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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 13, 2005

GENENTECH, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Delaware   1-9813   94-2347624
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission   (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation)   File Number)   Identification No.)

1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, California 94080-4990

(Address of principal executive offices and Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (650) 225-1000

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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

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

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

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

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

 
 

 


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ITEM 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
ITEM 8.01 Other Events
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 4.1
EXHIBIT 4.2
EXHIBIT 4.6
EXHIBIT 99.1
EXHIBIT 99.2


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ITEM 1.01
  Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On July 18, 2005, Genentech, Inc. (the “Company”), sold $500,000,000 in principal amount of the Company’s 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010 (the “2010 Notes”), $1,000,000,000 in principal amount of the Company’s 4.75% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes”) and $500,000,000 in principal amount of the Company’s 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes” and together with the 2010 Notes and 2015 Notes, the “Securities”). The Securities were sold pursuant to a Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 13, 2005 (the “Purchase Agreement”), among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as representatives of the initial purchasers identified therein (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”). The Securities were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of July 18, 2005 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

The Purchase Agreement provides that the Securities will be offered and sold to the Initial Purchasers and reoffered by the Initial Purchasers without being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on applicable exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

The Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees will be entitled to the benefits of a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), between the Company and the Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has agreed to register the Securities under the Securities Act within a specified time or pay additional amounts to the holders of notes.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering, which were approximately $1.99 billion, to reduce or repay its obligations under certain existing synthetic and other lease arrangements, including a synthetic lease related to its manufacturing facility in Vacaville, California. The Company also intends to fund upgrade, start-up and validation costs at its recently acquired biologics manufacturing facility in Oceanside, California. It intends to use the balance of the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include additional capital expenditures, working capital, stock repurchases, research and development expenses and acquisitions of or investments in products, technologies, facilities and businesses.

The 2010 Notes will bear interest at 4.40% per year and will mature on July 15, 2010. The 2015 Notes will bear interest at 4.75% per year and will mature on July 15, 2015. The 2035 Notes will bear interest at 5.25% per year and will mature on July 15, 2035. Interest on the Securities will be payable on January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on January 15, 2006. Interest on the Securities will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and will accrue from July 18, 2005.

The Company has the right to redeem any or all of the Securities at any time at a price equal to the greater of the principal amount thereof and the sum of the present value of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest in respect of the Securities to be redeemed, discounted to the date of redemption, plus, in each case, accrued interest. The Securities may also be accelerated under certain circumstances in the case of an Event of Default (as defined in the Indenture). The Securities are not entitled to a sinking fund and the Holders of the Securities may not require the Company to repurchase the Securities.

The above descriptions of the Indenture, the Securities, the Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement are summaries only and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the respective exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

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

See disclosure under Item 1.01 of this report, which is incorporated by reference in this Item 2.03.

 


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ITEM 8.01
  Other Events

On July 13, 2005, the Company issued two press releases with respect to its offer of the Securities. A copy of the press releases are attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

     
ITEM 9.01
  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

     (c) Exhibits

     
Exhibit No.    
 
4.1
  Indenture, dated as of July 18, 2005, between the Company and Bank of New York, as trustee
 
4.2
  Officers’ Certificate of Genentech, Inc. dated July 18, 2005, including forms of the Company’s 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010, 4.75 Senior Notes due 2015 and 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035
 
4.3
  Form of 4.40% Senior Note due 2010 (incorporated by reference to Annex A of Exhibit 4.2 to this Report)
 
4.4
  Form of 4.75% Senior Note due 2015 (incorporated by reference to Annex B of Exhibit 4.2 to this Report)
 
4.5
  Form of 5.25% Senior Note due 2035 (incorporated by reference to Annex C of Exhibit 4.2 to this Report)
 
4.6
  Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005, among Genentech, Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as representatives of the initial purchasers
 
99.1
  Press release dated July 13, 2005, announcing the Company’s intention to offer the Securities
 
99.2
  Press release dated July 13, 2005, announcing the pricing of the Securities

 


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               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.
         
     
Dated: July 19, 2005  By:   /s/ Stephen G. Juelsgaard    
    Stephen G. Juelsgaard   
    Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary   

 


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EXHIBIT INDEX

     
Exhibit No.   Description
 
4.1
  Indenture, dated as of July 18, 2005, between the Company and Bank of New York, as trustee
 
4.2
  Officers’ Certificate of Genentech, Inc. dated July 18, 2005, including forms of the Company’s 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010, 4.75 Senior Notes due 2015 and 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035
 
4.3
  Form of 4.40% Senior Note due 2010 (incorporated by reference to Annex A of Exhibit 4.2 to this Report)
 
4.4
  Form of 4.75% Senior Note due 2015 (incorporated by reference to Annex B of Exhibit 4.2 to this Report)
 
4.5
  Form of 5.25% Senior Note due 2035 (incorporated by reference to Annex C of Exhibit 4.2 to this Report)
 
4.6
  Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005, among Genentech, Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as representatives of the initial purchasers
 
99.1
  Press release dated July 13, 2005, announcing the Company’s intention to offer the Securities
 
99.2
  Press release dated July 13, 2005, announcing the pricing of the Securities

 

EX-4.1 2 f10782exv4w1.htm EXHIBIT 4.1 exv4w1
 

Exhibit 4.1

EXECUTION VERSION

GENENTECH, INC.

INDENTURE

Dated as of July 18, 2005

THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,

as Trustee

 


 

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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE     1  
 
               
 
  Section 1.1.   Definitions     1  
 
  Section 1.2.   Other Definitions     5  
 
  Section 1.3.   Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act     5  
 
  Section 1.4.   Rules of Construction     6  
 
               
ARTICLE II. THE SECURITIES     6  
 
               
 
  Section 2.1.   Issuable in Series     6  
 
  Section 2.2.   Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities     7  
 
  Section 2.3.   Execution and Authentication     9  
 
  Section 2.4.   Registrar and Paying Agent     11  
 
  Section 2.5.   Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust     12  
 
  Section 2.6.   Securityholder Lists     12  
 
  Section 2.7.   Transfer and Exchange     12  
 
  Section 2.8.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities     13  
 
  Section 2.9.   Outstanding Securities     14  
 
  Section 2.10.   Treasury Securities     14  
 
  Section 2.11.   Temporary Securities     14  
 
  Section 2.12.   Cancellation     15  
 
  Section 2.13.   Defaulted Interest     15  
 
  Section 2.14.   Global Securities     15  
 
  Section 2.15.   CUSIP Numbers     17  
 
               
ARTICLE III. REDEMPTION     17  
 
               
 
  Section 3.1.   Notice to Trustee     17  
 
  Section 3.2.   Selection of Securities to be Redeemed     17  
 
  Section 3.3.   Notice of Redemption     17  
 
  Section 3.4.   Effect of Notice of Redemption     18  
 
  Section 3.5.   Deposit of Redemption Price     18  
 
  Section 3.6.   Securities Redeemed in Part     19  
 
               
ARTICLE IV. COVENANTS     19  
 
               
 
  Section 4.1.   Payment of Principal and Interest     19  
 
  Section 4.2.   SEC Reports     19  
 
  Section 4.3.   Compliance Certificate     19  
 
  Section 4.4.   Stay, Extension and Usury Laws     20  
 
  Section 4.5.   Existence     20  

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ARTICLE V. SUCCESSORS     20  
 
               
 
  Section 5.1.   When Company May Merge, Etc     20  
 
  Section 5.2.   Successor Corporation Substituted     21  
 
               
ARTICLE VI. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES     21  
 
               
 
  Section 6.1.   Events of Default     21  
 
  Section 6.2.   Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment     22  
 
  Section 6.3.   Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee     23  
 
  Section 6.4.   Trustee May File Proofs of Claim     24  
 
  Section 6.5.   Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities     25  
 
  Section 6.6.   Application of Money Collected     25  
 
  Section 6.7.   Limitation on Suits     26  
 
  Section 6.8.   Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest     26  
 
  Section 6.9.   Restoration of Rights and Remedies     26  
 
  Section 6.10.   Rights and Remedies Cumulative     27  
 
  Section 6.11.   Delay or Omission Not Waiver     27  
 
  Section 6.12.   Control by Holders     27  
 
  Section 6.13.   Waiver of Past Defaults     27  
 
  Section 6.14.   Undertaking for Costs     28  
 
               
ARTICLE VII. TRUSTEE     28  
 
               
 
  Section 7.1.   Duties of Trustee     28  
 
  Section 7.2.   Rights of Trustee     29  
 
  Section 7.3.   Individual Rights of Trustee     31  
 
  Section 7.4.   Trustee’s Disclaimer     31  
 
  Section 7.5.   Notice of Defaults     31  
 
  Section 7.6.   Reports by Trustee to Holders     31  
 
  Section 7.7.   Compensation and Indemnity     32  
 
  Section 7.8.   Replacement of Trustee     32  
 
  Section 7.9.   Successor Trustee by Merger, etc     33  
 
  Section 7.10.   Eligibility; Disqualification     33  
 
  Section 7.11.   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company     34  
 
               
ARTICLE VIII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE     34  
 
               
 
  Section 8.1.   Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture     34  
 
  Section 8.2.   Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification     35  
 
  Section 8.3.   Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series     35  
 
  Section 8.4.   Covenant Defeasance     37  
 
  Section 8.5.   Repayment to Company     38  
 
  Section 8.6.   Reinstatement     38  

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ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS     39  
 
               
 
  Section 9.1.   Without Consent of Holders     39  
 
  Section 9.2.   With Consent of Holders     39  
 
  Section 9.3.   Limitations     40  
 
  Section 9.4.   Compliance with Trust Indenture Act     40  
 
  Section 9.5.   Revocation and Effect of Consents     41  
 
  Section 9.6.   Notation on or Exchange of Securities     41  
 
  Section 9.7.   Trustee Protected     41  
 
               
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS     41  
 
               
 
  Section 10.1.   Trust Indenture Act Controls     41  
 
  Section 10.2.   Notices     42  
 
  Section 10.3.   Communication by Holders with Other Holders     43  
 
  Section 10.4.   Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent     43  
 
  Section 10.5.   Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion     43  
 
  Section 10.6.   Rules by Trustee and Agents     43  
 
  Section 10.7.   Legal Holidays     44  
 
  Section 10.8.   No Recourse Against Others     44  
 
  Section 10.9.   Counterparts     44  
 
  Section 10.10.   Governing Laws     44  
 
  Section 10.11.   No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements     44  
 
  Section 10.12.   Successors     44  
 
  Section 10.13.   Severability     45  
 
  Section 10.14.   Table of Contents, Headings, Etc     45  
 
  Section 10.15.   Securities in a Foreign Currency     45  
 
  Section 10.16.   Judgment Currency     45  
 
               
ARTICLE XI. SINKING FUNDS     46  
 
               
 
  Section 11.1.   Applicability of Article     46  
 
  Section 11.2.   Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities     46  
 
  Section 11.3.   Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund     47  

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GENENTECH, INC.
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and
Indenture, dated as of July 18, 2005

         
Section 310
  (a)(1)   7.10
 
  (a)(2)   7.10
 
  (a)(3)   NOT APPLICABLE
 
  (a)(4)   NOT APPLICABLE
 
  (a)(5)   7.10
 
  (b)   7.10
Section 311
  (a)   7.11
 
  (b)   7.11
 
  (c)   NOT APPLICABLE
Section 312
  (a)   2.6
 
  (b)   10.3
 
  (c)   10.3
Section 313
  (a)   7.6
 
  (b)(1)   7.6
 
  (b)(2)   7.6
 
  (c)(1)   7.6
 
  (d)   7.6
Section 314
  (a)   4.2, 10.5
 
  (b)   NOT APPLICABLE
 
  (c)(1)   10.4
 
  (c)(2)   10.4
 
  (c)(3)   NOT APPLICABLE
 
  (d)   NOT APPLICABLE
 
  (e)   10.5
 
  (f)   NOT APPLICABLE
Section 315
  (a)   7.1
 
  (b)   7.5
 
  (c)   7.1
 
  (d)   7.1
 
  (e)   6.14
Section 316
  (a)   2.10
 
  (a)(1)(a)   6.12
 
  (a)(1)(b)   6.13
 
  (b)   6.8
Section 317
  (a)(1)   6.3
 
  (a)(2)   6.4
 
  (b)   2.5
Section 318
  (a)   10.1
 
Note:   This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the Indenture.

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     Indenture dated as of July 18, 2005 between Genentech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (“Trustee”).

     Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture.

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     Section 1.1. Definitions.

     “Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts which are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on Holders specified herein or therein and which are owing to such Holders.

     “Affiliate” of any specified person means any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by agreement or otherwise.

     “Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent.

     “Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper in an official language of the country of publication customarily published at least once a day for at least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is used. If it shall be impractical in the opinion of the Trustee to make any publication of any notice required hereby in an Authorized Newspaper, any publication or other notice in lieu thereof that is made or given by the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.

     “Bearer” means anyone in possession from time to time of a Bearer Security.

     “Bearer Security” means any Security, including any interest coupon appertaining thereto, that does not provide for the identification of the Holder thereof.

     “Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof.

     “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been adopted by the Board of Directors or pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of the certificate and delivered to the Trustee.

 


 

     “Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

     “Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock.

     “Company” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor.

     “Company Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

     “Company Request” means a written request signed in the name of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

     “Corporate Trust Office” means the designated office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, California 90017, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

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

     “Depository” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the person designated as Depository for such Series by the Company, which Depository shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Depository” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depository with respect to the Securities of such Series.

     “Discount Security” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

     “Dollars” and “$” means the official currency of The United States of America.

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

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     “Foreign Currency” means any official currency or currency unit issued by a government other than the government of The United States of America.

     “Foreign Government Obligations” means, with respect to Securities of any Series that are denominated in a Foreign Currency, (i) direct obligations of the government that issued or caused to be issued such currency for the payment of which obligations its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by or acting as an agency or instrumentality of such government the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by such government, which, in either case under clauses (i) or (ii), are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.

     “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of determination.

     “Global Security” or “Global Securities” means a Security or Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depository for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or nominee.

     “Holder” or “Securityholder” means a person in whose name a Security is registered or the holder of a Bearer Security.

     “Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

     “interest” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity means interest payable after Maturity.

     “Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or installment of principal thereof, means the date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

     “Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Controller, the Director of Finance and Accounting, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.

     “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

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

     “principal” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security.

     “Responsible Officer” shall mean, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

     “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

     “Securities” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

     “Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof.

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

     “Subsidiary” of any specified person means any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof.

     “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended.

     “Trustee” means the person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean each person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that Series.

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     “U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of The United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of The United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by The United States of America, and which are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

     Section 1.2. Other Definitions.

     
    DEFINED IN
TERM   SECTION
“Bankruptcy Law”
  6.1
“Custodian”
  6.1
“Event of Default”
  6.1
“Judgment Currency”
  10.16
“Legal Holiday”
  10.7
“mandatory sinking fund payment”
  11.1
“Market Exchange Rate”
  10.15
“New York Banking Day”
  10.16
“optional sinking fund payment”
  11.1
“Paying Agent”
  2.4
“Registrar”
  2.4
“Required Currency”
  10.16
“Service Agent”
  2.4
“successor person”
  5.1

     Section 1.3. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.

     Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

     “Commission” means the SEC.

     “indenture securities” means the Securities.

     “indenture security holder” means a Securityholder.

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     “indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

     “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

     “obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities.

     All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined.

     Section 1.4. Rules of Construction.

     Unless the context otherwise requires:

          (a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

          (b) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

          (c) references to “generally accepted accounting principles” and “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in effect as of the time when and for the period as to which such accounting principles are to be applied;

          (d) “or” is not exclusive;

          (e) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular; and

          (f) provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

ARTICLE II.

THE SECURITIES

     Section 2.1. Issuable in Series.

     The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record

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date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

     Section 2.2. Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities.

     At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsection 2.2.1 and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through 2.2.23) by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate:

          2.2.1 the title of the Series (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series);

          2.2.2 the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;

          2.2.3 any limit upon the aggregate principal amount, or accreted value in the case of a Discount Security, of the Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6);

          2.2.4 the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable;

          2.2.5 the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such interest, if any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

          2.2.6 the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable, where the Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served, and the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail or other means;

          2.2.7 if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

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          2.2.8 the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase the Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

          2.2.9 the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such repurchase obligations;

          2.2.10 if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable;

          2.2.11 the forms of the Securities of the Series in bearer or fully registered form (and, if in fully registered form, whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities);

          2.2.12 the provisions, if any, relating to the restrictions on resales of the Securities of the Series;

          2.2.13 if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2;

          2.2.14 the currency of denomination of the Securities of the Series, which may be Dollars or any Foreign Currency, and the agency or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing such composite currency;

          2.2.15 the designation of the currency, currencies or currency units in which payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be made;

          2.2.16 if payments of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series are to be made in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are denominated, the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments will be determined;

          2.2.17 the manner in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if such amounts may be determined by reference to an index based on a currency or currencies or by reference to a commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index;

          2.2.18 the provisions, if any, relating to any security provided for the Securities of the Series;

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          2.2.19 any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 6.2;

          2.2.20 any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or V which applies to Securities of the Series;

          2.2.21 the provisions, if any, relating to conversion of any Securities of such Series, including, if applicable, the conversion price, the conversion period, provisions as to whether conversion will be mandatory, at the option of the Holders or at the option of the Company, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion price and provisions affecting conversion if such Series of Securities are redeemed;

          2.2.22 whether the Securities of such Series will be senior debt securities or subordinated debt securities and, if applicable, a description of the subordination terms thereof;

          2.2.23 any depositories, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if other than those appointed herein; and

          2.2.24 any other terms of the Securities of the Series (which may modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series).

     All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate referred to above, and the authorized principal amount of any Series may not be increased to provide for issuances of additional Securities of such Series, unless otherwise provided in such Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate.

     Section 2.3. Execution and Authentication.

    Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

     If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.

     A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.

     The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Such Company Order shall authorize

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authentication and delivery instructions from the Company or its duly authorized agent or agents. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

     The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8.

     Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate establishing the form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series, (b) an Officers’ Certificate complying with Section 10.4 and (c) if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4.

     In addition to the foregoing, when the Company delivers Securities of any Series executed by it to the Trustee for authentication, the Trustee shall receive and shall be fully protected in relying upon an Opinion of Counsel which shall state:

  (1)   that the form of such Securities has been established in or pursuant to a supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate in accordance with Section 2.2 and in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
 
  (2)   that the terms of such Securities have been established in accordance with Section 2.2 and in conformity with the other provisions of this Indenture; and
 
  (3)   that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

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

“This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
         As Trustee
 
 
  By:      
    Authorized Officer”   
       
 

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     The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully; or (b) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or vice-presidents shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities.

     The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

     Section 2.4. Registrar and Paying Agent.

     The Company shall maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the place or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying Agent”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served (“Service Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee (or its affiliate located at The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, 8 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration), and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional service agents and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent in each place so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 for Securities of any Series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional service agent. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar; the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “Service Agent” includes any additional service agent.

     The Company hereby appoints the Trustee the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued.

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     Section 2.5. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.

     The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent.

     Section 2.6. Securityholder Lists.

     The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten (10) days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities.

     Section 2.7. Transfer and Exchange.

     Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6).

     Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

     Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange will (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written

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instrument or instruments of transfer, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

     Each Holder of a Security agrees to indemnify the Company and the Trustee against any liability that may result from the transfer, exchange or assignment of such Holder’s Security in violation of any provision of this Indenture and/or applicable United States Federal or state securities law.

     The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any global security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

     Section 2.8. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

     If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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

     Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 2.8, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses connected therewith.

     Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this Section 2.8 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that Series duly issued hereunder.

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     The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

     Section 2.9. Outstanding Securities.

     The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those described in this Section as not outstanding.

     If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser.

     If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

     A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.

     In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

     Section 2.10. Treasury Securities.

     In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Company shall be disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities of a Series that the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.

     Section 2.11. Temporary Securities.

     Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon request shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and date of

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maturity in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.

     Section 2.12. Cancellation.

     The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation in accordance with its customary procedures and deliver such canceled Securities to the Company, unless the Company otherwise directs; provided that the Trustee shall not be required to destroy Securities. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

     Section 2.13. Defaulted Interest.

     If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities and such Series provides for payment of interest upon such defaulted payment of interest, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall fix the record date and payment date. At least ten (10) days before the record date, the Company shall mail to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount of interest to be paid. The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner.

     Section 2.14. Global Securities.

          2.14.1 Terms of Securities. A Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depository for such Global Security or Securities.

          2.14.2 Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the names of Holders other than the Depository for such Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any time such Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depository registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such event, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented by such Global Security shall have happened and be continuing. Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the

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Depository shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor and terms.

     Except as provided in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository with respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depository, by a nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository.

          2.14.3 Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

     “This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of the Depository or a nominee of the Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository, by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository.”

          2.14.4 Acts of Holders. The Depository, as a Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture.

          2.14.5 Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof.

          2.14.6 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to the due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered or the holder of a Bearer Security as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 2.13) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustees nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee will be affected by notice to the contrary. None of the Company, the Trustee or any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of any Security in global form, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. However, nothing herein shall prevent the Company or the Trustee, or any Agent, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any depository or its nominee, as a Holder, with respect to such Security in global form, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such depository as Holder of such Security in global form.

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     Section 2.15. CUSIP Numbers.

     The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in “CUSIP” numbers of which the Company becomes aware.

ARTICLE III.

REDEMPTION

     Section 3.1. Notice to Trustee.

     The Company may, with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities. If a Series of Securities is redeemable and the Company elects or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee of the redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice to the Trustee at least 10 days before the Company mails the notice of redemption to each Holder as described in Section 3.3 hereof (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).

     Section 3.2. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.

     Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate, if fewer than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities of the Series to be redeemed in any manner that the Trustee deems fair and appropriate or otherwise as required by law. The Trustee shall make the selection from Securities of the Series outstanding not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities of the Series that have denominations larger than $1,000. Securities of the Series and portions of them it selects shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the minimum principal denomination for each Series and integral multiples thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for redemption.

     Section 3.3. Notice of Redemption.

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redemption date, the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail to each Holder who is a record holder of Securities whose Securities are to be redeemed and take such reasonable actions so that the beneficial holders will receive such notice in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary and if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion a notice in an Authorized Newspaper.

     The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state:

  (a)   the redemption date;
 
  (b)   the appropriate method for calculation of the redemption price;
 
  (c)   the name and address of the Paying Agent;
 
  (d)   that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;
 
  (e)   that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;
 
  (f)   the CUSIP number, if any; and
 
  (g)   any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.

     At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense.

     Section 3.4. Effect of Notice of Redemption.

     Once notice of redemption is mailed or published as provided in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price. A notice of redemption may not be conditional. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to the redemption date; provided that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the redemption date and that are owing shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities (or one or more predecessor Securities) registered at the close of business on the relevant record date therefor according to their terms and the terms of this Indenture.

     Section 3.5. Deposit of Redemption Price.

     On or before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date.

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     Section 3.6. Securities Redeemed in Part.

     Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.

ARTICLE IV.

COVENANTS

     Section 4.1. Payment of Principal and Interest.

     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.

     Section 4.2. SEC Reports.

     The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a). Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officers’ Certificate).

     Section 4.3. Compliance Certificate.

     The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officers’ Certificate stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder), and if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, specifying all such Defaults or Events of Default and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.

     The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, within thirty (30) days after becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

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     Section 4.4. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.

     The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

     Section 4.5. Existence.

     Subject to Article V, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights and franchises; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if it determines that their preservation is no longer desirable in the conduct of business.

ARTICLE V.

SUCCESSORS

     Section 5.1. When Company May Merge, Etc.

     The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, any person (a “successor person”) unless, in the case of a merger or consolidation, the Company is the surviving corporation, or:

          (a) the successor person (if other than the Company) is organized and validly existing under the laws of any jurisdiction of or within the U.S. or Switzerland and expressly assumes under a supplemental indenture the Company’s obligations on the applicable series of Securities and under the Indenture with respect to the applicable series; provided that in the case of any successor person organized and validly existing under the laws of any jurisdiction of or within Switzerland, such supplemental indenture shall also include (1) an undertaking by such successor person to provide information as reasonably requested by any Holder to assist in perfecting any rights such Holder has to a reduced rate of withholding tax under an income tax treaty between Switzerland and the Holder’s country of residence, and (2) such provisions with respect to increased withholding taxes as a result of a change in any applicable laws (or in the interpretation or application of such laws) as would be customary and appropriate (in the reasonable determination of the Company) for Securities issued by a Swiss issuer for sale primarily into the U.S. at the date of such supplemental indenture (including a requirement that the successor person either pay additional amounts to compensate the Holders for such additional withholding taxes or redeem the Securities); and

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          (b) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the applicable series.

     The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officers’ Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and any supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture.

     Section 5.2. Successor Corporation Substituted.

     Upon any consolidation with, or merger into, any other Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Company in the case of any such conveyance or transfer (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE VI.

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     Section 6.1. Events of Default.

     “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default:

          (a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by the Company with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent prior to the expiration of such period of 30 days); or

          (b) default in the payment of principal of any Security of that Series at its Maturity; or

          (c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due in respect of any Security of that Series; or

          (d) default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty for which the consequences of nonperformance or breach are addressed elsewhere in this Section 6.1 and other than a covenant or warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of Securities other

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than that Series), which default continues uncured for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

          (e) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

               (i) commences a voluntary case,

               (ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

               (iii) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

               (iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

               (v) admits in writing that it is generally unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or

          (f) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

               (i) is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case,

               (ii) appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or

               (iii) orders the liquidation of the Company,

and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or

          (g) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2.18.

     The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

     Section 6.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

     If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f)), then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities

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of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on such Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or (f) shall occur, the principal amount (or specified amount) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

     At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

          (a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

               (i) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,

               (ii) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that Series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,

               (iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and

               (iv) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel; and

          (b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on Securities of that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13.

     No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     Section 6.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

     The Company covenants that if

          (a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

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          (b) default is made in the payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof, or

          (c) default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of a Security,

then the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, if provided in a particular series of Securities, interest on any overdue principal and any overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

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

     If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities of any Series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such Series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

     Section 6.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

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

          (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

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          (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same,

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7.

     Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

     Section 6.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.

     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

     Section 6.6. Application of Money Collected.

     Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

     First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and

     Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and

     Third: To the Company.

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     Section 6.7. Limitation on Suits.

     No Holder of any Security of any Series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

          (a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that Series;

          (b) the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

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

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

          (e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series;

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

     Section 6.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest.

     Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

     Section 6.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

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     Section 6.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

     Section 6.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

     Section 6.12. Control by Holders.

     The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that

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

          (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and

          (c) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability.

     Section 6.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.

     The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such Series waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such Series and its consequences, except a Default (i) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration) or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the

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consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security of such Series affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     Section 6.14. Undertaking for Costs.

     All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date).

ARTICLE VII.

TRUSTEE

     Section 7.1. Duties of Trustee.

          (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

          (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

               (i) The Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture.

               (ii) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon Officers’ Certificates or Opinions of Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officers’ Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officers’ Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

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          (c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

               (i) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section.

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

               (iii) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series.

          (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraph (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.

          (e) The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power at the request or direction of any Holder unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.

          (f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

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

          (h) The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon facsimile transmission of written instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture, it being understood that originals of such shall be provided to the Trustee in a timely manner.

     Section 7.2. Rights of Trustee.

          (a) The Trustee may conclusively rely on and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

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          (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or, if requested, an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

          (c) The Trustee may act through agents and attorneys and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent or attorney appointed with due care. No Depository shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depository.

          (d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers, provided that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute negligence or bad faith.

          (e) The Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder without negligence and in good faith and in reliance thereon.

          (f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

          (g) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.

          (h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities generally or the Securities of a particular Series and this Indenture.

          (i) The permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.

          (j) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder (including, but not limited to as Paying Agent and Registrar).

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          (k) The Trustee may reasonably request that the Company deliver a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit A setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

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

     Section 7.3. Individual Rights of Trustee.

     The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

     Section 7.4. Trustee’s Disclaimer.

     The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication.

     Section 7.5. Notice of Defaults.

     If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as its corporate trust committee or a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series.

     Section 7.6. Reports by Trustee to Holders.

     Within 60 days after May 15 in each year, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish in an Authorized Newspaper, a brief report dated as of such May 15, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA Section 313.

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     A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange on which the Securities of that Series are listed. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee when Securities of any Series are listed on any stock exchange.

     Section 7.7. Compensation and Indemnity.

     The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for its services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree upon in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements, and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement, or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith, and indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and hold them harmless against, any and all loss, liability, claim, damage or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee) incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder or in connection with enforcing the provisions of this Section.

     To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities of that Series.

     When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or (f) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

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

     Section 7.8. Replacement of Trustee.

     A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.

     The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Company at least 30 days prior to the date of the proposed resignation. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company. The Company may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series if:

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          (a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

          (b) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

          (c) a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

          (d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

     If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

     If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction, at the expense of such petitioner, for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

     A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish such notice on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it prior to such replacement.

     Section 7.9. Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.

     If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

     Section 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification.

     This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).

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     Section 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

     The Trustee is subject to TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE VIII.

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

     Section 8.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

     This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease to be of further effect (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

          (a) any of the following shall have occurred:

               (i) no Securities have been issued hereunder;

               (ii) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

               (iii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

                    (1) have become due and payable, or

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

                    (3) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company;

and in the case of (iii) above, the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable on or prior to the date of such deposit) or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be;

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

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          (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.7 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.5 shall survive.

     Section 8.2. Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification.

          (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (other than the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Sections 8.3 or 8.4.

          (b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Sections 8.3 or 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders.

          (c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Sections 8.3 or 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money were deposited or received. This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held under this Indenture.

     Section 8.3. Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series.

     Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section 2.2.23, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the

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expense of the Company, shall, at Company Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:

          (a) the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series;

          (b) the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.5; and

          (c) the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the Trustee hereunder;

provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

          (d) the Company shall have deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash sufficient to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal and such sinking fund payments are due;

          (e) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

          (f) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after such date;

          (g) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax on the

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same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;

          (h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of Such Series over any other creditors of the Company or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and

          (i) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

     Section 8.4. Covenant Defeasance.

     Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2.23 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, on and after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) hereof, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 5.1 as well as any additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.23 (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.18 and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

          (a) With reference to this Section 8.4, the Company has deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal and such sinking fund payments are due;

          (b) Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture;

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          (c) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;

          (d) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not occurred; and

          (e) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

     Section 8.5. Repayment to Company.

     The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon written request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for two years; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which will not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person.

     Section 8.6. Reinstatement.

     If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money deposited with respect to Securities of any series in accordance with Section 8.1 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the obligations of the Company under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series and under the Securities of such series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.1 until such time as the Trustee or the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.1; provided, however, that if the Company has made any payment of principal of, premium (if any) or interest on any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or the Paying Agent.

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ARTICLE IX.

AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

     Section 9.1. Without Consent of Holders.

     The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder:

          (a) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

          (b) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company as permitted under Article V and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities related to such Series (and, in the case of successor person that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction of or within Switzerland, to provide for the additional provisions required as described in Section 5.1(a));

          (c) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;

          (d) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder;

          (e) to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture;

          (f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or

          (g) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

     Section 9.2. With Consent of Holders.

     The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders of each such Series. Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may

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waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series.

     It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Securities affected thereby and, if any Bearer Securities affected thereby are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by the Company to mail or publish such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.

     Section 9.3. Limitations.

     Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not:

          (a) reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

          (b) reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security;

          (c) reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

          (d) reduce the amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;

          (e) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security (except a rescission of acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

          (f) make the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security;

          (g) make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13, or 9.3 (this sentence); or

          (h) waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security.

     Section 9.4. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.

     Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

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     Section 9.5. Revocation and Effect of Consents.

     Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental indenture or a waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective.

     Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (h) of Section 9.3. In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security.

     Section 9.6. Notation on or Exchange of Securities.

     The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon request new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.

     Section 9.7. Trustee Protected.

     In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the documents required by Section 10.4, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights.

ARTICLE X.

MISCELLANEOUS

     Section 10.1. Trust Indenture Act Controls.

     If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.

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     Section 10.2. Notices.

     Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is duly given if in writing, by facsimile, delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail:

if to the Company:

Genentech, Inc.
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, California 94080-4990
Attention: Corporate Secretary
Telephone: (650) 225-1000
Facsimile: (650) 225-6978

if to the Trustee:

The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
700 South Flower Street
Suite 500
Los Angeles, California 90017
Attention: Institutional Trust Services
Telephone: (213) 630-6493
Facsimile: (213) 630-6298

The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

     No notice to the Trustee shall be effective until it is actually received.

     Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be mailed by first-class mail to his address shown on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, published in an Authorized Newspaper. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series.

     If a notice or communication is mailed or published in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the Securityholder receives it.

     If the Company mails a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.

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     Section 10.3. Communication by Holders with Other Holders.

     Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).

     Section 10.4. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.

     Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

          (a) an Officers’ Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

          (b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

     Section 10.5. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.

     Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(e) and shall include, in addition to customary and reasonable exceptions, limitations and qualifications, the following:

          (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

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

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

          (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

     Section 10.6. Rules by Trustee and Agents.

     The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

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     Section 10.7. Legal Holidays.

     Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, a “Legal Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

     Section 10.8. No Recourse Against Others.

     A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

     Section 10.9. Counterparts.

     This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

     Section 10.10. Governing Laws.

     THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

     Section 10.11. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

     This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

     Section 10.12. Successors.

     All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.

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     Section 10.13. Severability.

     In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

     Section 10.14. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

     The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table, and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

     Section 10.15. Securities in a Foreign Currency.

     Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all Series or all Series affected by a particular action at the time outstanding and, at such time, there are outstanding Securities of any Series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than Dollars, then the principal amount of Securities of such Series which shall be deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market Exchange Rate at such time. For purposes of this Section 10.15, “Market Exchange Rate” shall mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of that currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. If such Market Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the Trustee shall use, in its sole discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available date, or quotations from one or more major banks in The City of New York or in the country of issue of the currency in question or such other quotations as the Trustee, upon consultation with the Company, shall deem appropriate. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a Series denominated in currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

     All decisions and determinations of the Trustee regarding the Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, to the extent permitted by law, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Company and all Holders.

     Section 10.16. Judgment Currency.

     The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest or other amount on the Securities of any Series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate

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of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable, and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

ARTICLE XI.

SINKING FUNDS

     Section 11.1. Applicability of Article.

     The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series, except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture.

     The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such Series.

     Section 11.2. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

     The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have

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been repurchased by the Company or redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officers’ Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Company.

     Section 11.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

     Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
         
  Genentech, Inc.
 
 
  By:      /s/ Thomas T. Thomas    
    Name:   Thomas T. Thomas   
    Its: Treasurer   
 
  The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee
 
 
  By:      /s/ Melonee Young    
    Name:   Melonee Young   
    Its: Vice President   

 


 

         

Exhibit A

FORM OF INCUMBENCY CERTIFICATE

     The undersigned,                            , being the                             of Genentech, Inc. (the “Company”) does hereby certify that the individuals listed below are qualified and acting officers of the Company as set forth in the right column opposite their respective names and the signatures appearing in the extreme right column opposite the name of each such officer is a true specimen of the genuine signature of such officer and such individuals have the authority to execute documents to be delivered to, or upon the request of, The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee under the Indenture dated as of July 18, 2005, by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A..

         
Name
 
Title
 
Signature
                    
                                             
 
       
                    
                                             
 
       
                    
                                             

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed and delivered this Certificate as of the               day of                     , 20___.

         
  Name:
Title:
 
 
     
     
     
 

 

EX-4.2 3 f10782exv4w2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2 exv4w2
 

EXHIBIT 4.2

EXECUTION VERSION

OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE

OF

GENENTECH, INC.

Dated as of July 18, 2005

     The undersigned officers of the Company certify, pursuant to resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company at a meeting duly held on June 10, 2005 (the “Resolutions”), and in accordance with Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 of the Indenture, dated as of July 18, 2005 (the “Indenture,” capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture), between Genentech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), the following matters related to the issuance of the Company’s 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010 (the “2010 Notes”), the Company’s 4.75% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes” and the Company’s 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”):

     1. (i) Attached hereto as Annex A is a true and correct copy of a specimen note (the “Form of 2010 Note”) representing the 2010 Notes, (ii) attached hereto as Annex B is a true and correct copy of a specimen note (the “Form of 2015 Note”) representing the 2015 Notes, and (iii) attached hereto as Annex C is a true and correct copy of a specimen note (the “Form of 2035 Note”) representing the 2035 Notes. The Form of 2010 Note, the Form of 2015 Note and the Form of 2035 Note are herein collectively referred to as the “Forms of Notes.” The Forms of Notes set forth certain of the terms required to be set forth in this Certificate pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture, and said terms are incorporated herein by reference. The 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes are each a separate series of Securities under the Indenture and are referred to herein collectively as the “Notes.” The term “Notes” shall also include any exchange notes issued in exchange for the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes, respectively, pursuant to the transactions contemplated by that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), by and among the Company and the initial purchasers named therein (the “Exchange Securities”).

     2. The title of the 2010 Notes shall be the “4.40% Senior Notes due 2010,” the title of the 2015 Notes shall be the “4.75% Senior Notes due 2015,” and the title of the 2035 Notes shall be the “5.25% Senior Notes due 2035.”

     3. The 2010 Notes shall be issued at the initial offering price of 99.992% of the principal amount, the 2015 Notes shall be issued at the initial offering price of 99.937% of the principal amount, and the 2035 Notes shall be issued at the initial offering price of 99.850% of the principal amount.

     4. The Company will initially issue (i) $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2010 Notes (except for 2010 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2010 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6 of the Indenture), (ii) $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2015 Notes (except for 2015 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2015 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6 of the Indenture), and (iii) $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2035 Notes (except for 2035 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2035 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6 of the Indenture). The Company may issue

 


 

additional 2010 Notes, 2015 Notes and/or 2035 Notes from time to time after the date hereof, and such Notes will be treated as part of the respective series of Notes for all purposes under the Indenture.

     5. The Notes and the Exchange Securities shall be issued as Global Securities only and will be exchangeable for certificated notes (“Certificated Notes”) only if:

          (a) DTC (x) notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for the Global Securities or (y) at any time has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor depository registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such event;

          (b) the Company, at its option, notifies the Trustee in writing to the effect that the Company elects to cause the issuance of the Certificated Notes; or

          (c) there has occurred and is continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Notes or event which, with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.

     Certificated Notes delivered in exchange for any Global Security or beneficial interests in Global Securities will be registered in the names, and issued in any approved denominations, requested by or on behalf of the depository (in accordance with its customary procedures).

     6. The Global Securities and the Certificated Notes will bear the following restrictive legend unless the legend is not required by applicable law, or as set forth in Item 7 below:

          “THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, PLEDGED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AS IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE, REOFFER, PLEDGE, RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE) AND IF SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES OF LESS THAN $100,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT,

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(D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A NON-U.S. PERSON, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATIONS REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. IN ADDITION, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE NOTES, THE HOLDER MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER TO THE TRUSTEE. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION,” “UNITED STATES” AND “U.S. PERSON” HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION.”

     7. In accordance with the terms of the Exchange Offer (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), the Company will issue, and upon receipt of a written order in accordance with Section 2.3 of the Indenture, the Trustee will authenticate:

          (a) One or more Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interests in the Global Securities tendered into the Exchange Offer pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement; and

          (b) Certificated Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Certificated Notes tendered into and accepted in the Exchange Offer pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.

     Such Global Securities and Certificated Notes shall not contain the restrictive legend set forth in Item 6 above. Concurrently with the issuance of such Exchange Securities, the Company will instruct the Trustee to cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Global Securities and Certificated Notes to be reduced accordingly.

     8. The Notes shall be denominated in Dollars and payments of principal and interest shall be made in Dollars.

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     9. In addition to the covenants set forth in Article IV of the Indenture, the following additional covenants shall apply to the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes and shall be incorporated into the Indenture with respect to the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes, such additional covenants to be subject to covenant defeasance pursuant to Section 8.4 of the Indenture:

     Section 4.5 LIMITATION ON LIENS.

          (a) The Company shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create or incur any Lien on any of their respective Properties, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or upon any income or profits therefrom, in order to secure any Indebtedness of the Company, without effectively providing that such series of Notes shall be equally and ratably secured until such time as such Indebtedness is no longer secured by such Lien, except:

               (1) Liens existing as of July 18, 2005 (the “Closing Date”);

               (2) Liens granted after the Closing Date on any of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries’ Properties securing Indebtedness of the Company created in favor of the Holders of such series of Notes;

               (3) Liens securing Indebtedness of the Company which are incurred to extend, renew or refinance Indebtedness which is secured by Liens permitted to be incurred under the Indenture; provided that those Liens do not extend to or cover any of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries’ Property other than the Property securing the Indebtedness being refinanced and that the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness being refinanced;

               (4) Liens created in substitution of or as replacements for any Liens permitted by the preceding clauses (1) through (3) directly above, provided that, based on a good faith determination of a Senior Officer of the Company, the Property encumbered under any such substitute or replacement Lien is substantially similar in nature to the Property encumbered by the otherwise permitted Lien which is being replaced; and

               (5) Permitted Liens.

          (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and any of its Subsidiaries may, without securing any series of Notes, create or incur Liens which would otherwise be subject to the restrictions set forth in the preceding paragraph, if after giving effect thereto, Exempted Debt does not exceed the greater of (x) 35% of Consolidated Net Worth calculated as of the date of the creation or incurrence of the Lien or (y) 35% of Consolidated Net Worth calculated as of the Closing Date.

     Section 4.6 LIMITATION ON SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTIONS.

          (a) The Company shall not and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, enter into any sale and lease-back transaction for the sale and leasing back of any Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, unless:

               (1) such transaction was entered into prior to the Closing Date;

               (2) such transaction was for the sale and leasing back of any Property by a Subsidiary of the Company to the Company;

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               (3) such transaction involves a lease for less than three years;

               (4) the Company would be entitled to incur Indebtedness secured by a mortgage on the property to be leased in an amount equal to the Attributable Liens with respect to such sale and lease-back transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes pursuant to Section 4.5; or

               (5) the Company applies an amount equal to the fair value of the Property sold to the purchase of Property or to the retirement of long-term Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries within 120 days of the effective date of any such sale and lease-back transaction. In lieu of applying such amount to such retirement, the Company may, or may cause any of its Subsidiaries to, deliver debt securities to the Trustee therefor for cancellation, such debt securities to be credited at the cost thereof to the Company.

          (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and any of its Subsidiaries may enter into any sale lease-back transaction which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions if after giving effect thereto and at the time of determination, Exempted Debt does not exceed the greater of (a) 35% of Consolidated Net Worth calculated as of the closing date of the sale-leaseback transaction or (b) 35% of Consolidated Net Worth calculated as of the Closing Date.

     10. Upon their original issuance, Rule 144A Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the name of DTC, as Depositary, or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of beneficial owners of the Notes represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct). Such Global Securities (to the extent issued in the form of a Global Note other than the Regulation S Global Note), are collectively herein called the “Restricted Global Note.” The aggregate principal amount of the Restricted Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, including an increase in such aggregate amount in connection with a corresponding decrease in the aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note, as provided in Item 11 hereof.

     Upon their original issuance, Regulation S Notes (the “Regulation S Global Note”) shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the name of DTC, as Depositary, or its nominee and deposited with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, as custodian for DTC, for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of beneficial owners of the Notes represented thereby (or such other accounts as such beneficial owners may direct) in accordance with the rules thereof. The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, including a decrease in such aggregate amount in connection with a corresponding increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Restricted Global Note, as provided in Item 11 hereof.

     Beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Note may only be held through Euroclear and Clearstream until the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period as provided in Item 11(b)(3).

     11. In addition to the procedures described in Section 2.7 of the Indenture, the following additional terms shall apply to the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes that are Regulation S Notes and shall be incorporated into the Indenture with respect to the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes:

          (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the Notes, transfers and exchanges of Notes and beneficial interests in a Global Security of the kinds specified in this Item 11 shall be

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made only in accordance with this Item 11. Transfers and exchanges subject to this Item 11 shall also be subject to the other provisions of the Indenture that are not inconsistent with this Item 11.

          (b) Unless and until (1) a Regulation S Note is sold under an effective registration statement, or (2) a Regulation S Note is exchanged for an Exchange Security in connection with an effective registration statement, pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the following provisions shall apply:

               (1) Regulation S Global Note to Restricted Global Note. Subject to the third paragraph of Item 10 above, if the holder of a beneficial interest in Regulation S Global Note wishes at any time to transfer such interest to a Person who is required or permitted to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note, such transfer may be effected, subject to the rules and procedures of the Depositary, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable (the “Applicable Procedures”), only in accordance with this clause (1) provided that no transfers from a Regulation S Global Note to a Restricted Global Note shall be allowed during the Distribution Compliance Period. Upon receipt by the Trustee, as Note Registrar, of (as applicable) (i) written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from any member of, or direct participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) directing the Trustee to credit or cause to be credited to a specified Agent Member’s account a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note in a principal amount equal to that of the beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note to be so transferred and debited, (ii) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the account of the Agent Member to be credited with, and the account of the Agent Member (and, if applicable, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be debited for, such beneficial interest and (iii) a Restricted Notes Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto (a “Restricted Notes Certificate”) given by the holder of such beneficial interest, the principal amount of such Restricted Global Note shall be increased, and the principal amount of such Regulation S Global Note shall be decreased, by the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note to be so transferred, in each case by means of an appropriate adjustment on the records of the Trustee, as Note Registrar, and the Trustee, as Note Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in such Restricted Global Note having a principal amount equal to the amount so transferred and debit or cause to be debited the Regulation S Global Note.

               (2) Regulation S Global Note to be Held Through Euroclear or Clearstream during Distribution Compliance Period. Beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Note may be held only in or through accounts maintained at the Depositary by Euroclear or Clearstream (or by Agent Members acting for the account thereof) until the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, and no person shall be entitled to effect any transfer or exchange that would result in any such interest being held otherwise than in or through such an account until the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period.

     12. In addition to the definitions set forth in Article I of the Indenture, each of the Notes shall include the following additional definitions, which, in the event of a conflict with the definition of terms in the Indenture, shall control:

     “Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per year equal to the semi annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that redemption date.

     “Agent Members” has the meaning specified in Item 11.

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     “Applicable Procedures” has the meaning specified in Item 11.

     “Attributable Liens” means in connection with a sale and lease-back transaction the lesser of:

               (1) the fair market value of the assets subject to such transaction; and

               (2) the present value (discounted at a rate per annum equal to the average interest borne by all outstanding debt securities issued under the Indenture (which may include debt securities in addition to the Notes) determined on a weighted average basis and compounded semi-annually) of the obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the term of the related lease.

     “Capital Lease” means any Indebtedness represented by a lease obligation of a Person incurred with respect to real property or equipment acquired or leased by such Person and used in its business that is required to be recorded as a capital lease in accordance with GAAP.

     “Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, societé anonyme.

     “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of those notes.

     “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for that Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, (2) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations so received or (3) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.

     “Consolidated Net Worth” means, as of any date of determination, the Stockholders’ Equity of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on that date.

     “Consolidated Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of that Person whose financial data is, in accordance with GAAP, reflected in that Person’s consolidated financial statements.

     “Credit Facilities” means, one or more debt facilities or commercial paper facilities, in each case, with banks or other institutional lenders providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) or refinanced (including by means of sales of debt securities to institutional investors) in whole or in part from time to time.

     “Distribution Compliance Period” means the period of 40 consecutive days commencing on the later of (i) the date the Notes are first issued to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S (the Company and Trustee being entitled to rely on written advice from the Initial Purchasers with respect thereto) and (ii) the Closing Date.

     “DTC” means The Depositary Trust Company, a New York Corporation (including its direct and indirect participants).

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     “Euroclear” means the Euroclear Clearance System (or any successor securities clearing agency).

     “Exempted Debt” means the sum of the following as of the date of determination:

               (1) Indebtedness of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries incurred after the Closing Date and secured by Liens not permitted by Section 4.5(a) above; and

               (2) Attributable Liens of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries in respect of sale and lease-back transactions entered into after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.6(b) above.

     “Governmental Agency” means:

               (1) any foreign, federal, state, county or municipal government, or political subdivision thereof;

               (2) any governmental or quasi-governmental agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, department, instrumentality or public body;

               (3) any court or administrative tribunal;

               (4) with respect to any Person, any arbitration tribunal or other nongovernmental authority to whose jurisdiction that Person has consented.

     “Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any specified Person, the obligations of such Person under:

               (1) interest rate swap agreements (whether from fixed to floating or from floating to fixed), interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements;

               (2) other agreements or arrangements designed to manage interest rates or interest rate risk;

               (3) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or commodity prices; and

               (4) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in equity prices.

     “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, any indebtedness, whether or not contingent, in respect of borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements with respect thereto) or representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any Property (including pursuant to Capital Leases), except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable, if and to the extent any of the foregoing indebtedness would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of such Person prepared on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but does not include contingent liabilities which appear only in a footnote to a balance sheet), and shall also include, to the extent not otherwise included, the guaranty of items which would be included within this definition.

     “Laws” means, collectively, all foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or controlling precedents of any Governmental Agency.

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     “Lien” means any lien, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, and any agreement to give any security interest).

     “Permitted Liens” means:

               (1) Liens securing Indebtedness under Credit Facilities;

               (2) Liens on accounts receivable, merchandise inventory, equipment, and patents, trademarks, trade names and other intangibles, securing Indebtedness of the Company;

               (3) Liens on any assets of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries’ assets, or the assets of any joint venture to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, created solely to secure obligations incurred to finance the refurbishment, improvement or construction of such asset, which obligations are incurred no later than 24 months after completion of such refurbishment, improvement or construction, and all renewals, extensions, refinancings, replacements or refundings of such obligations;

               (4) (a) Liens given to secure the payment of the purchase price incurred in connection with the acquisition (including acquisition through merger or consolidation) of Property (including shares of stock), including Capital Lease transactions in connection with any such acquisition, and (b) Liens existing on Property at the time of acquisition thereof or at the time of acquisition by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries of any Person then owning such Property whether or not such existing Liens were given to secure the payment of the purchase price of the Property to which they attach; provided that, with respect to clause (a), the Liens shall be given within 24 months after such acquisition and shall attach solely to the Property acquired or purchased and any improvements then or thereafter placed thereon;

               (5) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;

               (6) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

               (7) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit that encumber documents and other Property relating to such letters of credit and the products and proceeds thereof;

               (8) Liens on key-man life insurance policies granted to secure Indebtedness of the Company against the cash surrender value thereof;

               (9) Liens encumbering customary initial deposits and margin deposits and other Liens in the ordinary course of business, in each case securing Hedging Obligations and forward contract, option, futures contracts, futures options, equity hedges or similar agreements or arrangements designed to protect the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from fluctuations in interest rates, currencies, equities or the price of commodities;

               (10) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

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               (11) Pre-existing Liens on assets acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date of the offering of the Notes;

               (12) Liens in favor of the Company or in favor of any of its Subsidiaries;

               (13) inchoate Liens incident to construction or maintenance of real property, or Liens incident to construction or maintenance of real property, now or hereafter filed of record for sums not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith, if reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made therefore;

               (14) statutory Liens arising in the ordinary course of business with respect to obligations which are not delinquent or are being contested in good faith, if reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made therefore;

               (15) Liens consisting of pledges or deposits to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar legislation, including Liens of judgments thereunder which are not currently dischargeable;

               (16) Liens consisting of pledges or deposits of Property to secure performance in connection with operating leases made in the ordinary course of business to which Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party as lessee, provided the aggregate value of all such pledges and deposits in connection with any such lease does not at any time exceed 16-2/3% of the annual fixed rentals payable under such lease;

               (17) Liens consisting of deposits of Property to secure statutory obligations of the Company or statutory obligations of any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of its business;

               (18) Liens consisting of deposits of Property to secure (or in lieu of) surety, appeal or customs bonds in proceedings to which Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party in the ordinary course of its business, but not in excess of $25,000,000;

               (19) purchase money Liens or purchase money security interests upon or in any Property acquired or held by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to secure the purchase price of such Property or to secure indebtedness incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition of such Property; and

               (20) Liens on Property subject to escrow or similar arrangements established in connection with litigation settlements.

     “Property” means any property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including shares of capital stock.

     “Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement between the Company and the Representatives (as defined therein), dated July 13, 2005, relating to the initial placement of the Notes.

     “Quotation Agent” means the Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by us.

     “Reference Treasury Dealer” means (1) each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. and their respective successors; provided, however, that if either of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), we shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer and (2) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by us.

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     “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the trustee by that Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding that Redemption Date.

     “Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.

     “Regulation S Global Note” has the meaning specified in Item 10.

     “Regulation S Notes” means the Notes purchased by the Initial Purchasers from the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement that were initially purchased pursuant to Regulation S and that are restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144. Such term includes the Regulation S Global Note.

     “Restricted Global Note” has the meaning specified in Item 11.

     “Restricted Notes Certificate” has the meaning specified in Item 11.

     “Rule 144A Notes” means the Notes purchased by the Purchasers from the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, other than the Regulation S Notes.

     “Senior Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Controller, the Director of Finance and Accounting, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.

     “Stockholders’ Equity” means, as of any date of determination, stockholders’ equity as of that date determined in accordance with GAAP as reflected on the most recent balance sheet available to the Company in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded from Stockholders’ Equity any amount attributable to capital stock that is, directly or indirectly, required to be redeemed or repurchased by the issuer thereof at a specified date or upon the occurrence of specified events or at the election of the holder thereof.

     13. The Depository for the Notes shall be The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”).

     14. Each of the undersigned is authorized to approve the form, terms and conditions of the Notes.

     15. Attached hereto as Exhibit B are true and correct copies of the Resolutions.

     16. Each of the undersigned has read the provisions of the Indenture, including the covenants and conditions precedent, pertaining to the issuance of the Notes.

     17. In connection with this Certificate, each of the undersigned has examined the documents, corporate records and certificates and has made such inquiries of the other officers of the Company, which he has deemed necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such comments and conditions have been complied with.

     18. In the opinion of each of the undersigned, all of the conditions and covenants related to the issuance of the Notes have been complied with.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Officers’ Certificate as of the date first set forth above.

             
    By:   /s/ David Ebersman
         
 
      Name:   David Ebersman
 
      Title:   Senior Vice President and
 
          Chief Financial Officer
 
           
    By:   /s/ Thomas T. Thomas
         
 
      Name:   Thomas T. Thomas
 
      Title:   Treasurer

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Annex A Form of 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010

[Face of Note]

[GLOBAL LEGEND]

     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY.

[TRANSFER RESTRICTED LEGEND]

     THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, PLEDGED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AS IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE, REOFFER, PLEDGE, RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE) AND IF SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES OF LESS THAN $100,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS

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TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A NON-U.S. PERSON, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATIONS REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. IN ADDITION, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE NOTES, THE HOLDER MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER TO THE TRUSTEE. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION,” “UNITED STATES” AND “U.S. PERSON” HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION.

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CUSIP/CINS __________

4.40% Senior Notes due 2010 (the “Notes”)

No. ___ $____________

GENENTECH, INC.

promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of ____________________ [if this Note is a Global Security, then insert — (which principal amount may from time to time be increased or decreased to such other principal amounts (which, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes of this Series, shall not exceed $500,000,000) by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture)] on July 15, 2010.

Interest Payment Dates:
 
January 15 and July 15
 
Record Dates:
 
January 1 and July 1
 
Dated: _____________

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.

         
    GENENTECH, INC.
 
 
  By:    
 
       
 
      Name:
Title:
 
 
  By:    
 
       
 
      Name:
Title:

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

THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., 
    as Trustee

         
By:
       
 
       
 
  Authorized Officer    

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[Back of Note]
4.40% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2010

     Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

     (1) INTEREST. Genentech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 4.40% per annum from July 18, 2005 until maturity and shall pay the Registration Default Damages (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), if any, payable pursuant to Section 8 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Company will pay interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of issuance; provided that the first Interest Payment Date shall be January 15, 2006; provided further that after July 18, 2005, if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date. In the event that any Interest Payment Date or Maturity date is not a Business Day, then the payment will be made on the next Business Day without additional interest and with the same effect as if it were made on the originally scheduled date. Interest on the Notes (including Registration Default Damages) shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

     (2) METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) and Registration Default Damages, if any, to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the January 1 or July 1 immediately prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (whether or not such day is a Business Day), even if such Notes are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.13 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York (or, if the Company fails to maintain such office or agency, at the corporate trust office of the trustee or its affiliate in New York, New York or if the trustee does not maintain an office in New York, at the office of a paying agent in New York), or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders. Such payment will be in the currency of the United States of America.

     (3) PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

     (4) INDENTURE. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by the Officers’ Certificate dated July 18, 2005 delivered pursuant thereto (the “Officers’ Certificate”) and the TIA. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and the Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.

     (5) OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. At any time prior to maturity, the Company will have the option to redeem all or a part of the Notes upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a

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redemption price equal to (i) the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of those payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption (the “Redemption Date”) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 10 basis points, plus (ii) accrued interest to the Redemption Date. The Company will set forth the redemption price in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the Redemption Date. Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.

     (6) MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

     (7) NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction or discharge of the Indenture. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice to the Trustee at least 10 days before the Company mails the notice of redemption to each Holder as described in the Indenture (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).

     (8) DEFEASANCE PRIOR TO MATURITY. The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance of (i) the entire indebtedness of the Notes or (ii) certain covenants and Events of Default with respect to the Notes, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein.

     (9) RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS. The Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate impose certain limitations on the Company and its Subsidiaries, including limitations on the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ ability to create or incur certain Liens on any of their respective properties or assets and to enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions and on the Company’s ability to engage in mergers or consolidations or the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of its properties and assets. These limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions and reference is made to the Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate for a description thereof.

     (10) FURTHER ISSUES. The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, issue additional securities having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as this Note except for the issue price and issue date and, in some cases, the first Interest Payment Date (the “Additional Notes”). Any such Additional Notes will, together with the Notes then outstanding, constitute a single class of Notes under the Indenture. No Additional Notes may be issued if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes.

     (11) DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption,

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except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, the Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

     (12) PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.

     (13) AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class, and any existing Default or Event or Default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to evidence the succession of another person to the company and assumption by an such successor of the covenants of the Company of the covenants herein and in the Notes, to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any holder of the Notes, including any change to conform the Indenture to the offering memorandum, to provide for the issuance of an establish the form and terms and conditions of any Notes of any series as permitted under the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture by a successor trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions of the Indenture necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts by more than one trustee, and to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA.

     (14) DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes may be declared (or, in certain cases, shall ipso facto become) due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

     (15) TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

     (16) NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee or stockholder of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

     (17) AUTHENTICATION. This Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

     (18) ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

     (19) REGISTRATION RIGHTS OF HOLDERS. In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of restricted Notes will have all the rights set forth in the Registration

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Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005, between the Company and the other parties named on the signature pages thereof (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).

     (20) CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes, and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption, and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

     (21) GOVERNING LAW. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

     The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to:

Genentech, Inc.
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990
Attention: Investor Relations

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

     To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

     
(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:
   
 
   
 
  (Insert assignee’s legal name)

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code.)

And irrevocably appoint                                                                                                                          to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

         
Date:
       
 
       
         
 
  Your Signature:    
 
       
 
      (Sign exactly as your name appears
 
      on the face of this Note)
         
Signature Guarantee*:
       
 
       

 
*   Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF SECURITIES(1)

Re: 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010 (the “Securities”) of Genentech, Inc.

This certificate relates to $________________ principal amount of Securities owned in (check applicable box)

o book-entry or o definitive form by                                                                                   (the “Transferor”).

The Transferor has requested a Registrar or the Trustee to exchange or register the transfer of such Securities.

     In connection with such request and in respect of each such Security, the Transferor does hereby certify that the Transferor is familiar with transfer restrictions relating to the Securities of the Indenture dated as of July 18, 2005 between Genentech, Inc. and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (the “Indenture”), and the transfer of such Security is being made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) (check applicable box) or the transfer or exchange, as the case may be, of such Security does not require registration under the Securities Act because (check applicable box):

o Such Security is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor’s own account, without transfer.

o Such Security is being transferred to the Company or a Subsidiary (as defined in the Indenture) of the Company.

o Such Security is being transferred to a person the Transferor reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A or any successor provision thereto (“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act) that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a “qualified institutional buyer”, in each case to whom notice has been given that the transfer is being made in reliance on such Rule 144A, and in each case in reliance on Rule 144A.

o Such Security is being transferred pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 (or any successor thereto) (“Rule 144”) under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being transferred inside the United States to an institutional “Accredited Investor” within the meaning of subparagraph (A)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

 
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o Such Security is being transferred outside the United States in an offshore transaction (as that term is defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.

         
    (Insert Name of Transferor)
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       

Date:

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Annex B Form of 4.75% Senior Notes due 2015

[Face of Note]

[GLOBAL LEGEND]

     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY.

[TRANSFER RESTRICTED LEGEND]

     THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, PLEDGED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AS IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE, REOFFER, PLEDGE, RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE) AND IF SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES OF LESS THAN $100,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS

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TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A NON-U.S. PERSON, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATIONS REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. IN ADDITION, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE NOTES, THE HOLDER MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER TO THE TRUSTEE. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION,” “UNITED STATES” AND “U.S. PERSON” HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION.

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CUSIP/CINS __________

4.75% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “Notes”)

No. ___   $__________________

GENENTECH, INC.

promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of ____________________ [if this Note is a Global Security, then insert — (which principal amount may from time to time be increased or decreased to such other principal amounts (which, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes of this Series, shall not exceed $1,000,000,000) by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture)] on July 15, 2015.

Interest Payment Dates:
 
January 15 and July 15
 
Record Dates:
 
January 1 and July 1
 
Dated: _____________

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.

         
    GENENTECH, INC.
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       
 
      Name:
 
      Title:
 
 
  By:    
 
       
 
      Name:
 
      Title:

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

THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
     as Trustee

         
By:
       
 
       
 
  Authorized Officer    

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[Back of Note]
4.75% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2015

     Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

     (1) INTEREST. Genentech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 4.75% per annum from July 18, 2005 until maturity and shall pay the Registration Default Damages (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), if any, payable pursuant to Section 8 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Company will pay interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of issuance; provided that the first Interest Payment Date shall be January 15, 2006; provided further that after July 18, 2005, if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date. In the event that any Interest Payment Date or Maturity date is not a Business Day, then the payment will be made on the next Business Day without additional interest and with the same effect as if it were made on the originally scheduled date. Interest on the Notes (including Registration Default Damages) shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

     (2) METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) and Registration Default Damages, if any, to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the January 1 or July 1 immediately prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (whether or not such day is a Business Day), even if such Notes are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.13 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York (or, if the Company fails to maintain such office or agency, at the corporate trust office of the trustee or its affiliate in New York, New York or if the trustee does not maintain an office in New York, at the office of a paying agent in New York), or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders. Such payment will be in the currency of the United States of America.

     (3) PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

     (4) INDENTURE. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by the Officers’ Certificate dated July 18, 2005 delivered pursuant thereto (the “Officers’ Certificate”) and the TIA. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and the Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.

     (5) OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. At any time prior to maturity, the Company will have the option to redeem all or a part of the Notes upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a

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redemption price equal to (i) the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of those payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption (the “Redemption Date”) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, plus (ii) accrued interest to the Redemption Date. The Company will set forth the redemption price in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the Redemption Date. Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.

     (6) MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

     (7) NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction or discharge of the Indenture. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice to the Trustee at least 10 days before the Company mails the notice of redemption to each Holder as described in the Indenture (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).

     (8) DEFEASANCE PRIOR TO MATURITY. The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance of (i) the entire indebtedness of the Notes or (ii) certain covenants and Events of Default with respect to the Notes, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein.

     (9) RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS. The Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate impose certain limitations on the Company and its Subsidiaries, including limitations on the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ ability to create or incur certain Liens on any of their respective properties or assets and to enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions and on the Company’s ability to engage in mergers or consolidations or the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of its properties and assets. These limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions and reference is made to the Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate for a description thereof.

     (10) FURTHER ISSUES. The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, issue additional securities having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as this Note except for the issue price and issue date and, in some cases, the first Interest Payment Date (the “Additional Notes”). Any such Additional Notes will, together with the Notes then outstanding, constitute a single class of Notes under the Indenture. No Additional Notes may be issued if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes.

     (11) DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption,

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except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, the Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

     (12) PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.

     (13) AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class, and any existing Default or Event or Default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to evidence the succession of another person to the company and assumption by an such successor of the covenants of the Company of the covenants herein and in the Notes, to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any holder of the Notes, including any change to conform the Indenture to the offering memorandum, to provide for the issuance of an establish the form and terms and conditions of any Notes of any series as permitted under the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture by a successor trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions of the Indenture necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts by more than one trustee, and to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA.

     (14) DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes may be declared (or, in certain cases, shall ipso facto become) due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

     (15) TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

     (16) NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee or stockholder of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

     (17) AUTHENTICATION. This Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

     (18) ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

     (19) REGISTRATION RIGHTS OF HOLDERS. In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of restricted Notes will have all the rights set forth in the Registration

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Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005, between the Company and the other parties named on the signature pages thereof (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).

     (20) CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes, and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption, and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

     (21) GOVERNING LAW. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

     The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to:

Genentech, Inc.
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990
Attention: Investor Relations

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

     To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

     
(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:
   
 
   
 
  (Insert assignee’s legal name)

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code.)

And irrevocably appoint                                                                                                                          to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

         
Date:
       
 
       
         
 
  Your Signature:    
 
       
 
      (Sign exactly as your name appears
 
      on the face of this Note)
         
Signature Guarantee*:
       
 
       

 
*   Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF SECURITIES(1)

Re: 4.75% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “Securities”) of Genentech, Inc.

This certificate relates to $________________ principal amount of Securities owned in (check applicable box)

o book-entry or o definitive form by                                                                                    (the “Transferor”).

The Transferor has requested a Registrar or the Trustee to exchange or register the transfer of such Securities.

     In connection with such request and in respect of each such Security, the Transferor does hereby certify that the Transferor is familiar with transfer restrictions relating to the Securities of the Indenture dated as of July 18, 2005 between Genentech, Inc. and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (the “Indenture”), and the transfer of such Security is being made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) (check applicable box) or the transfer or exchange, as the case may be, of such Security does not require registration under the Securities Act because (check applicable box):

o Such Security is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor’s own account, without transfer.

o Such Security is being transferred to the Company or a Subsidiary (as defined in the Indenture) of the Company.

o Such Security is being transferred to a person the Transferor reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A or any successor provision thereto (“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act) that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a “qualified institutional buyer”, in each case to whom notice has been given that the transfer is being made in reliance on such Rule 144A, and in each case in reliance on Rule 144A.

o Such Security is being transferred pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 (or any successor thereto) (“Rule 144”) under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being transferred inside the United States to an institutional “Accredited Investor” within the meaning of subparagraph (A)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

 
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o Such Security is being transferred outside the United States in an offshore transaction (as that term is defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.

         
    (Insert Name of Transferor)
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       

Date:

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Annex C Form of 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035

[Face of Note]

[GLOBAL LEGEND]

     THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY.

[TRANSFER RESTRICTED LEGEND]

     THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, PLEDGED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AS IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE, REOFFER, PLEDGE, RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE) AND IF SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES OF LESS THAN $100,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IF THE

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PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR OR A NON-U.S. PERSON, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATIONS REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. IN ADDITION, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(K) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE NOTES, THE HOLDER MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THE CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER TO THE TRUSTEE. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION,” “UNITED STATES” AND “U.S. PERSON” HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION.

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CUSIP/CINS __________

5.25% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “Notes”)

No. ___ $____________

GENENTECH, INC.

promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of ____________________ [if this Note is a Global Security, then insert — (which principal amount may from time to time be increased or decreased to such other principal amounts (which, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes of this Series, shall not exceed $500,000,000) by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture)] on July 15, 2035.

Interest Payment Dates:
 
January 15 and July 15
 
Record Dates:
 
January 1 and July 1
 
Dated: _____________

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.

         
    GENENTECH, INC.
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       
 
      Name:
Title:
 
 
  By:    
 
       
 
      Name:
Title:

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

THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
     as Trustee

         
By:
       
 
       
 
  Authorized Officer    

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[Back of Note]
5.25% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2035

     Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

     (1) INTEREST. Genentech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 5.25% per annum from July 18, 2005 until maturity and shall pay the Registration Default Damages (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), if any, payable pursuant to Section 8 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Company will pay interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of issuance; provided that the first Interest Payment Date shall be January 15, 2006; provided further that after July 18, 2005, if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date. In the event that any Interest Payment Date or Maturity date is not a Business Day, then the payment will be made on the next Business Day without additional interest and with the same effect as if it were made on the originally scheduled date. Interest on the Notes (including Registration Default Damages) shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

     (2) METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) and Registration Default Damages, if any, to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the January 1 or July 1 immediately prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (whether or not such day is a Business Day), even if such Notes are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.13 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, the City and State of New York (or, if the Company fails to maintain such office or agency, at the corporate trust office of the trustee or its affiliate in New York, New York or if the trustee does not maintain an office in New York, at the office of a paying agent in New York), or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest and Registration Default Damages, if any, may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders. Such payment will be in the currency of the United States of America.

     (3) PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

     (4) INDENTURE. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by the Officers’ Certificate dated July 18, 2005 delivered pursuant thereto (the “Officers’ Certificate”) and the TIA. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and the Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.

     (5) OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. At any time prior to maturity, the Company will have the option to redeem all or a part of the Notes upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a redemption price equal to (i) the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed

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and (2) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of those payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption (the “Redemption Date”) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, plus (ii) accrued interest to the Redemption Date. The Company will set forth the redemption price in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding the Redemption Date. Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.

     (6) MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

     (7) NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction or discharge of the Indenture. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice to the Trustee at least 10 days before the Company mails the notice of redemption to each Holder as described in the Indenture (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).

     (8) DEFEASANCE PRIOR TO MATURITY. The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance of (i) the entire indebtedness of the Notes or (ii) certain covenants and Events of Default with respect to the Notes, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein.

     (9) RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS. The Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate impose certain limitations on the Company and its Subsidiaries, including limitations on the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ ability to create or incur certain Liens on any of their respective properties or assets and to enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions and on the Company’s ability to engage in mergers or consolidations or the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of its properties and assets. These limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions and reference is made to the Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate for a description thereof.

     (10) FURTHER ISSUES. The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, issue additional securities having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as this Note except for the issue price and issue date and, in some cases, the first Interest Payment Date (the “Additional Notes”). Any such Additional Notes will, together with the Notes then outstanding, constitute a single class of Notes under the Indenture. No Additional Notes may be issued if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes.

     (11) DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, the Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

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     (12) PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.

     (13) AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class, and any existing Default or Event or Default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes voting as a single class. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to evidence the succession of another person to the company and assumption by an such successor of the covenants of the Company of the covenants herein and in the Notes, to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any holder of the Notes, including any change to conform the Indenture to the offering memorandum, to provide for the issuance of an establish the form and terms and conditions of any Notes of any series as permitted under the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture by a successor trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions of the Indenture necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts by more than one trustee, and to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA.

     (14) DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes may be declared (or, in certain cases, shall ipso facto become) due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

     (15) TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

     (16) NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee or stockholder of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

     (17) AUTHENTICATION. This Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

     (18) ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

     (19) REGISTRATION RIGHTS OF HOLDERS. In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of restricted Notes will have all the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2005, between the Company and the other parties named on the signature pages thereof (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).

     (20) CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes, and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders.

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No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption, and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

     (21) GOVERNING LAW. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

     The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to:

Genentech, Inc.
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990
Attention: Investor Relations

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

     To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

     
(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:
   
 
   
 
  (Insert assignee’s legal name)

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code.)

And irrevocably appoint                                                                                                                          to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

         
Date:
       
 
       
         
 
  Your Signature:    
 
       
 
      (Sign exactly as your name appears
 
      on the face of this Note)
         
Signature Guarantee*:
       
 
       

 
*   Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF SECURITIES(3)

Re: 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “Securities”) of Genentech, Inc.

This certificate relates to $________________ principal amount of Securities owned in (check applicable box)

o book-entry or  o definitive form by _____________________ (the “Transferor”).

The Transferor has requested a Registrar or the Trustee to exchange or register the transfer of such Securities.

     In connection with such request and in respect of each such Security, the Transferor does hereby certify that the Transferor is familiar with transfer restrictions relating to the Securities of the Indenture dated as of July 18, 2005 between Genentech, Inc. and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (the “Indenture”), and the transfer of such Security is being made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) (check applicable box) or the transfer or exchange, as the case may be, of such Security does not require registration under the Securities Act because (check applicable box):

o Such Security is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor’s own account, without transfer.

o Such Security is being transferred to the Company or a Subsidiary (as defined in the Indenture) of the Company.

o Such Security is being transferred to a person the Transferor reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A or any successor provision thereto (“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act) that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a “qualified institutional buyer”, in each case to whom notice has been given that the transfer is being made in reliance on such Rule 144A, and in each case in reliance on Rule 144A.

o Such Security is being transferred pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 (or any successor thereto) (“Rule 144”) under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being transferred inside the United States to an institutional “Accredited Investor” within the meaning of subparagraph (A)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

o Such Security is being transferred outside the United States in an offshore transaction (as that term is defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.

 
3   This certificate should only be included if this Security is a restricted Security.

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    (Insert Name of Transferor)
 
       
 
  By:    
 
       

Date:

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EXHIBIT A — Form of
Restricted Notes Certificate

RESTRICTED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE

The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
700 South Flower Street
Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Attention: Institutional Trust Services

  Re: ___% Senior Notes due 20___ of Genentech, Inc. (the “Notes”)

     Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of July 18, 2005, between the Genentech, Inc. (the “Company”) and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, as supplemented by an Officers’ Certificate, dated July 18, 2005 (as supplemented, the “Indenture”). Terms used but not defined herein and defined in Regulation S or Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or in the Indenture shall have the meanings given to them in Regulation S or Rule 144 or the Indenture, as the case may be.

     This certificate relates to U.S. $______ principal amount of the Company’s ___% Senior Notes due 20___, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the “Specified Notes”):

     CUSIP [ISIN] No(s).                                                                                                                                                 &n bsp;              

     CERTIFICATE No(s).                                                                                                                                                   & nbsp;            

The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the “Undersigned”) hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the Specified Notes or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial owners of the Specified Notes and is duly authorized by them to do so. Such beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the “Owner.” If the Specified Notes are represented by a Global Note, they are held through the Depositary or an Agent Member in the name of the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner. If the Specified Notes are not represented by a Global Note, they are registered in the name of the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner.

     The Owner has requested that the Specified Notes be transferred to a person (the “Transferee”) who will take delivery in the form of a Restricted Note or an interest in a Restricted Global Note. In connection with such transfer, the Owner hereby certifies that, unless such transfer is being effected pursuant to an effective Registration Statement under the Securities Act, (i) the Owner is not a U.S. person and (ii) such transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule 144A or Rule 144 under the Securities Act and all applicable securities laws of the states of the United States and other jurisdictions. Accordingly, the Owner hereby further certifies as:

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     If the transfer is being effected in accordance with Rule 144A:

  (a)   the Specified Notes are being transferred to a person that the Owner and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, acquiring for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer;
 
  (b)   the Owner and any person acting on its behalf have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the Transferee is aware that the Owner may be relying on Rule 144A in connection with the transfer; and
 
  (c)   the Specified Notes are being transferred in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities law of all applicable states of the United States.
 
  If the transfer is being effected pursuant to Rule 144:
 
  (a)   the transfer is occurring:

                         (i) after a holding period of at least one year (computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule 144) has elapsed since the Specified Notes were last acquired from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company, whichever is later, and is being effected in accordance with the applicable amount, manner of sale and notice requirements of Rule 144; or

                         (ii) after a holding period of at least two years has elapsed since the Specified Notes were last acquired from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company, whichever is later, and the Owner is not, and during the preceding three months has not been, an affiliate of the Company; and

  (b)   the Specified Notes are being transferred in compliance with any applicable “blue sky” securities laws of all applicable states of the United States.

     Upon giving effect to this request to exchange a beneficial interest in Regulation S Global Notes for a beneficial interest in the Restricted Global Note, the resulting beneficial interest shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer applicable to the Restricted Global Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Securities Act.

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     This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Purchasers under the Purchase Agreement.

             
Dated:
     
 
                       (Print the name of the Undersigned, as such term is defined in the second subsection of this certificate.)
             
 
  By:        *
         
 
           
 
      Name:    
 
           
 
           
 
      Title:    
 
           
 
           
 
      (If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or fiduciary, the title of the
 
  person signing on behalf of the Undersigned must be stated.)

 
* Signature must be guaranteed by an eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved signature medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15.

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Exhibit B — Resolutions

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EX-4.6 4 f10782exv4w6.htm EXHIBIT 4.6 exv4w6
 

Exhibit 4.6

EXECUTION VERSION

GENENTECH, INC.

4.40% Senior Notes due 2010
4.75% Senior Notes due 2015
5.25% Senior Notes due 2035

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

July 18, 2005

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
As Representatives of the Initial Purchasers
c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
388 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10013

Ladies and Gentlemen:

               Genentech, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to certain purchasers (the “Initial Purchasers”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.40% Senior Notes due 2010 (the “2010 Notes”), $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.75% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes”) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.25% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes,” and together with the 2010 Notes and the 2035 Notes, the “Securities”), upon the terms set forth in the Purchase Agreement between the Company and the Representatives dated July 13, 2005 (the “Purchase Agreement”) relating to the initial placement (the “Initial Placement”) of the Securities. To induce the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement and to satisfy a condition to your obligations thereunder, the Company agrees with you for your benefit and the benefit of the holders from time to time of the Securities (including the Initial Purchasers) (each a “Holder” and, collectively, the “Holders”), as follows:

               1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have their respective meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized defined terms shall have the following meanings:

“2010 New Securities” shall mean debt securities of the Company identical in all material respects to the 2010 Notes (except that the transfer restrictions shall be modified or eliminated, as appropriate).

 


 

“2015 New Securities” shall mean debt securities of the Company identical in all material respects to the 2015 Notes (except that the transfer restrictions shall be modified or eliminated, as appropriate).

“2035 New Securities” shall mean debt securities of the Company identical in all material respects to the 2035 Notes (except that the transfer restrictions shall be modified or eliminated, as appropriate).

“2010 Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

“2015 Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

“2035 Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

               “Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

               “Affiliate” shall have the meaning specified in Rule 405 under the Act and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” shall have meanings correlative thereto.

               “Broker-Dealer” shall mean any broker or dealer registered as such under the Exchange Act and its affiliates.

               “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.

               “Closing Date” shall mean the date of the first issuance of the Securities.

               “Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

               “Deferral Period” shall have the meaning indicated in Section 4(k)(ii) hereof.

               “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

               “Exchange Offer Registration Period” shall mean the earlier of (i) the 90-day period following the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer and (ii) the date no Exchanging Holder owns any Registrable Securities.

               “Exchange Offer Registration Statement” shall mean a registration statement of the Company on an appropriate form under the Act with respect to the Registered Exchange Offer, all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments thereto, in each case including the

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Prospectus contained therein, all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

               “Exchanging Dealer” shall mean any Holder (which may include any Initial Purchaser) that is a Broker-Dealer and elects to exchange for New Securities any Securities that it acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities (but not directly from the Company or any Affiliate of the Company) for New Securities.

               “Final Memorandum” shall mean the offering memorandum, dated July 13, 2005 relating to the Securities, including any and all exhibits thereto and any information incorporated by reference therein as of such date.

               “Holder” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto; provided that “Holder” shall mean the registered holder of such Securities in any context herein providing for obligations of the Company the performance of which requires actual knowledge of the identity of beneficial holders of any Securities other than the registered holder thereof.

               “Holders Counsel” shall mean one legal counsel appointed by the Holders of a majority of Registrable Securities included in any Shelf Registration Statement.

               “Indenture” shall mean the indenture relating to the Securities, to be dated as of the original issuance of the Securities, between the Company and The Bank of New York.

               “Initial Placement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

               “Initial Purchaser” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

               “Losses” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(d) hereof.

               “Majority Holders” shall mean, on any date, Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of each of the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes that constitute Registrable Securities.

               “Managing Underwriters” shall mean the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that administer an underwritten offering, if any, under a Registration Statement.

               “NASD Rules” shall mean the Conduct Rules and the By-Laws of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.

               “New Securities” shall mean the 2010 New Securities, the 2015 New Securities and the 2035 New Securities.

               “Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement (including, without limitation, a prospectus that discloses information

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previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A under the Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Securities or the New Securities covered by such Registration Statement, and all amendments and supplements thereto, including any and all exhibits thereto and any information incorporated by reference therein.

               “Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

               “Registered Exchange Offer” shall mean the proposed offer of the Company to issue and deliver to the Holders of the Securities that are not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in such offer, in exchange for the Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of the New Securities.

               “Registrable Securities” shall mean (i) Securities other than those that have been either (A) registered under a Registration Statement and disposed of in accordance therewith or (B) distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act or any successor rule or regulation thereto that may be adopted by the Commission and (ii) any New Securities resale of which by the Holder thereof requires compliance with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Act; provided that “Registrable Securities” shall not include any Securities that were eligible for exchange in the Registered Exchange Offer, but were not so exchanged through the failure on the part of the Holder thereof to participate in the Registered Exchange Offer and, provided, further, that such Holder was permitted by applicable law to participate in the Registered Exchange Offer.

               “Registration Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8 hereof.

               “Registration Default Damages” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8 hereof.

               “Registration Statement” shall mean any Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement that covers any of the Securities or the New Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, any amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments (in each case including the Prospectus contained therein), all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

               “Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

               “Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 3 hereof.

               “Shelf Registration Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(b) hereof.

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               “Shelf Registration Statement” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 hereof which covers some or all of the Securities or New Securities, as applicable, on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission, amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein, all exhibits thereto and all material incorporated by reference therein.

               “Trustee” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities under each of the Indenture.

               “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

               “underwriter” shall mean any underwriter of Securities in connection with an offering thereof under a Shelf Registration Statement.

               2. Registered Exchange Offer. (a) Except as a result of an event described in Section 3(a)(i) or 3(a)(ii) hereof, the Company shall prepare and, not later than 150 days following the Closing Date, shall use its reasonable efforts to file with the Commission the Exchange Offer Registration Statement with respect to the Registered Exchange Offer. The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective under the Act within 240 days of the Closing Date.

        (b) Upon the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the Company shall commence promptly the Registered Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such Registered Exchange Offer to enable each Holder electing to exchange Securities for New Securities (assuming that such Holder is not an Affiliate of the Company, acquires the New Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business, has no arrangements with any person to participate in the distribution of the New Securities and is not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer).

        (c) In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

          (i) mail to each Holder a copy of the Prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal and related documents;

          (ii) keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 20 Business Days and not more than 30 Business Days after the date notice thereof is mailed to the Holders (or, in each case, longer if required by applicable law);

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          (iii) use its reasonable efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement continuously effective under the Act, supplemented and amended as required, to ensure that it is available for sales of New Securities by Exchanging Dealers during the Exchange Offer Registration Period;

          (iv) utilize the services of a depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer with an address in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, which may be the Trustee or an Affiliate of either of them;

          (v) permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of business, New York time, on the last Business Day on which the Registered Exchange Offer is open;

          (vi) prior to effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, provide a supplemental letter to the Commission (A) stating that the Company is conducting the Registered Exchange Offer in reliance on the position of the Commission in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (pub. avail. May 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. (pub. avail. June 5, 1991); and (B) including a representation that the Company has not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the New Securities to be received in the Registered Exchange Offer and that, to the best of the Company’s information and belief, each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer is acquiring the New Securities in the ordinary course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the New Securities; and

          (vii) comply in all respects with all applicable laws.

        (d) As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

          (i) accept for exchange all Securities tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer;

          (ii) deliver to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 4(s) all Securities so accepted for exchange; and

          (iii) cause the Trustee promptly to authenticate and deliver to each Holder of Securities a principal amount of New Securities equal to the principal amount of the Securities of such Holder so accepted for exchange.

        (e) As a condition to participation in the Registered Exchange Offer, each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any Broker-Dealer and any such Holder in either case using the Registered Exchange Offer to participate in a

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distribution of the New Securities (x) could not under Commission policy as in effect on the date of this Agreement rely on the position of the Commission in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (pub. avail. May 13, 1988) and Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. (pub. avail. June 5, 1991), as interpreted in the Commission’s letter to Shearman & Sterling dated July 2, 1993 and similar no-action letters; and (y) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Act in connection with any secondary resale transaction, which must be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 or 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K under the Act if the resales are of New Securities obtained by such Holder in exchange for Securities acquired by such Holder directly from the Company or one of its Affiliates. Accordingly, as a condition to participation in the Registered Exchange Offer, each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to the Company that prior to and effective as of the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer:

          (i) any New Securities received by such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business;

          (ii) such Holder is not engaged in and does not intend to engage in, and will have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the Securities or the New Securities within the meaning of the Act; and

          (iii) such Holder is not an Affiliate of the Company.

               3. Shelf Registration. (a) If (i) due to any change in law or applicable interpretations thereof by the Commission’s staff, (A) the Company determines that it is not permitted to effect the Registered Exchange Offer as contemplated by Section 2 hereof or (B) New Securities received by the Holders in the Registered Exchange Offer for the Notes are not or would not be upon receipt, transferable by each such Holder without restriction under the Act; (ii) for any other reason the Registered Exchange Offer is not consummated within 280 days of the date hereof; (iii) prior to the completion of the Registered Exchange Offer, any Initial Purchaser shall reasonably notify the Company in writing that such Initial Purchaser was prohibited by law or Commission policy from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer or (iv) the Registered Exchange Offer has been completed and a Registration Statement must be filed and a Prospectus must be delivered by the Initial Purchasers in connection with any sale or offer of Registrable Securities in order for the Initial Purchasers to receive freely tradeable New Securities pursuant to Section 2(f) hereof, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to effect a Shelf Registration Statement in accordance with subsection (b) below.

        (b) (i) The Company shall as promptly as practicable, file with the Commission and shall use its reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective under the Act within 120 days after so required or requested, a Shelf Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Securities or the New Securities, as

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applicable, by the Holders thereof from time to time in accordance with the methods of distribution elected by such Holders and set forth in such Shelf Registration Statement; provided, however, that in no event shall the Company be required to file or cause to be effective any such Shelf Registration Statement before the date on which it is required to file or cause to be effective, as applicable, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2 hereof; and provided, further, that no Holder (other than an Initial Purchaser) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it covered by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be bound by all of the provisions of this Agreement applicable to a Holder; and provided further, that with respect to New Securities received by an Initial Purchaser in exchange for Securities constituting any portion of an unsold allotment, the Company may, if permitted by current interpretations by the Commission’s staff, file a post-effective amendment to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement containing the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K, as applicable, in satisfaction of its obligations under this subsection with respect thereto, and any such Exchange Offer Registration Statement, as so amended, shall be referred to herein as, and governed by the provisions herein applicable to, a Shelf Registration Statement.

          (ii) The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as required by the Act, in order to permit the Prospectus forming part thereof to be usable by Holders for a period (the “Shelf Registration Period”) from the date the Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission until the earlier of (A) the date upon which all the Securities or New Securities, as applicable, covered by the Shelf Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, (B) are sold pursuant to Rule 144 or saleable pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Act or (C) two years from the date of this Agreement.

          (iii) The Company shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement or such amendment or supplement, (A) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act; and (B) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

               4. Additional Registration Procedures. In connection with any Shelf Registration Statement and, to the extent applicable, any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the following provisions shall apply.

               (a) The Company shall:

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          (i) furnish to each of the Representatives and to one counsel for the Holders, not less than three Business Days prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, a copy of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any Shelf Registration Statement, and each amendment thereof and each amendment or supplement, if any, to the Prospectus included therein (including all documents incorporated by reference therein after the initial filing) and shall use its reasonable efforts to reflect in each such document, when so filed with the Commission, such comments as the Representatives reasonably propose;

          (ii) include the information set forth in Annex A hereto on the facing page of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, in Annex B hereto in the forepart of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement in a section setting forth details of the Exchange Offer, in Annex C hereto in the underwriting or plan of distribution section of the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and in Annex D hereto in the letter of transmittal delivered pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer;

          (iii) if requested by an Initial Purchaser, include the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K, as applicable, in the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement; provided that such Initial Purchaser shall timely provide such information required by Sections 507 and 508 of Regulation S-K; and

          (iv) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, use reasonable efforts to include the names of the Holders that propose to sell Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement as selling security holders in the Prospectus (or a supplement to the Prospectus).

        (b) The Company shall ensure that (except with respect to information provided by Holders for inclusion therein):

          (i) any Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any Prospectus forming part thereof and any amendment or supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the Act; and

          (ii) any Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

               (c) The Company shall advise the Representatives, the selling securityholders listed in any Shelf Registration Statement (or a prospectus supplement thereto) and any Exchanging Dealer under any Exchange Offer Registration Statement that has provided in writing to the Company a telephone or facsimile number and address for notices, and, if requested by any Representative

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or any such Holder or Exchanging Dealer, shall confirm such advice in writing (which notice pursuant to clauses (ii) through (v) hereof shall be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the Prospectus until the Company shall have remedied the basis for such suspension and, until such time, Holders shall be obligated to refrain from using such Prospectus):

          (i) when a Registration Statement and any amendment thereto has been filed with the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective;

          (ii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information;

          (iii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose;

          (iv) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the securities included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and

          (v) of the happening of any event that requires any change in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus so that, as of such date, they (A) do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact and (B) do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

        (d) The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the qualification of the securities therein for sale in any jurisdiction and, if issued, to obtain as soon as practicable the withdrawal thereof.

        (e) If a Holder so requests and such information is not publicly available through the Commission’s Edgar system or otherwise, the Company shall furnish to each Holder of Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement, without charge, at least one copy of such Shelf Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including all material incorporated therein by reference all exhibits thereto (including exhibits incorporated by reference therein).

        (f) The Company shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each Holder of Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement, without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus (including the Preliminary Prospectus) included in such Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement

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thereto as such Holder may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of Securities in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities covered by the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in the Shelf Registration Statement, subject to the obligation of Holders to cease using the Prospectus or such amendment or supplement upon notice by the Company as provided in (c) above.

        (g) If requested and such information is not available through the Commission’s Edgar system or otherwise publicly available, the Company shall furnish to each Exchanging Dealer which so requests, without charge, at least one copy of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including all material incorporated by reference therein, and, if the Exchanging Dealer so requests in writing, all exhibits thereto (including exhibits incorporated by reference therein).

        (h) The Company shall promptly deliver to each Initial Purchaser and each Exchanging Dealer, without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus included in such Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as any such person may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by any Initial Purchaser and any Exchanging Dealer following the Registered Exchange Offer in connection with the offering and sale of the New Securities covered by the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, subject to the obligation of Holders to cease using the Prospectus or such amendment or supplement upon notice by the Company as provided in (c) above.

        (i) Prior to the Registered Exchange Offer or any other offering of Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement, the Company shall arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of the Securities or the New Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as any Holder shall reasonably request and shall maintain such qualification in effect so long as required; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to service of process or subject itself to taxation, in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

        (j) The Company shall cooperate with the Holders to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing New Securities or Securities to be issued or sold pursuant to any Registration Statement free of any restrictive legends and in such denominations and registered in such names as Holders may request.

        (k) (i) Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by subsections (c)(ii) through (v) above, the Company shall promptly prepare a post-effective amendment to the applicable Registration Statement or an amendment or

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supplement to the related Prospectus or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to Initial Purchasers of the securities included therein, the Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. In such circumstances, the period of effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement provided for in Section 2 shall be extended by the number of days from and including the date of the giving of a notice of suspension pursuant to Section 4(c) to and including the date when the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any known Exchanging Dealer shall have received such amended or supplemented Prospectus pursuant to this Section.

          (ii) Upon the occurrence or existence of any pending corporate development or any other event or circumstance that, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, makes it appropriate to suspend the availability of a Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus, the Company shall give notice (without notice of the nature or details of such events) to the selling securityholders listed in such Shelf Registration Statement (or a prospectus supplement thereto) that the availability of the Shelf Registration is suspended and, upon actual receipt of any such notice, each Holder agrees not to sell any Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration until such selling securityholder’s receipt or deemed receipt of copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus provided for in Section 3(i) hereof, or until it is advised in writing by the Company that the Prospectus may be used, and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in such Prospectus. In the event that the Company gives such notice, unless and until the period during which the availability of the Shelf Registration and any Prospectus is suspended pursuant to this clause (ii) (the “Deferral Period”) shall have exceeded 45 days in any three-month period or 90 days in any twelve-month period, Registration Default Damages shall not accrue.

        (l) Not later than the effective date of any Registration Statement, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to provide a CUSIP number for the Securities or the New Securities, as the case may be, registered under such Registration Statement and provide the Trustee with printed certificates for such Securities or New Securities, in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company.

        (m) The Company shall comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission and shall make generally available to its security holders an earnings statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act as soon as practicable after the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement and in any event no later than 45 days after the end of a 12-month period (or 90 days, if such period is a fiscal year) beginning with the first month

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of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement.

        (n) The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in a timely manner.

        (o) The Company may require each Holder of securities to be sold pursuant to any Shelf Registration Statement to furnish to the Company such information regarding the Holder (including reasonable and customary representations regarding the ownership and right to sell the Securities included in such Shelf Registration Statement) and the distribution of such securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request for inclusion in such Registration Statement. The Company may exclude from such Shelf Registration Statement the Securities of any Holder that unreasonably fails to furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request.

        (p) In the case of any Shelf Registration Statement, if requested by the Majority Holders, the Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form and take all other appropriate actions in order to expedite or facilitate the registration or the disposition of the Securities, and cause the underwriting agreement to contain indemnification provisions and procedures no less favorable than those set forth in Section 6 hereof.

        (q) In the case of any Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall, subject to the last sentence of this clause (q):

          (i) make reasonably available for inspection by any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such Registration Statement, and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by any such underwriter or Holders Counsel all relevant financial and other records and pertinent corporate documents of the Company and its subsidiaries;

          (ii) cause the Company’s officers, directors, employees, accountants and auditors to supply all relevant information reasonably requested by any such underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent or Holders Counsel in connection with any such Registration Statement as is customary for similar due diligence examinations;

          (iii) make such representations and warranties to the Holders of Securities registered thereunder and the underwriters, if any, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten resale offerings and covering matters including, but not limited to, those set forth in the Purchase Agreement;

          (iv) obtain opinions of counsel to the Company and updates thereof (which counsel and opinions (in form, scope and substance) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Managing Underwriters, if any)

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addressed to the underwriters, if any, covering such matters as are customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten offerings, provided that, in the case of non-underwritten resales from a Shelf Registration Statement, such opinions will be addressed to the Holders of the Securities sold in such offering;

          (v) obtain “comfort” letters and updates thereof from the independent certified public accountants of the Company (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public accountants of any subsidiary of the Company or of any business acquired by the Company for which financial statements and financial data are, or are required to be, included in the Registration Statement), addressed to each selling Holder of Securities registered thereunder and the underwriters, if any, in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “comfort” letters in connection with underwritten resale offerings; and

          (vi) deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by the Managing Underwriters, if any, or Holders Counsel including those to evidence compliance with Section 4(k) and with any customary conditions contained in the underwriting agreement or other agreement entered into by the Company.

The actions set forth in clauses (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) of this paragraph (q) shall be performed at (A) the effectiveness of such Registration Statement and each post-effective amendment thereto; and (B) each closing under any underwriting or similar agreement as and to the extent required thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall only be required to grant Holders Counsel the rights provided in this clause (q) once in any 12 month period.

In connection with such Shelf Registration Statement, the Company may require each Holder and Holders Counsel to maintain in confidence and not to disclose to any other person any information or records reasonably designated by the Company as being confidential, until such time as (A) such information becomes a matter of public record (whether by virtue of its inclusion in such registration statement or otherwise), or (B) such person shall be required so to disclose such information pursuant to a subpoena or order of any court or other governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the matter (subject to the requirements of such order, and only after such person shall have given the Company prompt prior written notice of such requirement), or (C) such information is required to be set forth in such Shelf Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or in an amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement or an amendment or supplement to such prospectus in order that such Shelf Registration Statement, prospectus, amendment or supplement, as the case may be, complies with applicable requirements of the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Commission and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances then existing; provided that Holders

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Counsel shall be permitted to discuss the results of its due diligence examination with any of the Holders.

        (r) If a Registered Exchange Offer is to be consummated, upon delivery of the Securities by Holders to the Company (or to such other person as directed by the Company) in exchange for the New Securities, the Company shall mark, or caused to be marked, on the Securities so exchanged that such Securities are being cancelled in exchange for the New Securities. In no event shall the Securities be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied.

        (s) The Company shall use its reasonable efforts if the Securities have been rated prior to the initial sale of such Securities, to confirm such ratings will apply to the Securities or the New Securities, as the case may be, covered by a Registration Statement.

        (t) In the event that any Broker-Dealer shall underwrite any Securities or participate as a member of an underwriting syndicate or selling group or “assist in the distribution” (within the meaning of the NASD Rules) thereof, whether as a Holder of such Securities or as an underwriter, a placement or sales agent or a broker or dealer in respect thereof, or otherwise, the Company shall reasonably assist such Broker-Dealer in complying with the NASD Rules.

        (u) The Company shall use its best efforts to take all other steps necessary to effect the registration of the Securities or the New Securities, as the case may be, covered by a Registration Statement.

               5. Registration Expenses. The Company shall bear all expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations under Sections 2, 3 and 4 hereof and, in the event of any Shelf Registration Statement, will reimburse the Holders for the reasonable fees and disbursements (not in excess of $75,000) of one firm or counsel (which shall initially be Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, but which may be another nationally recognized law firm experienced in securities matters designated by the Majority Holders) to act as counsel for the Holders in connection therewith, and, in the case of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, will reimburse the Initial Purchasers for the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel acting in connection therewith. Each Holder of securities included in any Shelf Registration Statement shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.

               6. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of Securities or New Securities, as the case may be, covered by any Registration Statement, each Initial Purchaser and, with respect to any Prospectus delivery as contemplated in Section 4(h) hereof, each Exchanging Dealer, the directors, officers, employees, Affiliates and agents of each such Holder, Initial Purchaser or Exchanging Dealer and each person who controls any such Holder, Initial Purchaser or Exchanging Dealer within the meaning of either the Act or the

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Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, or in any preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by it in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the party claiming indemnification specifically for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability that the Company may otherwise have.

          The Company also agrees to indemnify as provided in this Section 6(a) or contribute as provided in Section 6(d) hereof to Losses of each underwriter, if any, of Securities or New Securities, as the case may be, registered under a Shelf Registration Statement, their directors, officers, employees, Affiliates or agents and each person who controls such underwriter on substantially the same basis as that of the indemnification of the Initial Purchasers and the selling Holders provided in this Section 6(a) and shall, if requested by any Holder, enter into an underwriting agreement reflecting such agreement, as provided in Section 4(p) hereof.

   (b) Each Holder of securities covered by a Registration Statement (including each Initial Purchaser that is a Holder, in such capacity) severally and not jointly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signs such Registration Statement and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each such Holder, but only with reference to written information relating to such Holder furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that any such Holder may otherwise have.

   (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 6 or written notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement

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thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses; and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel (including local counsel) of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel, other than local counsel if not appointed by the indemnifying party, retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel (including local counsel) to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest; (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party; (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action; or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.

        (d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, then each applicable indemnifying party shall have a joint and several obligation to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any loss, claim, liability, damage or action) (collectively “Losses”) to which such indemnified party may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by such

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indemnifying party, on the one hand, and such indemnified party, on the other hand, from the Initial Placement and the Registration Statement which resulted in such Losses; provided, however, that in no case shall any Initial Purchaser be responsible, in the aggregate, for any amount in excess of the purchase discount or commission applicable to such Security, or in the case of a New Security, applicable to the Security that was exchangeable into such New Security, as set forth in the Final Memorandum, nor shall any underwriter be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the securities purchased by such underwriter under the Registration Statement which resulted in such Losses. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of such indemnifying party, on the one hand, and such indemnified party, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds received from the Initial Placement (before deducting expenses) of the 2010 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2035 Notes as set forth in the Final Memorandum. Benefits received by the Initial Purchasers shall be deemed to be equal to the total purchase discounts and commissions as set forth on the cover page of the Final Memorandum, and benefits received by any other Holders shall be deemed to be equal to the value of receiving Securities or New Securities, as applicable, registered under the Act. Benefits received by any underwriter shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, as set forth on the cover page of the Prospectus forming a part of the Registration Statement which resulted in such Losses. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the indemnifying party, on the one hand, or by the indemnified party, on the other hand, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section, each person who controls a Holder within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of such Holder shall have the same rights to contribution as such Holder, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to

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contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).

        (e) The provisions of this Section will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Holder or the Company or any of the indemnified persons referred to in this Section 6, and will survive the sale by a Holder of securities covered by a Registration Statement.

               7. Underwritten Registrations. (a) If any of the Securities or New Securities, as the case may be, covered by any Shelf Registration Statement are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the Managing Underwriters shall be selected by the Majority Holders, provided that such Managing Underwriters are reasonably acceptable to the Company.

        (b) No person may participate in any underwritten offering pursuant to any Shelf Registration Statement, unless such person (i) agrees to sell such person’s Securities or New Securities, as the case may be, on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements; and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

               8. Registration Defaults. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to make any filing, amendment or supplement or cause, maintain or pursue any registration or effectiveness, or co-operate in furtherance thereof, if it determines in good faith that such action would be injurious or detrimental to its interests or business; provided that such determination shall not affect the rights of Holders of Securities pursuant to Section 8(B) hereof. (B) If any of the following events shall occur (a “Registration Default”), then the Company shall pay liquidated damages (the “Registration Default Damages”) to the Holders of Securities in respect of the Securities as follows:

        (a) if any Registration Statement required by this Agreement is not filed with the Commission on or prior to the date specified for such filing in this Agreement, then Registration Default Damages shall accrue on the Registrable Securities at a rate of 0.25% per annum for the first 90 days from and including such specified date and 0.50% per annum thereafter; or

        (b) if any Registration Statement required by this Agreement is not declared effective by the Commission on or prior to the date by which reasonable efforts are to be used to cause such effectiveness under this Agreement, then commencing on the day after such specified date, Registration Default Damages shall accrue on the Registrable Securities at a rate of 0.25% per annum for the first 90 days from and including such specified date and 0.50% per annum thereafter; or

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        (c) if any Registration Statement required by this Agreement has been declared effective but ceases to be effective at any time at which it is required to be effective under this Agreement, then commencing on the day the Registration Statement ceases to be effective, Registration Default Damages shall accrue on the Registrable Securities at a rate of 0.25% per annum for the first 90 days from and including such date on which the Registration Statement ceases to be effective and 0.50% per annum thereafter;

provided, however, that (1) upon the filing of the Registration Statement (in the case of paragraph (a) above), (2) upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (in the case of paragraph (b) above), or (3) upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement which had ceased to remain effective (in the case of paragraph (c) above), Registration Default Damages shall cease to accrue.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Registration Default Damages shall be the exclusive monetary remedy for failure to register the exchange or resale of Securities or to maintain effectiveness thereof or for any Registration Default, provided that if liquidated damages are deemed unenforceable, the Holders shall be entitled to monetary damages in an equivalent amount. In no event shall the Company be required to pay Registration Default Damages in excess of 0.50% per annum, whether or not multiple Registration Defaults exist.

               9. No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not entered into, and agrees not to enter into, any agreement with respect to its securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders herein or that otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.

               10. Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, qualified, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, unless the Company has obtained the written consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities outstanding affected by such amendment; provided that, with respect to any matter that directly or indirectly affects the rights of any Initial Purchaser hereunder, the Company shall obtain the written consent of each such Initial Purchaser against which such amendment, qualification, supplement, waiver or consent is to be effective; provided, further, that no amendment, qualification, supplement, waiver or consent with respect to Section 8(B) hereof shall be effective as against any Holder of Registered Securities unless consented to in writing by such Holder; and provided, further, that the provisions of this Article 10 may not be amended, qualified, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, unless the Company has obtained the written consent of the Initial Purchasers and each Holder. Notwithstanding the foregoing (except the foregoing provisos), a waiver or consent to departure from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of Holders whose Securities or New Securities, as the case may be, are being sold pursuant to a Registration Statement and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other Holders may be given by the Majority

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Holders, determined on the basis of Securities or New Securities, as the case may be, being sold rather than registered under such Registration Statement.

               11. Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, telex, telecopier, registered mail return receipt requested or air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery:

        (a) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such holder to the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11, which address initially is, with respect to each Holder, the address of such Holder maintained by the Registrar under the 2010 Indenture, the 2015 Indenture or the 2035 Indenture, as the case may be;

        (b) if to the Representatives, initially at the address or addresses set forth in the Purchase Agreement; and

        (c) if to the Company, initially at its address set forth in the Purchase Agreement.

               All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given and received when (i) confirmation is received with respect to telex or telecopier or (ii) delivered with respect to hand-delivery, air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery or registered mail return receipt requested.

               The Initial Purchasers or the Company by notice to the other parties may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

               12. Remedies. Each Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided to it herein, in the Indenture or in the Purchase Agreement or granted by law, including recovery of liquidated or other damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. The Company agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Agreement and hereby agrees to waive in any action for specific performance the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

               13. Successors. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns, including, without the need for an express assignment or any consent by the Company thereto, subsequent Holders of Securities and the New Securities, and the indemnified persons referred to in Section 6 hereof. The Company hereby agrees to extend the benefits of this Agreement to any Holder of Securities and the New Securities, and any such Holder by taking or holding such Securities and giving reasonable evidence in satisfaction thereof may specifically enforce the provisions of this Agreement as if an original party hereto and shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such securities shall be held subject to all the terms of this Agreement.

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               14. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

               15. Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

               16. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed in the State of New York. The parties hereto each hereby waive any right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim arising out of or relating to this Agreement.

               17. Severability. In the event that any one of more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstances, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions hereof shall not be in any way impaired or affected thereby, it being intended that all of the rights and privileges of the parties shall be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

               18. Securities Held by the Company, etc. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of principal amount of Securities or New Securities is required hereunder, Securities or New Securities, as applicable, held by the Company or its Affiliates (other than subsequent Holders of Securities or New Securities if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be Affiliates solely by reason of their holdings of such Securities or New Securities) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.

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               If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement between the Company and the several Initial Purchasers.

             
    Very truly yours,    
 
           
    Genentech, Inc.    
 
           
 
  By:     /s/ Thomas T. Thomas    
 
           
 
      Name: Thomas T. Thomas    
 
      Title: Treasurer    

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

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

By: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

         
By:
    /s/ Gerard L. Eastman, Jr.    
 
       
 
  Name: Gerard L. Eastman, Jr.    
 
  Title: Managing Director    

By: Goldman, Sachs & Co.

         
By:
       /s/ Goldman, Sachs & Co.    
 
       
 
    (Goldman, Sachs & Co.)    

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ANNEX A

               Each broker-dealer that receives new securities for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such new securities. The Letter of Transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Act. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of new securities received in exchange for securities where such securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The company has agreed that, starting on the expiration date and ending on the close of business 90 days after the expiration date, it will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See “Plan of Distribution”.

 


 

ANNEX B

               Each broker-dealer that receives new securities for its own account in exchange for securities, where such securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such new securities. See “Plan of Distribution”.

 


 

ANNEX C

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

               Each broker-dealer that receives new securities for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such new securities. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of new securities received in exchange for securities where such securities were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The company has agreed that, starting on the expiration date and ending on the close of business 90 days after the expiration date, it will make this prospectus, as amended or supplemented, available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. In addition, until ___, ___, all dealers effecting transactions in the new securities may be required to deliver a prospectus.

               The company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of new securities by brokers-dealers. New securities received by broker-dealers for their own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer may be sold from time to time in one or more transactions in the over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of options on the new securities or a combination of such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or negotiated prices. Any such resale may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation in the form of commissions or concessions from any such broker-dealer and/or the purchasers of any such new securities. Any broker-dealer that resells new securities that were received by it for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer and any broker or dealer that participates in a distribution of such new securities may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Act and any profit of any such resale of new securities and any commissions or concessions received by any such persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the Act. The Letter of Transmittal states that by acknowledging that it will deliver and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Act.

               For a period of 90 days after the expiration date, the company will promptly send additional copies of this prospectus and any amendment or supplement to this prospectus to any broker-dealer that requests such documents in the Letter of Transmittal. The company has agreed to pay all expenses incident to the Exchange Offer (including the expenses of one counsel for the holder of the securities) other than commissions or concessions of any brokers or dealers and will indemnify the holders of the securities (including any broker-dealers) against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Act.

 


 

ANNEX D

Rider A

PLEASE FILL IN YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS BELOW IF YOU ARE A BROKER-DEALER AND WISH TO RECEIVE 10 ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE PROSPECTUS AND 10 COPIES OF ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO.

     
Name:
                                                              
Address:
                                                              
 
                                                              

Rider B

If the undersigned is not a Broker-Dealer, the undersigned represents that it acquired the New Securities in the ordinary course of its business, it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of New Securities and it has no arrangements or understandings with any person to participate in a distribution of the New Securities. If the undersigned is a Broker-Dealer that will receive New Securities for its own account in exchange for Securities, it represents that the Securities to be exchange for New Securities were acquired by it as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities and acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such New Securities; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, the undersigned will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Act.

 

EX-99.1 5 f10782exv99w1.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 exv99w1
 

Exhibit 99.1

             
     (GENENTECH LOGO)   NEWS RELEASE
 
           
 
  Media Contact:   Debra Charlesworth   (650) 225-2742
 
      Caroline Pecquet   (650) 467-7078
 
  Investor Contact:   Kathee Littrell   (650) 225-1034
 
           
 
  http://www.gene.com        

GENENTECH ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO OFFER UP TO $2 BILLION IN SENIOR NOTES

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 13, 2005 –Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA) today announced that, subject to market and other conditions, it intends to offer $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of five-year, 10-year and 30-year senior notes pursuant to exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”).

The company intends to use approximately $585 million of the net proceeds to reduce or repay its obligations under certain existing synthetic and other lease arrangements, including a synthetic lease related to its manufacturing facility in Vacaville, California. The company also intends to fund upgrade, start-up and validation costs at its recently acquired biologics manufacturing facility in Oceanside, California. It intends to use the balance of the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include additional capital expenditures, working capital, stock repurchases, research and development expenses and acquisitions of or investments in products, technologies, facilities and businesses.

The securities to be offered will not be registered under the Securities Act or applicable state securities law or blue sky laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities law or available exemptions from the registration requirements. This announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the notes.

The statements in this press release regarding the timing of the proposed offering and its terms are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, market conditions and the price and market for the securities to be offered.

EX-99.2 6 f10782exv99w2.htm EXHIBIT 99.2 exv99w2
 

Exhibit 99.2

             
     (GENENTECH LOGO)   NEWS RELEASE
 
           
 
  Media Contact:   Debra Charlesworth   (650) 225-2742
 
      Caroline Pecquet   (650) 467-7078
 
  Investor Contact:   Kathee Littrell   (650) 225-1034
 
           
 
  http://www.gene.com        

GENENTECH ANNOUNCES PRICING OF $2 BILLION IN SENIOR NOTES

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 13, 2005 –Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA) today announced the pricing of an offering $500 million principal amount of 4.40 percent Senior Notes due 2010, $1 billion principal amount of 4.75 percent Senior Notes due 2015 and $500 million principal amount of 5.25 percent Senior Notes due 2035. The offering is being made pursuant to exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”). The sale of the notes is expected to close on July 18, 2005.

The company intends to use approximately $585 million of the net proceeds to reduce or repay its obligations under certain existing synthetic and other lease arrangements, including a synthetic lease related to its manufacturing facility in Vacaville, California. The company also intends to fund upgrade, start-up and validation costs at its recently acquired biologics manufacturing facility in Oceanside, California. It intends to use the balance of the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include additional capital expenditures, working capital, stock repurchases, research and development expenses and acquisitions of or investments in products, technologies, facilities and businesses.

The securities to be offered will not be registered under the Securities Act or applicable state securities law or blue sky laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities law or available exemptions from the registration requirements. This announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the notes.

The statements in this press release regarding the timing of the proposed offering and its terms are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, market conditions and the price and market for the securities to be offered.

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