-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Fgh87QAFwXD/R4exzkUF8Ru9ocYtjdSA5E2E7pX+QGiTveEYEQQs3hUm4RtXTtBN ZbWIrRaovDodw2g3MLFrWA== 0001193125-07-156919.txt : 20070718 0001193125-07-156919.hdr.sgml : 20070718 20070718081919 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-07-156919 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 7 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070713 ITEM INFORMATION: Results of Operations and Financial Condition ITEM INFORMATION: Material Modifications to Rights of Security Holders ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Regulation FD Disclosure ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20070718 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070718 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: WABCO Holdings Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001390844 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MOTOR VEHICLES & PASSENGER CAR BODIES [3711] IRS NUMBER: 208481962 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-33332 FILM NUMBER: 07985561 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CENTENNIAL AVENUE STREET 2: P.O. BOX 6820 CITY: PISCATAWAY STATE: NJ ZIP: 08855-6820 BUSINESS PHONE: 732-980-6000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CENTENNIAL AVENUE STREET 2: P.O. BOX 6820 CITY: PISCATAWAY STATE: NJ ZIP: 08855-6820 8-K 1 d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM 8-K

 


CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 18, 2007 (July 13, 2007)

 


WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware   1-33332   20-8481962
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation)     Identification No.)

 

One Centennial Avenue, P.O. Box 6820, Piscataway, NJ   08855-6820
(Address of principal executive offices)   (zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (732) 980-6000

 


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 



Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Conditions.

On July 18, 2007, American Standard Companies Inc. (“ASD”) issued a press release reporting its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, which included the quarterly results for the WABCO business (the ASD “Vehicle Control Systems” business) and provided forward-looking guidance for its and WABCO Holdings Inc.’s (“WABCO”) fiscal year ending December 31, 2007. The press release, which is attached as Exhibit 99.1, and the information included in Item 7.01 of this Form 8-K are incorporated herein by reference. The projections constituting the guidance included in the release involve risks and uncertainties, the outcome of which cannot be foreseen at this time and, therefore, actual results may vary materially from these forecasts. In this regard, see the information included below under the caption “Information Concerning Forward-Looking Statements.”

The information in the earnings release and in this Item 2.02 is “furnished” and not “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. Such information may be incorporated by reference in another filing under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), only if and to the extent such subsequent filing specifically references such information.

The earnings release contains non-GAAP financial measures. For purposes of Regulation G, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a registrant’s historical or future financial performance, financial position or cash flows that excludes amounts, or is subject to adjustments that have the effect of excluding amounts, that are included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP in the statement of income, balance sheet or statement of cash flows (or equivalent statements); or includes amounts, or is subject to adjustments that have the effect of including amounts, that are excluded from the most directly comparable measure so calculated and presented. In this regard, GAAP refers to generally acceptable accounting principles in the United States. Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, the reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures set forth in the earnings release on the Consolidated Statements of Operations, Reconciliation of Net Income to Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Common Share, Reconciliation of Statement of Operations, the Data Supplement Sheet, the Earnings Per Share Reconciliation Table and the Reconciliations of Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities to Free Cash Flow are attached to the earnings release.

 

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

In connection with ASD’s previously announced plan to spin off its Vehicle Control Systems business conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, WABCO, on July 13, 2007, the Board of Directors of WABCO adopted a Rights Agreement with The Bank of New York, as rights agent, which was entered into on July 16, 2007, and declared a dividend of one right for each share of WABCO’s common stock to be distributed to holders of record of outstanding shares of WABCO’s common stock at the close of business on July 19, 2007. Each right allows its holder to purchase one one-hundredth of a share of WABCO’s junior participating cumulative preferred stock for $250, once the rights become separated from WABCO’s common stock and exercisable. Prior to its exercise, a right does not give its holder any dividend, voting or liquidation rights. The rights will not be represented by certificates. More information about the


terms of the rights can be found in the section entitled “Description of Capital Stock – Rights Plan” in WABCO’s Information Statement, which was attached as Exhibit 99.1 to WABCO’s amended Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 5, 2007 (the “Information Statement”) and is incorporated by reference into this item. The description of the Rights Agreement and the terms of the rights set forth under this Item 3.03 is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete terms and conditions of the Rights Agreement filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto.

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

(b) Resignation of Directors

On July 13, 2007, Frederic M. Poses, Mary Beth Gustafsson and Lawrence B. Costello informed the Board of Directors of WABCO that they will be resigning as directors of WABCO effective July 27, 2007.

 

(c) Appointment of Executive Officers

On July 13, 2007, the following individuals were appointed as executive officers of WABCO to be effective July 27, 2007:

 

Name

 

Position

Nikhil M. Varty

  Vice President, Compression & Braking

Jean-Christophe Figueroa

  Vice President, Vehicle Dynamics and Controls

Dr. Christian Wiehen

  Vice President, Product Development

Todd Weinblatt

  Controller

More information about the background of these executive officers can be found in the section entitled “Management – Our Directors and Executive Officers” of the Information Statement and is incorporated by reference into this item.

 

(d) Election of Board Members and Board Committee Members

On July 13, 2007, Michael Smith was appointed to the Board of Directors of WABCO to be effective July 17, 2007. Mr. Smith will serve on WABCO’s Audit Committee as its sole member. Effective July 27, 2007, Mr. Smith will also serve on WABCO’s Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee as its chair.

On July 13, 2007, Dr. Juergen Gromer, James F. Hardymon, Jacques Esculier and Kenneth J. Martin were appointed to the Board of Directors of WABCO to be effective July 27, 2007. Mr. Hardymon will serve as WABCO’s Chairman effective July 27, 2007. WABCO will have a classified Board of Directors. The initial class designations and the terms of the classes are as follows:

 

Directors

  

Term Ending

Dr. Juergen Gromer and G. Peter D’Aloia

   2008 annual meeting

James F. Hardymon and Michael Smith

   2009 annual meeting

Jacques Esculier and Kenneth J. Martin

   2010 annual meeting


Messrs. Gromer and Martin will both serve on WABCO’s Audit Committee and Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Martin will serve as the chair of the Audit Committee.

More information about the business background of these directors can be found in the section entitled “Management – Our Directors and Executive Officers” of the Information Statement and is incorporated by reference into this item.

 

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws.

On July 13, 2007, the Board of Directors of WABCO approved and adopted the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation for WABCO, which was also approved by ASD, as WABCO’s sole shareholder. A description of the material provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is included in the Information Statement and is incorporated by reference into this item. The description of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation set forth under this Item 5.03 is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed as Exhibit 3.1 hereto.

On July 13, 2007, the Board of Directors of WABCO approved and adopted the Amended and Restated By-Laws of WABCO, which was also approved by ASD, as WABCO’s sole shareholder. A description of the material provisions of the Amended and Restated By-Laws is included in the Information Statement and is incorporated by reference into this item. The description of the Amended and Restated By-Laws set forth under this Item 5.03 is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed as Exhibit 3.2 hereto.

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On July 18, 2007, ASD issued a press release announcing its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, which included the quarterly results for the WABCO business (the ASD “vehicle control systems” business) and provided forward-looking guidance for its and WABCO’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2007. The press release, which is attached as Exhibit 99.1, and the information included in Item 2.02 of this Form 8-K are incorporated herein by reference.

The information in the press release and this Item 7.01 is “furnished” and not “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. Such information may be incorporated by reference in another filing under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act only if and to the extent such subsequent filing specifically references the information incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

On July 13, 2007, the Board of Directors of WABCO approved a stock split in the form of a stock dividend to its stockholder of record on July 19, 2007 of that number of shares of


WABCO common stock such that following such dividend the total number of shares of WABCO common stock outstanding shall equal one share and one right for every three shares of ASD common stock outstanding as of the record date established by the Board of Directors of ASD for the spin-off.

 

ITEM 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed or furnished as part of this report to the extent described in Items 2.02, 3.03, 5.03 and 7.01.

 

  3.1   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
  3.2   Amended and Restated By-Laws of WABCO Holdings Inc.
  4.1   Rights Agreement, dated July 16, 2007, by and between WABCO Holdings Inc. and The Bank of New York.
  4.2   Certificate of Designation of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock.
99.1   Press Release dated July 18, 2007.


INFORMATION CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain of the statements contained in this report, and the exhibits attached hereto, including, without limitation statements as to management’s good faith expectations and belief are forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “believe,” “expect,” “plans,” “strategy,” “prospects,” “estimate,” “project,” “anticipate,” “intends” and other words of similar meaning. Forward-looking statements are made based upon management’s expectations and belief concerning future developments and their potential effect upon WABCO. There can be no assurance that future developments will be in accordance with management’s expectations or that the effect of future developments on WABCO will be those anticipated by management. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations as a result of many factors including:

 

   

adverse developments in general business, economic and political conditions or any outbreak or escalation of hostilities on a national, regional or international basis;

 

   

changes in international or U.S. economic conditions, such as inflation, interest rate fluctuations, foreign exchange rate fluctuations or recessions in our markets;

 

   

unpredictable difficulties or delays in the development of new product technology;

 

   

pricing changes to our supplies or products or those of our competitors, and other competitive pressures on pricing and sales;

 

   

competition in our existing and future lines of business and the financial resources of competitors;

 

   

our failure to comply with regulations and any changes in regulations;

 

   

our failure to complete potential future acquisitions or to realize benefits from completed acquisitions;

 

   

our ability to access debt markets on a favorable basis;

 

   

our inability to implement our growth plan;

 

   

the loss of any of our senior management;

 

   

difficulties in obtaining or retaining the management and other human resource competencies that we need to achieve our business objectives;

 

   

labor relations;

 

   

risks inherent in operating in foreign countries, including exposure to local economic conditions, government regulation, currency restrictions and other restraints, changes in tax laws, expropriation, political instability and diminished ability to legally enforce our contractual rights;


   

our inability to operate effectively as a stand-alone, publicly traded company;

 

   

the actual costs of separation may be higher than expected;

 

   

the actual level of commercial vehicle production in our end-markets; and

 

   

periodic changes to contingent liabilities, including those associated with litigation matters, government investigations, environmental matters and tax matters.

In addition, there are risks and uncertainties relating to the planned tax-free spin-off of WABCO from ASD, including the timing and certainty of the completion of the spin off and the ability of WABCO to operate as an independent entity. For information about additional factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and other risks and uncertainties that could adversely affect WABCO’s forward-looking statements, please refer to WABCO’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Information Statement. WABCO does not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements.


SIGNATURES

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

 

Date: July 18, 2007   WABCO HOLDINGS INC.
  By:  

/s/ Ulrich Michel

  Name:   Ulrich Michel
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
EX-3.1 2 dex31.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

WABCO Holdings Inc. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), does hereby certify as follows:

(1) The name of the Corporation is WABCO Holdings Inc. The Corporation was originally incorporated under the name WABCO Holdings Inc. The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 20, 2007.

(2) This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) and by the sole stockholder of the Corporation in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the DGCL.

(3) This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and integrates and amends the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation in its entirety.

(4) The text of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation hereby is amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is WABCO Holdings Inc.

SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at that address is The Corporation Trust Company.

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the DGCL.

FOURTH:

(1) Authorized Capital Stock. The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is four hundred and four million shares of capital stock, consisting of (a) four hundred million (400,000,000) shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”) and (b) four million (4,000,000) shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Preferred Stock”).

(2) Common Stock. The powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the Common Stock are as follows:


(a) Voting. Each stockholder represented at a meeting of the stockholders shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote in person or by proxy for each share of the Common Stock entitled to vote thereat held by such stockholder.

(b) No Cumulative Voting. The holders of shares of Common Stock shall not have cumulative voting rights.

(c) Dividends; Stock Splits. Subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock, and subject to any other provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as it may be amended from time to time, holders of shares of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends and other distributions in cash, stock or property of the Corporation when, as and if declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor.

(d) No Preemptive or Subscription Rights. No holder of shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to preemptive or subscription rights.

(3) Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to provide for the issuance of all or any shares of the Preferred Stock in one or more classes or series, and to fix for each such class or series such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such distinctive designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and such qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated and expressed in the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issuance of such class or series, including, without limitation, the authority to provide that any such class or series may be (a) subject to redemption at such time or times and at such price or prices; (b) entitled to receive dividends (which may be cumulative or non-cumulative) at such rates, on such conditions, and at such times, and payable in preference to, or in such relation to, the dividends payable on any other class or classes or any other series; (c) entitled to such rights upon the dissolution of, or upon any distribution of the assets of, the Corporation; or (d) convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or classes of stock, or of any other series of the same or any other class or classes of stock, of the Corporation at such price or prices or at such rates of exchange and with such adjustments; all as may be stated in such resolution or resolutions.

FIFTH: The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, and for further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and stockholders:

(1) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

(2) The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three (3) or more than fifteen (15) members, the exact number of which shall be fixed, from time to time, exclusively pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board of Directors, and subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock, if any, the exact number may be increased or decreased (but not to less than three (3) or more than fifteen (15)).

 

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(3) The Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, designated Classes I, II and III, the number of directorships in each of which Classes shall be as nearly equal in number as possible. The initial division of the members of the Board of Directors into classes shall be made by the decision of the affirmative vote of a majority of the total number of directors constituting the Board of Directors. The term of the initial Class I Directors shall terminate on the date of the 2008 annual meeting; the term of the initial Class II Directors shall terminate on the date of the 2009 annual meeting; and the term of the initial Class III Directors shall terminate on the date of the 2010 annual meeting. At each succeeding annual meeting of stockholders beginning in 2008, successors to the class of Directors whose term expires at that annual meeting shall be elected to a three-year term. If the number of Directors is changed, any increases or decreases shall be apportioned among the Classes so as to attain or maintain in each Class a number of directors as nearly equal as possible, and any additional director of any class elected to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class, but in no case will a decrease in the number of directors shorten the term of any incumbent director.

(4) Except as provided in Section 5 of this Article FIFTH, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. A director shall hold office until the annual meeting for the year in which his or her term expires and until his or her successor shall be elected and shall qualify, subject, however, to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. Directors need not be stockholders.

(5) Subject to the terms of any one or more classes or series of Preferred Stock, any vacancy on the Board of Directors that results from an increase in the number of directors may be filled by a majority of the Board of Directors then in office, provided that a quorum is present, and any other vacancy occurring on the Board of Directors may be filled by a majority of the Board of Directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director. Any director of any class elected to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors of such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class. Any director elected to fill a vacancy not resulting from an increase in the number of directors shall have the same remaining term as that of his predecessor. Except as otherwise required by applicable law and subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of shares of Preferred Stock then outstanding, any or all of the directors of the Corporation may be removed from office at any time, but only for cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the Corporation’s then outstanding capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever the holders of any one or more classes or series of Preferred Stock issued by the Corporation shall have the right, voting separately by class or series, to elect directors at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, the election, term of office, filling of vacancies and other features of such directorships shall be governed by the terms of the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issuance of such class or series, and such directors so elected shall not be divided into classes pursuant to this Article FIFTH, unless expressly provided by such terms.

 

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(6) In addition to the powers and authority hereinbefore or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Corporation, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the DGCL, this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and any By-Laws adopted by the stockholders; provided, however, that no By-Laws hereafter adopted by the stockholders shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such By-Laws had not been adopted.

SIXTH: No director shall be personally liable to the Corporation or any of its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. If the DGCL is amended hereafter to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this Article SIXTH shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.

SEVENTH: The Corporation shall indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by law, as now or hereafter in effect, and such right to indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and personal and legal representatives; provided, however, that, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall not be obligated to indemnify any director or officer (or his or her heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives) in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred by this Article SEVENTH shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending or otherwise participating in any proceeding in advance of its final disposition. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to employees and agents of the Corporation similar to those conferred in this Article SEVENTH to directors and officers of the Corporation. The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article SEVENTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the By-Laws of the Corporation, any statute, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. Any repeal or modification of this Article SEVENTH shall not adversely affect any rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses of a director or officer of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to any acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.

EIGHTH: Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, and the ability of the stockholders to consent in writing to the taking of any action is hereby specifically denied. Unless otherwise required by law or the terms of any resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issuance of a class or series of

 

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Preferred Stock, special meetings of stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called by either the (1) Chairman of the Board of Directors, if there be one, or (2) the Chief Executive Officer, and shall be called by the Chief Executive Officer at the request in writing made pursuant to a resolution of (a) a majority of the members of the Board of Directors or (b) a committee of the Board of Directors that has been duly designated by the Board of Directors and whose powers and authority include the power to call such meetings. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting. The ability of the stockholders to call a special meeting of stockholders is hereby specifically denied. At a special meeting of stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall be specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto).

NINTH: Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the By-Laws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the DGCL) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the By-Laws of the Corporation.

TENTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors shall have the power, without the assent or vote of the stockholders, to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Corporation’s Amended and Restated By-Laws, except to the extent the Amended and Restated By-Laws or this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation otherwise provide.

ELEVENTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Corporation’s By-Laws or the DGCL, and all rights herein conferred upon stockholders are granted subject to such reservation; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (and in addition to any other vote that may be required by law), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty five percent (65%) of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote generally in the election of directors shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal, or to adopt any provision as part of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with the purpose and intent of Paragraph (2)(b) of Article FOURTH, and Articles FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH and TENTH of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or this Article ELEVENTH.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be executed on its behalf this 16th day of July, 2007.

 

WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

By:

 

/s/ Ulrich Michel

  Name: Ulrich Michel
  Title: Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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EX-3.2 3 dex32.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS OF WABCO HOLDINGS INC Amended and Restated By-Laws of WABCO Holdings Inc

Exhibit 3.2

AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS

OF

WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

A Delaware Corporation

Effective July 16, 2007

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page
  

ARTICLE I

OFFICES

  

Section 1.

   Registered Office    1

Section 2.

   Other Offices    1
  

ARTICLE II

MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

  

Section 1.

   Place of Meetings    1

Section 2.

   Annual Meetings    1

Section 3.

   Special Meetings    1

Section 4.

   Notice    1

Section 5.

   Adjournments    2

Section 6.

   Quorum    2

Section 7.

   Voting    2

Section 8.

   Proxies    2

Section 9.

   Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting    3

Section 10.

   List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote    3

Section 11.

   Record Date    3

Section 12.

   Stock Ledger    4

Section 13.

   Organization and Conduct of Meetings    4

Section 14.

   Inspectors of Election    4

Section 15.

   Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders    5

Section 16.

   Nomination of Directors    6
  

ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

  

Section 1.

   Number and Election of Directors    7

Section 2.

   Vacancies    8

Section 3.

   Duties and Powers    8

Section 4.

   Meetings    8

Section 5.

   Organization    8

Section 6.

   Resignations and Removals of Directors    8

Section 7.

   Quorum    9

Section 8.

   Actions of the Board by Written Consent    9

Section 9.

   Meetings by Means of Conference Telephone    9

Section 10.

   Committees    9

Section 11.

   Compensation    9

Section 12.

   Interested Directors    10

 

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ARTICLE IV

OFFICERS

  

Section 1.

   General    10

Section 2.

   Election    10

Section 3.

   Voting Securities Owned by the Corporation    11

Section 4.

   Chairman of the Board of Directors    11

Section 5.

   Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors    11

Section 6.

   Chief Executive Officer    11

Section 7.

   Vice Presidents    11

Section 8.

   Secretary    11

Section 9.

   Treasurer    12

Section 10.

   Assistant Secretaries    12

Section 11.

   Assistant Treasurers    12

Section 12.

   Other Officers    13
  

ARTICLE V

STOCK

  

Section 1.

   Uncertificated Shares    13

Section 2.

   Dividend Record Date    13

Section 3.

   Record Owners    13

Section 4.

   Transfer and Registry Agents    13
  

ARTICLE VI

NOTICES

  

Section 1.

   Notices    13

Section 2.

   Waivers of Notice    14
  

ARTICLE VII

GENERAL PROVISIONS

  

Section 1.

   Dividends    14

Section 2.

   Disbursements    14

Section 3.

   Fiscal Year    14

Section 4.

   Corporate Seal    14
  

ARTICLE VIII

INDEMNIFICATION

  

Section 1.

   Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings other than Those by or in the Right of the Corporation    15

Section 2.

   Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings by or in the Right of the Corporation    15

Section 3.

   Authorization of Indemnification    15

Section 4.

   Good Faith Defined    16

Section 5.

   Indemnification by a Court    16

 

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Section 6.

   Expenses Payable in Advance    16

Section 7.

   Nonexclusivity of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses    17

Section 8.

   Insurance    17

Section 9.

   Certain Definitions    17

Section 10.

   Survival of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses    18

Section 11.

   Limitation on Indemnification    18

Section 12.

   Indemnification of Employees and Agents    18
  

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS

  

Section 1.

   Amendments    18

Section 2.

   Entire Board of Directors    18
  

ARTICLE X

CONSTRUCTION

  

Section 1.

   Construction    19

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS

OF

WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

(hereinafter called the “Corporation”)

ARTICLE I

OFFICES

Section 1. Registered Office. The registered office of the Corporation shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware.

Section 2. Other Offices. The Corporation may also have offices at such other places, both within and without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.

ARTICLE II

MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

Section 1. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors or for any other purpose shall be held at such time and place, either within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors.

Section 2. Annual Meetings. The Annual Meeting of Stockholders for the election of directors shall be held on such date and at such time as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors. Any other proper business may be transacted at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Section 3. Special Meetings. Unless otherwise required by law or by the certificate of incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and restated from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), Special Meetings of Stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called by either (i) the Chairman of the Board of Directors, if there be one, or (ii) the Chief Executive Officer, and shall be called by the Chief Executive Officer at the request in writing made pursuant to a resolution of (a) a majority of the members of the Board of Directors or (b) a committee of the Board of Directors that has been duly designated by the Board of Directors and whose powers and authority include the power to call such meetings. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting. The ability of the stockholders to call a Special Meeting of Stockholders is hereby specifically denied. At a Special Meeting of Stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall be specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto).

Section 4. Notice. Whenever stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, a written notice of the meeting shall be given which shall state the place,


date and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a Special Meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed present in person and vote at such meeting. Unless otherwise required by law, written notice of any meeting shall be given not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting.

Section 5. Adjournments. Any meeting of the stockholders may be adjourned from time to time to reconvene at the same or some other place, and notice need not be given of any such adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting, the Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, notice of the adjourned meeting in accordance with the requirements of Section 4 hereof shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting.

Section 6. Quorum. Unless otherwise required by applicable law or the Certificate of Incorporation, the holders of a majority of the Corporation’s capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, in the manner provided in Section 5 hereof, until a quorum shall be present or represented. A quorum, once established, shall not be broken by the withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum.

Section 7. Voting. Unless otherwise required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, any question brought before any meeting of the stockholders, other than the election of directors, shall be decided by the vote of the holders of a majority of the total number of votes of the Corporation’s capital stock represented and entitled to vote thereat, voting as a single class. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, each stockholder represented at a meeting of the stockholders shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote for each share of the capital stock entitled to vote thereat held by such stockholder. Such votes may be cast in person or by proxy as provided in Section 8 of this Article II. The Board of Directors, in its discretion, or the officer of the Corporation presiding at a meeting of the stockholders, in such officer’s discretion, may require that any votes cast at such meeting shall be cast by written ballot.

Section 8. Proxies. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of the stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy, but no such proxy shall be voted upon after three years from its date, unless such proxy provides for a longer period. Without limiting the manner in which a stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy, the following shall constitute a valid means by which a stockholder may grant such authority:

(i) A stockholder may execute a writing authorizing another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy. Execution may be

 

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accomplished by the stockholder or such stockholder’s authorized officer, director, employee or agent signing such writing or causing such person’s signature to be affixed to such writing by any reasonable means, including, but not limited to, by facsimile signature.

(ii) A stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of a telegram or cablegram to the person who will be the holder of the proxy or to a proxy solicitation firm, proxy support service organization or like agent duly authorized by the person who will be the holder of the proxy to receive such telegram or cablegram, provided that any such telegram or cablegram must either set forth or be submitted with information from which it can be determined that the telegram or cablegram was authorized by the stockholder. If it is determined that such telegrams or cablegrams are valid, the inspectors or, if there are no inspectors, such other persons making that determination shall specify the information on which they relied.

Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing, telegram or cablegram authorizing another person or persons to act as proxy for a stockholder may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing, telegram or cablegram for any and all purposes for which the original writing, telegram or cablegram could be used; provided, however, that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing, telegram or cablegram.

Section 9. Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called Annual or Special Meeting of Stockholders of the Corporation, and the ability of the stockholders to consent in writing to the taking of any action is hereby specifically denied.

Section 10. List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote. The officer of the Corporation who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten (10) days before every meeting of the stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting either (i) at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held or (ii) during ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the Corporation. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.

Section 11. Record Date. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of the stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days

 

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before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of the stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of the stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

Section 12. Stock Ledger. The stock ledger of the Corporation shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list required by Section 10 of this Article II or the books of the Corporation, or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of the stockholders.

Section 13. Organization and Conduct of Meetings. The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall act as chairman of meetings of the stockholders. The Board of Directors may designate any other officer or director of the Corporation to act as chairman of any meeting in the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors may further provide for determining who shall act as chairman of any stockholders meeting in the absence of the Chairman and such designee. The Board of Directors of the Corporation may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of any meeting of the stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board of Directors, the chairman of any meeting of the stockholders shall have the right and authority to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board of Directors or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (i) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (ii) the determination of when the polls shall open and close for any given matter to be voted on at the meeting; (iii) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (iv) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders of record of the Corporation, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall determine; (v) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (vi) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants.

Section 14. Inspectors of Election. In advance of any meeting of the stockholders, the Board of Directors, by resolution, the Chairman or the Chief Executive Officer shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting and make a written report thereof. One or more other persons may be designated as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If no inspector or alternate is able to act at a meeting of the stockholders, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, inspectors may be officers, employees or agents of the Corporation. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of inspector, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of such inspector’s ability. The inspector shall have the duties prescribed by law and shall take charge of the polls and, when the vote is completed, shall make a certificate of the result of the vote taken and of such other facts as may be required by applicable law.

 

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Section 15. Nature of Business at Meetings of Stockholders. No business may be transacted at an Annual Meeting of Stockholders, other than business that is either (a) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (b) otherwise properly brought before the Annual Meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof), or (c) otherwise properly brought before the Annual Meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation (i) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 15 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such Annual Meeting, (ii) who is entitled to vote at such Annual Meeting and (iii) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 15.

In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an Annual Meeting by a stockholder, such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation.

To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding Annual Meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the Annual Meeting is called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, or in the case of the Corporation’s first Annual Meeting, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the Annual Meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of the Annual Meeting was made, whichever first occurs.

To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must set forth as to each matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the Annual Meeting (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the Annual Meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the Annual Meeting, (ii) the name and record address of such stockholder, (iii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by such stockholder, (iv) a description of all arrangements or understandings between such stockholder and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in such business and (v) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting to bring such business before the meeting.

No business shall be conducted at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders except business brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 15; provided, however, that, once business has been properly brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 15 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the chairman of an Annual Meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the Annual Meeting in

 

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accordance with the foregoing procedures, the chairman shall declare to the meeting that the business was not properly brought before the meeting and such business shall not be transacted.

Section 16. Nomination of Directors. Only persons who are nominated in accordance with the following procedures shall be eligible for election as directors of the Corporation, except as may be otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation with respect to the right, if any, of holders of preferred stock of the Corporation to nominate and elect a specified number of directors in certain circumstances. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors may be made at any Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or at any Special Meeting of Stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors, (i) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof) or (ii) by any stockholder of the Corporation (a) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 16 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting, (b) who is entitled to vote at such meeting and (c) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 16.

In addition to any other applicable requirements, for a nomination to be made by a stockholder, such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation.

To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (i) in the case of an Annual Meeting, not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding Annual Meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the Annual Meeting is called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, or in the case of the Corporation’s first Annual Meeting, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the Annual Meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of the Annual Meeting was made, whichever first occurs; and (ii) in the case of a Special Meeting of Stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors, not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which notice of the date of the Special Meeting was mailed or public disclosure of the date of the Special Meeting was made, whichever first occurs.

To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must set forth (i) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election as a director (a) the name, age, business address and residence address of the person, (b) the principal occupation or employment of the person, (c) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock (if any) of the Corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by the person and (d) any other information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (ii) as to the stockholder giving the notice (a) the name and record address of such stockholder, (b) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by such stockholder, (c) a description of all arrangements or understandings between

 

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such stockholder and each proposed nominee and any other person or persons (including their names) pursuant to which the nomination(s) are to be made by such stockholder, (d) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the persons named in its notice and (e) any other information relating to such stockholder that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Such notice must be accompanied by a written consent of each proposed nominee to being named as a nominee and to serve as a director if elected.

No person shall be eligible for election as a director of the Corporation unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 16. If the chairman of the meeting determines that a nomination was not made in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to the meeting that the nomination was defective and such defective nomination shall be disregarded.

ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

Section 1. Number and Election of Directors. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three (3) or more than fifteen (15) members, the exact number of which shall be fixed, from time to time, exclusively pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board of Directors, and subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock, if any, the exact number may be increased or decreased (but not to less than three (3) or more than fifteen (15)). Except as provided in Section 2 of this Article III, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. A director shall hold office until the Annual Meeting for the year in which his or her term expires and until his or her successor shall be elected and shall qualify, subject, however, to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. Directors need not be stockholders. The Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, designated Classes I, II and III, the number of directorships in each of which Classes shall be as nearly equal in number as possible. The initial division of the members of the Board of Directors into classes shall be made by the decision of the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors. The term of the initial Class I Directors shall terminate on the date of the 2008 annual meeting; the term of the initial Class II Directors shall terminate on the date of the 2009 annual meeting; and the term of the initial Class III Directors shall terminate on the date of the 2010 annual meeting. At each succeeding annual meeting of stockholders beginning in 2008, successors to the class of Directors whose term expires at that annual meeting shall be elected to a three-year term. If the number of Directors is changed, any increases or decreases shall be apportioned among the Classes so as to attain or maintain in each Class a number of directors as nearly equal as possible, and any additional director of any class elected to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class, but in no case will a decrease in the number of directors shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

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Section 2. Vacancies. Subject to the terms of any one or more classes or series of preferred stock, any vacancy on the Board of Directors that results from an increase in the number of directors may be filled by a majority of the Board of Directors then in office, provided that a quorum is present, and any other vacancy occurring on the Board of Directors may be filled by a majority of the Board of Directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director. Any director of any class elected to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors of such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class. Any director elected to fill a vacancy not resulting from an increase in the number of directors shall have the same remaining term as that of his predecessor.

Section 3. Duties and Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors which may exercise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these By-Laws required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

Section 4. Meetings. The Board of Directors may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or without the State of Delaware. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without notice at such time and at such place as may from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chairman, if there be one, or the Chief Executive Officer. Notice thereof stating the place, date and hour of the meeting shall be given to each director either by mail not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the date of the meeting, by telephone, facsimile or telegram or other means of electronic communication on twenty-four (24) hours’ notice, or on such shorter notice as the person or persons calling such meeting may deem necessary or appropriate in the circumstances.

Section 5. Organization. At each meeting of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or, in his or her absence, a director chosen by a majority of the directors present, shall act as chairman. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as secretary at each meeting of the Board of Directors. In case the Secretary shall be absent from any meeting of the Board of Directors, an Assistant Secretary shall perform the duties of secretary at such meeting; and in the absence from any such meeting of the Secretary and all the Assistant Secretaries, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

Section 6. Resignations and Removals of Directors. Any director of the Corporation may resign at any time, by giving notice in writing to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary of the Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect at the time therein specified or, if no time is specified, immediately; and, unless otherwise specified in such notice, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Except as otherwise required by applicable law and subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of shares of preferred stock then outstanding, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed from office at any time, but only for cause, and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the Corporation’s then outstanding capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, cast at a special meeting of stockholders called for the purpose or at an annual meeting.

 

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Section 7. Quorum. Except as otherwise required by law or the Certificate of Incorporation, at all meetings of the Board of Directors, a majority of the entire Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting of the time and place of the adjourned meeting, until a quorum shall be present.

Section 8. Actions of the Board by Written Consent. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, if all the members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee.

Section 9. Meetings by Means of Conference Telephone. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, or any committee thereof, may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or such committee by means of a conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this Section 9 shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

Section 10. Committees. The Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of any such committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, and in the absence of a designation by the Board of Directors of an alternate member to replace the absent or disqualified member, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any absent or disqualified member. Any committee, to the extent permitted by law and provided in the resolution establishing such committee, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. Each committee shall keep regular minutes and report to the Board of Directors when required.

Section 11. Compensation. The directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary for service as director, payable in cash or securities. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for service as committee members.

 

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Section 12. Interested Directors. No contract or transaction between the Corporation and one or more of its directors or officers, or between the Corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association or other organization in which one or more of its directors or officers are directors or officers or have a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, or solely because the director or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the Board of Directors or committee thereof which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because any such director’s or officer’s vote is counted for such purpose if: (i) the material facts as to the director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors or the committee, and the Board of Directors or committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative vote of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum; or (ii) the material facts as to the director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the stockholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by vote of the stockholders; or (iii) the contract or transaction is fair as to the Corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved or ratified by the Board of Directors, a committee thereof or the stockholders. Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or of a committee which authorizes the contract or transaction.

ARTICLE IV

OFFICERS

Section 1. General. The officers of the Corporation shall be chosen by the Board of Directors and shall be a Chief Executive Officer, a Secretary and a Treasurer. The Board of Directors, in its discretion, also may choose a Chairman of the Board of Directors (who must be a director), a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (who must be a director) and one or more Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers and other officers. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, unless otherwise prohibited by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws. The officers of the Corporation need not be stockholders of the Corporation nor, except in the case of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, need such officers be directors of the Corporation.

Section 2. Election. The Board of Directors, at its first meeting held after each Annual Meeting of Stockholders, as necessary, shall elect the officers of the Corporation who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors; and each officer of the Corporation shall hold office until such officer’s successor is elected and qualified, or until such officer’s earlier death, resignation or removal. Any officer elected by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time by the Board of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation shall be filled by the Board of Directors. The salaries of all officers of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors. Any officer may resign at any time by delivering a written notice of resignation, signed by such officer, to the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary. Unless otherwise specified therein, such resignation shall take effect upon delivery.

 

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Section 3. Voting Securities Owned by the Corporation. Powers of attorney, proxies, waivers of notice of meeting, consents and other instruments relating to securities owned by the Corporation may be executed in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation by the Chief Executive Officer or any Vice President or any other officer authorized to do so by the Board of Directors and any such officer may, in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation, take all such action as any such officer may deem advisable to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of security holders of any corporation in which the Corporation may own securities and at any such meeting shall possess and may exercise any and all rights and power incident to the ownership of such securities and which, as the owner thereof, the Corporation might have exercised and possessed if present. The Board of Directors may, by resolution, from time to time confer like powers upon any other person or persons.

Section 4. Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, if there be one, shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall perform such other duties and may exercise such other powers as may from time to time be assigned by these By-Laws or by the Board of Directors.

Section 5. Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, if there be one, shall assume all of the duties of the Chairman of the Board of Directors assigned by these By-Laws in the event of the absence or disability of the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors shall also perform such other duties and may exercise such other powers as may from time to time be assigned by these By-Laws or by the Board of Directors.

Section 6. Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall, subject to the control of the Board of Directors and, if there be one, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, have general supervision of the business of the Corporation and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board of Directors are carried into effect. The Chief Executive Officer shall execute all bonds, mortgages, contracts and other instruments of the Corporation requiring a seal, under the seal of the Corporation, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except that the other officers of the Corporation may sign and execute documents when so authorized by these By-Laws, the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer. In the absence or disability of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or if there be none, the Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders. The Chief Executive Officer shall also perform such other duties and may exercise such other powers as may from time to time be assigned to such officer by these By-Laws or by the Board of Directors.

Section 7. Vice Presidents. Each Vice President shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.

Section 8. Secretary. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and all meetings of the stockholders and record all the proceedings thereat in a book or books to be kept for that purpose; the Secretary shall also perform like duties for committees of the Board of Directors when required. The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall

 

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perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, under whose supervision the Secretary shall be. If the Secretary shall be unable or shall refuse to cause to be given notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board of Directors, and if there be no Assistant Secretary, then either the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer may choose another officer to cause such notice to be given. The Secretary shall have custody of the seal of the Corporation and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, if there be one, shall have authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed, it may be attested by the signature of the Secretary or by the signature of any such Assistant Secretary. The Board of Directors may give general authority to any other officer to affix the seal of the Corporation and to attest to the affixing by such officer’s signature. The Secretary shall see that all books, reports, statements, certificates and other documents and records required by law to be kept or filed are properly kept or filed, as the case may be.

Section 9. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors, at its regular meetings, or when the Board of Directors so requires, an account of all transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the Corporation. If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Directors for the faithful performance of the duties of the office of the Treasurer and for the restoration to the Corporation, in case of the Treasurer’s death, resignation, retirement or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in the Treasurer’s possession or under the Treasurer’s control belonging to the Corporation.

Section 10. Assistant Secretaries. Assistant Secretaries, if there be any, shall perform such duties and have such powers as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, if there be one, or the Secretary, and in the absence of the Secretary or in the event of the Secretary’s inability or refusal to act, shall perform the duties of the Secretary, and when so acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the Secretary.

Section 11. Assistant Treasurers. Assistant Treasurers, if there be any, shall perform such duties and have such powers as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, if there be one, or the Treasurer, and in the absence of the Treasurer or in the event of the Treasurer’s inability or refusal to act, shall perform the duties of the Treasurer, and when so acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the Treasurer. If required by the Board of Directors, an Assistant Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Directors for the faithful performance of the duties of the office of Assistant Treasurer and for the restoration to the Corporation, in case of the Assistant Treasurer’s death, resignation, retirement or removal from office, of all books,

 

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papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in the Assistant Treasurer’s possession or under the Assistant Treasurer’s control belonging to the Corporation.

Section 12. Other Officers. Such other officers as the Board of Directors may choose shall perform such duties and have such powers as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may delegate to any other officer of the Corporation the power to choose such other officers and to prescribe their respective duties and powers.

ARTICLE V

STOCK

Section 1. Uncertificated Shares. Unless otherwise provided by resolution of the Board of Directors, each class or series of the shares of capital stock in the Corporation shall be issued in uncertificated form pursuant to the customary arrangements for issuing shares in such form. Shares shall be transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder thereof in person or by attorney upon presentment of proper evidence of succession, assignation or authority to transfer in accordance with the customary procedures for transferring shares in uncertificated form.

Section 2. Dividend Record Date. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than sixty (60) days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

Section 3. Record Owners. The Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and assessments a person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise required by law.

Section 4. Transfer and Registry Agents. The Corporation may from time to time maintain one or more transfer offices or agencies and registry offices or agencies at such place or places as may be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE VI

NOTICES

Section 1. Notices. Whenever written notice is required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, to be given to any director, member of a committee or stockholder, such notice may be given either personally by mail, facsimile,

 

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telegraph or other means of electronic communication or by other lawful means. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed to such director, member of a committee or stockholder, at such person’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, with postage thereon prepaid. If notice be by facsimile, telegram, or other means of electronic communication, such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time provided in the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”). Such further notice shall be given as may be required by law.

Section 2. Waivers of Notice. Whenever any notice is required by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, to be given to any director, member of a committee or stockholder, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto. Attendance of a person at a meeting, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where the person attends the meeting for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any Annual or Special Meeting of Stockholders or any regular or special meeting of the directors or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws.

ARTICLE VII

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. Dividends. Dividends upon the capital stock of the Corporation, subject to the requirements of the DGCL and the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, if any, may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors (or any action by written consent in lieu thereof in accordance with Section 8 of Article III hereof), and may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the Board of Directors from time to time, in its absolute discretion, deems proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for purchasing any of the shares of capital stock, warrants, rights, options, bonds, debentures, notes, scrip or other securities or evidences of indebtedness of the Corporation, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for any proper purpose, and the Board of Directors may modify or abolish any such reserve.

Section 2. Disbursements. All checks or demands for money and notes of the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

Section 3. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall commence on the first day of January of each year and shall terminate on December 31.

Section 4. Corporate Seal. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation, the year of its organization and the words “Corporate Seal, Delaware”. The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

INDEMNIFICATION

Section 1. Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings other than Those by or in the Right of the Corporation. Subject to Section 3 of this Article VIII, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party 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 the Corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was a director or officer of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against 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 if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful.

Section 2. Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings by or in the Right of the Corporation. Subject to Section 3 of this Article VIII, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was a director or officer of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation; except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

Section 3. Authorization of Indemnification. Any indemnification under this Article VIII (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 or Section 2 of this Article VIII, as the case may be. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (i) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit

 

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or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (ii) by a committee of such directors designated by a majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (iii) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or (iv) by the stockholders. Such determination shall be made, with respect to former directors and officers, by any person or persons having the authority to act on the matter on behalf of the Corporation. To the extent, however, that a present or former director or officer of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding described above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith, without the necessity of authorization in the specific case.

Section 4. Good Faith Defined. For purposes of any determination under Section 3 of this Article VIII, a person shall be deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, to have had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful, if such person’s action was based on the records or books of account of the Corporation or another enterprise, or on information supplied to such person by the officers of the Corporation or another enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Corporation or another enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Corporation or another enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected with reasonable care by the Corporation or another enterprise. The provisions of this Section 4 shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to limit in any way the circumstances in which a person may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 or Section 2 of this Article VIII, as the case may be.

Section 5. Indemnification by a Court. Notwithstanding any contrary determination in the specific case under Section 3 of this Article VIII, and notwithstanding the absence of any determination thereunder, any director or officer may apply to the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Delaware for indemnification to the extent otherwise permissible under Section 1 or Section 2 of this Article VIII. The basis of such indemnification by a court shall be a determination by such court that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 or Section 2 of this Article VIII, as the case may be. Neither a contrary determination in the specific case under Section 3 of this Article VIII nor the absence of any determination thereunder shall be a defense to such application or create a presumption that the director or officer seeking indemnification has not met any applicable standard of conduct. Notice of any application for indemnification pursuant to this Section 5 shall be given to the Corporation promptly upon the filing of such application. If successful, in whole or in part, the director or officer seeking indemnification shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such application.

Section 6. Expenses Payable in Advance. Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a director or officer in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled

 

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to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article VIII. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by former directors and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Corporation deems appropriate.

Section 7. Nonexclusivity of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VIII shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under the Certificate of Incorporation, these By-Laws, any statute, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that indemnification of the persons specified in Section 1 and Section 2 of this Article VIII shall be made to the fullest extent permitted by law. The provisions of this Article VIII shall not be deemed to preclude the indemnification of any person who is not specified in Section 1 or Section 2 of this Article VIII but whom the Corporation has the power or obligation to indemnify under the provisions of the DGCL, or otherwise.

Section 8. Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was a director or officer of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power or the obligation to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article VIII.

Section 9. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Article VIII, references to “the Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors or officers, so that any person who is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation, or is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article VIII with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued. The term “another enterprise” as used in this Article VIII shall mean any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which such person is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent. For purposes of this Article VIII, references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director or officer with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation” as referred to in this Article VIII.

 

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Section 10. Survival of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VIII shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

Section 11. Limitation on Indemnification. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article VIII to the contrary, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification (which shall be governed by Section 5 of this Article VIII), the Corporation shall not be obligated to indemnify any director or officer (or his or her heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives) or advance expenses in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

Section 12. Indemnification of Employees and Agents. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to employees and agents of the Corporation similar to those conferred in this Article VIII to directors and officers of the Corporation.

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS

Section 1. Amendments. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Corporation’s By-Laws. The affirmative vote of at least a majority of the entire Board of Directors shall be required to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Corporation’s By-Laws. The Corporation’s By-Laws also may be adopted, amended, altered or repealed by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote at an election of directors; provided, however, that any amendment, alteration or repeal of Sections 3, 9, 15 or 16 of Article II, Article VIII or this Section 1 of Article IX, shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty five percent (65%) of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote at an election of directors.

Section 2. Entire Board of Directors. As used in this Article IX and in these By-Laws generally, the term “entire Board of Directors” means the total number of directors which the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies.

 

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ARTICLE X

CONSTRUCTION

Section 1. Construction. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of these By-Laws as in effect from time to time and the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation as in effect from time to time, the provisions of such Certificate of Incorporation shall be controlling.

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Adopted as of: July 16, 2007

 

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EX-4.1 4 dex41.htm RIGHTS AGREEMENT, DATED JULY 16, 2007 Rights Agreement, dated July 16, 2007

Exhibit 4.1

 


WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK

Rights Agent

 


RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Dated as of July 16, 2007

 



TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Section    Page
Section 1.    Certain Definitions    1
Section 2.    Appointment of Rights Agent    5
Section 3.    Issue of Right Certificates    5
Section 4.    Form of Right Certificates    8
Section 5.    Countersignature and Registration    8
Section 6.    Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange of Right Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Right Certificates    9
Section 7.    Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights    10
Section 8.    Cancellation and Destruction of Right Certificates    11
Section 9.    Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock    12
Section 10.    Preferred Stock Record Date    13
Section 11.    Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights    13
Section 12.    Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares    22
Section 13.    Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power    22
Section 14.    Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares    24
Section 15.    Rights of Action    26
Section 16.    Agreement of Right Holders    26
Section 17.    Right Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Stockholder    27
Section 18.    Concerning the Rights Agent    27
Section 19.    Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent    28
Section 20.    Duties of Rights Agent    28
Section 21.    Change of Rights Agent    30
Section 22.    Issuance of New Right Certificates    31

 

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Section 23.    Redemption    31
Section 23A    Exchange    32
Section 24.    Notice of Certain Events    33
Section 25.    Notices    34
Section 26.    Supplements and Amendments    34
Section 27.    Successors    35
Section 28.    Determinations and Actions by the Board of Directors, etc    35
Section 29.    Benefits of this Agreement    36
Section 30.    Severability    36
Section 31.    Governing Law    36
Section 32.    Counterparts    36
Section 33.    Descriptive Headings    36
Exhibit A—Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights   
Exhibit B—Form of Right Certificate   
Exhibit C—Form of Summary of Rights   

 

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RIGHTS AGREEMENT

RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of July 16, 2007 (the “Agreement”), between WABCO Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York (the “Rights Agent”).

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has authorized and declared a dividend of one Right for each share of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company outstanding at the Close of Business on July 19, 2007 (the “Record Date”), each Right representing the right to purchase one one-hundredth (1/100th) of a share of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company having the rights and preferences set forth in the form of Certificate of Designation attached hereto as Exhibit A, and has further authorized the issuance of one Right with respect to each share of Common Stock of the Company that shall become outstanding between the Record Date and the earliest of the Distribution Date, the Expiration Date and the Final Expiration Date (as such terms are hereinafter defined);

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements herein set forth, the parties hereby agree as follows:

Section 1. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated:

(a) “Acquiring Person” shall mean any Person who or which, together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person, shall be the Beneficial Owner of 15% or more of the Common Stock of the Company then outstanding, but shall not include (i) the Company, (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company, or (iii) any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Person organized, appointed or established by the Company or such Subsidiary as a fiduciary for or pursuant to the terms of any such employee benefit plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) no Person shall become an “Acquiring Person” as a result of an acquisition of Common Stock by the Company which, by reducing the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding, increases the proportionate number of shares Beneficially Owned by such Person to 15% or more of the Common Stock of the Company then outstanding, provided, however, that if a Person shall become the Beneficial Owner of 15% or more of the Common Stock of the Company by reason of share purchases by the Company and, after such share purchases by the Company, shall become the Beneficial Owner of any additional Common Stock of the Company other than as a direct or indirect result of any corporate action taken by the Company, then such Person shall be deemed to be an “Acquiring Person”, and (y) if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith that a Person who would otherwise be an “Acquiring Person”, as defined pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 1(a), has become such inadvertently (including, without limitation, because (i) such Person was unaware that it Beneficially Owned 15% or more of the Common Stock of the Company or (ii) such Person was aware of the extent of such Beneficial Ownership but such Person acquired Beneficial Ownership of such shares of Common Stock without the intention to change or


influence the control of the Company and without actual knowledge of the consequences of such Beneficial Ownership under this Rights Agreement), and such Person divests itself as promptly as practicable of a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock so that such Person would no longer be an “Acquiring Person”, as defined pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 1(a), then such Person shall not be deemed to be, or have been, an “Acquiring Person” for any purposes of this Agreement, and no Stock Acquisition Time shall be deemed to have occurred. All questions as to whether a Person who would otherwise be a Acquiring Person has become such inadvertently shall be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, which determination shall be conclusive.

(b) “Adjustment Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii).

(c) “Affiliate” and “Associate,” when used with reference to any Person, shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as in effect on the Record Date.

(d) A Person shall be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of and shall be deemed to “beneficially own” any securities:

(i) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or indirectly, has the right to vote or dispose of, including pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing); provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, any security if the agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such security (1) arises solely from a revocable proxy given to such Person in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable rules and regulations of the Exchange Act and (2) is not also then reportable on Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor report);

(ii) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates has the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing), or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, rights (other than these Rights), warrants or options, or otherwise, provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, (A) securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange, or (B) securities issuable upon exercise of Rights at any time prior to the occurrence of either a Section 11(a)(ii) Event or a Section 13 Event, or (C) securities issuable upon exercise of Rights from and after the occurrence of either a Section 11(a)(ii) Event or a Section 13 Event, which Rights were acquired by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates prior to the Distribution Date or pursuant to Section 3(a) or Section 22 hereof (the

 

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“Original Rights”) or pursuant to Section 11(i) hereof in connection with an adjustment made with respect to any Original Rights; or

(iii) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other Person (or any Affiliate or Associate thereof) with which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates has any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except pursuant to a revocable proxy as described in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph (d)) or disposing of any securities of the Company in a manner that relates or is reasonably likely potentially to relate to influencing the control or management of the Company;

provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph (d) shall cause a person engaged in business as an underwriter of securities to be the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, any securities acquired through such person’s participation in good faith in a firm commitment underwriting until the expiration of forty days after the date of such acquisition.

(e) “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

(f) “Certificate of Designation” shall mean the Certificate of Designation of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock setting forth the powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions of such series of preferred stock of the Company, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

(g) “Close of Business” on any given date shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on such date; provided, however, that if such date is not a Business Day it shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day.

(h) “Common Stock” when used with reference to the Company shall mean the Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company. “Common Stock” when used with reference to any Person other than the Company which is organized in corporate form shall mean the capital stock with the greatest voting power, or the equity securities or other equity interest having power to control or direct the management, of such Person, or, if such Person is a Subsidiary of another Person, the capital stock with the greatest voting power of the Person which ultimately controls such first-mentioned Person. “Common Stock” when used with reference to any Person which is not organized in corporate form shall mean units of beneficial interest which (i) shall represent the right to participate generally in the profits and losses of such Person (including, without limitation, any flow-through tax benefits resulting from an ownership interest in such Person) and which (ii) shall be entitled to exercise the greatest voting power of such Person or, in the case of a limited partnership, shall have the power to remove the general partner or partners.

(i) “Common Stock Equivalents” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii).

 

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(j) “Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

(k) “Current Market Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(d).

(l) “Current Value” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii).

(m) “Distribution Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 3(a).

(n) “Equivalent Preference Stock” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(b).

(o) “Expiration Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 7(a).

(p) “Final Expiration Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 7(a).

(q) “NYSE” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(d).

(r) “Outside Directors” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii).

(s) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, trust or other entity, and shall include any successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.

(t) “Preferred Stock” shall mean shares of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company, having the rights, preferences and limitations set forth in the form of Certificate of Designation attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A, and, to the extent there are not a sufficient number of shares of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock authorized to permit the full exercise of the then outstanding Rights, any other series of preferred stock of the Company designated for such purpose by the Board of Directors of the Company containing terms substantially similar to the terms of the Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock.

(u) “Principal Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13(b).

(v) “Purchase Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

(w) “Record Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the WHEREAS clause at the beginning of this Agreement.

(x) “Redemption Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 23(a).

(y) “Right” shall have the meaning set forth in the WHEREAS clause at the beginning of this Agreement.

(z) “Right Certificate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

 

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(aa) “Rights Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

(bb) “Section 11(a)(ii) Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii).

(cc) “Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii).

(dd) “Section 13 Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13(a).

(ee) “Spread” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii).

(ff) “Stock Acquisition Time” shall mean the time of occurrence of the first public announcement by the Company that an Acquiring Person has become such.

(gg) “Subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power sufficient, in the absence of contingencies, to elect a majority of the board of directors or other persons performing similar functions are at the time beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or otherwise controlled by such Person.

(hh) “Substitution Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii).

(ii) “Summary of Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(b).

(jj) “Trading Day” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(d).

Section 2. Appointment of Rights Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Rights Agent to act as agent for the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, and the Rights Agent hereby accepts such appointment. The Company may from time to time appoint such Co-Rights Agents as it may deem necessary or desirable. Any actions which may be taken by the Rights Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement may be taken by any such Co-Rights Agent.

Section 3. Issue of Right Certificates. (a) Until the earlier of the Close of Business on (i) the tenth Business Day after the Stock Acquisition Time, or (ii) the tenth Business Day, or such specified or unspecified later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors of the Company, after the date of the commencement of (as determined by reference to Rule 14d-2(a), as now in effect under the Exchange Act), or first public announcement of the intent of any Person (other than the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company, any employee benefit plan of the Company or of any Subsidiary of the Company, or any Person organized, appointed or established by the Company or such Subsidiary as a fiduciary pursuant to the terms of any such employee benefit plan) to commence (which intention to commence remains in effect for five Business Days after such announcement), a tender or exchange offer for an amount of Common Stock of the Company which, together with

 

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the shares of such stock already owned by such Person, constitutes 15% or more of the outstanding Common Stock of the Company (including any such date which is after the date of this Agreement and prior to the issuance of the Rights) (the earlier of such dates described in clauses (i) and (ii) above being herein referred to as the “Distribution Date”), (x) the Rights will be evidenced (subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section 3) by the balances indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of the Common Stock (which shares of Common Stock shall also be deemed to represent certificates for Rights) or, in the case of certificated shares, the certificates for the Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of the Common Stock (which certificates for Common Stock shall also be deemed to be certificates for Rights), and (y) the right to receive Right Certificates will be transferable only in connection with the transfer of the underlying Common Stock. As soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, the Rights Agent will send, by first class, insured, postage-prepaid mail, to each record holder of Common Stock as of the Close of Business on the Distribution Date, at the address of such holder shown on the records of the Company, a Right Certificate, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto (a “Right Certificate”), evidencing one Right for each share of Common Stock so held, subject to adjustment as provided herein and to the provisions of Section 14(a). As of the Distribution Date, the Rights will be evidenced solely by such Right Certificates.

(b) On the Record Date or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Company will send a copy of a Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Stock, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Summary of Rights”), by first-class, postage-prepaid mail, to each record holder of Common Stock as of the Close of Business on the Record Date, at the address of such holder shown on the records of the Company. With respect to the Common Stock outstanding as of the Record Date, until the earlier of the Distribution Date or the Expiration Date, the Rights will be evidenced by the balances indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, such certificates for the Common Stock and the registered holders of the Common Stock shall also be the registered holders of the associated Rights. Until the earliest of the Distribution Date, the Expiration Date and the Final Expiration Date, the transfer of any shares of Common Stock outstanding on the Record Date shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Stock.

(c) Rights shall be issued in respect of all shares of Common Stock issued (or delivered from the Company’s treasury) after the Record Date but prior to the earliest of the Distribution Date, the Expiration Date or the Final Expiration Date and shall bear the following legends:

(i) Confirmation and account statements sent to holders of shares of Common Stock in book-entry form (which shares of Common Stock shall also be deemed to represent certificates for Rights) shall bear the following legend:

The shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of WABCO Holdings Inc. (the “Corporation”) entitle the holder thereof to certain Rights as set forth in a Rights Agreement between the Corporation and The Bank of New York, dated as of July 16, 2007 (the “Rights Agreement”), the terms of

 

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which are hereby incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal executive offices of the Corporation. Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, such Rights will be evidenced by separate certificates and will no longer be evidenced by the shares to which this statement relates. The Corporation will mail to the holder of shares to which this statement relates a copy of the Rights Agreement without charge promptly after receipt of a written request therefor. Under certain circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement, Rights issued to an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) may be null and void. The Rights shall not be exercisable, and shall be void so long as held, by a holder in any jurisdiction where the requisite qualification for the issuance to such holder, or the exercise by such holder of the Rights in such jurisdiction, shall not have been obtained or be obtainable.

With respect to shares of Common Stock in book-entry form for which there has been sent a confirmation or account statement containing the foregoing legend, until the earlier of (i) the Expiration Date or (ii) the Distribution Date, the Rights associated with the Common Stock represented by such shares of Common Stock shall be evidenced by such shares of Common Stock alone and registered holders of Common Stock shall also be the registered holders of the associated Rights, and the transfer of any of such shares of Common Stock shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with such shares of Common Stock.

(ii) In the case of certificated shares, certificates representing shares of Common Stock (which certificates shall also be deemed to be certificates for Rights) shall bear the following legend if such certificates are issued after the Record Date but prior to the earliest of the Distribution Date, the Expiration Date or the Final Expiration Date:

This certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to certain Rights as set forth in a Rights Agreement between WABCO Holdings Inc. (the “Corporation”) and The Bank of New York, dated as of July 16, 2007 (the “Rights Agreement”), the terms of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal executive offices of the Corporation. Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, such Rights will be evidenced by separate certificates and will no longer be evidenced by this certificate. The Corporation will mail to the holder of this certificate a copy of the Rights Agreement without charge promptly after receipt of a written request therefor. Under certain circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement, Rights issued to an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) may be null and void. The Rights shall not be exercisable, and shall be void so long as held, by a holder in any jurisdiction where the requisite qualification for the issuance to such holder, or the exercise by such holder of the Rights in such jurisdiction, shall not have been obtained or be obtainable.

With respect to such certificates containing the foregoing legend, until the earlier of (i) the Expiration Date or (ii) the Distribution Date, the Rights associated with the Common Stock represented by such certificates shall be evidenced by such certificates alone, and the surrender

 

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for transfer of any of such certificates shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Stock represented by such certificates.

Section 4. Form of Right Certificates. (a) The Right Certificates (and the forms of election to purchase shares, certificate and assignment to be printed on the reverse thereof) shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto and may have such marks of identification or designation and such legends, summaries or endorsements printed thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Rights may from time to time be listed, or to conform to usage. Subject to the provisions of Sections 11 and 22 hereof, the Right Certificates, whenever distributed, which are distributed in respect of shares of Common Stock which were issued and outstanding as of the Record Date, shall be dated as of the Record Date, on their face shall entitle the holders thereof to purchase such number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock as shall be set forth therein at the price per one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock set forth therein (the “Purchase Price”), but the number and type of securities purchasable upon the exercise of each Right and the Purchase Price thereof shall be subject to adjustment as provided in this Agreement.

(b) Any Right Certificate issued pursuant to Section 3(a) or Section 22 hereof that represents Rights beneficially owned by: (i) an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person, (ii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after the Acquiring Person becomes such, or (iii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee prior to or concurrently with the Acquiring Person becoming such and receives such Rights pursuant to either (A) a transfer (whether or not for consideration) from the Acquiring Person to holders of equity interests in such Acquiring Person or to any Person with whom the Acquiring Person has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the transferred Rights or (B) a transfer which the Board of Directors of the Company has determined is part of a plan, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) which has as a primary purpose or effect the avoidance of the provisions of Section 7(e), Section 11(a)(ii) or of Section 13 with respect to the limitation of the Rights beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof), and any Right Certificate issued pursuant to Section 6 or Section 11 hereof upon transfer, exchange, replacement or adjustment of any other Right Certificate referred to in this sentence, shall contain (to the extent feasible) the following legend modified as necessary to apply to such Person:

The Rights represented by this Certificate are or were beneficially owned by a Person who was or became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). Accordingly, this Certificate and the Rights represented hereby may become null and void in the circumstances specified in Section 7(e) of the Rights Agreement.

Section 5. Countersignature and Registration. (a) The Right Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company manually or by facsimile signature by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or any Vice President and have affixed thereto the Company’s seal or a facsimile thereof which shall be attested by the Secretary, the Acting

 

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Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, either manually or by facsimile signature. The Right Certificates shall be countersigned by the Rights Agent manually and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned. In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Right Certificates shall cease to be such officer of the Company before countersignature by the Rights Agent and issuance and delivery by the Company, such Right Certificates, nevertheless, may be countersigned by the Rights Agent, and issued and delivered by the Company with the same force and effect as though the person who signed such Right Certificates had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Right Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by any person who, at the actual date of the execution of such Right Certificate, shall be a proper officer of the Company to sign such Right Certificate, although at the date of the execution of this Rights Agreement any such person was not such an officer.

(b) Following the Distribution Date, the Rights Agent will keep or cause to be kept, at its principal office in New York, New York, books for registration and transfer of the Right Certificates issued hereunder. Such books shall show the names and addresses of the respective holders of the Right Certificates, the number of Rights evidenced on its face by each of the Right Certificates and the date and certificate number of each of the Right Certificates.

Section 6. Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange of Right Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Right Certificates. (a) Subject to the provisions of Sections 4(b), 7(e) and 14 hereof, at any time after the Close of Business on the Distribution Date, and at or prior to the Close of Business on the earlier of the Expiration Date and the Final Expiration Date, any Right Certificate or Right Certificates may be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged for another Right Certificate or Right Certificates, entitling the registered holder to purchase a like number of shares of Preferred Stock (or other securities, cash, and/or assets, as the case may be) as the Right Certificate or Right Certificates surrendered then entitled such holder to purchase. Any registered holder desiring to transfer, split up, combine or exchange any Right Certificate shall make such request in writing delivered to the Rights Agent, and shall surrender the Right Certificate or Right Certificates to be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged, with the form of assignment and certificate appropriately executed, at the principal office of the Rights Agent in New York, New York. Neither the Rights Agent nor the Company shall be obligated to take any action whatsoever with respect to the transfer of any such surrendered Right Certificate or Right Certificates until the registered holder shall have completed and signed the certificate contained in the form of assignment on the reverse side of such Right Certificate or Right Certificates and shall have provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall reasonably request. Thereupon the Rights Agent shall countersign and deliver to the Person entitled thereto a Right Certificate or Right Certificates, as the case may be, as so requested. The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer, split up, combination or exchange of any Right Certificates.

(b) Upon receipt by the Company and the Rights Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to them of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of a Right Certificate, and, in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to them, and, if requested by the Company, reimbursement to the Company and the Rights Agent of all reasonable expenses incidental thereto, and upon surrender to the Rights Agent and cancellation

 

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of the Right Certificate if mutilated, the Company will execute and deliver a new Right Certificate of like tenor to the Rights Agent for counter-signature and delivery to the registered owner in lieu of the Right Certificate so lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated.

Section 7. Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights. (a) Subject to Section 7(e) hereof, the registered holder of any Right Certificate may exercise the Rights evidenced thereby (except as otherwise provided herein) in whole or in part at any time after the Distribution Date upon surrender of the Right Certificate, with the form of election to purchase and certificate on the reverse side thereof duly executed, to the Rights Agent at the principal office of the Rights Agent in New York, New York, together with payment of the Purchase Price for each one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock as to which the Rights are exercised, at or prior to the earliest of (i) the Close of Business on July 16, 2017 (the “Final Expiration Date”), (ii) the time at which the Rights are redeemed as provided in Section 23, (iii) the time at which the Rights are exchanged as provided in Section 23A, or (iv) the time at which the Rights expire pursuant to Section 13(d) (such earliest time being herein referred to as the “Expiration Date”).

(b) The Purchase Price for each one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of a Right shall initially be $250, shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in Sections 11 and 13 hereof and shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America in accordance with paragraph (c) below.

(c) Upon receipt of a Right Certificate representing exercisable Rights, with the form of election to purchase and certificate duly executed, accompanied by payment (by certified check or bank draft payable to the order of the Company) of the Purchase Price for the Preferred Stock (or other shares, securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) to be purchased and an amount equal to any applicable transfer tax required to be paid by the holder of the Rights pursuant hereto in cash, or by certified check or bank draft payable to the order of the Company, the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 20(k) hereof, thereupon promptly (i) (A) requisition from any transfer agent of the Preferred Stock (or make available, if the Rights Agent is the transfer agent) certificates for the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock to be purchased (and the Company hereby irrevocably authorizes its transfer agent to comply with all such requests), or (B) if the Company shall have elected to deposit the total number of shares of Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights hereunder with a depositary agent, requisition from the depositary agent depositary receipts representing such number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock as are to be purchased (in which case certificates for the shares of Preferred Stock represented by such receipts shall be deposited by the transfer agent with the depositary agent) and the Company hereby directs the depositary agent to comply with such request, (ii) when appropriate, requisition from the Company the amount of cash to be paid in lieu of issuance of fractional shares in accordance with Section 14, (iii) after receipt of such certificates or depositary receipts, cause the same to be delivered to or upon the order of the registered holder of such Right Certificate, registered in such name or names as may be designated by such holder, and (iv) when appropriate, after receipt, promptly deliver such cash to or upon the order of the registered holder of such Right Certificate. In the event that the Company is obligated to issue other securities of the Company, pay cash and/or distribute other property pursuant to Section 11(a) hereof, the Company will make all

 

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arrangements necessary so that such other securities, cash and/or other property are available for distribution by the Rights Agent, if and when appropriate.

(d) In case the registered holder of any Right Certificate shall exercise less than all the Rights evidenced thereby, a new Right Certificate evidencing Rights equivalent to the Rights remaining unexercised shall be issued by the Rights Agent and delivered to the registered holder of such Right Certificate or to his duly authorized assigns, subject to the provisions of Section 14 hereof.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, from and after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, any Rights beneficially owned by (i) an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person, (ii) a transferee of any such Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after such Acquiring Person becomes such, or (iii) a transferee of any such Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee prior to or concurrently with such Acquiring Person becoming such and receives such Rights pursuant to either (A) a transfer (whether or not for consideration) from such Acquiring Person to holders of equity interests in such Acquiring Person or to any Person with whom such Acquiring Person has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the transferred Rights or (B) a transfer which the Board of Directors of the Company has determined is part of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has as a primary purpose or effect the avoidance of this Section 7(e), shall become null and void without any further action and no holder of such Rights shall have any rights whatsoever with respect to such Rights, whether under any provision of this Agreement or otherwise. The Company shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that the provisions of this Section 7(e) and Section 4(b) hereof are complied with but shall have no liability to any holder of Right Certificates or any other Person as a result of its failure to make any determination with respect to an Acquiring Person or any of its respective Affiliates, Associates or transferees hereunder.

(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Rights Agent nor the Company shall be obligated to undertake any action with respect to a registered holder of any Right Certificate upon the occurrence of any purported transfer or exercise as set forth in this Section 7 unless such registered holder shall have (i) completed and signed the certificate following the form of assignment or election to purchase set forth on the reverse side of the Right Certificate surrendered for such assignment or exercise, and (ii) provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall reasonably request.

Section 8. Cancellation and Destruction of Right Certificates. All Right Certificates surrendered for the purpose of exercise, transfer, split up, combination or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or to any of its agents, be delivered to the Rights Agent for cancellation or in cancelled form, or, if surrendered to the Rights Agent, shall be cancelled by it, and no Right Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Rights Agreement. The Company shall deliver to the Rights Agent for cancellation and retirement, and the Rights Agent shall so cancel and retire, any other Right Certificate purchased or acquired by the Company otherwise than upon the exercise thereof. The Rights Agent shall deliver all cancelled Right Certificates to the Company, or shall, at the written

 

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request of the Company, destroy such cancelled Right Certificates, and in such case shall deliver a certificate of destruction thereof to the Company.

Section 9. Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock. (a) The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Preferred Stock or any authorized and issued shares of Preferred Stock held in its treasury (and will use its best efforts, following the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, to cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock and/or other securities or out of its authorized and issued shares of Common Stock and/or other securities held in its treasury), the number of shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) that will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Rights.

(b) So long as the shares of Preferred Stock and Common Stock and/or other securities issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights may be listed on any national securities exchange, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause, from and after such time as the Rights become exercisable, all shares reserved for such issuance to be listed on such exchange upon official notice of issuance upon such exercise.

(c) The Company shall use its best efforts to (i) file, as soon as practicable following the earliest date after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event on which the consideration to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of the Rights has been determined in accordance with Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, or as soon as is required by law following the Distribution Date, as the case may be, a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), with respect to the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights on an appropriate form, (ii) cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing, and (iii) cause such registration statement to remain effective (with a prospectus at all times meeting the requirements of the Act) until the earlier of (A) the date as of which the Rights are no longer exercisable for such securities, and (B) the date of the expiration of the Rights. The Company will also take such action as may be appropriate under, or to ensure compliance with, the securities or “blue sky” laws of the various states in connection with the exercisability of the Rights. The Company may, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, temporarily suspend, for a period of time not to exceed ninety (90) days after the date set forth in clause (i) of the first sentence of this Section 9(b), the exercisability of the Rights in order to prepare and file such registration statement and permit it to become effective. Upon any such suspension, the Company shall issue a public announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily suspended, as well as a public announcement at such time as the suspension is no longer in effect. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall not be exercisable in any jurisdiction unless the requisite qualification in such jurisdiction shall have been obtained.

(d) The Company covenants and agrees that it will take all such action as may be necessary to ensure that all one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) delivered upon exercise of Rights shall, at the time of delivery of the certificates for such shares (subject to payment of the Purchase Price), be duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and nonassessable shares.

 

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(e) The Company further covenants and agrees that it will pay when due and payable any and all federal and state transfer taxes and charges which may be payable in respect of the issuance or delivery of the Right Certificates or of any shares of Preferred Stock (or shares of Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) upon the exercise of Rights. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any transfer tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer or delivery of Right Certificates to a person other than, or the issuance or delivery of certificates or depositary receipts or entries in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for a number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock (or shares of Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be), in a name other than that of, the registered holder of the Right Certificate evidencing Rights surrendered for exercise or to issue or deliver any certificates for shares of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) or depositary receipts or entries in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for Preferred Stock upon the exercise of any Rights until any such tax shall have been paid (any such tax being payable by the holder of such Right Certificate at the time of surrender) or until it has been established to the Company’s satisfaction that no such tax is due.

Section 10. Preferred Stock Record Date. Each person in whose name any certificate or entry in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for a number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock (or shares of Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) is issued upon the exercise of Rights shall for all purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of shares of Preferred Stock (or shares of Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) represented thereby on, and such certificate or entry in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent shall be dated, the date upon which the Right Certificate evidencing such Rights was duly surrendered and payment of the Purchase Price (and any applicable transfer taxes) was made; provided, however, that if the date of such surrender and payment is a date upon which the Preferred Stock (or shares of Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) transfer books of the Company are closed, such person shall be deemed to have become the record holder of such shares (fractional and otherwise) on, and such certificate or entry in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent shall be dated, the next succeeding Business Day on which the Preferred Stock (or shares of Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) transfer books of the Company are open. Prior to the exercise of the Rights evidenced thereby, the holder of a Right Certificate, as such, shall not be entitled to any rights of a stockholder of the Company with respect to shares for which the Rights shall be exercisable, including, without limitation, the right to vote, to receive dividends or other distributions or to exercise any preemptive rights, and shall not be entitled to receive any notice of any meetings or other proceedings of the Company, except as provided herein.

Section 11. Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights. The Purchase Price, the number and kind of shares, or fractions thereof, covered by each Right and the number of Rights outstanding are subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in this Section 11.

(a) (i) In the event the Company shall at any time after the date of this Agreement (A) declare a dividend on the Preferred Stock payable in shares of Preferred Stock, (B) subdivide the outstanding Preferred Stock into a greater number of shares, (C) combine or consolidate the outstanding Preferred Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (D) issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the Preferred Stock (including any such

 

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reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), except as otherwise provided in Section 7(e) and this Section 11(a), the Purchase Price in effect at the time of the record date for such dividend or of the effective date of such subdivision, combination or reclassification, and the number and kind of shares of Preferred Stock or capital stock, as the case may be, issuable on such date, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the holder of any Right exercised after such time shall be entitled to receive, upon payment of the Purchase Price then in effect, the aggregate number and kind of shares of Preferred Stock or capital stock, as the case may be, which, if such Right had been exercised immediately prior to such date and at a time when the Preferred Stock transfer books of the Company were open, he would have owned upon such exercise and been entitled to receive by virtue of such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification.

If an event occurs which would require an adjustment under both Section 11(a)(i) and Section 11(a)(ii), the adjustment provided for in this Section 11(a)(i) shall be in addition to, and shall be made prior to, any adjustment required pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii).

(ii) In the event (a “Section 11(a)(ii) Event”) that any Person, alone or together with its Affiliates and Associates, shall become an Acquiring Person, unless the event causing such Person to become an Acquiring Person is a Section 13 Event or is an acquisition of Common Stock of the Company pursuant to a tender or exchange offer for all outstanding Common Stock of the Company at a price and on terms determined by at least a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company who are not Acquiring Persons or representatives, nominees, Affiliates or Associates of an Acquiring Person (the “Outside Directors”), after receiving advice from one or more investment banking firms, to be (A) at a price which is fair to stockholders (taking into account all factors which such Outside Directors deem relevant, including, without limitation, prices which could reasonably be achieved if the Company or its assets were to be sold on an orderly basis designed to realize maximum value) and (B) otherwise in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders, then proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right (except as provided below and in Section 7(e) hereof), shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise thereof following the Distribution Date at the then current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in lieu of a number of one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock, such number of shares of Common Stock of the Company as shall equal the result obtained by (x) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the then number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event, whether or not such Right was then exercisable, and (y) dividing that product (which, following such first occurrence, shall thereafter be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and for all purposes of this Agreement) by 50% of the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock of the Company (determined pursuant to Section 11(d)) on the date of the occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event (such number of shares being hereinafter referred to as the “Adjustment Shares”). The Company shall notify the Rights Agent as to any Persons who are deemed by the Company to be Acquiring Persons or Associates, Affiliates or transferees (as described in

 

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subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of Section 7(e)) of such Persons and shall identify any Rights pertaining thereto.

(iii) In lieu of issuing shares of Common Stock of the Company in accordance with Section 11(a)(ii) hereof, the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, may (and, in the event that the number of shares of Common Stock which are authorized by the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation but not outstanding or reserved for issuance for purposes other than upon exercise of the Rights are not sufficient to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with Section 11(a)(ii), the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, shall) : (A) determine the excess of (1) the value of the Adjustment Shares issuable upon the exercise of a Right (the “Current Value”), over (2) the Purchase Price attributable to each Right (such excess, the “Spread”) and (B) with respect to each Right (subject to Section 7(e)), make adequate provision to substitute for the Adjustment Shares, upon payment of the applicable Purchase Price, (1) cash, (2) a reduction in the Purchase Price, (3) Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company (including, without limitation, shares, or units of shares, of preferred stock which the Board of Directors of the Company has deemed to have the same value as shares of Common Stock of the Company (such shares or units of preferred stock hereinafter called “Common Stock Equivalents”)), (4) debt securities of the Company, (5) other assets, or (6) any combination of the foregoing having an aggregate value equal to the Current Value, where such aggregate value has been determined by action of the Board of Directors of the Company based upon the advice of a nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by the Board of Directors of the Company which has theretofore performed no services for the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the past five years; provided, however, if the Company shall not have made adequate provision to deliver value pursuant to clause (B) above within thirty (30) days following the later of (x) the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event and (y) the first date that the right to redeem the Rights pursuant to Section 23 hereof, as such date may be amended pursuant to Section 26 hereof, shall expire (the later of (x) and (y) being referred to herein as the “Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date”), then the Company shall be obligated to deliver, upon the surrender for exercise of a Right and without requiring payment of the Purchase Price, shares of Common Stock of the Company (to the extent available) and then, if necessary, cash, securities and/or assets, that in the aggregate have a value equal to the Spread. If, after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, the number of shares of Common Stock that are authorized by the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation but not outstanding or reserved for issuance for purposes other than upon exercise of the Rights are not sufficient to permit exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with Section 11(a)(ii) hereof and the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, shall determine in good faith that it is likely that sufficient additional shares of Common Stock could be authorized for issuance upon exercise in full of the Rights, the thirty (30) day period set forth above may be extended to the extent necessary, but not more than ninety (90) days after the Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date, in order that the Company may seek stockholder approval for the authorization of such additional shares (such period

 

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as it may be extended, the “Substitution Period”). To the extent that the Company determines that some action is to be taken pursuant to the terms of this Section 11(a)(iii), the Company (x) shall provide, subject to Section 7(e), that such action shall apply uniformly to all outstanding Rights, and (y) may suspend the exercisability of the Rights until the expiration of the Substitution Period in order to seek such stockholder approval for the authorization of additional shares and/or to decide the appropriate form of distribution to be made pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 11(a)(iii) and to determine the value thereof. In the event of any such suspension, the Company shall issue a public announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily suspended, as well as a public announcement at such time as the suspension is no longer in effect. For purposes of this Section 11(a)(iii), the value of the Common Stock shall be the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d)) on the date of the first occurrence of the Section 11(a)(ii) Event, and the per share or per unit value of any Common Stock Equivalents shall be deemed to equal the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock of the Company on such date.

(b) In the event that the Company shall fix a record date for the issuance of rights, options or warrants to all holders of shares of Preferred Stock entitling them (for a period expiring within 45 calendar days after such record date) to subscribe for or purchase Preferred Stock (or shares having the same rights, privileges and preferences as the shares of Preferred Stock (“Equivalent Preference Stock”)) or securities convertible into shares of Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preference Stock at a price per share of Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preference Stock (or having a conversion price per share, if a security convertible into shares of Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preference Stock) less than the Current Market Price per share of the Preferred Stock (as defined in Section 11(d)) on such record date, the Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Preferred Stock outstanding on such record date plus the number of additional shares of Preferred Stock and/or Equivalent Preference Stock which the aggregate offering price of the total number of such shares so to be offered (and/or the aggregate initial conversion price of the convertible securities so to be offered) would purchase at such Current Market Price, and the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Preferred Stock outstanding on such record date plus the number of additional shares of Preferred Stock and/or Equivalent Preference Stock to be offered for subscription or purchase (or into which the convertible securities so to be offered are initially convertible). In case such subscription price may be paid in a consideration part or all of which shall be in a form other than cash, the value of such consideration shall be as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent. Preferred Stock owned by or held for the account of the Company shall not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any such computation. Such adjustment shall be made successively whenever such a record date is fixed; and in the event that such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Purchase Price shall be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed.

 

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(c) In case the Company shall fix a record date for the making of a distribution to all holders of Preferred Stock (including any such distribution made in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation) of evidences of indebtedness or assets (other than a regular periodic cash dividend at a rate not in excess of 125% of the rate of the last regular periodic cash dividend theretofore paid or a dividend payable in Preferred Stock) or subscription rights or warrants (excluding those referred to in Section 11(b)), the Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock (as defined in Section 11(d)) on such record date, less the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent) of the portion of the assets or evidences of indebtedness so to be distributed or of such subscription rights or warrants applicable to one share of Preferred Stock, and the denominator of which shall be such Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock. Such adjustments shall be made successively whenever such a record date is fixed, and in the event that such distribution is not so made, the Purchase Price shall again be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed.

(d) (i) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “Current Market Price” per share of Common Stock on any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing prices per share of such Common Stock for the 30 consecutive Trading Days (as such term is hereinafter defined) immediately prior to such date; provided, however, that in the event that the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock is determined during a period following the announcement by the issuer of such Common Stock of (a) a dividend or distribution on such Common Stock payable in shares of such Common Stock or securities convertible into such Common Stock or (b) any subdivision, combination or reclassification of such Common Stock, and prior to the expiration of 30 Trading Days after the ex-dividend date for such dividend or distribution, or the record date for such subdivision, combination or reclassification, as the case may be, then, and in each such case, the “Current Market Price” shall be appropriately adjusted to take into account the ex-dividend trading. The closing price for each day shall be the last sale price, regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the shares of Common Stock are not listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are listed or admitted to trading or, if the shares of Common Stock are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the over-the-counter market, as reported by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) or such other system then in use, or, if on any such date the shares of Common Stock are not quoted by any such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in shares of Common Stock selected by the Company, acting by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company. If on any such date no market maker is making a market in shares of Common Stock, the fair value of such shares on such date as determined in good faith by the Company, acting by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall be used. The term “Trading Day” shall mean a day on which the principal

 

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national securities exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are listed or admitted to trading is open for the transaction of business or, if the shares of Common Stock are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange but are quoted on NYSE, a day on which NYSE is in operation or if the shares of Common Stock are neither listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange nor quoted on NYSE, a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday on which banking institutions in the State of New York are not authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. If the current per share market price of the Common Stock cannot be determined in the manner provided above, or if the Common Stock is not publicly held or not so listed or traded, “Current Market Price” per share of Common Stock shall mean the fair value per share as determined in good faith by the Company, acting by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes.

(ii) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “Current Market Price” per share of Preferred Stock shall be determined in the same manner as set forth for the Common Stock in Section 11(d)(i) hereof (other than the last sentence thereof). If the Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock cannot be determined in the manner provided above or if the Preferred Stock is not publicly held or listed or traded in a manner described in Section 11(d)(i) hereof, the “Current Market Price” per share of Preferred Stock shall be conclusively deemed to be an amount equal to 100 (as such number may be appropriately adjusted for such events as stock splits, stock dividends and recapitalizations with respect to the Common Stock occurring after the date of this Agreement) multiplied by the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock. If neither the Common Stock nor the Preferred Stock is publicly held or so listed or traded, the “Current Market Price” per share of Preferred Stock shall mean the fair value per share as determined in good faith by the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes. For all purposes of this Agreement, the “Current Market Price” of one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock shall be equal to the “Current Market Price” of one share of Preferred Stock divided by 100.

(e) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no adjustment in the Purchase Price shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in such price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this Section 11(e) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Section 11 shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest ten-thousandth of a share of Common Stock or other share or the nearest one-millionth of a share of Preferred Stock, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the first sentence of this Section 11(e), any adjustment required by this Section 11 shall be made no later than the earlier of (i) three years from the date of the transaction which requires such adjustment or (ii) the date of the expiration of the right to exercise any Rights.

(f) If as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to Section 11(a) or Section 13(a), the holder of any Right thereafter exercised shall become entitled to receive any shares of capital stock of the Company other than Preferred Stock, thereafter the Purchase Price

 

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and the number of such other shares so receivable upon exercise of any Right and the number of Rights outstanding shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to the Preferred Stock contained in Sections 11(a), (b), (c), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (m) and the provisions of Sections 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14 with respect to the Preferred Stock shall apply on like terms to any such other shares.

(g) All Rights originally issued by the Company subsequent to any adjustment made to the Purchase Price hereunder shall evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock purchasable from time to time hereunder upon exercise of the Rights, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein.

(h) Unless the Company shall have exercised its election as provided in Section 11(i), upon each adjustment of the Purchase Price as a result of the calculations made in Section 11(b) and (c), each Right outstanding immediately prior to the making of such adjustment shall thereafter evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, that number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock (calculated to the nearest one-millionth of a share of Preferred Stock) obtained by (i) multiplying (A) the number of one one-hundredths of a share covered by a Right immediately prior to such adjustment of the Purchase Price by (B) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment of the Purchase Price and (ii) dividing the product so obtained by the Purchase Price in effect immediately after such adjustment of the Purchase Price.

(i) The Company may elect on or after the date of any adjustment of the Purchase Price to adjust the number of Rights, in substitution for any adjustment in the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock purchasable upon the exercise of a Right. Each of the Rights outstanding after such adjustment of the number of Rights shall be exercisable for the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to such adjustment. Each Right held of record prior to such adjustment of the number of Rights shall become that number of Rights (calculated to the nearest ten-thousandth) obtained by dividing the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to adjustment of the Purchase Price by the Purchase Price in effect immediately after adjustment of the Purchase Price. The Company shall make a public announcement of its election to adjust the number of Rights, indicating the record date for the adjustment, and, if known at the time, the amount of the adjustment to be made. This record date may be the date on which the Purchase Price is adjusted or any day thereafter, but, if the Right Certificates have been issued, shall be at least 10 days later than the date of the public announcement. If Right Certificates have been issued, upon each adjustment of the number of Rights pursuant to this Section 11(i), the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, cause to be distributed to holders of record of Right Certificates on such record date Right Certificates evidencing, subject to Section 14 hereof, the additional Rights to which such holders shall be entitled as a result of such adjustment, or, at the option of the Company, shall cause to be distributed to such holders of record in substitution and replacement for the Right Certificates held by such holders prior to the date of adjustment, and upon surrender thereof, if required by the Company, new Right Certificates evidencing all the Rights to which such holders shall be entitled after such adjustment. Right Certificates so to be distributed shall be issued, executed and countersigned in the manner provided for herein (and may bear, at the option of the Company, the adjusted Purchase Price) and shall be registered in

 

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the names of the holders of record of Right Certificates on the record date specified in the public announcement.

(j) Irrespective of any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price or the number of shares of Preferred Stock, or fraction thereof, issuable upon the exercise of the Rights, the Right Certificates theretofore and thereafter issued may continue to express the Purchase Price per one one-hundredth of a share and the number of shares which were expressed in the initial Right Certificates issued hereunder.

(k) Before taking any action that would cause an adjustment reducing the Purchase Price below the then par value, if any, of the one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights, the Company shall take any corporate action which may, in the opinion of counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable shares of Preferred Stock at such adjusted Purchase Price.

(l) In any case in which this Section 11 shall require that an adjustment in the Purchase Price be made effective as of a record date for a specified event, the Company may elect to defer until the occurrence of such event the issuing to the holder of any Right exercised after such record date the Preferred Stock, or a fraction thereof, and other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the Preferred Stock and other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise on the basis of the Purchase Price in effect prior to such adjustment; provided, however, that the Company shall deliver to such holder a due bill or other appropriate instrument evidencing such holder’s right to receive such additional shares (fractional or otherwise) or securities upon the occurrence of the event requiring such adjustment.

(m) Anything in this Section 11 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, shall be entitled to make such reductions in the Purchase Price, in addition to those adjustments expressly required by this Section 11, as and to the extent that it in its sole discretion shall determine to be advisable in order that any consolidation or subdivision of the Preferred Stock, any issuance wholly for cash of any Preferred Stock at less than the current market price, any issuance wholly for cash of Preferred Stock or securities which by their terms are convertible into or exchangeable for Preferred Stock, any stock dividends or any issuance of rights, options or warrants referred to herein above in this Section 11, hereafter made by the Company to holders of its Preferred Stock shall not be taxable to such shareholders.

(n) The Company covenants and agrees that it shall not, at any time after the Distribution Date, (i) consolidate with any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction that complies with Section 11(o) hereof), (ii) merge with or into any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction that complies with Section 11(o) hereof), or (iii) sell or transfer (or permit any Subsidiary to sell or transfer), in one transaction or in a series of related transactions, assets, cash flow or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets, cash flow or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other Person or Persons (other than the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), if (x)

 

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at the time of or immediately after such consolidation, merger or sale there are any rights, warrants or other instruments or securities outstanding or agreements in effect that would substantially diminish or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights or (y) prior to, simultaneously with or immediately after such consolidation, merger or sale, the stockholders of the Person who constitutes, or would constitute, the “Principal Party” for purposes of Section 13(a) shall have received a distribution of Rights previously owned by such Person or any of its Affiliates and Associates.

(o) The Company covenants and agrees that, after the Distribution Date, it will not, except as permitted by Section 23, Section 23A or Section 26 hereof, take (or permit any Subsidiary to take) any action if at the time such action is taken it is reasonably foreseeable that such action will diminish substantially or eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights.

(p) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event the Company shall at any time after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Distribution Date (i) declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock of the Company payable in such Common Stock or (ii) subdivide the outstanding Common Stock of the Company into a greater number of shares (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of dividends in such Common Stock) or (iii) combine or consolidate the outstanding Common Stock of the Company into a smaller number of shares, then in any such case, (x) the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock purchasable after such event upon proper exercise of each Right shall be determined by multiplying the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock so purchasable immediately prior to such event by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company outstanding immediately before such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of such Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and (y) action shall be taken such that each share of Common Stock of the Company outstanding immediately after such event shall have issued with respect to it that number of Rights which each share of such Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such event had issued with respect to it. The adjustments provided for in this Section 11(p) shall be made successively whenever such a dividend is declared or paid or such a subdivision, combination or consolidation is effected. If an event occurs which would require an adjustment under Section 11(a)(ii) and this Section 11(p), the adjustments provided for in this Section 11(p) shall be in addition and prior to any adjustment required pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii).

 

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Section 12. Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares. Whenever an adjustment is made as provided in Sections 11 and 13, the Company shall (a) promptly prepare a certificate setting forth such adjustment, and a brief statement of the facts accounting for such adjustment, (b) promptly file with the Rights Agent and with each transfer agent for the Common Stock and Preferred Stock a copy of such certificate and (c) mail a brief summary thereof to each holder of a Right Certificate (or if prior to the Distribution Date, to each holder of shares of Common Stock) in accordance with Section 25 of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the failure of the Company to make such certificates or give such notice shall not affect the validity or the force or effect of the requirement for such adjustment. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying on any such certificate and on any adjustment therein contained. Any adjustment to be made pursuant to Sections 11 and 13 shall be effective as of the date of the event giving rise to such adjustment.

Section 13. Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power. (a) In the event (a “Section 13 Event”) that, following the Stock Acquisition Time, directly or indirectly, (x) the Company shall consolidate with, or merge with and into, any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o)) and the Company shall not be the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger, consolidation or combination, (y) any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o)) shall consolidate with the Company, or merge with and into the Company, and the Company shall be the surviving or continuing corporation of such merger or consolidation and, in connection therewith, all or part of the Common Stock shall be changed into or exchanged for stock or other securities of any Person or cash or any other property, or (z) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer), in one or more transactions, assets, cash flow or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets, cash flow or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole and calculated on the basis of the Company’s most recent regularly prepared financial statement) to any other Person or Persons (other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o)), then, and in each such case (except as provided in Section 13(d)), proper provision shall be made so that (i) each holder of a Right (except as otherwise provided in Section 7(e)) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such number of validly authorized and issued, fully paid, nonassessable and freely tradable shares of Common Stock of the Principal Party (as hereinafter defined), not subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of call, rights of first refusal or other adverse claims, as shall be equal to the result obtained by (A) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event (or, if a Section 11(a)(ii) Event has occurred prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, multiplying the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event by the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such first occurrence), and dividing that product (which, following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, shall be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and for all purposes of this Agreement) by (B) 50% of the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock of such Principal Party (determined pursuant to Section 11(d)) on the date of consummation of such merger, consolidation, sale or transfer; (ii) such Principal Party shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such Section 13

 

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Event, all the obligations and duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) the term “Company” shall thereafter be deemed to refer to such Principal Party, it being specifically intended that the provisions of Section 11 shall apply only to such Principal Party following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event; (iv) such Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of shares of its Common Stock in accordance with Section 9 hereof) in connection with such consummation as may be necessary to assure that the provisions hereof shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be possible, in relation to its Common Stock thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights; and (v) the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii) hereof shall be of no effect following the first occurrence of any Section 13 Event. The Company shall not consummate any such merger, consolidation, sale or transfer unless prior thereto the Company and such issuer shall have executed and delivered to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement containing the provisions required by this Section 13.

(b) “Principal Party” shall mean

(i) in the case of any transaction described in clause (x) or (y) of the first sentence of Section 13(a) hereof, the Person that is the issuer of any securities into which shares of Common Stock of the Company are converted in such merger or consolidation, and if no securities are so issued, the Person that is the other party to such merger or consolidation; and

(ii) in the case of any transaction described in clause (z) of the first sentence of Section 13(a), the Person that is the party receiving the greatest portion of the assets, cash flow or earning power transferred pursuant to such transaction or transactions;

provided, however, that in any such case, (1) if the Common Stock of such Person is not at any time and has not been continuously over the preceding twelve month period registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and such Person is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of another Person the Common Stock of which is and has been so registered, “Principal Party” shall refer to such other Person; and (2) in case such Person is a Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, of more than one Person, the Common Stock of two or more of which are and have been so registered, “Principal Party” shall refer to whichever of such Persons is the issuer of the Common Stock having the greatest aggregate market value.

(c) The Company shall not consummate any Section 13 Event unless the Principal Party shall have a sufficient number of shares of authorized Common Stock which have not been issued or reserved for issuance to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with this Section 13 and unless prior thereto the Company and such issuer shall have executed and delivered to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement containing the provisions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 13 and further providing that, as soon as practicable after the date of any such Section 13 Event, the Principal Party will:

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registration statement to (A) become effective as soon as practicable after such filing and (B) remain effective (with a prospectus at all times meeting the requirements of the Act) until the Expiration Date;

(ii) take all such other action as may be necessary to enable the Principal Party to issue the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights, including but not limited to the registration or qualification of such securities under all requisite securities laws of jurisdictions of the various states and the listing of such securities on such exchanges and trading markets as may be necessary or appropriate; and

(iii) deliver to holders of the Rights historical financial statements for the Principal Party and each of its Affiliates which comply in all respects with the requirements for registration on Form 10 under the Exchange Act.

The provisions of this Section 13 shall similarly apply to successive mergers or consolidations or sales or other transfers. In the event that a Section 13 Event shall occur at any time after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, the Rights which have not theretofore been exercised shall thereafter become exercisable in the manner described in Section 13(a).

(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, this Section 13 shall not be applicable to a transaction described in subparagraphs (x) and (y) of Section 13(a) if (i) such transaction is consummated with a Person or Persons who acquired Common Stock of the Company pursuant to a tender offer or exchange offer for all outstanding Common Stock of the Company which complies with the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii)(A) and (B) (or a wholly owned Subsidiary of any such Person or Persons), (ii) the price per share of Common Stock of the Company offered in such transaction is not less than the price per share of Common Stock of the Company paid to all holders of Common Stock of the Company whose shares were purchased pursuant to such tender offer or exchange offer and (iii) the form of consideration being offered to the remaining holders of Common Stock of the Company pursuant to such transaction is the same as the form of consideration paid pursuant to such tender offer or exchange offer. Upon consummation of any such transaction contemplated by this Section 13(d), all Rights hereunder shall expire.

(e) The Company covenants and agrees that it will not, after the Stock Acquisition Time, engage in any Section 13 Event if at the time of or after such event there are any charter or by-law provisions or any rights, warrants or other instruments outstanding or any other action taken which would diminish or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights.

Section 14. Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares. (a) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Rights or to distribute Right Certificates which evidence fractional Rights. In lieu of such fractional Rights, there shall be paid to the registered holders of the Right Certificates with regard to which such fractions of Rights would otherwise be issuable, an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of a whole Right. For the purposes of this Section 14(a), the current market value of a whole Right shall be the closing

 

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price of the Rights for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date on which such fractional Rights would have been otherwise issuable. The closing price of the Rights for any day shall be the last sale price, regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Rights are not listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange on which the Rights are listed or admitted to trading or, if the Rights are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the over-the-counter market, as reported by NYSE or such other system then in use or, if on any such date the Rights are not quoted by any such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in the Rights (selected by the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors). If on any such date no such market maker is making a market in the Rights, the fair value of the Rights on such date as determined in good faith by the Company, acting by resolution of its Board of Directors, shall be used.

(b) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of shares of Preferred Stock (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock) upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute certificates or make any entries in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent which evidence fractional shares (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock). Fractions of Preferred Stock in integral multiples of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock may, at the election of the Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts, pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the Company and a depositary selected by it, provided that such agreement shall provide that the holders of depositary receipts shall have all the rights, privileges and preferences to which they are entitled as beneficial owners of the Preferred Stock. In lieu of fractional shares which are not integral multiples of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock, the Company may pay to the registered holders of Right Certificates at the time such Right Certificates are exercised as herein provided an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of one share of Preferred Stock. For purposes of this Section 14(b), the current market value of a share of Preferred Stock shall be the closing price of a share of Preferred Stock (as determined pursuant to the second sentence of Section 11(d)(ii)) for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of such exercise.

(c) Following the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event or a Section 13 Event, the Company shall not be required to issue fractions of shares of its Common Stock upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute certificates or make any entries in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent which evidence fractional shares of its Common Stock. In lieu of fractional shares of its Common Stock, the Company may pay to the registered holders of Right Certificates at the time such Rights are exercised as herein provided an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of one share of its Common Stock. For purposes of this Section 14(c), the current market value of one share of Common Stock of the Company shall be the closing price of one share of Common Stock of the Company (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d)(i)) for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of such exercise.

 

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(d) The holder of a Right by the acceptance of the Rights expressly waives his right to receive any fractional Rights or any fractional shares upon exercise of a Right except as permitted by this Section 14.

Section 15. Rights of Action. All rights of action in respect of this Agreement, except the rights of action vested in the Rights Agent pursuant to Section 18, are vested in the respective registered holders of the Right Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, the registered holders of Common Stock); and any registered holder of any Right Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, of Common Stock), without the consent of the Rights Agent or of any holder of any other Right Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, of Common Stock), may, in his own behalf and for his own benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding against the Company to enforce, or otherwise act in respect of, his right to exercise the Rights evidenced by such Right Certificate in the manner provided in such Right Certificate and in this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing or any remedies available to the holders of Rights, it is specifically acknowledged that the holders of Rights would not have an adequate remedy at law for any breach of this Agreement and will be entitled to specific performance of the obligations hereunder, and injunctive relief against actual or threatened violations of the obligations of any Person subject to this Agreement.

Section 16. Agreement of Right Holders. Every holder of a Right by accepting such Right consents and agrees with the Company and with every other holder of a Right that:

(a) prior to the Distribution Date, the Rights shall be evidenced by the balances indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of the Common Stock (which shares of Common Stock shall also be deemed to represent certificates for Rights) or, in the case of certificated shares, the certificates for the Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of the Common Stock (which certificates for shares of Common Stock shall also constitute certificates for Rights) and each Right will be transferable only in connection with the transfer of Common Stock;

(b) after the Distribution Date, the Right Certificates are transferable only on the registry books of the Rights Agent if surrendered at the principal office of the Rights Agent, duly endorsed or accompanied by a proper instrument of transfer and with the appropriate forms and certificates duly completed and fully executed;

(c) subject to sections 6(a) and 7(f) hereof, the Company and the Rights Agent may deem and treat the Person in whose name the Right Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, the associated balance indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, the associated Common Stock certificate) is registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the Rights evidenced thereby (notwithstanding any notations of ownership or writing on the Right Certificates or the associated balance indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, the associated Common Stock certificate, made by anyone other than the Company or the Rights Agent) for all purposes whatsoever, and neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary; and

 

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(d) notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall have any liability to any holder of a Right or other Person as a result of its inability to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of any preliminary or permanent injunction or other order, decree or ruling issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or by a governmental, regulatory or administrative agency or commission, or any statute, rule, regulation or executive order promulgated or enacted by any governmental authority, prohibiting or otherwise restraining performance of such obligation; provided, however, the Company must use its best efforts to have any such order, decree or ruling lifted or otherwise overturned as soon as possible.

Section 17. Right Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Stockholder. No holder, as such, of any Right or Right Certificate shall be entitled to vote, receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock or any other securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable on the exercise of the Rights represented thereby, nor shall anything contained herein or in any Right Certificate be construed to confer upon the holder of any Right or Right Certificate, as such, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting stockholders (except as provided in Section 24), or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by such Right Certificate shall have been exercised in accordance with the provisions hereof.

Section 18. Concerning the Rights Agent. (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Rights Agent reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder and, from time to time, on demand of the Rights Agent, its reasonable expenses and counsel fees and other disbursements incurred in the administration and execution of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties hereunder. The Company also agrees to indemnify the Rights Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense, incurred without negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct on the part of the Rights Agent, for anything done or omitted by the Rights Agent in connection with the acceptance and administration of this Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending against any claim of liability in the premises.

(b) The Rights Agent shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in connection with its administration of this Agreement in reliance upon any Right Certificate or certificate for Preferred Stock or Common Stock or any balance indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent, or for other securities of the Company, instrument of assignment or transfer, power of attorney, endorsement, affidavit, letter, notice, direction, consent, certificate, statement, or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to be signed, executed and, where necessary, verified or acknowledged, by the proper Person or Persons.

 

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Section 19. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent. (a) Any corporation into which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may be merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust or stock transfer business of the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent, shall be the successor to the Rights Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided, however, that such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a successor Rights Agent under the provisions of Section 21. The purchase of all or substantially all of the Rights Agent’s assets employed in the performance of transfer agent activities shall be deemed a merger or consolidation for purposes of this Section 19. In case at the time such successor Rights Agent shall succeed to the agency created by this Agreement, any of the Right Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, any such successor Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature of the predecessor Rights Agent and deliver such Right Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Right Certificates shall not have been countersigned, any successor Rights Agent may countersign such Right Certificates either in the name of the predecessor Rights Agent or in the name of the successor Rights Agent; and in all such cases such Right Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Right Certificates and in this Agreement.

(b) In case at any time the name of the Rights Agent shall be changed and at such time any of the Right Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, the Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name and deliver Right Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Right Certificates shall not have been countersigned, the Rights Agent may countersign such Right Certificates either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all such cases such Right Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Right Certificates and in this Agreement.

Section 20. Duties of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent undertakes the duties and obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the following terms and conditions, by all of which the Company and the holders of Right Certificates, by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound:

(a) The Rights Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be legal counsel for the Rights Agent or the Company), and the opinion of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection to the Rights Agent as to any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and in accordance with such opinion.

(b) Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the Rights Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter (including, without limitation, the identity of an Acquiring Person and the determination of the Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock and Common Stock) be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer,

 

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any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary or Acting Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Rights Agent; and such certificate shall be full authorization to the Rights Agent for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it under the provisions of this Agreement in reliance upon such certificate.

(c) The Rights Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct; provided, however, that in no event shall the Rights Agent be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damages of any kind whatsoever.

(d) The Rights Agent shall not be liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Agreement or in the Right Certificates (except as to its countersignature thereof) or be required to verify the same, but all such statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only.

(e) The Rights Agent shall not be under any responsibility in respect of the validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof (except the due execution hereof by the Rights Agent) or in respect of the validity or execution of any Right Certificate (except its countersignature thereof); nor shall it be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Right Certificate; nor shall it be responsible for any adjustment required under the provisions of Sections 11 or 13 or responsible for the manner, method or amount of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment (except with respect to the exercise of Rights evidenced by Right Certificates after actual notice of any such adjustment), nor shall it be responsible for any determination by the Board of Directors of the Company of the Current Market Price of the Rights or Preferred Stock or Common Stock, nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock or other securities to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Right Certificate or as to whether any shares of Preferred Stock or Common Stock or other securities will, when issued, be validly authorized and issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

(f) The Company agrees that it will perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Rights Agent for the carrying out or performing by the Rights Agent of the provisions of this Agreement.

(g) The Rights Agent is hereby authorized and directed to accept instructions with respect to the performance of its duties hereunder from the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Secretary, the Acting Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the Company, and to apply to such officers for advice or instructions in connection with its duties, and it shall not be liable for any action taken or suffered to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with instructions of any such officer.

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contract with or lend money to the Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not Rights Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Rights Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity, except it may not act for an Acquiring Person in an investment banking capacity, or otherwise assist an Acquiring Person in ways hostile to the Company, without the consent of the Company.

(i) The Rights Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights and powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either itself or by or through its attorneys or agents, and the Rights Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act, omission, default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorneys or agents or for any loss to the Company or to holders of the Rights resulting from any such act, omission, default, neglect or misconduct, provided reasonable care was exercised in the selection and continued employment thereof.

(j) No provision of this Agreement shall require the Rights Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of its rights if there shall be reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnification against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(k) If, with respect to any Right Certificate surrendered to the Rights Agent for exercise or transfer, the certificate attached to the form of assignment or form of election to purchase, as the case may be, has either not been completed or indicates an affirmative response to clause 1 and/or 2 thereof, the Rights Agent shall not take any further action with respect to such requested exercise or transfer without first consulting with the Company.

Section 21. Change of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may resign and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement upon 30 days’ notice in writing mailed to the Company and to each transfer agent of the Common Stock and Preferred Stock by registered, certified or express mail, and to the holders of the Right Certificates by first-class mail. The Company may remove the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent upon 30 days’ notice in writing, mailed to the Rights Agent or successor Rights Agent, as the case may be, and to each transfer agent of the Common Stock and Preferred Stock by registered, certified or express mail, and to the holders of the Right Certificates by first-class mail. If the Rights Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Rights Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of 30 days after giving notice of such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Rights Agent or by the holder of a Right Certificate (who shall, with such notice, submit his Right Certificate for inspection by the Company), then the registered holder of any Right Certificate may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a new Rights Agent. Any successor Rights Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such a court, shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of any state of the United States, in good standing, which is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust or stock transfer powers and is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and which has at the time of its appointment as Rights Agent a combined capital and surplus of at

 

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least $50 million. After appointment, the successor Rights Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named as Rights Agent without further act or deed; but the predecessor Rights Agent shall deliver and transfer to the successor Rights Agent any property at the time held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed necessary for the purpose. Not later than the effective date of any such appointment the Company shall file notice thereof in writing with the predecessor Rights Agent and each transfer agent of the Common Stock and Preferred Stock, and mail a notice thereof in writing to the registered holders of the Right Certificates. Failure to give any notice provided for in this Section 21, however, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of the resignation or removal of the Rights Agent or the appointment of the successor Rights Agent, as the case may be.

Section 22. Issuance of New Right Certificates. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Agreement or of the Rights to the contrary, the Company may, at its option, issue new Right Certificates evidencing Rights in such form as may be approved by resolution of its Board of Directors, to reflect any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price and the number or kind or class of shares of stock or other securities or property purchasable under the Right Certificates made in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. In addition, in connection with the issuance or sale of Common Stock following the Distribution Date and prior to the redemption or expiration of the Rights, the Company (a) shall, with respect to shares of Common Stock so issued or sold pursuant to the exercise of stock options or under any employee plan or arrangement, or upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of securities, notes or debentures hereinafter issued by the Company, and (b) may, in any other case, if deemed necessary or appropriate by the Board of Directors of the Company, issue Right Certificates representing the appropriate number of Rights in connection with such issuance or sale; provided, however, that (i) no such Right Certificates shall be issued if, and to the extent that, the Company shall be advised by counsel that such issuance would create a significant risk of material adverse tax consequences to the Company or the Person to whom such Right Certificates would be issued, and (ii) no such Right Certificates shall be issued if, and to the extent that, appropriate adjustment shall otherwise have been made in lieu of the issuance thereof.

Section 23. Redemption. (a) The Company may, by resolution of its Board of Directors, at its option, at any time prior to the earlier of (x) the Close of Business on the tenth Business Day following the Stock Acquisition Time or (y) the Close of Business on the Final Expiration Date, redeem all but not less than all of the then outstanding Rights at a redemption price of $.01 per Right, appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction occurring after the date hereof (such redemption price being hereinafter referred to as the “Redemption Price”). Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall not be exercisable after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event until such time as the Company’s right of redemption under this Section 23(a) has expired. The Board of Directors of the Company may, in its discretion, at any time prior to the Stock Acquisition Time, extend the time within which to redeem the then outstanding Rights prior to their exercise. The redemption of the Rights by the Board of Directors may be made effective at such time, on such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. The Company may, at its option, pay the Redemption Price in cash, Common Stock (based on the Current Market Price of the Common Stock at the time of redemption) or any other form of consideration deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

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(b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company ordering the redemption of the Rights (or at such time subsequent to such action as the Board of Directors may determine), evidence of which shall have been filed with the Rights Agent, and without any further action and without any notice, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right thereafter of the holders of Rights shall be to receive the Redemption Price. Within 10 days after the action of the Board of Directors ordering the redemption of the Rights, the Company shall give notice of such redemption to the holders of the then outstanding Rights by mailing such notice to all such holders at their last addresses as they appear upon the registry books of the Rights Agent or, prior to the Distribution Date, on the registry books of the transfer agent for the Common Stock. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be deemed given, whether or not the holder receives the notice. Each such notice of redemption will state the method by which the payment of the Redemption Price will be made. Neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates or Associates may redeem, acquire or purchase any Rights at any time in any manner other than that specifically set forth in this Section 23, and other than in connection with the repurchase of Common Stock of the Company prior to the Distribution Date.

Section 23A Exchange. (a) The Board of Directors of the Company may, at its option, at any time after any Person becomes an Acquiring Person, exchange all or part of the then outstanding and exercisable Rights (which shall not include Rights that have become void pursuant to the provisions of Section 7(e)) for Common Stock at an exchange ratio of one share of Common Stock per Right, appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction occurring after the date hereof (such exchange ratio being hereinafter referred to as the “Exchange Ratio”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Directors shall not be empowered to effect such exchange at any time after any Person (other than the Company, any wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company, any employee benefit plan of the Company or any such Subsidiary, or any entity holding Common Stock as a fiduciary for or pursuant to the terms of any such employee benefit plan), together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person, becomes the Beneficial Owner of 50% or more of the Common Stock then outstanding.

(b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company ordering the exchange of any Rights pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 23A, evidence of which shall have been filed with the Rights Agent, and without any further action and without any notice, the right to exercise such Rights shall terminate and the only right thereafter of a holder of such Rights shall be to receive that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of such Rights held by such holder multiplied by the Exchange Ratio. The Company shall promptly give public notice of any such exchange; provided, however, that the failure to give, or any defect in, such notice shall not affect the validity of such exchange. The Company shall promptly mail a notice of any such exchange to all of the holders of such Rights at their last addresses as they appear upon the registry books of the Rights Agent. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be deemed given, whether or not the holder receives the notice. Each such notice of exchange will state the method by which the exchange of the Common Stock for Rights will be effected and, in the event of any partial exchange, the number of Rights which will be exchanged. Any partial exchange shall be effected pro rata based on the number of Rights (other than Rights which have become void pursuant to the provisions of Section 7(e)) held by each holder of Rights.

 

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(c) In any exchange pursuant to this Section 23, the Company, at its option, may substitute Preferred Stock (or Equivalent Preference Stock, as such term is defined in paragraph (b) of Section 11 hereof) for Common Stock exchangeable for Rights, at the initial rate of one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock (or Equivalent Preference Stock) for each share of Common Stock, as appropriately adjusted to reflect stock splits, stock dividends and other similar transactions after the date hereof.

(d) In the event that there shall not be sufficient shares of Common Stock issued but not outstanding or authorized but unissued to permit any exchange of Rights as contemplated in accordance with this Section 23A, the Company shall take all such action as may be necessary to authorize additional Common Stock for issuance upon exchange of the Rights.

(e) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Common Stock or to distribute certificates or make any entries in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent which evidence fractional Common Stock. In lieu of such fractional shares, the Company shall pay to the registered holders of the Right Certificates with regard to which such fractional shares would otherwise be issuable an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of a whole share of Common Stock. For the purposes of this paragraph (d), the current market value of a whole share of Common Stock shall be the closing price of a share of Common Stock (as determined pursuant to the second sentence of Section 11(d)) for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of exchange pursuant to this Section 23A.

Section 24. Notice of Certain Events. (a) In case the Company shall propose (i) to pay any dividend payable in stock of any class to the holders of its Preferred Stock or to make any other distribution to the holders of its Preferred Stock (other than a regular quarterly dividend out of earnings on retained earnings of the Company at a rate not in excess of 125% of the rate of the last regular quarterly cash dividend theretofore paid), or (ii) to offer to the holders of Preferred Stock options, rights or warrants to subscribe for or to purchase any additional Preferred Stock or shares of stock of any class or any other securities, rights or options, or (iii) to effect any reclassification of the Preferred Stock (other than a reclassification involving only the subdivision of outstanding shares of Preferred Stock), or (iv) to effect any merger, consolidation or other combination into or with, or to effect any sale or other transfer (or to permit one or more of its Subsidiaries to effect any sale or other transfer), in one or more transactions, of more than 50% of the assets, cash flow or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to, any other Person, or (v) to effect the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, then, in each such case, the Company shall give to each holder of a Right, in accordance with Section 25 hereof, a notice of such proposed action, which shall specify the record date for the purposes of such stock dividend, distribution of rights or warrants, or the date on which such reclassification, merger, consolidation, combination, sale, transfer, liquidation, dissolution or winding up is to take place and the date of participation therein by the holders of Common Stock and/or Preferred Stock, if any such date is to be fixed, and such notice shall be so given in the case of any action covered by clause (i) or (ii) above at least twenty days prior to the record date for determining holders of Preferred Stock for purposes of such action, and in the case of any such other action, at least twenty days prior to the date of the taking of such proposed action or the date of participation therein by the holders of Common Stock and/or Preferred Stock, whichever shall be the earlier. The failure to give notice required by this Section 24 or

 

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any defect therein shall not affect the legality or validity of the action taken by the Company or the vote upon any such action.

(b) In case any of the events set forth in Section 11(a)(ii) or Section 13(a) of this Agreement shall occur, then, in any such case, (i) the Company shall as soon as practicable thereafter give to each holder of a Right Certificate, to the extent feasible and in accordance with Section 25, a notice of the occurrence of such event, which shall specify the event and the consequences of the event to holders of Rights under Section 11(a)(ii) or Section 13(a), and (ii) all references in Section 24(a) hereof to Preferred Stock shall be deemed thereafter to refer also to Common Stock or other securities issuable in respect of the Rights.

Section 25. Notices. Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Rights Agent or by the holder of any Right Certificate to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Rights Agent) as follows:

WABCO Europe BVBA

Chaussée de Wavre, 1789 Box 15

1160 Brussels

Belgium

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile: +32 2 663 98 89

Subject to the provisions of Section 21, any notice or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or by the holder of any Right Certificate to or on the Rights Agent shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Company) as follows:

The Bank of New York

101 Barclay Street 11 East

New York, New York 10286

Attn: Stock Transfer Administration

Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or the Rights Agent to the holder of any Right Certificate (or if prior to the Distribution Date to each holder of shares of Common Stock) shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such Right holder (or if prior to the Distribution Date to such holder of Common Stock) at the address of such holder as shown on the registry books of the Company.

Section 26. Supplements and Amendments. The Company may, by resolution of its Board of Directors, and the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend any provision of this Agreement in any respect whatsoever (including without limitation any extension of the period in which the Rights may be redeemed) at any time prior to the Stock Acquisition Time, without the approval of any holders shares of Common Stock or, after the Distribution Date, of Right Certificates. From and after the Stock Acquisition Time, the Company may, by resolution of its Board of Directors, and the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend this Agreement without the approval of any holders of shares of Common Stock or of Right Certificates in order (i) to cure any ambiguity, (ii) to correct or supplement any provision contained herein which may be defective or inconsistent

 

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with any other provisions herein, (iii) to shorten or lengthen any time period hereunder or (iv) to change or supplement or make any other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising hereunder which the Company and the Rights Agent may deem necessary or desirable, which shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of Right Certificates (other than an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof); provided, however, that this Agreement may not be supplemented or amended to lengthen, pursuant to clause (iii) of this sentence, (A) a time period relating to when the Rights may be redeemed or to modify the ability (or inability) of the Board of Directors of the Company to redeem the Rights, in either case at such time as the Rights are not then redeemable or (B) any other time period unless such lengthening is for the purpose of protecting, enhancing or clarifying the rights of or the benefits to the holders of Rights (other than an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any such Person). Upon the delivery of a certificate from an appropriate officer of the Company which states that the proposed supplement or amendment is in compliance with the terms of this Section 26, the Rights Agent shall execute such supplement or amendment. Prior to the Stock Acquisition Time, the interests of the holders of Rights shall be deemed coincident with the interests of the holders of Common Stock.

Section 27. Successors; Assignment. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company or the Rights Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns hereunder. This Agreement shall extend to and shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns; provided, however, that this Agreement shall not be assignable by either party without the prior written consent of the other party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; and provided, further, that (a) the foregoing proviso shall not apply to the assignment by the Rights Agent to an affiliate or subsidiary of the Rights Agent and (b) any reorganization, merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other form of business combination by the Rights Agent shall not be deemed to constitute an assignment of this Agreement.

Section 28. Determinations and Actions by the Board of Directors, etc. For all purposes of this Agreement, any calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at any particular time, including for purposes of determining the particular percentage of such outstanding shares of Common Stock of which any Person is the Beneficial Owner, shall be made in accordance with the last sentence of Rule 13d-3(d)(1)(i) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act. The Board of Directors of the Company (with, where specifically provided for herein, the concurrence of the Outside Directors) shall have the exclusive power, authority and discretion to administer this Agreement and to exercise all rights and powers specifically granted to such Board of Directors (with, where specifically provided for herein, the concurrence of the Outside Directors) or to the Company, or as may be necessary or advisable in the administration of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the right and power to (i) interpret the provisions of this Agreement, and (ii) make all determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, a determination to redeem or not redeem the Rights, to amend the Agreement or to find or to announce publicly that any Person has become an Acquiring Person). All such actions, calculations, interpretations and determinations (including, for purposes of clauses (i) and (iii) below, all omissions with respect to the foregoing) which are done or made by the Board of Directors of the Company (with, where specifically provided for herein, the concurrence of the Outside Directors), the Outside Directors or the Company (i) shall be within the discretion of the Board of Directors (with, where specifically provided for herein, the concurrence of the Outside

 

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Directors), (ii) shall be final, conclusive and binding on the Company, the Rights Agent, the holders of the Right Certificates and all other parties, and (iii) shall not subject the Board of Directors of the Company or the Outside Directors to any liability to the holders of the Rights and Right Certificates.

Section 29. Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give to any Person other than the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the Right Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of the Common Stock) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement; but this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the Right Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of the Common Stock).

Section 30. Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if any such term, provision, covenant or restriction is held by such court or authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable and the Board of Directors of the Company determines in its good faith judgment that severing the invalid language from this Agreement would adversely affect the purpose or effect of this Agreement, the right of redemption set forth in Section 23 hereof shall be reinstated and shall not expire until the Close of Business on the tenth Business Day following the date of such determination by the Board of Directors. Without limiting the foregoing, if any provision of this Agreement requiring that a determination be made by the Board of Directors with the concurrence of a majority of the Outside Directors or by the Outside Directors is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void, or unenforceable, such determination shall then be made by the Board of Directors in accordance with applicable law and the Company’s certificate of incorporation and by-laws.

Section 31. Governing Law. This Agreement and each Right Certificate issued hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of Delaware and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of such State applicable to contracts to be made and performed entirely within such State. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any dispute regarding the carrying out of its obligations hereunder by the Rights Agent shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York.

Section 32. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 33. Descriptive Headings. Descriptive headings of the several Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

WABCO HOLDINGS INC.
By:  

/s/ Ulrich Michel

Name:   Ulrich Michel
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By:  

/s/ Phil Triolo

Name:   Phil Triolo
Title:   AVP


EXHIBIT A

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF JUNIOR

PARTICIPATING CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK

Par Value $.01 Per Share

of

WABCO Holdings Inc.

Pursuant to Section 151 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

I, [                    ], [                ] of WABCO Holdings Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, in accordance with the provisions of Section 103 thereof, DO HEREBY CERTIFY:

That pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board of Directors by the Certificate of Incorporation of the said Corporation, the said Board of Directors on July 13, 2007, by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the Board of Directors, adopted the following resolution creating a series of 4,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share:

RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of Directors of this Corporation in accordance with the provisions of its Certificate of Incorporation, a series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation be, and it hereby is, created, and that the designation and amount thereof and the voting powers, preferences and relative participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:

Section 1. Designation and Amount.

The shares of such series shall be designated as Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Junior Preferred Stock”) and the number of shares constituting such series initially shall be 4,000,000. Such number of shares may be increased or decreased by resolution of the Board of Directors; provided, that no decrease shall reduce the number of shares of Junior Preferred Stock to a number less than the number of shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or upon the conversion of any outstanding securities issued by the Corporation convertible into Junior Preferred Stock.

Section 2. Dividends and Distributions.

(A) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of preferred stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Junior Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of Common Stock and of any other junior stock which may be outstanding, shall

 

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be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the first day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Junior Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $0.10 per share, or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Junior Preferred Stock. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

(B) The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Junior Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Junior Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.

(C) Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Junior Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares of Junior Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall accumulate but shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Junior Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at

 

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the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.

Section 3. Voting Rights.

The holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights.

(A) Subject to the provisions for adjustment as hereinafter set forth, each share of Junior Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 100 votes (and each one one-hundredth of a share of Junior Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote) on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by classification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the number of votes per share to which holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

(B) Except as otherwise provided herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation, in any other certificate of designation creating a series of preferred stock or any similar stock, or by law, the holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation having general voting rights shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders of the Corporation.

(C) If at any time the Corporation shall not have declared and paid all accrued and unpaid dividends on the Junior Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2 hereof for four consecutive Quarterly Dividend Payment Dates, then, in addition to any voting rights provided for in paragraphs (A) and (B), the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock shall have the exclusive right, voting separately as a class, to elect two directors on the Board of Directors of the Corporation (such directors, the “Preferred Directors”). The right of the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock to elect the Preferred Directors shall continue until all such accrued and unpaid dividends shall have been paid. At such time, the terms of any of the Preferred Directors shall terminate. At any time when the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock shall have thus become entitled to elect Preferred Directors, a special meeting of stockholders shall be called for the purpose of electing such Preferred Directors, to be held within 30 days after the right of the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock to elect such Preferred Directors shall arise, upon notice given in the manner provided by law or the by-laws of the Corporation for giving notice of a special meeting of stockholders (provided however, that such a special meeting shall not be

 

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called if the annual meeting of stockholders is to convene within said 30 days). At any such special meeting or at any annual meeting at which the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock shall be entitled to elect Preferred Directors, the holders of a majority of the then outstanding Junior Preferred Stock present in person or by proxy shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum for the election of such directors. The persons elected by the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock at any meeting in accordance with the terms of the preceding sentence shall become directors on the date of such election.

Section 4. Certain Restrictions.

(A) Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Junior Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Junior Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

(i) declare or pay dividends or, make any other distributions on any shares or stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) to the Junior Preferred Stock;

(ii) declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock except dividends paid ratably on the Junior Preferred Stock, and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;

(iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such parity stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding-up) to the Junior Preferred Stock; or

(iv) purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Junior Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series or classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.

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unless the Corporation could, under paragraph (A) of this Section 4, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.

Section 5. Reacquired Shares.

Any shares of Junior Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever, shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock, without designation as to series, and may be reissued as part of a new series of preferred stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation, in any other certificate of designation creating a series of preferred stock or any similar stock or as otherwise required by law.

Section 6. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding-Up.

Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, no distribution shall be made (A) to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) to the Junior Preferred Stock unless prior thereto, the holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall have received the higher of (i) $100 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the date of such payment, or (ii) an aggregate amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of Common Stock; nor shall any distribution be made (B) to the holders of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Junior Preferred Stock and all other such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding-up. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the aggregate amount to which holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock are entitled immediately prior to such event under the provision in clause (A) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

Section 7. Consolidation, Merger, etc.

In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, or otherwise changed, then in any such case each share of Junior Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed into an amount per share (subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in

 

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kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

Section 8. No Redemption.

The shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

Section 9. Rank.

Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or a certificate of designation relating to a subsequent series of preferred stock of the Corporation, the Junior Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of the Corporation’s preferred stock as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets on liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, and senior to the Common Stock of the Corporation.

Section 10. Amendment.

The Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, shall not be amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Junior Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Junior Preferred Stock, voting together as a single series.

Section 11. Fractional Shares.

Junior Preferred Stock may be issued in fractions of a share (in one one-hundredths (1/100) of a share and integral multiples thereof) which shall entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder’s fractional shares, to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of holders of Junior Preferred Stock.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Designation is executed on behalf of the Corporation by its [    ] this [    ] day of [                    ], 2007.

 

By:

 

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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EXHIBIT B

[Form of Face of Right Certificate]

 

Certificate No. R-                         Rights

NOT EXERCISABLE AFTER JULY 16, 2017 OR EARLIER IF NOTICE OF REDEMPTION IS GIVEN. THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION, AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY, AT $.01 PER RIGHT ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT. [THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ISSUED TO A PERSON WHO WAS AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR AN ASSOCIATE OR AFFILIATE THEREOF (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT). THIS RIGHT CERTIFICATE AND THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED HEREBY BECOME NULL AND VOID AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 7(e) OF THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT.]1

Right Certificate

WABCO HOLDINGS INC.

This certifies that                     , or registered assigns, is the registered owner of the number of Rights set forth above, each of which entitles the owner thereof, subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Rights Agreement dated as of July 16, 2007 (the “Rights Agreement”) between WABCO Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York (the “Rights Agent”), to purchase from the Company at any time after the Distribution Date (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement) and prior to 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on July 16, 2017, at the principal office of the Rights Agent, or its successors as Rights Agent, in New York, New York, one one-hundredth of a share of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), of the Company, at a purchase price of $250 per one one-hundredth of a share (the “Purchase Price”) by certified bank check or money order payable to the order of the Company, upon presentation and surrender of this Right Certificate with the Form of Election to Purchase duly executed. The number of Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate (and the number of shares which may be purchased upon exercise thereof) set forth above, and the Purchase Price per share set forth above, are the number and Purchase Price as of July 16, 2007, based on the shares of Preferred Stock of the Company as constituted at such date.

As provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and the number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock or other securities which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening of certain events.


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The portion of the legend in brackets shall be inserted only if applicable.

 

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This Right Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and conditions of the Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Right Certificates. Copies of the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal executive offices of WABCO Holdings Inc. and the above-mentioned office of the Rights Agent.

This Right Certificate, with or without other Right Certificates, upon surrender at the principal office of the Rights Agent, may be exchanged for another Right Certificate or Right Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing Rights entitling the holder to purchase a like aggregate number of one one-hundredths of a share of Preferred Stock as the Rights evidenced by the Right Certificate or Right Certificates surrendered shall have entitled such holder to purchase. If this Right Certificate shall be exercised in part, the holder shall be entitled to receive upon surrender hereof another Right Certificate or Right Certificates for the number of whole Rights not exercised.

Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this Certificate may be redeemed by the Company at its option at a redemption price of $.01 per Right. Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate may be exchanged by the Company in whole or in part for Common Stock of the Company under certain circumstances.

No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon the exercise of any Right or Rights evidenced hereby, but in lieu thereof a cash payment will be made, as provided in the Rights Agreement.

No holder of this Right Certificate shall be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of Common Stock or of any other securities of the Company which may at the time be issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall anything contained in the Rights Agreement or herein be construed to confer upon the holder hereof, as such, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting stockholders (except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate shall have been exercised as provided in the Rights Agreement.

This Right Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the Rights Agent.

 

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[Form of Reverse of Right Certificate]

FORM OF ASSIGNMENT

(To be executed by the registered holder if such holder desires to transfer the Right Certificate.)

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED

 

 

hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto  

 

 

(Please print name and address of transferee)

this Right Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                                          Attorney, to transfer the within Right Certificate on the books of the within named Company, with full power of substitution.

Dated:                     ,         

 

 

Signature

(Signature must conform in all respects to name of holder as set forth on the face of this Right Certificate, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.)

Signature Guaranteed:

 

 

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(To be completed if applicable)

The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement).

 

 

Signature

(Signature must conform in all respects to name of holder as set forth on the face of this Right Certificate, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.)

 

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FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE

(To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Right Certificate.)

To WABCO Holdings Inc.:

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise                  Rights represented by this Right Certificate to purchase the shares of Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of such Rights and requests that certificates for such shares be issued, or an entry in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent be made, in the name of:

Please insert social security or other identifying number:

 

 

(Please print name and address)

 

If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate, a new Right Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to:

Please insert social security or other identifying number:

 

 

(Please print name and address)

 

Dated:                     ,         

 

 

Signature

(Signature must conform in all respects to name of holder as set forth on the face of this Right Certificate, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.)

Signature Guaranteed:

 

 

(To be completed if applicable)

 

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The undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement).

 

 

Signature

(Signature must conform in all respects to name of holder as set forth on the face of this Right Certificate, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.)

 

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NOTICE

In the event the certification set forth above in the Forms of Assignment and Election to Purchase is not completed, the Company will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced by this Right Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and, in the case of an Assignment, will affix a legend to that effect on any Right Certificates issued in exchange for this Right Certificate.

 

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EXHIBIT C

WABCO Holdings Inc.

SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE

PREFERRED STOCK

On July 13, 2007, the Board of Directors of WABCO Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) declared a dividend distribution of one Right for each outstanding share of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company. The distribution was payable to stockholders of record on July 19, 2007 (the “Record Date”). Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of its Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”) at a price of $250 per one one-hundredth of a share (the “Purchase Price”), subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the “Rights Agreement”) between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Rights Agent (the “Rights Agent”).

Until the earlier to occur of (i) ten business days following the time (the “Stock Acquisition Time”) of a public announcement by the Company that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (other than (x) the Company, (y) any subsidiary of the Company, or (z) any employee benefit plan of the Company or its subsidiaries) has acquired beneficial ownership (as defined in the Rights Agreement) of 15% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (such 15% beneficial owner, an “Acquiring Person”), or (ii) ten business days, or such later date as may be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company, after the date of the commencement or announcement by a person of an intention to make a tender offer or exchange offer for an amount of Common Stock which, together with the shares of such stock already owned by such person, constitutes 15% or more of the outstanding shares of such Common Stock (the earlier of such dates being called the “Distribution Date”), the Rights will be evidenced by the balances indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of the Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, the Common Stock certificates. The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferred with and only with the Company’s Common Stock. Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), (i) the Rights will be evidenced by the balances indicated in the book-entry account system of the transfer agent for the Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of the Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, the Common Stock certificates, and will be transferred with and only with such shares or, in the case of certificated shares, Common Stock certificates, (ii) confirmation and account statements sent to holders of shares of Common Stock in book-entry form or, in the case of certificated shares, new Common Stock certificates issued after the Record Date, will contain a notation incorporating the Rights Agreement by reference and (iii) the transfer of any shares of Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, certificates for Common Stock, outstanding will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with such shares of Common Stock or, in the case of certificated shares, the Common Stock represented by such certificates, even without a copy of this Summary of Rights

 

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attached thereto. As soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate certificates evidencing the Rights (the “Right Certificates”) will be mailed to holders of record of the Company’s Common Stock as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and such separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights.

The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date. The Rights will expire on July 16, 2017, unless earlier redeemed by the Company as described below.

The Purchase Price payable, and the number of shares of Preferred Stock or other securities or property issuable upon exercise of the Rights, are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the Preferred Stock, (ii) upon the fixing of a record date for the issuance to holders of Preferred Stock of certain rights, options or warrants to subscribe for shares of Preferred Stock or convertible securities at less than the current market price of shares of Preferred Stock or (iii) upon the fixing of a record date for the making of a distribution to holders of shares of Preferred Stock of evidences of indebtedness or assets (excluding regular periodic cash dividends not exceeding 125% of the last regular periodic cash dividend or dividends payable in shares of Preferred Stock) or of subscription rights or warrants (other than those referred to above). The number of Rights and number of shares of Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, combination or stock dividend on the Common Stock prior to the Distribution Date.

In the event that after the Stock Acquisition Time the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its assets, cash flow or earning power are sold or otherwise transferred, proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the time of such transaction would have a market value (as defined in the Rights Agreement) of two times the exercise price of the Right. In the event that the Company were the surviving corporation of a merger and its Common Stock were changed or exchanged, proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company having a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right.

In the event that a person or group becomes an Acquiring Person (otherwise than pursuant to a tender offer or exchange offer for all outstanding shares of Common Stock at a price and on terms which are determined to be fair and in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company, proper provision shall be made so that each holder of a Right, other than Rights that were beneficially owned by the Acquiring Person, which will thereafter be void, will thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that number of shares of Common Stock having a market value (as defined in the Rights Agreement) of two times the exercise price of the Right. A person or group will not be an Acquiring Person if the Board of Directors of the Company after receiving advice from one or more investment banking firms determines that such person or group became an Acquiring Person inadvertently and such person or group promptly divests itself of a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock so that such person or group is no longer an Acquiring Person.

 

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At any time prior to the earlier of (i) ten business days after the Stock Acquisition Time and (ii) July 16, 2017, the Company, by resolution of its Board of Directors, may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01 per Right (the “Redemption Price”). The Company may, at any time prior to the Stock Acquisition Time, extend the time in which the Rights may be redeemed. Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company electing to redeem the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the Redemption Price.

At any time after a person becomes an Acquiring Person and prior to the acquisition by such person of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Stock of the Company, the Board of Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than Rights beneficially owned by such Acquiring Person which have become void), in whole or in part, for Common Stock of the Company at an exchange ratio of one share of Common Stock per Right (subject to adjustment). Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company ordering the exchange of any Rights, the right to exercise such Rights will terminate and the only right of a holder of such Rights shall be to receive that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of such Rights held by such holder multiplied by the exchange ratio.

Each share of Preferred Stock purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will have a minimum preferential dividend of $0.10 per quarter, but will be entitled to receive, in the aggregate, a dividend of 100 times the dividend declared on a share of Common Stock. In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company, the holders of the shares of Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive a minimum liquidation payment of $100 per share, but will be entitled to receive an aggregate liquidation payment equal to 100 times the payment to be made per share of Common Stock. Each share of Preferred Stock will have 100 votes, voting together with the shares of Common Stock. In addition, if dividends on the Preferred Stock are in arrears for four consecutive quarterly payment periods, the holders of the Preferred Stock will have the right, voting as a class, to elect two members of the Board of Directors. In the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which shares of Common Stock are exchanged, each share of Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive 100 times the amount and type of consideration received per share of Common Stock. The rights of the shares of Preferred Stock as to dividends and liquidation, and in the event of mergers and consolidations, are protected by anti-dilution provisions.

Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.

The Rights and the Rights Agreement can be amended by the Board of Directors of the Company in any respect (including, without limitation, any extension of the period in which the Rights may be redeemed) at any time prior to the Stock Acquisition Time. From and after such a time, without the approval of all holders of the Common Stock or all holders of the Rights, the Board of Directors may only supplement or amend the Rights Agreement in order (i) to cure any ambiguity, (ii) to correct or supplement any provision contained in the Rights Agreement which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in the Rights Agreement, (iii) to shorten or lengthen any time period under the Rights Agreement or (iv) to make any changes or supplements which the Company and the Rights Agent may deem necessary or desirable which

 

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shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of Right Certificates (other than an Acquiring Person or an affiliate or associate thereof).

 

A copy of the Rights Agreement is available free of charge from the Company. This summary description of the Rights does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Rights Agreement, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

 

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EX-4.2 5 dex42.htm CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF JUNIOR PARTICIPATING CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK Certificate of Designation of Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock

Exhibit 4.2

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF JUNIOR

PARTICIPATING CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK

Par Value $.01 Per Share

of

WABCO Holdings Inc.

Pursuant to Section 151 of the General Corporation

Law of the State of Delaware

I, Ulrich Michel, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of WABCO Holdings Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, in accordance with the provisions of Section 103 thereof, DO HEREBY CERTIFY:

That pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board of Directors by the Certificate of Incorporation of the said Corporation, the said Board of Directors on July 13, 2007, by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the Board of Directors, adopted the following resolution creating a series of 4,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share:

RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of Directors of this Corporation in accordance with the provisions of its Certificate of Incorporation, a series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation be, and it hereby is, created, and that the designation and amount thereof and the voting powers, preferences and relative participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:

1. Designation and Amount.

The shares of such series shall be designated as Junior Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Junior Preferred Stock”) and the number of shares constituting such series initially shall be 4,000,000. Such number of shares may be increased or decreased by resolution of the Board of Directors; provided, that no decrease shall reduce the number of shares of Junior Preferred Stock to a number less than the number of shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or upon the conversion of any outstanding securities issued by the Corporation convertible into Junior Preferred Stock.

 

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2. Dividends and Distributions.

(a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of preferred stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Junior Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of Common Stock and of any other junior stock which may be outstanding, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the first day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Junior Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $0.10 per share, or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Junior Preferred Stock. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

(b) The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Junior Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Junior Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.

(c) Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Junior Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares of Junior Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock entitled to

 

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receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall accumulate but shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Junior Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.

3. Voting Rights.

The holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights.

(a) Subject to the provisions for adjustment as hereinafter set forth, each share of Junior Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 100 votes (and each one one-hundredth of a share of Junior Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote) on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by classification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the number of votes per share to which holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

(b) Except as otherwise provided herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation, in any other certificate of designation creating a series of preferred stock or any similar stock, or by law, the holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation having general voting rights shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders of the Corporation.

(c) If at any time the Corporation shall not have declared and paid all accrued and unpaid dividends on the Junior Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2 hereof for four consecutive Quarterly Dividend Payment Dates, then, in addition to any voting rights provided for in paragraphs (A) and (B), the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock shall have the exclusive right, voting separately as a class, to elect two directors on the Board of Directors of the Corporation (such directors, the “Preferred Directors”). The

 

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right of the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock to elect the Preferred Directors shall continue until all such accrued and unpaid dividends shall have been paid. At such time, the terms of any of the Preferred Directors shall terminate. At any time when the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock shall have thus become entitled to elect Preferred Directors, a special meeting of stockholders shall be called for the purpose of electing such Preferred Directors, to be held within 30 days after the right of the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock to elect such Preferred Directors shall arise, upon notice given in the manner provided by law or the by-laws of the Corporation for giving notice of a special meeting of stockholders (provided, however, that such a special meeting shall not be called if the annual meeting of stockholders is to convene within said 30 days). At any such special meeting or at any annual meeting at which the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock shall be entitled to elect Preferred Directors, the holders of a majority of the then outstanding Junior Preferred Stock present in person or by proxy shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum for the election of such directors. The persons elected by the holders of the Junior Preferred Stock at any meeting in accordance with the terms of the preceding sentence shall become directors on the date of such election.

4. Certain Restrictions.

(a) Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Junior Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Junior Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

(i) declare or pay dividends or, make any other distributions on any shares or stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) to the Junior Preferred Stock;

(ii) declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock except dividends paid ratably on the Junior Preferred Stock, and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;

(iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such parity stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding-up) to the Junior Preferred Stock; or

 

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(iv) purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Junior Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series or classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.

(b) The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation unless the Corporation could, under paragraph (A) of this Section 4, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.

5. Reacquired Shares.

Any shares of Junior Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever, shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock, without designation as to series, and may be reissued as part of a new series of preferred stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein, in the Certificate of Incorporation, in any other certificate of designation creating a series of preferred stock or any similar stock or as otherwise required by law.

6. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding-Up.

Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, no distribution shall be made (A) to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) to the Junior Preferred Stock unless prior thereto, the holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall have received the higher of (i) $100 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the date of such payment, or (ii) an aggregate amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of Common Stock; nor shall any distribution be made (B) to the holders of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) with the Junior Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Junior Preferred Stock and all other such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding-up. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the aggregate amount to which

 

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holders of shares of Junior Preferred Stock are entitled immediately prior to such event under the provision in clause (A) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

7. Consolidation, Merger, etc.

In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, or otherwise changed, then in any such case each share of Junior Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed into an amount per share (subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

8. No Redemption.

The shares of Junior Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

9. Rank.

Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or a certificate of designation relating to a subsequent series of preferred stock of the Corporation, the Junior Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of the Corporation’s preferred stock as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets on liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, and senior to the Common Stock of the Corporation.

10. Amendment.

The Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, shall not be amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Junior Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the

 

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holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Junior Preferred Stock, voting together as a single series.

11. Fractional Shares.

Junior Preferred Stock may be issued in fractions of a share (in one one-hundredths (1/100) of a share and integral multiples thereof) which shall entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder’s fractional shares, to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of holders of Junior Preferred Stock.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Designation is executed on behalf of the Corporation by its Vice President this 16th day of July, 2007.

 

 

By:  

/s/ Ulrich Michel

  Name:   Ulrich Michel
  Title:   Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

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EX-99.1 6 dex991.htm PRESS RELEASE DATED JULY 18, 2007 Press Release dated July 18, 2007

Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO    Corporate Headquarters
   One Centennial Avenue
   P.O. Box 6820
   Piscataway, NJ 08855-6820

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AMERICAN STANDARD COMPANIES

REPORTS SECOND-QUARTER RESULTS

 

   

Delivers record second-quarter sales, up 9.7 percent for company’s combined three businesses

 

   

Reports adjusted net income per diluted share within guidance; separation costs lowered GAAP net income per diluted share

 

   

Generates strong cash flow

 

   

Continues to improve Bath and Kitchen results; sales process on schedule

 

   

Sets WABCO spinoff for July 31, ahead of schedule

 

   

Provides full-year estimate for future standalone WABCO

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – July 18, 2007 – American Standard Companies Inc. (NYSE: ASD) today announced second-quarter net income per diluted share of 84 cents in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), down from 93 cents a year ago. The decrease was driven by separation costs, including separation-related taxes that were previously not estimable. Net income per diluted share on an adjusted basis was $1.05, up 14.1 percent from second quarter a year ago. The company had provided second-quarter net income per diluted share guidance of 98 cents-$1.04 on a GAAP basis and $1.03-$1.09 on an adjusted basis. The company is in the process of selling its Bath and Kitchen business and, in accordance with GAAP, has classified it as a discontinued operation since first quarter. (Please see table below.)

Sales from continuing operations, which include Air Conditioning Systems and Services and Vehicle Control Systems, were $2.62 billion, up 10.6 percent. Sales for Bath and Kitchen were $660.5 million. In total, sales for the company’s three businesses were up 9.7 percent. The company generated $225.9 million in net cash provided by operating activities and $158 million in free cash flow.

SECOND-QUARTER EARNINGS SUMMARY

 

     2Q07    2Q06    %
change
   

2Q07

guidance

GAAP net income per diluted share

          

Continuing operations

     90 cents    91 cents    (1 )%   N/A

Discontinued operations (Bath and Kitchen)

     (6) cents    2 cents    (400 )%   N/A

Total company GAAP

     84 cents    93 cents    (9.7 )%   98 cents - $1.04

Adjusted net income per diluted share

          

Continuing operations

   $ 1.00    88 cents    13.6 %   N/A

Discontinued operations (Bath and Kitchen)

     5 cents    4 cents    25 %   N/A

Total company on an adjusted basis

   $ 1.05    92 cents    14.1 %   $1.03 - $1.09

(Please see the financial tables following the news release text for reconciliation tables and a description of adjusted results for continuing operations, discontinued operations and the total company. The company provides adjusted results to facilitate understanding of ongoing financial performance from year to year. )

 

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American Standard Q2 2007 Results — 2

“With 14 percent earnings growth on an adjusted basis, we delivered a good second quarter, particularly in light of some challenges in the residential part of our air conditioning business,” said Fred Poses, chairman and CEO. “Continued strong sales of commercial equipment and services drove our results in Air Conditioning Systems and Services, more than compensating for the softer housing market, cooler weather and a warranty charge that affected our residential results. We see continued strength in the global commercial air conditioning systems and services markets. Combined with our strong position in residential markets, we expect a good overall year for this business.

“Vehicle Control Systems had a strong quarter of sales and segment income expansion,” said Poses. “Sales growth in Western Europe, our largest region, outpaced truck builds, which significantly exceeded original industry forecasts. The unexpected new demand stretched the supply chain and temporarily hampered WABCO’s ability to fully convert the increased volume into even higher margins. During the quarter, WABCO also won new sales around the world that continue to build its long-term sales growth pipeline.

“We continue to be very encouraged by Bath and Kitchen’s improving performance, despite challenging consumer market conditions in some key areas, particularly the U.S. New products are being well received, and operational improvements are accelerating our Bath and Kitchen recovery.

“We announced our separation plans on Feb. 1, and we’re very pleased with our progress so far. The Bath and Kitchen sales process is moving ahead nicely, and we’re confident of a successful outcome. Last week we announced July 31 as WABCO’s spinoff date, ahead of the original early fall schedule,” said Poses.

FULL-YEAR PERFORMANCE ESTIMATES

“For the rest of the year, we see continued good conditions in all three businesses,” said Poses. “If we were staying together as one company, we would expect full-year GAAP net income per diluted share of $3.21-$3.31 (including $85-$88 million for separation costs, net of tax, and separation-related tax costs) and net income per diluted share of $3.30-$3.40 on an adjusted basis (an increase of 24-27 percent over adjusted 2006 net income per diluted share).” The adjusted full-year estimate is based on the company as currently structured before separation costs and some duplicate costs to run two companies.

“For the company as currently structured, we expect to generate the cash flow we previously announced – about $1.015 billion in net cash provided by operating activities and about $715 million in free cash flow,” said Poses.

“Because of the imminent spinoff, we are now providing a full-year estimate for WABCO,” he said. “After the spinoff, we expect WABCO to have full-year 2007 net income per diluted share of approximately $2.54 on a GAAP basis and $2.85 on an adjusted basis. Both of these estimates reflect the one-for-three stock distribution ratio and WABCO’s status as part of American Standard for seven months and as an independent company for five months. The adjusted estimate excludes 31 cents for WABCO’s share of American Standard’s overall one-time separation costs.

“We’ll discuss our performance estimates and separation costs in greater detail on today’s call for analysts and investors,” said Poses. “As our separation plans progress, we will provide full-year performance estimates for the standalone Trane,” said Poses.

 

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SECOND-QUARTER 2007 BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS

AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS AND SERVICES sales were $2.038 billion, up 9.6 percent over second quarter 2006 (up 8.5 percent excluding foreign exchange effects) because of improving pricing and volumes in commercial equipment and services. Segment income was $288.8 million, up 3.8 percent from $278.1 million in 2006, as pricing and commercial volume as well as materials productivity more than offset the continuing impact of higher commodity costs, lower volume of residential sales and residential warranty costs. Adjusted segment income was $287.2 million, excluding the impact of favorable foreign exchange effects and operational consolidation expenses, up from $277.2 million in second quarter 2006.

American Standard Companies/Trane was one of four energy services companies asked to join the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a global program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by urban buildings. The company will be providing “green” upgrades that deliver significant energy and operating cost reductions to buildings in 16 cities around the world. Led by former President Bill Clinton, CCI has received $5 billion in financing pledges from banks to jump-start the project. During the quarter, Air Conditioning Systems and Services signed supply agreements with 28 new homebuilders. For the third year in a row, David Weekley Homes named Trane a “Partner of Choice” with its highest “A,A” rating for quality and service. No other heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) company received such an award.

Large contracts signed during the quarter included ones for Al Nour Mall (Saudi Arabia); Alamo Community College (San Antonio, Texas); BryanLGH Medical Center (Lincoln, Neb.); Arena Plaza (Hungary); Cerritos College (Norwalk, Calif.); Chongqing Long Hu Estate villas (Chongqing, China); Dalian Wanda (Dalian, China); Dongguan Wei Jian (Dongguan, China); Dunnes stores (10 locations in Ireland); Mall of Arabia (Saudi Arabia); Minebea (three locations in Thailand); Monessen City School District (Monessen, Pa.); Ridgecrest Regional Hospital (Ridgecrest, Calif.); Sambil Barquisimeto (Barquisimeto, Venezuela); Shanghai Kerry Everbright City (Shanghai, China); UAB Women and Infants Health Center (Birmingham, Ala.)

VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS second-quarter sales were $582.3 million, up 13.9 percent over the same period in the prior year (up 6.8 percent in local currencies). Segment income was $67.1 million, up from $59.5 million a year ago, as increased volume, lower warranty costs and materials savings more than offset the unfavorable impact of typical price reductions, production and logistics costs related to the unexpected demand, and escalating commodity costs. Excluding favorable translational foreign exchange effects, operational consolidation expenses and separation costs, adjusted segment income was $70.5 million, up from $60.9 million in second quarter 2006.

During the quarter, WABCO continued to build its sales pipeline with new and incremental business from commercial vehicle, bus and passenger car manufacturers. DaimlerChrysler selected WABCO as a supplier for the new platform of all its EvoBus Citybus lines, strengthening the business’ position as a full system supplier for the bus market. The EvoBus business includes the brake, chassis leveling, door and climate control systems, as well as the electronic architecture. SsangYong Motor Company, a leading manufacturer of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in Korea, chose WABCO to supply vacuum pumps for the Euro 5 diesel engine project covering its range of SUVs and Multi-Purpose Vehicles (MPVs) including the Rexton, Kyron, Actyon and Rodius models. In addition, SsangYong gave WABCO its “best supplier” award.

BATH AND KITCHEN, now classified as a discontinued operation, had sales of $660.5 million, up 6.4 percent (up 1.8 percent excluding foreign exchange effects) from the same quarter a year ago. Income from discontinued operations represented a loss of $11.5 million net of tax, down from income of $2.5 million a year ago, because of operational consolidation and separation expenses. Segment income was $21.9 million, up from $4.7 million in second quarter 2006. Improved price, volume and mix as well as prior operational consolidations and materials productivity more than offset higher commodity costs. Adjusted segment income was $22.8 million, compared with $13.6 million in second quarter 2006, excluding operational consolidation expenses and the favorable impact of foreign exchange, and including depreciation and amortization.

 

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At K/BIS, the largest bath and kitchen show in the U.S., Bath and Kitchen displayed American Standard, Jado and Porcher lines and introduced a number of well-received products, including its Champion® 4 toilet with flushing capabilities unmatched in the industry. Champion 4’s Accelerator flush valve pushes water into the bowl three times faster than the standard two-inch flush valve and can move 40 percent larger mass than the industry’s second-best siphonic high-performance toilet. The Cadet® 3 toilet continues its successful market performance. In Asia, Bath and Kitchen hosted more than 400 top developers, interior designers and architects in Beijing and Bangkok for the "Celebration of the Senses" 2007 Bathroom Collection Show to share global bathroom trends. It also opened two flagship showrooms in Xian and Qingdao, China.

New commercial contracts during the quarter included ones for the Casa Riva luxury condominiums (Bangkok, Thailand); International Commercial Centre (Hong Kong, China), which will be the world’s third-tallest building when completed in 2010; La Défense T1 tower office complex (Paris, France); National Gymnasium (Beijing, China), one of the city's new major sports venues; Poseidon residence, office and shopping complex (Pineto Teramo, Italy); Royal Air Force (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.); and the State Administration of Environmental Protection's (SEPA) Convention Compliance Center Building (Beijing, China), a showcase for advanced “green” building design.

As part of its ongoing initiatives to rebuild Bath and Kitchen’s profitability, the company announced plans to discontinue production at its ceramics plant in Excelsior, U.K., resulting in the elimination of about 140 jobs. These actions will cost about $17 million ($12 million after taxes) and, once completed, will generate annual savings of about $10 million starting in 2008. “We will start to see some of the savings this year,” said Poses. “We very carefully consider any plans that affect people’s jobs and believe these and any possible future actions are essential to improve Bath and Kitchen’s profitability and continue to build its global competitiveness.”

PLEASE NOTE: American Standard Chairman and CEO Frederic Poses and CFO Peter D'Aloia will discuss the company's performance and provide estimates on a two-way conference call for financial analysts at 9 a.m. EDT today. Related financial charts, reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures, and certain other information to be discussed on the conference call are available in the accompanying financial tables and under the heading, "American Standard's Second-Quarter 2007 Results" on the company's Web site, www.americanstandard.com. Reporters and the public are invited to listen to the call, which will be broadcast on the Web site and archived for one year. If you're unable to connect to the company's Web site, you may listen via telephone. The dial-in number is (913) 312-1264.

Please call five-to-10 minutes before the scheduled start time. The number of telephone connections is limited. A replay of the conference call will be available from 1 p.m. EDT today until 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 25. For the replay, please dial (719) 457-0820. The replay access code is 4371743.

Comments in this news release, particularly those related to earnings guidance, contain certain forward-looking statements, which are based on management’s good faith expectations and belief concerning future developments. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “believe,” “expect,” “plans,” “strategy,” “prospects,” “estimate,” “project,” “anticipate,” “intends” and other words of similar meaning. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations as a result of many factors including (i) pricing changes to materials used to produce products and the ability to offset those changes through price increases; (ii) changes in U.S. or international economic conditions, such as inflation and interest rate and exchange rate fluctuations; (iii) the actual level of construction activity and commercial vehicle production in the company’s end-markets; (iv) periodic adjustments to reserves for contingent liabilities, including reserves associated with litigation matters, government investigations, asbestos liabilities and asbestos insurance recoveries; and (v) the amount and timing of operational consolidation expenses and gains or losses on asset sales and tax items. In addition, there are risks and uncertainties relating to the planned tax-free spinoff of our Vehicle Controls System business and the sale of our Bath and Kitchen business, including the timing and certainty of the completion of those transactions and the ability of each business to operate as an independent entity. The estimates for full-year 2007 are based on the company’s current structure and do not give effect to the separation of Vehicle Control Systems into a newly independent public company and the sale of Bath and Kitchen or related one-time tax costs associated with those transactions.

 

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American Standard Q2 2007 Results — 5

 

Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations are set forth in the company’s 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K, in the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis” section of the company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in the WABCO Holdings Inc.’s Registration Statement on Form 10. American Standard does not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements. To facilitate understanding of second-quarter results, several tables follow this news release. The second-quarter 2006 and 2007 results that exclude operational consolidation expenses, gains on sale of assets, tax items, foreign exchange translation and separation costs are non-GAAP measures and include total company segment income, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share and free cash flow. In addition, certain results of the Bath and Kitchen business in the accompanying tables are non-GAAP measures. These measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, GAAP measures. Management believes that presenting these non-GAAP measures is useful to shareholders because it enhances their understanding of how management assesses the operating performance of the company’s business. In addition, the company uses segment income to make strategic and capital investment decisions, allocate resources and report business performance to the board of directors. Certain non-GAAP measures may be used, in part, to determine incentive compensation for current employees.

American Standard is an $11.2 billion global manufacturer with market-leading positions in three businesses: air conditioning systems and services, sold under the Trane® and American Standard® brands for commercial, institutional and residential buildings; bath and kitchen products, sold under such brands as American Standard® and Ideal Standard®; and vehicle control systems, including electronic braking and air suspension systems, sold under the WABCO® name to the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty trucks, buses, SUVs and luxury cars. The company employs approximately 62,000 people and has manufacturing operations in 28 countries. American Standard is included in both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index, which recognizes the top 20 percent of leaders in corporate sustainability in North America. On Feb. 1, 2007, the company announced plans to separate its three businesses by spinning off its vehicle control systems business, selling its bath and kitchen business and then renaming itself Trane. On July 12, 2007, the company announced its intention to complete the tax-free spinoff of its vehicle control systems business after the close of business on July 31, 2007.

For more information, reporters may contact: Skip Colcord, (732) 980-3065, hcolcord@americanstandard.com, or Shelly London, (732) 980-6175, slondon@americanstandard.com.

For more information, investors and financial analysts may contact:

Bruce Fisher, (732) 980-6095, bfisher@americanstandard.com, or Mike Thompson, +32 (2) 663 9854,

Mike.Thompson@wabco-auto.com.

Copyright © 2007 American Standard Companies Inc.

 

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American Standard Companies Inc.

Consolidated Statement of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

In millions    Three Months Ended June 30,    Six Months Ended June 30,  

except per share data

   2007     2006    2007    2006  

Sales

          

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 2,037.7     $ 1,858.5    $ 3,645.2    $ 3,321.9  

Vehicle Control Systems

     582.3       511.2      1,141.1      991.1  
                              

Total

   $ 2,620.0     $ 2,369.7    $ 4,786.3    $ 4,313.0  
                              

Segment income

          

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 288.8     $ 278.1    $ 446.2    $ 408.9  

Vehicle Control Systems

     67.1       59.5      140.8      127.3  
                              

Total

     355.9       337.6      587.0      536.2  

Equity in net income of unconsolidated joint ventures

     7.3       12.0      14.6      21.9  

Interest expense

     27.3       30.9      55.5      60.9  

Corporate and other expenses

     65.6       52.0      122.1      99.8  
                              

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

     270.3       266.7      424.0      397.4  

Income taxes

     82.8       77.5      135.1      116.2  
                              

Income from continuing operations

     187.5       189.2      288.9      281.2  

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax

     (11.5 )     2.5      60.4      (5.4 )
                              

Net Income

   $ 176.0     $ 191.7    $ 349.3    $ 275.8  
                              

Basic earnings per share:

          

Income from continuing operations

   $ 0.93     $ 0.94    $ 1.43    $ 1.38  

Income (loss) from discontinued operations

     (0.06 )     0.01      0.30      (0.03 )
                              

Net Income

   $ 0.87     $ 0.95    $ 1.73    $ 1.35  
                              

Diluted earnings per share:

          

Income from continuing operations

   $ 0.90     $ 0.91    $ 1.39    $ 1.35  

Income (loss) from discontinued operations

     (0.06 )     0.02      0.29      (0.03 )
                              

Net Income

   $ 0.84     $ 0.93    $ 1.68    $ 1.32  
                              

Diluted earnings per share, on an adjusted basis: (1)

   $ 1.05     $ 0.92    $ 1.63    $ 1.34  
                              

Average outstanding common shares:

          

Basic

     202.8       202.4      201.7      203.7  

Diluted

     208.4       207.1      207.4      208.2  

(1) See reconciliation on next page

 

Note: The presentation of total segment income and diluted earnings per share, on an adjusted basis is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). This measure may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Net Income to Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Net Income per Diluted Common Share

(Unaudited)

 

In millions    Three Months Ended June 30,     Six Months Ended June 30,  

except per share data

   2007     2006     2007     2006  

Net income

   $ 176.0     $ 191.7     $ 349.3     $ 275.8  

Adjustments:

        

Operational consolidation expenses, net of tax

     22.8       11.0       28.8       16.3  

Tax items

     (11.0 )     (9.0 )     (10.4 )     (9.0 )

Separation costs, net of tax and separation related taxes

     47.8       —         54.5       —    

Gain on sale of assets, net of tax

     —         (4.0 )     (56.8 )     (4.0 )

Adjustment to include depreciation and amortization of discontinued operations, net of tax (1)

     (17.5 )     —         (28.3 )     —    
                                

Adjusted net income

   $ 218.1     $ 189.7     $ 337.1     $ 279.1  
                                

Adjusted net income per diluted common share

   $ 1.05     $ 0.92     $ 1.63     $ 1.34  
     Three Months Ended June 30,     Six Months Ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2007     2006  

Income from Continuing Operations

   $ 187.5     $ 189.2     $ 288.9     $ 281.2  

Adjustments:

        

Operational consolidation expenses, net of tax

     5.3       0.3       6.1       1.3  

Tax items

     (10.7 )     (7.0 )     (9.7 )     (9.7 )

Separation costs, net of tax and separation related taxes

     26.4       —         32.0       —    
                                

Adjusted net income from continuing operations

   $ 208.5     $ 182.5     $ 317.3     $ 272.8  
                                

Adjusted income from continuing operations per diluted common share

   $ 1.00     $ 0.88     $ 1.53     $ 1.31  
                                
     2007     2006     2007     2006  

Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations

   $ (11.5 )   $ 2.5     $ 60.4     $ (5.4 )

Adjustments:

        

Operational consolidation expenses, net of tax

     17.5       10.7       22.7       15.0  

Tax items

     (0.3 )     (2.0 )     (0.7 )     0.7  

Separation costs, net of tax and separation related taxes

     21.4       —         22.5       —    

Gain on sale of assets, net of tax

     —         (4.0 )     (56.8 )     (4.0 )

Adjustment to include depreciation and amortization of discontinued operations, net of tax (1)

     (17.5 )     —         (28.3 )     —    
                                

Adjusted net income from discontinued operations

   $ 9.6     $ 7.2     $ 19.8     $ 6.3  
                                

Adjusted income from discontinued operations per diluted common share

   $ 0.05     $ 0.04     $ 0.10     $ 0.03  

(1) Assets are not depreciated or amortized once a business is classified as a discontinued operation. As a result of the decision to sell Bath and Kitchen, the GAAP results exclude Bath and Kitchen depreciation and amortization. Adjusted results include Bath and Kitchen depreciation and amortization. The Company provides adjusted results to facilitate understanding of ongoing financial performance

Note: The presentation of adjusted income from continuing operations, adjusted income per diluted common share from continuing operations, adjusted net income / (loss) from discontinued operations, adjusted net income per diluted common share from discontinued operations, adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted common share is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These measures may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Statement of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

In millions

except per share data

   Reported
2007
    BK
Adjustments
   

Before

Discontinued Ops
2007 (1)

Sales

      

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 2,037.7       $ 2,037.7

Bath & Kitchen

     —       660.5       660.5

Vehicle Control Systems

     582.3         582.3
                    

Total

   $ 2,620.0     660.5     $ 3,280.5
                

Segment income

      

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 288.8       $ 288.8

Bath & Kitchen

     —       21.9       21.9

Vehicle Control Systems

     67.1         67.1
                    

Total

     355.9     21.9       377.8

Equity in net income of unconsolidated joint ventures

     7.3     —         7.3

Interest expense

     27.3     0.6       27.9

Corporate and other expenses

     65.6     13.5       79.1
                    

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

     270.3     7.8       278.1

Income taxes

     82.8     19.3       102.1
                    

Income from continuing operations

     187.5     (11.5 )     176.0

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax

     (11.5 )   11.5       0.0
                    

Net Income

   $ 176.0       $ 176.0
                

(1) Includes Bath & Kitchen as if not a discontinued operation, except for the absence of depreciation and amortization following the decision to sell Bath & Kitchen.

American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Statement of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

In millions

except per share data

   Reported
2006
   BK
Adjustments
    Previously
Reported 2006

Sales

       

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 1,858.5      $ 1,858.5

Bath & Kitchen

     —      621.0       621.0

Vehicle Control Systems

     511.2        511.2
                   

Total

   $ 2,369.7    621.0     $ 2,990.7
               

Segment income

       

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 278.1      $ 278.1

Bath & Kitchen

     —      4.7       4.7

Vehicle Control Systems

     59.5        59.5
                   

Total

     337.6    4.7       342.3

Equity in net income of unconsolidated joint ventures

     12.0    —         12.0

Interest expense

     30.9    0.5       31.4

Corporate and other expenses

     52.0    6.5       58.5
                   

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

     266.7    (2.3 )     264.4

Income taxes

     77.5    (4.8 )   $ 72.7
                   

Income from continuing operations

     189.2    2.5       191.7

Income from discontinued operations, net of tax

     2.5    (2.5 )     0.0
                   

Net Income

   $ 191.7      $ 191.7
               

 

Note: The presentation of the results of operations before adjustments to reflect discontinued operations, previously reported 2006 results of operations before adjustments to reflect discontinued operations and total segment income is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These measures may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Statement of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,

In millions

except per share data

  

Reported

2007

  

BK

Adjustments

   

Before

Discontinued Ops

2007 (1)

       
       

Sales

       

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 3,645.2      $ 3,645.2

Bath & Kitchen

     —      1,318.4       1,318.4

Vehicle Control Systems

     1,141.1        1,141.1
                   

Total

   $ 4,786.3    1,318.4     $ 6,104.7
               

Segment income

       

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 446.2      $ 446.2

Bath & Kitchen

     —      127.8       127.8

Vehicle Control Systems

     140.8        140.8
                   

Total

     587.0    127.8       714.8

Equity in net income of unconsolidated joint ventures

     14.6    0.2       14.8

Interest expense

     55.5    0.9       56.4

Corporate and other expenses

     122.1    22.9       145.0
                   

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

     424.0    104.2       528.2

Income taxes

     135.1    43.8       178.9
                   

Income from continuing operations

     288.9    60.4       349.3

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax

     60.4    (60.4 )     0.0
                   

Net Income

   $ 349.3      $ 349.3
               

(1) Includes Bath & Kitchen as if not a discontinued operation, except for the absence of depreciation and amortization following the decision to sell Bath & Kitchen.

American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Statement of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,

In millions

except per share data

   Reported
2006
    BK
Adjustments
    Previously
Reported
2006

Sales

      

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 3,321.9       $ 3,321.9

Bath & Kitchen

     —       1,229.7       1,229.7

Vehicle Control Systems

     991.1         991.1
                    

Total

   $ 4,313.0     1,229.7     $ 5,542.7
                

Segment income

      

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

   $ 408.9       $ 408.9

Bath & Kitchen

     —       4.2       4.2

Vehicle Control Systems

     127.3         127.3
                    

Total

     536.2     4.2       540.4

Equity in net income of unconsolidated joint ventures

     21.9     —         21.9

Interest expense

     60.9     1.0       61.9

Corporate and other expenses

     99.8     15.3       115.1
                    

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

     397.4     (12.1 )     385.3

Income taxes

     116.2     (6.7 )   $ 109.5
                    

Income from continuing operations

     281.2     (5.4 )     275.8

Income from discontinued operations, net of tax

     (5.4 )   5.4       0.0
                    

Net Income

   $ 275.8       $ 275.8
                

 

Note: The presentation of the results of operations before adjustments to reflect discontinued operations, previously reported 2006 results of operations before adjustments to reflect discontinued operations and total segment income is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These measures may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Data Supplement Sheet

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,  

In millions

   Reported
2007
    Reported
2006
    % Chg vs.
2006
    % Chg vs. 2006
Adjusted (1)
 

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

        

Sales

   2,037.7     1,858.5     9.6 %   8.5 %

Segment Income

   288.8     278.1     3.8 %   3.6 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   14.2 %   15.0 %   -0.8  pts   -0.7  pts

Vehicle Control Systems

        

Sales

   582.3     511.2     13.9 %   6.8 %

Segment Income

   67.1     59.5     12.8 %   15.8 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   11.5 %   11.6 %   -0.1  pts   1.0  pts

Total Company—Continuing Operations

        

Sales

   2,620.0     2,369.7     10.6 %   8.1 %

Segment Income (2)

   355.9     337.6     5.4 %   5.8 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   13.6 %   14.2 %   -0.6  pts   -0.3  pts

Bath & Kitchen—Discontinued Operations

        

Sales

   660.5     621.0     6.4 %   1.8 %

Segment Income

   21.9     4.7     ++     67.6 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   3.3 %   0.8 %   2.5  pts   1.4  pts

Total Company

        

Sales

   3,280.5     2,990.7     9.7 %   6.8 %

Segment Income

   377.8     342.3     10.4 %   8.2 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   11.5 %   11.4 %   0.1  pts   0.1  pts

Net Income Applicable to Common Shareholders

   176.0     191.7     -8.2 %  

Net Income Applicable to Common Shareholders as a Percentage of Sales

   5.4 %   6.4 %   -1.0  pts  

Presenting results of operations excluding the translation effects of foreign exchange amounts, operational consolidation expenses, asset dispositions and depreciation / amortization is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Notwithstanding that the Bath & Kitchen business is a discontinued operation, management continues to analyze Bath & Kitchen sales, segment income and segment income as a percentage of sales to assess the performance of the Company as a whole. In addition, total company sales, total segment income and total segment income as a percentage of sales that include the non-GAAP Bath & Kitchen measures are also not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


(1) Excluding the impact of foreign exchange translational effects, operational consolidation expenses, gain on sale of assets, separation costs and an adjustment to include depreciation and amortization of discontinued operations. Changes in sales and segment income excluding foreign exchange effects are calculated using current year sales and segment income translated at prior year exchange rates.
(2) See Consolidated Statement of Operations for a reconciliation of total segment income to income before income taxes. In addition, see table above for presentation of net income applicable to common shareholders as a percentage of sales.

Segment Income Reconciliation

 

     Air Conditioning
Systems & Services
    Vehicle Control
Systems
    Bath & Kitchen     Total Company  

2007

        

Reported

   288.8     67.1     21.9     377.8  

Operational Consolidation Expenses

   0.8     7.7     25.8     34.3  

Adjustment to Include Depreciation and Amortization of Discontinued Operations

   —       —       (22.9 )   (22.9 )

Adjustment to Exclude Separation Costs

   —       0.5     —       0.5  
                        

Subtotal

   289.6     75.3     24.8     389.7  

Foreign Exchange Translational Effects

   (2.4 )   (4.8 )   (2.0 )   (9.2 )
                        

Adjusted Segment Income

   287.2     70.5     22.8     380.5  
     Air Conditioning
Systems & Services
    Vehicle Control
Systems
    Bath & Kitchen     Total Company  

2006

        

Reported

   278.1     59.5     4.7     342.3  

Operational Consolidation Expenses

   (0.9 )   1.4     15.2     15.7  

Gain on Sale of Assets

   —       —       (6.3 )   (6.3 )
                        

Adjusted Segment Income

   277.2     60.9     13.6     351.7  


American Standard Companies Inc.

Data Supplement Sheet

(Unaudited)

 

      Six Months Ended June 30,  

In millions

  

Reported

2007

   

Reported

2006

   

% Chg vs.

2006

   

% Chg vs. 2006

Adjusted (1)

 
        

Air Conditioning Systems and Services

        

Sales

   3,645.2     3,321.9     9.7 %   8.6 %

Segment Income

   446.2     408.9     9.1 %   8.7 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   12.2 %   12.3 %   -0.1  pts   0  pts

Backlog

   976.1     909.9     7.3 %   5.0 %

Vehicle Control Systems

        

Sales

   1,141.1     991.1     15.1 %   7.2 %

Segment Income

   140.8     127.3     10.6 %   7.1 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   12.3 %   12.8 %   -0.5  pts   0  pts

Backlog

   1,051.9     822.2     27.9 %   22.0 %

Total Company—Continuing Operations

        

Sales

   4,786.3     4,313.0     11.0 %   8.3 %

Segment Income (2)

   587.0     536.2     9.5 %   8.3 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   12.3 %   12.4 %   -0.1  pts   0  pts

Bath & Kitchen—Discontinued Operations

        

Sales

   1,318.4     1,229.7     7.2 %   2.3 %

Segment Income

   127.8     4.2     ++     95.3 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   9.7 %   0.3 %   9.4  pts   1.4  pts

Total Company

        

Sales

   6,104.7     5,542.7     10.1 %   7.0 %

Segment Income

   714.8     540.4     32.3 %   11.3 %

Segment Income as a Percentage of Sales

   11.7 %   9.8 %   1.9  pts   0.4  pts

Net Income Applicable to Common Shareholders

   349.3     275.8     26.7 %  

Net Income Applicable to Common Shareholders as a Percentage of Sales

   5.7 %   5.0 %   0.7  pts  

Presenting results of operations excluding the translation effects of foreign exchange amounts, operational consolidation expenses, asset dispositions and depreciation / amortization is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Notwithstanding that the Bath & Kitchen business is a discontinued operation, management continues to analyze Bath & Kitchen sales, segment income and segment income as a percentage of sales to assess the performance of the Company as a whole. In addition, total company sales, total segment income and total segment income as a percentage of sales that include the non-GAAP Bath & Kitchen measures are also not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


(1) Excluding the impact of foreign exchange translational effects, operational consolidation expenses, gain on sale of assets, separation costs and an adjustment to include depreciation and amortization of discontinued operations. Changes in sales and segment income excluding foreign exchange effects are calculated using current year sales and segment income translated at prior year exchange rates.
(2) See Consolidated Statement of Operations for a reconciliation of total segment income to income before income taxes. In addition, see table above for presentation of net income applicable to common shareholders as a percentage of sales.

Segment Income Reconciliation

 

     Air Conditioning
Systems & Services
    Vehicle Control
Systems
    Bath & Kitchen     Total Company  
2007         

Reported

   446.2     140.8     127.8     714.8  

Operational Consolidation Expenses

   1.0     8.6     33.5     43.1  

Adjustment to Include Depreciation and Amortization of Discontinued Operations

   —       —       (37.7 )   (37.7 )

Adjustment to Exclude Separation Costs

   —       0.5     —       0.5  

Gain on Sale of Assets

   —       —       (80.8 )   (80.8 )
                        

Subtotal

   447.2     149.9     42.8     639.9  

Foreign Exchange Translational Effects

   (3.2 )   (10.5 )   (5.5 )   (19.2 )
                        

Adjusted Segment Income

   444.0     139.4     37.3     620.7  
     Air Conditioning
Systems & Services
    Vehicle Control
Systems
    Bath & Kitchen     Total Company  
2006         

Reported

   408.9     127.3     4.2     540.4  

Operational Consolidation Expenses

   (0.4 )   2.9     21.2     23.7  

Gain on Sale of Assets

   —       —       (6.3 )   (6.3 )
                        

Adjusted Segment Income

   408.5     130.2     19.1     557.8  


American Standard Companies Inc.

2007 Earnings Per Share Reconciliation

(Unaudited)

 

In millions

except per share data

   FY 2007  

Net Income Reported

   $ 662.4 - $684.3  

Streamlining Expenses, net of tax

     67.2  

Asset Sales, net of tax and Tax Items

     (67.2 )

Separation Costs, net of tax and Separation Related Tax Costs

     85.0-88.0  

Adjustment to include Depreciation & Amortization from Discontinued Operations, net of tax

     (66.6 )
        

Adjusted Net Income

   $ 683.8 - $702.7  

Reported EPS

   $ 3.21 - $3.31  

Adjusted EPS

   $ 3.30 - $3.40  

Diluted Shares

     206.9  

2006 Earnings Per Share Reconciliation

(Unaudited)

 

     FY 2006  

Net Income Reported

   $ 541.0  

Streamlining Expenses, net of tax

     43.6  

Gain on Sale of Assets, net of tax

     (14.3 )

Tax Items

     (19.5 )
        

Adjusted Net Income

   $ 550.8  

Reported EPS

   $ 2.62  

Adjusted EPS

   $ 2.67  

Diluted Shares

     206.3  

 

Note: The presentation of adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted common share is not in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These measures may not be comparable to similar measures of other companies as not all companies calculate these measures in the same manner.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheet

(Unaudited)

 

(dollars in millions)

   June 30,
2007
    December 31,
2006
 

Current Assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 356.0     $ 267.8  

Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts: June 2007 - $44.6; Dec. 2006 - $44.8

     1,542.1       1,116.8  

Inventories

     926.6       829.9  

Other current assets

     540.5       439.8  

Assets held for sale

     2,218.9       2,151.4  
                

Total Current Assets

     5,584.1       4,805.7  

Facilities, less accumulated depreciation: June 2007 - $620.1; Dec. 2006 - $546.2

     1,059.0       1,058.4  

Goodwill

     666.4       649.0  

Capitalized software, less accumulated amortization: June 2007 - $316.3; Dec. 2006 - $290.9

     123.3       127.9  

Long-term asbestos receivable

     336.9       336.6  

Other assets

     470.5       435.5  
                

Total Assets

   $ 8,240.2     $ 7,413.1  
                

Current Liabilities:

    

Loans payable to banks

   $ 30.8     $ 91.6  

Current maturities of long-term debt

     27.7       23.1  

Accounts payable

     891.3       697.0  

Taxes on income

     117.4       114.3  

Other accrued liabilities

     1,169.3       1,105.8  

Liabilities related to assets held for sale

     940.5       861.0  
                

Total Current Liabilities

     3,177.0       2,892.8  

Long-Term Debt

     1,606.8       1,600.7  

Other Long-Term Liabilities

    

Reserve for post-retirement benefits

     711.2       691.7  

Long-term portion of asbestos liability

     642.6       652.8  

Other liabilities

     735.6       651.6  
                

Total Liabilities

     6,873.2       6,489.6  

Shareholders’ Equity

    

Preferred stock, 2,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding

     —         —    

Common stock $.01 par value, 560,000,000 shares authorized; shares issued: 251,776,110 in 2007; 251,773,228 in 2006; and shares outstanding: 203,908,577 in 2007; 199,891,689 in 2006

     2.5       2.5  

Capital surplus

     940.7       897.0  

Treasury stock

     (1,405.6 )     (1,523.3 )

Retained earnings (1)

     2,229.8       1,972.4  

Foreign currency translation effects

     (106.5 )     (138.9 )

Deferred gain on hedge contracts, net of tax

     1.4       3.3  

Unrealized losses on benefit plans, net of tax

     (295.3 )     (289.5 )
                

Total Shareholders’ Equity

     1,367.0       923.5  
                

Total Liabilities & Shareholders’ Equity

   $ 8,240.2     $ 7,413.1  
                

(1) Includes impact of adopting FASB Interpretation No.48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an Interpretation of FASB Statement No.109


American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Net Cash Provided

By Operating Activities to Free Cash Flow

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended June 30,  

In millions

   2007     2006  

Cash provided by operating activities: (1)

    

Net Income

   $ 176.0     $ 191.7  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities

     49.9       (26.9 )
                
Net cash provided by operating activities (2)      225.9       164.8  

Other deductions or additions to reconcile to Free Cash Flow:

    

Purchases of property, plant, equipment and computer software

     (67.9 )     (56.9 )

Proceeds from disposals of property

     —         15.2  
                
Free cash flow (2)    $ 158.0     $ 123.1  
                

(1) Includes continuing and discontinued operations
(2) Excludes separation activities related to terminating accounts receivable securitization program and separation costs as well as an accelerated pension contribution and proceeds from the disposition of a business.

 

Note: This statement reconciles net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow. Management uses free cash flow, which is not defined by US GAAP, to measure the Company’s operating performance. Free cash flow is also one of several measures used to determine incentive compensation for certain employees.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Net Cash Provided

By Operating Activities to Free Cash Flow

(Unaudited)

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,  

In millions

   2007     2006  

Cash provided by operating activities: (1)

    

Net Income

   $ 349.3     $ 275.8  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities

     (16.6 )     (122.6 )
                

Net cash provided by operating activities (2)

     332.7       153.2  

Other deductions or additions to reconcile to Free Cash Flow:

    

Purchases of property, plant, equipment and computer software

     (120.7 )     (106.3 )

Proceeds from disposals of property

     —         15.2  
                

Free cash flow (2)

   $ 212.0     $ 62.1  
                

(1) Includes continuing and discontinued operations
(2) Excludes $165.0M proceeds from the sale of the Venesta Washroom Systems business, separation activities related to terminating accounts receivable securitization program and separation costs as well as an accelerated pension contribution and proceeds from the disposition of a business. Includes $64.9M receipt of cash from a trust related to an insurance settlement.

 

Note: This statement reconciles net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow. Management uses free cash flow, which is not defined by US GAAP, to measure the Company’s operating performance. Free cash flow is also one of several measures used to determine incentive compensation for certain employees.


American Standard Companies Inc.

Reconciliation of Net Cash Provided By

Operating Activities to Free Cash Flow

(Unaudited)

 

      Twelve Months Ended December 31,  

In millions

   2007 Estimate     2006  

Net cash provided by operating activities (1)

   $  Approx. 1,015.0     $ 706.3  

Other deductions or additions to reconcile to Free Cash Flow:

    

Purchases of property, plant, equipment and computer software

     Approx. (325.0 )     (285.1 )

Proceeds from disposals of property

     Approx. 25.0       20.6  
                

Free cash flow (2)

   $ Approx. 715.0     $ 441.8  
                

(1) Includes continuing and discontinued operations
(2) Excludes separation activities related to terminating accounts receivable securitization program and separation costs as well as an accelerated pension contribution and proceeds from the disposition of a business.

 

Note: This statement reconciles net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow. Management uses free cash flow, which is not defined by US GAAP, to measure the Company’s operating performance. Free cash flow is one of several measures used to determine incentive compensation for certain employees.
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