset Sale Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 10.14.

 

Asset Sale Offer Price” has the meaning specified in Section 10.14.

 

Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale/Leaseback Transaction means, as at the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the interest rate borne by the Securities, compounded annually) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale/Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which such lease has been extended); provided,

 

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however, that if such Sale/Leaseback Transaction results in a Capitalized Lease Obligation, the amount of Indebtedness represented thereby will be determined in accordance with the definition of “Capitalized Lease Obligation.”

 

Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 hereof to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.

 

Average Life to Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, as at any date of determination, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products of (a) the number of years from such date to the date or dates of each successive scheduled principal payment (including, without limitation, any sinking fund requirements) of such Indebtedness and (b) the amount of each such principal payment by (ii) the sum of all such principal payments.

 

Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of a company or its equivalent, including managers of a limited liability company, general partners of a partnership or trustees of a business trust, or any duly authorized committee thereof.

 

Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of a company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such company and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

 

Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights in or other equivalents (however designated) of such Person’s capital stock or equity participations, and any rights (other than debt securities convertible into capital stock), warrants or options exchangeable for or convertible into such capital stock and, including, without limitation, with respect to partnerships, limited liability companies or business trusts, ownership interests (whether general or limited) and any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, such partnerships, limited liability companies or business trusts.

 

Capitalized Lease Obligation” means any obligation under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) any property (whether real, personal or mixed) that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease obligation under GAAP, and, for the purpose of this Indenture, the amount of such obligation at any date shall be the capitalized amount thereof at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Cash Equivalents” means, at any time, (a) any evidence of Indebtedness, maturing not more than one year after such time, issued or guaranteed by the United States Government or any agency thereof, (b) commercial paper, maturing not more than one year from the date of issue, or corporate demand notes, in each case rated at least A-1 by S&P or P-1 by Moody’s, (c) any certificate of deposit (or time deposits represented by such certificates of deposit) or bankers’ acceptance, maturing not more than one year after such time, or overnight federal funds transactions that are issued or sold by a commercial banking institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System and has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000, (d) any repurchase agreement entered into with any commercial banking institution of the stature referred to in clause (c) which (i) is secured by a fully perfected security interest in any obligation of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (c) and (ii) has a market value at the time such repurchase agreement is entered into of not less than 100% of the repurchase obligation of such commercial banking institution thereunder, (e) investments in short term asset management accounts managed by any bank party to a Credit Facility which are invested in indebtedness of any state or municipality of the United States or of the District of Columbia and which are rated under one of the two highest ratings then obtainable from S&P or by Moody’s or investments of the types described in clauses (a) through (d) above, and (f) investments in funds investing primarily in investments of the types described in clauses (a) through (e) above.

 

Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events: (a) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) (in the case of the Company, excluding Holdings), is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total Voting Stock of the Company or Holdings; (b) the Company or Holdings consolidates with, or merges with or into, another Person or sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to any Person, other than, with respect to the Company, to a Subsidiary Guarantor, and, with respect to Holdings, to the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company or Holdings other than any such transaction involving a merger or consolidation where (i) the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or Holdings is converted into or exchanged for Voting Stock (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) of the surviving or transferee corporation and (ii) immediately after such transaction no “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), excluding Holdings, is the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a Person shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such Person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total Voting Stock of the surviving or transferee corporation; (c) during any consecutive two-year period, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors of the Company or Holdings (together with any new directors whose election by such Board of Directors or whose nomination for election by the stockholders of the Company or Holdings was approved by a vote of the majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved)

 

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cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company or Holdings then in office; or (d) the Company is liquidated or dissolved or adopts a plan of liquidation.

 

Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 10.13.

 

Change of Control Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 10.13.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any successor or amendatory statutes and any applicable rules, regulations, notices or orders promulgated thereunder.

 

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 at such time.

 

Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $.01 per share, of Holdings.

 

Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

 

Company Order” or “Company Request” means a written order or request signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive Officer, its Chief Financial Officer, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent, as applicable.

 

Consolidated Cash Flow Available for Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, (i) the sum of, without duplication, the amounts for such period, taken as a single accounting period, of (a) Consolidated Net Income, (b) Consolidated Non-cash Charges, (c) Consolidated Interest Expense, (d) Consolidated Income Tax Expense (other than income tax expense (either positive or negative) attributable to extraordinary gains or losses), and (e) any fees, expenses or charges related to any equity offering, Investment, merger, acquisition, disposition, consolidation, recapitalization or the incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness permitted by this Indenture (including any refinancing or amendment of any of the foregoing) (whether or not consummated or incurred), less: (ii)(x) non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income and (y) all cash payments during such period relating to non-cash charges that were added back in determining Consolidated Cash Flow Available for Fixed Charges in the most recent Four Quarter Period.

 

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Consolidated Current Liabilities as of the date of determination means the aggregate amount of liabilities of the Company and its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries which may properly be classified as current liabilities (including taxes accrued as estimated), on a consolidated basis, after eliminating (i) all intercompany items between the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) all current maturities of long-term Indebtedness, all as determined in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

 

Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person, the ratio of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Cash Flow Available for Fixed Charges of such Person for the four full fiscal quarters, treated as one period, for which financial information in respect thereof is available immediately preceding the date of the transaction (the “Transaction Date”) giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (such four full fiscal quarter period being referred to herein as the “Four Quarter Period”) to the aggregate amount of Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person for the Four Quarter Period.  The Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to: (a) the incurrence of Indebtedness requiring calculation of the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio and (if applicable) the application of the net proceeds therefrom, including to refinance other Indebtedness, as if such Indebtedness were incurred at the beginning of the Four Quarter Period; (b) the incurrence, repayment, defeasance, retirement or discharge of any other Indebtedness by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries since the first day of the Four Quarter Period as if such Indebtedness was incurred, repaid, defeased, retired or discharged at the beginning of the Four Quarter Period (except that, in making such computation, the amount of Indebtedness under any revolving credit facility shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the Four Quarter Period); and (c) any Asset Sale or Asset Acquisition occurring since the first day of the Four Quarter Period (including to the date of calculation) as if such acquisition or disposition occurred at the beginning of the Four Quarter Period.  Whenever pro forma effect is to be given to an Asset Acquisition, the pro forma calculations shall be determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Company. Any such pro forma calculations may include operating expense reductions and other operating improvements or synergies for such period resulting from the acquisition which is being given pro forma effect that (i) would be permitted pursuant to Article XI of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act or (ii) have been realized or for which the steps necessary for realization have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken within six months following any such acquisition, including, but not limited to, the execution or termination of any contracts, the termination of any personnel or the closing (or approval by the Board of Directors of any closing) of any facility, as applicable; provided that, in either case, such adjustments are set forth in an officers’ certificate signed by the Company’s chief financial officer and another officer that states (A) the amount of such adjustment or adjustments, (B) that such adjustment or adjustments are based on the reasonable good faith beliefs of the officers executing such officers’ certificate at the time of such execution and (C) that any related incurrence of Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to this Indenture.  In calculating “Consolidated Fixed Charges” for purposes of determining the denominator (but not the numerator) of this “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio,” (i) interest on outstanding Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis as of

 

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the Transaction Date and which will continue to be so determined thereafter shall be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on such Indebtedness in effect on the Transaction Date; and (ii) if interest on any Indebtedness actually incurred on the Transaction Date may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate or other rates, then the interest rate in effect on the Transaction Date will be deemed to have been in effect during the Four Quarter Period.  If such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries directly or indirectly guarantees Indebtedness of a third Person, this definition shall give effect to the incurrence of such guaranteed Indebtedness as if such Person or such Subsidiary had directly incurred or otherwise assumed such guaranteed Indebtedness.

 

Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication, the amounts for such period of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense and (ii) the aggregate amount of dividends and other distributions paid or accrued during such period in respect of Redeemable Capital Stock of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

Consolidated Income Tax Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

 

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, without duplication, the sum of (i) the interest expense, net of any interest income, of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation, (a) any amortization of debt discount, (b) the net cost under Interest Rate Protection Obligations (including any amortization of discounts), (c) the interest portion of any deferred payment obligation, (d) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, bankers’ acceptance financing or similar facilities and (e) all accrued interest and (ii) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

 

Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined in accordance with GAAP, adjusted, to the extent included in calculating such net income, by excluding, without duplication, (i) any extraordinary, unusual, or non-recurring gain, loss, expense or charge (including without limitation fees, expenses and charges associated with any merger, acquisition, disposition or consolidation after the Issue Date), (ii) (A) the portion of net income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries allocable to minority interests in unconsolidated Persons or to Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries to the extent that cash dividends or distributions have not actually been received by such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries and (B) the portion of net loss of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries

 

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allocable to minority interests in unconsolidated Persons or to Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries shall be included to the extent of the aggregate investment of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Person, (iii)  gains or losses in respect of any Asset Sales by such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (net of fees and expenses relating to the transaction giving rise thereto), on an after-tax basis, (iv) the net income of any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person to the extent that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulations applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders (other than restrictions that have been waived or otherwise released), (v) any gain or loss realized as a result of the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles, (vi) the write-off of any issuance costs incurred by the Company in connection with the refinancing or repayment of any Indebtedness, (vii) any net after-tax gain (or loss) attributable to the early repurchase, extinguishment or conversion of Indebtedness, hedging obligations or other derivative instruments (including any premiums paid), (viii) any non-cash income (or loss) related to the recording of the Fair Market Value of Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Fuel Hedging Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, (ix) any non-cash compensation deduction as a result of any grant of stock or stock related instruments to employees, officers, directors or members of management, (x) any income (or loss) from discontinued operations, (xi) any unrealized foreign currency transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person, (xii) to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Company has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (a) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (b) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption; provided that, to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income in a future period, reimbursements with respect to expenses excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Net Income pursuant to this clause (xii) shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income in such period up to the amount of such excluded expenses and (xiii) any goodwill or other intangible asset impairment charge.

 

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” as of any date of determination, means the total amount of assets (less accumulated depreciation and amortization, allowances for doubtful receivables, other applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) which would appear on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, and after giving effect to purchase accounting and reflecting any Asset Acquisition or Asset Sale consummated on or prior to such date and after deducting therefrom Consolidated Current Liabilities and, to the extent otherwise included, the amounts of, (i) minority interests in consolidated Subsidiaries held by Persons other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (ii) excess of cost over fair value of assets of businesses acquired, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company; (iii) any revaluation or other write-up in book value of assets subsequent to the

 

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Issue Date as a result of a change in the method of valuation in accordance with GAAP consistently applied; (iv) unamortized debt discount and expenses and other unamortized deferred charges, goodwill, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses, organization or developmental expenses and other intangible items; (v) treasury stock; (vi) cash set apart and held in a sinking or other analogous fund established for the purpose of redemption or other retirement of Capital Stock to the extent such obligation is not reflected in Consolidated Current Liabilities; and (vii) Investments in and assets of Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

Consolidated Non-cash Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization (including amortization of goodwill and other intangibles) and other non-cash expenses of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (excluding any such charges constituting an extraordinary item or loss).

 

control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its principal corporate trust business shall be administered, which address as of the date of this Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as a successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

corporation” means (except in the definition of “Subsidiary”) a corporation, association, company, joint stock company or business trust.

 

Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 12.03.

 

Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement, dated June 9, 2008, by and among Holdings, the Company, certain subsidiaries, the lenders referred to therein, Bank of America, N.A., as Agent, U.S. Swingline Lender and Letter of Credit Issuer, Bank of America, N.A., (acting through its Canada Branch), as Canadian Swingline Lender and as a Canada Funding Bank, UBS Securities, as Syndication Agent, UBS AG Canada Branch, as a Canadian Funding Bank, Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Co-Documentation Agent, Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Canada), as a Canadian Funding Bank, and Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC, as Co-Documentation Agent, together with the related documents thereto (including the term loans and revolving loans thereunder, any guarantees and any security documents), as amended, extended, renewed, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (in whole or in part, and without limitation as to amount, terms, conditions, covenants and other provisions) from time to time, and

 

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any agreements, indentures or other instruments (and related documents) governing any form of Indebtedness incurred to refinance or replace, in whole or in part, the borrowings and commitments at any time outstanding or permitted to be outstanding under such Credit Agreement or successor Credit Agreements, whether by the same or any other lender or holder of Indebtedness or group of lenders and whether to the same obligor or different obligors.

 

Credit Facility” means one or more debt facilities or agreements (including the Credit Agreement), commercial paper facilities, securities purchase agreements, indentures or similar agreements, in each case, with banks or other institutional lenders or investors providing for, or acting as initial purchasers of, revolving loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables), notes, debentures, letters of credit or the issuance and sale of securities including any related notes, guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and in each case, as amended, extended, renewed, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (in whole or in part, and without limitation as to amount, terms, conditions, covenants and other provisions) from time to time, and any agreements, indentures or other instruments (and related documents) governing any form of Indebtedness incurred to refinance or replace, in whole or in part, the borrowings and commitments at any time outstanding or permitted to be outstanding under such facility or agreement or successor facility or agreement, whether by the same or any other lender or holder of Indebtedness or group of lenders and whether to the same obligor or different obligors.

 

Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other similar agreement with respect to currency values.

 

Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.

 

Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.

 

Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 12.02.

 

Definitive Security” has the meaning specified in the Appendix.

 

Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation, or its successor.

 

Designated Senior Indebtedness” means (a) all Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement (including the Guarantors’ Guarantees of such Indebtedness) and (b) any other issues of Senior Indebtedness which (i) at the time of the determination is equal to or greater than $25 million in aggregate principal amount and (ii) is specifically designated by the Company in the instrument evidencing such Senior Indebtedness as “Designated Senior Indebtedness.”

 

Designation has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.

 

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Designation Amount has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.

 

Disinterested Member of the Board of Directors of the Company” means, with respect to any transaction or series of transactions, a member of the Board of Directors of the Company other than a member who has any material direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such transaction or series of transactions or is an Affiliate, or an officer, director or an employee of any Person (other than the Company or Holdings) who has any direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such transaction or series of transactions.

 

Domestic Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is created or organized under the laws of the United States or any State, district or territory thereof.

 

Equipment Securitization Transaction” means any sale, assignment, pledge or other transfer (a) by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of rental fleet equipment, (b) by any ES Special Purpose Vehicle of leases or rental agreements between the Company and/or any Subsidiary of the Company, as lessee, on the one hand, and such ES Special Purpose Vehicle, as lessor, on the other hand, relating to such rental fleet equipment and lease receivables arising under such leases and rental agreements and (c) by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of any interest in any of the foregoing, together in each case with (i) any and all proceeds thereof (including all collections relating thereto, all payments and other rights under insurance policies or warranties relating thereto, all disposition proceeds received upon a sale thereof, and all rights under manufacturers’ repurchase programs or guaranteed depreciation programs relating thereto), (ii) any collection or deposit account relating thereto and (iii) any collateral, guarantees, credit enhancement or other property or claims supporting or securing payment on, or otherwise relating to, any such leases, rental agreements or lease receivables.

 

ES Special Purpose Vehicle” means a trust, bankruptcy remote entity or other special purpose entity which is a Subsidiary of the Company or Holdings (or, if not a Subsidiary of the Company or Holdings, the common equity of which is wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or Holdings) and which is formed for the purpose of, and engages in no material business other than, acting as a lessor, issuer or depositor in an Equipment Securitization Transaction (and, in connection therewith, owning the rental fleet equipment, leases, rental agreements, lease receivables, rights to payment and other interests, rights and assets described in the definition of Equipment Securitization Transaction, and pledging or transferring any of the foregoing or interests therein).

 

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.

 

Excess Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 10.14.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Expiration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Offer to Purchase.”

 

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FASB” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

 

Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither of which is under pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction.  Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith, whose determination shall be conclusive and evidenced by a resolution of such Board of Directors.

 

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary not created or organized in the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and that conducts substantially all its operations outside of the United States.

 

Four Quarter Period” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”

 

Fuel Hedging Agreement” means any forward contract, swap, option, hedge or other similar financial agreement designed to protect against fluctuations in fuel prices.

 

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the FASB codification, which represents the source of authoritative U.S. GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by non-governmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the Commission under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for Commission registrants. The codification supersedes all non-Commission accounting and reporting standards which existed prior to the codification. All other nongrandfathered, non-Commission accounting literature not included in the codification is non-authoritative. GAAP is determined as of the date of any calculation or determination required hereunder; provided that the Company, on any date, may elect to establish that GAAP shall mean GAAP as in effect on such date; provided further that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable. The Company shall give notice of any such election to the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities.

 

Global Security” has the meaning specified in the Appendix.

 

guarantee” means, as applied to any obligation, (i) a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or indirect, in any manner, of any part or all of such obligation and (ii) an agreement, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, the practical effect of which is to assure in any way the payment or performance (or payment of damages in the event of nonperformance) of all or any part of such obligation, including, without limiting the foregoing, the payment of amounts available to be drawn down under letters of credit of another Person.  The term “guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.  The term “guarantor” shall mean any Person providing a guarantee of any obligation.

 

Guarantee” means each guarantee of the Securities contained in Article XIII given by each Guarantor.

 

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Guarantor” means Holdings and each Subsidiary of the Company that executed this Indenture on the Issue Date and each other Subsidiary of the Company that thereafter guarantees the Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

 

Guaranty Agreement” means a supplemental indenture, in a form satisfactory to the Trustee, pursuant to which a Subsidiary Guarantor guarantees the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities on the terms provided for in this Indenture.

 

Guaranty Obligations has the meaning specified in Section 13.01.

 

Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

 

Holdings” means the Person named as “Holdings” in the first paragraph of this instrument.

 

Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication, (a) all liabilities of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or services, excluding any trade payables and other accrued current liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business, but including, without limitation, all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in connection with any letters of credit, banker’s acceptance or other similar credit transaction, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or other similar instruments, (c) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even if the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, (d) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person and all Attributable Debt in respect of Sale/Leaseback Transactions entered into by such Person, (e) all Indebtedness referred to in the preceding clauses of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons, the payment of which is secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon property (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness (the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the value of such property or asset or the amount of the obligation so secured), (f) all guarantees of Indebtedness referred to in this definition by such Person, (g) all Redeemable Capital Stock of such Person valued at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary maximum fixed repurchase price plus accrued dividends, (h) all obligations under or in respect of Interest Rate Protection Obligations of such Person, and (i) any amendment, supplement, modification, deferral, renewal, extension, refinancing or refunding of any liability of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above; provided, however, that Indebtedness shall not include (i) any holdback or escrow of the purchase price of property, services, businesses or assets or (ii) any contingent payment obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of assets or businesses, which are contingent on the performance of the assets or businesses so acquired.  For purposes

 

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hereof, the “maximum fixed repurchase price” of any Redeemable Capital Stock which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Redeemable Capital Stock as if such Redeemable Capital Stock were purchased on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant hereto, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the fair market value of such Redeemable Capital Stock, such fair market value shall be approved in good faith by the Board of Directors of the issuer of such Redeemable Capital Stock. In the case of Indebtedness of other Persons, the payment of which is secured by a Lien on property owned by a Person as referred to in clause (e) above, the amount of the Indebtedness of such Person attributable to such Lien at any date shall be the lesser of the Fair Market Value at such date of any asset subject to such Lien and the amount of the Indebtedness secured.

 

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, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively.

 

Independent Qualified Party” means an investment banking firm, accounting firm or appraisal firm of national standing; provided, however, that such firm is not an Affiliate of the Company.

 

Interest Payment Date” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the Securities.

 

Initial Lien” has the meaning specified in Section 10.12.

 

Interest Rate Protection Agreement” means, with respect to any Person, any arrangement with any other Person whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest on a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars and similar agreements.

 

Interest Rate Protection Obligations” means the obligations of any Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Protection Agreements.

 

Investment” means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or acquisition by such Person of any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness issued by, any other Person.

 

Issue Date” means October 26, 2010.

 

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Lien” means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien (statutory or other), security interest, hypothecation, assignment for security, claim, or preference or priority or other encumbrance upon or with respect to any property of any kind.  A Person shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any property which such Person has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement.

 

Maturity Date” means September 15, 2020.

 

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.

 

Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the proceeds thereof in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations when received in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (except to the extent that such obligations are financed or sold with recourse to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) net of (i) brokerage commissions and other fees and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of legal counsel and investment bankers, recording fees, transfer fees and appraisers’ fees) related to such Asset Sale, (ii) provisions for all taxes payable as a result of such Asset Sale, (iii) amounts required to be paid to any Person (other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) owning a beneficial interest in the assets subject to the Asset Sale, (iv) payments made to retire Indebtedness where payment of such Indebtedness is secured by the assets or properties the subject of such Asset Sale, and (v) appropriate amounts to be provided by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, as a reserve required in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, after such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Sale, all as reflected in an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee.

 

Non-payment Default” has the meaning specified in Section 14.03.

 

Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 6.02.

 

Offer” means a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer.

 

Offer to Purchase” means an Offer sent by or on behalf of the Company by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities at its address appearing in the register for the Securities on the date of the Offer offering to purchase up to the principal amount of Securities specified in such Offer at the purchase price specified in such Offer (as determined pursuant to this Indenture).  Unless otherwise provided in Sections 10.13 or 10.14 or otherwise required by applicable law, the Offer shall specify an expiration date (the “Expiration Date”) of the Offer to Purchase, which shall be not less than 20 Business Days nor more than 60 days after the date of such Offer (or such later date as may be necessary for the Company to comply with the Exchange Act), and a

 

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settlement date (the “Purchase Date”) for purchase of Securities to occur no later than five Business Days after the Expiration Date.  The Company shall notify the Trustee at least 15 Business Days (or such shorter period as is acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the mailing of the Offer of the Company’s obligation to make an Offer to Purchase, and the Offer shall be mailed by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.  The Offer shall contain all the information required by applicable law to be included therein.  The Offer shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Securities pursuant to the Offer to Purchase. The Offer shall also state:

 

(1) the Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Offer to Purchase is being made;

 

(2) the Expiration Date and the Purchase Date;

 

(3) the purchase price to be paid by the Company for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities accepted for payment (as specified pursuant to this Indenture) (the “Purchase Price”); and the amount of accrued and unpaid interest to be paid;

 

(4) that the Holder may tender all or any portion of the Securities registered in the name of such Holder and that any portion of a Security tendered must be tendered in an integral multiple of $1,000 principal amount;

 

(5) the place or places where Securities are to be surrendered for tender pursuant to the Offer to Purchase;

 

(6) that interest on any Security not tendered or tendered but not purchased by the Company pursuant to the Offer to Purchase will continue to accrue;

 

(7) that on the Purchase Date the Purchase Price will become due and payable upon each Security being accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after the Purchase Date;

 

(8) that each Holder electing to tender all or any portion of a Security pursuant to the Offer to Purchase will be required to surrender such Security at the place or places specified in the Offer prior to the close of business on the Expiration Date (such Security being, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing);

 

(9) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw all or any portion of Securities tendered if the Company (or its Paying Agent) receives, not later than the close of business on the fifth Business Day next preceding the Expiration Date, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security the Holder tendered, the certificate number of the

 

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Security the Holder tendered and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing all or a portion of his tender;

 

(10) that (a) if Securities purchasable at an aggregate Purchase Price less than or equal to the Purchase Amount are duly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, the Company shall purchase all such Securities and (b) if Securities purchasable at an aggregate Purchase Price in excess of the Purchase Amount are tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, the Company shall purchase Securities on a pro rata basis based on the Purchase Price therefor or such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (subject in each case to applicable rules of the Depositary and any securities exchange upon which the Securities may then be listed), with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate so that only Securities in denominations of $1,000 principal face amount or integral multiples thereof shall be purchased; notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company is required to commence an Asset Sale Offer at any time when securities of the Company ranking pari passu in right of payment with the Securities are outstanding and the terms of such securities provide that a similar offer must be made with respect to such other securities, then the Asset Sale Offer for the Securities shall be made concurrently with such other offers and securities of each issue will be accepted on a pro rata basis in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of securities of each issue which the holders thereof elect to have purchased; and

 

(11) that in the case of a Holder whose Security is purchased only in part, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unpurchased portion of the Security so tendered.

 

An Offer to Purchase shall be governed by and effected in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture pertaining to the type of Offer to which it relates.

 

Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.  One of the officers signing an Officer’s Certificate given pursuant to Section 10.19 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

 

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, who may be counsel for the Company.

 

Outstanding,” when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

 

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(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

 

(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided, however, that, if such securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; provided further, that the Paying Agent is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to Article XIV;

 

(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; and

 

(iv) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 12.02;

 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding (it being understood that Securities to be acquired by the Company pursuant to an Offer or other offer to purchase shall not be deemed to be owned by the Company until legal title to such Securities passes to the Company), except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which 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 of such other obligor.

 

Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.  The Company has initially appointed the Trustee as its Paying Agent pursuant to Section 10.02 hereof.

 

Payment Blockage Period” has the meaning specified in Section 14.03.

 

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Permitted Investments” means any of the following:

 

(i) Investments in the Company or in a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(ii) Investments in another Person, if as a result of such Investment (A) such other Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or (B) such other Person is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(iii) Investments representing Capital Stock, obligations or securities issued to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries received in settlement of claims against any other Person or a reorganization or similar arrangement of any debtor of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, including upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of such debtor, or as a result of foreclosure, perfection or enforcement of any Lien;

 

(iv) Investments in Interest Rate Protection Agreements on commercially reasonable terms entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business in connection with the operations of the business of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries to hedge against fluctuations in interest rates on its outstanding Indebtedness;

 

(v) Investments in the Securities;

 

(vi) Investments in Cash Equivalents;

 

(vii) Investments in receivables owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary created or acquired in the ordinary course of business;

 

(viii) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or licenses, in any case, in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in accordance with this Indenture;

 

(ix) Investments acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an Asset Sale permitted under Section 10.14 to the extent such Investments are non-cash proceeds as permitted under Section 10.14;

 

(x) advances to employees or officers of the Company in the ordinary course of business and additional loans to employees or officers, in an aggregate amount, together with all other Permitted Investments made pursuant to this clause (x), at any time outstanding not to exceed $10,000,000;

 

(xi) any Investment to the extent that the consideration therefor is Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) of the Company;

 

(xii) guarantees (including guarantees of the Securities) of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 10.08;

 

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(xiii) any acquisition of assets solely in exchange for the issuance of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) of Holdings or the Company;

 

(xiv) Investments in existence or made pursuant to legally binding written commitments in existence on the Issue Date; and

 

(xv) other Investments that, together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (xv), shall not exceed the greater of $150,000,000 and 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at any time outstanding, provided that, if an Investment is made pursuant to this clause in a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary and such Person subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of the definition of “Permitted Investment”.

 

Permitted Liens” means the following types of Liens:

 

(a) any Lien existing as of the Issue Date;

 

(b) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under the provisions described in clauses (ii) and (xi) of paragraph (b) of Section 10.08;

 

(c) any Lien securing Acquired Indebtedness created prior to (and not created in connection with, or in contemplation of) the incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, if such Lien does not attach to any property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the property or assets subject to the Lien prior to such incurrence;

 

(d) Liens in favor of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(e) Liens on and pledges of the assets or Capital Stock of any Unrestricted Subsidiary securing any Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary;

 

(f) Liens for taxes not delinquent or statutory Liens for taxes; provided that the payment of such taxes which are due and payable is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and as to which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have set aside on its books such reserves as may be required pursuant to GAAP;

 

(g) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materialmen, repairmen and other Liens imposed by law incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;

 

(h) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for

 

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the payment of borrowed money);

 

(i) (A) mortgages, liens, security interests, restrictions, encumbrances or any other matters of record that have been placed by any developer, landlord or other third party on property over which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has easement rights or on any leased property and subordination or similar agreements relating thereto and (B) any condemnation or eminent domain proceedings affecting any real property;

 

(j) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment shall not have been finally terminated or the period within which such proceedings may be initiated shall not have expired;

 

(k) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions and other similar charges or encumbrances in respect of real property not interfering in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(l) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease Obligation or operating lease;

 

(m) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clauses (vi) or (x) of paragraph (b) of Section 10.08;

 

(n) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the construction, purchase or lease of, or repairs, improvements or additions to, property, plant or equipment of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary at the time the Lien is incurred (other than assets and property affixed or appurtenant thereto), and the Indebtedness (other than any interest thereon) secured by the Lien may not be incurred more than 180 days after the later of the acquisition, completion of construction, repair, improvement, addition or commencement of full operation of the property subject to the Lien;

 

(o) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other property relating to such letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof;

 

(p) Liens securing refinancing Indebtedness permitted under clause (xi) of paragraph (b) of Section 10.08, provided that such Liens do not exceed the Liens replaced in connection with such refinanced Indebtedness;

 

(q) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations arising from statutory, regulatory, contractual, or warranty requirements of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including rights of offset and set-off;

 

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(r) Liens securing Interest Rate Protection Obligations which Interest Rate Protection Obligations relate to Indebtedness that is secured by Liens otherwise permitted to be incurred under this Indenture;

 

(s) customary Liens on assets of a Special Purpose Vehicle arising in connection with a Securitization Transaction;

 

(t) any interest or title of a lessor, sublessor, licensee or licensor under any lease, sublease, sublicense or license agreement not prohibited by this Indenture;

 

(u) Liens attaching solely to cash earnest money deposits in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement in connection with an acquisition permitted under the terms of this Indenture;

 

(v) Liens on cash set aside at the time of the incurrence of any Indebtedness or government securities purchased with such cash, in either case to the extent that such cash or government securities prefund the payment of interest on such Indebtedness and are held in an escrow account or similar arrangement to be applied for such purpose;

 

(w) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(x) any encumbrance or restriction (including, but not limited to, put and call agreements) with respect to Capital Stock of any joint venture or similar arrangement pursuant to any joint venture or similar agreement;

 

(y) Liens on insurance proceeds or unearned premiums incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the financing of insurance premiums;

 

(z) Liens created in favor of the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07 hereof; and

 

(aa) Liens incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to obligations that, when added to all other obligations secured by Liens incurred pursuant to this clause (aa), shall not exceed the greater of $100,000,000 and 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at any time outstanding.

 

Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

principal” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus the premium, if any, payable on that Security which is due or overdue or is to become due at the relevant time.

 

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Preferred Stock,” as applied to any Person, means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends or distributions, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Person, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of such Person.

 

Public Equity Offering” means an underwritten public offering of Common Stock, other than an offering to a Subsidiary of Holdings, pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Commission in accordance with the Securities Act, the net cash proceeds of which are contributed to the Company as common equity capital.

 

Purchase Amount” means, with respect to an Offer to Purchase, the maximum aggregate amount payable by the Company for Securities under the terms of such Offer to Purchase, if such Offer to Purchase were accepted in respect of all Securities.

 

Purchase Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Offer to Purchase.”

 

Purchase Price” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Offer to Purchase.”

 

Purchase Money Obligations” means any Indebtedness incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition, leasing, construction or improvement of property (real or personal) or assets (including Capital Stock), and whether acquired through the direct acquisition of such property or assets or the acquisition of the Capital Stock of any Person owning such property or assets, or otherwise; provided that such Indebtedness is incurred within 180 days after such acquisition.

 

Qualified Equity Interest” in a Person means Capital Stock of such Person, other than Redeemable Capital Stock.

 

Receivables Securitization Transaction” means any sale, discount, assignment or other transfer by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of accounts receivable, lease receivables or other payment obligations owing to the Company or such Subsidiary of the Company or any interest in any of the foregoing, together in each case with any collections and other proceeds thereof, any collection or deposit account related thereto, and any collateral, guarantees or other property or claims supporting or securing payment by the obligor thereon of, or otherwise related to, or subject to leases giving rise to, any such receivables.

 

Record Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.04.

 

Redeemable Capital Stock” means any class or series of Capital Stock that, either by its terms, by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or exchangeable or by contract or otherwise, is or upon the happening of an event or passage of time would be, required to be redeemed prior to the Maturity Date or is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof at any time prior to the Maturity Date, or is convertible

 

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into or exchangeable for debt securities at any time prior to the Maturity Date; provided, however, that Capital Stock will not constitute Redeemable Capital Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the Company to repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or an Asset Sale.

 

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.

 

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 means the March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

Related Business” means any business in which the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries was engaged on the Issue Date and any business ancillary or complementary to such business.

 

Replacement Assets” has the meaning specified in Section 10.14.

 

Required Filing Dates” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.

 

Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the Corporate Trust Office, including, any vice president, any assistant vice president, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

 

Restricted Payments” has the meaning specified in Section 10.09.

 

Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary or a Special Purpose Vehicle.

 

Revocation” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.17.

 

RS Special Purpose Vehicle” means a trust, bankruptcy remote entity or other special purpose entity which is a Subsidiary of the Company or Holdings (or, if not a Subsidiary of the Company or Holdings, the common equity of which is wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or Holdings ) and which is formed for the purpose of, and engages in no material business other than, acting as an issuer or a depositor in a Receivables Securitization Transaction (and, in connection therewith, owning accounts receivable, lease receivables, other rights to payment, leases and related assets and pledging or transferring any of the foregoing or interests therein).

 

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S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, and its successors.

 

Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary on the Issue Date or thereafter acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary whereby the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person.

 

Securities” means the securities issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Securities.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

 

Securities Custodian” has the meaning specified in the Appendix.

 

Securitization Transaction” means an Equipment Securitization Transaction or a Receivables Securitization Transaction.

 

Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.05.

 

Senior Indebtedness” means with respect to any Person:

 

(1) Indebtedness of such Person, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter created, incurred or assumed; and

 

(2) accrued and unpaid interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to such Person whether or not post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding) in respect of (A) indebtedness of such Person for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable,

 

unless, in the case of clauses (1) and (2) above, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is expressly provided that such obligations are subordinate or pari passu in right of payment to the Securities or the Guarantee of the Securities by such Person, as the case may be.

 

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (x) “Senior Indebtedness” shall include the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all obligations of every nature of any Person from time to time owed to the lenders under a Credit Facility, including, without limitation, principal of and interest on, any loans and letter of credit disbursements outstanding, and all fees, indemnities and expenses payable, under a Credit Facility and (y) in the case of Designated Senior Indebtedness, “Senior Indebtedness” shall include interest accruing thereon subsequent to the occurrence of any Event of Default specified in clause (7) or (8) under Section 5.01 relating to the Company, whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed under any applicable Bankruptcy Code.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Senior Indebtedness” shall not include:

 

(a) Indebtedness evidenced by the Securities and the Guarantees;

 

(b) any Indebtedness of such Person (and any accrued and unpaid interest in respect thereof) that is expressly subordinate or junior in right of payment to any other Indebtedness or other obligation of such Person; provided that (i) Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be expressly subordinate or junior in right of payment solely because such Indebtedness is secured by Liens that are subordinated to other Liens on the same assets and (ii) this clause (b) shall not apply to Indebtedness that is secured by a Permitted Lien that is subordinated in right of payment only to other Indebtedness that is also secured by a Permitted Lien on the same assets;

 

(c)           Indebtedness which, when incurred and without respect to any election under Section 1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, is without recourse to such Person;

 

(d)           Indebtedness which is represented by Redeemable Capital Stock;

 

(e)           any accounts payable or other liability to trade creditors arising in the ordinary course of business (including guarantees thereof or instruments evidencing such liabilities);

 

(f)            Indebtedness of or amounts owed by such Person for compensation to employees or for services rendered to such Person;

 

(g)           any liability for federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by such Person;

 

(h)           Indebtedness of such Person to a Subsidiary or any other Affiliate or any of such Affiliate’s Subsidiaries; and

 

(i)            that portion of any Indebtedness which is incurred in violation of this Indenture.

 

Senior Subordinated Indebtedness” means with respect to a Person, the Securities (in the case of the Company), a Guarantee of the Securities (in the case of a Guarantor) and any other Indebtedness of such Person that specifically provides that such Indebtedness is to rank pari passu with the Securities or such Guarantee of the Securities, as the case may be, in right of payment and is not subordinated by its terms in right of payment to any Indebtedness or other obligation of such Person that is not Senior Indebtedness of such Person and the 17/8% Convertible Notes and the guarantees thereof shall constitute Senior Subordinated Indebtedness.  The Securities and the Guarantees of the Securities shall constitute Senior Subordinated Indebtedness for purposes of the indentures governing the 17/8% Convertible Notes.

 

Significant Subsidiary” of any Person means a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person which would be a significant subsidiary of such Person as determined in

 

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accordance with the definition in Rule 1-02(w) of Article 1 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission and as in effect on the Issue Date.

 

Special Purpose Vehicle” means an ES Special Purpose Vehicle or an RS Special Purpose Vehicle.

 

Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.

 

Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that are reasonably customary in a Securitization Transaction.

 

Stated Maturity” means, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of interest is due and payable, and when used with respect to any other Indebtedness, means the date specified in the instrument governing such Indebtedness as the fixed date on which the principal of such Indebtedness, or any installment of interest thereon, is due and payable.

 

Subordinated Indebtedness” means, with respect to a Person, Indebtedness of such Person (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter incurred) which is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Securities or a Guarantee of the Securities of such Person, as the case may be, pursuant to a written agreement to that effect.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (i) a corporation a majority of whose Voting Stock is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person, by one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries thereof and (ii) any other Person (other than a corporation), including, without limitation, a partnership, limited liability company, business trust or joint venture, in which such Person, one or more Subsidiaries thereof or such Person and one or more Subsidiaries thereof, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination thereof, has at least majority ownership interest entitled to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof (or other Person performing similar functions).  For purposes of this definition, any directors’ qualifying shares or investments by foreign nationals mandated by applicable law shall be disregarded in determining the ownership of a Subsidiary.

 

Subsidiary Guarantee” means a Guarantee by a Subsidiary Guarantor of the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities.

 

Subsidiary Guarantors” means the Subsidiaries of the Company named in Schedule A, together with any additional Domestic Subsidiaries that execute Guaranty Agreements in accordance with Section 10.16 of this Indenture, and, in each case, their respective successors and assigns.

 

Surviving Entity has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

 

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Transaction Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”

 

Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

 

Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.

 

Underwriters” has the meaning specified in the Appendix.

 

Underwriting Agreement” has the meaning specified in the Appendix.

 

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Company designated as such pursuant to and in compliance with Section 10.17 and each Subsidiary of such Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

U.S. Government Obligation” has the meaning specified in Section 12.04.

 

Vice President,” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”

 

Voting Stock” means any class or classes of Capital Stock pursuant to which the holders thereof have the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of any Person (irrespective of whether or not, at the time, stock of any other class or classes shall have, or might have, voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency).

 

Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary of which 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock is owned by the Company or another Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary.  For purposes of this definition, any directors’ qualifying shares or investments by foreign nationals mandated by applicable law shall be disregarded in determining the ownership of a Subsidiary.

 

SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.  Upon any application or request by the Company or a Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company or the Guarantor shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act or this Indenture.  Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company or a Guarantor, or an

 

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Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirement set forth in this Indenture.

 

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

 

(i) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

(ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

 

(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

 

(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 

SECTION 1.03. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.  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.

 

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or a Guarantor 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 the matters upon which his 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 or a Guarantor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or such Guarantor, 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.

 

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 1.04. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.  Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one

 

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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 are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable. 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 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

 

The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.  Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.  The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

 

The ownership of Securities shall be proved exclusively by the Security Register for all purposes.

 

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, the Company or a Guarantor in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

 

The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of Securities, provided, however, that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, 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 Record Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), nor shall anything in this paragraph be construed to render

 

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ineffective any action taken pursuant to or in accordance with any other provision of this Indenture 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 Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Record Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.06.

 

The Trustee may but need not 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 5.02, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.07(ii) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 5.12.  If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, 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 Record Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date.  Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and without any action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), nor shall anything in this paragraph be construed to render ineffective any action taken pursuant to or in accordance with any other provision of this Indenture 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 matter(s) to be submitted for potential action by Holders and the applicable Record Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.06.

 

With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto that sets such record date may designate any day as the “Record Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Record Expiration Date to any earlier or later day, provided, however, that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Record Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.06, on or before the existing Record Expiration Date.  If a Record 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 Record Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Record Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Record Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

 

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.

 

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SECTION 1.05. Notices to Trustee, the Company or a Guarantor.  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,

 

(i) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or a Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or

 

(ii) the Company or a Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company or such Guarantor addressed to it at the address of the Company’s 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.

 

SECTION 1.06. 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 his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail or receive such notice, nor any defect in any such notice, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency or validity of such notice.  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.

 

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

 

SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.  If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under the Trust Indenture Act to be part of and govern this Indenture, such 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, such provision shall be deemed to be so modified or excluded, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 1.08. 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.

 

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SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns.  Without limiting Articles VIII and XIII hereof, all covenants and agreements in this Indenture by each of the Company or the Guarantors shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 

SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause.  In case 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.

 

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 hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 1.12. Governing Law.  This Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflicts of law principles thereof.

 

SECTION 1.13. Legal Holidays.  In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Purchase Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect (including with respect to the accrual of interest) as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Purchase Date, or at the Stated Maturity.

 

SECTION 1.14. Waiver of Jury Trial.   EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

SECTION 1.15. Force Majeure.   In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

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ARTICLE II

 

Security Forms

 

SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating.  Provisions relating to the Securities are set forth in the Appendix, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Company or any Guarantor is subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Company).  Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

ARTICLE III

 

The Securities

 

SECTION 3.01. Title and Terms.  The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture on the Issue Date is limited to $750,000,000 principal amount.  Additional Securities may be issued, authenticated and delivered pursuant to Section 3.13, and Securities may be authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.08 or in connection with an Offer pursuant to Sections 10.13 or 10.14.

 

The Securities shall be known and designated as the “8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2020” of the Company.  Their Stated Maturity for payment of principal shall be September 15, 2020.  Interest on the Securities shall accrue at the rate of 8.375% per annum and shall be payable semiannually in arrears on each March 15 and September 15, commencing March 15, 2011 to the Holders of record of Securities at the close of business on March 1 and September 1, respectively, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Subject to Section 3.13(3), interest on the Securities will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from October 26, 2010.  Interest on the Securities will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

 

The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or such other office maintained by the Trustee for such purpose and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose; provided, however, that, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register, or wire transfer or other electronic means.

 

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The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article XI and the Securities.

 

The Securities shall be subject to Defeasance and/or Covenant Defeasance as provided in Article XII.

 

SECTION 3.02. Denominations.  The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and any integral multiple thereof.

 

SECTION 3.03. Execution and Authentication.  The terms and provisions contained in the Securities annexed hereto as Exhibit A shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.

 

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, its Chief Operating Officer, or its Chief Financial Officer.  The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

 

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, which shall specify the amount of the Securities to be authenticated and the date on which the original issue of Securities is to be authenticated and, in the case of an issuance of Additional Securities pursuant to Section 3.13 after the Issue Date, shall certify that such issuance is in compliance with Section 10.08; and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as provided in this Indenture and not otherwise.

 

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

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 manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

 

Authentication by counterpart shall satisfy the requirements of this Section 3.03 and the requirements of the Securities.

 

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SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities.  Pending the preparation of Definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized 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.

 

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 any office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 10.02, without 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 a like principal amount of Definitive Securities of authorized denominations and of a like tenor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Securities.

 

SECTION 3.05. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.  The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 10.02 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Company may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities.  The Trustee is hereby appointed (a) the initial “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided and (b) the Securities Custodian with respect to the Global Securities.

 

The Securities shall be issued in registered form and shall be transferable only upon the surrender of a Security for registration of transfer and in compliance with the Appendix.  When a Security is presented to the Security Registrar with a request to register a transfer, the Security Registrar shall register the transfer as requested if its requirements therefor are met.  When Securities are presented to the Security Registrar with a request to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of other denominations, the Security Registrar shall make the exchange as requested if the same requirements are met.  To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Security Registrar’s request.

 

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture 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 registration of transfer or exchange.

 

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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities except as provided in Section 3.06, 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 registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.08 or in accordance with any Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 10.13 or any Asset Sale Offer pursuant to Section 10.14, and in any such case not involving any transfer.

 

Neither the Company nor the Security Registrar shall be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities selected for redemption under Section 11.05 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part or (iii) to register the transfer of any Securities other than Securities having a principal amount of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof.

 

Prior to the due presentation for registration to transfer of any Security, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, and the Security Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest, if any, on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, or the Security Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Any Holder of a Global Security shall, by acceptance of such Global Security, agree that transfers of beneficial interest in such Global Security may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by (a) the Holder of such Global Security (or its agent) or (b) any Holder of a beneficial interest in such Global Security, and that ownership of a beneficial interest in such Global Security shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.

 

SECTION 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.  If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

If there shall be delivered to the Company and 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 and any agent of 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, 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 principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

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In case 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.

 

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, 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.

 

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.

 

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 3.07. Payment of Interest; Rights Preserved.  Interest on any Security which 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 payment.

 

Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date 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 paragraph (1) or (2) below:

 

(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities (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 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 15 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of

 

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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 given to each Holder in the manner specified in Section 1.06, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).

 

(2) 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 may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause (2), such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

 

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 3.05, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of 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, which were carried by such other Security.

 

SECTION 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners.  Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.07) interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

SECTION 3.09. Cancellation.  All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or tendered and accepted pursuant to any Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 10.13 or any Asset Sale Offer pursuant to Section 10.14 shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it.  The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in its customary manner.

 

SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest.  Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

 

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SECTION 3.11. CUSIP and CINS Numbers.  The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” and “CINS” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP or CINS numbers in notices of redemption or repurchase as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice 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 a redemption or repurchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption or repurchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP or CINS numbers.

 

SECTION 3.12. Deposits of Monies.  Except to the extent payment of interest is made by the Company’s check pursuant to Section 3.01, prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity, and Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent in immediately available funds money sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due on such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity and Purchase Date, as the case may be, in a timely manner which permits the Paying Agent to remit payment to the Holders on such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity, and Purchase Date, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 3.13. Issuance of Additional Securities.  The Company shall be entitled, subject to its compliance with Section 10.08, to issue Additional Securities under this Indenture which shall have identical terms as the Securities issued on the Issue Date, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price provided, however, that no Additional Securities shall be issued that are not fungible for U.S. federal income tax purposes, with any other securities issued under this Indenture.  The Securities issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Securities shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture.

 

With respect to any Additional Securities, the Company shall set forth in a resolution of its Board of Directors and an Officer’s Certificate, a copy of each which shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

 

(1) whether such Additional Securities shall be issued as part of a new or existing series of Securities and the title of such Additional Securities (which shall distinguish the Additional Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);

 

(2) the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, which may be in an unlimited aggregate principal amount;

 

(3) the issue price and issuance date of such Additional Securities, including the date from which interest on such Additional Securities shall accrue; and

 

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(4) if applicable, that such Additional Securities shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by such Global Securities in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Exhibit A hereto and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section 2.3 of the Appendix in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Additional Securities registered, or any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

Satisfaction and Discharge

 

SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.  This Indenture shall 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 the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

 

(1) either

 

(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or repaid as provided in Section 3.06 and (ii) 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 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 

(B) all Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (other than Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or repaid as provided in Section 3.06),

 

(i) have become due and payable, or

 

(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

 

(iii) 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,

 

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and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be, together with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Trustee to apply such funds to the payment thereof at maturity or redemption, as the case may be;

 

(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company or the Guarantors; and

 

(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s 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.

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to this Article IV, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.07, 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 (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.02 and the last paragraph of Section 10.03 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

 

SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money.  Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, 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 for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.  Money so held in trust is not subject to Article XIV.

 

ARTICLE V

 

Remedies

 

SECTION 5.01. Events of Default.  “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, 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):

 

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(1) default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, when due and payable, on any of the Securities (at Stated Maturity, upon optional or mandatory redemption, required purchase or otherwise), whether or not prohibited by Article XIV; or

 

(2) default in the payment of an installment of interest on any of the Securities, when due and payable, for 30 days, whether or not prohibited by Article XIV; or

 

(3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement of the Company or the Guarantors under this Indenture (other than a default in the performance or breach of a covenant or agreement which is specifically dealt with in clauses (1), (2) or (4)) and such default or breach shall continue for a period of 30 days after written notice has been given, by certified mail, (x) to the Company by the Trustee or (y) to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; or

 

(4) (a) there shall be a default in the performance or breach of the provisions of Section 8.01 with respect to the Company; (b) the Company shall have failed to make or consummate an Asset Sale Offer in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.14; or (c) the Company shall have failed to make or consummate a Change of Control Offer in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.13, whether or not prohibited by Article XIV; or

 

(5) default or defaults under one or more agreements, instruments, mortgages, bonds, debentures or other evidences of Indebtedness under which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company then has outstanding Indebtedness (i) in excess of $25,000,000, if any 7% Notes or 7¾% Notes are outstanding, or (ii) in excess of $50,000,000, when no 7% Notes or 7¾% Notes remain outstanding, in each case, individually or in the aggregate, and either (a) such Indebtedness is already due and payable in full or (b) such default or defaults have resulted in the acceleration of the maturity of such Indebtedness; or

 

(6) one or more judgments, orders or decrees of any court or regulatory or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction for the payment of money (i) in excess of $25,000,000, if any 7% Notes or 7¾% Notes are outstanding, or (ii) in excess of $50,000,000, when no 7% Notes or 7¾% Notes remain outstanding, in each case, either individually or in the aggregate, shall be entered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or any of their respective properties and shall not be discharged and there shall have been a period of 60 days after the date on which any period for appeal has expired and during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment, order or decree, shall not be in effect; or

 

(7) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises (A) for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other

 

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federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law or (B) adjudging the Company or any Significant Subsidiary bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar federal, state or foreign law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of any of their properties, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of any of their affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

 

(8) the institution by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of a voluntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar federal, state or foreign law or any other case or proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in any involuntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar  federal, state or foreign law or to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or the filing by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar federal, state or foreign law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or other similar official) of any of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action; or

 

(9) any of the Guarantees ceases to be in full force and effect or any of the Guarantees is declared to be null and void and unenforceable or any of the Guarantees is found to be invalid or any of the Guarantors denies its liability under its Guarantee (other than by reason of release of a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Indenture).

 

SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.  If an Event of Default (other than those covered by clause (7) or (8) of Section 5.01 with respect to the Company) shall occur and be continuing, the Trustee, by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding, by notice to the Trustee and the Company, may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Outstanding Securities due and payable immediately.  If an Event of Default specified in clause (7) or (8) of Section 5.01 with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, then the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Outstanding Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of Securities.

 

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After a declaration of acceleration under this Indenture, but before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind such declaration if

 

(1) the Company or any Guarantor has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

 

(A) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee under this Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel;

 

(B) all overdue interest on all Securities;

 

(C) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities; and

 

(D) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest and overdue principal at the rate set forth in the Securities which has become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration;

 

(2) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; and

 

(3) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities that have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived.

 

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereto.

 

SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.  The Company and each Guarantor covenants that if

 

(i) default is made in the payment of any 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 (or premium, if any, on) any Security on the due date for payment thereof, including, with respect to any Security required to have been purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer made by the Company, at the Purchase Date thereof, the Company or such Guarantor will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on

 

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any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate provided by the Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

 

In addition to the rights and powers set forth in Section 317(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall be entitled to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and of the Holders of the Securities allowed in any judicial proceeding relative to the Company, any Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities, its creditors, or its property, and to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of its charges and expenses; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, 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 it for compensation and expenses, including counsel fees incurred by it up to the date of such distribution.

 

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem necessary to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any 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 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.  In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company, a Guarantor (or any other obligor upon the Securities), any of their property or any of their creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding.  In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee 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 it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07.

 

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or 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

 

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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 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims 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 shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, distributions and advances of the Trustee, 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 5.06. Application of Money Collected.  Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 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 on account of principal (or premium, if any) or 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 under Section 6.07;

 

SECOND:  To holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company and, if such money or property has been collected from the Guarantors, to holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Guarantors, in each case to the extent required by Articles XIII and XIV;

 

THIRD:  To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities 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, respectively;

 

FOURTH:  To the payment of any and all other amounts due under this Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantees; and

 

FIFTH:  To the Company (or such other Person as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct).

 

SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits.  Subject to Section 5.08, no Holder of any Security shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless

 

(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;

 

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(ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in 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;

 

(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

 

(iv) the Trustee for 45 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

 

(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 45-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.

 

SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.  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 Section 3.07) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date or in the case of a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer made by the Company and required to be accepted as to such Security, on the relevant Purchase Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

 

SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.  If the Trustee or any Holder 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 or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, each Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted, subject to the determination in such proceeding.

 

SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.  Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to 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

 

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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.

 

SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.  No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders.  The Holders of a majority in 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, provided that;

 

(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and

 

(ii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

 

SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.  The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities 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 on any Security (including any Security which is required to have been purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer which has been made by the Company), or

 

(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected.

 

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.  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, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses), and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided, that neither this Section nor the

 

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Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or a Guarantor, in any suit instituted by the Trustee, in any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or in any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date or, in the case of a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer, made by the Company and required to be accepted as to such Security, on the applicable Purchase Date, as the case may be).

 

SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.  The Company and each Guarantor 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 and each Guarantor (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.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

The Trustee

 

SECTION 6.01. 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 which by the 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 (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

(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

 

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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 such Person’s own affairs.

 

(c)  No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent misconduct, except that 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 under this Indenture, unless the Trustee has received security and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense. The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in the performance of its duties hereunder.

 

(d)  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 6.01.

 

SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults.  If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such Default or Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee within 90 days after obtaining such knowledge, unless such Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default or an Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or 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 or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders.

 

SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee.  Subject to the provisions of Section 6.01:

 

(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely as to the truth of the statements and correctness of the opinions expressed therein and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer’s Certificate, certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed 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 of the Company may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution of the Company;

 

(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

 

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specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;

 

(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection 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;

 

(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 security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

 

(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, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled (subject to reasonable confidentiality arrangements as may be proposed by the Company or any Guarantor) to make reasonable examination (upon prior notice and during regular business hours) of the books, records and premises of the Company or a Guarantor, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

 

(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 or custodians or nominees and the Trustee shall not be responsible for the supervision of, or any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

 

(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

 

(i) in the event that the Trustee is also acting as Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or Securities Custodian hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI, including its right to be indemnified, shall also be afforded to such Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Securities Custodian;

 

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knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;

 

(k) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action; and

 

(l) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

 

SECTION 6.04. 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 the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities.  The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities.  The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar, any Securities Custodian or any other agent of the Company or any Guarantor, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company or a Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Securities Custodian or such other agent.

 

SECTION 6.06. 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 in writing with the Company.

 

SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement.  The Company agrees (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to promptly 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 have been caused by its negligence or willful misconduct; and (3) to indemnify the Trustee, its directors, officers, agents and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, including taxes (other than taxes based upon,

 

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measured by or determined by the revenue or income of the Trustee), arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, a Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

 

The Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities as to all property and funds held by it hereunder for any amount owing to it pursuant to this Section 6.07, except with respect to funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities.

 

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(7) or Section 5.01(8), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

 

Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and any satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 6.08. Conflicting Interests.  If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

 

SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.  There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has, or is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a bank holding company that has, a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and a Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of a federal or state supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the 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.

 

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 in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11.

 

(b)  The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company.  If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee in accordance with

 

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the applicable requirements of Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the Company and the resigning Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(c)  The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.  If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the Company and the Trustee being removed within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(d)  If at any time:

 

(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.08 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 6.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company, any Guarantor or by any such Holder, or

 

(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a 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, (A) the Company or any Guarantor, in each case by a Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee, or (B) 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 himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(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, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.  If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in 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 in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the successor Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.  If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of

 

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himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(f)  The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 1.06.  Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

 

(g)  The resignation or removal of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.10 shall not affect the obligation of the Company to indemnify the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07(3) in connection with the exercise or performance by the Trustee prior to its resignation or removal of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

 

(h)  No Trustee under this Indenture shall be liable for any action or omission of any successor Trustee.

 

SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.  Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder 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 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.  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 such rights, powers and trusts.

 

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.

 

SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.  Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided, however, such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, 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 with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

 

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SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company or a Guarantor.  If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company or a Guarantor (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 such Guarantor (or any such other obligor).

 

SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.  The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents 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 or partial purchase or pursuant to Section 3.06, 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 and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or 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, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

 

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided that such corporation 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.

 

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 1.06, to all Holders as their

 

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names and addresses appear in the Security Register.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment 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 provisions of this Section.

 

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.

 

If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, 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 described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

 

 

 

By

 

 

As Authentication Agent

 

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

ARTICLE VII

 

Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

 

SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.  The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list of the names and addresses of the Holders in such form as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, 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 Security Registrar.

 

SECTION 7.02. 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

 

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Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar, if so acting.

 

(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 duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by 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, any Guarantor nor the Trustee nor any agent of any of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

 

SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee.  (a)  Within 60 days after June 15 of each year commencing June 15, 2011, the Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture to the extent required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

 

(b)  A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company.  The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

 

SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company.  The Company shall file with the Trustee and 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 pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission.

 

Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of the same shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease

 

SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc. Only on Certain Terms.  (A) The Company will not, in any transaction or series of transactions, merge or consolidate with or into, or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all

 

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or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to, any Person or Persons, and (B) the Company will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to enter into any such transaction or series of transactions if such transaction or series of transactions, in the aggregate, would result in a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company or the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any other Person or Persons, unless, in each of cases (A) and (B), at the time and after giving effect thereto:

 

(1) either:

 

(x) if the transaction or transactions is a merger or consolidation, the Company, or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall be the surviving Person of such merger or consolidation, or

 

(y) the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company, or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is merged or to which the properties and assets of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, substantially as an entirety, are transferred, (any such surviving Person or transferee Person being the “Surviving Entity”) shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume by a supplemental indenture executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all the obligations of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, under this Indenture and the Securities, and this Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees shall remain in full force and effect;

 

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis (including, without limitation, any Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred in connection with or in respect of such transaction or series of transactions), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

(3) except in the case of any merger of the Company with any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company or any merger of a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with and into a Guarantor or merger of Guarantors (and in each case, with no other Persons), (i) the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis (including, without limitation, any Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred in connection with or in respect of such transaction or series of transactions), could incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to paragraph (a) of Section 10.08 (assuming a market rate of interest with respect to such additional Indebtedness) or (ii) the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company (or, if applicable, the successor company with respect thereto) would equal or exceed the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company immediately prior to giving effect to such transaction.

 

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In connection with any consolidation, merger, transfer, lease, assignment or other disposition contemplated by the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.01, the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, transfer, lease, assignment, or other disposition and the supplemental indenture in respect thereof (required under clause (1)(y) of this Section 8.01) comply with the requirements of this Indenture.  Each such Officer’s Certificate shall set forth the manner of determination of the ability to incur Indebtedness in accordance with clause (3) of this Section 8.01.

 

SECTION 8.02. Successor Substituted.  Except as otherwise provided by Section 13.05, upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company in accordance with Section 8.01, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is merged or the successor Person to which such sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture, as applicable, with the same effect as if such successor had been named as the Company in the Securities and this Indenture, as the case may be, and, except in the case of a lease, the Company, or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall be released and discharged from its obligations thereunder.

 

For all purposes of this Indenture and the Securities (including the provisions of this Article VIII and Sections 10.08, 10.09 and 10.12), Subsidiaries of any Surviving Entity shall, upon consummation of such transaction or series of related transactions, become Restricted Subsidiaries unless and until designated Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to and in accordance with Section 10.17 and all Indebtedness, and all Liens on property or assets, of the Company, and the Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in existence immediately prior to such transaction or series of related transactions will be deemed to have been incurred upon consummation of such transaction or series of related transactions.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

Amendments; Waivers; Supplemental Indentures

 

SECTION 9.01. Amendments, Waivers and Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.  Without the consent of any Holders, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Company and each Guarantor, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may together amend, waive or supplement this Indenture or the Securities, for any of the following purposes:

 

(i) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or a Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or such Guarantor herein and in the Securities or such Guarantor’s

 

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Guarantee and to evidence the assumption of obligations under this Indenture and a Guarantee pursuant to Section 10.16;

 

(ii) to add to the covenants of the Company or a Guarantor for the benefit of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company or a Guarantor;

 

(iii) to secure the Securities;

 

(iv) to comply with any requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;

 

(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which 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 which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture; or

 

(vi) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of the Holders;

 

provided, however, that (a) such amendment, waiver or supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of Securities and (b) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and Officer’s Certificate stating that such action pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) above is permitted by this Indenture.  The Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such amendment, waiver or supplemental indenture that adversely affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

SECTION 9.02. Modifications, Amendments and Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.  With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors, when authorized by Board Resolutions, and the Trustee may together modify, amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities 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 under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such modification, amendment or supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,

 

(i) reduce the principal amount of, extend the Stated Maturity of or alter the redemption provisions of, the Securities,

 

(ii) change the currency in which any Securities or any premium or the interest thereon is payable,

 

(iii) reduce the percentage in principal amount of Outstanding Securities that must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver or consent to take any action under this Indenture or the Securities or any Guarantee,

 

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(iv) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to the Securities or any Guarantee,

 

(v) waive a default in payment with respect to the Securities or any Guarantee,

 

(vi) amend, change or modify in any material respect the obligation of the Company to make and consummate a Change of Control Offer in respect of a Change of Control that has occurred or make and consummate an Asset Sale Offer with respect to any Asset Sale that has been consummated,

 

(vii) reduce or change the rate or time for payment of interest on the Securities, or

 

(viii) modify or change any provision of this Indenture affecting the ranking of the Securities or any Guarantee in a manner adverse to the Holders of the Securities.

 

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

 

The Trustee shall join with the Company and each Guarantor in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture unless such amended or supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion but shall not be obligated to enter into such amendment or supplemental indenture.

 

SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.  In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be given, and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.  The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise; provided that the Trustee shall enter into and execute all other supplemental indentures which satisfy all applicable conditions under this Article IX.

 

SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.  Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

 

SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.  Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

 

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SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.  Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture, provided that any failure by the Trustee to make such notation shall not affect the validity of the matter provided for in such supplemental indenture or any Security or Guarantee hereunder.  If the Company shall so determine, new Securities or Guarantees so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee, the Guarantors and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company or Guarantor and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.

 

SECTION 9.07. Waiver of Certain Covenants.  The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition set forth in Section 8.01, Sections 10.04 to 10.17, inclusive, and Section 10.20, and pursuant to Section 9.01(ii), if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in 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 and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect; provided, however, with respect to an Offer as to which an Offer to Purchase has been mailed, no such waiver may be made or shall be effective against any Holder tendering Securities pursuant to such Offer, and the Company may not omit to comply with the terms of such Offer as to such Holder.

 

SECTION 9.08. No Liability for Certain Persons.  No director, officer, employee, or stockholder of Holdings or the Company, nor any director, officer or employee of any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under the Securities, the Guarantees or this Indenture based on or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The foregoing waiver and release is an integral part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities and the Guarantees.

 

ARTICLE X

 

Covenants

 

SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.  The Company shall duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.  The Company will deposit or cause to be deposited with the Trustee or its nominee, no later than the opening of business on the date of the Stated Maturity of any Security or no later than the opening of business on the due date for any installment of

 

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interest, all payments so due, which payments shall be in immediately available funds on the date of such Stated Maturity or due date, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.  The Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, 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 or any Guarantor in respect of the Securities, the Guarantees and this Indenture may be served.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required 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 a 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.  In the event any such notice or demands are so made or served on the Trustee, the Trustee shall promptly forward copies thereof to the Company.

 

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies (in or outside the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all 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 the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, for such purposes.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

 

The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as Paying Agent and Security Registrar, and the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 8 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, as one such office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes.

 

SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.   If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or 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 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 action or failure so to act.

 

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, the Company will, prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is

 

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the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

The Company shall 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) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as Paying Agent and (ii) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent as such.

 

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 such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent (other than the Company) to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

 

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 on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall 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 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 10.04. Existence; Activities.  Subject to Article VIII, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory) and material franchises; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 10.05. Maintenance of Properties.  The Company shall cause all material properties used in the conduct of its business or the business of any Restricted Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order

 

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(regular wear and tear excepted), all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from disposing of any asset (subject to compliance with Section 10.14) or from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such material properties if such discontinuance is, as determined by the Company in good faith, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any Restricted Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 10.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.  The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, and (2) all lawful material claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon property of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.

 

SECTION 10.07. Maintenance of Insurance.  The Company shall, and shall cause its Restricted Subsidiaries to, keep at all times all of their material properties which are of an insurable nature insured against loss or damage with insurers believed by the Company to be responsible to the extent that property of similar character is usually so insured by corporations similarly situated and owning like properties in accordance with good business practice.  The Company shall, and shall cause its Restricted Subsidiaries to, use the proceeds from any such insurance policy to repair, replace or otherwise restore all material properties to which such proceeds relate, provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to repair, replace or otherwise restore any such material property if the Company in good faith determines that such inaction is desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 10.08. Limitation on Indebtedness.  (a)   The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or in any manner become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise (in each case, to “incur”), for the payment of any Indebtedness (including any Acquired Indebtedness); provided, however, that (i) the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantor will be permitted to incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness), and (ii) a Restricted Subsidiary will be permitted to incur Acquired Indebtedness, if in each case the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is at least 2:1.

 

(b)  Notwithstanding Section 10.08(a), the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be entitled to incur any or all of the following Indebtedness:

 

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(i) Indebtedness of the Company and the Guarantors related to the Securities and the guarantees of those Securities (other than any Additional Securities or guarantees thereof);

 

(ii) Indebtedness incurred by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to a Credit Facility; provided, however, that, immediately after giving effect to any such incurrence, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under this clause (ii) and then outstanding does not exceed the greater of (A) $1,850,000,000 and (B) 85% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, less, in either case, any amounts permanently repaid or commitments permanently reduced in accordance with Section 10.14;

 

(iii) (A) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary outstanding on the Issue Date, including the 17/8% Convertible Notes, the 7% Notes, the 7¾% Notes, the 9.25% Notes and the 10.875% Notes;

 

(iv) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred in respect of (A) performance bonds, completion guarantees, surety bonds, bankers’ acceptances, letters of credit or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations in the ordinary course of business, including Indebtedness evidenced by letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business to support the insurance or self-insurance obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including to secure workers’ compensation and other similar insurance coverages), but excluding letters of credit issued in respect of or to secure money borrowed, (B) obligations under Currency Agreements and Fuel Hedging Agreements entered into for bona fide hedging purposes of the Company in the ordinary course of business, (C) financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business or (D) netting, overdraft protection and other arrangements arising under standard business terms of any bank at which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary maintains an overdraft, cash pooling or other similar facility or arrangement;

 

(v) Indebtedness consisting of accommodation guarantees for the benefit of trade creditors of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(vi) (A) Interest Rate Protection Obligations of the Company covering Indebtedness of the Company; and (B) Interest Rate Protection Obligations of any Restricted Subsidiary covering Permitted Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that, in the case of either clause (A) or (B):

 

(1) any Indebtedness to which any such Interest Rate Protection Obligations correspond is otherwise permitted to be incurred under this covenant; and

 

(2) the notional principal amount of any such Interest Rate Protection Obligations shall not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness to which such Interest Rate Protection Obligations relate;

 

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(vii) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owed to and held by the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary, except that:

 

(A) any transfer of such Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary); and

 

(B) the sale, transfer or other disposition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary (other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) which is owed Indebtedness of another Restricted Subsidiary

 

shall, in each case, be an incurrence of Indebtedness by such Restricted Subsidiary subject to the other provisions of this Indenture;

 

(viii) Indebtedness of the Company owed to and held by a Restricted Subsidiary which is unsecured and subordinated in right of payment to the payment and performance of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities, except that:

 

(1) any transfer of such Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than to another Restricted Subsidiary); and

 

(2) the sale, transfer or other disposition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary which is owed Indebtedness of the Company

 

shall, in each case, be an incurrence of Indebtedness by the Company, subject to the other provisions of this Indenture;

 

(ix) (A) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of incurrence; and

 

(B) customer deposits and advance payments received in the ordinary course of business from customers for goods or services purchased or rented in the ordinary course of business;

 

(x) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under equipment purchase or lines of credit or for Capitalized Lease Obligations or Purchase Money Obligations that, when added to all other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (x) and then outstanding, shall not exceed the greater of $200,000,000 and 7.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets in aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time;

 

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(xi) (A) Indebtedness of the Company the proceeds of which are used solely to refinance (whether by amendment, renewal, extension or refunding) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred pursuant to Section 10.08(a) or pursuant to Section 10.08(b)(i), (iii) or (xi); and

 

(B) Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary the proceeds of which are used solely to refinance (whether by amendment, renewal, extension or refunding) Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 10.08(a) or pursuant to Section 10.08(b)(i), (iii) or (xi); provided, however, that:

 

(1) the principal amount of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (xi) (or, if such Indebtedness provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof, the original issue price of such Indebtedness) shall not exceed the sum of the principal amount of Indebtedness so refinanced, plus the amount of any accrued and unpaid interest and any premium required to be paid in connection with such refinancing pursuant to the terms of such Indebtedness or the amount of any premium reasonably determined by the Company as necessary to accomplish such refinancing by means of a tender offer or privately negotiated purchase, plus the amount of expenses in connection therewith; and

 

(2) in the case of Indebtedness incurred by the Company pursuant to this clause (xi) to refinance Subordinated Indebtedness, such Indebtedness:

 

(x) has no scheduled principal payment prior to the 91st day after the Maturity Date;

 

(y) has an Average Life to Stated Maturity greater than the remaining Average Life to Stated Maturity of the Securities; and

 

(z) is subordinated to the Securities in the same manner and to the same extent that the Subordinated Indebtedness being refinanced is subordinated to the Securities;

 

(xii) Indebtedness of a Foreign Subsidiary incurred to finance the working capital of such Foreign Subsidiary;

 

(xiii) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary providing for guarantees, indemnification, obligations in respect of earnouts or other purchase price adjustments or holdback of purchase price or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets, Person or a Subsidiary, other

 

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than guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition;

 

(xiv) Indebtedness arising from the making of Standard Securitization Undertakings by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(xv) guarantees by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness that was permitted to be incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under this Indenture; and

 

(xvi) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, in addition to that described in clauses (i) through (xv) of this Section 10.08(b), in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time that, when added to all other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (xvi) and then outstanding, shall not exceed the greater of $200,000,000 and 7.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.

 

(c)  For the purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to and in compliance with, this Section 10.08, (x) in the event that Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in Section 10.08(a) and (b), the Company, in its sole discretion, shall classify, and may from time to time reclassify, such item of Indebtedness and only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one of the clauses of Section 10.08(b) or Section 10.08(a); provided that Indebtedness incurred under the Credit Agreement prior to or on the Issue Date shall be treated as incurred pursuant to Section 10.08(b)(ii) above and (y) any other obligation of the obligor on such indebtedness (or of any other Person who could have incurred such indebtedness under this Section 10.08) arising under any guarantee, Lien or letter of credit, bankers’ acceptance or other similar instrument or obligation supporting such Indebtedness shall be disregarded to the extent that such guarantee, Lien or letter of credit, bankers’ acceptance or other similar instrument or obligation secures the principal amount of such Indebtedness.

 

SECTION 10.09. Limitation on Restricted Payments.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:

 

(a) declare or pay any dividend or make any other distribution or payment on or in respect of Capital Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or make any payment to the direct or indirect holders (in their capacities as such) of Capital Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than dividends or distributions payable solely in Capital Stock of the Company (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) or in options, warrants or other rights to purchase Capital Stock of the Company (other than Redeemable Capital Stock)) (other than the declaration or payment of dividends or other distributions to the extent declared or paid to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary);

 

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(b) purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any options, warrants, or other rights to purchase any such Capital Stock (other than any such securities owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary);

 

(c) make any principal payment on, or purchase, defease, repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to any scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment, scheduled sinking fund payment or other Stated Maturity, any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than (A) any such Subordinated Indebtedness owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or (B) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value (collectively, for purposes of this clause (c), a “purchase”) of Subordinated Indebtedness in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment, final maturity or exercise of a right to put on a set scheduled date (for the avoidance of doubt, not including any put right in connection with a change of control event), in each case due within one year of the date of such purchase; provided that, in the case of any such purchase in anticipation of the exercise of a put right, at the time of such purchase, it is more likely than not, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, that such put right would be exercised if such put right were exercisable on the date of such purchase); or

 

(d) make any Investment (other than any Permitted Investment) in any Person,

 

(such payments or Investments described in the preceding clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) are collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, after giving effect to the proposed Restricted Payment (the amount of any such Restricted Payment, if other than cash, shall be the Fair Market Value of the asset(s) proposed to be transferred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to such Restricted Payment), (A) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result therefrom), (B) immediately after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, the Company would be able to incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 10.08(a) and (C) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment together with all other Restricted Payments (including the Fair Market Value of any non-cash Restricted Payments) declared or made since the Issue Date would not exceed the sum of (without duplication):

 

(1) 50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Company accrued during the period (treated as one accounting period) from the Issue Date to the end of the most recent fiscal quarter of the Company ending at least 45 days prior to the date of such proposed Restricted Payment (or, if such aggregate cumulative Consolidated Net Income of the Company for such period shall be a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit);

 

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(2) the aggregate net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value of property or assets received by the Company as capital contributions to the Company after the Issue Date;

 

(3) the aggregate net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value of property or assets received by the Company from the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (excluding Redeemable Capital Stock of the Company) of the Company to any Person (other than an issuance or sale to a Subsidiary of the Company and other than an issuance or sale to an employee stock ownership plan or to a trust established by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for the benefit of employees of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company) after the Issue Date;

 

(4) the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company from any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company) upon the exercise of any options, warrants or rights to purchase shares of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) of the Company after the Issue Date;

 

(5) the aggregate net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value of property or assets received after the Issue Date by the Company from any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company) for debt securities that have been converted or exchanged into or for Capital Stock of the Company or Holdings (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) (to the extent such debt securities were originally sold by the Company for cash) plus the aggregate amount of cash received by the Company (other than from a Subsidiary of the Company) in connection with such conversion or exchange;

 

(6) in the case of the disposition or repayment of any Investment constituting a Restricted Payment made after the Issue Date, an amount equal to the return of capital with respect to such Investment less the cost of the disposition of such Investment;

 

(7) the aggregate amount equal to the net reduction in Investments (other than Permitted Investments) in Unrestricted Subsidiaries resulting from dividends, distributions, interest payments, return of capital, repayments of Investments or other transfers of assets to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from any Unrestricted Subsidiary; and

 

(8) so long as the Designation thereof was treated as a Restricted Payment made after the Issue Date, with respect to any Unrestricted Subsidiary that has been redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 10.17 below, the Fair Market Value of the Company’s interest in such Subsidiary.

 

For purposes of the preceding clause (C)(4), the value of the aggregate net proceeds received by the Company upon the issuance of Capital Stock upon the exercise of options, warrants or rights will be the net cash proceeds received upon the issuance of

 

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such options, warrants or rights plus the incremental amount received by the Company upon the exercise thereof.

 

None of the foregoing provisions shall prohibit, so long, in the case of clauses (i), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (xi) and (xv) below, as there is no Default or Event of Default continuing, (i) the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of its declaration, if at the date of declaration such payment would be permitted by the first paragraph of this Section 10.09; (ii) the purchase, redemption, repurchase or other acquisition or retirement of any shares of any class of Capital Stock or Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of, a substantially concurrent issue and sale of other shares of Capital Stock of the Company (other than Redeemable Capital Stock of the Company) to any Person (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) or a substantially concurrent cash capital contribution to the Company; provided, however, that such net cash proceeds are excluded from clause (C) of the first paragraph of this Section 10.09; (iii) any redemption, repurchase, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness by exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of, a substantially concurrent issue and sale of (1) Capital Stock of the Company (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) to any Person (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company); provided, however, that any such net cash proceeds are excluded from clause (C) of the first paragraph of this Section 10.09; or (2) Indebtedness of the Company so long as such Indebtedness is Subordinated Indebtedness which (x) has no scheduled principal payment prior to the 91st day after the Maturity Date, (y) has an Average Life to Stated Maturity greater than the remaining Average Life to Stated Maturity of the Securities and (z) is subordinated to the Securities in the same manner and to the same extent as the Subordinated Indebtedness so purchased, exchanged, redeemed, acquired or retired; (iv) Investments constituting Restricted Payments made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from any Asset Sale or other sale of assets or property made pursuant to and in compliance with this Indenture; (v) payments to purchase Capital Stock of the Company or Holdings from officers of the Company or Holdings in an amount, together with all Restricted Payments made pursuant to this clause (v), not to exceed the sum of (1) $15,000,000 plus (2) $5 million multiplied by the number of calendar years that have commenced since the Issue Date; (vi) payments (other than those covered by clause (v)) to purchase Capital Stock of the Company or Holdings from management or employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or their authorized representatives, upon the death, disability or termination of employment of such employees, in aggregate amounts under this clause (vi) not to exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Company; (vii) payments to Holdings in an amount sufficient to permit it to (I) make scheduled payments of interest on (A) the 4% Notes and (B) any Indebtedness incurred by Holdings to refinance any Indebtedness described in clause (A); provided that such Indebtedness would otherwise satisfy the requirements of Section 10.08(b)(xi)(B)(1), and (II) purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire within one year of final maturity the 4% Notes; provided that any payments made pursuant to this clause (II) are made with the proceeds of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under this Indenture and any such Indebtedness would otherwise satisfy the requirements of Section 10.08(b)(xi)(B)(1) and (2)(x) and (y); (viii) upon the occurrence of a Change of Control and within 60 days after the completion of the offer to

 

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repurchase the Securities pursuant to Section 10.13 (including the purchase of the Securities tendered), any purchase or redemption of Subordinated Indebtedness or any Capital Stock of Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiaries required pursuant to the terms thereof as a result of such Change of Control at a purchase or redemption price not to exceed 101% of the outstanding principal amount or liquidation amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest or dividends (if any); provided, however, that at the time of such purchase or redemption no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result therefrom); (ix) upon the occurrence of an Asset Sale and within 60 days after the completion of an Asset Sale Offer to repurchase the Securities pursuant to Section 10.14 (including the purchase of the Securities tendered), any purchase or redemption of Subordinated Indebtedness or any Capital Stock of Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiaries required pursuant to the terms thereof as a result of such Asset Sale; provided, however, that at the time of such purchase or redemption no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result therefrom); (x) payments to Holdings in an amount sufficient to enable Holdings to pay (1) its taxes, legal, accounting, payroll, benefits, incentive compensation, insurance and corporate overhead expenses (including Commission, stock exchange and transfer agency fees and expenses) and expenses of United Rentals Trust I payable by Holdings pursuant to the terms of the trust agreement governing such trust, (2) trade, lease, payroll, benefits, incentive compensation and other obligations in respect of goods to be delivered to, services (including management and consulting services) performed for and properties used by, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, (3) the purchase price for Investments in other Persons; provided, however, that promptly following such Investment either (x) such other Person either becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged or consolidated with, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or (y) such Investment would otherwise be permitted under this Indenture if made by the Company and such Investment is contributed or transferred by Holdings to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and (4) reasonable and customary incidental expenses as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of Holdings; (xi) cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares in connection with the exercise of any warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock of Holdings, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; (xii) the deemed repurchase of Capital Stock on the cashless exercise of stock options; (xiii) the payment of any dividend or distribution by a Restricted Subsidiary to the holders of its Capital Stock on a pro rata basis; (xiv) any Investment made in a Special Purpose Vehicle in connection with a Securitization Transaction, which Investment consists of the assets described in the definition of “Equipment Securitization Transaction” or “Receivables Securitization Transaction”; and (xv) any Restricted Payment in an amount which, when taken together with all Restricted Payments made after the Issue Date pursuant to this clause (xv), does not exceed $150,000,000.  Any payments made pursuant to clauses (i) or (xv) of this paragraph shall be taken into account in calculating the amount of Restricted Payments made from and after the Issue Date.

 

SECTION 10.10. Limitation on Preferred Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries.  The Company shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue any Preferred Stock other than Preferred Stock issued to the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted

 

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Subsidiary.  The Company shall not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of Preferred Stock issued by a Restricted Subsidiary or permit a Restricted Subsidiary to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of Preferred Stock issued by a Restricted Subsidiary, other than to the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 10.10 shall prohibit Preferred Stock (other than Redeemable Capital Stock) issued by a Person prior to the time (A) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, (B) such Person merges with or into a Restricted Subsidiary or (C) a Restricted Subsidiary merges with or into such Person; provided, however, that such Preferred Stock was not issued or incurred by such Person in anticipation of a transaction contemplated by subclause (A), (B) or (C) above.

 

SECTION 10.11. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into any transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, transfer, disposition, purchase, exchange or lease of assets, property or services) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates (other than Restricted Subsidiaries), except (a) on terms that are not materially less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those which could have been obtained in a comparable transaction at such time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the Company, (b) with respect to a transaction or series of related transactions involving aggregate payments or value equal to or greater than $10,000,000 the Company shall have delivered an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee certifying that such transaction or transactions comply with the preceding clause (a), (c) with respect to a transaction or series of related transactions involving aggregate payments or value equal to or greater than $20,000,000, such transaction or transactions shall have been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members of the Board of Directors of the Company, and (d) with respect to a transaction or series of related transactions involving aggregate payments or value equal to or greater than $50,000,000, the Board of Directors of the Company shall also have received a written opinion from an Independent Qualified Party to the effect that such transaction or series of related transactions is fair, from a financial standpoint, to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or is not less favorable to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries than could reasonably be expected to be obtained at the time in an arm’s length transaction with a non-Affiliate.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the restrictions set forth in this Section 10.11 shall not apply to (i) transactions with or among the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries, (ii) transactions in the ordinary course of business, or approved by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company, between the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Affiliate of the Company that is a joint venture or similar entity, including United Rentals Industrial Services Inc., (iii) (A) customary directors’ fees, indemnification and similar arrangements, consulting fees, employee salaries, bonuses or employment agreements, compensation or employee benefit arrangements and incentive arrangements with any officer, director or employee of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary entered into in the ordinary course of business and (B) any transaction with an officer or director in the ordinary course of business not involving more than $100,000 in any one case, (iv) any dividends, payments or investments made in compliance with Section 10.09, (v) loans and advances to officers, directors and

 

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employees of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for travel, entertainment, moving and other relocation expenses, in each case made in the ordinary course of business, (vi) the incurrence of intercompany Indebtedness which constitutes Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 10.08, (vii) transactions pursuant to agreements in effect on the Issue Date, (viii) any sale, conveyance or other transfer of assets customarily transferred in a Securitization Transaction to a Special Purpose Vehicle, (ix) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, joint venture partners, joint ventures, including their members or partners, or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business, including pursuant to joint venture agreements, and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are, in the aggregate (taking into account all the costs and benefits associated with such transactions), materially no less favorable to the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Company or that Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person or entity, in the good faith determination of the Company’s Board of Directors or its senior management, or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party, (x) transactions described in, or permitted by, clauses (vii) and (x) of the final paragraph of Section 10.09 and (xi) any issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Capital Stock and other than proceeds from the issuance of Capital Stock to Holdings or a Subsidiary of Holdings or to an employee stock ownership plan or to a trust established by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries for the benefit of their employees) of the Company or capital contribution to the Company.

 

SECTION 10.12. Limitation on Liens.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien (the “Initial Lien”) of any kind against or upon any of its property or assets, or any proceeds therefrom, unless the Securities are equally and ratably secured (except that Liens securing Subordinated Indebtedness shall be expressly subordinate to Liens securing the Securities to the same extent such Subordinated Indebtedness is subordinate to the Securities), except for (a) Liens securing Senior Indebtedness, (b) Liens securing the Securities and (c) Permitted Liens.  Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities pursuant to the preceding sentence shall provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the Initial Lien.

 

SECTION 10.13. Change of Control.  (a)  On or before the 30th day after the date of the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall make an Offer to Purchase (a “Change of Control Offer”) on a Business Day not more than 60 nor less than 30 days following the occurrence of the Change of Control (the “Change of Control Purchase Date”), all of the then Outstanding Securities tendered at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the Change of Control Purchase Date.  The Company shall be required to purchase all Securities tendered into the Change of Control Offer and not withdrawn.  The Change in Control Offer shall remain open for at least 20 Business Days.

 

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amount and integral multiples thereof) tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent money, in immediately available funds, sufficient to pay the purchase price of all Securities or portions thereof so tendered and accepted and (iii) deliver to the Trustee the Securities so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Securities or portions thereof tendered to and accepted for payment by the Company.  The Paying Agent shall promptly mail or deliver to the Holders of Securities so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and make available for delivery to such Holders a new Security of like tenor equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Security surrendered. Any Securities not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer not later than the third Business Day following the Change of Control Purchase Date.

 

(c)  The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer.

 

(d)  The Company shall comply with Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent such laws or regulations are applicable, in the event that a Change of Control occurs and the Company is required to purchase Securities as described above.

 

(e)  Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall not repurchase any Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company pursuant to an offer to purchase or otherwise until (1) the requirements of this Section 10.13 have been satisfied or (2) the Company shall have obtained the requisite consent under this Indenture to permit the repurchase of such Subordinated Indebtedness.

 

SECTION 10.14. Disposition of Proceeds of Asset Sales.  The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, make any Asset Sale unless (a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any liabilities, contingent or otherwise) at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the shares or assets sold or otherwise disposed of and (b) at least 75% of such consideration consists of cash or Cash Equivalents or Replacement Assets; provided, however, that (i) the amount of any liabilities (as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary) of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary that are assumed by the transferee of such assets and (ii) any securities, notes or other obligations received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted within 180 days into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received) shall be deemed to be cash for the purposes of this provision; provided further, that the 75% limitation referred to in clause (b) will not apply to any Asset Sale in which the cash or Cash Equivalent portion of the consideration received therefrom, determined in

 

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accordance with the foregoing provision, is equal to or greater than what the after-tax proceeds would have been had such Asset Sale complied with the aforementioned 75% limitation.

 

To the extent that the Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale are not required to be applied to repay, and permanently reduce the commitments under, Senior Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or are not so applied, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, may apply the Net Cash Proceeds from such Asset Sale, within 365 days of such Asset Sale, to an investment in properties and assets that replace the properties and assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale or in properties and assets that are used or useful in the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries conducted at such time or in businesses reasonably related thereto or in Capital Stock of a Person, the principal portion of whose assets consist of such property or assets (collectively, “Replacement Assets”); provided however, that any such reinvestment in Replacement Assets made pursuant to a definitive binding agreement or commitment approved by the Board of Directors of the Company that is executed or approved within such time shall satisfy this requirement, so long as such investment is consummated within 180 days of such 365th day; provided that in the event such binding agreement or commitment is later canceled or terminated for any reason before such Net Cash Proceeds are so applied, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may satisfy its obligations as to any Net Cash Proceeds by entering into another binding agreement or commitment within six months of such cancellation or termination of the prior binding agreement or commitment or treating such Net Cash Proceeds as Excess Proceeds; provided further that the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may only enter into such an agreement or commitment under the foregoing provision one time with respect to each Asset Sale.  Any Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale that are neither used to repay, and permanently reduce the commitments under, Senior Indebtedness of the Company, nor invested in Replacement Assets pursuant to the preceding sentence constitute “Excess Proceeds” subject to disposition as provided below.

 

When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds equals or exceeds $35,000,000, the Company shall make an offer to purchase (an “Asset Sale Offer”), from all Holders of the Securities, an aggregate principal amount of Securities equal to such Excess Proceeds, at a price in cash equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the Purchase Date (the “Asset Sale Offer Price”).  To the extent that the aggregate principal amount of Securities tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the Company may use such deficiency for general corporate purposes.  The Securities shall be purchased by the Company, at the option of the Holder thereof, in whole or in part in integral multiples of $1,000, on a date that is not earlier than 30 days and not later than 60 days from the date the notice is given to Holders, or such later date as may be necessary for the Company to comply with the requirements under the Exchange Act.  If Securities purchasable at an aggregate Purchase Price in excess of the Purchase Amount are tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer to Purchase, the Company shall purchase Securities on a pro rata basis, based on the Purchase Price therefor, or such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (subject in

 

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each case to applicable rules of the Depositary and any securities exchange upon which the Securities may then be listed), with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate so that only Securities in denominations of $1,000 principal face amount or integral multiples thereof shall be purchased. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company is required to commence an Asset Sale Offer at any time when securities of the Company ranking pari passu in right of payment with the Securities are outstanding and the terms of such securities provide that a similar offer must be made with respect to such other securities, then the Asset Sale Offer for the Securities shall be made concurrently with such other offers and securities of each issue will be accepted on a pro rata basis in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of securities of each issue which the holders thereof elect to have purchased. Any Asset Sale Offer will be made only to the extent permitted under, and subject to prior compliance with, the terms of agreements governing Senior Indebtedness. Upon completion of such Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset to zero.

 

On the Purchase Date under this Section 10.14, the Company shall (i) accept for payment (subject to proration as described in the Offer to Purchase) Securities or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent money, in immediately available funds, sufficient to pay the purchase price of all Securities or portions thereof so tendered and accepted and (iii) deliver to the Trustee the Securities so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Securities or portions thereof tendered to and accepted for payment by the Company.  The Paying Agent shall promptly mail or deliver to the Holders of Securities so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and make available for delivery to such Holders a new Security of like tenor equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Security surrendered.  Any Securities not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof.  The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Asset Sale Offer not later than the third Business Day following the Asset Sale Offer Purchase Date.

 

Whenever the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries exceeds $35,000,000, such Excess Proceeds shall, prior to the purchase of Securities, be set aside by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a separate account pending (i) deposit with the Paying Agent of the amount required to purchase the Securities tendered in an Asset Sale Offer or (ii) delivery by the Company of the Asset Sale Offer Price to the Holders of the Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer.  Such Excess Proceeds may be invested in Cash Equivalents, as directed by the Company, having a maturity date which is not later than the earliest possible date for purchase of Securities pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer.  The Company will be entitled to any interest or dividends accrued, earned or paid on such Cash Equivalents.

 

The Company shall comply with Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable, in the event that an Asset Sale occurs and the Company is required to purchase Securities as described above.

 

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SECTION 10.15. Limitation on Dividends and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends, in cash or otherwise, or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock or any other interest or participation in, or measured by, its profits, (b) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, (d) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary or (e) guarantee any Indebtedness of the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation or order, (ii) (A) customary non-assignment provisions of any contract or any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and (B) pursuant to customary provisions restricting dispositions of real property interests set forth in any reciprocal easement agreement of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (iii) customary restrictions on transfers of property subject to a Lien permitted under this Indenture, (iv) instruments governing Indebtedness as in effect on the Issue Date, including the Credit Agreement, (v) any agreement or other instrument of a Person, or relating to Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person, which Person is acquired by or merged or consolidated with the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or which agreement or instrument is assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets from such Person, as in existence at the time of such acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired, (vi) an agreement entered into for the sale or disposition of Capital Stock or assets of a Restricted Subsidiary or an agreement entered into for the sale of specified assets (in either case, so long as such encumbrance or restriction, by its terms, terminates on the earlier of the termination of such agreement or the consummation of such agreement and so long as such restriction applies only to the Capital Stock or assets to be sold), (vii) any agreement in effect on the Issue Date, (viii) this Indenture and the Guarantees, (ix) joint venture agreements and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business that prohibit actions of the type described in clauses (a), (c), (d) and (e) above, (x) any agreement entered into with respect to a Special Purpose Vehicle in connection with a Securitization Transaction, containing customary restrictions required by the institutional sponsor or arranger of such Securitization Transaction in similar types of documents relating to the purchase of similar assets in connection with the financing thereof, (xi) restrictions relating to Foreign Subsidiaries contained in Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause (xii) or (xvi) of Section 10.08(b), (xii) (A) on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers or suppliers under agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, (B) that arises or is agreed to in the ordinary course of business and does not detract from the value of property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any manner material to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary or adversely effect the ability of the Company to make interest and principal payments with respect to the Securities or (C) pursuant to Interest Rate Protection Agreements, (xiii) Purchase Money

 

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Obligations with respect to property or assets acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose encumbrances or restrictions on the property or assets so acquired, (xiv) an agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 10.08 (A) if the encumbrances and restrictions contained in any such agreement or instrument taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Holders of the Securities than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in instruments governing Indebtedness as in effect on the Issue Date (as determined in good faith by the Company), or (B) if such encumbrance or restriction is not materially more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Securities than is customary in comparable financings (as determined in good faith by the Company) and either (x) the Company determines in good faith that such encumbrance or restriction will not materially affect the Company’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Securities or (y) such encumbrance or restriction applies only if a default occurs in respect of a payment or financial covenant relating to such Indebtedness and (xv) any agreement that amends, extends, refinances, renews or replaces any agreement described in the foregoing clauses; provided, however, that the terms and conditions of any such agreement are not materially less favorable to the Holders of the Securities with respect to such dividend and payment restrictions than those under or pursuant to the agreement amended, extended, refinanced, renewed or replaced.

 

SECTION 10.16. Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.  The Company will cause each Domestic Subsidiary that guarantees any Indebtedness of the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary to at the same time execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guaranty Agreement pursuant to which such Domestic Subsidiary will guarantee payment of the Securities on the same terms and conditions as those set forth in this Indenture.  This Section 10.16 shall not apply to any of the Company’s Subsidiaries that have been properly designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or as a Special Purpose Vehicle.

 

SECTION 10.17. Limitations on Designation of Unrestricted Subsidiaries.  (a)  The Company may designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an “Unrestricted Subsidiary” under this Indenture (a “Designation”) only if:

 

(i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or after giving effect to such Designation;

 

(ii) the Company would be permitted to make an Investment (other than a Permitted Investment, except a Permitted Investment covered by clause (xii) of the definition thereof) at the time of Designation (assuming the effectiveness of such Designation) pursuant to the first paragraph of Section 10.09 in an amount (the “Designation Amount”) equal to the Fair Market Value of the Company’s interest in such Subsidiary on such date calculated in accordance with GAAP; and

 

(iii) the Company would be permitted under this Indenture to incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 10.08(a) at the time of such Designation (assuming the effectiveness of such Designation).

 

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In the event of any such Designation, the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment constituting a Restricted Payment pursuant to Section 10.09 for all purposes of this Indenture in the Designation Amount.

 

All Subsidiaries of Unrestricted Subsidiaries shall automatically be deemed to be Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

(b)  The Company may revoke any Designation of a Subsidiary as an  Unrestricted Subsidiary (a “Revocation”) if:

 

(i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of and after giving effect to such Revocation, and

 

(ii) all Liens and Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary outstanding immediately following such Revocation would, if incurred at such time by a Restricted Subsidiary, have been permitted to be incurred for all purposes of this Indenture.

 

(c)  All Designations and Revocations must be evidenced by Board Resolutions of the Company delivered to the Trustee certifying compliance with the foregoing provisions.

 

SECTION 10.18. Provision of Financial Information.  For so long as the Securities are outstanding, whether or not the Company is subject to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision thereto, the Company shall file with the Commission (if permitted by Commission practice and applicable law and regulations) the annual reports, quarterly reports and other documents which the Company would have been required to file with the Commission pursuant to such Section 13(a) or 15(d) or any successor provision thereto if the Company were so subject, such documents to be filed with the Commission on or prior to the respective dates (the “Required Filing Dates”) by which the Company would have been required so to file such documents if the Company were so subject.  If, notwithstanding the preceding sentence, filing such documents by the Company with the Commission is not permitted by Commission practice or applicable law or regulations, the Company will transmit (or cause to be transmitted) by mail to the Trustee and all Holders of the Securities, as their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register, copies of such documents within 30 days after the Required Filing Date.  In addition, for so long as any Securities remain outstanding, the Company will furnish to the Holders of Securities and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act, and, to any beneficial Holder of Securities, if not obtainable from the Commission, information of the type that would be filed with the Commission pursuant to the foregoing provisions upon the request of any such Holder.

 

SECTION 10.19. Statement by Officers as to Default; Compliance Certificates.  (a)  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, prior to March 31 in each year commencing with the year beginning on January 1, 2011, an Officer’s Certificate,

 

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stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder), and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which he may have knowledge.

 

(b)  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within five days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Default or Event of Default, and the action which the Company proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

SECTION 10.20. Limitation of the Issuance of Subordinated Indebtedness.  The Company will not, directly or indirectly, incur any indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) that is subordinate in right of payment to any Indebtedness of the Company and senior in right of payment to the Securities.

 

ARTICLE XI

 

Redemption of Securities

 

SECTION 11.01. Right of Redemption/Mandatory Redemption.  The Securities may be redeemed at the election of the Company, in the amounts, at the times, at the Redemption Prices (together with any applicable accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date), and subject to the conditions specified in the form of Security and hereinafter set forth.  The Company also shall redeem the Securities in the amounts, at the times, at the Redemption Prices (together with any applicable accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date), and subject to the conditions specified in the form of Security and hereinafter set forth.

 

SECTION 11.02. Applicability of Article.  Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company, as permitted by this Indenture and the provisions of the Securities, shall be made in accordance with such provisions and this Article.

 

SECTION 11.03. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.  The election of the Company to redeem any Securities pursuant to Section 11.01 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution.  In the event of any redemption at the election of the Company pursuant to Section 11.01, the Company shall notify the Trustee, in case of a redemption of less than all the Securities, at least 60 days, and in the case of a redemption of all the Securities, at least 40 days, prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (in each case, unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities to be redeemed.

 

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requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which the Securities are listed or, if the Securities are not then listed on a national securities exchange, on a pro rata basis, to the extent practicable (subject to the rules of the Depositary); provided, however, that Securities shall only be redeemable in amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000.

 

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and each Security Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

 

For all purposes of this Indenture and of the Securities, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

 

SECTION 11.05. Notice of Redemption.  Notice of redemption shall be given by first class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date if the notice of redemption is issued in connection with (i) a satisfaction and discharge of securities in accordance with Article IV or (ii) a defeasance in accordance with Article XII.

 

All notices of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed (including, if used, CUSIP or CINS numbers) and shall state:

 

(i) the Redemption Date;

 

(ii) the Redemption Price;

 

(iii) if less than all the Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed,  the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;

 

(iv) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and accrued interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date, will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after such Redemption Date;

 

(v) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price accrued interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date; and

 

(vi) if the redemption is being made pursuant to the provisions of the Securities regarding a Public Equity Offering, a brief description of the transaction or transactions giving rise to such redemption, the aggregate purchase price thereof and the net cash  proceeds therefrom available for such redemption, the date or dates on which such transaction or transactions were completed and

 

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the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities being redeemed.

 

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 and provision of such notice information to the Trustee five days prior to the mailing of such notice, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.

 

SECTION 11.06. Deposit of Redemption Price.  Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) any applicable accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

 

SECTION 11.07. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.  Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and any applicable accrued interest or the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to Article XIV) interest shall cease to accrue on such Securities or portions thereof.  Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with any applicable accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall 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 3.07.

 

If any Security called for redemption in accordance with the election of the Company made pursuant to Section 11.01 shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate provided by the Security.

 

SECTION 11.08. Securities Redeemed in Part.  Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at an office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose pursuant to Section 10.02 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount at Stated Maturity equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal amount at Stated Maturity of the Security so surrendered.

 

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ARTICLE XII

 

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

 

SECTION 12.01. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.  The Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Section 12.02 or Section 12.03 applied to the Outstanding Securities (as a whole and not in part) upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article.  Any such election shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution.

 

SECTION 12.02. Defeasance and Discharge.  Upon the Company’s exercise of its option to have this Section applied to the Outstanding Securities (as a whole and not in part), the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 12.04 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 12.04 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 10.02 and 10.03, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article.  Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option to have this Section applied to the Outstanding Securities (as a whole and not in part) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option to have Section 12.03 applied to such Securities.

 

SECTION 12.03. Covenant Defeasance.  Upon the Company’s exercise of its option to have this Section applied to the Outstanding Securities (as a whole and not in part), (i) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Section 8.01(3), Sections 10.05 through 10.18, inclusive, Section 10.20, and any covenant provided pursuant to Section 9.01(ii) and the Guarantors shall be released from their obligations under Article XIII and the Guarantees, and (ii) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 5.01(3) and 5.01(4) (with respect to Section 8.01(3) and any of Sections 10.05 through 10.18, inclusive, and Section 10.20, and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 9.01(ii)), shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 12.04 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”).  For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 5.01(3) or 5.01(4)), whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason

 

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of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

 

SECTION 12.04. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.  The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 12.02 or Section 12.03 to the Outstanding Securities:

 

(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 6.09 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of, premium, if any, and any installment of interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities or Redemption Date thereof, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities.  As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.

 

(2) In the event of an election to have Section 12.02 apply to the Outstanding Securities, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law,

 

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in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.

 

(3) In the event of an election to have Section 12.03 apply to the Outstanding Securities, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit  and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.

 

(4) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Outstanding Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit (excluding a Default or an Event of Default due to a breach of Sections 10.08 or 10.12 which arises due to the borrowing of funds applied to such deposit).

 

(5) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest with respect to any securities of the Company or any Guarantor.

 

(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which it is bound (excluding a Default or an Event of Default due to a breach of Sections 10.08 or 10.12 which arises due to the borrowing of funds applied to such deposit).

 

(7) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (which opinion may be subject to customary assumptions and exceptions) to the effect that after the 91st day following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally.

 

(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities over the other creditors of the Company or any Guarantor with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the Company or any Guarantor or others.

 

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Securities on the date of such deposit or at any time ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit.

 

(10) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture to either Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, have been complied with.

 

SECTION 12.05. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.  Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 12.06, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 12.04 in respect of the Outstanding Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 12.04 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.

 

Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 12.04 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to the Outstanding Securities.

 

SECTION 12.06. Reinstatement.  If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining, or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture, such Securities and the Guarantees from which the Company and the Guarantors have been discharged or released pursuant to Section 12.02 or 12.03 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to this Section 12.05 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following

 

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such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.

 

ARTICLE XIII

 

Guarantee

 

SECTION 13.01. Guarantee.  Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees on a senior subordinated basis, jointly and severally, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (a) the full and prompt payment (within applicable grace periods) of principal of and interest on the Securities when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities and (b) the full and prompt performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Guaranty Obligations”).  Each Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranty Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from such Guarantor, and that such Guarantor will remain bound under this Article XIII notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranty Obligation.

 

To the extent that any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be required to pay any amounts on account of the Securities pursuant to a Guarantee in excess of an amount calculated as the product of (i) the aggregate amount payable by the Subsidiary Guarantors on account of the Securities pursuant to their respective Guarantees times (ii) the proportion (expressed as a fraction) that such Subsidiary Guarantor’s net assets (determined in accordance with GAAP) at the date enforcement of the Subsidiary Guarantees is sought bears to the aggregate net assets (determined in accordance with GAAP) of all Subsidiary Guarantors at such date, then such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be reimbursed by the other Subsidiary Guarantors for the amount of such excess, pro rata, based upon the respective net assets (determined in accordance with GAAP) of such other Subsidiary Guarantors at the date enforcement of the Subsidiary Guarantees is sought.  This paragraph is intended only to define the relative rights of Subsidiary Guarantors as among themselves, and nothing set forth in this paragraph is intended to or shall impair the joint and several obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under their respective Subsidiary Guarantees.

 

The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under any Guarantee.

 

Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Guaranty Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment.  Each Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Securities or the Guaranty Obligations.  The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or

 

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demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company or any other Person under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Guaranty Obligations or any of them; (e) the failure of any Holder or Trustee to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Guaranty Obligations; or (f) any change in the ownership of any Guarantor (subject to Section 13.05).

 

Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein constitutes a guaranty of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not a guaranty of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder or the Trustee to any security held for payment of the Guaranty Obligations.

 

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranty Obligations or otherwise.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the obligations of each Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guaranty Obligations, or by any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of each Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.

 

Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Guaranty Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder or the Trustee upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.

 

In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder or the Trustee has at law or in equity against each Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any Guaranty Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise (within applicable grace periods), or to perform or comply with any other Guaranty Obligation (within applicable grace periods), each Guarantor hereby promises to and shall, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid principal amount of such Guaranty Obligations, (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranty Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) and (iii) all other monetary Guaranty Obligations of the Company to the Holders and the Trustee.

 

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Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any Guaranty Obligations Guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all Guaranty Obligations.  Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Guaranty Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article V for the purposes of its Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranty Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Guaranty Obligations as provided in Article V, such Guaranty Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor for the purposes of this Section.

 

Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section.

 

SECTION 13.02. Limitation on Liability.  Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the obligations guaranteed hereunder by each Guarantor shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed without rendering this Indenture, as it relates to such Guarantor, voidable under applicable federal or state law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer.

 

SECTION 13.03. Execution and Delivery of Guarantees.  The Guarantees to be endorsed on the Securities shall be in the form set forth in Exhibit B.  Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees to execute its Guarantee in such form, to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee.

 

Each Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of each respective Guarantor by any one of such Guarantor’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, Chief Financial Officer or Vice Presidents and any authorized signatories for any Guarantors that are not corporations.  The signature of any or all of these officers on the Guarantee may be manual or facsimile.

 

A Guarantee bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of a Guarantor shall bind such Guarantor, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of the Security on which such Guarantee is endorsed or did not hold such offices at the date of such Guarantee.

 

Each Guarantee shall be registered, transferred, exchanged and cancelled, and shall be held in definitive or global form, in the same manner and together with the Security to which it relates, in accordance with Article III.

 

The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee endorsed thereon on behalf of the Guarantors.  Each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that

 

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its Guarantee set forth in Section 13.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse a Guarantee on any Security.

 

SECTION 13.04. Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms.  Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities or any Guarantee shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or a Guarantor or the merger of a wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with and into a Guarantor or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the assets of a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety or the Capital Stock of a Guarantor to the Company or a Guarantor.

 

SECTION 13.05. Release of Guarantors.  The Guarantee of a Subsidiary Guarantor shall automatically be released from all obligations under its Guarantee endorsed on the Securities and under this Article XIII without need for any further act or the execution or delivery or any document: (i) upon the sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation or merger) of such Subsidiary Guarantor other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and as permitted by this Indenture, including Section 10.14; (ii) upon the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor other than to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and as permitted by this Indenture, including Section 10.14; (iii) upon Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance in accordance with Article XII; or (iv) if the Company properly designates any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.  Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that such transaction was made in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guarantee endorsed on the Securities and under this Article XIII.

 

SECTION 13.06. Successors and Assigns.  This Article XIII shall be binding upon each Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder or the Trustee, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Securities shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 13.07. No Waiver, etc.  Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of either the Trustee or the Holders in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article XIII shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege.  The rights, remedies and benefits of the Trustee and the Holders herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article XIII at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

 

SECTION 13.08. Modification, etc.  No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article, nor the consent to any departure by a Guarantor therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed

 

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by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given.  No notice to or demand on a Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Guarantor or any other guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.

 

SECTION 13.09. Subordination of Guarantee.  The obligations of each Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantee and this Article XIII shall be (a) junior and subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full in cash of all Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor (b) pari passu in all respects with all existing and future Senior Subordinated Indebtedness of such Guarantor and (c) senior in right of payment to all existing and future Subordinated Indebtedness of such Guarantor, in each case on the same basis as the Securities and the obligations of the Company hereunder are junior and subordinated to all Senior Indebtedness, pari passu with all Senior Subordinated Indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all Subordinated Indebtedness.  For the purposes of this Section 13.09, Article XIV shall apply to the obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee, this Article XIII, and the other provisions of this Indenture as if references therein to the Company, the Securities, Senior Indebtedness, Subordinated Indebtedness and Designated Senior Indebtedness were references to such Guarantor, such Guarantor’s Guarantee, Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor, Subordinated Indebtedness of such Guarantor and Designated Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor, respectively.

 

ARTICLE XIV

 

Subordination

 

SECTION 14.01. Agreement to Subordinate, Securities Subordinate to Senior Indebtedness and Senior to Subordinated Indebtedness.  The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees that, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article XIV, the Indebtedness evidenced by the Securities is hereby expressly made subordinate in right of payment to the prior payment in full in cash of all Senior Indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all existing and future Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company.  The Securities shall in all respects rank pari passu with all other Senior Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company.

 

SECTION 14.02. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.  In the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding in connection therewith, relating to the Company or its assets, or any liquidation, dissolution or other winding-up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, or any assignment for the benefit of creditors or other marshalling of assets or liabilities of the Company, all Senior Indebtedness (including, in the case of Designated Senior Indebtedness, any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition for bankruptcy (regardless of whether such interest is an allowed claim in the bankruptcy proceeding)) must be paid in full in cash before any payment (other than payments in the form of Qualified Equity Interests or

 

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other securities the payment of which is subordinated, at least to the same extent as the Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be outstanding) is made on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities.

 

SECTION 14.03. No Payment When Designated Senior Indebtedness is in Default.  During the continuance of any default in the payment of principal, or premium, if any, or interest on any Senior Indebtedness, when the same becomes due, and after receipt by the Trustee and the Company from representatives of holders of such Senior Indebtedness of written notice of such default, no direct or indirect payment by or on behalf of the Company of any kind or character (other than Qualified Equity Interests or other securities the payment of which is subordinated, at least to the same extent as the Securities, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be outstanding) may be made on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of, the Securities unless and until such default has been cured or waived or has ceased to exist or such Senior Indebtedness shall have been discharged or paid in full in cash, after which the Company shall resume making any and all required payments in respect of the Securities, including any missed payments.

 

In addition, during the continuance of any other default with respect to any Designated Senior Indebtedness that permits, or would permit with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, the maturity thereof to be accelerated (a “Non-payment Default”) and upon the earlier to occur of (a) receipt by the Trustee and the Company from the representatives of holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness of a written notice of such Non-payment Default or (b) if such Non-payment Default results from the acceleration of the maturity of the Securities, the date of such acceleration, no payment of any kind or character (excluding Qualified Equity Interests or subordinated securities) may be made by the Company on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of, the Securities for the period specified below (the “Payment Blockage Period”).

 

The Payment Blockage Period shall commence upon the receipt of notice of a Non-payment Default by the Trustee and the Company from the representatives of holders of Designated Senior Indebtedness or the date of the acceleration referred to in clause (b) of the preceding paragraph, as the case may be, and shall end on the earliest to occur of the following events: (i) 179 days have elapsed since the receipt of such notice or the date of the acceleration referred to in clause (b) of the preceding paragraph (provided the maturity of such Designated Senior Indebtedness shall not theretofore have been accelerated), (ii) such default is cured or waived or ceases to exist or such Designated Senior Indebtedness is discharged or paid in full in cash, or (iii) such Payment Blockage Period shall have been terminated by written notice to the Company or the Trustee from the representatives of holders of Designated Senior Indebtedness initiating such Payment Blockage Period, after which the Company shall promptly resume making any and all required payments in respect of the Securities, including any missed payments. Only one Payment Blockage Period with respect to the Securities may be commenced within any 360 consecutive day period. No Non-payment Default with

 

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respect to Designated Senior Indebtedness that existed or was continuing on the date of the commencement of any Payment Blockage Period shall be, or can be, made the basis for the commencement of a second Payment Blockage Period, whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such default has been cured or waived for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days. In no event shall a Payment Blockage Period extend beyond 179 days from the date of the receipt by the Trustee of the notice or the date of the acceleration initiating such Payment Blockage Period and there must be a 180 consecutive day period in any 360 day period during which no Payment Blockage Period is in effect.

 

SECTION 14.04. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.  Subject to the payment in full in cash of all 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 XIV 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, premium, if any, and 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 for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article XIV, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of this Article XIV to the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities, 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 14.05. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.  The provisions of this Article XIV 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 XIV or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall:  (a) impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of, premium, if any and 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 the holders of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Securities from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article XIV of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.

 

SECTION 14.06. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.  Each Holder of a Security by its acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on its behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided

 

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in this Article XIV and appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.

 

SECTION 14.07. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.  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 non-compliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.

 

Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, 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 the Holders of the Securities and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article XIV or the obligations hereunder of the 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 extend 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 14.08. Notice to Trustee.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XIV or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which 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 therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall not have received at its Corporate Trust Office the notice provided for in this Section at least three Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment in cash of the principal of, premium, if any or interest on any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for which such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it within three Business Days prior to such date.  Subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder) to establish that such

 

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notice has been given by a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of any such holder).  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 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 which it may be required to make for the benefit of such Person pursuant to the terms of this Indenture pending judicial determination as to the rights of such Person to receive such payment.

 

SECTION 14.09. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.  Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article XIV, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, 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 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 XIV.

 

SECTION 14.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.  The Trustee 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 XIV or otherwise.

 

With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants or obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.

 

SECTION 14.11. 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 XIV with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which 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.

 

Nothing in this Article XIV shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee or its agent or counsel under or pursuant to Section 6.07.

 

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SECTION 14.12. 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 XIV 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 XIV in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that Section 14.11 shall not apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.

 

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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.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INFOMANAGER, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

 

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UNITED RENTALS HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGIES GULF, LLC, BY UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., ITS SOLE INITIAL MEMBER

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and

 

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS NORTHWEST, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS REALTY, LLC, BY UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., ITS MANAGING MEMBER

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and

 

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

WYNNE SYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ William B. Plummer

 

 

Name:

William B. Plummer

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE,

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

/s/ Timothy W. Casey

 

 

Name:

Timothy W. Casey

 

 

Title:

Senior Associate

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

Guarantor

 

Place of Formation

 

 

 

InfoManager, Inc.

 

Texas

 

 

 

United Rentals Highway Technologies Gulf, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

United Rentals Northwest, Inc.

 

Oregon

 

 

 

United Rentals Realty, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Wynne Systems, Inc.

 

California

 

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APPENDIX

 

PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SECURITIES

 

1.                                      Definitions

 

1.1          Definitions

 

For the purposes of this Appendix the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:

 

“Definitive Security” means a certificated Security that does not include the Global Securities Legend.

 

“Global Securities Legend” means the legend set forth under that caption in Exhibit A to this Indenture.

 

“Securities Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Security (as appointed by the Depositary) or any successor Person thereto, who shall initially be the Trustee.

 

“Underwriters” means (i) with respect to the Securities issued on the Issue Date, the underwriters listed in the Underwriting Agreement and (ii) with respect to each issuance of Additional Securities, the Persons purchasing such Additional Securities under the related underwriting agreement.

 

“Underwriting Agreement” means (a) the Underwriting Agreement, dated October 21, 2010, among the Company, the Guarantors and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the Underwriters, and (b) any other similar Underwriting Agreement relating to Additional Securities.

 

1.2          Other Definitions

 

Term:

 

Defined in Section:

 

 

 

“Agent Members”

 

2.1(c)

“Global Security”

 

2.1(b)

 

2.                                      The Securities

 

2.1          Form and Dating.

 

(a)           The Securities issued on the date hereof will be offered and sold by the Company pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement.  Additional Securities offered after the date hereof may be offered and sold by the Company from time to time pursuant to one or more Underwriting Agreements in accordance with applicable law.

 

(b)           Global Securities.  The Securities shall be issued initially in the form of one or more global securities in definitive, fully registered form (each, a “Global Security”) without interest coupons and bearing the Global Securities Legend, which shall be deposited on behalf of

 

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the Holders of the Securities represented thereby with the Securities Custodian, and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Indenture.  The aggregate principal amount of any Global Security may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary or its nominee and on the schedules thereto as hereinafter provided.

 

(c)           Book-Entry Provisions.  This Section 2.1(c) shall apply only to a Global Security deposited with or on behalf of the Depositary.

 

The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.2 and pursuant to an order of the Company signed by one officer of the Company, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Securities that (i) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Security or Global Securities or the nominee of such Depositary and (ii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instructions or held by the Trustee as Securities Custodian.

 

Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depositary or by the Trustee as Securities Custodian or under such Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute 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 the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of such Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Security.

 

(c)           Definitive Securities.  Except as provided in Section 2.3 or 2.4, owners of beneficial interests in Global Securities will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificated Securities.

 

2.2          Authentication.  The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery upon a written order of the Company signed by one Officer of the Company (a) Securities for original issue on the date hereof in an aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000 and (b) subject to the terms of this Indenture, Additional Securities in an unlimited aggregate principal amount.  Such order shall specify the amount of the Securities to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Securities is to be authenticated and, in the case of an issuance of Additional Securities pursuant to Section 3.13 after the Issue Date, shall certify that such issuance is in compliance with Section 10.08.

 

2.3          Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)           Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities.  When Definitive Securities are presented to the Security Registrar with a request:

 

(i)            to register the transfer of such Definitive Securities; or

 

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(ii)           to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal principal amount of Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations,

 

the Security Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Securities surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

(b)           Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Security for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Security.  A Definitive Security may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Security except upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below.  Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Security, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, together with written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the Securities Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to the applicable Global Security to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Securities represented by such Global Security, such instructions to contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase, then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the Securities Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Security to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in such Global Security equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Security so canceled.  If no applicable Global Securities are then outstanding and the applicable Global Security has not been previously exchanged for certificated securities pursuant to Section 2.4, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of the Company in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, a new applicable Global Security in the appropriate principal amount.

 

(c)           Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities.

 

(i)            The transfer and exchange of Global Securities or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.  A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Security shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Security or another Global Security and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Security and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Security being transferred.

 

(ii)           If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Security to a beneficial interest in another Global Security, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Security to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the

 

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principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Security from which such interest is being transferred.

 

(iii)          Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.4), a Global Security may not be transferred as a whole except 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 or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

(d)           Cancelation or Adjustment of Global Security.  At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Security have either been exchanged for Definitive Securities, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Security shall be returned by the Depositary to the Trustee for cancelation or retained and canceled by the Trustee.  At any time prior to such cancelation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for Definitive Securities, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Security, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Securities Custodian for such Global Security) with respect to such Global Security, by the Trustee or the Securities Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

 

(e)           Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Securities.

 

(i)            To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and Global Securities at the Security Registrar’s request.

 

(ii)           No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities except as provided in Section 3.06 of this Indenture, 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 registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.08 of this Indenture or in accordance with any Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 10.13 or any Asset Sale Offer pursuant to Section 10.14 of this Indenture, and in any such case not involving any transfer.

 

(iii)          Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

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(iv)          All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

 

(f)            No Obligation of the Trustee.

 

(i)            The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Security, a member of, or a participant in the Depositary or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Securities or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Securities.  All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Securities shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Security).  The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary.  The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

 

(ii)           The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

2.4          Definitive Securities

 

(a)           A Global Security deposited with the Depositary or with the Trustee as Securities Custodian pursuant to Section 2.1 shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Security, in exchange for such Global Security, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.3 and (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depositary for such Global Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice or after the Company becomes aware of such cessation, or (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (iii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to cause the issuance of certificated Securities under this Indenture.

 

(b)           Any Global Security that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee, to be so transferred, in

 

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whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Securities of authorized denominations.  Any portion of a Global Security transferred pursuant to this Section shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct.

 

(c)           Subject to the provisions of Section 2.4(b), the registered Holder of a Global Security may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities.

 

(d)           In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.4(a)(i), (ii) or (iii), the Company will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Securities in fully registered form without interest coupons.

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

[FORM OF SECURITY]

 

[Global Securities Legend]

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

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United Rentals (North America), Inc.

 

8.375% Senior Subordinated Note Due 2020

 

No.

$

 

CUSIP NO.

 

United Rentals (North America), Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum listed on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Security attached hereto on September 15, 2020, and to pay interest thereon from October 26, 2010, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing March 15, 2011, at the rate of 8.375% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for; provided, however, that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of 8.375% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or duly provided for.  The interest so payable and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such 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, which shall be the March 1 and September 1 (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 will 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 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.

 

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 Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, 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 by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register.

 

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.

 

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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual 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 Security to be duly executed.

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

 

 

This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

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Form of Reverse of Security

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2020 (herein called the “Securities”), limited in aggregate principal amount on the Issue Date to $750,000,000 issued and to be issued under an Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2010 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, the guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  The Company shall be entitled, subject to its compliance with Section 10.08 of the Indenture, to issue Additional Securities pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Indenture.  The Securities include the Securities issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Securities.  The Securities issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture.

 

The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. 7aaa - 77bbbb (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Securities are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Securities are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms.

 

Except as set forth below, the Company will not be entitled to redeem this Security at its option prior to September 15, 2015.

 

This Security is redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time on or after September 15, 2015, at the Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the twelve month period beginning September 15 of the years indicated below:

 

Year

 

Redemption
Price

 

 

 

 

 

2015

 

104.188

%

2016

 

102.792

%

2017

 

101.396

%

2018 and thereafter

 

100.000

%

 

In addition, at any time, or from time to time, on or prior to September 15, 2013, the Company may, at its option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Public Equity Offerings to redeem up to an aggregate of 35% of the principal amount of the

 

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Securities (which includes Additional Securities, if any), at a redemption price equal to 108.375% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities (which includes Additional Securities, if any) remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of such redemption. In order to effect the foregoing redemption with the proceeds of any Public Equity Offering, the Company shall send a redemption notice to the Trustee not later than 90 days after the consummation of any such Public Equity Offering.

 

Prior to September 15, 2015, the Company may at its option redeem the Securities, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest to, the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

 

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities”, for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after September 15, 2015, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date, in each case calculated on the third Business Day immediately preceding the redemption date, plus 0.50%.

 

“Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any redemption date, the greater of (i) 1.00% of the principal amount of such Securities and (ii) the excess of (A) the present value at such redemption date of (1) the redemption price of such Securities on September 15, 2015 (as set forth above exclusive of any accrued interest) plus (2) all required remaining scheduled interest payments due on such Securities through September 15, 2015 (but excluding accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Adjusted Treasury Rate, over (B) the principal amount of such Securities on such redemption date.

 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities from the redemption date to September 15, 2015, that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing

 

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new issues of corporate debt securities of a maturity most nearly equal to September 15, 2015.

 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, if clause (ii) of the Adjusted Treasury Rate is applicable, the average of three, or such lesser number as is given to by the Trustee, Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

 

“Quotation Agent” means the Reference Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means three nationally recognized investment banking firms selected by the Company that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day immediately preceding such redemption date.

 

The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.

 

The Indenture provides that the Company is obligated (a) upon the occurrence of a Change in Control to make an offer to purchase all outstanding Securities at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of purchase and (b) to make an offer to purchase Securities with a portion of the net cash proceeds of certain sales or other dispositions of assets (not applied as specified in the Indenture within the periods set forth therein) at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase.

 

In the event of redemption or purchase of this Security in part only pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer, a new Security or Securities for the unredeemed or unpurchased portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or of certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, there may be declared due and payable the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the outstanding Securities, in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the 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.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding for 45 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to certain suits described in the Indenture, including any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date or, in the case of any purchase of this Security required to be made pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer, on or after the relevant Purchase Date).

 

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 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 Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

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This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities 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.

 

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.

 

Interest on this Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

 

The obligations of the Company under the Indenture and this Security are expressly subordinated to all Senior Indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all Subordinated Indebtedness, in each case to the extent set forth in Article XIV of the Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such Indenture for the precise terms of such subordination.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the obligations of the Company under the Indenture and this Security are Guaranteed pursuant to Guarantees endorsed hereon as provided in the Indenture.  Each Holder, by holding this Security, agrees to all of the terms and provisions of said Guarantees.  The Indenture provides that each Guarantor shall be released from its Guarantee upon compliance with certain conditions.

 

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

The Indenture and this Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                           agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]

 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

 

The initial principal amount of this Global Security is $              .  The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange

 

Amount of decrease in
Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Amount of increase in
Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Principal amount of this
Global Security following
such decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized
signatory of Trustee or
Securities Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Security purchased in its entirety by the Company pursuant to Section 10.13 or 10.14 of the Indenture, check the applicable box:

 

Section 10.13  o

 

Section 10.14  o

 

If you want to elect to have only a part of the principal amount of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 10.13 or 10.14 of the Indenture, state the portion of such amount:  $

 

 

Dated:

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

(Signature must be guaranteed by a financial institution that is a member of the Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”), the Stock Exchange Medallion Program (“SEMP”), the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Medallion Signature Program (“MSP”) or such other signature guarantee program as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, SEMP or MSP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.)

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

[FORM OF NOTATION ON SECURITY RELATING TO GUARANTEE]

 

GUARANTEE

 

Each of the undersigned guarantors (each a “Guarantor,” or together, the “Guarantors”), which term includes any successor under the Indenture (the “Indenture”) referred to in the Security upon which this notation is endorsed), hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees on a senior subordinated basis, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor of the Securities, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (a) the full and prompt payment (within applicable grace periods) of principal of and interest on the Securities when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary obligations of the Company under the Indenture and the Securities and (b) the full and prompt performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Company under the Indenture and the Securities, subject to certain limitations set forth in the Indenture (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Guarantee Obligations”).  The Guarantor further agrees that the Guarantee Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from such Guarantor, and that such Guarantor will remain bound under Article XIII of the Indenture notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guarantee Obligation.  Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless otherwise indicated.

 

Subject to the terms of the Indenture, this Guarantee shall be binding upon the Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder or the Trustee, the rights and privileges herein conferred upon that party shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions hereof.

 

This Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Security upon which this Guarantee is noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the signature of one of its authorized signatories.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or this Guarantee, under the Indenture and this Guarantee the maximum aggregate amount of the obligations guaranteed by the Guarantor shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be guaranteed without rendering the Indenture or this Guarantee, as it relates to such Guarantor, voidable under applicable federal or state law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer.  This Guarantee shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws provisions thereof.

 

[Signature page follows]

 



 

 

UNITED RENTALS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

INFOMANAGER, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGIES GULF, LLC, BY UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., ITS SOLE INITIAL MEMBER

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS NORTHWEST, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

UNITED RENTALS REALTY, LLC, BY UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC. ITS MANAGING MEMBER

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

2



 

 

WYNNE SYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

3



 

SCHEDULE A

 

Guarantor

 

Place of Formation

 

 

 

InfoManager, Inc.

 

Texas

 

 

 

United Rentals Highway Technologies Gulf, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

United Rentals Northwest, Inc.

 

Oregon

 

 

 

United Rentals Realty, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Wynne Systems, Inc.

 

California

 

4


EX-5.1 4 a10-19587_5ex5d1.htm EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

 

[Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Letterhead]

 

October 26, 2010

 

United Rentals (North America), Inc.,
          Five Greenwich Office Park,
                   Greenwich, Connecticut 06831.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) of $750,000,000 principal amount of 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (the “Securities”) of United Rentals (North America), Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the guarantees endorsed thereon (the “Guarantees”) of United Rentals, Inc., a Delaware corporation and parent of the Company (“Holdings”), and each of the Company’s subsidiaries listed on Annex A hereto (the “Subsidiary Guarantors” and, together with Holdings, the “Guarantors”), we, as your counsel, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion.

 

Upon the basis of such examination, we advise you that, in our opinion, (i) the Securities constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and (ii) the Guarantees constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Guarantors, subject in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) above, to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

 

In rendering the foregoing opinion, we are expressing no opinion as to Federal or state laws relating to fraudulent transfers.

 

The foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States, the laws of the States of New York and California, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.  For purposes of our opinion, we have, with your approval, assumed that (i) United Rentals Northwest, Inc. and InfoManager, Inc. are validly existing as corporations in good standing under the laws of the States of Oregon and Texas, respectively, (ii) the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by United Rentals Northwest, Inc. and InfoManager,

 



 

Inc. under the laws of the States of Oregon and Texas, respectively, (iii) the Guarantees have been duly authorized, executed, issued and delivered by United Rentals Northwest, Inc. and InfoManager, Inc. under the laws of the States of Oregon and Texas, respectively, (iv) all regulatory consents, authorizations, approvals and filings required to be obtained or made by United Rentals Northwest, Inc. and InfoManager, Inc. under the Federal laws of the United States and the laws of the States of Oregon and Texas, respectively, for the issuance and delivery of the Guarantees by United Rentals Northwest, Inc. and InfoManager, Inc. have been obtained or made, and (v) the provisions of the Indenture and the Guarantees designating the law of the State of New York as the governing law for the Indenture and the Guarantees are valid and binding on United Rentals Northwest, Inc. and InfoManager, Inc. under the laws of the States of Oregon and Texas, respectively.  We note that, with respect to all matters of Oregon and Texas law, you are relying upon the opinions of K&L Gates LLP and Haynes and Boone, LLP, respectively, each of which is also filed as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement relating to the Securities and the Guarantees.

 

We have relied as to certain factual matters upon information obtained from public officials, officers of the Company and the Guarantors and other sources believed by us to be responsible, and we have assumed that the Indenture under which the Securities were issued has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee thereunder, that the Securities and the Guarantees endorsed thereon conform to the specimens thereof examined by us, that the Trustee’s certificates of authentication of the Securities have been manually signed by one of the Trustee’s authorized officers, and that the signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, assumptions which we have not independently verified.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement relating to the Securities and the Guarantees and to the reference to us under the heading “Validity of Securities” in the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Securities and the Guarantees, dated October 21, 2010.  In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

 



 

ANNEX A

 

Subsidiary Guarantors

 

Subsidiary Guarantor

 

State of Incorporation 
or Organization

 

 

 

InfoManager, Inc.

 

Texas

 

 

 

United Rentals Highway Technologies, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

United Rentals Northwest, Inc.

 

Oregon

 

 

 

United Rentals Realty, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Wynne Systems, Inc.

 

California

 


EX-5.2 5 a10-19587_5ex5d2.htm EX-5.2

Exhibit 5.2

 

[Haynes and Boone, LLP Letterhead]

 

October 26, 2010

 

United Rentals, Inc.

United Rentals (North America), Inc.

Five Greenwich Office Park

Greenwich, Connecticut 06831

 

Re: InfoManager, Inc., a Texas corporation

 

Sirs:

 

We are acting as special Texas counsel to InfoManager, Inc., a Texas corporation (“InfoManager”), in connection with the registration statements on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-166214-08 and 333-160884-06) filed on or about April 21, 2010 and July 30, 2009, respectively, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the respective prospectus (including the Prospectus Supplement dated October 21, 2010 and any other supplement thereto) filed therewith or thereafter (collectively, the “Registration Statements”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) by United Rentals (North America), Inc., a Delaware corporation and the sole shareholder of InfoManager (the “Issuer”), and United Rentals, Inc., a Delaware corporation and the parent company of the Issuer (the “Parent”) and the issuance of $750,000,000 principal amount of the Issuer’s 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (the “Issuer Debt Securities”), and the guarantees endorsed thereon (the “Guarantees”) of the Parent and certain direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Issuer, including, without limitation, InfoManager (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2010 (the “Indenture”), among the Parent, the Issuer, the Subsidiary Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (the “Trustee”), and in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statements.

 

Scope of Examination and General
Assumptions and Qualifications

 

For the purpose of rendering the opinions set forth herein, we have been furnished with and have reviewed the following documents (items (a) through (c) collectively, the “Transaction Documents”):

 

(a)                                 the Indenture;

 

(b)                                 the Registration Statements; and

 

(c)                                  the Guarantees.

 

In addition to the Transaction Documents, other documents we have reviewed in rendering these opinions, and upon which we have relied, include the following:

 

(a)           the Certificate of Incorporation of InfoManager, certified by the Secretary of State of Texas on August 11, 1999;

 

(b)           the Articles of Incorporation of InfoManager, certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 19, 2010 (the “Articles”)

 



 

(c)           a certificate of the Vice President and Secretary of InfoManager (the “InfoManager Certificate”), dated as of the date hereof, certifying certain factual matters relevant to our opinions;

 

(d)           a certificate of valid existence for InfoManager dated October 19, 2010, issued by the Secretary of State of the State of Texas (the “Texas Valid Existence Certificate”);

 

(e)           a certificate from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts dated October 19, 2010, as to the good standing of InfoManager in the State of Texas (the “Texas Good Standing Certificate”); and

 

(f)            certain resolutions and other documents included in the minute book of InfoManager, as provided by you.

 

We have assumed with your consent for the purposes of these opinions that the signatures on documents and instruments examined by us are authentic, that each document is what it purports to be, and that all documents submitted to us as copies or facsimiles conform with the originals, which facts we have not independently verified.  We have also assumed with your consent that (a) the Registration Statements (i) have been duly and validly executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto and (ii) have been declared, and are, effective as of the date hereof, (b) each of the Indenture and Guarantees have been duly and validly executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto, except InfoManager, (c) there are no extrinsic agreements or understandings to which InfoManager is a party or by which InfoManager is bound concerning any of the Transaction Documents that would modify or interpret the terms of such document or the respective rights or obligations of the parties thereunder, and (d) the correctness and accuracy of all the facts set forth in the certificates and reports described in this opinion letter.

 

As to questions of fact material to the opinions expressed below, we have with your consent, without independent verification of their accuracy, relied to the extent we deem appropriate upon the representations made by the parties in the Transaction Documents, upon other representations made to us by officers and directors of InfoManager, and upon other documents, certificates, records and instruments furnished to us by InfoManager, including without limitation, the InfoManager Certificate.

 

We are members of the Bar of the State of Texas and do not purport to be experts on, or generally familiar with, or qualified to express legal conclusions based on, laws other than the laws of the State of Texas. The opinions expressed herein are limited to the internal substantive laws of the State of Texas, as currently in effect, and we have not considered, and express no opinion on, any other laws or the laws of any other jurisdiction.  Therefore, for purposes of the opinions expressed below, to the extent such opinions necessarily involve consideration of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Texas, we have assumed with your consent and without independent verification that the laws of such other jurisdictions are identical in all relevant respects to the laws of the State of Texas (and, to the extent such opinions necessarily involve consideration of corporation statutes other than the Texas Business Organizations Code (the “TBOC”), we have assumed with your consent that such other corporation statutes are identical in all relevant respects to the TBOC).

 

We also have assumed, with your consent and without investigation or independent confirmation, for the purpose of the opinions expressed herein that no mutual mistake, misunderstanding or fraud exists with respect to any of the matters relevant to such opinions.  We also have assumed with your consent and without any investigation or independent confirmation that InfoManager, the Parent, the Issuer, The Bank of New York Mellon and their respective agents have acted in good faith and that consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have complied or will comply with any requirement of good faith, fair dealing and conscionability.

 



 

Specific Limitations and Qualifications

 

In rendering the opinion expressed in Paragraph 1 below with respect to the existence and good standing under the laws of the State of Texas of InfoManager, we have relied with your consent upon (i) the InfoManager Certificate, (ii) the Articles, (iii) the Texas Valid Existence Certificate and (iv) the Texas Good Standing Certificate.

 

With respect to our opinion in Paragraph 2 regarding InfoManager’s corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture and Guarantees, such opinion is rendered pursuant to the TBOC, based upon the InfoManager Certificate and our review of the Articles.

 

With respect to our opinion set forth in Paragraph 3 below, we have assumed that the officers of InfoManager have been duly and properly elected by the sole director of InfoManager in accordance with the requirements of the TBOC, the Articles and the bylaws of InfoManager.

 

With respect to our opinions in Paragraphs 4 and 5 below with respect to no violation of any applicable law and as to the requisite consents, approvals, or authorizations of governmental authorities, our opinions are expressed only with respect to statutes or regulations that a lawyer in Texas exercising customary professional diligence would reasonably recognize as being applicable to InfoManager or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  In addition, we express no opinion as to the following: (a) federal securities laws and regulations administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission, State of Texas “Blue Sky” laws and regulations, any other state securities laws and regulations, and laws and regulations relating to commodity (and other) futures and indices and other similar instruments; (b) pension and employee benefit laws and regulations; (c) federal and state antitrust and unfair competition laws and regulations; (d) compliance with fiduciary duty requirements; (e) federal and state fraudulent transfer and fraudulent conveyance laws; (f) federal and state environmental laws and regulations; (g) federal and state land use and subdivision laws and regulations; (h) federal and state tax laws and regulations; (i) federal and state racketeering laws and regulations (e.g., RICO); (j) laws, regulations, and policies concerning: (i) national and local emergency; (ii) possible judicial deference to acts of sovereign states; and (iii) criminal and civil forfeiture laws; (k) other statutes of general application to the extent they provide for criminal prosecution (e.g., mail fraud and wire fraud statutes); (l) Executive Order Number 13224 on Terrorism Financing, the Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (commonly known as the USA Patriot Act), the Bank Secrecy Act, the International Emergency Economics Powers Act, and laws relating to prevention and detection of money laundering in Sections 1956 and 1957 of Title 18 of the United States Code; (m) the Natural Gas Act of 1938 or any rules and regulations of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (n) Federal Reserve Board margin regulations; (o) federal patent, copyright and trademark, state trademark and other federal and state intellectual property laws and regulations; (p) federal and state health and safety laws and regulations; (q) federal and state labor laws and regulations; (r) federal and state antifraud statutes, laws, rules and regulations; (s) the rights of the United States of America under the Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966, as amended; or (t) the statutes and ordinances, the administrative decisions, and the rules and regulations of counties, towns, municipalities, and special political subdivisions (whether created or enabled through legislative action at the federal, state, or regional level), and any judicial decisions to the extent they deal with any of the foregoing.

 

With respect to the opinions set forth in Paragraph 6 below, we note the Transaction Documents provide that the laws of the State of New York shall govern all matters, including the construction, validity, and performance thereof.  Chapter 271 of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code (the “Texas UCC”) provides that if parties agree in writing that the law of a particular jurisdiction governs an issue relating to a qualified transaction (including the validity or enforceability of an agreement relating to the transaction or a provision of the agreement) and the transaction bears a “reasonable relation” to that

 



 

jurisdiction, then the law, other than conflict of laws rules, of that jurisdiction governs the issue regardless of whether the application of that law is contrary to a fundamental or public policy of the State of Texas or of any other jurisdiction.  A qualified transaction includes a transaction under which a party borrows, or issues debt in an amount of, $1,000,000.00 or more.  Chapter 271 of the Texas UCC provides that a transaction bears a “reasonable relation” to a particular jurisdiction if the transaction, the subject matter of the transaction, or a party to the transaction is reasonably related to that jurisdiction.  In addition, Chapter 271 of the Texas UCC contains specific factual criteria, and provides that the presence of any one of the criteria will satisfy the “reasonable relation” test.  Accordingly, for purposes of the opinion set forth in Paragraph 6 below, and in light of the factual criteria specified in Chapter 271 of the Texas UCC, we have, with your consent, assumed the following facts:

 

(a)           the Trustee or noteholders under the Indenture are either (i) corporations with their respective chief executive office and principal place of business located in the State of New York with respect to any corporate entities and/or (ii) residents of the State of New York with respect to any natural persons, as applicable;

 

(b)           the Issuer Debt Securities evidenced by the Indenture and the Guarantees will be purchased from the Issuer in the State of New York;

 

(c)           all payments under the Indenture and Guarantees by the Issuer, the Parent and/or the Subsidiary Guarantors, including, without limitation, InfoManager, will be paid to the noteholders in the State of New York; or

 

(d)           the choice of governing law contained in the Transaction Documents was willingly and knowingly agreed to by all parties thereto.

 

Opinions

 

Based upon the foregoing and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:

 

1.             InfoManager is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas.

 

2.             InfoManager has the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver the Guarantees and to perform its obligations under each.

 

3.             The execution, delivery and performance of the Indenture and the Guarantees have been duly authorized by InfoManager.

 

4.             The execution and delivery by InfoManager of the Indenture and the execution of the Guarantees by InfoManager has not resulted in any breach or violation of, or conflict with, any Texas statute, rule or regulation or the Articles or the bylaws of InfoManager.

 

5.             The requisite regulatory consents, authorizations, approvals and filings required to be obtained or made by InfoManager under the laws of the State of Texas for the issuance and delivery of the Guarantees by InfoManager have been obtained or made.

 

6.             A Texas court, or a federal court sitting in Texas as the forum state and applying Texas conflict of laws rules, would give effect to the choice of law as the laws of the State of New York as set

 



 

forth in the Indenture and the Guarantees with respect to general issues of contract validity, enforcement, and interpretation.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statements and to the use of our name under the caption “Validity of Securities” in the prospectus supplement relating to the Guarantees, dated October 21, 2010 forming a part of the Registration Statements.  In giving such consent, we do not thereby concede that our firm is within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

This opinion (a) is rendered solely for your information and assistance in connection with the filing of the Registration Statements, and may not be relied upon by any other person or for any other purpose without our prior written consent, except that Sullivan & Cromwell LLP may rely on the opinions set forth herein for purposes of any opinions being delivered by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and filed as Exhibit 5.1 to a Current Report on Form 8-K to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statements with respect to the legality and validity of the securities being issued under the Registration Statements, (b) is rendered as of the date hereof, and we undertake no, and hereby disclaim any kind of, obligation to advise you of any changes or new developments in law, fact or otherwise that might affect any matters or opinions set forth herein and (c) is limited to the matters stated herein, and no opinions may be inferred or implied beyond the matters expressly stated herein.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Haynes and Boone, LLP

 


EX-5.3 6 a10-19587_5ex5d3.htm EX-5.3

Exhibit 5.3

 

[K&L Gates LLP Letterhead]

 

October 26, 2010

 

United Rentals (North America), Inc.

Five Greenwich Office Park

Greenwich, Connecticut  06831

 

Re: United Rentals Northwest, Inc.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as special counsel to United Rentals Northwest, Inc., an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing by United Rentals (North America), Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), of registration statements on Form S-3 (Nos. 333-160884 and 333-166214) (the “Registration Statements”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.  We are delivering this opinion letter to you at the Company’s request.

 

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have examined (i) the Indenture dated as of October 26, 2010 (the “Indenture”), among the Issuer, the Company and the other guarantors party thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee; and (ii) the guarantees (the “Guarantees”) executed by the Company and endorsed on the $750,000,000 principal amount of 8.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 issued by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture.

 

We have made such other investigation as we have deemed appropriate.  We have also examined the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, including various articles of merger, certified by the Secretary of State of Oregon on October 18, 2010 (collectively, the “Articles of Incorporation”); and Restated Bylaws of the Company dated March 2, 1985, as amended effective June 6, 2008 (the “Bylaws”). We have examined and relied on certificates of public officials and, as to certain matters of fact that are material to our opinions, we have also examined and relied on a certificate of an officer of the Company (the “Fact Certificate”).  We have not independently established any of the facts so relied on.

 

For the purposes of this opinion letter we have made the assumptions that are customary in opinion letters of this kind, including the assumptions that each document submitted to us is accurate and complete, that each such document that is an original is authentic, that each such document that is a copy conforms to an authentic original, that all signatures on each such document are genuine, and that no changes in the facts certified in the Fact Certificate have occurred or will occur after the date of the Fact Certificate.  We have further assumed the legal capacity of natural persons, and we have assumed that each party to the Indenture and the Guarantees (other than the Company) has the legal capacity and has satisfied all legal requirements necessary to make the Indenture and the Guarantees enforceable against it.  We have not verified any of the foregoing assumptions.

 



 

The opinions expressed in this opinion letter are based on the laws in effect on the date hereof and are limited to the laws of the State of Oregon that in our experience are applicable to general business corporations not engaged in regulated business activities and to transactions of the type contemplated by the Indenture and the Guarantees.  We are not opining on specialized laws that are not customarily covered in opinion letters of this kind, such as tax, insolvency, antitrust, pension, employee benefit, environmental, intellectual property, banking, insurance, labor, health and safety, and securities laws.  We are not opining on federal law or the law of any county, municipality or other political subdivision or local governmental agency or authority.

 

Based on the foregoing, and subject to the foregoing and the additional qualifications and other matters set forth below, it is our opinion that:

 

1.             The Company is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Oregon.

 

2.             The Company has the corporate power to execute, deliver, and perform its obligations under the Indenture and the Guarantees.

 

3.           The Company has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution and delivery of and performance of its obligations under the Indenture and the Guarantees, and has duly executed and delivered them.

 

4.             We note that the Indenture and the Guarantees provide that they are to be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.  That provision will be given effect under the law of the State of Oregon, except to the extent that the application of New York law is contrary to a fundamental public policy of the State of Oregon or of any other state whose law would apply in the absence of such choice of law.

 

5.           The execution and delivery by the Company of the Indenture and the Guarantees, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Indenture and the Guarantees, do not require the Company to obtain any approval by or make any filing with any governmental authority under any statute, rule, or regulation of the State of Oregon, other than approvals and filings previously obtained or made and in full force and effect.

 

6.           The execution and delivery of the Indenture and the Guarantees by the Company do not violate (i) any applicable statute, rule, or regulation of the State of Oregon or (ii) the Articles of Incorporation or the Bylaws.

 

We are furnishing this opinion letter to you solely in connection with the Registration Statements.  You may not rely on this opinion letter in any other connection, and it may not be furnished to or relied upon by any other person for any purpose, without our specific prior written consent.

 

We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 8-K to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statements relating to the Guarantees and to the reference to this firm under the heading “Validity of Securities” in the Prospectus

 



 

dated May 7, 2010, the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated October 20, 2010 and the Final Prospectus Supplement dated October 21, 2010 incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements. In giving our consent we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

 

The foregoing opinions are rendered as of the date of this letter.  We assume no obligation to update or supplement any of our opinions to reflect any changes of law or fact that may occur.

 

Yours truly,

 

/s/ K&L Gates LLP

 


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