S-3ASR

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 3, 2019

Registration No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	77-0518772
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard

Santa Clara, California 95051

(408) 345-8886

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of the registrant’s principal executive offices)

Michael R. McMullen

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard

Santa Clara, California 95051

(408) 345-8886

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of the registrant’s agent for service)

Copies to:

Michael Tang, Esq. P. Diana Chiu, Esq. Liang Dong, Esq. Agilent Technologies, Inc. 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard Santa Clara, California 95051 (408) 345-8886 Sarah Ashfaq, Esq. James P.C. Barri, Esq. Goodwin Procter LLP The New York Times Building 620 Eighth Avenue New York, New York 10018 (212) 813-8800

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

From time to time after this registration statement becomes effective.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  ☒

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☒

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer	☒	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☐	Smaller reporting company	☐
		Emerging growth company	☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of each class of securities to be registered	Amount to be registered	Proposed maximum offering price per unit	Proposed maximum aggregate offering price	Amount of registration fee
Debt securities	(1)	(1)	(1)	(1)
Total

(1) An indeterminate amount of securities to be offered at indeterminate prices is being registered pursuant to this registration statement. The registrant is deferring payment of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 456(b) and is excluding this information in reliance on Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r).

PROSPECTUS

Debt Securities

This prospectus contains a general description of certain material terms of the debt securities which we may offer for sale from time to time. The debt securities may be offered in one or more different series, each of which will have terms and conditions distinct from the terms and conditions of each other series of debt securities offered pursuant to this prospectus. The specific terms and conditions of the debt securities to be offered from time to time, to the extent they are not described in this prospectus or are different than those described in this prospectus, will be contained in one or more supplements to this prospectus, which will be provided when we make an offering of such debt securities. A supplement may also contain other important information concerning Agilent Technologies, Inc., the debt securities being offered or the offering, including certain U.S. federal income tax consequences and, in certain circumstances, the consequences under the tax laws of other countries to which you may become subject if you acquire the debt securities being offered by means of that supplement and this prospectus. A supplement may also supplement, change or update information contained in this prospectus, and we may supplement, change or update any of the information contained in this prospectus by incorporating information by reference in this prospectus. Read this prospectus and any supplement carefully before you invest.

The securities will be issued by Agilent Technologies, Inc. See “Description of Debt Securities.”

The common stock of Agilent Technologies, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “A.” Unless we state otherwise in a prospectus supplement, we will not list any of the securities described in this prospectus on any securities exchange.

Investing in our securities involves risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 5 of this prospectus and under similar headings in the documents that are incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement.

The date of this prospectus is September 3, 2019.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS		1
SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS		2
THE COMPANY		5
RISK FACTORS		5
USE OF PROCEEDS		5
DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES		6
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION		16
LEGAL MATTERS		18
EXPERTS		18
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION		18
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE		19

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

References in this prospectus to “Agilent,” “our company,” “we,” “us” and “our” are to Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, including, unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires, its subsidiaries.

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, using a “shelf” registration procedure. Under this procedure, we may offer and sell debt securities from time to time in one or more series in one or more offerings. No limit exists on the aggregate amount of the debt securities we may sell pursuant to the registration statement. The securities sold may be denominated in U.S. dollars, foreign-denominated currency or currency units. Amounts payable with respect to any securities may be payable in U.S. dollars or foreign-denominated currency or currency units as specified in the prospectus supplement.

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer. Each time we sell securities, we, or parties acting on our behalf, will provide you with a prospectus supplement that contains specific information about the terms of that offering and the securities being sold in that offering. We may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus through one or more supplements to this prospectus. Any statement that we make in this prospectus may be modified or superseded by any statement made by us in a prospectus supplement, and in the event the information set forth in a prospectus supplement differs in any way from the information set forth in this prospectus, you should rely on the information set forth in the prospectus supplement. The rules of the SEC allow us to incorporate by reference information into this prospectus. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus, and information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede such information. See “Incorporation by Reference.”

You should read both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement together with additional information described herein under the captions “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation by Reference.”

Neither the delivery of this prospectus nor any sale made hereunder shall under any circumstances create any implication that there has been no change in the affairs of Agilent since the date hereof or that the information contained or incorporated by reference herein is correct as of any time subsequent to the date of such information. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities by anyone in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is not authorized or in which the person making such offer or solicitation is not qualified to do so or to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation.

Any prospectus supplement may also contain information about any material U.S. federal income tax considerations relating to the securities covered by the prospectus supplement and, in certain circumstances, the consequences under the tax laws of other countries to which you may become subject if you acquire the debt securities being offered by means of that supplement and this prospectus.

We may sell securities to underwriters who will sell the securities to the public on terms fixed at the time of sale. In addition, the securities may be sold by us directly or through dealers or agents designated from time to time, which agents may be affiliates of ours. If we, directly or through agents, solicit offers to purchase the securities, we reserve the sole right to accept and, together with our agents, to reject, in whole or in part, any offer. The prospectus supplement will also contain, with respect to the securities being sold, the names of any underwriters, dealers or agents, together with the terms of offering, the compensation of any underwriters and the net proceeds to us. Any underwriters, dealers or agents participating in the offering may be deemed “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act.

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SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

We have made various forward-looking statements in this prospectus and the documents incorporated in this prospectus by reference. Examples of such forward-looking statements include statements regarding:

• statements regarding growth opportunities, including for revenue and our end markets;

• strengths and drivers of the markets we sell into;

• sales funnels;

• our strategic direction;

• new product and service introductions and the position of our current products and services;

• market demand for and adoption of our products;

• the ability of our products and solutions to address customer needs and meet industry requirements;

• our focus on differentiating our product solutions, improving our customers’ experience and growing our earnings;

• future financial results;

• our operating margin;

• our investments, including in manufacturing infrastructure;

• research and development and expanding and improving our applications and solutions portfolios;

• expanding our position in developing countries and emerging markets;

• our focus on balanced capital allocation;

• our contributions to our pension and other defined benefit plans;

• impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets;

• the effect of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and U.S. and other tariffs;

• the impact of foreign currency movements;

• our hedging programs and other actions to offset the effects of tariffs and foreign currency movements;

• our future effective tax rate, tax valuation allowance and unrecognized tax benefits;

• the impact of local government regulations on our ability to pay vendors or conduct operations;

• our ability to satisfy our liquidity requirements, including through cash generated from operations;

• the potential impact of adopting new accounting pronouncements;

• indemnification;

• source and supply of materials used in our products;

• our sales;

• our purchase commitments;

• our capital expenditures;

• the integration and effects of our acquisitions and other transactions;

• our stock repurchase program and dividends; and

• contemplated financing transactions.

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The words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “aim,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “likely” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Such factors, some of which are discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended July 31, 2019, which are incorporated herein and will be discussed in prospectus supplements, include, but are not limited to:

• if the markets into which we sell our products decline or do not grow as anticipated;

• our ability to introduce successful new products and services in a timely manner;

• general economic conditions;

• our ability to adjust our purchases due to changing market conditions and to estimate our customers’ demand;

• demand for some of our products and services depending on capital spending policies of our customers, research and development budgets and government funding policies;

• economic, political, foreign currency and other risks associated with international sales and operations;

• the impact of strategic initiatives to adjust our cost structure on our business;

• our ability to retain and hire key personnel;

• our acquisitions, strategic investments and alliances, joint ventures, exiting of businesses and divestitures may result in financial results that are different than expected;

• our ability to maintain an effective system of internal controls;

• our failure or inability to comply with laws and regulations;

• improper conduct by any of our employees, agents or business partners;

• our retirement and post retirement pension plan obligations and risks;

• the impact of consolidation and acquisitions of our competitors;

• our ability to successfully manage the consolidation and streamlining of our manufacturing operations and for our manufacturing capacity to match the demand for our products;

• our dependence on contract manufacturing and outsourcing other portions of our supply chain including logistics and third-party package delivery services;

• the impact of environmental contamination;

• potential infringement of third parties’ intellectual property rights by us or potential infringement of our intellectual property rights by third parties;

• the potential adverse settlement of tax examinations and audits by the United States Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities;

• the impact of a change or termination of tax incentives;

• our current or future levels of debt;

• a loss to our factories, facilities or distribution systems due to a catastrophe;

• the impact of a significant disruption in, or breach in security of, our information technology systems, or our failure to implement new systems and software; and

• the impact of adverse conditions in the global banking industry and credit markets.

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We caution you that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. There may also be other risks that we are unable to predict at this time that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements.

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THE COMPANY

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (“we”, “Agilent” or the “company”) is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, providing application focused solutions that include instruments, software, services and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. Our life sciences and applied markets business provides application-focused solutions that include instruments and software that enable customers to identify, quantify and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products, as well as enable customers in the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the molecular and cellular level. Our diagnostics and genomics business is comprised of six areas of activity providing solutions that include reagents, instruments, software and consumables, which enable customers in the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the cellular and molecular level. The Agilent CrossLab business spans the entire lab with its extensive consumables and services portfolio, which is designed to improve customer outcomes. In addition, we conduct centralized order fulfillment and supply chain operations for our businesses through the order fulfillment and supply chain organization, or OFS. OFS provides resources for manufacturing, engineering and strategic sourcing to our respective businesses. Each of our businesses, together with OFS and Agilent Technologies Research Laboratories, is supported by our global infrastructure organization, which provides shared services in the areas of finance, information technology, legal, certain procurement services, workplace services and human resources.

We were incorporated in Delaware in May 1999. Our principal executive offices are located at 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95051. Our telephone number at that location is (408) 345-8886. Our home page on the Internet is www.agilent.com. Other than the information expressly set forth in this prospectus, the information contained, or referred to, on our website is not part of this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement.

RISK FACTORS

Investing in our securities involves risk. You should carefully consider the specific risks discussed or incorporated by reference in the applicable prospectus supplement, together with all the other information contained in the prospectus supplement or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. You should also consider the risks, uncertainties and assumptions discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” included in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended July 31, 2019, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus, and which may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time by other reports we file with the SEC in the future.

USE OF PROCEEDS

We will use the net proceeds we receive from the sale of the securities offered by this prospectus for general corporate purposes, unless we specify otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement. General corporate purposes may include, but are not limited to, repurchases of our outstanding shares of common stock, additions to working capital, capital expenditures, repayment of debt and the financing of acquisitions and investments.

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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

References to “Agilent” in this section of this prospectus are only to Agilent Technologies, Inc. and not to any of its subsidiaries.

Agilent may issue debt securities, including convertible debt securities, in one or more series. While the terms summarized below will apply generally to any future debt securities Agilent may offer under this prospectus, the applicable prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus will describe the specific terms of any debt securities offered through that prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus. The terms of any debt securities Agilent offers under a prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus may differ from terms we describe below.

Agilent will evidence each series of debt securities offered under this prospectus that it issues by an indenture (the “base indenture”) to be entered into between Agilent and U.S. Bank National Association (the “trustee”). Agilent has filed a form of the base indenture as an exhibit to the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, and supplemental indentures, officer’s certificates and forms of debt securities containing the terms of the debt securities being offered will be filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part or will be incorporated by reference from reports that Agilent files with the SEC. Unless the context requires otherwise, whenever Agilent refers to the “indenture,” Agilent is referring to the base indenture as supplemented by any supplemental indentures or officer’s certificates that specify the terms of a particular series of debt securities.

The indenture will be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or the Trust Indenture Act.

The following summaries of material provisions of the debt securities and the indenture are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of the indenture applicable to a particular series of debt securities. Agilent urges you to read the applicable prospectus supplement and any related free writing prospectuses related to the debt securities that Agilent may offer under this prospectus, as well as the complete applicable indenture that contains the terms of the debt securities.

General

Agilent will set forth in a prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, to the extent required, among other things, the following terms of the series of debt securities being offered:

• the title of the series of the debt securities;

• any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of a series;

• the date or dates on which Agilent will pay the principal of the debt securities;

• the rate or rates at which the debt securities will bear interest or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates;

• the date or dates from which interest will accrue, the date or dates on which interest will be payable and any record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

• the place or places where principal of and any premium and interest on the debt securities of the series will be payable;

• any optional redemption provisions and any change of control put provisions;

• if other than the principal amount thereof, the amounts payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the debt securities;

• the issue date;

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• the issue price (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities) at which the debt securities will be issued;

• whether the debt securities will be issued in the form of definitive debt securities or global debt securities and, if issued in the form of global debt securities, the identity of the depositary for such global debt security or debt securities;

• any additions to, deletions of or changes in the events of default which apply to the debt securities;

• if the debt securities will be convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock, preferred stock or other securities of Agilent;

• any additions to, deletions of or changes in the covenants which apply to the debt securities; and

• any other terms of the debt securities (which may supplement, modify or delete any provision of the indenture insofar as it applies to such series).

The debt securities will be issuable only in fully registered form, without coupons, or in the form of one or more global debt securities. The debt securities will be issued only in minimum denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus.

The indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount of debt securities that may be issued under it. Unless otherwise provided in the terms of a series of debt securities, a series may be reopened, without notice to or consent of any holder of outstanding debt securities, for issuances of additional debt securities of that series.

Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the debt securities will be payable at Agilent’s office or agency maintained for this purpose within the continental United States, or, at Agilent’s option, payment of interest on the debt securities may be made by check mailed to the holders of the debt securities at their respective addresses set forth in the register of holders of debt securities. Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, the trustee will initially be a paying agent and registrar under the indenture. Agilent may act as paying agent or registrar under the indenture.

Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. If a payment date is not a business day, payment may be made on the next succeeding day that is a business day, and interest will not accrue for the intervening period.

Certain Covenants

The indenture governing the terms of the debt securities contains the following principal covenants:

Limitation on Liens

Agilent will not, and will not permit any subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any lien on (i) any Principal Property or (ii) the capital stock of any subsidiary of Agilent, to secure any indebtedness of Agilent, any subsidiary of Agilent or any other person without securing the debt securities equally and ratably with such indebtedness for so long as such indebtedness shall be so secured, subject to certain exceptions. Exceptions include:

• liens on assets or property of a person at the time it becomes a subsidiary of Agilent, securing only indebtedness of such person, provided such indebtedness was not incurred in connection with such person or entity becoming a subsidiary of Agilent and such liens do not extend to any assets other than those of the person becoming a subsidiary of Agilent;

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• liens existing on assets created at the time of, or within 18 months after, the acquisition, purchase, lease, improvement or development of such assets to secure all or a portion of the purchase price or lease for, or the costs of improvement or development of, such assets;

• liens to secure any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancings or refundings), in whole or in part, of any indebtedness secured by liens referred to above or liens created in connection with any amendment, consent or waiver relating to such indebtedness, so long as such lien is limited to all or part of substantially the same property which secured the lien extended, renewed or replaced, the amount of indebtedness secured is not increased (other than by the amount equal to any costs and expenses (including any premiums, fees or penalties) incurred in connection with any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding) and the indebtedness so secured does not exceed the fair market value (as determined by Agilent’s board of directors) of the assets subject to such liens at the time of such extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding, or such amendment, consent or waiver, as the case may be;

• liens on property incurred in sale and leaseback transactions permitted under “—Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions” below;

• liens in favor of only Agilent or one or more subsidiaries of Agilent granted by Agilent or a subsidiary of Agilent to secure any obligations owed to Agilent or a subsidiary of Agilent;

• liens on property or assets of a person existing at the time such person is merged into or consolidated with Agilent or any of its subsidiaries, or at the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of a person to Agilent or any of its subsidiaries, provided that such lien was not incurred in anticipation of the merger, consolidation, or sale, lease, other disposition or other such transaction by which such person was merged into or consolidated with Agilent or any subsidiary of Agilent;

• liens on securities deemed to exist under repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements entered into by Agilent or any Significant Subsidiary (as defined below) of Agilent in the ordinary course of business;

• liens in favor of the trustee granted in accordance with the indenture;

• liens in existence on the date of the indenture; and

• liens otherwise prohibited by this covenant, securing indebtedness which, together with the value of attributable debt incurred in sale and leaseback transactions permitted under “—Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions” below, do not exceed 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets measured at the date of incurrence of the lien.

Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions

Agilent will not, and will not permit any subsidiary of Agilent to, enter into any arrangement with any person pursuant to which Agilent or any subsidiary of Agilent leases any property that has been or is to be sold or transferred by Agilent or the subsidiary to such person (a “sale and leaseback transaction”), except that a sale and leaseback transaction is permitted if Agilent or such subsidiary would be entitled to incur indebtedness secured by a lien on the property to be leased (without equally and ratably securing the outstanding debt securities of any series) in an amount equal to the present value of the lease payments with respect to the term of the lease remaining on the date as of which the amount is being determined, discounted at the rate of interest set forth or implicit in the terms of the lease, compounded semi-annually (such amount is referred to as the “attributable debt”).

In addition, permitted sale and leaseback transactions not subject to the limitation above and the provisions described in “—Limitation on Liens” above include:

• temporary leases for a term, including renewals at the option of the lessee, of not more than three years;

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• leases between only Agilent and a subsidiary of Agilent or only between subsidiaries of Agilent;

• leases where the proceeds from the sale of the property are at least equal to the fair market value (as determined in good faith by Agilent) of the property and Agilent applies an amount equal to the net proceeds of the sale to the retirement of long-term indebtedness or to the purchase of other property or equipment used or useful in its business, within 270 days of the effective date of such sale; provided that, in lieu of applying such amount to the retirement of long-term indebtedness, Agilent may deliver debt securities to the trustee for cancellation, such debt securities to be credited at the cost thereof to it; and

• leases of property executed by the time of, or within 270 days after the latest of, the acquisition, the completion of construction or improvement, or the commencement of commercial operation of the property.

Limitation on Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets

Agilent may not consolidate or merge with or into another entity, or sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of its assets substantially as an entirety to another entity unless:

• (1) Agilent is the continuing corporation or (2) the successor entity, if other than Agilent, is a U.S. corporation, partnership, limited liability company or trust and expressly assumes by supplemental indenture all of Agilent’s obligations under the debt securities of all series and the indenture;

• immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no event of default (as defined below), and no default or other event that, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become a default or event of default, has occurred and is continuing; and

• if, as a result of any consolidation, merger, sale or lease, conveyance or transfer described in this covenant, properties or assets of Agilent would become subject to any lien which would not be permitted by the restrictions described under “—Limitation on Liens” without equally and ratably securing the debt securities of each series, Agilent or such successor person, as the case may be, will take the steps as are necessary to secure effectively the debt securities of such series equally and ratably with, or prior to, all indebtedness secured by those liens as described under “—Limitation on Liens.”

In connection with any transaction that is covered by this covenant, Agilent must deliver to the trustee an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel each stating that the transaction complies with the terms of the indenture and that all conditions precedent provided for in the indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

In the case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or other conveyance, but not a lease, in a transaction in which there is a successor entity, the successor entity will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of Agilent under the indenture and, subject to the terms of the indenture, Agilent will be discharged from all obligations and covenants under the indenture and the debt securities.

Further Issuances

Agilent may from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the holders of the debt securities of any series, create and issue additional debt securities having the same terms as, and ranking equally and ratably with, the debt securities of such series in all respects (except for the issue date and, if applicable, the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such additional debt securities and the first payment of interest following the issue date of such additional debt securities and the issue price). Such additional debt securities may be consolidated and form a single series with, and will have the same terms as to ranking, redemption, waivers, amendments or otherwise, as a previously issued series of debt securities and will vote together as one class on all matters with respect to such debt securities.

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Events of Default

Each of the following is an “event of default” under the indenture with respect to the debt securities of any series:

(1)    a failure to pay principal of or premium, if any, on the debt securities of such series when due at its stated maturity date, upon optional redemption or otherwise;

(2)    a default in the payment of any interest on the debt securities of such series when due and payable, continued for 30 days;

(3)    a default in the performance, or breach, of any other covenant, warranty or agreement in the indenture (other than a default or breach pursuant to clause (4) immediately below), and continuance of such default or breach for 90 days after a Notice of Default (as defined below) is given to Agilent;

(4)    a default in the performance, or breach, of Agilent’s obligations under the “—Certain Covenants—Limitation on Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets” covenant described above;

(5)    certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization involving Agilent; and

(6)    (a) a failure to make any payment at maturity, including any applicable grace period, on any indebtedness of Agilent (other than indebtedness of Agilent owing to any of its subsidiaries) outstanding in an amount in excess of $100 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time and continuance of this failure to pay or (b) a default on any indebtedness of Agilent (other than indebtedness owing to any of its subsidiaries), which default results in the acceleration of such indebtedness in an amount in excess of $100 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time without such indebtedness having been discharged or the acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, in the case of clause (a) or (b) above; provided, however, that if any failure, default or acceleration referred to in clauses 6(a) or (b) ceases or is cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, then the event of default under the indenture will be deemed cured.

A default under clause (3) above is not an event of default until the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of such series then outstanding notify Agilent of the default and Agilent does not cure such default within the time specified after receipt of such notice. Such notice must specify the default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default.”

Agilent shall deliver to the trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an officer’s certificate of any event that with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would become an event of default, its status and what action Agilent is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. Upon becoming aware of any default of event of default, Agilent is required to deliver to the trustee a statement specifying such default or event of default.

If an event of default (other than an event of default resulting from certain events involving bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization) with respect to debt securities of any series shall have occurred and be continuing, the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of such series may declare, by notice to Agilent in writing (and to the trustee, if given by the holders of the debt securities) specifying the event of default, to be immediately due and payable the principal amount of all the outstanding debt securities of such series, plus accrued but unpaid interest to the date of acceleration. In case an event of default resulting from certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization with respect to Agilent shall occur, such amount with respect to all the outstanding debt securities of such series shall be due and payable immediately to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law without any declaration or other act on the part of the trustee or the holders of the outstanding debt securities of such series. Unless as otherwise provided in the indenture, after any such acceleration, but before a judgment or decree based on acceleration is obtained by the

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trustee, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt securities of such series may, under certain circumstances, rescind and annul such acceleration and waive such event of default with respect to the outstanding debt securities of such series if (i) Agilent has paid or deposited with the trustee a sum sufficient to pay all overdue principal, premium, interest and all amounts due to the Trustee and (ii) all events of default, other than the nonpayment of accelerated principal, premium or interest with respect to the outstanding debt securities of such series, have been cured or waived as provided in the indenture.

In case an event of default shall occur and be continuing with respect to a series of debt securities, the trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the indenture at the request or direction of any of the holders of the debt securities of such series, unless such holders shall have offered (and, if requested, provided) to the trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the trustee against any loss, liability or expense. Subject to such provisions for the indemnification of the trustee, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of such series will have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee with respect to the debt securities of such series.

No holder of debt securities of any series will have any right to institute any proceeding with respect to the indenture unless:

(a)    such holder has previously given to the trustee written notice of a continuing event of default with respect to the debt securities of such series;

(b)    the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of such series then outstanding have made written request and offered reasonable indemnity to the trustee to institute such proceeding as trustee;

(c)    the trustee has failed to institute such proceeding within 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity; and

(d)    the trustee shall not have received from the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of such series then outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request during the 60 day period referred to in clause (c).

However, such limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by a holder of any debt securities for enforcement of payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, such debt securities on or after the respective due dates expressed in such debt securities.

The indenture requires Agilent to furnish to the trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a statement of an officer regarding compliance with the indenture.

Definitions

The indenture contains the following defined terms:

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, as of the time of determination, the aggregate amount of the assets of Agilent and the assets of its consolidated subsidiaries after deducting (1) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, service marks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other intangible assets and (2) all current liabilities, as reflected on the most recent consolidated balance sheet prepared by Agilent in accordance with GAAP contained in an annual report on Form 10-K or a quarterly report on Form 10-Q timely filed by Agilent with the SEC or any amendment thereto (and not subsequently disclaimed as not being reliable by Agilent) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, prior to the time as of which “Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” is being determined.

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“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America in effect on the date of the indenture and from time to time.

“guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any indebtedness of any other person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such person (1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such indebtedness of such other person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (2) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term “guarantee” will not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “guarantee,” when used as a verb, has a correlative meaning.

“incur” means issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for.

“indebtedness” means, with respect to any person, obligations (other than Non-recourse Obligations) of such person for borrowed money (including, without limitation, indebtedness for borrowed money evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments).

“Non-recourse Obligation” means indebtedness or other obligations substantially related to the acquisition of assets not previously owned by Agilent or any direct or indirect subsidiaries of Agilent or the financing of a project involving the development or expansion of properties of Agilent or any direct or indirect subsidiaries of Agilent, in each case as to which the obligee with respect to such indebtedness or obligation has no recourse to Agilent or any direct or indirect subsidiary of Agilent or such subsidiary’s assets other than the assets which were acquired with the proceeds of such transaction or the project financed with the proceeds of such transaction (and the proceeds thereof).

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

“Principal Property” means Agilent’s principal offices in Santa Clara, California, each manufacturing facility, each research and development facility and each service and support facility (in each case including associated office facilities) located within or outside the territorial limits of the United States of America owned by Agilent or any wholly owned subsidiaries of Agilent, except such as Agilent’s board of directors by resolution determines in good faith (taking into account, among other things, the importance of such property to the business, financial condition and earnings of Agilent and its subsidiaries taken as a whole) not to be of material importance to the business of Agilent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

“Significant Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.

“subsidiary” means, with respect to any person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of that date, owned, controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

Modification and Waiver

Subject to certain exceptions, the indenture may be amended with the consent of the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of all series affected by such amendment (including

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consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for the debt securities of such series). Agilent and the trustee may, without the consent of any holders, enter into a supplemental indenture in order to amend or supplement the base indenture with respect to debt securities of one or more series or amend or supplement the debt securities of one or more series without notice to or the consent of any holder of debt securities to:

• evidence the succession of another person to Agilent and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of Agilent under the indenture and the debt securities;

• add further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions for the protection of the holders of all or any series of debt securities;

• surrender any right or power conferred upon Agilent;

• establish the forms or terms of debt securities of any series;

• add any additional events of default for the benefit of holders of all or any series of the debt securities;

• add to or change any of the provisions of the indenture as necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of debt securities of any series in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of debt securities of any series in uncertificated form;

• secure the debt securities of any series or add guarantees with respect to the debt securities of any series;

• provide for the issuance of additional debt securities of any series of debt securities in accordance with the provisions of the indenture;

• add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions contained in the indenture or in any supplemental indentures or officer’s certificates in respect of one or more series of debt securities; provided that any such addition, change or elimination (i) will not apply to, or modify the rights of any holder of, any debt securities of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture or officer’s certificate or (ii) will become effective only when no debt securities of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture or officer’s certificate are outstanding;

• add or appoint a successor or separate trustee;

• cure any ambiguity or correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture or officer’s certificate that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any such supplemental indenture or officer’s certificate, provided that the interests of the holders of the debt securities are not adversely affected in any material respect;

• supplement any of the provisions of the indenture as necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of debt securities;

• make any other change that would not adversely affect the holders of the debt securities of such series in any material respect;

• make any change necessary to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with the qualification of the indenture or any supplemental indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; and

• conform the indenture to this “Description of Debt Securities” or any other similarly titled section in any prospectus supplement or other offering document relating to a series of debt securities.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no modification, supplement, waiver or amendment may, without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security affected thereby:

• make any change to the percentage of principal amount of debt securities the holders of which must consent to an amendment, modification, supplement or waiver;

• reduce the rate of or extend the time of payment for interest on any debt securities;

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• reduce the principal amount or extend the stated maturity of any debt securities;

• reduce the redemption price of any debt securities or add redemption provisions to the debt securities;

• make any debt securities payable in money other than that stated in the indenture or the debt securities;

• impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to the debt securities; or

• make any change in the ranking or priority of any debt securities that would adversely affect the holder of such debt securities.

The holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities may waive compliance by Agilent with certain restrictive provisions of the indenture with respect to the debt securities. The holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities may waive any past default under the indenture, except a default not theretofore cured in the payment of principal or interest and certain covenants and provisions of the indenture which cannot be amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security.

Defeasance

Agilent at any time may terminate all its obligations with respect to the debt securities of any series (such termination, “legal defeasance”), except for certain obligations, including those respecting the defeasance trust and obligations to register the transfer or exchange of the debt securities of such series, to replace mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen debt securities and to maintain a registrar and paying agent in respect of the debt securities of such series. Agilent at any time may also terminate its obligations with respect to the debt securities of any series under certain covenants included in the indenture, including those described under “—Certain Covenants—Limitation on Liens” and “—Certain Covenants—Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions,” and under clause (3) under “—Events of Default,” which termination is referred to in this prospectus as “covenant defeasance.” Agilent may exercise its legal defeasance option with respect to any series of debt securities notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option with respect to such series of debt securities.

If Agilent exercises its legal defeasance option with respect to the debt securities of any series, payment of the debt securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an event of default with respect thereto. If Agilent exercises its covenant defeasance option with respect to the debt securities of any series, payment of the debt securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an event of default specified in clauses (3) and (6) under “—Events of Default” and with respect to certain covenants in the indenture, including those described under “—Certain Covenants.”

The legal defeasance option or the covenant defeasance option with respect to the debt securities of any series may be exercised only if:

(a)    Agilent irrevocably deposits in trust with the trustee money or U.S. government securities or a combination thereof, which through the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants, to pay principal and interest when due on all the debt securities being defeased to maturity;

(b)    no default or event of default with respect to the debt securities of such series has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit, or, with respect to an event of default involving bankruptcy, at any time in the period ending on the 91st day after the date of deposit;

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(c)    in the case of the legal defeasance option, Agilent delivers to the trustee an opinion of counsel stating that:

(1)    Agilent has received from the IRS a ruling, or

(2)    since the date of the indenture there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law,

to the effect, in either case, that and based thereon such opinion of counsel shall confirm that the holders of the debt securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same time as would have been the case if such defeasance has not occurred;

(d)    in the case of the covenant defeasance option, Agilent delivers to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that the holders of the debt securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred; and

(e)    Agilent delivers to the trustee an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge of the debt securities of such series have been complied with as required by the indenture.

Discharge

When (i) Agilent delivers to the trustee all outstanding debt securities of any series (other than debt securities replaced or paid because of mutilation, loss, destruction or wrongful taking) for cancellation or (ii) all outstanding debt securities of any series have become due and payable, or are by their terms due and payable within one year whether at maturity or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the trustee, and in the case of clause (ii) Agilent irrevocably deposits with the trustee funds sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all outstanding debt securities of such series, including interest thereon, and if in either case Agilent pays all other sums related to the debt securities of such series payable under the indenture by Agilent, then the indenture shall, subject to certain surviving provisions, cease to be of further effect with respect to such series. The trustee shall acknowledge satisfaction and discharge of the indenture with respect to the debt securities of such series on demand of Agilent accompanied by an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel of Agilent.

Governing Law

The indenture is, and the debt securities will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We may sell the debt securities offered by this prospectus through agents, underwriters or dealers, or directly to one or more purchasers or through a combination of any of these methods of sale. This prospectus may be used in connection with any offering of our debt securities through any of these methods or other methods described in the applicable prospectus supplement. The prospectus supplement with respect to particular debt securities will set forth the terms and conditions of the securities, including the public offering or purchase price and the proceeds to Agilent from the sale, the expenses of the offering, the securities exchanges, if any, on which the debt securities will be listed and the other terms and conditions listed below.

If we use agents who we designate to solicit or receive offers to purchase the debt securities:

• We will name any agent involved in offering or selling debt securities, and disclose any compensation (including discounts and commissions) that we will pay to the agent and commissions from purchasers of debt securities for whom such agent acts as an agent, in the applicable prospectus supplement.

• Unless we indicate otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, our agents will act on a best efforts basis for the period of their appointment.

• Our agents may be deemed to be underwriters under the Securities Act of any of the debt securities that they offer or sell.

If we use an underwriter or underwriters in the offer or sale of our debt securities:

• We will execute an underwriting agreement with the underwriter or underwriters at the time that we reach an agreement for the sale of the debt securities.

• We will include the names of the specific managing underwriter or underwriters, as well as the names of any other underwriters, and the terms of the transactions, including all the compensation the underwriters and dealers will receive (including discounts and commissions and compensation from purchasers of debt securities for whom such underwriters or dealers act as agent), in the applicable prospectus supplement.

• The underwriters will use the applicable prospectus supplement to sell the debt securities.

• Underwriters may offer and sell the debt securities at a fixed price or prices, which may be changed, or from time to time at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices.

If we use a dealer to sell the debt securities:

• We, as principal, will sell the debt securities to the dealer.

• The dealer will then sell the debt securities to the public at varying prices that the dealer will determine at the time it sells our debt securities.

• We will include the name of the dealer and the terms of our transactions with the dealer, including all the compensation (including discounts and commissions) the dealer will receive, in the applicable prospectus supplement.

We may solicit directly offers to purchase the securities, and we may directly sell the securities to institutional or other investors. We will describe the terms of our direct sales in the applicable prospectus supplement.

We may indemnify agents, underwriters, dealers and remarketing firms and their controlling persons against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. Such agents, underwriters, dealers, remarketing firms and their controlling persons may also be entitled to contribution with respect to payments they may be required to make in respect of those liabilities. Our agents, underwriters and dealers, or their affiliates, may be customers of, engage in transactions with or perform services for us, in the ordinary course of business.

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We may authorize our agents and underwriters to solicit offers by certain institutions to purchase the debt securities at the public offering price under contracts providing for payment and delivery on a future date.

• If we use delayed delivery contracts, we will disclose that we are using them in the applicable prospectus supplement and will tell you when we will demand payment and delivery of the debt securities under the delayed delivery contracts.

• These delayed delivery contracts will be subject only to the conditions that we describe in the applicable prospectus supplement.

• We will describe in the applicable prospectus supplement the commission that underwriters and agents soliciting purchases of the securities under delayed contracts will be entitled to receive.

• Institutions with which those contracts may be made include commercial and savings banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, educational and charitable institutions and others.

Each series of debt securities may be new issues of securities with no established trading market. Any underwriters to whom offered debt securities are sold by us for public offering and sale may make a market in such offered debt securities, but the underwriters will not be obligated to do so and may discontinue any market making at any time without notice. The debt securities may or may not be listed on a national securities exchange. No assurance can be given as to the liquidity of the trading market for any offered securities.

Any underwriter may engage in stabilizing and syndicate covering transactions in accordance with Rule 104 under the Exchange Act. Rule 104 permits stabilizing bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified maximum. The underwriters may over-allot offered securities, thereby creating a short position in the underwriters’ account. Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of offered securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed to cover syndicate short positions. Stabilizing and syndicate covering transactions may cause the price of the offered securities to be higher than it would otherwise be in the absence of such transactions. These transactions, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.

Any underwriter may from time to time make loans to us and our subsidiaries or affiliates and may perform other services for us and our subsidiaries or affiliates in the normal course of their business, including investment banking, commercial banking and other financial services, for which they may receive customary compensation.

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LEGAL MATTERS

Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, New York will provide opinions regarding the authorization and validity of the securities. Counsel representing any agents, underwriters or dealers will be named in the applicable prospectus supplement.

EXPERTS

The financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this Prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2018 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the SEC. The registration statement, including the attached exhibits, contains additional relevant information about us. The rules of the SEC allow us to omit from this prospectus some of the information included in the registration statement. The SEC maintains an Internet site, http://www.sec.gov, that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.

We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act. We fulfill our obligations with respect to such requirements by filing periodic reports and other information with the SEC. These reports and other information are available as provided above.

We maintain an Internet site at www.agilent.com. Our website and the information contained on that site, or connected to that site, is not incorporated into this prospectus or the registration statement.

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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” in this prospectus the information in other documents that we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus, and information in documents that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede information contained in documents filed earlier with the SEC or contained in this prospectus or a prospectus supplement. We incorporate by reference in this prospectus the documents listed below and any future filings that we may make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the termination of the offering under this prospectus:

• Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2018, including portions of our proxy statement relating to our 2019 annual meeting of stockholders held on March 20, 2019 to the extent incorporated by reference into such Annual Report on Form 10-K;

• Quarterly Reports on Form  10-Q for the quarterly periods ended January  31, 2019, April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2019; and

• Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on November 19, 2018, January 17, 2019, January  25, 2019, March 13, 2019, March 22, 2019, August 8, 2019 and August 16, 2019 (in each case, other than information furnished rather than filed).

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purpose of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus (or in any document incorporated by reference therein) or in any other subsequently filed document that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus.

To the extent that any information contained in any Current Report on Form 8-K, or any exhibit thereto, was furnished to, rather than filed with, the SEC, such information or exhibit is specifically not incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

You may obtain a copy of any or all of the documents referred to above which may have been or may be incorporated by reference into this prospectus (excluding certain exhibits to the documents) at no cost to you by writing or telephoning us at the following address:

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Attn: Investor Relations

5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard

Santa Clara, California 95051

(408) 345-8886

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Debt Securities

September 3, 2019

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 14.    Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

The following is a statement of the estimated expenses (other than underwriting compensation) to be incurred by Registrant in connection with the distribution of debt securities registered under this registration statement:

SEC registration fee	$	*
Accounting fees and expenses		**
Trustees’ fees and expenses (including counsel fees)		**
Legal fees and expenses (including Blue Sky fees)		**
Printing and engraving fees		**
Rating agency fees		**
Miscellaneous		**
Total	$	**

* Excluded because the SEC registration fee is being deferred pursuant to Rule 456.

** Estimated amounts of fees and expenses to be incurred in connection with any offering pursuant to this registration statement will be determined from time to time and reflected in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Item 15.    Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Agilent is incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify persons who were, are or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal.

Section 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him under Section 145.

Agilent’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws provide for the indemnification of officers and directors to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.

All of Agilent’s directors and officers are covered by insurance policies maintained by Agilent against certain liabilities for actions taken in their capacities as such, including liabilities under the Securities Act. In addition, Agilent has entered into indemnity agreements with its directors and executive officers and certain

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former directors and officers of acquired companies that obligate it to indemnify such directors and executive officers to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.

See also the undertakings set out in response to Item 17.

Item 16.    Exhibits.

Exhibit Number	Exhibit Description
1.1	Form of Underwriting Agreement for debt securities.*
4.1	Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-85249) filed with the SEC on August 16, 1999.
4.2	Amended and Restated Bylaws. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 20, 2012.
4.3	Form of Indenture.
4.4	Forms of notes related to the debt securities.*
5.1	Opinion of Goodwin Procter LLP.
23.1	Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.
23.2	Consent of Goodwin Procter LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1	Power of Attorney (incorporated by reference to the signature page hereto).
25.1	T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of the trustee, in respect of the Indenture.

* To be filed as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference or by post-effective amendment.

Item 17.    Undertakings.

(a)    The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1)    to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made of securities registered hereby, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act; (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement; and (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement; provided, however, that clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the Registration Statement;

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(2)    that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;

(3)    to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering;

(4)    that, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser:

(i)    Each prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the Registration Statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the Registration Statement; and

(ii)    Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5) or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of and included in the Registration Statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the Registration Statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a Registration Statement or prospectus that is part of the Registration Statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement or prospectus that is part of the Registration Statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the Registration Statement or prospectus that was part of the Registration Statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; and

(5)    that, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this Registration Statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i)    Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii)    Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned Registrant;

(iii)    The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and

(iv)    Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

(b)    The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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(c)    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions described under Item 15 above, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Clara, State of California, on September 3, 2019.

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:	/s/ MICHAEL TANG
	Michael Tang, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Michael R. McMullen, Michael Tang and P. Diana Chiu, or any of them, his or her attorney-in-fact, each with the power of substitution and re-substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments and post-effective amendments to this registration statement, or any registration statement for the same offering that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ MICHAEL R. MCMULLEN Michael R. McMullen	Director, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)	September 3, 2019
/s/ ROBERT W. MCMAHON Robert W. McMahon	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)	September 3, 2019
/s/ RODNEY GONSALVES Rodney Gonsalves	Vice President, Corporate Controllership (Principal Accounting Officer)	September 3, 2019
/s/ KOH BOON HWEE Koh Boon Hwee	Chairman of the Board of Directors	September 3, 2019
/s/ MALA ANAND Mala Anand	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ HANS E. BISHOP Hans E. Bishop	Director	September 3, 2019

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Signature	Title	Date
/s/ PAUL N. CLARK Paul N. Clark	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ HEIDI KUNZ Heidi Kunz	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ DANIEL K. PODOLSKY, M.D. Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D.	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ SUE H. RATAJ Sue H. Rataj	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ GEORGE A. SCANGOS, Ph D. George A. Scangos, Ph D.	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ DOW R. WILSON Dow R. Wilson	Director	September 3, 2019
/s/ TADATAKA YAMADA, M.D. Tadataka Yamada, M.D.	Director	September 3, 2019

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EX-4.3

Exhibit 4.3

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(as Obligor)

and

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

(as Trustee)

Indenture

Dated as of [                ], 2019

DEBT SECURITIES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

			Page
ARTICLE  I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION				1
	SECTION 1.01	Definitions		1
	SECTION 1.02	Officer’s Certificates and Opinions		8
	SECTION 1.03	Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee		8
	SECTION 1.04	Acts of Holders		9
	SECTION 1.05	Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Obligor		9
	SECTION 1.06	Notice to Holders; Waiver		10
	SECTION 1.07	Conflict with Trust Indenture Act		10
	SECTION 1.08	Effect of Headings and Table of Contents		10
	SECTION 1.09	Successors and Assigns		10
	SECTION 1.10	Separability Clause		11
	SECTION 1.11	Benefits of Indenture		11
	SECTION 1.12	Governing Law		11
	SECTION 1.13	Counterparts		11
	SECTION 1.14	Legal Holidays		11
ARTICLE II THE NOTES				11
	SECTION 2.01	Form and Dating		11
	SECTION 2.02	Execution and Authentication		15
	SECTION 2.03	Temporary Notes		15
	SECTION 2.04	Registration, Transfer and Exchange		16
	SECTION 2.05	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes		18
	SECTION 2.06	Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved		19
	SECTION 2.07	Persons Deemed Owners		20
	SECTION 2.08	Cancellation		20
	SECTION 2.09	Computation of Interest		21
	SECTION 2.10	CUSIP Numbers		21
ARTICLE III DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE				21
	SECTION 3.01	Discharge of Indenture		21
	SECTION 3.02	Defeasance and Discharge of Covenants upon Deposit of Moneys, U.S. Government Obligations		22
	SECTION 3.03	Application of Trust Money		24
	SECTION 3.04	Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held		24
	SECTION 3.05	Return of Unclaimed Amounts		24
	SECTION 3.06	Reinstatement		25
ARTICLE IV REMEDIES				25
	SECTION 4.01	Events of Default		25
	SECTION 4.02	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment		26
	SECTION 4.03	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement		27
	SECTION 4.04	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim		28

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(continued)

			Page
	SECTION 4.05	Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes		28
	SECTION 4.06	Application of Money Collected		29
	SECTION 4.07	Limitation on Suits		29
	SECTION 4.08	Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest		30
	SECTION 4.09	Restoration of Rights and Remedies		30
	SECTION 4.10	Rights and Remedies Cumulative		30
	SECTION 4.11	Delay or Omission Not Waiver		30
	SECTION 4.12	Control by Holders		30
	SECTION 4.13	Waiver of Past Defaults		31
	SECTION 4.14	Undertaking for Costs		31
	SECTION 4.15	Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws		31
ARTICLE V THE TRUSTEE				31
	SECTION 5.01	Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee		31
	SECTION 5.02	Notice of Defaults		32
	SECTION 5.03	Certain Rights of Trustee		33
	SECTION 5.04	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes		34
	SECTION 5.05	May Hold Notes		34
	SECTION 5.06	Money Held in Trust		34
	SECTION 5.07	Compensation and Reimbursement		34
	SECTION 5.08	Disqualification; Conflicting Interests		35
	SECTION 5.09	Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility		35
	SECTION 5.10	Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor		36
	SECTION 5.11	Acceptance of Appointment by Successor		37
	SECTION 5.12	Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business		38
	SECTION 5.13	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Obligor		38
	SECTION 5.14	Appointment of Authenticating Agent		38
ARTICLE  VI HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND OBLIGOR				40
	SECTION 6.01	Obligor to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders		40
	SECTION 6.02	Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders		40
	SECTION 6.03	Reports by Trustee		40
	SECTION 6.04	Reports by Obligor		41
	SECTION 6.05	Compliance Certificate		41
ARTICLE VII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR TRANSFER				41
	SECTION 7.01	When Obligor May Merge or Transfer Assets		41
	SECTION 7.02	Successor Entity Substituted		42
ARTICLE VIII SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES				42
	SECTION 8.01	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders		42
	SECTION 8.02	Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders		44
	SECTION 8.03	Execution of Supplemental Indentures		44

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(continued)

			Page
	SECTION 8.04	Effect of Supplemental Indentures		44
	SECTION 8.05	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act		45
	SECTION 8.06	Documents to Be Given to Trustee		45
	SECTION 8.07	Notation on Notes in Respect of Supplemental Indentures		45
ARTICLE IX COVENANTS				45
	SECTION 9.01	Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest		45
	SECTION 9.02	Maintenance of Office or Agency		46
	SECTION 9.03	Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust		46
	SECTION 9.04	Certificate to Trustee		47
	SECTION 9.05	Existence		47
	SECTION 9.06	Limitation on Liens		47
	SECTION 9.07	Limitation on Sale-Leaseback Transactions		48
ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF NOTES				49
	SECTION 10.01	Optional Redemption		49
	SECTION 10.02	Mandatory Redemption		49

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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

Trust Indenture Act Section:	Indenture Section:
310(a)(1)	5.09
(a)(2)	5.09
(a)(3)	N.A.
(a)(4)	N.A.
(b)	5.08, 5.10
(c)	N.A.
311(a)	5.13
(b)	5.13
(c)	N.A.
312(a)	6.01, 6.02
(b)	6.02
(c)	6.02
313(a)	6.03
(b)	6.03
(c)	6.03
(d)	6.03
314(a)	6.04
(a)(1)	6.04
(a)(2)	6.04
(a)(3)	6.04
(a)(4)	1.02, 9.04
(b)	N.A.
(c)	6.04
(c)(1)	1.02
(c)(2)	1.02
(c)(3)	N.A.
(d)	N.A.
(e)	1.02
315(a)	5.01, 5.03
(b)	5.02
(c)	5.01
(d)	5.03
(e)	4.14
316(a)(1)(A)	4.12
(a)(1)(B)	4.13
(a)(2)	N.A.
(b)	4.08
(c)	1.04
317(a)(1)	4.03
(a)(2)	4.04
(b)	9.03
318(a)	1.07

NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

N.A. means Not Applicable.

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THIS INDENTURE, between Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Obligor”), having its principal office at 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95051 and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), is made and entered into as of this [    ]th day of [                ], 2019.

RECITALS OF THE OBLIGOR

WHEREAS, the Obligor has duly authorized the issuance from time to time of its debt securities in one or more series (the “Notes”) up to such principal amount or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and to provide, among other things, for the authentication, delivery and administration thereof, the Obligor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Obligor, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE:

In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Notes by the Holders (as hereinafter defined) thereof, the Obligor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes or any series thereof as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

SECTION 1.01    Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, and of any indenture supplemental hereto, 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 (as hereinafter defined), 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; and

(4)    all references in this instrument to designated “Articles,” “Sections” and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this instrument as originally executed. 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.

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

“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the

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

“Attributable Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 9.07.

“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee to authenticate Notes under Section 5.14.

“Authentication Order” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(1).

“Bankruptcy Code” means title 11, U.S. Code, as amended, or any similar state or federal law for the relief of debtors.

“Board of Directors” means (i) the Board of Directors of the Obligor, (ii) any committee of such Board of Directors, (iii) any committee of officers of the Obligor or (iv) any officer of the Obligor, in the cases of clauses (ii)-(iv), authorized with respect to any matter to exercise the powers of the Board of Directors of the Obligor.

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

“Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City or other place of payment are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to be closed.

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.

“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order, respectively, signed in the name of the Obligor by any Officer thereof and delivered to the Trustee.

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, as of the time of determination, the aggregate amount of the assets of the Obligor and the assets of its consolidated subsidiaries after deducting (1) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, service marks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other intangible assets and (2) all current liabilities, as reflected on the most recent consolidated balance sheet prepared by the Obligor in accordance with GAAP contained in an annual report on Form 10-K or a quarterly report on Form 10-Q timely filed by the Obligor with the Commission or any amendment thereto (and not subsequently disclaimed as not being reliable by the Obligor) pursuant to the Exchange Act prior to the time as of which “Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” is being determined.

“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time this Indenture shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at U.S. Bank National Association, 633 West Fifth Street, 24^th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90071, Attention: Corporate Trust Services (Agilent Technologies, Inc.).

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“Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02.

“Custodian” means the Person appointed by the Obligor to act as custodian for the Depositary, which Person shall be the Trustee unless and until a successor Person is appointed by the Obligor.

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06(2).

“Definitive Note” means a certificated Note registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with this Indenture.

“Depositary” means with respect to the Notes of any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person designated as Depositary for such series by the Obligor pursuant to Section 2.01 or 2.04, unless and until a successor Depositary for such series shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” with respect to the Notes of a series shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder with respect to such series.

“Discharged” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02.

“DTC” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(2).

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01.

“Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (or any successor Act), as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America in effect on the date of the Indenture and from time to time.

“Global Note” means each note in global form issued in accordance with this Indenture and bearing the Global Note Legend.

“Global Note Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.01(2), which is required to be placed on all Global Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture.

“Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (2) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term “guarantee” will not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “guarantee,” when used as a verb, has a correlative meaning.

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“Holder” and “Holder of Notes” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Security Register.

“Incur” means issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, obligations (other than Non-recourse Obligations) of such Person for borrowed money (including, without limitation, indebtedness for borrowed money evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments).

“Indenture” or “this Indenture” means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Interest Payment Date,” when used with respect to any Note, means the date specified in such Note on which an installment of interest on such Note is scheduled to be paid.

“Issue Date” of any Note (or portion thereof) means the earlier of (a) the date of such Note or (b) the date of any Note (or portion thereof) for which such Note was issued (directly or indirectly) on registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.

“Legal Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02.

“Maturity,” when used with respect to any Note, means the date on which all or a portion of the principal amount outstanding under such Note becomes due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise.

“Maturity Date,” when used with respect to any Note or any installment of principal thereof, means the date specified in such Note as the fixed date on which the principal of such Note or such installment of principal becomes due and payable.

“Non-recourse Obligation” means Indebtedness or other obligations substantially related to the acquisition of assets not previously owned by the Obligor or any direct or indirect Subsidiaries of the Obligor or the financing of a project involving the development or expansion of properties of the Obligor or any direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Obligor, in each case as to which the obligee with respect to such indebtedness or obligation has no recourse to the Obligor or any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Obligor or such Subsidiary’s assets other than the assets which were acquired with the proceeds of such transaction or the project financed with the proceeds of such transaction (and the proceeds thereof).

“Notes” has the meaning specified in the Recitals of the Obligor on the first page of this Indenture, including any replacement Notes issued therefor in accordance with this Indenture.

“Obligor” means Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, unless and until a successor entity or assign shall have assumed the obligations of the Obligor under this Indenture and the Notes and thereafter “Obligor” shall mean such successor entity or assign.

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“Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, any Vice Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Obligor.

“Officer’s Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed on behalf of such Person by any Officer of such Person that meets the applicable requirements of this Indenture.

“Opinion of Counsel” means, with respect to the Obligor or the Trustee, a written opinion of counsel to the Obligor or the Trustee, as the case may be, which counsel may be an employee of the Obligor or the Trustee, as the case may be.

“Outstanding,” when used with respect to the Notes or any series of Notes, means, as of the date of determination, all Notes or all Notes of such series, as the case may be, theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

(a)    such Notes or such Notes of such series, as the case may be, theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

(b)    such Notes or such Notes of such series, as the case may be, or portions thereof, for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent other than the Obligor, or, if the Obligor shall act as its own Paying Agent, has been set aside and segregated in trust by the Obligor; provided, in any case, that if such Notes or such Notes of such series, as the case may be, are to be redeemed prior to their Maturity Date, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to any redemption provision adopted under Section 2.01 of this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

(c)    such Notes or such Notes of such series, as the case may be, in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes or other Notes of such series, as the case may be, have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, or which shall have been paid, in each case, pursuant to the terms of Section 2.05 (except with respect to any such Note or any such Note of such series, as the case may be, as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Note or such Note of such series, as the case may be, is held by a person in whose hands such Notes or such Notes of such series, as the case may be, is a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Obligor); and

(d)    solely to the extent provided in Article III, Notes or Notes of such series, as the case may be, which are subject to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance as provided in Section 3.02. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of such Notes or Notes of such series, as the case may be, Outstanding have given a direction concerning the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or concerning the exercise of any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Indenture, or concerning a consent on behalf of the Holders of the Notes or the Holders of the Notes of such series, as the case may be, to the waiver of any past default and its consequences, Notes or the Notes of such series, as the case may be, owned by the Obligor, any other obligor upon the Notes or Notes of such series, as the case may be, or any Affiliate of the Obligor or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding. In determining whether the Trustee shall be

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protected in relying upon any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver hereunder, only Notes or Notes of such series, as the case may be, which a Responsible Officer assigned to the corporate trust department of the Trustee knows to be owned by the Obligor or any other obligor upon the Notes or the Notes of such series, as the case may be, or any Affiliate of the Obligor or such other obligor shall be so disregarded. Notes or Notes of such series, as the case may be, 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 to act as owner with respect to such Notes or Notes of such series, as the case may be, and that the pledgee is not the Obligor or any other obligor upon the Notes or the Notes of such series, as the case may be, or any Affiliate of the Obligor or such other obligor.

“Paying Agent” means any Person appointed by the Obligor to distribute amounts payable by the Obligor on the Notes. The Obligor may act as its own Paying Agent. As of the date of this Indenture, the Obligor has appointed the Trustee as Paying Agent with respect to all Notes issuable hereunder.

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

“Place of Payment” means the place specified pursuant to Section 9.02.

“Predecessor Notes” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.05 in lieu of a lost, destroyed, mutilated, or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed, mutilated, or stolen Note.

“Principal Property” means the Obligor’s principal offices in Santa Clara, California, each manufacturing facility, each research and development facility and each service and support facility (in each case including associated office facilities) located within or outside the territorial limits of the United States of America owned by the Obligor or any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries, except such as the Obligor’s Board of Directors by resolution determines in good faith (taking into account, among other things, the importance of such property to the business, financial condition and earnings of the Obligor and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole) not to be of material importance to the business of the Obligor and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

“Record Date” means any date as of which the Holder of a Note of any series will be determined for any purpose described herein, such determination to be made as of the close of business on such date by reference to the Security Register, and in relation to a determination of a payment of an installment of interest on the Notes of any series, shall have the meaning specified in such series of Notes.

“Redemption Date” when used with respect to any Notes to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption in any notice of redemption issued pursuant to any redemption provision adopted under Section 2.01 of this Indenture.

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“Redemption Price” when used with respect to any Notes to be redeemed, means the price specified in any optional redemption provision pursuant to Section 2.01(1)(v)(f).

“Registrar” means the Person who maintains the Security Register, which Person shall be the Trustee unless and until a successor Registrar is appointed by the Obligor.

“Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 9.07.

“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 (or any successor Act), as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Security Register” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04.

“Significant Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.06.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of that date, owned, controlled or held by the parent or one or more Subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more Subsidiaries of the parent.

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in force as of the date hereof; provided that, with respect to every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Indenture, “Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as then in effect.

“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, or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Notes of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Notes of that series.

“U.S. Government Obligations” means (a) securities that are direct obligations of the United States of America, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America and (b) securities that are obligations 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 by the full faith and credit of the United States of America, and also includes depository receipts issued by a bank or trust

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company as custodian with respect to any of the securities described in the preceding clauses (a) and (b), and any payment of interest or principal payable under any of the securities described in the preceding clauses (a) and (b) that is held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, 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 depository receipt, or from any amount received by the custodian in respect of such securities, or from any specific payment of interest or principal payable under the securities evidenced by such depository receipt.

SECTION 1.02    Officer’s Certificates and Opinions. Every Officer’s Certificate, Opinion of Counsel and other certificate or opinion to be delivered to the Trustee under this Indenture with respect to any action to be taken by the Trustee shall include the following:

(1)    a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read all covenants and conditions of this Indenture relating to such proposed action, including the definitions of all applicable capitalized terms;

(2)    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;

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

(4)    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.

(1)    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 the other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

(2)    Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Obligor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, legal counsel, unless such officer knows that any such certificate, opinion, or representation is erroneous. Any opinion of counsel for the Obligor 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 Obligor, unless such counsel knows that any such certificate, opinion, or representation is erroneous.

(3)    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, such instruments may, but need not, be consolidated and form a single instrument.

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SECTION 1.04    Acts of Holders.

(1)    Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and (if expressly required by the applicable terms of this Indenture) to the Obligor. 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 5.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Obligor, if made in the manner provided in this Section 1.04.

(2)    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 to such execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by an officer of a corporation or a member of a partnership, on behalf of such corporation or partnership, 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.

(3)    The ownership of Notes shall for all purposes be determined by reference to the Security Register, as such register shall exist as of the applicable Record Date.

(4)    If the Obligor shall solicit from the Holders any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, the Obligor may, at its option, by Board Resolution, fix in advance a Record Date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, but the Obligor shall have no obligation to do so. If such Record Date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action may be given before or after such Record Date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such Record Date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purpose of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Notes Outstanding have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, and for that purpose the Notes Outstanding shall be computed as of such Record Date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such Record Date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after such Record Date.

(5)    Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Note shall bind each subsequent Holder of such Note, and each Holder of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, with respect to anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Obligor in reliance upon such action, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.

SECTION 1.05    Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Obligor. Any request, order, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other action to be taken by the Trustee, the Obligor or the Holders hereunder (including any Authentication Order), and any notice to be given to the Trustee or the Obligor with respect to any action taken or to be taken by the Trustee, the Obligor or the Holders hereunder, shall be sufficient if made in writing and

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(1)    if to be furnished or delivered to or filed with the Trustee by the Obligor or any Holder, delivered to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or at any other address hereafter furnished in writing by the Trustee to the Obligor; or

(2)    if to be furnished or delivered to the Obligor by the Trustee or any Holder, and except as otherwise provided in Section 4.01(3), mailed to the Obligor, first-class postage prepaid, at the following address: c/o Agilent Technologies, Inc., 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95051, Attention: Treasurer or at any other address hereafter furnished in writing by the Obligor to the Trustee.

SECTION 1.06    Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise expressly provided herein or in such Note) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his or her address as it appears in the Security Register as of the applicable Record Date, if any, not later than the latest date or earlier than the earliest date prescribed by this Indenture or such Note for the giving of such notice; provided that if the Holder to which any such notice or communication is to be mailed, delivered or otherwise transmitted is a Depositary or its nominee, such notice or communication may instead be given by such other means as may be required or permitted by the procedures of such Depositary. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture or any Note 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 as a result of a strike, work stoppage or otherwise, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to any Holder when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture or the applicable Note, then any method of notification as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee and the Obligor shall be deemed to be sufficient for the giving of such notice.

SECTION 1.07    Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the TIA, such required provision shall control.

SECTION 1.08    Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents hereof are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of any provision of this Indenture.

SECTION 1.09    Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Obligor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

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SECTION 1.10    Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes 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 any Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, their successors hereunder, the Authenticating Agent, the Registrar, any Paying Agent, and the Holders of Notes (or such of them as may be affected thereby), any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 1.12    Governing Law. This Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

SECTION 1.13    Counterparts. This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

SECTION 1.14    Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or Maturity Date shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes) 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 as if made on the Interest Payment Date, the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be.

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

SECTION 2.01    Form and Dating.

(1)    General.

(i)    The Notes of each series shall be substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law, stock exchange rule or DTC rule or usage or with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, all as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Obligor shall furnish any such legends to the Trustee in writing.

(ii)    The Definitive Notes, if any, shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of those methods on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by any applicable rule of any securities exchange, all as determined by the Officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

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(iii)    The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and the Obligor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall, however, limit the effect of the second paragraph of Section 2.02(1). However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Indenture shall govern and be controlling. All Notes of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such resolution of the Board of Directors or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

(iv)    No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized officer, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

(v)    The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Notes may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Notes of any series:

(a)    the title of the Notes of the series (which shall distinguish the Notes of the series from all other Notes);

(b)    any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the series pursuant to Section 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 8.07 or any optional redemption provision pursuant to Section 2.01(1)(v)(f));

(c)    the date or dates on which the principal of the Notes of the series is payable;

(d)    the rate or rates at which the Notes of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the Record Dates, if any, for the determination of Holders to whom interest is payable;

(e)    the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Notes of the series shall be payable;

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(f)    any optional redemption and any change of control put provisions;

(g)    if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Notes of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.02;

(h)    the issue date;

(i)    the issue price (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes) at which the Notes will be issued;

(j)    if the Notes of the series are issuable in whole or in part in the form of Definitive Notes or as one or more Global Notes, and if so, the identity of the Depositary for such Global Notes if other than DTC;

(k)    any additions to, deletions of or changes in the Events of Default which apply to any Notes of such Series;

(l)    if the Notes of such series will be convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock, preferred stock or other securities of the Obligor or any other person, the terms and conditions upon which such Notes will be so convertible or exchangeable, including, if applicable, the conversion or exchange price or rate, how such price or rate will be calculated and may be adjusted, any mandatory or optional (at the Obligor’s option or at the option of the Holders thereof) conversion or exchange features, and the applicable conversion or exchange period;

(m)    any additions to, deletions of or changes in the covenants which apply to the Notes of such series; and

(n)    any other terms of the series (which may supplement, modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such series).

Notwithstanding Section 2.01(1)(v)(b) and unless otherwise expressly provided with respect to a series of Notes, the aggregate principal amount of a series of Notes may be increased and additional Notes of such series may be issued up to the maximum aggregate principal amount authorized with respect to such series as increased; provided that, any such additional Notes shall have identical terms as the outstanding Notes of such series, other than, at the Obligor’s option, with respect to the date of issuance, issue price, first Interest Payment Date, interest accrual date and amount of interest payable on the first Interest Payment Date applicable thereto; provided further, that any such additional Notes shall be treated as a single class with the outstanding Notes of such series for all purposes under this Indenture.

(2)    Global Notes.

(i)    If the Obligor shall establish pursuant to Section 2.01(1) above that the Notes of a series or a portion thereof are to be issued in the form of one or more Global Notes, then the Obligor shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for

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delivery one or more Global Notes that (a) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all of the Notes of such series issued in such form and not yet cancelled, (b) shall be registered, in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Note pursuant to Section 2.04, or in the name of a nominee of such Depositary, (c) shall be deposited with the Trustee, as Custodian for the Depositary, and (d) shall bear a legend substantially as follows (“Global Note Legend”):

THIS IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREINAFTER.

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 OBLIGOR OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF 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 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.

(ii)    Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 2.01 or 2.04 for a Global Note must, at the time of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and any other applicable statute or regulation, provided that the Depositary is required to be so registered in order to act as depositary.

(iii)    Any Global Note may be represented by more than one certificate. The aggregate principal amount of each Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Registrar, as provided in this Indenture.

(3)    Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

The Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Trustee
By:
	Authorized Signatory

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SECTION 2.02    Execution and Authentication.

(1)    At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Obligor may deliver Notes of any series executed on behalf of the Obligor by any Officer to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a written order of the Obligor specifying the principal amount and registered Holder of each Note and whether such Note shall be a Definitive Note or a Global Note, and signed by an Officer (the “Authentication Order”) shall thereupon in accordance with the procedures acceptable to the Trustee set forth in the Authentication Order, and subject to the provisions hereof, authenticate and deliver such Notes to or upon the written order of the Obligor, without any further action by the Obligor except as set forth in this Section 2.02. The signature of any Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any such signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Note that has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. In authenticating such Notes and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Notes, the Trustee shall receive, and (subject to Section 5.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(a)    a copy of the Board Resolution relating to such series;

(b)    an executed supplemental indenture, if any, and the documentation required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.06;

(c)    an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the form or forms and terms of the Notes of such series pursuant to Section 2.01(1)(v), and prepared in accordance with Section 1.02; and

(d)    an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with Section 1.02.

(2)    Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time on or after the date hereof the proper officers of the Obligor shall bind the Obligor, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.

(3)    The Notes shall be in fully registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, unless otherwise specified in the Officer’s Certificate and supplemental indenture relating to a particular series of Notes.

SECTION 2.03    Temporary Notes. Until certificates representing Notes of a series are ready for delivery, the Obligor may prepare and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, shall authenticate and deliver temporary Notes of such series. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of certificated Notes but may have variations that the Obligor considers appropriate for temporary Notes and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Without unreasonable delay, the Obligor shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes of a series in exchange for temporary Notes of such series. Holders of temporary Notes shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture.

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SECTION 2.04    Registration, Transfer and Exchange.

(1)    Securities Register. The Trustee shall keep a register of the Notes (the “Security Register”) which shall provide for the registration of such Notes, and for transfers of such Notes in accordance with information, if any, to be provided to the Trustee by the Obligor, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Trustee may prescribe. Such register shall be in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times the information contained in such register or registers shall be available for inspection at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at such other office or agency to be maintained by the Obligor pursuant to Section 9.02.

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at any other office or agency maintained by the Obligor pursuant to Section 9.02, the Obligor shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, series and Maturity Date.

(2)    Transfer of Global Notes. Any other provision of this Section 2.04 notwithstanding, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Definitive Notes, a Global Note representing all or a portion of the Notes of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of such Depositary, or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary, or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

The Obligor initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes of each series.

(3)    Legends.

Each Global Note shall bear the legend specified in clause (i) of Section 2.01(2) on the face thereof.

(4)    Definitive Notes.

(i)    Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the Notes, a Global Note may be exchanged for Notes of the same series registered in the names of any Person designated by the Depositary in the event that (a) the Depositary has notified the Obligor that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Note or such Depositary has ceased to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act, at a time when the Depositary is required to be so registered in order to act as depositary, and the Obligor has not appointed a successor Depositary within 90 days of receiving such notice or of becoming aware of such cessation, (b) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the applicable Notes, or (c) the Obligor, in its sole discretion, determines that the applicable Notes issued in the form of Global Notes shall no longer be represented by such Global Notes as evidenced by a Company Order delivered to the Trustee. Any Global Note exchanged pursuant to clause (a) or (c) above shall be so exchanged in whole and not in part and any Global Note exchanged pursuant to clause (b) above may be exchanged in whole or from time to time in part as directed by

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the Depositary. Any Note issued in exchange for a Global Note of the same series or any portion thereof shall be a Global Note, provided that any such Note so issued that is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be a Global Note.

(ii)    If at any time the Depositary for the Notes of any series notifies the Obligor that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Notes or if the Depositary has ceased to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act at a time when the Depositary is required to be so registered in order to act as depositary, the Obligor may within 90 days of receiving such notice or of becoming aware of such cessation appoint a successor Depositary with respect to such Notes.

(iii)    If, in accordance with this Section 2.04(4), Notes of any series in global form will no longer be represented by Global Notes, the Obligor will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, will authenticate and make available for delivery, Definitive Notes of such series in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Notes of such series, in exchange for such Global Notes.

(iv)    If a Definitive Note is issued in exchange for any portion of a Global Note after the close of business at the office or agency where such exchange occurs on any Record Date for the payment of interest and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of such Definitive Notes, but shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such Global Note is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

(v)    Definitive Notes issued in exchange for a Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.04(4) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such Definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such Notes are so registered. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Obligor shall execute and the Trustee (or an Authenticating Agent appointed pursuant to this Indenture) shall authenticate and make available for delivery Definitive Notes at the Registrar’s request, and upon direction of the Obligor. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Obligor or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange.

(vi)    When Definitive Notes are presented to the Trustee with a request to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes or to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations of the same series, the Trustee shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Obligor and the Trustee, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

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(vii)    At such time as all interests in Global Notes of any series have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes of such series or cancelled, such Global Notes shall be cancelled by the Trustee in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note of any series is exchanged for Definitive Notes of such series or cancelled, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be reduced and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction.

(5)    Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, (i) all Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Obligor, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange, (ii) all transfers and exchanges of the Notes may be made only in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Indenture, and (iii) the transfer and exchange of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may only be effected through the Depositary in accordance with the procedures promulgated by the Depositary.

(6)    The Obligor shall not be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Note during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes under any optional redemption provision pursuant to Section 2.01(1)(v)(f) and ending at the close of business on the date of such mailing or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange any Note so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Note to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed.

SECTION 2.05    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes.

(1)    If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Obligor and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and (ii) there is delivered to the Obligor and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability or expense that they may suffer if such Note is replaced and subsequently presented or otherwise claimed for payment, then, in the absence of notice to the Obligor or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Obligor may in its discretion execute and, upon request of the Obligor, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor, series, Maturity Date, and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

(2)    In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become due and payable, the Obligor in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.

(3)    Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.05, the Obligor may require the payment by the Holder thereof 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.

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(4)    Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.05 in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original contractual obligation of the Obligor, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly issued hereunder.

(5)    The provisions of this Section 2.05 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 Notes.

SECTION 2.06    Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

(1)    Interest on any Note which is payable and is punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date shall, if so provided in such Note, be paid to the Person in whose name that Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the applicable Record Date, notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date (unless, if so provided in such Note, such Interest Payment Date is also the Maturity Date, in which case such interest shall be payable to the Person to whom principal is payable).

(2)    Any interest on any Note 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 registered Holder on the applicable Record Date by virtue of his having been such Holder; and, except as hereinafter provided, such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Obligor, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:

(i)    The Obligor may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names any such Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) 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 Obligor shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Note and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Obligor 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 Obligor shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Obligor of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Obligor, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Holder of each such Note at his address as it appears in the Security Register, 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 mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names such Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii).

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(ii)    The Obligor may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner if, after notice given by the Obligor to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause (ii), such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

(3)    If any installment of interest on any Note called for redemption pursuant to any optional redemption provision under Section 2.01(1)(v)(f) is due and payable on or prior to the Redemption Date and is not paid or duly provided for on or prior to the Redemption Date in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.06, such interest shall be payable as part of the Redemption Price of such Notes.

(4)    Interest on Notes may be paid at the office or agency maintained by the Obligor in the United States pursuant to Section 9.02 or, at the Obligor’s option, through DTC, Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, or Euroclear System to the Person entitled thereto or by such other means as may be specified in the form of such Note.

(5)    Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.06 and the provisions of Section 2.04, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.

SECTION 2.07    Persons Deemed Owners.

(1)    Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of transfer, the Obligor, the Trustee, and any agent of the Obligor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered on the Security Register as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.06) interest, and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue and neither the Obligor, the Trustee, nor any agent of the Obligor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

(2)    None of the Obligor, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, the Registrar or any Co-Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests and each of them may act or refrain from acting without liability on any information relating to such records provided by the Depositary.

SECTION 2.08    Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Obligor may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Obligor may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. Acquisition of such Notes by the Obligor shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Note shall be

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authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section 2.08, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of all cancelled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures and, upon written request, deliver a certificate of such disposition to the Obligor.

SECTION 2.09    Computation of Interest. Interest on the Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, unless otherwise specified in the Officer’s Certificate and supplemental indenture relating to a particular series of Notes.

SECTION 2.10    CUSIP Numbers. The Obligor in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP or ISIN numbers, as the case may be, in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP or ISIN number, as the case may be, either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Obligor will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP or ISIN number.

ARTICLE III

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

SECTION 3.01    Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture will be discharged with respect to the Notes of a series and will cease to be of further effect as to all such Notes (except as to any surviving rights of transfer or exchange of such Notes expressly provided for herein), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Obligor, shall execute such instruments reasonably requested by the Obligor acknowledging the discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes of such series, when

(1)    either

(i)    all Notes of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered (except (i) mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Notes which have been replaced or paid, as provided in Section 2.05 and (ii) Notes of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Obligor and thereafter repaid to the Obligor or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.05) have been delivered by the Obligor to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation; or

(ii)    all such Notes of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation:

(a)    have become due and payable, or

(b)    will, in accordance with their Maturity Date, become due and payable within one year, or

(c)    are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Obligor, and, in any of the

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cases described in (a) or (b) above or in this clause (c), the Obligor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, as trust funds in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes for that purpose, U.S. dollars or non-callable U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof in such amounts sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Notes of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation, for principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Notes of such series to the date of such deposit (in the case of Notes of such series that have become due and payable), or to the Maturity Date or the Redemption Date, as the case may be;

(2)    the Obligor has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable by it with respect to the Notes of such series under this Indenture;

(3)    in the event of a deposit and defeasance under Section 3.01(1)(ii), no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time would become an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes of such series on the date of such deposit; and

(4)    the Obligor has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent to the discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes of such series have been complied with.

Notwithstanding the discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes of such series, the obligations of the Obligor under Section 3.01(1) and the obligations of the Obligor to the Trustee under Section 5.07 and to any Authenticating Agent under Section 5.14 shall survive, and the obligations of the Trustee under Sections 3.03 and 3.05 shall survive.

SECTION 3.02    Defeasance and Discharge of Covenants upon Deposit of Moneys, U.S. Government Obligations. At the Obligor’s option, either (a) the Obligor shall be deemed to have been Discharged (as defined below) from its obligations with respect to the Notes of any series (“Legal Defeasance”) and/or (b) the Obligor shall cease to be under any obligation to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 4.01(3), 9.05, 9.06 and 9.07 (and any other Sections, covenants or Events of Default applicable to such Notes that are determined pursuant to Section 2.01 to be subject to this provision) with respect to the Notes of such series at any time after the applicable conditions set forth below have been satisfied (“Covenant Defeasance”):

(1)    The Obligor shall have deposited or caused to be deposited irrevocably with the Trustee, as trust funds, in trust, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such series, an amount of money, in cash in U.S. dollars sufficient, or in non-callable U.S. Government Obligations, the principal of and interest on which, when due, will be sufficient, or a combination thereof, 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 the entire indebtedness on the Notes of such series with respect to principal, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Notes of any series that have become due and payable), or to the Maturity Date or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

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(2)    No Event of Default, or event which with notice or lapse of time would become an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of such series, shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, with respect to an Event of Default described in Section 4.01(5) or (6), at any time in the period ending on the 91st day after the date of deposit;

(3)    The Obligor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge contemplated by this Section 3.02 have been complied with, and:

(i)    in the case of an Opinion of Counsel relating to a Legal Defeasance, stating that:

(A)    the Obligor has received from the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or

(B)    since the date hereof there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, to the effect, in either case, that and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that the holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same time as would have been the case if such defeasance has not occurred, which Opinion of Counsel must be based upon a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service to the same effect or a change in applicable Federal income tax law or related treasury regulations after the date of this Indenture;

(ii)    in the case of an Opinion of Counsel relating to a Covenant Defeasance, stating that the deposit and defeasance contemplated by this Section 3.02 will not cause the Holders of the Notes of such series to recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the Obligor’s exercise of its option under this Section 3.02 and such Holders will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such option had not been exercised.

If in connection with the exercise by the Obligor of any option under this Section 3.02, any series of Notes is to be redeemed, either notice of such redemption shall have been duly given pursuant to any redemption provision adopted under Section 2.01 of this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made.

If the Obligor exercises its option under Section 3.02(a), payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default with respect thereto. If the Obligor exercises its option under Section 3.02(b), payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in Sections 4.01(3) and 4.01(7), and with respect to Sections 7.01, 9.05, 9.06 and 9.07.

Notwithstanding the exercise by the Obligor of its option under Section 3.02(b) with respect to Section 7.01, the obligation of any successor entity to assume the obligations to the Trustee under Section 5.07 shall not be discharged.

“Discharged” means, as to any series of Notes, that the Obligor shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by, and obligations under, the Notes of such

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series and to have satisfied all the obligations under this Indenture relating to such series of Notes (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Obligor, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except (A) the rights of Holders of Notes of such series to receive, from the trust fund described in clause (1) above, payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and the interest, if any, on such series of Notes when such payments are due; (B) the Obligor’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Sections 2.04, 2.05, 3.02(1), 3.03, and 9.02 and its obligations under Section 5.07; and (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder.

SECTION 3.03    Application of Trust Money. All money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.02 and all proceeds of such U.S. Government Obligations and the interest thereon shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Obligor acting as its own Paying Agent), as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, if any, and interest, for whose payment such money and U.S. Government Obligations have been deposited with the Trustee; but such money and U.S. Government Obligations need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

SECTION 3.04    Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held. Upon the discharge of this Indenture or a Legal Defeasance, in each case, with respect to the Notes of a series, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes (other than the Trustee) shall, upon demand of the Obligor, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee, and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.

SECTION 3.05    Return of Unclaimed Amounts. Subject to applicable abandoned property laws, any amounts deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any series of Notes or then held by the Obligor, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any series of Notes and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the Holders of such series of Notes for two years after the date upon which the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on such series of Notes, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall be repaid to the Obligor by the Trustee on demand or (if then held by the Obligor) shall be discharged from such Trust; and the Holder of any Notes of such series shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Obligor for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect (until such time as such unclaimed amounts shall escheat, if at all, to any applicable jurisdiction) and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Obligor as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee or Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Obligor cause to be published once a week for two successive weeks (in each case on any day of the week) in a newspaper printed in the English language and customarily published at least once a day at least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City and State of New York, a notice that said amounts have not been so applied and that after a date named therein any unclaimed balance of said amounts then remaining will be promptly returned to the Obligor.

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SECTION 3.06    Reinstatement. If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 3.03 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Obligor’s obligations under this Indenture and the Holders of Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 3.01 until such time as the Trustee or such Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 3.03.

ARTICLE IV

REMEDIES

SECTION 4.01    Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means with respect to Notes of any series, any of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(1)    default in the payment of any principal of or premium, if any, on the Notes of such series when due (whether at maturity, upon optional redemption or otherwise);

(2)    default in the payment of any interest on any Note of such series, when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;

(3)    default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant, warranty or agreement (other than a default or breach under Section 7.01) of the Obligor under this Indenture in respect of the Notes of such series, and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after a Notice of Default is given to the Obligor;

(4)    a default in the performance, or breach, of the Obligor’s obligations under Section 7.01;

(5)    the entry of an order for relief against the Obligor under the Bankruptcy Code by a court having jurisdiction in the premises or a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Obligor as bankrupt or insolvent under any other applicable Federal or state law, or the entry of a decree or order approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Obligor under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Federal or state law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Obligor or of any substantial part of their respective properties, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of their respective affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days;

(6)    the consent by the Obligor to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against any of them, or the filing by the Obligor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Federal or state law, or the consent by the Obligor to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Obligor or of any substantial part of their respective properties, or the making by the Obligor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Obligor in writing of the Obligor’s inability to pay debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Obligor in furtherance of any such action; and

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(7) (a) a failure to make any payment at maturity, including any applicable grace period, on any Indebtedness of the Obligor (other than Indebtedness of the Obligor owing to any of its Subsidiaries) outstanding in an amount in excess of $100 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time and continuance of this failure to pay or (b) a default on any indebtedness of the Obligor (other than Indebtedness owing to any of its Subsidiaries), which default results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness in an amount in excess of $100 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time without such Indebtedness having been discharged or the acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, in the case of clause (a) or (b) above; provided, however, that if any failure, default or acceleration referred to in clauses 7(a) or (b) ceases or is cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, then the event of default under the Indenture will be deemed cured.

A default under clauses (3) above is not an Event of Default until the Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series then outstanding notify the Obligor of the default and the Obligor does not cure such default within the time specified after receipt of such notice. Such notice must specify the default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default.”

The Obligor shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default, its status and what action the Obligor is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. Upon becoming aware of any default or Event of Default, the Obligor is required to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such default or Event of Default.

SECTION 4.02    Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

(1)    If any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 4.01) with respect to the Notes of any series occurs and is continuing, then either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series may declare the principal of all Outstanding Notes of such series, and the interest to the date of acceleration, if any, accrued thereon, to be immediately due and payable by notice in writing to the Obligor (and to the Trustee if given by Holders) specifying the event of default. If an Event of Default described in clause (5) or (6) of Section 4.01 occurs, then the principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, will become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

(2)    At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made with respect to the Notes of any series and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article IV provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series by written notice to the Obligor and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration or waive past defaults and their consequences, except with respect to a default in respect of a covenant or provision of this Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby, if:

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(i)    the Obligor has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(a)    all overdue installments of interest, if any, on such series of Notes,

(b)    the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any such series of Notes which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, and interest thereon at the rate prescribed therefor by the Notes of such series, to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,

(c)    interest on overdue installments of interest at the rate prescribed therefor by the Notes of such series to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, and

(d)    the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel, and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.07; and

(ii)    all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal, premium or interest of the Notes of such series which have become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 4.13.

(3)    No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 4.03    Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement.

(1)    The Obligor covenants that if:

(i)    default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Note of any series when such interest becomes due and payable; or

(ii)    default is made in the payment of (or premium, if any, on) the principal of any Note of any series at the Maturity thereof; and

(iii)    any such default continues for any period of grace provided in relation to such default pursuant to Section 4.01, then, with respect to such series of Notes, the Obligor will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such series, the whole amount then due and payable on all Notes of such series for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, together with interest (to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) upon the overdue principal (and premium, if any) and upon overdue installments of interest at the rate of interest prescribed therefor by the Notes of such series; 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 and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.07.

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(2)    If the Obligor fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Obligor or any other obligor upon such Notes and collect the money adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Obligor or any other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated.

(3)    If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to any series of Notes, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of such series of Notes by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any 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 4.04    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

(1)    In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition, or other judicial proceeding relative to the Obligor or any obligor upon the Notes or the property of the Obligor or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Obligor for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:

(i)     to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes, and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary and advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.07) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings; and

(ii)    to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any 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 to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agent and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.07.

(2)    Nothing herein contained 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 Notes 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.

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by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes of such series 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, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such series.

SECTION 4.06    Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the Trustee from the Obligor pursuant to this Article IV 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, premium, if any, or interest, if any, upon presentation of the Notes of any series 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 5.07.

SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon such series of Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind.

THIRD: To the Obligor.

SECTION 4.07    Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Note of any series may institute any action under this Indenture, unless and until:

(1)    such Holder has given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes of such series;

(2)    the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series have made a written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

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

(4)    the Trustee has failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity; and

(5)    no inconsistent direction has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series;

it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes of any series shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes of such series, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and proportionate benefit of all the Holders of all Notes of such series.

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SECTION 4.08    Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 2.06) interest on such Note on or after the Maturity Date (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective date, and such right shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 4.09    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, then and in every such case the Obligor, the Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

SECTION 4.10    Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as provided in Section 2.05(5), 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 or remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

SECTION 4.11    Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Note 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 IV 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 4.12    Control by Holders. The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Notes of such series; provided that:

(1)    the Trustee is offered indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, cost, liability or expense;

(2)    the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken or would conflict with this Indenture or if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer, determine that the proceedings so directed would involve it in personal liability or be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such direction; and

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

SECTION 4.13    Waiver of Past Defaults. Subject to Section 4.02, the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of any series may, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes of such series, waive any past default hereunder with respect to the Notes of such series, except a default not theretofore cured:

(1)    in the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Notes of such series; or

(2)    in respect of a covenant or provision in this Indenture which, under Article VIII, cannot be modified without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note of such series.

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 4.14    Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 4.14 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of any series to which the suit relates, or to any suit instituted by any Holder pursuant to Section 4.08.

SECTION 4.15    Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Obligor 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 stay or extension law (other than any bankruptcy law) wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Obligor (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 V

THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 5.01    Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.

(1)    Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to a series of Notes:

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(i)    the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties with respect to such series of Notes as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to such series of Notes 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 any provision 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.

(2)    In case an Event of Default with respect to a series of Notes has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with respect to such series of Notes and any indenture supplemental hereto relating to such series of Notes, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

(3)    No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i)    this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of Section 5.01(1);

(ii)    the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

(iii)    the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of any series relating to the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee with respect to such series of Notes, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to such series of Notes; and

(iv)    no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial loss, expense or liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(4)    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 5.01.

SECTION 5.02    Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to any series of Notes for which a Responsible Officer has actual

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knowledge, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Notes of such series, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of or interest or premium, if any, on any Note of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Trustee determines in good faith that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Notes of such series and; provided further, that, in the case of any default of the character specified in clause (3) of Section 4.01, no such notice to Holders of Notes of such series shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section 5.02, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

SECTION 5.03    Certain Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.01:

(1)    the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(2)    any request or direction of the Obligor described herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

(3)    whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;

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

(5)    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 (and, if requested, provided) to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the losses, costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

(6)    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 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 to examine the books, records and premises of the Obligor, personally or by agent or attorney;

(7)    the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

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(8)    the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties;

(9)    the Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss or profit irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action;

(10)    the Trustee shall not be required to give any note, bond, or surety in respect of the execution of the trusts and powers under this Indenture; and

(11)    the Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Indenture arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its control, including, without limitation, acts of God; earthquakes; fire; flood; terrorism; wars and other military disturbances, sabotage; epidemics; riots; interruptions; loss or malfunction of utilities; computer (hardware or software) or communication services; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authorities and governmental action.

SECTION 5.04    Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Obligor, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Obligor of the Notes or the proceeds thereof. The Trustee shall not be charged with notice or knowledge of any Event of Default under clause (6) of Section 4.01 or of the identity of a Significant Subsidiary of the Obligor unless either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee assigned to and working in its Corporate Trust Office shall have actual knowledge thereof or (ii) notice thereof shall have been given to the Trustee in accordance with Section 1.05 from the Obligor or any Holder.

SECTION 5.05    May Hold Notes. The Trustee or any Paying Agent, Registrar, or other agent of the Obligor, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and, subject to Section 5.08 and 5.12, may otherwise deal with the Obligor with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar, or such other agent.

SECTION 5.06    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 with the Obligor.

SECTION 5.07    Compensation and Reimbursement. The Obligor covenants and agrees:

(1)    to pay the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, compensation 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) as may be agreed in writing;

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(2)    except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and

(3)    to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

The Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes upon all property and funds held by it hereunder for any amount owing it or any retiring Trustee pursuant to this Section 5.07, except with respect to funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes.

Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 4.01, such expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and compensation for such services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law.

The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

SECTION 5.08    Disqualification; Conflicting Interests. If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, it shall either eliminate such interest or resign as Trustee, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

SECTION 5.09    Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any State or Territory thereof or of the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having (or, in the case of a subsidiary of a bank holding company, its holding company parent shall have) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 5.09, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.09, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article V.

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SECTION 5.10    Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

(1)    No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article V shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 5.11.

(2)    The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Notes of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Obligor. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 5.11 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of such series.

(3)    The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Notes of any series by Act of the Holders of 66²/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Obligor.

(4)    If at any time:

(i)    the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 5.08 after written request therefor by the Obligor or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months; or

(ii)    the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 5.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Obligor 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 Obligor by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Notes, or (B) subject to Section 4.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note 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 with respect to all Notes and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

(5)    If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Notes of one or more series, the Obligor, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Notes of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Notes of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Notes of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 5.11. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of 66²/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series delivered to the Obligor 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 5.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of such series and to that extent supersede the

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successor Trustee appointed by the Obligor. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of any series shall have been so appointed by the Obligor or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 5.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of such series.

(6)    The Obligor shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Notes of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of any series to all Holders of Notes of such series in the manner provided in Section 1.06. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 5.11    Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Notes, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Obligor and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Obligor or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its reasonable charges and subject to its lien, if any, provided by Section 5.07, 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.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of one or more (but not all) series, the Obligor, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Notes of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Notes of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Notes, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Notes of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each 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 with respect to the Notes of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Obligor or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Notes of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

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Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Obligor 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 referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.

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 V.

SECTION 5.12    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 of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, including the administration of this Indenture, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder; provided that such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article V, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Notes shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor Trustee by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.

SECTION 5.13    Preferential Collection of Claims Against Obligor. If and when the Trustee shall be or shall become a creditor of the Obligor (or of any other obligor upon the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Obligor (or against any such other obligor, as the case may be).

SECTION 5.14    Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

(1)    At any time when any of the Notes remain Outstanding the Trustee, with the approval of the Obligor, may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Notes which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Notes of such series issued upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 2.05, and Notes 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 Notes 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 Obligor 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 an Authenticating Agent, having (or, in the case of a subsidiary of a bank holding company, its holding company parent shall have) a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and, if other than the Obligor itself, 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

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requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 5.14, 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 5.14, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section 5.14.

(2)    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 the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section 5.14, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

(3)    An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and, if other than the Obligor, to the Obligor. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and, if other than the Obligor, to the Obligor. 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 5.14, the Trustee, with the approval of the Obligor, may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Obligor and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Notes of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their 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 5.14.

(4)    The Obligor agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 5.14.

(5)    If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section 5.14, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:

This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:
	As Authenticating Agent
	Authorized Signatory

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ARTICLE VI

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND OBLIGOR

SECTION 6.01    Obligor to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. The Obligor will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(1)    semi-annually, not more than 15 days after the Record Date for the payment of interest in respect of each series of Notes, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, a list of the names and addresses of the Holders of such Notes as of such date; and

(2)    at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Obligor of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

provided that, in the case of (1) and (2), if the Trustee shall be the Registrar, such list shall not be required to be furnished.

SECTION 6.02    Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

(1)    The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Notes of each series contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 6.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Trustee. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 6.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(2)    Holders of Notes may communicate as provided in Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with other Holders of Notes with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.

(3)    Every Holder of Notes, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Obligor that the Obligor shall not be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes in accordance with Section 6.02(2), regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

SECTION 6.03    Reports by Trustee.

(1)    Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 following the date of the initial issuance of Notes under this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to the Holders of Notes as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report dated as of such May 15, to the extent required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.

(2)    The Trustee shall comply with Sections 313(b) and 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act.

(3)    A copy of each such report shall, at the time for such transmission to Holders of Notes, be filed by the Trustee with the Obligor, with each stock exchange upon which any Notes are listed (if so listed) and also with the Commission. The Obligor agrees to promptly notify the Trustee when any Notes become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

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SECTION 6.04    Reports by Obligor.

The Obligor shall comply with the provisions of Section 314(a) and 314(c) of the TIA. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(1), (2) and/or (3) shall be for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or matters determinable from information contained therein, including the Obligor’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates provided pursuant to Section 6.05 below). The Trustee is under no duty to examine such reports, information or documents to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture or to ascertain the correctness or otherwise of the information or the statements contained herein, or whether any such reports, information or documents have or have not been provided as required by the TIA. The Trustee is entitled to assume such compliance with the TIA unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee is informed otherwise.

SECTION 6.05    Compliance Certificate.

(a)    The Obligor shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, an Officer’s Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Obligor during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officer with a view to determining whether the Obligor has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Obligor has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (or, if a default or Event of Default has occurred, describing such default or Event of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Obligor is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

(b)    So long as any of the Notes are outstanding, the Obligor will deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon any Officer becoming aware of any default or Event of Default, and what action the Obligor is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

(c)    Except with respect to receipt of Note payments when due and any default or Event of Default information contained in the Officer’s Certificates delivered to it pursuant to this Section 6.05, the Trustee shall have no duty to review, ascertain or confirm the Obligor’s compliance with, or the breach of any representation, warranty or covenant made in this Indenture.

ARTICLE VII

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR TRANSFER

SECTION 7.01    When Obligor May Merge or Transfer Assets. The Obligor may not consolidate or merge with or into another entity, or sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Obligor’s assets substantially as an entirety to another entity unless:

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(1)    either (a) the Obligor shall be the continuing corporation or (b) the Person (if other than the Obligor) formed by such consolidation or into which the Obligor is merged or to which all or substantially all of the assets of the Obligor are conveyed or transferred (i) shall be a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or trust organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and (ii) shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the obligations of the Obligor under the Notes and this Indenture;

(2)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no default or other event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become a default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;

(3)    if, as a result of any consolidation, merger, sale or lease, conveyance or transfer described in this Section 7.01, assets of the Obligor would become subject to any lien which would not be permitted by Section 9.06 without equally and ratably securing the Notes of each series, the Obligor or such successor Person, as the case may be, will take steps as are necessary to effectively secure the Notes of such series equally and ratably with, or prior to, all Indebtedness secured by those liens as are provided in Section 9.06; and

(4)    the Obligor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and, if an indenture supplemental hereto is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with this Section 7.01 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

SECTION 7.02    Successor Entity Substituted. The successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Obligor is merged or the successor Person to which such conveyance or transfer is made, in each case other than a lease, shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the Obligor under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor had been named as the Obligor herein; and thereafter the Obligor shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Notes. The Trustee shall enter into an indenture supplemental hereto to evidence the succession and substitution of such successor Person and such discharge and release of the Obligor.

ARTICLE VIII

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 8.01    Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. The Obligor and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture in order to amend or supplement this Indenture with respect to Notes of one or more series or amend or supplement the Notes of one or more series without notice to or the consent of any Holder to:

(1)    evidence the succession of another Person to the Obligor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Obligor under the Indenture and the Notes pursuant to Article VII;

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(2)    add such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions for the protection of the Holders of all or any series of Notes (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Notes, stating that such covenants are expressly being included for the benefit of such series);

(3)    surrender any right or power conferred upon the Obligor;

(4)    establish the forms or terms of Notes of any series as permitted by Section 2.01

(5)    add any additional events of default for the benefit of Holders of all or any series of Notes;

(6)    add to or change any of the provisions of the Indenture as necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Notes of any series in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Notes of any series in uncertificated form;

(7)    secure the Notes of any series or add guarantees with respect to the Notes of any series;

(8)    provide for the issuance of additional Notes of any series of Notes in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture;

(9)    add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions contained herein or in any supplemental indentures or Officer’s Certificates in respect of one or more series of Notes; provided that any such addition, change or elimination (i) shall not apply to, or modify the rights of any holder of, any Note of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate, or (ii) shall become effective only when no Notes of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate are Outstanding;

(10)    add or appoint a successor or separate Trustee;

(11)    cure any ambiguity or correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any such supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate; provided that the interests of the holders of the Notes are not adversely affected in any material respect;

(12)    supplement any of the provisions of the Indenture as necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Notes;

(13)    make any other change that would not adversely affect holders of the Notes of such series in any material respect;

(14)    make any change necessary to comply with any requirement of the Commission in connection with the qualification of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto under the TIA; and

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(15)    conform the Indenture to the section entitled “Description of Debt Securities” in the prospectus dated [                ], [        ] or any prospectus supplement (or other offering document) to such prospectus (or other offering document) relating to the Notes or any corresponding section of such prospectus (or other offering document) or prospectus supplement (or other offering document) pursuant to which any additional series of Notes is issued under this Indenture.

SECTION 8.02    Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of all series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as one class), the Obligor, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors, and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes of each such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

(1)    make any change to the percentage of principal amount of Notes the Holders of which must consent to an amendment, modification, supplement or waiver;

(2)    reduce the rate of or extend the time of payment for interest on any Note;

(3)    reduce the principal amount or extend the stated Maturity of any Note;

(4)    reduce the Redemption Price of any Note or add redemption provisions to the Notes;

(5)    make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Indenture or the Note;

(6)    impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to the Notes; or

(7)    make any change in the ranking or priority of any Note that would adversely affect the Holder of such Note.

SECTION 8.03    Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article VIII or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 5.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section 1.02, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. Upon request of the Obligor and, in the case of Section 8.02, upon filing with the Trustee of evidence of an Act of Holders as aforementioned, the Trustee shall join with the Obligor in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, powers, trusts, 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 supplemental indenture.

SECTION 8.04    Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article VIII, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be

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modified and amended in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and the respective rights, limitation of rights, duties, powers, trusts and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Obligor and every Holder of Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be determined, exercised and enforced thereunder to the extent provided therein.

SECTION 8.05    Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article VIII shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in effect.

SECTION 8.06    Documents to Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 5.01, may receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article VIII complies with the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

SECTION 8.07    Notation on Notes in Respect of Supplemental Indentures. Notes of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture. If the Obligor or the Trustee shall so determine, new Notes of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Obligor, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Notes of such series then Outstanding.

ARTICLE IX

COVENANTS

SECTION 9.01    Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. The Obligor covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Notes that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal, premium, if any, and interest on such series of Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in such series of Notes, and will duly comply with all the other terms, agreements and conditions contained in this Indenture for the benefit of such series of Notes.

Payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on a Global Note registered in the name of or held by the DTC or its nominee will be made in immediately available funds to DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as the Holder of such Global Note. If any of the Notes are no longer represented by a Global Note, payment of interest on certificated Notes in definitive form may, at the option of the Obligor, be made by (i) check mailed directly to Holders at their registered addresses or (ii) upon request of any Holder of at least $1,000,000 principal amount of Notes, wire transfer to an account located in the United States by the payee.

The Obligor shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at the applicable rate of interest determined from time to time in the manner provided for in each series of Notes; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law) on overdue installments of interest and (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the same rates to the extent lawful.

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SECTION 9.02    Maintenance of Office or Agency. So long as any of the Notes remain outstanding, the Obligor will maintain an office or agency in the City of New York (which initially will be the Corporate Trust Office) where Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Notes may be surrendered for transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Obligor in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Obligor will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Obligor shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Obligor hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

The Obligor may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where one or more series of Notes 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 Obligor of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the City of New York for such purposes. The Obligor 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.

SECTION 9.03    Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust. If the Obligor shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal, premium, if any, or interest on any series of Notes, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such series of Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Holders of the Notes of such series or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

Whenever the Obligor shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal, premium, if any, or interest, on any series of Notes, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium, or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such series entitled to the same and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Obligor will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Obligor will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 9.03, that such Paying Agent will:

(1)    hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, on Notes of any series in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such series entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Holders or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;

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(2)    give the Trustee prompt notice of any default by the Obligor (or any other obligor upon the Notes of such series) in the making of any such payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, on such Notes; and

(3)    at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

The Obligor may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Obligor or such Paying Agent or, if for any other purpose, all sums so held in trust by the Obligor in respect of all series of Notes, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Obligor or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

SECTION 9.04    Certificate to Trustee. The Obligor will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Obligor ending after the initial issuance of Notes under this Indenture, an Officer’s Certificate that complies with TIA Section 314(a)(4) stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their duties as officers of the Obligor, they would normally have knowledge of any default by the Obligor in the performance of any of its covenants or agreements contained herein, stating whether or not they have knowledge of any such default and, if so, specifying each such default of which the signers have knowledge and the nature thereof.

SECTION 9.05    Existence. Subject to Article VII, the Obligor will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence as a corporation.

SECTION 9.06    Limitation on Liens. The Obligor will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any lien on any Principal Property or the capital stock of any Subsidiary of the Obligor, to secure any Indebtedness of the Obligor, any such Subsidiary or any other Person, without securing the Notes equally and ratably with such Indebtedness for so long as such Indebtedness shall be so secured. The foregoing shall not apply to:

(1)    liens on assets or property of a Person at the time it becomes a Subsidiary of the Obligor securing only Indebtedness of such Person; provided such Indebtedness was not incurred in connection with such Person or entity becoming a Subsidiary and such liens do not extend to any assets other than those of the Person becoming a Subsidiary;

(2)    liens existing on assets created at the time of, or within 18 months after, the acquisition, purchase, lease, improvement or development of such assets to secure all or a portion of the purchase price or lease for, or the costs of improvement or development of, such assets;

(3)    liens to secure any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancings or refundings), in whole or in part, of any Indebtedness secured by liens referred to in clauses (1) and (2) above or liens created in connection with any amendment, consent or waiver relating to such Indebtedness, so long as such lien is limited to all or part of substantially the same property which secured the lien extended, renewed or replaced,

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the amount of Indebtedness secured is not increased (other than by the amount equal to any costs and expenses (including any premiums, fees or penalties) incurred in connection with any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding) and the Indebtedness so secured does not exceed the fair market value (as determined by the Obligor’s Board of Directors) of the assets subject to such liens at the time of such extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding, or such amendment, consent or waiver, as the case may be;

(4)    liens on property incurred in Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 9.07;

(5)    liens in favor of only the Obligor or one or more Subsidiaries of the Obligor granted by the Obligor or a Subsidiary to secure any obligations owed to the Obligor or a Subsidiary of the Obligor;

(6)    liens on property or assets of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged into or consolidated with the Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, or at the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of a Person to the Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that such lien was not incurred in anticipation of the merger, consolidation, or sale, lease, other disposition or other such transaction by which such Person was merged into or consolidated with the Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries;

(7)    liens on securities deemed to exist under repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements entered into by the Obligor or any Significant Subsidiary of the Obligor in the ordinary course of business;

(8)    liens in favor of the Trustee granted in accordance with the Indenture;

(9)    liens in existence on the date of this Indenture; and

(10)    liens otherwise prohibited by this Section 9.06, securing Indebtedness which, together with the value of Attributable Debt incurred in Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted under Section 9.07 below, do not exceed 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets measured at the date of incurrence of the lien.

SECTION 9.07    Limitation on Sale-Leaseback Transactions. The Obligor will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of the Obligor to, enter into any arrangement with any Person pursuant to which the Obligor or any Subsidiary of the Obligor leases any property that has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Obligor or the Subsidiary to such Person (a “Sale and Leaseback Transaction”), except that a Sale and Leaseback Transaction is permitted if the Obligor or such Subsidiary would be entitled to incur Indebtedness secured by a lien on the property to be leased (without equally and ratably securing the outstanding Notes) in an amount equal to the present value of the lease payments with respect to the term of the lease remaining on the date as of which the amount is being determined, discounted at the rate of interest set forth or implicit in the terms of the lease, compounded semi-annually (such amount is referred to as the “Attributable Debt”). The foregoing shall not apply to:

(1)    temporary leases for a term, including renewals at the option of the lessee, of not more than three years;

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(2)    leases between only the Obligor and a Subsidiary of the Obligor or only between Subsidiaries of the Obligor;

(3)    leases where the proceeds from the sale of the property are at least equal to the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Obligor) of the property and the Obligor applies an amount equal to the net proceeds of the sale to the retirement of long-term Indebtedness or to the purchase of other property or equipment used or useful in its business, within 270 days of the effective date of such sale; provided that, in lieu of applying such amount to the retirement of long-term Indebtedness, the Obligor may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation, such Notes to be credited at the cost thereof to it; and

(4)    leases of property executed by the time of, or within 270 days after the latest of, the acquisition, the completion of construction or improvement, or the commencement of commercial operation of the property.

ARTICLE X

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

SECTION 10.01    Optional Redemption. Unless otherwise provided pursuant to Section 2.01(1)(v)(f), the Obligor shall not be permitted to optionally redeem Notes of any series.

SECTION 10.02    Mandatory Redemption. Unless otherwise provided pursuant to Section 2.01(1)(v)(n), the Obligor shall not be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes of any series.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:
	Name:
	Title:

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:
	Name:
	Title:

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EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

[Goodwin Letterhead]

September 3, 2019

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard,

Santa Clara, CA 95051

Re: Debt Securities Being Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (as amended or supplemented, the “Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the registration of debt securities (“Debt Securities”) of Agilent Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). The Debt Securities may be issued in an unspecified principal amount. The Registration Statement provides that the Debt Securities may be offered in separate series, in amounts, at prices and on terms to be set forth in one or more prospectus supplements to the prospectus contained in the Registration Statement.

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinion set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

The opinion set forth below are limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law and the law of New York.

For purposes of the opinion set forth below, without limiting any other exceptions or qualifications set forth herein, we have assumed that each of the Debt Securities and the indentures and other agreements governing Debt Securities offered pursuant to the Registration Statement will be governed by the internal law of New York.

For purposes of the opinion set forth below, we refer to the following as the “Future Authorization and Issuance” of Debt Securities:

• (a) the authorization by the Company of the amount, terms and issuance of such Debt Securities (the “Authorization”) and (b) the issuance of such Debt Securities in accordance with the Authorization therefor upon the receipt by the Company of the consideration to be paid therefor in accordance with the Authorization; and

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• (a) the authorization, execution and delivery of the indenture or a supplemental indenture relating to such Debt Securities by the Company and the trustee thereunder and/or (b) the establishment of the terms of such Debt Securities by the Company in conformity with the applicable indenture or supplemental indenture and applicable law, and (c) the execution, authentication and issuance of such Debt Securities in accordance with the applicable indenture or supplemental indenture and applicable law.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the additional qualifications set forth below, we are of the opinion that upon the Future Authorization and Issuance of Debt Securities, such Debt Securities will be valid and binding obligations of the Company.

The opinion expressed above is subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and to general principles of equity.

This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Legal Opinion Principles issued by the Committee on Legal Opinions of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section as published in 53 Business Lawyer 831 (May 1998).

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the references to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

Very truly yours,

/S/ Goodwin Procter LLP

GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of Agilent Technologies, Inc. of our report dated December 20, 2018 relating to the financial statements, financial statement schedule and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in Agilent Technologies Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2018. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

San Jose, California

September 3, 2019

EX-25.1

Exhibit 25.1

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER

THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A

CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

☐ Check if an Application to Determine Eligibility of a Trustee Pursuant to Section 305(b)(2)

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

(Exact name of Trustee as specified in its charter)

31-0841368

I.R.S. Employer Identification No.

800 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, Minnesota	55402
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Paula Oswald

U.S. Bank National Association

633 West Fifth Street, 24^th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071

(213) 615-6043

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

(Issuer with respect to the Securities)

Delaware	77-0518772
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

5301 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara, California	95051
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	(Zip Code)

Debt Securities

(Title of the Indenture Securities)

FORM T-1

Item 1.	GENERAL INFORMATION. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee.
	a)  Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.
	Comptroller of the Currency
	Washington, D.C.
	b)  Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
	Yes
Item 2.	AFFILIATIONS WITH OBLIGOR. If the obligor is an affiliate of the Trustee, describe each such affiliation.
	None
Items 3-15	Items 3-15 are not applicable because to the best of the Trustee’s knowledge, the obligor is not in default under any Indenture for which the Trustee acts as Trustee.
Item 16.	LIST OF EXHIBITS: List below all exhibits filed as a part of this statement of eligibility and qualification.
	1.  A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee.*
	2.  A copy of the certificate of authority of the Trustee to commence business, attached as Exhibit 2.
	3.  A copy of the certificate of authority of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers, attached as Exhibit 3.
	4.  A copy of the existing bylaws of the Trustee.**
	5.  A copy of each Indenture referred to in Item 4. Not applicable.
	6.  The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, attached as Exhibit 6.
	7.  Report of Condition of the Trustee as of December 31, 2018 published pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, attached as Exhibit 7.
*   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 25.1 to Amendment No. 2 to registration statement on S-4, Registration Number 333-128217 filed on November 15, 2005.
**   Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 25.1 to registration statement on form S-3ASR, Registration Number 333-199863 filed on November 5, 2014.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the Trustee, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement of eligibility and qualification to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Los Angeles, State of California on the 28th Day of August, 2019.

By:	/s/ Paula Oswald
	Paula Oswald Vice President

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Exhibit 2

4

Exhibit 3

5

Exhibit 6

CONSENT

In accordance with Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the undersigned, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION hereby consents that reports of examination of the undersigned by Federal, State, Territorial or District authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request therefor.

Dated: August 28, 2019

By:	/s/ Paula Oswald
	Paula Oswald Vice President

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Exhibit 7

U.S. Bank National Association

Statement of Financial Condition

As of 6/30/2019

($000’s)

	6/30/2019
Assets
Cash and Balances Due From Depository Institutions	$	16,768,518
Securities		114,813,521
Federal Funds		3,737,619
Loans & Lease Financing Receivables		291,749,748
Fixed Assets		5,722,368
Intangible Assets		12,794,810
Other Assets		27,551,585
Total Assets	$	473,138,169
Liabilities
Deposits	$	364,531,324
Fed Funds		1,527,877
Treasury Demand Notes		0
Trading Liabilities		639,668
Other Borrowed Money		37,212,247
Acceptances		0
Subordinated Notes and Debentures		3,800,000
Other Liabilities		15,595,326
Total Liabilities	$	423,306,442
Equity
Common and Preferred Stock		18,200
Surplus		14,266,915
Undivided Profits		34,749,861
Minority Interest in Subsidiaries		796,751
Total Equity Capital	$	49,831,727
Total Liabilities and Equity Capital	$	473,138,169

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