-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, DyiLP0aSR7MqbuOX3OB4C8myul7nWrsiR4WsF90DhgDQHV63Hjxk/XE8IxGxEZ9G urR8k1nIgtaQOsJEyCJ6zQ== 0000919465-08-000021.txt : 20080422 0000919465-08-000021.hdr.sgml : 20080422 20080421195933 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000919465-08-000021 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080421 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20080422 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080421 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BERRY IOWA CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000919467 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 421382173 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-02 FILM NUMBER: 08768000 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CARDINAL PACKAGING INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001093665 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 341396561 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-85739-14 FILM NUMBER: 08767986 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CPI HOLDING CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001093666 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 341820303 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-85739-15 FILM NUMBER: 08767983 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: POLY SEAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000079401 IRS NUMBER: 520892112 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-06 FILM NUMBER: 08767977 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124299278 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SUN COAST INDUSTRIES INC /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000319129 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 591952968 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12476 FILM NUMBER: 08767972 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2700 S WESTMORELAND AVE CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75233 BUSINESS PHONE: 2143737864 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2700 S WESTMORELAND AVE CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75233 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: SUN COAST PLASTICS INC /DE/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ANAEROBIC ENERGY SYSTEMS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19830630 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BERRY PLASTICS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000919465 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 351814673 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0107 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-01 FILM NUMBER: 08767968 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET STREET 2: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BERRY PLASTICS HOLDING CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20061031 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BPC HOLDING CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19940225 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SAFFRON ACQUISITION CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001054090 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-13 FILM NUMBER: 08767974 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O FREMONT PARTNERS LP STREET 2: FIFTY FREMONT ST #3700 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94105 BUSINESS PHONE: 4152848130 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O FREMONT PARTNERS LP STREET 2: FIFTY FREMONT ST #3700 CITY: SAN FRANCISCO STATE: CA ZIP: 94105 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BERRY STERLING CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075619 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 541749681 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-11 FILM NUMBER: 08767987 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PACKERWARE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075620 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 480759852 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KS FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-05 FILM NUMBER: 08767979 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BERRY PLASTICS DESIGN CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075621 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 621689708 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-07 FILM NUMBER: 08767990 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: VENTURE PACKAGING INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075622 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 510368479 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-08 FILM NUMBER: 08767970 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: VENTURE PACKAGING MIDWEST INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075623 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 341809003 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-09 FILM NUMBER: 08767969 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BERRY PLASTICS TECHNICAL SERVICES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075624 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 571029638 STATE OF INCORPORATION: SC FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-03 FILM NUMBER: 08767988 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VENTURE PACKAGING SOUTHEAST INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19981221 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AEROCON INC /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075629 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 351948748 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-10 FILM NUMBER: 08768001 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORP III CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001114652 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-05 FILM NUMBER: 08767999 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Covalence Specialty Adhesives LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001372792 IRS NUMBER: 204104683 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-137618-02 FILM NUMBER: 08767985 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROSSROADS DRIVE CITY: BEDMINSTER STATE: NJ ZIP: 07921 BUSINESS PHONE: 908-547-6081 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROSSROADS DRIVE CITY: BEDMINSTER STATE: NJ ZIP: 07921 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Covalence Specialty Coatings LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001372793 IRS NUMBER: 204104731 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-137618-01 FILM NUMBER: 08767984 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROSSROADS DRIVE CITY: BEDMINSTER STATE: NJ ZIP: 07921 BUSINESS PHONE: 908-547-6081 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE CROSSROADS DRIVE CITY: BEDMINSTER STATE: NJ ZIP: 07921 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Rollpack Acquisition CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001397551 IRS NUMBER: 030512845 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-142602-19 FILM NUMBER: 08767976 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Rollpack CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001397552 IRS NUMBER: 351582626 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-142602-18 FILM NUMBER: 08767975 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KNIGHT PLASTICS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001075626 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 352056610 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-64599-13 FILM NUMBER: 08767981 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY ST STREET 2: P O BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124242904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 959 CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47706-0959 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Pescor, Inc CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381510 IRS NUMBER: 743002028 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-14 FILM NUMBER: 08767978 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP V CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381511 IRS NUMBER: 364509933 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-24 FILM NUMBER: 08767989 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP VII CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381512 IRS NUMBER: 300120989 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-23 FILM NUMBER: 08767997 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP VIII CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381513 IRS NUMBER: 320036809 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-22 FILM NUMBER: 08767996 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Landis Plastics, Inc CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381515 IRS NUMBER: 362471333 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-15 FILM NUMBER: 08767980 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Tubed Products, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381516 IRS NUMBER: 562374082 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-07 FILM NUMBER: 08767971 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP IX CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381517 IRS NUMBER: 352184302 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-25 FILM NUMBER: 08767998 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP X CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381518 IRS NUMBER: 352184301 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-21 FILM NUMBER: 08767995 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP XI CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381519 IRS NUMBER: 352184300 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-20 FILM NUMBER: 08767994 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP XII CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381520 IRS NUMBER: 352184299 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-19 FILM NUMBER: 08767993 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP XIII CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381521 IRS NUMBER: 352184298 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-18 FILM NUMBER: 08767992 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Berry Plastics Acquisition CORP XV, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381522 IRS NUMBER: 352184293 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-17 FILM NUMBER: 08767991 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Setco, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001381524 IRS NUMBER: 562374074 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-75706-12 FILM NUMBER: 08767973 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 BUSINESS PHONE: 812-424-2904 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 101 OAKLEY STREET CITY: EVANSVILLE STATE: IN ZIP: 47710 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KERR GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000055454 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PLASTICS PRODUCTS, NEC [3089] IRS NUMBER: 950898810 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-07272 FILM NUMBER: 08767982 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 NEW HOLLAND AVE CITY: LANCASTER STATE: PA ZIP: 17602 BUSINESS PHONE: 7172996511 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1840 CENTURY PARK EAST CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90067 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: KERR GLASS MANUFACTURING CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920518 8-K 1 bpc8k042108.htm BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION 8-K 04.21.08 bpc8k042108.htm


 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 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): April 21, 2008
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION
(f/k/a Berry Plastics Holding Corporation)
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State of Incorporation)
333-138380
(Commission File Numbers)
 
35-1813706
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
101 Oakley Street
Evansville, Indiana
(Address of principal executive offices)
47710
(Zip Code)
 
(812) 424-2904
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
NA
(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:
 
 
 
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Item 1.01                      Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
On April 21, 2008, Berry Plastics Corporation (f/k/a Berry Plastics Holding Corporation) (“Berry Plastics”) issued $680,600,000 million in aggregate principal amount of first priority floating rate senior secured notes due 2015 (the “Notes) pursuant to an indenture, dated as of April 21, 2008, among Berry Plastics, the guarantors party thereto (the “Note Guarantors”) and Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee (the “Indenture”).
 
The Notes are senior obligations of Berry Plastics, have the benefit of the security interest in collateral described below and will mature on February 15, 2015. Interest on the Notes accrues at a rate per annum, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.75%, as determined by the calculation agent, which shall initially be the Trustee. Interest on the Notes are payable quarterly in arrears on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing July 15, 2008. Berry Plastics will make each interest payment to the holders of record of the Notes on the immediately preceding January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1.
 
On or after April 15, 2010, Berry Plastics may redeem the Notes at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice mailed by first-class mail or sent electronically to each holder’s registered address, at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest and additional interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on April 15 of the years set forth below:
 
 
   
Period
Redemption Price
2010
 102.000%
2011
 101.000%
2012 and thereafter
 100.000%
 
In addition, prior to April 15, 2010, Berry Plastics may redeem the Notes at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice mailed by first-class mail or sent electronically to each holder’s registered address, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus the Applicable Premium (as defined in the Indenture) as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and additional interest, if any, to, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time on or prior to April 15, 2010, Berry Plastics may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to the issuance of Additional Notes, as defined in the Indenture) issued as of the time of such redemptions, with the net cash proceeds of one or more equity offerings (1) by Berry Plastics or (2) by any direct or indirect parent of Berry Plastics, in each case, to the extent the net cash proceeds thereof are contributed to the common equity capital of Berry Plastics or used to purchase capital stock (other than disqualified stock) of Berry Plastics from it, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) of 100% plus a premium (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) equal to the interest rate per annum on the Notes applicable on the date on which notice of redemption is given, plus accrued and unpaid interest and additional interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided, however, that at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to the issuance of Additional Notes) issued as of the time of such redemption must remain outstanding after each such redemption; and provided further that such redemption shall occur within 90 days after the date on which any such equity offering is consummated upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice sent electronically or mailed to each holder of Notes being redeemed and otherwise in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture.
 
The indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is senior indebtedness of Berry Plastics, is equal in right of payment to all existing and future pari passu indebtedness, has the benefit of the security interest in the collateral described below and is senior in right of payment to all existing and future subordinated indebtedness of Berry Plastics.  The indebtedness evidenced by the Note Guarantees (as defined below) is senior indebtedness of the applicable Note Guarantor, is equal in right of payment to all existing and future pari passu indebtedness of such Note Guarantor, will have the benefit of the security interest in the collateral described below and is senior in right of payment to all existing and future subordinated indebtedness of such Note Guarantor.
 
 

 
The Notes and the Note Guarantees (as defined below) are secured by security interests in the collateral described below, subject to permitted liens, pursuant to a Collateral Agreement dated as of April 21, 2008 (the “Collateral Agreement”) by and among Berry Plastics, the Note Guarantors and Wells, Fargo, N.A., as collateral agent on behalf of the Trustee and the noteholders (the “Notes Collateral Agent”). The collateral consists of substantially all of the property and assets, in each case, that are held by Berry Plastics or any of the Note Guarantors, subject to certain exceptions.  Security interests securing the Notes and the proceeds and distributions in respect thereof are subject to certain intercreditor arrangements.  These security interests secure the payment and performance when due of all of the obligations of Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors under the Notes, the Indenture, the Note Guarantees (as described below) and the related security documents.
 
Each of Berry Plastics’ direct and indirect restricted subsidiaries that were domestic subsidiaries on the issue date that guarantee indebtedness under Berry Plastics’ existing credit agreements jointly and severally irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis the performance and punctual payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all obligations of Berry Plastics under the Indenture and the Notes, whether for payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest or additional interest on the Notes, expenses, indemnification or otherwise (all such obligations guaranteed by such Note Guarantors being herein called the “Guaranteed Obligations”). The Guaranteed Obligations of each Note Guarantor are secured by security interests (subject to permitted liens) in the collateral owned by such Note Guarantor.
 
Upon the occurrence of any of certain kinds of changes of control, each holder will have the right to require Berry Plastics to repurchase all or any part of such holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), except to the extent Berry Plastics has previously elected to redeem Notes as described above. Within 30 days following a change of control, except to the extent that Berry Plastics has exercised its right to redeem the Notes as described above, Berry Plastics shall mail or send electronically a change of control offer to each holder with a copy to the Trustee.
 
The Indenture contains a number of covenants, including the following:
 
 
(1)
Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock;
 
 
(2)
Limitation on Restricted Payments;
 
 
(3)
Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries;
 
 
(4)
Asset Sales;
 
 
(5)
Transactions with Affiliates;
 
 
(6)
Future Note Guarantors;
 
 
(7)
Liens;
 
 
(8)
Reports and Other Information;
 
 
(9)
Amendment of Security Documents; and
 
 
(10)
After-Acquired Property
 
The Indenture provides that Berry Plastics may not, directly or indirectly, consolidate, amalgamate or merge with or into or wind up or convert into (whether or not Berry Plastics is the surviving person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions to, any person unless certain requirements in the Indenture are met.
 
The Indenture also provides for events of default, which, if any of them occurs, would permit or require the principal, premium, if any, interest and any other monetary obligations on all the then outstanding Notes issued under the Indenture to be due and payable immediately.
 
On April 21, 2008, Berry Plastics entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with respect to the Notes described above. The following is a brief description of the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement and is qualified by reference to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement filed as Exhibit 4.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Registration Rights Agreement.  In the Registration Rights Agreement, Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors agreed to use their commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cause to become effective a registration statement, on the appropriate form under the Securities Act, relating to the exchange notes. Upon the effectiveness of the exchange offer registration statement, Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will offer to the holders of the outstanding notes who are able to make certain representations the opportunity to exchange their outstanding notes for exchange notes.
 
 
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If, with respect to the Notes: (1) Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors are not permitted to consummate the exchange offer because the exchange offer is not permitted by applicable law or SEC policy; or (2) any holder of Notes notifies Berry Plastics prior to the 20th day following consummation of the exchange offer that (a)it is prohibited by law or SEC policy from participating in the exchange offer, (b) it may not resell the exchange notes acquired by it in the exchange offer to the public without delivering a prospectus (other than by reason of such holder’s status as an affiliate) and the prospectus contained in the exchange offer registration statement is not appropriate or available for such resales or (c) it is a broker-dealer and owns Notes acquired directly from Berry Plastics or an affiliate, Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will, with respect to the Notes, file with the SEC a shelf registration statement (the “Shelf Registration”) to cover resales of the Notes by the holders thereof who satisfy certain conditions relating to the provision of information in connection with the shelf registration statement. Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable registration statement to be declared effective as promptly as possible by the SEC.
 
The Registration Rights Agreement provides that:
 
 
(1)
unless the exchange offer would not be permitted by applicable law or SEC policy, Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will use their commercially reasonable efforts to have the exchange offer registration statement declared effective by the SEC on or prior to 270 days after the Issue Date;
 
 
(2)
unless the exchange offer would not be permitted by applicable law or SEC policy, Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will commence the exchange offer; and
 
 
(3)
if obligated to file the shelf registration statement, Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will file the shelf registration statement with the SEC on or prior to 90 days after such filing obligation arises and will use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Shelf Registration to be declared effective by the SEC on or prior to 270 days after such obligation arises.
 
If:
 
 
(1)
any of such registration statements is not declared effective by the SEC on or prior to the date specified for such effectiveness (the “Effectiveness Target Date”); or
 
 
(2)
Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors fail to consummate the exchange offer within 30 business days of the Effectiveness Target Date with respect to the exchange offer registration statement; or
 
 
(3)
the shelf registration statement or the exchange offer registration statement is declared effective but thereafter ceases to be effective or usable, subject to certain exceptions, in connection with resales or exchanges of the outstanding notes during the periods specified in the Registration Rights Agreement (each such event referred to in clauses (1) through (3) above, a “Registration Default”),
 
then Berry Plastics and the Note Guarantors will pay additional interest to each holder of the affected series of outstanding notes, with respect to the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of the first Registration Default, in an amount equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of outstanding notes held by such holder. The amount of the additional interest will increase by an additional 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of such outstanding notes with respect to each subsequent 90-day period until all Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum amount of additional interest for all Registration Defaults of 1.0% per annum of the principal amount of such outstanding notes.

 
Item 1.02                      Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
 
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Using the proceeds of the Notes offering described under Item 1.01 above, effective April 21, 2008, we terminated our $520 million Senior Secured Bridge Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2008 among Berry Plastics, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the other lenders and agents signatory thereto from time to time (the “Bridge Credit Agreement”), and repaid all loans outstanding thereunder.
 
Item 2.03                      Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
 
We incorporate by reference in this Item 2.03 the disclosure in Item 1.01 of this Form 8-K report.
 
Item 9.01                       Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
EXHIBIT INDEX
 
4.1
Indenture, by and between Berry Plastics Corporation, as Issuer, certain Guarantors and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, relating  to first priority floating rate senior secured notes due 2015, dated as of April 21, 2008
4.2
Collateral Agreement, by and between Berry Plastics Corporation, each Subsidiary of Berry Plastics Corporation identified therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent, dated as of April 21, 2008
4.3
Registration Rights Agreement, by and between Berry Plastics Corporation, each Subsidiary of Berry Plastics Corporation identified therein, Banc of America Securities LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc., dated as of April 21, 2008






 
 
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SIGNATURE

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.

   
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION
     
 
Date: April 21, 2008
By:
/s/ James M. Kratochvil
 
   
      Name: James M. Kratochvil
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
     


 

 

 
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EXHIBIT INDEX
 
4.1
Indenture, by and between Berry Plastics Corporation, as Issuer, certain Guarantors and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, relating  to first priority floating rate senior secured notes due 2015, dated as of April 21, 2008
4.2
Collateral Agreement, by and between Berry Plastics Corporation, each Subsidiary of Berry Plastics Corporation identified therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent, dated as of April 21, 2008
4.3
Registration Rights Agreement, by and between Berry Plastics Corporation, each Subsidiary of Berry Plastics Corporation identified therein, Banc of America Securities LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc., dated as of April 21, 2008







 
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EX-4.1 2 ex41.htm EXHIBIT 4.1 INDENTURE ex41.htm


 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
 
 
as Issuer,
 
 
and certain Note Guarantors
 
 
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015
 
 
________________________
 
 
INDENTURE
 
 
Dated as of April 21, 2008
 
 
________________________
 
 
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
 
as Trustee
 

 
 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
   
Page
ARTICLE 1
     
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01.
Definitions
1
SECTION 1.02.
Other Definitions
29
SECTION 1.03.
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
31
SECTION 1.04.
Rules of Construction
31
ARTICLE 2
     
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01.
Amount of Securities
32
SECTION 2.02.
Form and Dating
33
SECTION 2.03.
Execution and Authentication
33
SECTION 2.04.
Registrar and Paying Agent
33
SECTION 2.05.
Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust
34
SECTION 2.06.
Holder Lists
34
SECTION 2.07.
Transfer and Exchange
34
SECTION 2.08.
Replacement Securities
35
SECTION 2.09.
Outstanding Securities
35
SECTION 2.10.
Temporary Securities
35
SECTION 2.11.
Cancellation
36
SECTION 2.12.
Defaulted Interest
36
SECTION 2.13.
CUSIP Numbers, ISINs, etc.
36
SECTION 2.14.
Calculation of Principal Amount of Securities
36
ARTICLE 3
     
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01.
Redemption
36
SECTION 3.02.
Applicability of Article
36
SECTION 3.03.
Notices to Trustee
36
SECTION 3.04.
Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed
37
SECTION 3.05.
Notice of Optional Redemption
37
SECTION 3.06.
Effect of Notice of Redemption
37
SECTION 3.07.
Deposit of Redemption Price
38
SECTION 3.08.
Securities Redeemed in Part
38
ARTICLE 4
     
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01.
Payment of Securities
38
SECTION 4.02.
Reports and Other Information
38
SECTION 4.03.
Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock
39
SECTION 4.04.
Limitation on Restricted Payments
43
SECTION 4.05.
Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries
47
 

 

 
 

 


SECTION 4.06.
Asset Sales
49
SECTION 4.07.
Transactions with Affiliates
51
SECTION 4.08.
Change of Control
53
SECTION 4.09.
Compliance Certificate
55
SECTION 4.10.
Further Instruments and Acts
55
SECTION 4.11.
Future Note Guarantors
55
SECTION 4.12.
Liens
55
SECTION 4.13.
Maintenance of Office or Agency
55
SECTION 4.14.
Amendment of Security Documents
56
SECTION 4.15.
After-Acquired Property
56
SECTION 4.16.
Termination and Suspension of Certain Covenants
57
ARTICLE 5
     
SUCCESSOR COMPANY
SECTION 5.01.
When Issuer May Merge or Transfer Assets
57
ARTICLE 6
     
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01.
Events of Default
59
SECTION 6.02.
Acceleration
61
SECTION 6.03.
Other Remedies
61
SECTION 6.04.
Waiver of Past Defaults
61
SECTION 6.05.
Control by Majority
62
SECTION 6.06.
Limitation on Suits
62
SECTION 6.07.
Rights of the Holders to Receive Payment
62
SECTION 6.08.
Collection Suit by Trustee
62
SECTION 6.09.
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
62
SECTION 6.10.
Priorities
63
SECTION 6.11.
Undertaking for Costs
63
SECTION 6.12.
Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
63
ARTICLE 7
     
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01.
Duties of Trustee
63
SECTION 7.02.
Rights of Trustee
64
SECTION 7.03.
Individual Rights of Trustee
65
SECTION 7.04.
Trustee’s Disclaimer
65
SECTION 7.05.
Notice of Defaults
65
SECTION 7.06.
Reports by Trustee to the Holders
66
SECTION 7.07.
Compensation and Indemnity
66
SECTION 7.08.
Replacement of Trustee
66
SECTION 7.09.
Successor Trustee by Merger
67
SECTION 7.10.
Eligibility; Disqualification
67
SECTION 7.11.
Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer
67
 


 
ARTICLE 8
     
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01.
Discharge of Liability on Securities; Defeasance
68
SECTION 8.02.
Conditions to Defeasance
69
SECTION 8.03.
Application of Trust Money
70
SECTION 8.04.
Repayment to Company
70
SECTION 8.05.
Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations
70
SECTION 8.06.
Reinstatement
70
ARTICLE 9
     
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01.
Without Consent of the Holders
70
SECTION 9.02.
With Consent of the Holders
71
SECTION 9.03.
Compliance with Trust Indenture Act
72
SECTION 9.04.
Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers
72
SECTION 9.05.
Notation on or Exchange of Securities
72
SECTION 9.06.
Trustee to Sign Amendments
72
SECTION 9.07.
Payment for Consent
73
SECTION 9.08.
Additional Voting Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount
73
ARTICLE 10
     
RANKING OF NOTE LIENS
SECTION 10.01.
Relative Rights
73
ARTICLE 11
     
COLLATERAL
SECTION 11.01.
Security Documents
74
SECTION 11.02.
Notes Collateral Agent
74
SECTION 11.03.
Authorization of Actions to Be Taken
75
SECTION 11.04.
Release of Liens
76
SECTION 11.05.
Filing, Recording and Opinions
77
SECTION 11.06.
[Intentionally omitted]
77
SECTION 11.07.
Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee
77
SECTION 11.08.
Release Upon Termination of the Issuer’s Obligations
77
SECTION 11.09.
Designations
78
SECTION 11.10.
Taking and Destruction
78
ARTICLE 12
     
GUARANTEES
SECTION 12.01.
Guarantees
78
SECTION 12.02.
Limitation on Liability
80
SECTION 12.03.
Successors and Assigns
80
SECTION 12.04.
No Waiver
80
SECTION 12.05.
Modification
80
SECTION 12.06.
Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Note Guarantors
81
SECTION 12.07.
Non-Impairment
81
 


 
ARTICLE 13
     
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 13.01.
Trust Indenture Act Controls
81
SECTION 13.02.
Notices
81
SECTION 13.03.
Communication by the Holders with Other Holders
82
SECTION 13.04.
Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
82
SECTION 13.05.
Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion
82
SECTION 13.06.
When Securities Disregarded
83
SECTION 13.07.
Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar
83
SECTION 13.08.
Legal Holidays
83
SECTION 13.09.
GOVERNING LAW
83
SECTION 13.10.
No Recourse Against Others
83
SECTION 13.11.
Successors
83
SECTION 13.12.
Multiple Originals
83
SECTION 13.13.
Table of Contents; Headings
83
SECTION 13.14.
Indenture Controls
83
SECTION 13.15.
Severability
83
 

 

 

 
Appendix A
Provisions Relating to Initial Securities, Additional Securities and
 
Exchange Securities
 
EXHIBIT INDEX
 
Exhibit A – Form of Initial Security
 
Exhibit B – Form of Exchange Security
 
Exhibit C – Form of Transferee Letter of Representation
 
Exhibit D – Form of Supplemental Indenture
 

 

 
 

 


CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
 
TIA
Section
 
Indenture
Section
310
(a)(1)                                                                                                                  
7.10
 
(a)(2)                                                                                                                  
7.10
 
(a)(3)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(a)(4)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
7.08; 7.10
 
(c)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
311
(a)                                                                                                                  
7.11
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
7.11
 
(c)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
312
(a)                                                                                                                  
2.06
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
13.03
 
(c)                                                                                                                  
13.03
313
(a)                                                                                                                  
7.06
 
(b)(1)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(b)(2)                                                                                                                  
7.06
 
(c)                                                                                                                  
7.06
 
(d)                                                                                                                  
4.02; 4.09
314
(a)                                                                                                                  
4.02; 4.09
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(c)(1)                                                                                                                  
13.04
 
(c)(2)                                                                                                                  
13.04
 
(c)(3)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(d)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(e)                                                                                                                  
13.05
 
(f)                                                                                                                  
4.10
315
(a)                                                                                                                  
7.01
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
7.05
 
(c)                                                                                                                  
7.01
 
(d)                                                                                                                  
7.01
 
(e)                                                                                                                  
6.11
316
(a)(last sentence)                                                                                                                  
13.06
 
(a)(1)(A)                                                                                                                  
6.05
 
(a)(1)(B)                                                                                                                  
6.04
 
(a)(2)                                                                                                                  
N.A.
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
6.07
317
(a)(1)                                                                                                                  
6.08
 
(a)(2)                                                                                                                  
6.09
 
(b)                                                                                                                  
2.05
318
(a)                                                                                                                  
13.01

N.A. Means Not Applicable.
Note:   This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purposes, be deemed to be part of this Indenture.

 
 

 

INDENTURE dated as of April 21, 2008 among BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), and the Note Guarantors (as defined herein).
 
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of (a) $680,600,000 aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015 (the “Original Securities”) issued on the date hereof, (b) any Additional Securities (as defined herein) that may be issued after the date hereof in the form of Exhibit A (all such securities in clauses (a) and (b) being referred to collectively as the “Initial Securities”) and (c) if and when issued as provided in the Registration Agreement (as defined in Appendix A hereto (the “Appendix”)) in the Registered Exchange Offer (as defined in the Appendix) in exchange for any Initial Securities or otherwise registered under the Securities Act and issued in the form of Exhibit B, $680,600,000 aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Exchange Notes due 2015, (the “Exchange Securities” and, together with the Original Securities and any Additional Securities, the “Securities”).  The Original Securities, any Additional Securities (as defined herein) and the Exchange Securities shall constitute a single series hereunder.  Subject to the conditions and compliance with the covenants set forth herein, the Issuer may issue an unlimited aggregate principal amount of Additional Securities.
 
ARTICLE 1
 
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
 
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.
 
“Acquired Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person:
 
(1)           Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into or became a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person, and
 
(2)           Indebtedness secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person.
 
“Acquisition Documents” means the Captive Merger Agreement and any other document entered into in connection therewith, in each case as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time prior to the Issue Date or thereafter (so long as any amendment, supplement or modification after the Issue Date, together with all other amendments, supplements and modifications after the Issue Date, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect than the Acquisition Documents as in effect on the Issue Date).
 
“Additional Securities” means First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015 issued under the terms of this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date, other than the Exchange Securities.
 
“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 purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any Person, means 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, by agreement or otherwise.
 
“Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Security on any applicable redemption date, the greater of:
 
(1)           1% of the then outstanding principal amount of the Security; and
 

 
 
 
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(2)           the excess of:
 
(a)           the present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption price of the Security, at April 15, 2010 as set forth in Paragraph 5 of the applicable Security plus (ii) all required interest payments due on such Security through April 15, 2010 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest), computed (x) using the interest rate in effect in respect of the Securities on the date the Issuer delivers notice to the holders of its intention to redeem the Securities, and (y) using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over
 
(b)           the then outstanding principal amount of the Security.
 
 “Asset Sale” means:
 
(1)           the sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition (whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions) of property or assets (including by way of a Sale/Leaseback Transaction) outside the ordinary course of business of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer (each referred to in this definition as a “disposition”) or
 
(2)           the issuance or sale of Equity Interests (other than directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals or other third parties to the extent required by applicable law) of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer) (whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions),
 
in each case other than:
 
(a)           a disposition of Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities or obsolete or worn out property or equipment in the ordinary course of business;
 
(b)           the disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Issuer in a manner permitted pursuant to Section 5.01 or any disposition that constitutes a Change of Control;
 
(c)           any Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted to be made, and is made, under Section 4.04;
 
(d)           any disposition of assets or issuance or sale of Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary, which assets or Equity Interests so disposed or issued have an aggregate Fair Market Value of less than $7.5 million;
 
(e)           any disposition of property or assets, or the issuance of securities, by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to the Issuer or by the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer;
 
(f)           any exchange of assets (including a combination of assets and Cash Equivalents) for assets related to a Similar Business of comparable or greater market value or usefulness to the business of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole, as determined in good faith by the Issuer;
 
(g)           foreclosure on assets of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
 
(h)           any sale of Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
 
(i)           the lease, assignment or sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;
 
(j)           any sale of inventory or other assets in the ordinary course of business;
 


 
 
 
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(k)           any grant in the ordinary course of business of any license of patents, trademarks, know-how or any other intellectual property;
 
(l)           a transfer of accounts receivable and related assets of the type specified in the definition of “Receivables Financing” (or a fractional undivided interest therein) by a Receivables Subsidiary in a Qualified Receivables Financing; and
 
(m)           the sale of any property in a Sale/Leaseback Transaction within six months of the acquisition of such property.
 
   “Bank Indebtedness” means any and all amounts payable under or in respect of any Credit Agreement and any other Credit Agreement Documents as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced, restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time (including after termination of any Credit Agreement), including principal, premium (if any), interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Issuer whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceedings), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations, guarantees and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect thereof.
 
“Bankruptcy Case” means a case under the Bankruptcy Code.
 
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code.
 
“Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any similar federal, state or foreign law for relief of debtors.
 
“Board of Directors” means, as to any Person, the board of directors or managers, as applicable, of such Person (or, if such Person is a partnership, the board of directors or other governing body of the general partner of such Person) or any duly authorized committee thereof.
 
“Bridge Loan Administrative Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as Bridge Loan Administrative Agent under the Bridge Loan Credit Agreement, and its successors in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed thereunder.
 
“Bridge Loan Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as Bridge Loan Collateral Agent under the Bridge Loan Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008 among the Issuer, subsidiaries of the Issuer party thereto and the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent.
 
“Bridge Loan Credit Agreement” means the Senior Secured Bridge Loan Credit Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008, by and among the Issuer, the agents and lenders party thereto, the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original lenders or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement or indenture extending the maturity thereof, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or any successor or replacement agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or increasing the amount loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity thereof.
 
“Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law to close in New York City.
 
“Calculation Agent” means a financial institution appointed by the Issuer to calculate the interest rate payable on the Securities in respect of each Interest Period, which shall initially be the Trustee.
 
“Capital Stock” means:
 
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(2)           in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;
 
(3)           in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and
 
(4)           any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.
 
“Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) in accordance with GAAP.
 
“Captive Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Issuer of substantially all of the outstanding shares of Capital Stock of Captive Holdings, Inc. pursuant to the Captive Merger Agreement.
 
“Captive Holdings” means Captive Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
 
“Captive Merger Agreement” means the stock purchase agreement, dated as of December 21, 2007, by and among the Issuer, Captive Holdings, Inc. and Captive Holdings, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time prior to the Issue Date or thereafter (so long as any amendment, supplement or modification after the Issue Date, together with all other amendments, supplements and modifications after the Issue Date, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect than the Captive Merger Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date).
 
“Cash Contribution Amount” means the aggregate amount of cash contributions made to the capital of the Issuer described in the definition of “Contribution Indebtedness.”
 
“Cash Equivalents” means:
 
(1)           U.S. dollars, pounds sterling, euros, the national currency of any member state in the European Union or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary, such local currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of business;
 
(2)           securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any country that is a member of the European Union or any agency or instrumentality thereof in each case maturing not more than two years from the date of acquisition;
 
(3)           certificates of deposit, time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances, in each case with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $250.0 million and whose long-term debt is rated “A” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency);
 
(4)           repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2) and (3) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;
 
(5)           commercial paper issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Issuer) rated at least “A-1” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency) and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;
 
(6)           readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision thereof having one of the two highest rating categories obtainable from either
 


 
 
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Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency) in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition;
 
(7)           Indebtedness issued by Persons (other than the Sponsors or any of their Affiliates) with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A-2” or higher from Moody’s in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition; and
 
(8)           investment funds investing at least 95% of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (1) through (7) above.
 
 “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
 
                (i)the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all the assets of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to a Person other than any of the Permitted Holders; or
 
                (ii)the Issuer becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), other than any of the Permitted Holders, in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation or other business combination or purchase of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer.
 
 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
 
“Collateral” means all property subject or purported to be subject, from time to time, to a Lien under any Security Documents.
 
“Collateral Agreement” means that certain Collateral Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and between the Issuer, the Notes Collateral Agent, and certain Subsidiaries of the Issuer party thereto.
 
“Company” means the Issuer until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other Obligor on the Securities.
 
 “consolidated” means, with respect to any Person, such Person consolidated with its Restricted Subsidiaries, and shall not include any Unrestricted Subsidiary, but the interest of such Person in an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be accounted for as an Investment.
 
 “Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:
 
(1)           consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income (including amortization of original issue discount, the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, and net payments and receipts (if any) pursuant to interest rate Hedging Obligations and excluding amortization of deferred financing fees and expensing of any bridge or other financing fees); plus
 
(2)           consolidated capitalized interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; plus
 


 
 
 
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(3)           commissions, discounts, yield and other fees and charges Incurred in connection with any Receivables Financing which are payable to Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries; minus
 
(4)           interest income for such period.
 
“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis; provided, however, that:
 
(1)           any net after-tax extraordinary, nonrecurring or unusual gains or losses or income, expenses or charges (less all fees and expenses relating thereto), including, without limitation, any severance expenses, any expenses related to any reconstruction, recommissioning or reconfiguration of fixed assets for alternate uses any fees, expenses or charges relating to new product lines, plant shutdown costs, acquisition integration costs and any expenses or charges related to any Equity Offering, Permitted Investment, acquisition or Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred by this Indenture (in each case, whether or not successful), including any such fees, expenses, charges or change in control payments made under the Acquisition Documents or otherwise related to the Transactions, in each case, shall be excluded;
 
(2)           any increase in amortization or depreciation or any one-time non-cash charges or increases or reductions in Net Income, in each case resulting from purchase accounting in connection with the Transactions or any acquisition that is consummated after the Issue Date shall be excluded;
 
(3)           the Net Income for such period shall not include the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period;
 
(4)           any net after-tax income or loss from discontinued operations and any net after-tax gains or losses on disposal of discontinued operations shall be excluded;
 
(5)           any net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto) attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions other than in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Issuer) shall be excluded;
 
(6)           any net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto) attributable to the early extinguishment of indebtedness shall be excluded;
 
(7)           the Net Income for such period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of such Person, or is an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, shall be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments paid in cash (or to the extent converted into cash) to the referent Person or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period;
 
(8)           solely for the purpose of determining the amount available for Restricted Payments under clause (1) of the definition of Cumulative Credit, the Net Income for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Note Guarantor) shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary of its Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders, unless such restrictions with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions have been legally waived; provided that the Consolidated Net Income of such Person shall be increased by the amount of dividends or other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash (or converted into cash) by any such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person, to the extent not already included therein;
 


 
 
 
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(9)           an amount equal to the amount of Tax Distributions actually made to any parent of such Person in respect of such period in accordance with Section 4.04(b)(xii) shall be included as though such amounts had been paid as income taxes directly by such Person for such period;
 
(10)           any non-cash impairment charges resulting from the application of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) Nos. 142 and 144 and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to SFAS No. 141 shall be excluded;
 
(11)           any non-cash expense realized or resulting from stock option plans, employee benefit plans or post-employment benefit plans, grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options or other rights to officers, directors and employees of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be excluded;
 
(12)           any (a) severance or relocation costs or expenses, (b) one-time non-cash compensation charges, (c) the costs and expenses after the Issue Date related to employment of terminated employees, (d) costs or expenses realized in connection with, resulting from or in anticipation of the Transactions or (e) costs or expenses realized in connection with or resulting from stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options or other rights existing on the Issue Date of officers, directors and employees, in each case of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, shall be excluded;
 
(13)           accruals and reserves that are established within 12 months after the Issue Date and that are so required to be established in accordance with GAAP shall be excluded;
 
(14)           solely for purposes of calculating EBITDA, (a) the Net Income of any Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be calculated without deducting the income attributable to, or adding the losses attributable to, the minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary except to the extent of dividends declared or paid in respect of such period or any prior period on the shares of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary held by such third parties and (b) any ordinary course dividend, distribution or other payment paid in cash and received from any Person in excess of amounts included in clause (7) above shall be included;
 
(15)           (a)(i) the non-cash portion of “straight-line” rent expense shall be excluded and (ii) the cash portion of “straight-line” rent expense which exceeds the amount expensed in respect of such rent expense shall be included and (b) non-cash gains, losses, income and expenses resulting from fair value accounting required by SFAS No. 133 shall be excluded;
 
(16)           unrealized gains and losses relating to hedging transactions and mark-to-market of Indebtedness denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the applications of SFAS 52 shall be excluded; and
 
(17)           solely for the purpose of calculating Restricted Payments, the difference, if positive, of the Consolidated Taxes of the Issuer calculated in accordance with GAAP and the actual Consolidated Taxes paid in cash by the Issuer during any Reference Period shall be included.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purpose of Section 4.04 only, there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income any dividends, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets from Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to the extent such dividends, repayments or transfers increase the amount of Restricted Payments permitted under clauses (E) and (F) of the definition of “Cumulative Credit.”
 
“Consolidated Non-cash Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP, but excluding any such charge which consists of or requires an accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges for any future period.
 


 
 
 
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“Consolidated Taxes” means provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital, including, without limitation, state, franchise and similar taxes and any Tax Distributions taken into account in calculating Consolidated Net Income.
 
“Contingent Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person guaranteeing any leases, dividends or other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent:
 
(1)           to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor,
 
(2)           to advance or supply funds:
 
(a)           for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation; or
 
(b)           to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor; or
 
(3)           to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof.
 
“Contribution Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Note Guarantor in an aggregate principal amount not greater than twice the aggregate amount of cash contributions (other than Excluded Contributions) made to the capital of the Issuer or such Note Guarantor after the Issue Date; provided that:
 
(1)           such cash contributions have not been used to make a Restricted Payment,
 
(2)           if the aggregate principal amount of such Contribution Indebtedness is greater than the aggregate amount of such cash contributions to the capital of the Issuer or such Note Guarantor, as the case may be, the amount in excess shall be Indebtedness (other than Secured Indebtedness) with a Stated Maturity later than the Stated Maturity of the Securities, and
 
(3)           such Contribution Indebtedness (a) is Incurred within 180 days after the making of such cash contributions and (b) is so designated as Contribution Indebtedness pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate on the Incurrence date thereof.
 
“Credit Agreement Documents” means the collective reference to the Credit Agreements, any notes issued pursuant thereto and the guarantees thereof, and the collateral documents relating thereto, as amended, supplemented, restated, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
“Credit Agreements” means (i)(A) the Term Loan Credit Agreement and (B) the Revolving Credit Agreement, and (ii) whether or not the credit agreements referred to in clause (i) remain outstanding, if designated by the Issuer to be included in the definition of “Credit Agreement,” one or more (A) debt facilities or commercial paper facilities, providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit, (B) debt securities, indentures or other forms of debt financing (including convertible or exchangeable debt instruments or bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances), or (C) instruments or agreements evidencing any other Indebtedness, in each case, with the same or different borrowers or issuers and, in each case, as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, restructured, renewed, refinanced, restated, replaced or refunded in whole or in part from time to time.
 


 
 
 
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“Cumulative Credit” means the sum of (without duplication):
 
(A)           50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Issuer for the period (taken as one accounting period, the “Reference Period”) from April 1, 2008 to the end of the Issuer’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (or, in the case such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit), plus
 
(B)           100% of the aggregate net proceeds, including cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer) of property other than cash, received by the Issuer after the Issue Date from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Issuer (excluding Refunding Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock, Excluded Contributions, Disqualified Stock and the Cash Contribution Amount), including Equity Interests issued upon conversion of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or upon exercise of warrants or options (other than an issuance or sale to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries), plus
 
(C)           100% of the aggregate amount of contributions to the capital of the Issuer received in cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer) of property other than cash after the Issue Date (other than Excluded Contributions, Refunding Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock, Disqualified Stock and the Cash Contribution Amount), plus
 
(D)           the principal amount of any Indebtedness, or the liquidation preference or maximum fixed repurchase price, as the case may be, of any Disqualified Stock of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof issued after the Issue Date (other than Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock issued to a Restricted Subsidiary) which has been converted into or exchanged for Equity Interests in the Issuer (other than Disqualified Stock) or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer (provided in the case of any parent, such Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock is retired or extinguished), plus
 
(E)           100% of the aggregate amount received by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer) of property other than cash received by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date from:
 
                (I)the sale or other disposition (other than to the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer) of Restricted Investments made by the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries and from repurchases and redemptions of such Restricted Investments from the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries by any Person (other than the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) and from repayments of loans or advances which constituted Restricted Investments (other than in each case to the extent that the Restricted Investment was made pursuant to clause (vii) or (x) of Section 4.04(b)),
 
                (II)the sale (other than to the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer) of the Capital Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or
 
                (III)a distribution or dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary, plus
 
(F)           in the event any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Issuer has been redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary or has been merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case after the Issue Date, the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer or, if such Fair Market Value may exceed $25.0 million, in writing by an Independent Financial Advisor) of the Investment of the Issuer in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation, combination or transfer (or of the assets transferred or conveyed, as applicable), after taking into account any Indebtedness associated with the Unrestricted Subsidiary so designated or combined or any Indebtedness associated with the assets so transferred or conveyed (other than in each case to the extent that the designation of such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary was made pursuant to clause (vii) or (x) of Section 4.04(b) or constituted a Permitted Investment).
 


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“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
 
“Designated Non-cash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of non-cash consideration received by the Issuer or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale that is so designated as Designated Non-cash Consideration pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-cash Consideration.
 
“Designated Preferred Stock” means Preferred Stock of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer (other than Disqualified Stock), that is issued for cash (other than to the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries) and is so designated as Designated Preferred Stock, pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, on the issuance date thereof.
 
“Destruction” means any damage to, loss or destruction of all or any portion of the Collateral.
 
“Determination Date” with respect to an Interest Period will be the second London Banking Day preceding the first day of such Interest Period.
 
“Disqualified Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of such Person which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is redeemable or exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event:
 
(1)           matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale; provided that the relevant asset sale or change of control provisions, taken as a whole, are no more favorable in any material respect to holders of such Capital Stock than the asset sale and change of control provisions applicable to the Securities and any purchase requirement triggered thereby may not become operative until compliance with the asset sale and change of control provisions applicable to the Securities (including the purchase of any Securities tendered pursuant thereto)),
 
(2)           is convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of such Person, or
 
(3)           is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part,
 
in each case prior to 91 days after the maturity date of the Securities; provided, however, that only the portion of Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date shall be deemed to be Disqualified Stock; provided, further, however, that if such Capital Stock is issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Issuer or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Issuer in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability; provided, further, that any class of Capital Stock of such Person that by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder by delivery of Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Stock shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock.
 
“Domestic Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary, a Qualified CFC Holding Company, Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation II or Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation XIV, LLC.
 
“EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus, without duplication, to the extent the same was deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income:
 
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(2)           Consolidated Interest Expense; plus
 
(3)           Consolidated Non-cash Charges; plus
 
(4)           business optimization expenses and other restructuring charges or expenses (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include, without limitation, the effect of inventory optimization programs, plant closures, retention, systems establishment costs and excess pension charges); provided that with respect to each business optimization expense or other restructuring charge, the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying and quantifying such expense or charge and stating that such expense or charge is a business optimization expense or other restructuring charge, as the case may be; plus
 
(5)           the amount of management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees and related expenses paid to the Sponsors (or any accruals relating to such fees and related expenses) during such period pursuant to the terms of the agreements between the Sponsors and the Issuer and its Subsidiaries as described with particularity in the Offering Memorandum and as in effect on the Issue Date;
 

 
less, without duplication,
 
(6)           non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding the recognition of deferred revenue or any items which represent the reversal of any accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period and any items for which cash was received in a prior period).
 
“Equity Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).
 
“Equity Offering” means any public or private sale after the Issue Date of common stock or Preferred Stock of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable (other than Disqualified Stock), other than:
 
(1)           public offerings with respect to the Issuer’s or such direct or indirect parent’s common stock registered on Form S-8; and
 
(2)           any such public or private sale that constitutes an Excluded Contribution.
 
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
 
“Exchange Offer Registration Statement” means the registration statement filed with the SEC in connection with the Registered Exchange Offer.
 
“Excluded Contributions” means the Cash Equivalents or other assets (valued at their Fair Market Value as determined in good faith by senior management or the Board of Directors of the Issuer) received by the Issuer after the Issue Date from:
 
(1)           contributions to its common equity capital, and
 
(2)           the sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Issuer or to any Subsidiary management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement) of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock and Designated Preferred Stock) of the Issuer,
 
in each case designated as Excluded Contributions pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate on or promptly after the date such capital contributions are made or the date such Capital Stock is sold, as the case may be.
 


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“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or property, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length, free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction.
 
“First Priority Lien Obligations” means (i) all Secured Bank Indebtedness, (ii) all other Obligations (not constituting Indebtedness) of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries under the agreements governing Secured Bank Indebtedness, (iii) Note Obligations and (iv) all other Obligations of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Hedging Obligations or Obligations in respect of cash management services, in each case owing to a Person that is a holder of Indebtedness described in clause (i) or Obligations described in clause (ii) or an Affiliate of such holder at the time of entry into such Hedging Obligations or Obligations in respect of cash management services.
 
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the ratio of EBITDA of such Person for such period to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period.  In the event that the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs, repays, repurchases or redeems any Indebtedness (other than in the case of revolving credit borrowings or revolving advances under any Qualified Receivables Financing, in which case interest expense shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period) or issues, repurchases or redeems Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “Calculation Date”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence, repayment, repurchase or redemption of Indebtedness, or such issuance, repurchase or redemption of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.
 
For purposes of making the computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with GAAP), in each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, and any operational changes that the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has determined to make and/or made after the Issue Date and during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the Calculation Date (each, for purposes of this definition, a “pro forma event”) shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations (including the Transactions) discontinued operations and operational changes (and the change of any associated fixed charge obligations and the change in EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period.  If since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with or into the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation, discontinued operation or operational change, in each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition, disposition, discontinued operation, merger, consolidation or operational change had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.
 
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any pro forma event, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Issuer.  Any such pro forma calculation may include adjustments appropriate, in the reasonable good faith determination of the Issuer as set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, to reflect (1) operating expense reductions and other operating improvements or synergies reasonably expected to result from the applicable pro forma event (including, to the extent applicable, from the Transactions), and (2) all pro forma adjustments of the nature used in similar calculations in the Second Priority Notes Indenture (as in effect on the Issue Date), including without limitation, as applied to the Transactions.

 
If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Hedging Obligations applicable to such Indebtedness if such Hedging Obligation has a remaining term in excess of 12 months).  Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be
 


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deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Issuer to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.  For purposes of making the computation referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period.  Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be deemed to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Issuer may designate.
 
“Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:
 
(1)           Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person for such period, and
 
(2)           all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
 
“Foreign Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary not organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state or territory thereof or the District of Columbia and any direct or indirect subsidiary of such Restricted Subsidiary.
 
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 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 on the Issue Date.
 
“Guarantee” means any guarantee of the obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture and the Securities by any Person in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
 
“guarantee” means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including, without limitation, letters of credit and reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any Indebtedness or other obligations.
 
 “Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under:
 
(1)           currency exchange, interest rate or commodity swap agreements, currency exchange, interest rate or commodity cap agreements and currency exchange, interest rate or commodity collar agreements; and
 
(2)           other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange, interest rates or commodity prices.
 
“Holder” means the Person in whose name a Security is registered on the Registrar’s books.
 
“Incur” means issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become liable for; provided, however, that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger, amalgamation, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Person at the time it becomes a Subsidiary. The term “Incurrence” shall have a corresponding meaning.
 
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person:
 
(1)           the principal and premium (if any) of any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, (a) in respect of borrowed money, (b) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances (or, without duplication, reimbursement agreements in r
 


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spect thereof), (c) representing the deferred and unpaid purchase price of any property, except any such balance that constitutes a trade payable or similar obligation to a trade creditor due within six months from the date on which it is Incurred, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business, which purchase price is due more than six months after the date of placing the property in service or taking delivery and title thereto, (d) in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations, or (e) representing any Hedging Obligations, if and to the extent that any of the foregoing indebtedness (other than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP;
 
(2)           to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation of such Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, on the Indebtedness of another Person (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business);
 
(3)           to the extent not otherwise included, Indebtedness of another Person secured by a Lien on any asset owned by such Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person); provided, however, that the amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of: (a) the Fair Market Value of such asset at such date of determination, and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Person; and
 
(4)           to the extent not otherwise included, with respect to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, the amount then outstanding (i.e., advanced, and received by, and available for use by, the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) under any Receivables Financing (as set forth in the books and records of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and confirmed by the agent, trustee or other representative of the institution or group providing such Receivables Financing);
 
provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness shall be deemed not to include (1) Contingent Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and not in respect of borrowed money; (2) deferred or prepaid revenues; (3) purchase price holdbacks in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or other unperformed obligations of the respective seller; (4) Obligations under or in respect of Qualified Receivables Financing or (5) obligations under the Acquisition Documents.
 
Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, Indebtedness shall not include, and shall be calculated without giving effect to, the effects of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness; and any such amounts that would have constituted Indebtedness under this Indenture but for the application of this sentence shall not be deemed an Incurrence of Indebtedness under this Indenture.
 
“Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time.
 
“Independent Financial Advisor” means an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm or consultant, in each case of nationally recognized standing, that is, in the good faith determination of the Issuer, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged.
 
“Intercreditor Agreements” means the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement, the Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement and, with respect to any Senior Fixed Obligations, the Senior Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement.
 
“Interest Period” means the period commencing on and including an interest payment date and ending on and including the day immediately preceding the next succeeding interest payment date, with the exception that the first Interest Period shall commence on and include the Issue Date and end on and include July 14, 2008.
 
“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by any other Rating Agency.
 


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“Investment Grade Securities” means:
 
(1)           securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents),
 
(2)           securities that have a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB- (or equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by any other Rating Agency, but excluding any debt securities or loans or advances between and among the Issuer and its Subsidiaries;
 
(3)           investments in any fund that invests exclusively in investments of the type described in clauses (1) and (2) which fund may also hold immaterial amounts of cash pending investment and/or distribution, and
 
(4)           corresponding instruments in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for high quality investments and in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition.
 
“Investments” means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of loans (including guarantees), advances or capital contributions (excluding accounts receivable, trade credit and advances to customers and commission, travel and similar advances to officers, employees and consultants made in the ordinary course of business), purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other securities issued by any other Person and investments that are required by GAAP to be classified on the balance sheet of the Issuer in the same manner as the other investments included in this definition to the extent such transactions involve the transfer of cash or other property.  For purposes of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary” and Section 4.04:
 
(1)           “Investments” shall include the portion (proportionate to the Issuer’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of a Subsidiary of the Issuer at the time that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Issuer shall be deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary equal to an amount (if positive) equal to:
 
(a)           the Issuer’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation less
 
(b)           the portion (proportionate to the Issuer’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation; and
 
(2)           any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such transfer, in each case as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Issuer.
 
“Issue Date” means April 21, 2008.
 
“Issuer” means the party named as such in the Preamble to this Indenture, until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor, in accordance with Section 5.01.
 
 “LIBOR” with respect to an Interest Period, will be the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in U.S. dollars for a three-month period beginning on the second London Banking Day after the Determination Date that appears on Bloomberg page BBAM1 as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Determination Date.  If Bloomberg page BBAM1 does not include such a rate or is unavailable on a Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will request the principal London office of each of four major banks in the London interbank market, as selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide such bank’s offered quotation (expressed as a percentage per annum), as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Determination Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market for deposits in a Representative Amount in U.S. dollars for a three-month period beginning on the
 


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second London Banking Day after the Determination Date.  If at least two such offered quotations are so provided, the rate for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations.  If fewer than two such quotations are so provided, the Calculation Agent will request each of three major banks in New York City, as selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide such bank’s rate (expressed as a percentage per annum), as of approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Determination Date, for loans in a Representative Amount in U.S. dollars to leading European banks for a three-month period beginning on the second London Banking Day after the Determination Date.  If at least two such rates are so provided, the rate for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of such rates.  If fewer than two such rates are so provided, then the rate for the Interest Period will be the rate in effect with respect to the immediately preceding Interest Period.
 
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the New York UCC (or equivalent statute of any jurisdiction)); provided that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.
 
“London Banking Day” is any day on which dealings in U.S. dollars are transacted or, with respect to any future date, are expected to be transacted in the London interbank market.
 
“Management Group” means the group consisting of the directors, executive officers and other management personnel of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as the case may be, on the Issue Date together with (1) any new directors whose election by such boards of directors or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable, then still in office who were either directors on the Issue Date or whose election or nomination was previously so approved and (2) executive officers and other management personnel of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable, hired at a time when the directors on the Issue Date together with the directors so approved constituted a majority of the directors of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable.
 
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.
 
“Mortgages” means the mortgages, trust deeds, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debt, assignments of leases and rents, and other security documents delivered with respect to Real Property subject to mortgages, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
“Net Income” means, with respect to any Person, the net income (loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends.
 
“Net Insurance Proceeds” means the insurance proceeds (excluding liability insurance proceeds payable to the Trustee for any loss, liability or expense incurred by it and excluding the proceeds of business interruption insurance) or condemnation awards actually received by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the Destruction or Taking of all or any portion of the Collateral, net of:
 
(1)           reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such Taking or Destruction (including, without limitation, expenses of attorneys and insurance adjusters); and
 
(2)           repayment of Indebtedness that is secured by the property or assets that are the subject of such Taking or Destruction.
 
 “Net Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale (including, without limitation, any cash received in respect of or upon the sale or other disposition of any Designated Non-cash Consideration received in any Asset Sale and any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise,
 


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but only as and when received, but excluding the assumption by the acquiring Person of Indebtedness relating to the disposed assets or other consideration received in any other non-cash form), net of the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale and the sale or disposition of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and brokerage and sales commissions), and any relocation expenses Incurred as a result thereof, taxes paid or payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements related thereto), amounts required to be applied to the repayment of principal, premium (if any) and interest on Indebtedness required (other than pursuant to Section 4.06(b)(i)) to be paid as a result of such transaction, and any deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided by the Issuer as a reserve in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities associated with the asset disposed of in such transaction and retained by the Issuer after such sale or other disposition thereof, including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction.
 
“New York UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.
 
“Note Documents” means the Securities, this Indenture and the Security Documents.
 
“Note Guarantor” means any Person that Incurs a Guarantee; provided that upon the release or discharge of such Person from its Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture, such Person ceases to be a Note Guarantor.
 
“Note Obligations” means any Obligations in respect of the Securities, this Indenture or the Security Documents, including, for the avoidance of doubt, obligations in respect of Exchange Securities and guarantees thereof.
 
“Notes Collateral Agent” means the Trustee in its capacity as “Collateral Agent” under this Indenture and under the Security Documents and any successor thereto in such capacity.
 
“Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness; provided that Obligations with respect to the Securities shall not include fees or indemnifications in favor of the Trustee, the Notes Collateral Agent and other third parties other than the Holders.
 
“Offering Memorandum” means the offering memorandum relating to the offering of Original Securities, dated April 16, 2008.
 
“Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President or Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary of the Issuer.
 
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the Issuer by two Officers of the Issuer, one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, the treasurer or the principal accounting officer of the Issuer that meets the requirements set forth in this Indenture.
 
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee.  The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or the Trustee.
 
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“Pari Passu Indebtedness” means:
 
(1)           with respect to the Issuer, the Securities and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to the Securities; and
 
(2)           with respect to any Note Guarantor, its Guarantee and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in right of payment to such Note Guarantor’s Guarantee.
 
 “Paying Agent” means an office or agency maintained by the Issuer pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, where notes may be presented for payment.
 
“Permitted Holders” means, at any time, each of (i) the Sponsors and (ii) the Management Group.  Any Person or group whose acquisition of beneficial ownership constitutes a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer is made in accordance with the requirements of this Indenture will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute an additional Permitted Holder.
 
“Permitted Investments” means:
 
(1)           any Investment in the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary;
 
(2)           any Investment in Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;
 
(3)           any Investment by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer in a Person if as a result of such Investment (a) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer, or (b) such Person, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer;
 
(4)           any Investment in securities or other assets not constituting Cash Equivalents and received in connection with an Asset Sale made pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.06 or any other disposition of assets not constituting an Asset Sale;
 
(5)           any Investment existing on, or made pursuant to binding commitments existing on, the Issue Date;
 
(6)           advances to employees, taken together with all other advances made pursuant to this clause (6), not to exceed $15.0 million at any one time outstanding;
 
(7)           any Investment acquired by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) in exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by the Issuer or any such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with or as a result of a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the Issuer of such other Investment or accounts receivable, or (b) as a result of a foreclosure by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default;
 
(8)           Hedging Obligations permitted under Section 4.03(b)(x);
 
(9)           any Investment by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in a Similar Business having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (9) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (x) $100.0 million and (y) 4.5% of Total Assets at the time of such Investment (with the Fair Market Value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value); provided, however, that if any Investment pursuant to this clause (9) is made in any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer at the date of the making of such Investment and such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer after such date, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (1) above
 


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and shall cease to have been made pursuant to this clause (9) for so long as such Person continues to be a Restricted Subsidiary;
 
(10)           additional Investments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (10) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (x) $100.0 million and (y) 4.5% of Total Assets at the time of such Investment (with the Fair Market Value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value);
 
(11)           loans and advances to officers, directors and employees for business-related travel expenses, moving expenses and other similar expenses, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;
 
(12)           Investments the payment for which consists of Equity Interests of the Issuer (other than Disqualified Stock) or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as applicable; provided, however, that such Equity Interests will not increase the amount available for Restricted Payments under clause (C) of the definition of “Cumulative Credit”;
 
(13)           any transaction to the extent it constitutes an Investment that is permitted by and made in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.07(b) (except transactions described in clauses (ii), (vi), (vii) and (xi)(B) of such Section);
 
(14)           Investments consisting of the licensing or contribution of intellectual property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons;
 
(15)           guarantees issued in accordance with Sections 4.03 and 4.11;
 
(16)           Investments consisting of or to finance purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials, services or equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
 
(17)           any Investment in a Receivables Subsidiary or any Investment by a Receivables Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with a Qualified Receivables Financing, including Investments of funds held in accounts permitted or required by the arrangements governing such Qualified Receivables Financing or any related Indebtedness; provided, however, that any Investment in a Receivables Subsidiary is in the form of a Purchase Money Note, contribution of additional receivables or an Equity Interest;
 
(18)           additional Investments in joint ventures of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries existing on the Issue Date not to exceed at any one time in the aggregate outstanding, $15.0 million; and
 
(19)           Investments of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer acquired after the Issue Date or of an entity merged into, amalgamated with, or consolidated with the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer in a transaction that is not prohibited by Section 5.01 after the Issue Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation.
 
“Permitted Liens” means, with respect to any Person:
 
(1)           pledges or deposits by such Person under workmen’s compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which such Person is a party, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits of cash or U.S. government bonds to secure surety or appeal bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits as security for contested taxes or import duties or for the payment of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;
 


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(2)           Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens, in each case for sums not yet due or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or other Liens arising out of judgments or awards against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review;
 
(3)           Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet due or payable or subject to penalties for nonpayment or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
 
(4)           Liens in favor of issuers of performance and surety bonds or bid bonds or with respect to other regulatory requirements or letters of credit issued pursuant to the request of and for the account of such Person in the ordinary course of its business;
 
(5)           minor survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real properties or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the ownership of its properties which were not Incurred in connection with Indebtedness and which do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person;
 
(6)           (A) Liens on assets of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Note Guarantor securing Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary, permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section 4.03, (B) Liens securing an aggregate principal amount of First Priority Lien Obligations not to exceed the greater of (x) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to clause (i) of Section 4.03(b) and (y) the maximum principal amount of Indebtedness that, as of the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, and after giving effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness and the application of proceeds therefrom on such date, would not cause the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio of the Issuer to exceed 4.00 to 1.00, and (C) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to clause (iv), (xii) or (xx) of Section 4.03(b) (provided that in the case of clause (xx), such Lien does not extend to the property or assets of any Subsidiary of the Issuer other than a Foreign Subsidiary);
 
(7)           Liens existing on the Issue Date (including after giving effect to the Transactions);
 
(8)           Liens on assets, property or shares of stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided, however, that such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person becoming such a Subsidiary; provided, further, however, that such Liens may not extend to any other property owned by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer);
 
(9)           Liens on assets or property at the time the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer acquired the assets or property, including any acquisition by means of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation with or into the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer; provided, however, that such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition; provided, further, however, that the Liens may not extend to any other property owned by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer;
 
(10)           Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer permitted to be Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03;
 
(11)           Liens securing Hedging Obligations not incurred in violation of this Indenture; provided that with respect to Hedging Obligations relating to Indebtedness, such Lien extends only to the property securing such Indebtedness;
 
(12)           Liens on 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;
 


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(13)           leases and subleases of real property which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
 
(14)           Liens arising from financing statement filings under the New York UCC or equivalent statute of another jurisdiction regarding operating leases entered into by the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
 
(15)           Liens in favor of the Issuer or any Note Guarantor;
 
(16)           Liens on accounts receivable and related assets of the type specified in the definition of “Receivables Financing” Incurred in connection with a Qualified Receivables Financing;
 
(17)           deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers;
 
(18)           Liens on the Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
 
(19)           grants of software and other technology licenses in the ordinary course of business;
 
(20)           Liens to secure any refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement (or successive refinancings, refundings, extensions, renewals or replacements) as a whole, or in part, of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (6)(B), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (15); provided, however, that (x) such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same property that secured the original Lien (plus improvements on such property), and (y) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of (A) the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clauses (6)(B), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (15) at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture, and (B) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement; provided further, however, that in the case of any Liens to secure any refinancing, refunding, extension or renewal of Indebtedness secured by a Lien referred to in clause (6)(B), the principal amount of any Indebtedness Incurred for such refinancing, refunding, extension or renewal shall be deemed secured by a Lien under clause (6)(B) and not this clause (20) for purposes of determining the principal amount of Indebtedness outstanding under clause (6)(B), for purposes of clause (1) under Section 11.04(a) and for purposes of the definition of Secured Bank Indebtedness;
 
(21)           Liens on equipment of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary granted in the ordinary course of business to the Issuer’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s client at which such equipment is located;
 
(22)           judgment and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to litigation being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made;
 
(23)           Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;
 
(24)           Liens incurred to secure cash management services in the ordinary course of business;
 
(25)           other Liens securing obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business which obligations do not exceed $20.0 million at any one time outstanding;
 
(26)           Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations permitted to be Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03(b)(ii); and
 
(27)           Liens on the Collateral in favor of any collateral agent relating to such collateral agent’s administrative expenses with respect to the Collateral.
 


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“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
 
“Preferred Stock” means any Equity Interest with preferential right of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up.
 
“Purchase Money Note” means a promissory note of a Receivables Subsidiary evidencing a line of credit, which may be irrevocable, from the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer to a Receivables Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Receivables Financing, which note is intended to finance that portion of the purchase price that is not paid by cash or a contribution of equity.
 
“Qualified CFC Holding Company” shall mean a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Issuer or a Note Guarantor that is a limited liability company, the primary asset of which consists of Equity Interests in either (i) a Foreign Subsidiary or (ii) a limited liability company the primary asset of which consists of Equity Interests in a Foreign Subsidiary.
 
“Qualified Receivables Financing” means any Receivables Financing of a Receivables Subsidiary that meets the following conditions:
 
(1)           the Board of Directors of the Issuer shall have determined in good faith that such Qualified Receivables Financing (including financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Issuer and the Receivables Subsidiary;
 
(2)           all sales of accounts receivable and related assets to the Receivables Subsidiary are made at Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer); and
 
(3)           the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms (as determined in good faith by the Issuer) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings.
 
The grant of a security interest in any accounts receivable of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Receivables Subsidiary) to secure Bank Indebtedness, Indebtedness in respect of the Securities or any Refinancing Indebtedness with respect to the Securities shall not be deemed a Qualified Receivables Financing.
 
“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P and (2) if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act selected by the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be.
 
“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned in fee or leased by the Issuer or any Note Guarantor, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures incidental to the ownership or lease thereof.
 
“Receivables Fees” means distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interests issued or sold in connection with, and all other fees paid to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, any Receivables Financing.
 
“Receivables Financing” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a Receivables Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries); and (b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Receivables Subsidiary), or may grant a security interest in, any accounts receivable (whether now existing or arising in the future) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, and
 


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any assets related thereto including, without limitation, all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset securitization transactions involving accounts receivable and any Hedging Obligations entered into by the Issuer or any such Subsidiary in connection with such accounts receivable.
 
“Receivables Repurchase Obligation” means any obligation of a seller of receivables in a Qualified Receivables Financing to repurchase receivables arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, off-set or counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any other event relating to the seller.
 
“Receivables Subsidiary” means a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in Qualified Receivables Financing with the Issuer in which the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer makes an Investment and to which the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer transfers accounts receivable and related assets) which engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of accounts receivable of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, all proceeds thereof and all rights (contractual or other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and any business or activities incidental or related to such business, and which is designated by the Board of Directors of the Issuer (as provided below) as a Receivables Subsidiary and:
 
(a)           no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings), (ii) is recourse to or obligates the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings, or (iii) subjects any property or asset of the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings;
 
(b)           with which neither the Issuer nor any other Subsidiary of the Issuer has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms which the Issuer reasonably believes to be no less favorable to the Issuer or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Issuer; and
 
(c)           to which neither the Issuer nor any other Subsidiary of the Issuer has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results.
 
Any such designation by the Board of Directors of the Issuer shall be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing conditions.
 
“Reference Period” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Cumulative Credit” in Section 1.01 of this Indenture.
 
 “Representative Amount” means a principal amount of not less than $1,000,000 for a single transaction in the relevant market at the relevant time.
 
“Restricted Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted Investment.
 
“Restricted Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of such Person.  Unless otherwise indicated in this Indenture, all references to Restricted Subsidiaries shall mean Restricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer.
 
“Revolving Credit Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, dated April 3, 2007, by and among the Issuer, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., certain Subsidiaries of the Issuer, Bank of
 


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America, N.A., as administrative agent, and the other lenders party thereto, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original lenders or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement or indenture extending the maturity thereof, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or any successor or replacement agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or increasing the amount loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity thereof.
 
“Revolving Facility Administrative Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent for the lenders under the Revolving Credit Agreement, together with its successors and permitted assigns under the Revolving Credit Agreement exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or such other agent as may from time to time be appointed thereunder.
 
“Revolving Facility Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., as collateral agent for the lenders under the Revolving Credit Agreement, together with its successors and permitted assigns under the Revolving Credit Agreement exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or such other agent as may from time to time be appointed thereunder.
 
 “Revolving Facility Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
 
 “Revolving Facility Senior Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
 
“Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property now owned or hereafter acquired by the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary whereby the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person, other than leases between the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or between Restricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer.
 
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.
 
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
“Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2008, by and among the Second Priority Notes Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent, the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent, each other collateral agent representing holders of any Other First Priority Lien Obligations of the Issuer, the subsidiaries of the Issuer party thereto and Berry Plastics Group, Inc., as will be supplemented as of the Issue Date by the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Second Priority Notes Trustee, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer and the Note Guarantors, as may be amended, restated or otherwise supplemented.
 
“Second Priority Notes” means the 8⅞% Second Priority Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2014 and the Second Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2014 issued by the Issuer on September 20, 2006.
 
“Second Priority Notes Indenture” means the indenture dated as of September 20, 2006 among the Issuer and certain of its subsidiaries party thereto and the trustee named therein from time to time, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the requirements thereof and of this Indenture.
 


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“Second Priority Notes Trustee” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as collateral trustee for the holders of the Second Priority Notes.
 
“Secured Bank Indebtedness” means the Revolving Facility Obligations, the Term Loan Obligations and any Bank Indebtedness that is secured by a Permitted Lien incurred or deemed incurred pursuant to clause (6)(B) of the definition of Permitted Lien.
 
“Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness secured by a Lien.
 
“Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person at any date, the ratio of (i) Secured Indebtedness of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date of calculation (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP) that constitutes First Priority Lien Obligations to (ii) EBITDA of such Person for the four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding such date on which such additional Indebtedness is Incurred. In the event that the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs, repays, repurchases or redeems any Indebtedness subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to the event for which the calculation of the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio is made (the “Secured Leverage Calculation Date”), then the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence, repayment, repurchase or redemption of Indebtedness as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period; provided that the Issuer may elect, pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee to treat all or any portion of the commitment under any Indebtedness as being Incurred at such time, in which case any subsequent Incurrence of Indebtedness under such commitment shall not be deemed, for purposes of this calculation, to be an Incurrence at such subsequent time.
 
For purposes of making the computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with GAAP), in each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, and any operational changes that the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has determined to make and/or made after the Issue Date and during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the Secured Leverage Calculation Date (each, for purposes of this definition, a “pro forma event”) shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations (including the Transactions), discontinued operations and other operational changes (and the change of any associated Indebtedness and the change in EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period. If since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with or into the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation, discontinued operation or operational change, in each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition, disposition, discontinued operation, merger, consolidation or operational change had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.
 
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any pro forma event, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Issuer. Any such pro forma calculation may include adjustments appropriate, in the reasonable good faith determination of the Issuer as set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, to reflect (1) operating expense reductions and other operating improvements or synergies reasonably expected to result from the applicable pro forma event (including, to the extent applicable, from the Transactions), and (2) all pro forma adjustments of the nature used in similar calculations in the Second Priority Notes Indenture (as in effect on the Issue Date), including, without limitation, as applied to the Transactions.
 
“Securities” has the meaning given such term in the Preamble to this Indenture. “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
 
 “Security Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated First Lien Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of April 3, 2007, among Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer, the subsidiaries of the Issuer
 


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party thereto, the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, as amended, supplemented, restated, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
 “Security Documents” means the security agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, Mortgages and related agreements, as amended, supplemented, restated, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, creating the security interests in favor of the Notes Collateral Agent in the Collateral as contemplated by this Indenture.
 
“Senior Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement” means the Senior Fixed Collateral Priority and Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2008, by and among the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent, Bridge Loan Collateral Agent, each other collateral agent representing holders of Other First Priority Lien Obligations, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Issuer, the Note Guarantors and Berry Plastics Group, Inc., as will be supplemented as of the Issue Date by the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer and the Note Guarantors, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
“Senior Fixed Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
 
 “Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Senior Lender Priority and Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2008, by and among the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent, the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent, each other collateral agent representing holders of any Other First Priority Lien Obligations, the Issuer, the Note Guarantors and Berry Plastics Group, Inc., as will be supplemented as of the Issue Date by the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., the Issuer and the Note Guarantors, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
 “Senior Subordinated Notes” means the 11% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 of the Issuer issued on September 20, 2006 and the 10 1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 of the Issuer issued on February 16, 2006.
 
 “Shared Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Senior Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement.
 
“Significant Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” of the Issuer within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC.
 
“Similar Business” means a business, the majority of whose revenues are derived from the activities of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries as of the Issue Date or any business or activity that is reasonably similar or complementary thereto or a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto.
 
“Sponsors” means (1) Apollo Management, L.P., Graham Partners, Inc. and any of their respective Affiliates (collectively, the “Apollo Sponsors”) and (2) any Person that forms a group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision) with any Apollo Sponsors; provided that any Apollo Sponsor (x) owns a majority of the voting power and (y) controls a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer.
 
“Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and guarantees of performance entered into by the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer which the Issuer has determined in good faith to be customary in a Receivables Financing including, without limitation, those relating to the
 


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servicing of the assets of a Receivables Subsidiary, it being understood that any Receivables Repurchase Obligation shall be deemed to be a Standard Securitization Undertaking.
 
“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the final payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any contingency beyond the control of the issuer unless such contingency has occurred).
 
“Subordinated Indebtedness” means (a) with respect to the Issuer, any Indebtedness of the Issuer which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to the Securities, and (b) with respect to any Note Guarantor, any Indebtedness of such Note Guarantor which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to its Guarantee.
 
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (1) any corporation, association or other business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture or limited liability company) 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 of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, and (2) any partnership, joint venture or limited liability company of which (x) more than 50% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general and limited partnership interests, as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, whether in the form of membership, general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise, and (y) such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity.
 
“Taking” means any taking of all or any portion of the Collateral by condemnation or other eminent domain proceedings, pursuant to any law, general or special, or by reason of the temporary requisition of the use or occupancy of all or any portion of the Collateral by any governmental authority, civil or military, or any sale pursuant to the exercise by any such governmental authority of any right which it may then have to purchase or designate a purchaser or to order a sale of all or any portion of the Collateral.
 
 “Tax Distributions” means any distributions described in Section 4.04(b)(xii).
 
“Term Facility Administrative Agent” means Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent for the lenders under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, together with its successors and permitted assigns under the Term Loan Credit Agreement exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or such other agent as may from time to time be appointed thereunder.
 
“Term Loan Collateral Agent” means Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, as collateral agent for the lenders under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, together with its respective successors and permitted assigns under the Term Loan Credit Agreement exercising substantially the same rights and powers, or such other agent as may from time to time be appointed thereunder.
 
“Term Loan Credit Agreement” means that certain Second Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated April 3, 2007, by and among the Issuer, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent, and the other lenders party thereto, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original lenders or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement or indenture extending the maturity thereof, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or any successor or replacement agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or increasing the amount loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity thereof.
 
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 “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture.
 
“Total Assets” means the total consolidated assets of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Issuer.
 
“Transactions” means the Captive Acquisition, the transactions related thereto (including entry into the Bridge Loan Credit Agreement) and the offering of the Securities on the Issue Date.
 
“Treasury Rate” means as of the applicable redemption date, the yield to maturity as of such redemption date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at least two business days prior to such redemption date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from such redemption date to April 15, 2010; provided, however, that if the period from such redemption date to April 15, 2010 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be used.
 
“Trust Officer” means:
 
(1)           any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, 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
 
(2)           who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
 
“Trustee” means the party named as such in the Preamble of this Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.
 
 “Unrestricted Subsidiary” means:
 
(1)           any Subsidiary of the Issuer that at the time of determination shall be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of such Person in the manner provided below; and
 
(2)           any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
 
The Board of Directors of the Issuer may designate any Subsidiary of the Issuer (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary of the Issuer) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated; provided, however, that the Subsidiary to be so designated and its Subsidiaries do not at the time of designation have and do not thereafter Incur any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of the assets of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, further, however, that either:
 
(a)           the Subsidiary to be so designated has total consolidated assets of $1,000 or less; or
 
(b)           if such Subsidiary has consolidated assets greater than $1,000, then such designation would be permitted under Section 4.04.
 
The Board of Directors of the Issuer may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that immediately after giving effect to such designation:
 
(x)           (1) the Issuer could Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.03(a) or (2) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Issuer and
 


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its Restricted Subsidiaries would be greater than such ratio for the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to such designation, in each case on a pro forma basis taking into account such designation, and
 
(y)           no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
 
Any such designation by the Board of Directors of the Issuer shall be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with the Trustee a copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing provisions.
 
“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities that are:
 
(1)           direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged, or
 
(2)           obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America,
 
which, in each case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such 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 Obligations or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligations evidenced by such depository receipt.
 
“Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person.
 
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock, as the case may be, at any date, the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the products of the number of years from the date of determination to the date of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Disqualified Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment, by (2) the sum of all such payments.
 
“Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary” is any Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary.
 
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares or shares required to be held by Foreign Subsidiaries) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
 
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitions
 
.
 
Term
Defined
in Section
“Additional Interest”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Additional Mortgage”                                                                                                                
4.15(b)
“Affiliate Transaction”                                                                                                                
4.07
“Agent Members”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Appendix”                                                                                                                
Preamble
 
 
 
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“Asset Sale Offer”                                                                                                                
4.06(b)
“Bankruptcy Law”                                                                                                                
6.01
“Change of Control Offer”                                                                                                                
4.08(b)
“Clearstream”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“covenant defeasance option”                                                                                                                
8.01(c)
“Covenant Suspension Event”                                                                                                                
4.16(b)
“Custodian”                                                                                                                
6.01
“Definitive Security”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Depository”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Euroclear”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Event of Default”                                                                                                                
6.01
“Excess Proceeds”                                                                                                                
4.06(b)
“Exchange Securities”                                                                                                                
Preamble
“Global Securities”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Global Securities Legend”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Guaranteed Obligations”                                                                                                                
12.01(a)
“IAI”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“incorporated provision”                                                                                                                
13.01
“Initial Securities”                                                                                                                
Preamble
“Issuer”                                                                                                                
Preamble
“legal defeasance option”                                                                                                                
8.01
“Notice of Default”                                                                                                                
6.01
“Offer Period”                                                                                                                
4.06(d)
“Original Securities”                                                                                                                
Preamble
“Paying Agent”                                                                                                                
2.04(a)
“protected purchaser”                                                                                                                
2.08
“QIB”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Refinancing Indebtedness”                                                                                                                
4.03(b)
“Refunding Capital Stock”                                                                                                                
4.04(b)
“Registered Exchange Offer”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Registrar”                                                                                                                
2.04(a)
“Registration Agreement”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Regulation S”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Regulation S Global Securities”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Regulation S Permanent Global Security”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Regulation S Temporary Global Security”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Regulation S Securities”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Restricted Payments”                                                                                                                
4.04(a)
“Restricted Period”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Restricted Securities Legend”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Retired Capital Stock”                                                                                                                
4.04(b)
“Reversion Date”                                                                                                                
4.16(c)
“Rule 144A”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Rule 144A Global Securities”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Rule 144A Securities”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Rule 501”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Secured Leverage Calculation Date”                                                                                                                
1.01 (definition of “Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio”)
“Securities”                                                                                                                
Preamble
“Securities Custodian”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
 
 
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“securities default provisions”                                                                                                                
6.01(k)
“Shelf Registration Statement”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Successor Company”                                                                                                                
5.01(a)
“Successor Note Guarantor”                                                                                                                
5.01(b)
“Suspended Covenant”                                                                                                                
4.16(b)
“Suspension Period”                                                                                                                
4.16(c)
“Transfer”                                                                                                                
5.01(b)
“Transfer Restricted Securities”                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Unrestricted Definitive Security                                                                                                                
Appendix A
“Unrestricted Global Security                                                                                                                
Appendix A

SECTION 1.03. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.  This Indenture incorporates by reference certain provisions of the TIA.  The following TIA terms have the following meanings:
 
“indenture securities” means the Securities and the Guarantees.
 
“indenture security holder” means a Holder.
 
“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.
 
“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.
 
“Obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company, the Note Guarantors and any other obligor on the Securities.
 
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.
 
SECTION 1.04. 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 GAAP;
 
(c) “or” is not exclusive;
 
(d) “including” means including without limitation;
 
(e) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;
 
(f) unsecured Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be subordinate or junior to Secured Indebtedness merely by virtue of its nature as unsecured Indebtedness;
 
(g) the principal amount of any non-interest bearing or other discount security at any date shall be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of the issuer dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP;
 
(h) the principal amount of any Preferred Stock shall be (i) the maximum liquidation value of such Preferred Stock or (ii) the maximum mandatory redemption or mandatory repurchase price with respect to such Preferred Stock, whichever is greater;
 


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(i) unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP;
 
(j) “$” and “U.S. Dollars” each refer to United States dollars, or such other money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; and
 
(k) whenever in this Indenture or the Securities there is mentioned, in any context, principal, interest or any other amount payable under or with respect to any Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Interest, to the extent that, in such context, Additional Interest are, were or would be payable in respect thereof.
 
ARTICLE 2
 
THE SECURITIES
 
SECTION 2.01. Amount of Securities.  The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture on the Issue Date is $680,600,000 in initial aggregate principal amount of Securities.
 
The Issuer may from time to time after the Issue Date issue Additional Securities under this Indenture in an unlimited principal amount, so long as (i) the Incurrence of the Indebtedness represented by such Additional Securities is at such time permitted by Section 4.03 and (ii) such Additional Securities are issued in compliance with the other applicable provisions of this Indenture.  With respect to any Additional Securities issued after the Issue Date (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Section 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.10, 3.06, 4.08(c) or the Appendix), there shall be (a) established in or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer and (b) (i) set forth or determined in the manner provided in an Officers’ Certificate or (ii) established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of such Additional Securities:
 
(1)           the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
 
(2)           the issue price and issuance date of such Additional Securities, including the date from which interest on such Additional Securities shall accrue;
 
(3)           if applicable, that such Additional Securities shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by such Global Securities in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Exhibit A hereto and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section 2.2 of the Appendix in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Additional Securities registered, or any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof; and
 
(4)           if applicable, that such Additional Securities that are not Transfer Restricted Securities shall not be issued in the form of Initial Securities as set forth in Exhibit A, but shall be issued in the form of Exchange Securities as set forth in Exhibit B.
 
If any of the terms of any Additional Securities are established by action taken pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate or the indenture supplemental hereto setting forth the terms of the Additional Securities.
 


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The Securities, including any Additional Securities, shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase.
 
SECTION 2.02. Form and Dating.  Provisions relating to the Initial Securities, Additional Securities and the Exchange Securities are set forth in the Appendix, which is hereby incorporated into and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The (i) Initial Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication and (ii) any Additional Securities (if issued as Transfer Restricted Securities) and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall each be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The (i) Exchange Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication and (ii) any Additional Securities issued other than as Transfer Restricted Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall each be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.  The Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Issuer or any Note Guarantor is subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Issuer).  Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.  The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without interest coupons and in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000.
 
SECTION 2.03. Execution and Authentication.  The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery upon a written order of the Issuer signed by one Officer (a) Original Securities for original issue on the date hereof in an aggregate principal amount of $680,600,000 in initial aggregate principal amount of Securities (b) subject to the terms of this Indenture, Additional Securities in an aggregate principal amount to be determined at the time of issuance and specified therein and (c) the Exchange Securities for issue in a Registered Exchange Offer pursuant to the Registration Agreement for a like principal amount of Initial Securities exchanged pursuant thereto or otherwise pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.  Such order shall specify the amount of the Securities to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Securities is to be authenticated and whether the Securities are to be Initial Securities or Exchange Securities.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Appendix, any issuance of Additional Securities after the Issue Date shall be in a principal amount of at least $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000.
 
One Officer shall sign the Securities for the Issuer by manual or facsimile signature.
 
If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Security, the Security shall be valid nevertheless.
 
A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Security.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.
 
The Trustee may appoint one or more authenticating agents reasonably acceptable to the Issuer to authenticate the Securities.  Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument signed by a Trust Officer, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Issuer.  Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, 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 any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands.
 
SECTION 2.04. Registrar and Paying Agent.
 
(a) The Issuer shall maintain (i) an office or agency where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”) and (ii) an office or agency where Securities may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”).  The Registrar shall keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange.  The Issuer may have one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents.  The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrars.  The term “Paying Agent” includes the Paying Agent and any additional paying agents.  The Issuer initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar, Paying Agent and the Securities Custodian with respect to the Global Securities.
 


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(b) The Issuer may enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture, which shall incorporate the terms of the TIA.  The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent.  The Issuer shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of any such agent.  If the Issuer fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.07.  The Issuer or any of its domestically organized Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.
 
(c) The Issuer may remove any Registrar or Paying Agent upon written notice to such Registrar or Paying Agent and to the Trustee; provided, however, that no such removal shall become effective until (i) if applicable, acceptance of an appointment by a successor as evidenced by an appropriate agreement entered into by the Issuer and such successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee or (ii) notification to the Trustee that the Trustee shall serve as Registrar or Paying Agent until the appointment of a successor in accordance with clause (i) above.  The Registrar or Paying Agent may resign at any time upon written notice to the Issuer and the Trustee; provided, however, that the Trustee may resign as Paying Agent or Registrar only if the Trustee also resigns as Trustee in accordance with Section 7.08.
 
SECTION 2.05. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.  Prior to or on each due date of the principal of and interest on any Security, the Issuer shall deposit with each Paying Agent (or if the Issuer or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is acting as Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto) a sum sufficient to pay such principal and interest when so becoming due.  The Issuer shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that a Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by a Paying Agent for the payment of principal of and interest on the Securities, and shall notify the Trustee of any default by the Issuer in making any such payment.  If the Issuer or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Issuer acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto.  The Issuer at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed by such Paying Agent.  Upon complying with this Section, a Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee.
 
SECTION 2.06. Holder 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 Holders.  If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Issuer shall furnish, or cause the Registrar to furnish, to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business 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 Holders.
 
SECTION 2.07. Transfer and Exchange.  The Securities shall be issued in registered form and shall be transferable only upon the surrender of a Security for registration of transfer and in compliance with the Appendix.  When a Security is presented to the Registrar with a request to register a transfer, the Registrar shall register the transfer as requested if its requirements therefor are met.  When Securities are presented to the Registrar with a request to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of other denominations, the Registrar shall make the exchange as requested if the same requirements are met.  To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request.  The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges in connection with any transfer or exchange pursuant to this Section.  The Issuer shall not be required to make, and the Registrar need not register, transfers or exchanges of Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of Securities to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed) or of any Securities for a period of 15 days before a selection of Securities to be redeemed.
 
Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Issuer, the Note Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest, if any, on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, any Note Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
 


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Any Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Security shall, by acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Security may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by (a) the Holder of such Global Security (or its agent) or (b) any Holder of a beneficial interest in such Global Security, and that ownership of a beneficial interest in such Global Security shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.
 
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
 
SECTION 2.08. Replacement Securities.  If a mutilated Security is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Security claims that the Security has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Security if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the New York UCC are met, such that the Holder (a) satisfies the Issuer or the Trustee within a reasonable time after such Holder has notice of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking and the Registrar does not register a transfer prior to receiving such notification, (b) makes such request to the Issuer or the Trustee prior to the Security being acquired by a protected purchaser as defined in Section 8-303 of the New York UCC (a “protected purchaser”) and (c) satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee.  If required by the Trustee or the Issuer, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Trustee or the Issuer to protect the Issuer, the Trustee, a Paying Agent and the Registrar from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Security is replaced.  The Issuer and the Trustee may charge the Holder for their expenses in replacing a Security (including without limitation, attorneys’ fees and disbursements in replacing such Security).  In the event any such mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Issuer in its discretion may pay such Security instead of issuing a new Security in replacement thereof.
 
Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Issuer.
 
The provisions of this Section 2.08 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Securities.
 
SECTION 2.09. Outstanding Securities.  Securities outstanding at any time are all Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation and those described in this Section as not outstanding.  Subject to Section 13.06, a Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer holds the Security.
 
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.08 (other than a mutilated Security surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee and the Issuer receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser.  A mutilated Security ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Security and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.08.
 
If a Paying Agent segregates and holds in trust, in accordance with this Indenture, on a redemption date or maturity date money sufficient to pay all principal and interest payable on that date with respect to the Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may be, and no Paying Agent is prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Securities (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.
 
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities.  In the event that Definitive Securities are to be issued under the terms of this Indenture, until such Definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Issuer may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities.  Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of Definitive Securities but may have variations that the Issuer considers appropriate for temporary Securities.  Without unreasonable delay, the Issuer shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and make them available for delivery in exchange for temporary Securities upon surrender of such temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Issuer, without charge to the Holder.  Until such exchange, temporary Securities shall be entitled to the same rights, benefits and privileges as Definitive Securities.
 


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Cancellation.  The Issuer at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Registrar and each Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment.  The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and shall dispose of canceled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures.  The Issuer may not issue new Securities to replace Securities it has redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Trustee shall not authenticate Securities in place of canceled Securities other than pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
 
SECTION 2.11. Defaulted Interest.  If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on the Securities, the Issuer shall pay the defaulted interest then borne by the Securities (plus interest on such defaulted interest to the extent lawful) in any lawful manner.  The Issuer may pay the defaulted interest to the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent special record date.  The Issuer shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and payment date to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee and shall promptly mail or cause to be sent to each affected Holder a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.
 
SECTION 2.12. CUSIP Numbers, ISINs, etc.  The Issuer in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP numbers, ISINs and “Common Code” numbers (if then generally in use) and, if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers, ISINs and “Common Code” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers, either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities and that any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.  The Issuer shall advise the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers, ISINs and “Common Code” numbers.
 
SECTION 2.13. Calculation of Principal Amount of Securities.  The aggregate principal amount of the Securities, at any date of determination, shall be the principal amount of the Securities outstanding at such date of determination.  With respect to any matter requiring consent, waiver, approval or other action of the Holders of a specified percentage of the principal amount of all the Securities, such percentage shall be calculated, on the relevant date of determination, by dividing (a) the principal amount, as of such date of determination, of Securities, the Holders of which have so consented, by (b) the aggregate principal amount, as of such date of determination, of the Securities then outstanding, in each case, as determined in accordance with the preceding sentence, Section 2.09 and Section 13.06 of this Indenture.  Any such calculation made pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be made by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate.
 
ARTICLE 3
 
REDEMPTION
 
SECTION 3.01. Redemption.  The Securities may be redeemed, in whole, or from time to time in part, subject to the conditions and at the redemption prices set forth in Paragraph 5 of the form of Securities set forth in Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto, which are hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Indenture, together with accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date.
 
SECTION 3.02. Applicability of Article.  Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company or otherwise, as permitted or required by any provision of this Indenture, shall be made in accordance with such provision and this Article.
 
SECTION 3.03. Notices to Trustee.  If the Issuer elects to redeem Securities pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Paragraph 5 of the Security, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of (i) the Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (ii) the redemption date, (iii) the principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and (iv) the redemption price.  The Issuer shall give notice to the Trustee provided for in this paragraph at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date if the redemption is pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Security, unless a shorter period is acceptable to the Trustee.  Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel from the Issuer to the effect that such redemption will comply
 


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with the conditions herein.  If fewer than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the record date relating to such redemption shall be selected by the Company and given to the Trustee, which record date shall be not fewer than 15 days after the date of notice to the Trustee.  Any such notice may be canceled at any time prior to notice of such redemption being sent to any Holder and shall thereby be void and of no effect.
 
SECTION 3.04. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed.  In the case of any partial redemption, selection of Securities for redemption will be made by the Trustee on a pro rata basis to the extent practicable; provided that no Securities of $2,000 or less shall be redeemed in part.  The Trustee shall make the selection from outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption.  The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities that have denominations larger than $2,000.  Securities and portions of them the Trustee selects shall be in amounts of $2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000.  Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for redemption.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of the Securities or portions of Securities to be redeemed.
 
SECTION 3.05. Notice of Optional Redemption.
 
(a) At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Security, the Issuer shall mail or cause to be mailed by first-class mail or cause to be sent electronically a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed.
 
Any such notice shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:
 
(i) the redemption date;
 
(ii) the redemption price and the amount of accrued interest to the redemption date;
 
(iii) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
 
(iv) that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price, plus accrued interest;
 
(v) if fewer than all the outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the certificate numbers and principal amounts of the particular Securities to be redeemed, the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be outstanding after such partial redemption;
 
(vi) that, unless the Issuer defaults in making such redemption payment or the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest on Securities (or portion thereof) called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;
 
(vii) the CUSIP number, ISIN and/or “Common Code” number, if any, printed on the Securities being redeemed; and
 
(viii) that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number or ISIN and/or “Common Code” number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Securities.
 
(b) At the Issuer’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Issuer’s name and at the Issuer’s expense.  In such event, the Issuer shall provide the Trustee with the information required by this Section at least one Business Day prior to the date such notice is to be provided to Holders and such notice may not be canceled.
 
SECTION 3.06. Effect of Notice of Redemption.  Once notice of redemption is mailed or sent in accordance with Section 3.05, Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price stated in the notice, except as provided in the final sentence of paragraph 5 of the Securities.  Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price stated in the notice,
 


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plus accrued interest, to, but not including, the redemption date; provided, however, that if the redemption date is after a regular record date and on or prior to the interest payment date, the accrued interest shall be payable to the Holder of the redeemed Securities registered on the relevant record date.  Failure to give notice or any defect in the notice to any Holder shall not affect the validity of the notice to any other Holder.
 
SECTION 3.07. Deposit of Redemption Price.  With respect to any Securities, prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Issuer or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on all Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on that date other than Securities or portions of Securities called for redemption that have been delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee for cancellation.  On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on Securities or portions thereof called for redemption so long as the Issuer has deposited with the Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the principal of, plus accrued and unpaid interest on, the Securities to be redeemed, unless the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
 
SECTION 3.08. Securities Redeemed in Part.  Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder (at the Issuer’s expense) a new Security equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.
 
ARTICLE 4
 
COVENANTS
 
SECTION 4.01. Payment of Securities.  The Issuer shall promptly pay the principal of and interest on the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and in this Indenture.  An installment of principal of or interest shall be considered paid on the date due if on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds as of 12:00 p.m. New York City time money sufficient to pay all principal and interest then due and the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
 
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate borne by the Securities to the extent lawful.
 
SECTION 4.02. Reports and Other Information.
 
(a) Notwithstanding that the Issuer may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or otherwise report on an annual and quarterly basis on forms provided for such annual and quarterly reporting pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, the Issuer shall file with the SEC (and provide the Trustee and Holders with copies thereof, without cost to each Holder, within 15 days after it files them with the SEC),
 
(i) within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations, annual reports on Form 10-K (or any successor or comparable form) containing the information required to be contained therein (or required in such successor or comparable form),
 
(ii) within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations, reports on Form 10-Q (or any successor or comparable form) containing the information required to be contained therein (or required in such successor or comparable form),
 
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(iv) any other information, documents and other reports which the Issuer would be required to file with the SEC if it were subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
 
provided, however, that the Issuer shall not be so obligated to file such reports with the SEC if the SEC does not permit such filing, in which event the Issuer shall make available such information to prospective purchasers of Securities, including by posting such reports on the primary website of the Issuer or its Subsidiaries in addition to providing such information to the Trustee and the Holders, in each case within 15 days after the time the Issuer would be required to file such information with the SEC if it were subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
 
(b) In the event that:
 
(i) the rules and regulations of the SEC permit the Issuer and any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to report at such parent entity’s level on a consolidated basis and
 
(ii) such parent entity of the Issuer is not engaged in any business in any material respect other than incidental to its ownership, directly or indirectly, of the Capital Stock of the Issuer,
 
such consolidated reporting at such parent entity’s level in a manner consistent with that described in this Section 4.02 for the Issuer shall satisfy this Section 4.02.
 
(c) The Issuer shall make such information available to prospective investors upon request.  In addition, the Issuer shall, for so long as any Securities remain outstanding during any period when it is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or otherwise permitted to furnish the SEC with certain information pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) of the Exchange Act, furnish to the Holders and to prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer will be deemed to have furnished such reports referred to above to the Trustee and the Holders if the Issuer has filed such reports with the SEC via the EDGAR filing system and such reports are publicly available.  In addition, such requirements shall be deemed satisfied prior to the commencement of the exchange offer contemplated by the Registration Agreement relating to the Securities or the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement by the filing with the SEC of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and/or Shelf Registration Statement in accordance with the provisions of such Registration Agreement, and any amendments thereto if such Registration Statement and/or amendments thereto are filed at times that otherwise satisfy the time requirements set forth in Section 4.02(a).
 
In the event that any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer is or becomes a Note Guarantor of the Securities, the Issuer may satisfy its obligations under this Section 4.02 with respect to financial information relating to the Issuer by furnishing financial information relating to such direct or indirect parent; provided that the same is accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to such direct or indirect parent and any of its Subsidiaries other than the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Issuer, the Note Guarantors and the other Subsidiaries of the Issuer on a standalone basis, on the other hand.
 
SECTION 4.03. Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock.
 
(a) (i) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) or issue any shares of Disqualified Stock; and (ii) the Issuer shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Note Guarantor) to issue any shares of Preferred Stock; provided, however, that the Issuer and any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Note Guarantor or a Foreign Subsidiary may Incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) or issue shares of Disqualified Stock and any Restricted Subsidiary may issue shares of Preferred Stock, in each case if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Issuer for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is Incurred or such Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock is issued would have been at least 2.00 to 1.00 determined on a pro forma basis (including
 


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(b) a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness had been Incurred, or the Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock had been issued, as the case may be, and the application of proceeds therefrom had occurred at the beginning of such four-quarter period.
 
(c) The limitations set forth in Section 4.03(a) shall not apply to:
 
(i) the Incurrence by the Issuer or its Restricted Subsidiaries of Secured Indebtedness under the Credit Agreements and the issuance and creation of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances thereunder (with letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances being deemed to have a principal amount equal to the face amount thereof) in the aggregate principal amount of $1,600.0 million plus an aggregate additional principal amount outstanding at any one time that does not cause the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio of the Issuer to exceed 4.00 to 1.00, determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom);
 
(ii) the Incurrence by the Issuer and the Note Guarantors of Indebtedness represented by the Securities (not including any Additional Securities) and the Guarantees, as applicable (including the Exchange Securities and related guarantees thereof);
 
(iii) Indebtedness existing on the Issue Date (other than Indebtedness described in clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 4.03(b));
 
(iv) Indebtedness (including Capitalized Lease Obligations) Incurred by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, Disqualified Stock issued by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and Preferred Stock issued by any Restricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer to finance (whether prior to or within 270 days after) the purchase, lease, construction or improvement of property (real or personal) or equipment (whether through the direct purchase of assets or the Capital Stock of any Person owning such assets (but no other material assets));
 
(v) Indebtedness Incurred by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries constituting reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bank guarantees issued in the ordinary course of business, including without limitation letters of credit in respect of workers’ compensation claims, health, disability or other benefits to employees or former employees or their families or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance, and letters of credit in connection with the maintenance of, or pursuant to the requirements of, environmental or other permits or licenses from governmental authorities, or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement type obligations regarding workers’ compensation claims;
 
(vi) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, in each case, Incurred in connection with the Transactions or any other acquisition or disposition of any business, assets or a Subsidiary of the Issuer in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, other than guarantees of Indebtedness Incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition;
 
(vii) Indebtedness of the Issuer to a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any such Indebtedness owed to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Note Guarantor is subordinated in right of payment to the obligations of the Issuer under the Securities; provided, further, that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such Indebtedness (except to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an Incurrence of such Indebtedness;
 
(viii) shares of Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary issued to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event which results in any Restricted Subsidiary that holds such shares of Preferred Stock of another Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such shares
 


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(ix) of Preferred Stock (except to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an issuance of shares of Preferred Stock;
 
(x) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if a Note Guarantor incurs such Indebtedness to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Note Guarantor, such Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee of such Note Guarantor; provided, further, that any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Capital Stock or any other event which results in any Restricted Subsidiary holding such Indebtedness ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary or any other subsequent transfer of any such Indebtedness (except to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to be an Incurrence of such Indebtedness;
 
(xi) Hedging Obligations that are not incurred for speculative purposes and either: (1) for the purpose of fixing or hedging interest rate risk with respect to any Indebtedness that is permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be outstanding; (2) for the purpose of fixing or hedging currency exchange rate risk with respect to any currency exchanges; or (3) for the purpose of fixing or hedging commodity price risk (including resin price risk) with respect to any commodity purchases or sales;
 
(xii) obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and completion guarantees provided by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;
 
(xiii) Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer and Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer not otherwise permitted hereunder in an aggregate principal amount which, when aggregated with the principal amount or liquidation preference of all other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock then outstanding and Incurred pursuant to this clause (xii), does not exceed the greater of $100.0 million and 4.5% of Total Assets at the time of Incurrence (it being understood that any Indebtedness Incurred under this clause (xii) shall cease to be deemed Incurred or outstanding for purposes of this clause (xii) but shall be deemed Incurred for purposes of Section 4.03(a) from and after the first date on which the Issuer, or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, could have Incurred such Indebtedness under Section 4.03(a) without reliance upon this clause (xii));
 
(xiv) any guarantee by the Issuer or a Note Guarantor of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries so long as the Incurrence of such Indebtedness Incurred by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary is permitted under the terms of this Indenture; provided that if such Indebtedness is by its express terms subordinated in right of payment to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, any such guarantee of such Note Guarantor with respect to such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to such Note Guarantor’s Guarantee with respect to the Securities substantially to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable;
 
(xv) the Incurrence by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer which serves to refund, refinance or defease any Indebtedness Incurred or Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock issued as permitted under Section 4.03(a) and clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (xiv), (xv), (xix) and (xx) of this Section 4.03(b) or any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock Incurred to so refund or refinance such Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, including any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock Incurred to pay premiums and fees in connection therewith (subject to the following proviso, “Refinancing Indebtedness”) prior to its respective maturity; provided, however, that such Refinancing Indebtedness:
 
(1) has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred which is not less than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock being refunded or refinanced;
 


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(2) has a Stated Maturity which is not earlier than the earlier of (x) the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refunded or refinanced or (y) 91 days following the last maturity date of the Securities;
 
(3) to the extent such Refinancing Indebtedness refinances (a) Indebtedness junior to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, such Refinancing Indebtedness is junior to the Securities or the Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, or (b) Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, such Refinancing Indebtedness is Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock;
 
(4) is Incurred in an aggregate amount (or if issued with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the aggregate amount (or if issued with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding of the Indebtedness being refinanced plus premium,  fees and expenses Incurred in connection with such refinancing;
 
(5) shall not include (x) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer that is not a Note Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary that is a Note Guarantor, or (y) Indebtedness of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and
 
(6) in the case of any Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance Indebtedness outstanding under clause (iv) or (xx) of this Section 4.03(b), shall be deemed to have been Incurred and to be outstanding under such clause (iv) or (xx) of this Section 4.03(b), as applicable, and not this clause (xiv) for purposes of determining amounts outstanding under such clauses (iv) and (xx) of this Section 4.03(b);
 
provided, further, that subclauses (1) and (2) of this clause (xiv) shall not apply to any refunding or refinancing of any Secured Indebtedness constituting First Priority Lien Obligations;
 
(xvi) Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of (x) the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred to finance an acquisition or (y) Persons that are acquired by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or merged with or into the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; provided, however, that after giving effect to such acquisition or merger either:
 
(1) the Issuer would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the first sentence of Section 4.03(a); or
 
(2) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Issuer would be greater than immediately prior to such acquisition or merger;
 
(xvii) Indebtedness Incurred by a Receivables Subsidiary in a Qualified Receivables Financing that is not recourse to the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary other than a Receivables Subsidiary (except for Standard Securitization Undertakings);
 
(xviii) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of its Incurrence;
 
(xix) Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary supported by a letter of credit or bank guarantee issued pursuant to any Credit Agreement, in a principal amount not in excess of the stated amount of such letter of credit;
 
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(xxi) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries, provided, however, that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness Incurred under this clause (xx), when aggregated with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness then outstanding and Incurred pursuant to this clause (xx), does not exceed $25.0 million at any one time outstanding;
 
(xxii) Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary consisting of (x) the financing of insurance premiums or (y) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business; and
 
(xxiii) Indebtedness incurred on behalf of, or representing guarantees of Indebtedness of, joint ventures of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary not in excess, at any one time outstanding, of $7.5 million.
 
For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.03, in the event that an item of Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of permitted Indebtedness described in clauses (i) through (xxii) above or is entitled to be Incurred pursuant to Section 4.03(a), the Issuer shall, in its sole discretion, classify or reclassify, or later divide, classify or reclassify, such item of Indebtedness in any manner that complies with this Section 4.03.  Accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, the payment of dividends on Preferred Stock in the form of additional shares of Preferred Stock of the same class, accretion or amortization of original issue discount or liquidation preference and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies shall not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 4.03.  Guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit relating to, Indebtedness which is otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included in the determination of such amount of Indebtedness; provided that the Incurrence of the Indebtedness represented by such guarantee or letter of credit, as the case may be, was in compliance with this Section 4.03.
 
For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed or first Incurred (whichever yields the lower U.S. dollar equivalent), in the case of revolving credit debt; provided that if such Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced.
 
SECTION 4.04. Limitation on Restricted Payments.
 
(a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
 
(i) declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on account of the Issuer’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests, including any payment made in connection with any merger, amalgamation or consolidation involving the Issuer (other than (A) dividends or distributions by the Issuer payable solely in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer; or (B) dividends or distributions by a Restricted Subsidiary so long as, in the case of any dividend or distribution payable on or in respect of any class or series of securities issued by a Restricted Subsidiary other than a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary receives at least its pro rata share of such dividend or distribution in accordance with its Equity Interests in such class or series of securities);
 
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(iii) make any principal payment on, or redeem, repurchase, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, in each case prior to any scheduled repayment or scheduled maturity, any Subordinated Indebtedness of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the payment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or retirement of (A) Subordinated Indebtedness in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due within one year of the date of such payment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, acquisition or retirement and (B) Indebtedness permitted under clauses (vii) and (ix) of Section 4.03(b)); or
 
(iv) make any Restricted Investment;
 
(all such payments and other actions set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) above being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, at the time of such Restricted Payment:
 
(1)           no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof;
 
(2)           immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, the Issuer could Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under Section 4.03(a); and
 
(3)           such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date (including Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (i), (iv) (only to the extent of one-half of the amounts paid pursuant to such clause), (vi) and (viii) of Section 4.04(b), but excluding all other Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.04(b)), is less than the amount equal to the Cumulative Credit.
 
(b) The provisions of Section 4.04(a) shall not prohibit:
 
(i) the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture;
 
(ii) (A) the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition of any Equity Interests (“Retired Capital Stock”) of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer or Subordinated Indebtedness of the Issuer, any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer or any Note Guarantor in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of, the substantially concurrent sale of, Equity Interests of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer or contributions to the equity capital of the Issuer (other than any Disqualified Stock or any Equity Interests sold to a Subsidiary of the Issuer or to an employee stock ownership plan or any trust established by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries) (collectively, including any such contributions, “Refunding Capital Stock”); and
 
(B)           the declaration and payment of accrued dividends on the Retired Capital Stock out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Issuer or to an employee stock ownership plan or any trust established by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries) of Refunding Capital Stock;
 
(iii) the redemption, repurchase or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Note Guarantor made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, new Indebtedness of the Issuer or a Note Guarantor which is Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03 so long as
 
(A) the principal amount of such new Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, acquired or retired for value (plus the amount of any premium required to be paid under the terms of the instrument governing the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, acquired or retired plus any fees incurred in connection therewith),
 


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(B) such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Securities or the related Guarantee, as the case may be, at least to the same extent as such Subordinated Indebtedness so purchased, exchanged, redeemed, repurchased, acquired or retired for value,
 
(C) such Indebtedness has a final scheduled maturity date equal to or later than the earlier of (x) the final scheduled maturity date of the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, acquired or retired or (y) 91 days following the maturity date of the Securities, and
 
(D) such Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time Incurred which is not less than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Subordinated Indebtedness being so redeemed, repurchased, acquired or retired;
 
(iv) the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition (or dividends to any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to finance any such repurchase, retirement or other acquisition) for value of Equity Interests of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer held by any future, present or former employee, director or consultant of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or other agreement or arrangement; provided, however, that the aggregate amounts paid under this clause (iv) do not exceed $15.0 million in any calendar year (with unused amounts in any calendar year being permitted to be carried over for the two succeeding calendar years); provided, further, however, that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed:
 
(A) the cash proceeds received by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from the sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer (to the extent contributed to the Issuer) to members of management, directors or consultants of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer that occurs after the Issue Date (provided that the amount of such cash proceeds utilized for any such repurchase, retirement, other acquisition or dividend shall not increase the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.04(a)(3)); plus
 
(B) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer (to the extent contributed to the Issuer) or the Issuer’s Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date;
 
provided that the Issuer may elect to apply all or any portion of the aggregate increase contemplated by clauses (A) and (B) above in any calendar year;
 
(v) the declaration and payment of dividends or distributions to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued or incurred in accordance with Section 4.03;
 
(vi) the declaration and payment of dividends or distributions (a) to holders of any class or series of Designated Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) issued after the Issue Date and (b) to any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, the proceeds of which will be used to fund the payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of Designated Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer issued after the Issue Date; provided, however, that, (A) for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date of issuance of such Designated Preferred Stock, after giving effect to such issuance (and the payment of dividends or distributions) on a pro forma basis, the Issuer would have had a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of at least 2.00 to 1.00 and (B) the aggregate amount of dividends declared and paid pursuant to this clause (vi) does not exceed the net cash proceeds actually received by the Issuer from any such sale of Designated Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) issued after the Issue Date;
 


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(vii) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (vii) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $25.0 million and 1.0% of Total Assets at the time of such Investment (with the Fair Market Value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value);
 
(viii) the payment of dividends on the Issuer’s common stock (or the payment of dividends to any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to fund the payment by such direct or indirect parent of the Issuer of dividends on such entity’s common stock) of up to 6% per annum of the net proceeds received by the Issuer from any public offering of common stock of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer;
 
(ix) Investments that are made with Excluded Contributions;
 
(x) other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of $50.0 million and 2.0% of Total Assets at the time made;
 
(xi) the distribution, as a dividend or otherwise, of shares of Capital Stock of, or Indebtedness owed to the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer by, Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
 
(xii) the payment of dividends or other distributions to any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer in amounts required for such parent to pay federal, state or local income taxes (as the case may be) imposed directly on such parent to the extent such income taxes are attributable to the income of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, by virtue of such parent being the common parent of a consolidated or combined tax group of which the Issuer and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries are members);
 
(xiii) the payment of dividends, other distributions or other amounts or the making of loans or advances by the Issuer, if applicable:
 
(A) in amounts required for any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, if applicable, to pay fees and expenses (including franchise or similar taxes) required to maintain its corporate existence, customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, officers and employees of any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, if applicable, and general corporate overhead expenses of any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, if applicable, in each case to the extent such fees and expenses are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Issuer, if applicable, and its Subsidiaries;
 
(B) in amounts required for any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, if applicable, to pay interest and/or principal on Indebtedness the proceeds of which have been contributed to the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and that has been guaranteed by, or is otherwise considered Indebtedness of, the Issuer Incurred in accordance with Section 4.03; and
 
(C) in amounts required for any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to pay fees and expenses, other than to Affiliates of the Issuer, related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering of such parent.
 
(xiv) cash dividends or other distributions on the Issuer’s Capital Stock used to, or the making of loans to any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to, fund the Transactions and the payment of fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions or owed by the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer, as the case may be, or Restricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer to Affiliates, in each case to the extent permitted by Section 4.07;
 
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(xvi) purchases of receivables pursuant to a Receivables Repurchase Obligation in connection with a Qualified Receivables Financing and the payment or distribution of Receivables Fees;
 
(xvii) payments of cash, or dividends, distributions or advances by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary to allow the payment of cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares upon the exercise of options or warrants or upon the conversion or exchange of Capital Stock of any such Person;
 
(xviii) the repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Subordinated Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions similar to those described under Sections 4.06 and 4.08; provided that all Securities tendered by Holders in connection with a Change of Control Offer or Asset Sale Offer, as applicable, have been repurchased, redeemed or acquired for value; and
 
(xix) any payments made, including any such payments made to any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to enable it to make payments, in connection with the consummation of the Transactions or as contemplated by the Acquisition Documents (other than payments to any Permitted Holder or any Affiliate thereof);
 
provided, however, that at the time of, and after giving effect to, any Restricted Payment permitted under clauses (vi), (vii), (x) and (xi) of this Section 4.04(b), no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof.
 
(c) As of the Issue Date, all of the Issuer’s Subsidiaries shall be Restricted Subsidiaries.  The Issuer shall not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to become a Restricted Subsidiary except pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary.”  For purposes of designating any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, all outstanding Investments by the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (except to the extent repaid) in the Subsidiary so designated shall be deemed to be Restricted Payments in an amount determined as set forth in the last sentence of the definition of “Investments.”  Such designation shall only be permitted if a Restricted Payment in such amount would be permitted at such time and if such Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
 
SECTION 4.05. Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.  The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:
 
(a) (i) pay dividends or make any other distributions to the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (1) on its Capital Stock; or (2) with respect to any other interest or participation in, or measured by, its profits; or (ii) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
 
(b) make loans or advances to the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; or
 
(c) sell, lease or transfer any of its properties or assets to the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
 
except in each case for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:
 
(1)           contractual encumbrances or restrictions in effect on the Issue Date, including pursuant to the Credit Agreements and the other Credit Agreement Documents;
 
(2)           this Indenture, the Securities (and any Exchange Securities and guarantees thereof), the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements;
 
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(4)           any agreement or other instrument relating to Indebtedness of a Person acquired by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary which was in existence at the time of such acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof or to provide all or any portion of the funds or credit support utilized to consummate such acquisition), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired;
 
(5)           contracts or agreements for the sale of assets, including any restriction with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the sale or disposition of the Capital Stock or assets of such Restricted Subsidiary pending the closing of such sale or disposition;
 
(6)           Secured Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Sections 4.03 and 4.12 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the assets securing such Indebtedness;
 
(7)           restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business;
 
(8)           customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business;
 
(9)           purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions of the nature discussed in Section 4.05(c) above on the property so acquired;
 
(10)           customary provisions contained in leases, licenses and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions of the type described in clause (c) above on the property subject to such lease;
 
(11)           any encumbrance or restriction of a Receivables Subsidiary effected in connection with a Qualified Receivables Financing; provided, however, that such restrictions apply only to such Receivables Subsidiary;
 
(12)           other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer (i) that is a Note Guarantor that is Incurred subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 4.03 or (ii) that is Incurred by a Foreign Subsidiary of the Issuer subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to clause (iv), (xii) or (xx) of Section 4.03(b);
 
(13)           any Restricted Investment not prohibited by Section 4.04 and any Permitted Investment; or
 
(14)           any encumbrances or restrictions of the type referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above imposed by any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of the contracts, instruments or obligations referred to in clauses (1) through (13) above; provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are, in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no more restrictive with respect to such dividend and other payment restrictions than those contained in the dividend or other payment restrictions prior to such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing.
 
For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.05, (i) the priority of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on common stock shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make distributions on Capital Stock and (ii) the subordination of loans or advances made to the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to other Indebtedness Incurred by the Issuer or any such Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make loans or advances.
 


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Asset Sales.
 
(d) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, cause or make an Asset Sale, unless (x) the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the Issuer) of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of, and (y) at least 75% of the consideration therefor received by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is in the form of Cash Equivalents; provided that the amount of:
 
(i) any liabilities (as shown on the Issuer’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet or in the notes thereto) of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Securities or any Guarantee) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets,
 
(ii) any notes or other obligations or other securities or assets received by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer from such transferee that are converted by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer into cash within 180 days of the receipt thereof (to the extent of the cash received), and
 
(iii) any Designated Non-cash Consideration received by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Asset Sale having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Designated Non-cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (iii) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of 2.0% of Total Assets and $50.0 million at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (with the Fair Market Value of each item of Designated Non-cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value)
 
shall be deemed to be Cash Equivalents for the purposes of this Section 4.06(a).
 
(e) Within 365 days after the Issuer’s or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer’s receipt of the Net Proceeds of any Asset Sale, the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer may apply the Net Proceeds from such Asset Sale, at its option:
 
(i) to repay (A) Indebtedness constituting First Priority Lien Obligations (and, if the Indebtedness repaid is revolving credit Indebtedness, to correspondingly reduce commitments with respect thereto) (provided that (x) to the extent that the terms of First Priority Lien Obligations other than the Note Obligations require that such First Priority Lien Obligations are repaid with the Net Proceeds of Asset Sales prior to repayment of other Indebtedness, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be entitled to repay such other First Priority Lien Obligations prior to repaying the Obligations under the Securities and (y) subject to the foregoing clause (x), if the Issuer or any Note Guarantor shall so reduce First Priority Lien Obligations, the Issuer shall equally and ratably reduce Obligations under the Securities through open-market purchases (provided that such purchases are at or above 100% of the principal amount thereof) or by making an offer (in accordance with the procedures set forth below for an Asset Sale Offer) to all Holders to purchase at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, the pro rata principal amount of Securities), (B) Indebtedness of a Foreign Subsidiary or (C) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Note Guarantor, in each case other than Indebtedness owed to the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer,
 
(ii) to make an investment in any one or more businesses (provided that if such investment is in the form of the acquisition of Capital Stock of a Person, such acquisition results in such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer), assets, or property or capital expenditures, in each case used or useful in a Similar Business, or
 
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(iv) ing a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer), properties or assets that replace the properties and assets that are the subject of such Asset Sale.
 
In the case of Sections 4.06(b)(ii) and (iii), a binding commitment shall be treated as a permitted application of the Net Proceeds from the date of such commitment; provided that in the event such binding commitment is later canceled or terminated for any reason before such Net Proceeds are so applied, the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary enters into another binding commitment within nine months of such cancellation or termination of the prior binding commitment; provided, further that the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary may only enter into such a second commitment under the foregoing provision one time with respect to each Asset Sale.
 
Pending the final application of any such Net Proceeds, the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer may temporarily reduce Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility, if any, or otherwise invest such Net Proceeds in Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities.  Any Net Proceeds from any Asset Sale that are not applied as provided and within the time period set forth in the first sentence of this Section 4.06(b) (it being understood that any portion of such Net Proceeds used to make an offer to purchase Securities, as described in clause (i) of this Section 4.06(b), shall be deemed to have been invested whether or not such offer is accepted) shall be deemed to constitute “Excess Proceeds.” When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $15.0 million, the Issuer shall make an offer to all Holders (and, at the option of the Issuer, to holders of any First Priority Lien Obligations) (an “Asset Sale Offer”) to purchase the maximum principal amount of Securities (and such First Priority Lien Obligations), that is at least $2,000 and an integral multiple of $1,000 that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof (or, in the event such First Priority Lien Obligations were issued with significant original issue discount, 100% of the accreted value thereof), plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any (or, in respect of such First Priority Lien Obligations, such lesser price, if any, as may be provided for by the terms of such First Priority Lien Obligations), to the date fixed for the closing of such offer, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.06.  The Issuer shall commence an Asset Sale Offer with respect to Excess Proceeds within 10 Business Days after the date that Excess Proceeds exceeds $15.0 million by mailing the notice required pursuant to the terms of Section 4.06(f), with a copy to the Trustee.  To the extent that the aggregate amount of Securities (and such First Priority Lien Obligations) tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the Issuer may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for general corporate purposes.  If the aggregate principal amount of Securities (and such First Priority Lien Obligations) surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be purchased in the manner described in Section 4.06(e).  Upon completion of any such Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero.
 
(f) The Issuer shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations to the extent such laws or regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture, the Issuer shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations described in this Indenture by virtue thereof.
 
(g) Not later than the date upon which written notice of an Asset Sale Offer is delivered to the Trustee as provided above, the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate as to (i) the amount of the Excess Proceeds, (ii) the allocation of the Net Proceeds from the Asset Sales pursuant to which such Asset Sale Offer is being made and (iii) the compliance of such allocation with the provisions of Section 4.06(b).  On such date, the Issuer shall also irrevocably deposit with the Trustee or with a paying agent (or, if the Issuer or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary is acting as the Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust) an amount equal to the Excess Proceeds to be invested in Cash Equivalents, as directed in writing by the Issuer, and to be held for payment in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4.06.  Upon the expiration of the period for which the Asset Sale Offer remains open (the “Offer Period”), the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation the Securities or portions thereof that have been properly tendered to and are to be accepted by the Issuer.  The Trustee (or the Paying Agent, if not the Trustee) shall, on the date of purchase, mail or deliver payment to each tendering Holder in the amount of the purchase price.  In the event that the Excess Proceeds delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee are greater than the purchase price of the Securities tendered, the Trustee shall deliver the excess to the Issuer immediately after the expiration of the Offer Period for application in accordance with Section 4.06.
 


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(h) Holders electing to have a Security purchased shall be required to surrender the Security, with an appropriate form duly completed, to the Company at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the purchase date.  Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Trustee or the Issuer receives not later than one Business Day prior to the Purchase Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter sent to the address indicated in Section 13.02 or specified in the notice described in Section 4.06(f) setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security which was delivered by the Holder for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Security purchased.  If at the end of the Offer Period more Securities (and other First Priority Lien Obligations (as described in Section 4.06(b)), as applicable) are tendered pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer than the Issuer is required to purchase, selection of such Securities for purchase shall be made by the Trustee in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which such Securities are listed, or if such Securities are not so listed, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (and in such manner as complies with applicable legal requirements); provided that no Securities of $2,000 or less shall be purchased in part.  Selection of such First Priority Lien Obligations shall be made pursuant to the terms of such First Priority Lien Obligations.
 
(i) Notices of an Asset Sale Offer shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, or sent electronically, at least 30 but not more than 60 days before the purchase date to each Holder of Securities at such Holder’s registered address.  If any Security is to be purchased in part only, any notice of purchase that relates to such Security shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof that has been or is to be purchased.
 
SECTION 4.06. Transactions with Affiliates.
 
(a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction or series of transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate consideration in excess of $10.0 million, unless:
 
(i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that could have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person; and
 
(ii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a resolution adopted in good faith by the majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above.
 
(b) The provisions of Section 4.07(a) shall not apply to the following:
 
(i) transactions between or among the Issuer and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any merger of the Issuer and any direct parent of the Issuer; provided that such parent shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose;
 
(ii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.04 and Permitted Investments;
 
(iii) (x) the entering into of any agreement (and any amendment or modification of any such agreement) to pay, and the payment of, annual management, consulting, monitoring and advisory fees to the Sponsors in an aggregate amount in any fiscal year not to exceed the greater of (A) $3.0 million and (B) 1.25% of EBITDA of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the immediately preceding fiscal year, and out-of-pocket expense reimbursement; provided, however, that any payment not made in any fiscal year may be carried forward and paid in the following two fiscal years and (y) the payment of the pr
 


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(iv) sent value of all amounts payable pursuant to any agreement described in clause (iii)(x) of this Section 4.07(b) in connection with the termination of such agreement;
 
(v) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and reimbursement of expenses paid to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer;
 
(vi) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Sponsors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures, which payments are (x) made pursuant to the agreements with the Sponsors described in the Offering Memorandum or (y) approved by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer in good faith;
 
(vii) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or meets the requirements of clause (i) of Section 4.07(a);
 
(viii) payments or loans (or cancellation of loans) to employees or consultants which are approved by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer in good faith;
 
(ix) any agreement as in effect as of the Issue Date or any amendment thereto (so long as any such agreement together with all amendments thereto, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date) or any transaction contemplated thereby as determined in good faith by senior management or the Board of Directors of the Issuer;
 
(x) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, the Acquisition Documents, any stockholders agreement (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it is a party as of the Issue Date and any transaction, agreement or arrangement described in the Offering Memorandum and, in each case, any amendment thereto or similar transactions, agreements or arrangements which it may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under, any future amendment to any such existing transaction, agreement or arrangement or under any similar transaction, agreement or arrangement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (ix) to the extent that the terms of any such existing transaction, agreement or arrangement together with all amendments thereto, taken as a whole, or new transaction, agreement or arrangement are not otherwise more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect than the original transaction, agreement or arrangement as in effect on the Issue Date;
 
(xi) the execution of the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including fees to the Sponsors that are described in the Offering Memorandum or contemplated by the Acquisition Documents;
 
(xii) (A) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, or transactions otherwise relating to the purchase or sale of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the reasonable determination of the Board of Directors or the senior management of the Issuer, or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party or (B) transactions with joint ventures or Unrestricted Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business;
 
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(xiv) the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer to any Person;
 
(xv) the issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock option and stock ownership plans or similar employee benefit plans approved by the Board of Directors of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer or of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer, as appropriate, in good faith;
 
(xvi) the entering into of any tax sharing agreement or arrangement and any payments permitted by Section 4.04(b)(xii);
 
(xvii) any contribution to the capital of the Issuer;
 
(xviii) transactions permitted by, and complying with, Section 5.01;
 
(xix) transactions between the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any Person, a director of which is also a director of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such direct or indirect parent, as the case may be, on any matter involving such other Person;
 
(xx) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
 
(xxi) any employment agreements entered into by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; and
 
(xxii) intercompany transactions undertaken in good faith (as certified by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Issuer in an Officers’ Certificate) for the purpose of improving the consolidated tax efficiency of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries and not for the purpose of circumventing any covenant set forth in this Indenture.
 
SECTION 4.07. Change of Control.
 
(a) Upon a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right to require the Issuer to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in accordance with the terms contemplated in this Section 4.08; provided, however, that notwithstanding the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Issuer shall not be obligated to purchase any Securities pursuant to this Section 4.08 in the event that it has exercised its right to redeem such Securities in accordance with Article 3 of this Indenture.  In the event that at the time of such Change of Control the terms of any Bank Indebtedness restrict or prohibit the repurchase of Securities pursuant to this Section 4.08, then prior to the mailing or sending electronically of the notice to the Holders provided for in Section 4.08(b) but in any event within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Issuer shall (i) repay in full all such Bank Indebtedness or, if doing so will allow the purchase of Securities, offer to repay in full all such Bank Indebtedness and repay all Bank Indebtedness of each lender who has accepted such offer, or (ii) obtain the requisite consent under the agreements governing such Bank Indebtedness to permit the repurchase of the Securities as provided for in Section 4.08(b).
 
(b) Within 30 days following any Change of Control, except to the extent that the Issuer has exercised its right to redeem the Securities in accordance with Article 3 of this Indenture, the Issuer shall mail or send electronically a notice (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder with a copy to the Trustee stating:
 
(i) that a Change of Control has occurred and that such Holder has the right to require the Issuer to repurchase such Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of repurchase
 


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(ii) (subject to the right of the Holders of record on a record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date);
 
(iii) the circumstances and relevant facts and financial information regarding such Change of Control;
 
(iv) the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is sent); and
 
(v) the instructions determined by the Issuer, consistent with this Section 4.08, that a Holder must follow in order to have its Securities purchased.
 
(c) Holders electing to have a Security purchased shall be required to surrender the Security, with an appropriate form duly completed, to the Issuer at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the purchase date.  The Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Trustee or the Issuer receives not later than one Business Day prior to the purchase date a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter sent to the address specified in Section 13.02 or set forth in the notice described in Section 4.08(b) setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Security which was delivered for purchase by the Holder and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Security purchased.  Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part shall be issued new Securities equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered.
 
(d) On the purchase date, all Securities purchased by the Issuer under this Section shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Issuer shall pay the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Holders entitled thereto.
 
(e) A Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, and conditioned upon such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making of the Change of Control Offer.
 
(f) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 4.08, the Issuer shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 4.08 applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Issuer and purchases all Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer.
 
(g) Securities repurchased by the Issuer pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will have the status of Securities issued but not outstanding or will be retired and canceled at the option of the Issuer.  Securities purchased by a third party pursuant to the preceding clause (f) will have the status of Securities issued and outstanding.
 
(h) At the time the Issuer delivers Securities to the Trustee which are to be accepted for purchase, the Issuer shall also deliver an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Securities are to be accepted by the Issuer pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this Section 4.08.  A Security shall be deemed to have been accepted for purchase at the time the Trustee, directly or through an agent, mails or delivers payment therefor to the surrendering Holder.
 
(i) Prior to any Change of Control Offer, the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent contained herein to the right of the Issuer to make such offer have been complied with.
 
(j) The Issuer shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of Securities pursuant to this Section 4.08.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with
 


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(k) provisions of this Section 4.08, the Issuer shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.08 by virtue thereof.
 
SECTION 4.08. Compliance Certificate.  The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer, beginning with the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2008, an Officers’ Certificate stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their duties as Officers of the Issuer they would normally have knowledge of any Default and whether or not the signers know of any Default that occurred during such period.  If they do, the certificate shall describe the Default, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.  The Issuer also shall comply with Section 314(a)(4) of the TIA.
 
SECTION 4.09. Further Instruments and Acts.  Upon request of the Trustee, the Issuer shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
 
SECTION 4.10. Future Note Guarantors. If any additional direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Issuer is formed or acquired after the Issue Date (with any designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary being deemed to constitute the acquisition of a Subsidiary) and if such Subsidiary is a Domestic Subsidiary, the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee thereof and use commercially reasonable efforts to, as soon as practicable, cause such Subsidiary to execute a supplement to each of this Indenture, the applicable Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Subsidiary, subject to the next sentence.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent any Term Loan Obligations have the benefit of a guarantee from any Subsidiary of the Issuer, the Issuer shall cause such Subsidiary to guarantee the Note Obligations substantially concurrently with guaranteeing such Term Loan Obligations.
 
SECTION 4.11. Liens.  The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, Incur or suffer to exist any Lien other than Permitted Liens on any asset or property of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary securing Indebtedness unless such Lien securing such Indebtedness of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary is junior to the Liens securing the Note Obligations upon the assets or property constituting the collateral for such Indebtedness, except as set forth in Section 11.04(d), on terms no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than the terms set forth in the Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement.  In the case of any Permitted Lien that secures First Priority Lien Obligations, the Securities shall be equally and ratably secured with (or on a senior basis to, in the case of obligations subordinated in right of payment to the Securities) the obligations so secured on terms no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than the terms set forth in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement; provided that First Priority Lien Obligations that are Obligations in respect of a Revolving Credit Agreement may be secured on a senior basis with respect to any Revolving Facility Senior Collateral to Liens securing the Note Obligations with respect to such collateral, on terms no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than the terms set forth in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
 
SECTION 4.12. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
 
(a) The Issuer shall maintain an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee or Registrar) where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served.  The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the corporate trust office of the Trustee as set forth in Section 13.02.
 
(b) The Issuer may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Issuer of its obligation to maintain an office or agency for such purposes.  The Issuer shall give prompt written n
 


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(c) tice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
 
(d) The Issuer hereby designates the corporate trust office of the Trustee or its Agent as such office or agency of the Issuer in accordance with Section 2.04.
 
SECTION 4.13. Amendment of Security Documents.  The Issuer shall not amend, modify or supplement, or permit or consent to any amendment, modification or supplement of, the Security Documents in any way that would be adverse to the Holders in any material respect, except as contemplated by the Intercreditor Agreements or as permitted under Article 9.
 
SECTION 4.14. After-Acquired Property.
 
(a) If any asset (other than Real Property covered by paragraph (b) below or improvements thereto or any interest therein) that has an individual fair market value in an amount greater than $5.0 million is acquired by the Issuer or any Note Guarantor after the Issue Date or owned by an entity at the time it becomes a Note Guarantor (in each case other than (x) assets constituting Collateral under a Security Document that become subject to the Lien of such Security Document upon acquisition thereof and (y) assets that are not required to become subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.15(c) or the Security Documents), the Issuer or the applicable Note Guarantor shall (i) deliver to the Notes Collateral Agent an Officers’ Certificate notifying the Notes Collateral Agent thereof and (ii) cause such asset to be subjected to a Lien securing the Note Obligations and take, and cause the Note Guarantors to take, such actions as shall be necessary to grant and perfect such Liens, all at the expense of the Issuer and the Note Guarantors.
 
(b) The Issuer or the applicable Note Guarantor shall promptly deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Notes Collateral Agent notifying the Notes Collateral Agent of the acquisition of and grant and cause each of the Note Guarantors to grant to the Notes Collateral Agent security interests and mortgages in such Real Property of the Issuer or any such Note Guarantor as are not covered by the Mortgages to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Collateral Agreement, to the extent acquired after the Issue Date and having an individual fair market value at the time of acquisition in excess of $5.0 million pursuant to documentation substantially in the form of the Mortgages delivered to the Notes Collateral Agent after the Issue Date pursuant to the provisions described in Section 5.01 of the Collateral Agreement (each, an “Additional Mortgage”) and constituting valid and enforceable Liens subject to no other Liens other than Liens not prohibited by Section 4.12 at the time of perfection thereof, record or file, and cause each such Note Guarantor to record or file, the Additional Mortgage or instruments related thereto in such manner and in such places as is required by law to establish, perfect, preserve and protect the Liens in favor of the Notes Collateral Agent required to be granted pursuant to the Additional Mortgages and pay, and cause each such Note Guarantor to pay, in full, all taxes, fees and other charges payable in connection therewith, in each case subject to Section 4.15(c).  With respect to each such Additional Mortgage, if the Issuer delivers to the Term Loan Facility Administrative Agent a title insurance policy, a survey, or other documents in connection with a mortgage on the applicable property, then it shall deliver to the Notes Collateral Agent contemporaneously with such Additional Mortgage a title insurance policy, a survey and such additional documents.
 
(c) The provisions of Section 4.15(a) and (b) need not be satisfied with respect to (i) any Real Property held by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries as a lessee under a lease, (ii) any vehicle, (iii) cash, deposit accounts and securities accounts, (iv) any Equity Interests acquired after the Issue Date (other than in the case of any person which is a Subsidiary of the Issuer, Equity Interests in such person issued or acquired after such person became a Subsidiary of the Issuer) in accordance with this Indenture if, and to the extent that, and for so long as (A) such Equity Interests constitute less than 100% of all applicable Equity Interests of such person and the person holding the remainder of such Equity Interests are not Affiliates, (B) doing so would violate applicable law or a contractual obligation binding on such Equity Interests and (C) with respect to such contractual obligations, such obligation existed at the time of the acquisition thereof and was not created or made binding on such Equity Interests in contemplation of or in connection with the acquisition of such Subsidiary, (v) any assets acquired after the Issue Date, to the extent that, and for so long as, taking such actions would violate an enforceable contractual obligation binding on such assets that existed at the time of the acquisition thereof and was not created or made binding on such assets in contemplation or in connection with the acquisition of such assets (except in the case of assets a
 


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(d) quired with Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 4.03(b)(iv) that is secured by a Permitted Lien) or (vi) those assets as to which the Issuer shall reasonably determine, as set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Notes Collateral Agent, that the costs of obtaining or perfecting such a security interest are excessive in relation to the value of the security to be afforded thereby; provided, that, upon the reasonable request of the Notes Collateral Agent, the Issuer shall, and shall cause any applicable Subsidiary to, use commercially reasonable efforts to have waived or eliminated any contractual obligation of the types described in clause (iv) and (v) above.  No control agreement shall be required with respect to deposit accounts and securities accounts.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to Section 11.04(d) hereof, to the extent any Term Loan Obligations are secured by any assets of any Note Guarantor or the Issuer, the Issuer shall cause such asset to be subject to the Lien securing the Securities.
 

SECTION 4.15. Termination and Suspension of Certain Covenants.
 
(a) If, on any date following the Issue Date, (i) the Securities have Investment Grade Ratings from both Rating Agencies, and the Issuer has delivered notice of such Investment Grade Ratings to the Trustee, and (ii) no Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, then beginning on that day and continuing at all times thereafter regardless of any subsequent changes in the ratings of the Securities, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall no longer be subject to Section 4.03 hereof, Section 4.04 hereof, Section 4.05 hereof, Section 4.06 hereof, Section 4.07 hereof, Section 4.11 hereof and clause (iv) of Section 5.01 hereof.
 
(b) During any period of time when (i) the Securities have Investment Grade Ratings from both Rating Agencies, and the Issuer has delivered notice of such Investment Grade Ratings to the Trustee, and (ii) no Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture (the occurrence of the events described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) being collectively referred to as a “Covenant Suspension Event”), the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries will not be subject to Section 4.08 hereof (the “Suspended Covenant”).
 
(c) In the event that the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to the Suspended Covenant under this Indenture for any period of time as a result of the foregoing, and on any subsequent date (the “Reversion Date”) one or both of the Rating Agencies withdraw their Investment Grade Rating or downgrade the rating assigned to the Securities below an Investment Grade Rating then the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall thereafter again be subject to the Suspended Covenant under this Indenture.  The period of time between the Covenant Suspension Event and the Reversion Date is referred to herein as the “Suspension Period.”
 
(d) In the event that the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries are not subject to the Suspended Covenant and the Issuer or any of its Affiliates enters into an agreement to effect a transaction that would result in a Change of Control and one or more of the Rating Agencies indicate that if consummated, such transaction (alone or together with any related recapitalization or refinancing transactions) would cause such Rating Agency to withdraw its Investment Grade Rating or downgrade the ratings assigned to the Securities below an Investment Grade Rating, then the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall thereafter again be subject the Suspended Covenant with respect to future events, including, without limitation, a proposed transaction described in this clause (d).
 
(e) The Issuer shall deliver written notice to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate promptly upon the occurrence of any Reversion Date.
 
ARTICLE 5
 
SUCCESSOR COMPANY
 
SECTION 5.01. When Issuer May Merge or Transfer Assets.
 
(a) The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, consolidate, amalgamate or merge with or into or wind up or convert into (whether or not the Issuer is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions, to any Person unless:
 


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(b) the Issuer is the surviving person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, winding up or conversion (if other than the Issuer) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States (the Issuer or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Company”); provided that in the case where the surviving Person is not a corporation, a co-obligor of the Securities is a corporation;
 
(i) the Successor Company (if other than the Issuer) expressly assumes all the obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture, the Securities and the Security Documents pursuant to supplemental indentures or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee;
 
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Successor Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the Successor Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction) no Default or shall have occurred and be continuing;
 
(iii) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction, as if such transaction had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period (and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Successor Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the Successor Company or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), either
 
(A) the Successor Company would be permitted to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.03(a); or
 
(B) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Successor Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be greater than such ratio for the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to such transaction;
 
(iv) each Note Guarantor, unless it is the other party to the transactions described above, shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Guarantee shall apply to such Person’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities; and
 
(v) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indentures (if any) comply with this Indenture.
 
The Successor Company (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, the Issuer under this Indenture, the Securities and the Security Documents, and in such event the Issuer will automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under this Indenture, the Securities and the Security Documents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing clauses (iii) and (iv) of this Section 5.01(a), (A) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Issuer or to another Restricted Subsidiary, and (B) the Issuer may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with an Affiliate incorporated solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Issuer in another state of the United States, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States or may convert into a limited liability company, so long as the amount of Indebtedness of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries is not increased thereby.  This Article 5 will not apply to a sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of assets between or among the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
 
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 12.02(b) (which govern the release of a Guarantee upon the sale or disposition of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer that is a Note Guarantor), no Note Guarantor shall, and the Issuer shall not permit any Note Guarantor to, consolidate, amalgamate or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not such Note Guarantor is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions to, any Person
 


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(d) (other than any such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition in connection with the Transactions) unless:
 
(i) either (A) such Note Guarantor is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation, amalgamation or merger (if other than such Note Guarantor) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States (such Note Guarantor or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Note Guarantor”) and the Successor Note Guarantor (if other than such Note Guarantor) expressly assumes all the obligations of such Note Guarantor under this Indenture, such Note Guarantor’s Guarantee and the Security Documents pursuant to a supplemental indenture or other documents or instruments in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent, or (B) such sale or disposition or consolidation, amalgamation or merger is not in violation of Section 4.06; and
 
(ii) the Successor Note Guarantor (if other than such Note Guarantor) shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture.
 
Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Successor Note Guarantor (if other than such Note Guarantor) will succeed to, and be substituted for, such Note Guarantor under this Indenture, such Note Guarantor’s Guarantee and the Security Documents, and such Note Guarantor will automatically be released and discharged from its obligations under this Indenture, such Note Guarantor’s Guarantee and the Security Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) a Note Guarantor may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with an Affiliate incorporated solely for the purpose of reincorporating such Note Guarantor in another state of the United States, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States so long as the amount of Indebtedness of the Note Guarantor is not increased thereby and (2) a Note Guarantor may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with another Note Guarantor or the Issuer.
 
In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Note Guarantor may consolidate, amalgamate or merge with or into or wind up into, or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets (collectively, a “Transfer”) to (x) the Issuer or any Note Guarantor or (y) any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer that is not a Note Guarantor; provided that at the time of each such Transfer pursuant to clause (y) the aggregate amount of all such Transfers since the Issue Date shall not exceed 5.0% of the consolidated assets of the Issuer and the Note Guarantors as shown on the most recent available balance sheet of the Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries after giving effect to each such Transfer and including all Transfers occurring from and after the Issue Date.
 
ARTICLE 6
 
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
 
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default.  An “Event of Default” with respect to the Securities occurs if:
 
(a) there is a default in any payment of interest (including any additional interest) on any Security when the same becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of 30 days,
 
(b) there is a default in the payment of principal or premium, if any, of any Security when due at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise,
 
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(d) the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries fails to comply with any of its agreements in the Securities or this Indenture (other than those referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) above) and such failure continues for 60 days after the notice specified below,
 
(e) the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary fails to pay any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness owing to the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary) within any applicable grace period after final maturity or the acceleration of any such Indebtedness by the holders thereof because of a default, in each case, if the total amount of such Indebtedness unpaid or accelerated exceeds $25.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent,
 
(f) the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary 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 any substantial part of its property; or
 
(iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or takes any comparable action under any foreign laws relating to insolvency,
 
(g) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
 
(i) is for relief against the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case;
 
(ii) appoints a Custodian of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary or for any substantial part of its property; or
 
(iii) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary;
 
or any similar relief is granted under any foreign laws and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days,
 
(h) the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary fails to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $25.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent (net of any amounts which are covered by enforceable insurance policies issued by solvent carriers), which judgments are not discharged, waived or stayed for a period of 60 days following the entry thereof,
 
(i) any Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary with respect to such Securities ceases to be in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms thereof) or any Note Guarantor denies or disaffirms its obligations under this Indenture or any Guarantee with respect to such Securities and such Default continues for 10 days,
 
(j) unless all of the Collateral has been released in accordance with the provisions of the Security Documents from the Liens granted thereunder, the Issuer shall assert or any Note Guarantor shall assert, in any pleading in any court of competent jurisdiction, that any such security interest is invalid or unenforceable and, in the case of any such Person that is a Subsidiary of the Issuer, the Issuer fails to cause such Subsidiary to rescind such assertions within 30 days after the Issuer has actual knowledge of such assertions, or
 


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(k) the Issuer or any Note Guarantor fails to comply for 60 days after notice with its other agreements contained in the Security Documents except for a failure that would not be material to the holders of such Securities and would not materially affect the value of the Collateral taken as a whole.
 
The foregoing shall constitute Events of Default whatever the reason for any such Event of Default and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or is effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body.
 
The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar Federal or state law for the relief of debtors.  The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
 
A Default under clause (d) or (k) above shall not constitute an Event of Default until the Trustee notifies the Issuer or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities notify the Issuer and the Trustee of the Default and the Issuer does not cure such Default within the time specified in clause (d) or (k) above after receipt of such notice.  Such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default.”  The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, within five (5) Business Days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of any event which is, or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or propose to take with respect thereto.
 
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration.  If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or (g) with respect to the Issuer) occurs with respect to the Securities and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of outstanding Securities, by notice to the Issuer may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Securities to be due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or (g) with respect to the Issuer occurs, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Securities shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities by notice to the Trustee may rescind any such acceleration and its consequences.
 
In the event of any Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(e), such Event of Default and all consequences thereof (excluding, however, any resulting payment default) shall be annulled, waived and rescinded, automatically and without any action by the Trustee or the Holders, if within 20 days after such Event of Default arose the Issuer delivers an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee stating that (x) the Indebtedness or guarantee that is the basis for such Event of Default has been discharged or (y) the holders thereof have rescinded or waived the acceleration, notice or action (as the case may be) giving rise to such Event of Default or (z) the default that is the basis for such Event of Default has been cured, it being understood that in no event shall an acceleration of the principal amount of the Securities as described above be annulled, waived or rescinded upon the happening of any such events.
 
SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies.  If an Event of Default with respect to the Securities occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy at law or in equity to collect the payment of principal of or interest on the Securities or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities, this Indenture or the Security Documents.
 
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.  A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default.  No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy.  To the extent required by law, all available remedies are cumulative.
 
SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults.  Provided the Securities are not then due and payable by reason of a declaration of acceleration, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities by written notice to the Trustee may waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences except (a) a Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on a Security, (b) a Default arising from the failure to redeem or purchase
 


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any Security when required pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or (c) a Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the consent of each Holder affected.  When a Default is waived, it is deemed cured and the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders will be restored to their former positions and rights under this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any consequent right.
 
SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority.  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee.  However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or, subject to Section 7.01, that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability.  Prior to taking any action under this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.
 
SECTION 6.06. Limitation on Suits.
 
(a) Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium (if any) or interest when due, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Securities unless:
 
(i) the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice stating that an Event of Default is continuing;
 
(ii) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Securities make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;
 
(iii) such Holder or Holders offer to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense;
 
(iv) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity; and
 
(v) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request during such 60-day period.
 
(b) A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder.
 
SECTION 6.07. Rights of the Holders to Receive Payment.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on the Securities held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in the Securities, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
 
SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing with respect to Securities, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Issuer or any other Obligor on the Securities for the whole amount then due and owing (together with interest on overdue principal and (to the extent lawful) on any unpaid interest at the rate provided for in such Securities) and the amounts provided for in Section 7.07.
 
SECTION 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.  The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation, expenses disbursements and advances of the Trustee (including counsel, accountants, experts or such other professionals as the Trustee deems necessary, advisable or appropriate)) and the Holders of Securities then outstanding allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer or any Note Guara
 


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tor, its creditors or its property, shall be entitled to participate as a member, voting or otherwise, of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matters and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make 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 its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.
 
SECTION 6.10. Priorities.  Subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreements and the Security Documents, if the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:
 
FIRST:  to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 7.07;
 
SECOND:  to the Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Securities for principal, premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and
 
THIRD:  to the Issuer.
 
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to the Holders pursuant to this Section.  At least 15 days before such record date, the Trustee shall send to each Holder and the Issuer a notice that states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid.
 
SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs.  In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant.  This Section does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.07 or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of the Securities.
 
SECTION 6.12. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.  Neither the Issuer nor any Note Guarantor (to the extent it may lawfully do so) shall at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Issuer and each Note Guarantor (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
 
ARTICLE 7
 
TRUSTEE
 
SECTION 7.01. 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 person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.
 
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
 
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(ii) Trustee (it being agreed that the permissive right of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty); and
 
(iii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture.  The Trustee shall be under no duty to make any investigation as to any statement contained in any such instance, but may accept the same as conclusive evidence of the truth and accuracy of such statement or the correctness of such opinions.  However, in the case of certificates or opinions required by any provision hereof to be provided to it, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
 
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own gross negligent action, its own gross 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 Trust 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 it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.05; and
 
(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.
 
(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.
 
(e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.
 
(f) Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
 
(g) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the TIA.
 
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee.
 
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely on 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.
 
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or 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 the Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
 
(c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care.
 
(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, however, that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or gross negligence.
 


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(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Securities shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
 
(f) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other paper or document unless requested in writing to do so by the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Issuer, personally or by agent or attorney, at the expense of the Issuer and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.
 
(g) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
 
(h) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
 
(i) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith at the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities as to the time, method and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the Trustee or the exercising of any power conferred by this Indenture.
 
(j) Any action taken, or omitted to be taken, by the Trustee in good faith pursuant to this Indenture upon the request or authority or consent of any person who, at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent, is the Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon future Holders of Securities and upon Securities executed and delivered in exchange therefor or in place thereof.
 
SECTION 7.03. 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 Issuer or their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.  Any Paying Agent or Registrar may do the same with like rights.  However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
 
SECTION 7.04. Trustee’s Disclaimer.  The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, any Guarantee or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer or any Note Guarantor in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Securities or in the Securities other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication.  The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default under Sections 6.01(c), (d), (e), (h), or (i) or of the identity of any Significant Subsidiary unless either (a) a Trust Officer shall have actual knowledge thereof or (b) the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof in accordance with Section 13.02 hereof from the Issuer, any Note Guarantor or any Holder.  In accepting the trust hereby created, the Trustee acts solely as Trustee for the Holders and not in its individual capacity and all persons, including without limitation the Holders of Securities and the Issuer having any claim against the Trustee arising from this Indenture shall look only to the funds and accounts held by the Trustee hereunder for payment except as otherwise provided herein.
 
SECTION 7.05. Notice of Defaults.  If a Default occurs and is continuing and if it is actually known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall send to each Holder notice of the Default within the earlier of 90 days after it occurs or 30 days after it is actually known to a Trust Officer or written notice of it is received by the Trustee.  Except in the case of a Default in the payment of principal of, premium (if any) or interest on any Security, the Trustee
 


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may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Trust Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders.
 
SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to the Holders.  As promptly as practicable after each April 15 beginning with the April 15  following the date of this Indenture, and in any event prior to April 15  in each year, the Trustee shall send to each Holder a brief report dated as of such April 15 that complies with Section 313(a) of the TIA if and to the extent required thereby.  The Trustee shall also comply with Section 313(b) of the TIA.
 
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to the Holders shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange (if any) on which the Securities are listed.  The Issuer agrees to notify promptly the Trustee whenever the Securities become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.
 
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity.  The Issuer shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services.  The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Issuer shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services.  Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts.  The Issuer and each Note Guarantor, jointly and severally shall indemnify the Trustee against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture or Guarantee against the Issuer or a Note Guarantor (including this Section 7.07) and defending itself against or investigating any claim (whether asserted by the Issuer, any Note Guarantor, any Holder or any other Person).  The obligation to pay such amounts shall survive the payment in full or defeasance of the Securities or the removal or resignation of the Trustee.  The Trustee shall notify the Issuer of any claim for which it may seek indemnity promptly upon obtaining actual knowledge thereof; provided, however, that any failure so to notify the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer or any Note Guarantor of its indemnity obligations hereunder.  The Issuer shall defend the claim and the indemnified party shall provide reasonable cooperation at the Issuer’s expense in the defense.  Such indemnified parties may have separate counsel and the Issuer and the Note Guarantors, as applicable shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel; provided, however, that the Issuer shall not be required to pay such fees and expenses if it assumes such indemnified parties’ defense and, in such indemnified parties’ reasonable judgment, there is no conflict of interest between the Issuer and the Note Guarantors, as applicable, and such parties in connection with such defense.  The Issuer need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by an indemnified party through such party’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
 
To secure the Issuer’s and the Note Guarantors’ payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities pursuant to Article 8 hereof or otherwise.
 
The Issuer’s and the Note Guarantors’ payment obligations pursuant to this Section shall survive the satisfaction or discharge of this Indenture, any rejection or termination of this Indenture under any Bankruptcy Law or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.  Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or (g) with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Law.
 
No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not assured to its satisfaction.
 


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Replacement of Trustee.
 
(a) The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee.  The Issuer shall remove the Trustee if:
 
(i) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
 
(ii) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
 
(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or
 
(iv) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
 
(b) If the Trustee resigns, is removed by the Issuer or by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee, or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.
 
(c) A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Issuer.  Thereupon 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 under this Indenture.  The successor Trustee shall send a notice of its succession to the Holders.  The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.07.
 
(d) If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee or the Holders of 10% in principal amount of the Securities may petition at the expense of the Issuer any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
 
(e) If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, unless the Trustee’s duty to resign is stayed as provided in Section 310(b) of the TIA, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security for at least six months may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
 
(f) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Issuer’s obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.
 
SECTION 7.08. Successor Trustee by Merger.  If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.
 
In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
 
SECTION 7.09. Eligibility; Disqualification.  The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a) of the TIA.  The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100 million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.  The Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA, subject to its right to apply for a stay of its duty to resign under the penultimate paragraph of Section 310(b) of the TIA; provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of Section 310(b)(1) of the TIA any series of securities issued under this Indenture and any indenture or indentures under which other securities or ce
 


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tificates of interest or participation in other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in Section 310(b)(1) of the TIA are met.
 
SECTION 7.10. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer.  The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the TIA, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the TIA.  A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section 311(a) of the TIA to the extent indicated.
 
ARTICLE 8
 
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
 
SECTION 8.01. Discharge of Liability on Securities; Defeasance.  This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect (except as to surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, as expressly provided for in this Indenture) as to all outstanding Securities when:
 
(a) either (i) all the Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities pursuant to Section 2.08 which have been replaced or paid and Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or (ii) all of the Securities (a) have become due and payable, (b) will become due and payable at their stated maturity within the remaining term of the then current Interest Period or (c) if redeemable at the option of the Issuer, are to be called for redemption within the remaining term of the then current Interest Period 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 Issuer, and the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee cash in U.S. Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof in an amount sufficient in the written opinion of a firm of independent public accountants delivered to the Trustee (which delivery shall only be required if U.S. Government Obligations have been so deposited) to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities to the date of deposit together with irrevocable instructions from the Issuer directing the Trustee to apply such funds to the payment thereof at maturity or redemption, as the case may be;
 
(b) the Issuer and/or the Note Guarantors have paid all other sums payable under this Indenture; and
 
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
 
Subject to Sections 8.01(c) and 8.02, the Issuer at any time may terminate (i) all of its obligations under the Securities and this Indenture (“legal defeasance option”) or (ii) its obligations under Sections 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.11, 4.12 and 4.15 for the benefit of the Securities and the operation of Section 5.01 and Sections 6.01(c), 6.01(d), 6.01(e), 6.01(f) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(g) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(h), 6.01(i), 6.01(j) and 6.01(k) (“covenant defeasance option”) for the benefit of the Securities.  The Issuer may exercise its legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option.  In the event that the Issuer terminates all of its obligations under the Securities and this Indenture (with respect to such Securities) by exercising its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option, the obligations of each Note Guarantor under its Guarantee of such Securities and all obligations under the Security Documents shall be terminated simultaneously with the termination of such obligations.
 
If the Issuer exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the Securities so defeased may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.  If the Issuer exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the Securities so defeased may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(c), 6.01(d), 6.01(e), 6.01(f) (with respect to Significant Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(g) (with respect to Significant
 


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Subsidiaries of the Company only), 6.01(h), 6.01(i), 6.01(j) or because of the failure of the Issuer to comply with Section 5.01.
 
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon request of the Issuer, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of those obligations that the Issuer terminates.
 
Notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, the Issuer’s obligations in Sections 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 7.07, 7.08 and in this Article 8 shall survive until the Securities have been paid in full.  Thereafter, the Issuer’s obligations in Sections 7.07, 8.05 and 8.06 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.
 
SECTION 8.02. Conditions to Defeasance
 
(a) The Issuer may exercise its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option, in each case, with respect to the Securities only if:
 
(i) the Issuer irrevocably deposits in trust with the Trustee cash in U.S. Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof in an amount sufficient or U.S. Government Obligations, the principal of and the interest on which will be sufficient, or a combination thereof sufficient, to pay the principal of and premium (if any) and interest on the Securities when due at maturity or redemption (such interest to be calculated at a rate equal to the rate in effect pursuant to Paragraph 1 of the Security on the date of the effectiveness of the defeasance), as the case may be, including interest thereon to maturity or such redemption date;
 
(ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a certificate from a nationally recognized firm of independent accountants expressing their opinion that the payments of principal and interest when due and without reinvestment on the deposited U.S. Government Obligations plus any deposited money without investment will provide cash at such times and in such amounts as will be sufficient to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest when due on all the Securities to maturity or redemption (such interest to be calculated at a rate equal to the rate in effect pursuant to Paragraph 1 of the Security on the date of the effectiveness of the defeasance), as the case may be;
 
(iii) 123 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 123-day period no Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or (g) with respect to the Issuer occurs which is continuing at the end of the period;
 
(iv) the deposit does not constitute a default under any other agreement binding on the Issuer;
 
(v) in the case of the legal defeasance option, the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (1) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (2) since the date 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 will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and 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 defeasance had not occurred;
 
(vi) such exercise does not impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Holder’s Securities on or after the due dates therefore or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Securities;
 
(vii) in the case of the covenant defeasance option, the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and 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 defeasance had not occurred; and
 


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(viii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge of the Securities to be so defeased and discharged as contemplated by this Article 8 have been complied with.
 
(b) Before or after a deposit, the Issuer may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of such Securities at a future date in accordance with Article 3.
 
SECTION 8.03. Application of Trust Money.  The Trustee shall hold in trust money or U.S. Government Obligations (including proceeds thereof) deposited with it pursuant to this Article 8.  It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations through each Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of and interest on the Securities so discharged or defeased.
 
SECTION 8.04. Repayment to Company.  Each of the Trustee and each Paying Agent shall promptly turn over to the Issuer upon request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in this Article which, in the written opinion of nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants delivered to the Trustee (which delivery shall only be required if U.S. Government Obligations have been so deposited), are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent discharge or defeasance in accordance with this Article 8.
 
Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and each Paying Agent shall pay to the Issuer upon written request any money held by them for the payment of principal or interest that remains unclaimed for two years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to the money must look to the Issuer for payment as general creditors, and the Trustee and each Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such monies.
 
SECTION 8.05. Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations.  The Issuer shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the principal and interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.
 
SECTION 8.06. Reinstatement.  If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article 8 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 Issuer’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities so discharged or defeased shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article 8 until such time as the Trustee or any Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article 8; provided, however, that, if the Issuer has made any payment of principal of or interest on, any such Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Issuer shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent.
 
ARTICLE 9
 
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
 
SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of the Holders.  The Issuer and the Trustee may amend this Indenture, the Securities, any Security Document or the Intercreditor Agreements with respect to the Securities without notice to or consent of any Holder:
 
(i) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;
 
(ii) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture and the Securities;
 
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(iv) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code;
 
(v) to add additional Guarantees with respect to the Securities or to secure the Securities;
 
(vi) to add additional assets as Collateral;
 
(vii) to release Collateral from the Lien pursuant to this Indenture, the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements when permitted or required by this Indenture or the Security Documents;
 
(viii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer;
 
(ix) to modify the Security Documents and/or the Intercreditor Agreements (and/or enter into new Security Documents and/or intercreditor agreements) to secure Other First Priority Lien Obligations (other than the Note Obligations) or other Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements, Section 4.12 or Article 11 of this Indenture;
 
(x) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with qualifying or maintaining the qualification of, this Indenture under the TIA;
 
(xi) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;
 
(xii) to effect any provision of this Indenture or to make certain changes to this Indenture to provide for the issuance of Additional Securities; or
 
(xiii) to provide for the issuance of the Exchange Securities or Additional Securities, which shall have terms substantially identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities, and which shall be treated, together with any outstanding Initial Securities, as a single issue of securities.
 
After an amendment under this Section 9.01 becomes effective, the Issuer shall mail to the Holders a notice briefly describing such amendment.  The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.01.
 
SECTION 9.02. With Consent of the Holders.  The Issuer and the Trustee may amend this Indenture, the Securities and the Security Documents with respect to the Securities with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding voting as a single class (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for the Securities).  However, without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Security affected, an amendment may not:
 
(i) reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment,
 
(ii) reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest on any Security,
 
(iii) reduce the principal of or change the Stated Maturity of any Security,
 
(iv) reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Security or change the time at which any Security may be redeemed in accordance with Article 3,
 
(v) make any Security payable in money other than that stated in such Security,
 
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(vii) impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Holder’s Securities on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Securities,
 
(viii) make any change in Section 6.04 or 6.07 or the second sentence of this Section 9.02,
 
(ix) modify any Guarantees in any manner adverse to the Holders, or
 
(x) make any change in the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreements or this Indenture dealing with the application of proceeds of Collateral that would adversely affect the Holders.
 
Subject to Section 11.04, without the consent of the holders of at least two-thirds in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, no amendment or waiver may release all or substantially all of the Collateral from the Lien of this Indenture and the Security Documents with respect to the Securities.
 
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.
 
After an amendment under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Issuer shall promptly mail to the Holders a notice briefly describing such amendment.  The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section 9.02.
 
SECTION 9.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.  From the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA, every amendment, waiver or supplement to this Indenture or the Securities shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.
 
SECTION 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers.
 
(a) A consent to an amendment or a waiver by a Holder of a Security shall bind the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent or waiver is not made on the Security.  However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent or waiver as to such Holder’s Security or portion of the Security if the Trustee receives written notice of revocation delivered in accordance with Section 13.02 before the date on which the Trustee receives an Officers’ Certificate from the Issuer certifying that the requisite principal amount of Securities have consented.  After an amendment or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder.  An amendment or waiver becomes effective upon the (i) receipt by the Issuer or the Trustee of consents by the Holders of the requisite principal amount of securities, (ii) satisfaction of conditions to effectiveness as set forth in this Indenture and any indenture supplemental hereto containing such amendment or waiver and (iii) execution of such amendment or waiver (or supplemental indenture) by the Issuer and the Trustee.
 
(b) The Issuer may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture.  If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date.  No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.
 
SECTION 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Securities.  If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security, the Issuer may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee.  The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Security regarding the changed terms and return it to the Holder.  Alternatively, if the Issuer or the Trustee so determines, the Issuer in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms.  Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Security shall not affect the validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
 


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Trustee to Sign Amendments.  The Trustee shall sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee.  If it does, the Trustee may but need not sign it.  In signing such amendment, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it and shall be provided with, and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment, supplement or waiver is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such amendment, supplement or waiver is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer and the Note Guarantors, enforceable against them in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions, and complies with the provisions hereof (including Section 9.03).
 
SECTION 9.06. Payment for Consent.  Neither the Issuer nor any Affiliate of the Issuer shall, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Securities unless such consideration is offered to be paid to all Holders that so consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.
 
SECTION 9.07. Additional Voting Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount.  Except as otherwise set forth herein, all Securities issued under this Indenture shall vote and consent separately on all matters as to which any of such Securities may vote.  Determinations as to whether Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent shall be made in accordance with this Article 9 and Section 2.14.
 
ARTICLE 10
 
RANKING OF NOTE LIENS
 
SECTION 10.01. Relative Rights.  The Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement defines the relative rights, as lienholders, between the holders of the Revolving Facility Obligations on the one hand and the holders of the Senior Fixed Obligations on the other hand.  The Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement defines the relative rights, as lienholders, between the holders of the First Priority Lien Obligations on the one hand and the holders of second-priority Obligations, including the Second Priority Notes, on the other hand.  The Senior Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement allocates the benefits of the Shared Collateral among the holders of the Senior Fixed Obligations.  Nothing in this Indenture or the Intercreditor Agreements will:
 
(a) impair, as between the Issuer and Holders, the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of, premium and interest on the Securities in accordance with their terms or to perform any other obligation of the Issuer or any other Obligor under this Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantees and the Security Documents;
 
(b) restrict the right of any Holder to sue for payments that are then due and owing, in a manner not inconsistent with the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreements;
 
(c) prevent the Trustee, the Notes Collateral Agent or any Holder from exercising against the Issuer or any other Obligor any of its other available remedies upon a Default or Event of Default (other than its rights as a secured party, which are subject to the Intercreditor Agreements); or
 
(d) restrict the right of the Trustee, the Notes Collateral Agent or any Holder:
 
(i) to file and prosecute a petition seeking an order for relief in an involuntary Bankruptcy Case as to any Obligor or otherwise to commence, or seek relief commencing, any insolvency or liquidation Proceeding involuntarily against any Obligor;
 
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(iii) to make, support or oppose, in any insolvency or liquidation proceeding, any request for an order extending or terminating any period during which the debtor (or any other Person) has the exclusive right to propose a plan of reorganization or other dispositive restructuring or liquidation plan therein;
 
(iv) to seek the creation of, or appointment to, any official committee representing creditors (or certain of the creditors) in any insolvency or liquidation proceedings and, if appointed, to serve and act as a member of such committee without being in any respect restricted or bound by, or liable for, any of the obligations under this Article 10;
 
(v) to seek or object to the appointment of any professional person to serve in any capacity in any insolvency or liquidation proceeding or to support or object to any request for compensation made by any professional person or others therein;
 
(vi) to make, support or oppose any request for order appointing a trustee or examiner in any insolvency or liquidation proceedings; or
 
(vii) otherwise to make, support or oppose any request for relief in any insolvency or liquidation proceeding that it is permitted by law to make, support or oppose if it were a holder of unsecured claims; or
 
(viii)           as to any matter relating to any plan of reorganization or other restructuring or liquidation plan or as to any matter relating to the administration of the estate or the disposition of the case or proceeding (in each case except as set forth in the Intercreditor Agreements).
 
ARTICLE 11
 
COLLATERAL
 
SECTION 11.01. Security Documents.  The payment of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Securities when due, whether on an interest payment date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise and whether by the Issuer pursuant to the Securities or by any Note Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantees, the payment of all other Obligations and the performance of all other obligations of the Issuer and the Note Guarantors under this Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantees and the Security Documents are secured as provided in the Security Documents which the Issuer and the Note Guarantors have entered into simultaneously with the execution of this Indenture and will be secured by Security Documents hereafter delivered as required or permitted by this Indenture. The Issuer shall, and shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, and each Restricted Subsidiary shall, do all filings (including filings of continuation statements and amendments to UCC financing statements that may be necessary to continue the effectiveness of such UCC financing statements) and all other actions as are necessary or required by the Security Documents to maintain (at the sole cost and expense of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries) the security interest created by the Security Documents in the Collateral (other than with respect to any Collateral the security interest in which is not required to be perfected under the Security Documents) as a perfected first priority security interest subject only to Permitted Liens.
 
SECTION 11.02. Notes Collateral Agent.
 
(a) The Notes Collateral Agent is authorized and empowered to appoint one or more co-Notes Collateral Agents as it deems necessary or appropriate.
 
(b) Subject to Section 7.01, neither the Trustee nor the Notes Collateral Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents will be responsible or liable for the existence, genuineness, value or protection of any Collateral, for the legality, enforceability, effectiveness or sufficiency of the Security Documents, for the creation, perfection, priority, sufficiency or protection of any Lien, or for any defect or deficiency as to any such matters, or for any failure to demand, collect, foreclose or realize upon or otherwise enforce any of the Liens or Security Documents or any delay in doing so.
 


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(c) Subject to the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements, the Notes Collateral Agent will be subject to such directions as may be given it by the Trustee from time to time (as required or permitted by this Indenture). Subject to the terms of the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements, except as directed by the Trustee as required or permitted by this Indenture and any other representatives, the Notes Collateral Agent will not be obligated:
 
(i) to act upon directions purported to be delivered to it by any other Person;
 
(ii) to foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any Lien; or
 
(iii) to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any or all of the Liens, Security Documents or Collateral.
 
(d) The Notes Collateral Agent will be accountable only for amounts that it actually receives as a result of the enforcement of the Liens or Security Documents.
 
(e) In acting as Notes Collateral Agent or co-Notes Collateral Agent, the Notes Collateral Agent and each co-Notes Collateral Agent may rely upon and enforce each and all of the rights, powers, immunities, indemnities and benefits of the Trustee under Article 7 hereof.
 
(f) [Intentionally omitted].
 
(g) If the Issuer (i) Incurs Revolving Facility Obligations at any time when no intercreditor agreement is in effect or at any time when Indebtedness constituting Revolving Facility Obligations entitled to the benefit of an existing Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement is concurrently retired, and (ii) delivers to the Notes Collateral Agent an Officers’ Certificate so stating and requesting the Notes Collateral Agent to enter into an intercreditor agreement (on substantially the same terms as the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement in effect on the Issue Date) in favor of a designated agent or representative for the holders of the Revolving Facility Obligations so Incurred, the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent shall (and is hereby authorized and directed to) enter into such intercreditor agreement, bind the Holders on the terms set forth therein and perform and observe its obligations thereunder.
 
SECTION 11.03. Authorization of Actions to Be Taken.
 
(a) Each Holder of Securities, by its acceptance thereof, consents and agrees to the terms of each Security Document and the Intercreditor Agreements, as originally in effect and as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time in accordance with its terms or the terms of this Indenture, authorizes and directs the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent to enter into the Security Documents to which it is a party, authorizes and empowers the Trustee to direct the Notes Collateral Agent to enter into, and the Notes Collateral Agent to execute and deliver, the Intercreditor Agreements, and authorizes and empowers the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent to bind the Holders of Securities and other holders of Obligations as set forth in the Security Documents to which it is a party and the Intercreditor Agreements and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights and powers thereunder.
 
(b) The Notes Collateral Agent and the Trustee are authorized and empowered to receive for the benefit of the Holders of Securities any funds collected or distributed under the Security Documents to which the Notes Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party and to make further distributions of such funds to the Holders of Securities according to the provisions of this Indenture.
 
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02, and the Intercreditor Agreements, the Trustee may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, direct, on behalf of the Holders, the Notes Collateral Agent to take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to:
 
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(ii) enforce any of the terms of the Security Documents to which the Notes Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party; or
 
(iii) collect and receive payment of any and all Obligations.
 
Subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Trustee is authorized and empowered to institute and maintain, or direct the Notes Collateral Agent to institute and maintain, such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to protect or enforce the Liens or the Security Documents to which the Notes Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party or to prevent any impairment of Collateral by any acts that may be unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents to which the Notes Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party or this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent may deem expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders of Securities in the Collateral, including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests of Holders, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent.
 
SECTION 11.04. Release of Liens.
 
(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this Section 11.04, Collateral may be released from the Lien and security interest created by the Security Documents at any time or from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements or as provided hereby. Upon the request of the Issuer pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel certifying that all conditions precedent hereunder have been met, the Issuer and the Note Guarantors will be entitled to the release of assets included in the Collateral from the Liens securing the Securities, and the Notes Collateral Agent and the Trustee (if the Trustee is not then the Notes Collateral Agent) shall release the same from such Liens at the Issuer’s sole cost and expense, under any one or more of the following circumstances:
 
(1) to enable the Issuer or any Note Guarantor to consummate the disposition of such property or assets to the extent not prohibited under Section 4.06;
 
(2) in the case of a Note Guarantor that is released from its Guarantee with respect to the Securities, the release of the property and assets of such Note Guarantor;
 
(3) as described under Article 9; or
 
(4) to the extent required by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements.
 
Upon the receipt of an Officers’ Certificate from the Issuer, as described above, and any necessary or proper instruments of termination, satisfaction or release prepared by the Issuer, the Notes Collateral Agent shall execute, deliver or acknowledge such instruments or releases to evidence the release of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture or the Security Documents or the Intercreditor Agreements.
 
(b) Except as otherwise provided in the Intercreditor Agreements, no Collateral may be released from the Lien and security interest created by the Security Documents unless the Officers’ Certificate required by this Section 11.04 has been delivered to the Notes Collateral Agent and the Trustee not less than five days prior to the date of such release.
 
(c) At any time when a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the maturity of the Securities has been accelerated (whether by declaration or otherwise) and the Trustee has delivered a notice of acceleration to the Notes Collateral Agent, no release of Collateral pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture or the Security Documents will be effective as against the Holders, except as otherwise provided in the Intercreditor Agreements.
 


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(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in Section 4.12, 4.15, or Article 11 hereof, or anything else to the contrary provided herein or in any of the Security Documents or Intercreditor Agreements, the Collateral shall not include any securities of any of the Issuer’s Subsidiaries to the extent that the pledge of such securities results in the Issuer’s being required to file separate financial statements of such Subsidiary with the SEC, but only to the extent necessary to not be subject to such requirement and only for so long as such requirement is in existence.  In the event that Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (or any successor regulation) is amended, modified or interpreted by the SEC to require (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is adopted, which would require) the filing with the SEC (or any other governmental agency) of separate financial statements of any Subsidiary of the Issuer due to the fact that such Subsidiary’s securities secure the Securities, then the securities of such Subsidiary will not be subject to the Liens securing the Securities and the Obligations and will automatically be deemed not to be part of the Collateral but only to the extent necessary not to be subject to such requirement and only for so long as required to not be subject to the requirement. In the event that Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (or any successor regulation) is amended, modified or interpreted by the SEC to permit (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is adopted, which would permit) such Subsidiary’s securities to secure the Securities in excess of the amount then pledged without the filing with the SEC of separate financial statements of such Subsidiary, then the securities of such Subsidiary will automatically be deemed to be a part of the Collateral but only to the extent permitted to not be subject to any such financial statement requirement.
 
SECTION 11.05. Filing, Recording and Opinions.
 
(a) The Issuer will comply with the provisions of TIA §314(b) and 314(d), in each case following qualification of this Indenture pursuant to the TIA and except to the extent not required as set forth in any SEC regulation or interpretation (including any no-action letter issued by the Staff of the SEC, whether issued to the Issuer or any other Person). Following such qualification, to the extent the Issuer is required to furnish to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel pursuant to TIA §314(b)(2), the Issuer will furnish such opinion not more than 60 but not less than 30 days prior to each September 30.
 
Any release of Collateral permitted by Section 11.04 hereof will be deemed not to impair the Liens under this Indenture and the Security Documents in contravention thereof and any person that is required to deliver an Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel pursuant to Section 314(d) of the TIA, shall be entitled to rely upon the foregoing as a basis for delivery of such certificate or opinion. The Trustee may, to the extent permitted by Section 7.01 and 7.02 hereof, accept as conclusive evidence of compliance with the foregoing provisions the appropriate statements contained in such documents and Opinion of Counsel.
 
(b) If any Collateral is released in accordance with this Indenture or any Security Document and if the Issuer has delivered the certificates and documents required by the Security Documents and Section 11.04, the Trustee will determine whether it has received all documentation required by TIA § 314(d) in connection with such release and, based on such determination and the Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 11.04, will, upon request, deliver a certificate to the Notes Collateral Agent setting forth such determination.
 
SECTION 11.06. [Intentionally omitted].
 
SECTION 11.07. Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee.  In case the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee, lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article 11 upon the Issuer or a Note Guarantor with respect to the release, sale or other disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Issuer or a Note Guarantor or of any officer or officers thereof required by the provisions of this Article 11; and if the Trustee shall be in the possession of the Collateral under any provision of this Indenture, then such powers may be exercised by the Trustee.
 
SECTION 11.08. Release Upon Termination of the Issuer’s Obligations.  In the event (i) that the Issuer delivers to the Trustee, in form and substance acceptable to it, an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel certifying that all the obligations under this Indenture, the Securities and the Security Documents have been satisfied and discharged by the payment in full of the Issuer’s obligations under the Securities, this Indenture and the Security
 


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Documents, and all such obligations have been so satisfied, or (ii) a discharge, legal defeasance or covenant defeasance of this Indenture occurs under Article 8, the Trustee shall deliver to the Issuer and the Notes Collateral Agent a notice stating that the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders, disclaims and gives up any and all rights it has in or to the Collateral, and any rights it has under the Security Documents, and upon receipt by the Notes Collateral Agent of such notice, the Notes Collateral Agent shall be deemed not to hold a Lien in the Collateral on behalf of the Trustee and shall, at the expense of the Issuer, do or cause to be done all acts reasonably necessary to release such Lien as soon as is reasonably practicable.
 
SECTION 11.09. Designations.  For purposes of the provisions hereof and the Intercreditor Agreements requiring the Issuer to designate Indebtedness for the purposes of the terms First Priority Lien Obligations and Future Second Lien Indebtedness (as defined in the Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement) or any other such designations hereunder or under the Intercreditor Agreements, any such designation shall be sufficient if the relevant designation provides in writing that such First Priority Lien Obligations or Future Second Lien Indebtedness are permitted under this Indenture and is signed on behalf of the Issuer by an Officer and delivered to the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent.
 
SECTION 11.10. Taking and Destruction.  Upon any Taking or Destruction of any Collateral, all Net Insurance Proceeds received by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed Net Proceeds and shall be applied in accordance with Section 4.06.
 
ARTICLE 12
 
GUARANTEES
 
SECTION 12.01. Guarantees.
 
(a) Each Note Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees on a senior basis, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, to each Holder, the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent and their successors and assigns (i) the full and punctual payment when due, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, of all obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture (including obligations to the Notes Collateral Agent) and the Securities, whether for payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on in respect of the Securities and all other monetary obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture and the Securities and (ii) the full and punctual performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Issuer whether for fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise under this Indenture and the Securities (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Guaranteed Obligations”).  Each Note Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from each such Note Guarantor, and that each such Note Guarantor shall remain bound under this Article 12 notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation.
 
(b) Each Note Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the Issuer of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment.  Each Note Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Securities or the Guaranteed Obligations.  The obligations of each Note Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Issuer or any other Person under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement or otherwise; (ii) any extension or renewal of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (iii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (iv) the release of any security held by the Notes Collateral Agent on behalf of each Holder and the Trustee for the Guaranteed Obligations or any Note Guarantor; (v) the failure of any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (vi) any change in the ownership of such Note Guarantor, except as provided in Section 12.02(b).
 
(c) Each Note Guarantor hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to have its obligations hereunder divided among the Note Guarantors, such that such Note Guarantor’s obligations would be less than the full amount claimed.  Each Note Guarantor hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to have the
 


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(d) assets of the Issuer first be used and depleted as payment of the Issuer’s or such Note Guarantor’s obligations hereunder prior to any amounts being claimed from or paid by such Note Guarantor hereunder.  Each Note Guarantor hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to require that the Issuer be sued prior to an action being initiated against such Note Guarantor.
 
(e) Each Note Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein constitutes a guarantee of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent to any security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations.
 
(f) The Guarantee of each Note Guarantor is, to the extent and in the manner set forth in this Article 12, equal in right of payment to all existing and future Pari Passu Indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all existing and future Subordinated Indebtedness of the Issuer and is made subject to such provisions of this Indenture.
 
(g) Except as expressly set forth in Sections 8.01(b), 12.02 and 12.06, the obligations of each Note Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Note Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the obligations, or by any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Note Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Note Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.
 
(h) Each Note Guarantor agrees that its Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect until payment in full of all the Guaranteed Obligations.  Each Note Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Issuer or otherwise.
 
(i) In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent has at law or in equity against any Note Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Issuer to pay the principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, or to perform or comply with any other Guaranteed Obligation, each Note Guarantor hereby promises to and shall, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Trustee an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid principal amount of such Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by applicable law) and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the Issuer to the Trustee.
 
(j) Each Note Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Trustee in respect of any Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all Guaranteed Obligations. Each Note Guarantor further agrees that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Trustee, on the other hand, (i) the maturity of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 for the purposes of any Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (ii) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Guaranteed Obligations as provided in Article 6, such Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by such Note Guarantor for the purposes of this Section 12.01.
 


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(k) Each Note Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 12.01.
 
(l) Upon request of the Trustee, each Note Guarantor shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
 
SECTION 12.02. Limitation on Liability.
 
(a) Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereunder by any Note Guarantor shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed without rendering this Indenture, as it relates to such Note Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.
 
(b) A Guarantee as to any Note Guarantor shall terminate and be of no further force or effect and such Note Guarantor shall be deemed to be released from all obligations under this Article 12 upon:
 
(i) the sale, disposition or other transfer (including through merger or consolidation) of the Capital Stock (including any sale, disposition or other transfer following which the applicable Note Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary) of the applicable Note Guarantor if such sale, disposition or other transfer is made in compliance with this Indenture,
 
(ii) the Issuer designating such Note Guarantor to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions set forth under Section 4.04 and the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary,”
 
(iii) in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary that after the Issue Date is required to guarantee the Securities pursuant to the last sentence of Section 4.11, the release or discharge of the guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness which resulted in the obligation to guarantee the Securities, and
 
(iv) the Issuer’s exercise of its defeasance option under Article 8, or if the Issuer’s obligations under this Indenture are discharged in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
 
In the case of clause (b)(i) above, such Note Guarantor shall be released from its guarantees, if any, of, and all pledges and security, if any, granted in connection with, the Credit Agreements and any other Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer.
 
A Guarantee also shall be automatically released upon the applicable Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary as a result of any foreclosure of any pledge or security interest securing First Priority Lien Obligations, subject to, in each case, the application of the proceeds of such foreclosure in the manner set forth in the Security Documents or the Intercreditor Agreements or if such Subsidiary is released from its guarantees of, and all pledges and security interests granted in connection with, the Credit Agreements and any other Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer which results in the obligation to guarantee the Securities.
 
SECTION 12.03. Successors and Assigns.  This Article 12 shall be binding upon each Note Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Notes Collateral Agent, the Trustee and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Securities shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.
 
SECTION 12.04. No Waiver.  Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of either the Notes Collateral Agent or the Holders or Trustee in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article 12 shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right,
 


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power or privilege.  The rights, remedies and benefits of the Notes Collateral Agent, the Holders and the Trustee herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article 12 at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.
 
SECTION 12.05. Modification.  No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article 12, nor the consent to any departure by any Note Guarantor therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given.  No notice to or demand on any Note Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Note Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.
 
SECTION 12.06. Execution of Supplemental Indenture for Future Note Guarantors.  Each Subsidiary and other Person which is required to become a Note Guarantor pursuant to Section 4.11 shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in the form of Exhibit D pursuant to which such Subsidiary or other Person shall become a Note Guarantor under this Article 12 and shall guarantee the Guaranteed Obligations.  Concurrently with the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Subsidiary or other Person and that, subject to the application of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or transfer and other similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally and to the principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity, the Guarantee of such Note Guarantor is a valid and binding obligation of such Note Guarantor, enforceable against such Note Guarantor in accordance with its terms and/or to such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request.
 
SECTION 12.07. Non-Impairment.  The failure to endorse a Guarantee on any Security shall not affect or impair the validity thereof.
 
ARTICLE 13
 
MISCELLANEOUS
 
SECTION 13.01. Trust Indenture Act Controls.  If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by, or with another provision (an “incorporated provision”) included in this Indenture by operation of, Sections 310 to 318 of the TIA, inclusive, such imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control.
 
SECTION 13.02. Notices.
 
(a) Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and delivered in person, via facsimile or mailed by first-class mail addressed as follows:
 
if to the Issuer or a Note Guarantor:
 

 
Berry Plastics Corporation
101 Oakley Street
Evansville, Indiana  47710
Attention of:  General Counsel
Facsimile:  (812) 424-0128
 


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if to the Trustee:
 

 
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Corporate Trust Services
213 Court Street, Suite 703
Middletown, CT  06457
Facsimile:  860-704-6219
if to the Notes Collateral Agent:
 

 
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Corporate Trust Services
213 Court Street, Suite 703
Middletown, CT  06457
Facsimile:  860-704-6219
 
The Issuer, the Trustee or the Notes Collateral Agent by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
 
(b) Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed, first class mail, or sent electronically to the Holder at the Holder’s address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time prescribed.
 
(c) Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.  If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it, except that notices to the Trustee are effective only if received.
 
SECTION 13.03. Communication by the Holders with Other Holders.  The Holders may communicate pursuant to Section 312(b) of the TIA with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities.  The Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and other Persons shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the TIA.
 
SECTION 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.  Upon any request or application by the Issuer to the Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee at the request of the Trustee:
 
(a) an Officers’ Certificate in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee 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 in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.
 
SECTION 13.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.  Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to Section 4.09) shall include:
 
(a) a statement that the individual 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;
 


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(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
 
(d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such individual, such covenant or condition has been complied with; provided, however, that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate or certificates of public officials.
 
SECTION 13.06. When Securities Disregarded.  In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Issuer, any Note Guarantor or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any Note Guarantor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Securities which the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.  Subject to the foregoing, only Securities  outstanding at the time shall be considered in any such determination.
 
SECTION 13.07. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of the Holders.  The Registrar and a Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.
 
SECTION 13.08. Legal Holidays.  If a payment date is not a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, and no interest shall accrue on any amount that would have been otherwise payable on such payment date if it were a Business Day for the intervening period.  If a regular record date is not a Business Day, the record date shall not be affected.
 
SECTION 13.09. GOVERNING LAW.  THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
 
SECTION 13.10. No Recourse Against Others.  No director, officer, employee, manager, incorporator or holder of any Equity Interests in the Issuer or of any Note Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent corporation, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or the Note Guarantors under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Securities.
 
SECTION 13.11. Successors.  All agreements of the Issuer and each Note Guarantor in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successors.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.
 
SECTION 13.12. Multiple Originals.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.  One signed copy is enough to prove this Indenture.
 
SECTION 13.13. Table of Contents; Headings.  The table of contents, cross-reference sheet and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
 
SECTION 13.14. Indenture Controls.  If and to the extent that any provision of the Securities limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of this Indenture, such provision of this Indenture shall control.
 
SECTION 13.15. Severability.  In case any provision in this Indenture 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 and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability.
 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
 
 
Very truly yours,
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION

By: _________________________________
      Name:
      Title:

BERRY PLASTICS TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.
BERRY STERLING CORPORATION
CARDINAL PACKAGING, INC.
CPI HOLDING CORPORATION
KNIGHT PLASTICS, INC.
PACKERWARE CORPORATION
PESCOR, INC.
VENTURE PACKAGING, INC.
VENTURE PACKAGING MIDWEST, INC.
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION III
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION V
BERRY PLASTICS OPCO, INC.
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION VIII
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION IX
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION X
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XI
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XII
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XIII
ROLLPAK ACQUISITION CORPORATION
ROLLPAK CORPORATION
CAPTIVE HOLDINGS, INC.
CAPTIVE PLASTICS, INC.
CAPLAS NEPTUNE, LLC
CAPLAS LLC

By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:



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COVALENCE SPECIALTY ADHESIVES LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member

By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:

COVALENCE SPECIALTY COATINGS LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member

By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:

AEROCON, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:

BERRY IOWA, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:

BERRY PLASTICS DESIGN, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:



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POLY-SEAL, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

KERR GROUP, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

SAFFRON ACQUISITION, LLC
By: KERR GROUP, LLC,
  its sole member and manager
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

SUN COAST INDUSTRIES, LLC
By: SAFFRON ACQUISITION, LLC,
  its sole member and manager
  By: KERR GROUP, LLC,
    its sole member and manager
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:




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LANDIS PLASTICS, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

SETCO, LLC
By: KERR GROUP, LLC,
  its sole member
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: ________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

TUBED PRODUCTS, LLC
By: KERR GROUP, LLC
  its sole member
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: ________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

GRAFCO INDUSTRIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
By: Caplas Neptune, LLC
  its General Partner

By: ________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XV,
LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

 


 


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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as Trustee
 
 
 
By:
   
 
Name:
 
Title:
 

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APPENDIX A
 
PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL SECURITIES, ADDITIONAL SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE SECURITIES
 
1.           Definitions.
 
1.1           Definitions.
 
For the purposes of this Appendix A the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:
 
“Additional Interest” has the meaning set forth in the Registration Agreement.
 
“Definitive Security” means a certificated Initial Security or Exchange Security (bearing the Restricted Securities Legend if the transfer of such Security is restricted by applicable law) that does not include the Global Securities Legend.
 
“Depository” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.
 
“Global Securities Legend” means the legend set forth under that caption in the applicable Exhibit to this Indenture.
 
“IAI” means an institutional “accredited investor” as described in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.
 
“Initial Purchasers” means Banc of America Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc. and such other initial purchasers party to the Purchase Agreement entered into in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities.
 
“Purchase Agreement” means (a) the Purchase Agreement dated April 16, 2008, among the Issuer, certain guarantors party thereto and the Initial Purchasers and, upon execution of the joinder thereto on the date hereof, certain guarantors and (b) any other similar Purchase Agreement relating to Additional Securities.
 
“QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.
 
“Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to the Registration Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Securities, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for their Initial Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act.
 
“Registration Agreement” means (a) the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of April 21, 2008, among the Issuer, the Note Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers relating to the Securities and (b) any other similar registration rights agreement relating to Additional Securities.
 
“Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.
 
“Regulation S Securities” means all Initial Securities offered and sold outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S.
 
“Restricted Period,” with respect to any Securities, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (a) the day on which such Securities are first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S, notice of which day shall be promptly given by the Company to the Trustee, and (b) the Issue Date, and with respect to any Additional Securities that are Transfer Restricted Securities, it means the comparable period of 40 consecutive days.
 


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“Restricted Securities Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.2(f)(i) herein.
 
 “Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
 
“Rule 144A Securities” means all Initial Securities offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A.
 
“Rule 501” means Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.
 
“Securities Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Security (as appointed by the Depository) or any successor person thereto, who shall initially be the Trustee.
 
“Shelf Registration Statement” means a registration statement filed by the Company in connection with the offer and sale of Initial Securities pursuant to the Registration Agreement.
 
“Transfer Restricted Securities” means Definitive Securities and any other Securities that bear or are required to bear or are subject to the Restricted Securities Legend.
 
“Unrestricted Definitive Security” means Definitive Securities and any other Securities that are not required to bear, or are not subject to, the Restricted Securities Legend.
 
“Unrestricted Global Security” means Global Securities and any other Securities that are not required to bear, or are not subject to, the Restricted Securities Legend.
 
1.2           Other Definitions.
 
Term:
Defined in Section:
Agent Members
2.1(b)
Clearstream
2.1(b)
Euroclear
2.1(b)
Global Securities
2.1(b)
Regulation S Global Securities
2.1(b)
Regulation S Permanent Global Security
2.1(b)
Regulation S Temporary Global Security
2.1(b)
Rule 144A Global Securities
2.1(b)

2.           The Securities.
 
2.1           Form and Dating; Global Securities.
 
(a)           The Initial Securities issued on the date hereof will be (i) offered and sold by the Issuer pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and (ii) resold, initially only to (1) QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A and (2) Persons other than U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S.  Such Initial Securities may thereafter be transferred to, among others, QIBs, purchasers in reliance on Regulation S and, except as set forth below, IAIs in accordance with Rule 501.  Additional Securities offered after the date hereof may be offered and sold by the Issuer from time to time pursuant to one or more purchase agreements in accordance with applicable law.
 
(b)           Global Securities.  (i)  Rule 144A Securities initially shall be represented by one or more Securities in definitive, fully registered, global form without interest coupons (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Securities”).
 
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shall be registered in the name of the Depository or the nominee of the Depository for the accounts of designated agents holding on behalf of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear system (“Euroclear”) or Clearstream Banking, Société Anonyme (“Clearstream”).
 
The Restricted Period shall be terminated upon the receipt by the Trustee of: (1) a written certificate from the Depository, together with copies of certificates from Euroclear and Clearstream certifying that they have received certification of non-United States beneficial ownership of 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Security (except to the extent of any beneficial owners thereof who acquired an interest therein during the Restricted Period pursuant to another exemption from registration under the Securities Act and who shall take delivery of a beneficial ownership interest in a 144A Global Security bearing a Private Placement Legend, all as contemplated by this Appendix A); and (2) an Officers’ Certificate from the Company.
 
Following the termination of the Restricted Period, beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Security shall be exchanged for beneficial interests in a permanent Global Security (the “Regulation S Permanent Global Security”) pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Depository.  Simultaneously with the authentication of the Regulation S Permanent Global Security, the Trustee shall cancel the Regulation S Temporary Global Security.  The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Security and the Regulation S Permanent Global Security may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, in connection with transfers of interest as hereinafter provided.
 
The provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” and “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “General Terms and Conditions of Clearstream Banking” and “Customer Handbook” of Clearstream shall be applicable to transfers of beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Security and the Regulation S Permanent Global Security that are held by Participants through Euroclear or Clearstream.
 
The term “Global Securities” means the Rule 144A Global Securities and the Regulation S Global Securities.  The Global Securities shall bear the Global Security Legend.  The Global Securities initially shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depository or the nominee of such Depository, in each case for credit to an account of an Agent Member, (ii) be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for such Depository and (iii) bear the Restricted Securities Legend.
 
Members of, or direct or indirect participants in, the Depository shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depository, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under the Global Securities.  The Depository may be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee as the absolute owner of the Global Securities for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository, or impair, as between the Depository and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.
 
                          (ii)Transfers of Global Securities shall be limited to transfer in whole, but not in part, to the Depository, its successors or their respective nominees.  Interests of beneficial owners in the Global Securities may be transferred or exchanged for Definitive Securities only in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository and the provisions of Section 2.2.  In addition, a Global Security shall be exchangeable for Definitive Securities if (x) the Depository (1) notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for such Global Security and the Company thereupon fails to appoint a successor depository within 90 days or (2) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act or (y) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security; provided that in no event shall the Regulation S Temporary Global Security be exchanged by the Issuer for Definitive Securities prior to (x) the expiration of the Restricted Period and (y) the receipt by the Registrar of any certificates required pursuant to Rule 903(b)(3)(ii)(B) under the Securities Act.  In all cases, Definitive Securities delivered in exchange for any Global Security or beneficial interests therein shall 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.
 


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                          (iii)In connection with the transfer of a Global Security as an entirety to beneficial owners pursuant to subsection (i) of this Section 2.1(b), such Global Security shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depository in writing in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Securities of authorized denominations.
 
                          (iv)Any Transfer Restricted Security delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Security pursuant to Section 2.2 shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.2, bear the Restricted Securities Legend.
 
                          (v)Notwithstanding the foregoing, through the Restricted Period, a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Security may be held only through Euroclear or Clearstream unless delivery is made in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 2.2.
 
                          (vi)The Holder of any Global Security may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities.
 
2.2           Transfer and Exchange.
 
(a)           Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities.  A Global Security may not be transferred as a whole except as set forth in Section 2.1(b).  Global Securities will not be exchanged by the Issuer for Definitive Securities except under the circumstances described in Section 2.1(b)(ii).  Global Securities also may be exchanged or replaced, in whole or in part, as provided in Sections 2.08 and 2.10 of this Indenture.  Beneficial interests in a Global Security may be transferred and exchanged as provided in Section 2.2(b) or 2.2(g).
 
(b)           Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in Global Securities.  The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in the Global Securities shall be effected through the Depository, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository.  Beneficial interests in Restricted Global Securities shall be subject to restrictions on transfer comparable to those set forth herein to the extent required by the Securities Act.  Beneficial interests in Global Securities shall be transferred or exchanged only for beneficial interests in Global Securities.  Transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in the Global Securities also shall require compliance with either subparagraph (i) or (ii) below, as applicable, as well as one or more of the other following subparagraphs, as applicable:
 
                (i)Transfer of Beneficial Interests in the Same Global Security.  Beneficial interests in any Restricted Global Security may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the same Restricted Global Security in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Restricted Securities Legend; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Global Security may not be made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (other than an Initial Purchaser).  A beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security.  No written orders or instructions shall be required to be delivered to the Registrar to effect the transfers described in this Section 2.2(b)(i).
 
                (ii)All Other Transfers and Exchanges of Beneficial Interests in Global Securities.  In connection with all transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in any Global Security that is not subject to Section 2.2(b)(i), the transferor of such beneficial interest must deliver to the Registrar (1) a written order from an Agent Member given to the Depository in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository directing the Depository to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in another Global Security in an amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred or exchanged and (2) instructions given in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository containing information regarding the Agent Member account to be credited with such increase.  Upon satisfaction of all of the requirements for transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in Global Securities contained in this Indenture and the Securities or otherwise applicable under the Securities Act, the Trustee shall adjust the principal amount of the relevant Global Security pursuant to Section 2.2(g).
 


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                (iii)Transfer of Beneficial Interests to Another Restricted Global Security.  A beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Transfer Restricted Global Security if the transfer complies with the requirements of Section 2.2(b)(ii) above and the Registrar receives the following:
 
(A)           if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Security, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security; and
 
(B)           if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Security, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security.
 
                (iv)Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in a Transfer Restricted Global Security for Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Security.  A beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Global Security may be exchanged by any holder thereof for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security if the exchange or transfer complies with the requirements of Section 2.2(b)(ii) above and the Registrar receives the following:
 
(A)           if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such holder in the form attached to the applicable Security; or
 
(B)           if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security proposes to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such holder in the form attached to the applicable Security,
 
and, in each such case, if the Company or the Registrar so requests or if the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Securities Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.  If any such transfer or exchange is effected pursuant to this subparagraph (iv) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Security has not yet been issued, the Issuer shall issue and, upon receipt of an written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate in accordance with Section 2.01, the Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of beneficial interests transferred or exchanged pursuant to this subparagraph (iv).
 
                (v)Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Security for Beneficial Interests in a Restricted Global Security.  Beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Security cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of, a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security.
 
(c)           Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in Global Securities for Definitive Securities.  A beneficial interest in a Global Security may not be exchanged for a Definitive Security except under the circumstances described in Section 2.1(b)(ii).  A beneficial interest in a Global Security may not be transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Security except under the circumstances described in Section 2.1(b)(ii).  In any case, beneficial interests in Global Securities shall be transferred or exchanged only for Definitive Securities.
 
(d)           Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities for Beneficial Interests in Global Securities.  Transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in the Global Securities also shall require compliance with either subparagraph (i), (ii) or (ii) below, as applicable:
 


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(i)           Transfer Restricted Securities to Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Securities.  If any Holder of a Transfer Restricted Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security or to transfer such Transfer Restricted Security to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security, then, upon receipt by the Registrar of the following documentation:
 
(A)           if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(B)           if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred to a Qualified Institutional Buyer in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(C)           if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred to a Non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(D)           if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(E)           if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred to an Institutional Accredited Investor in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than those listed in subparagraphs (B) through (D) above, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security, including the certifications, certificates and Opinion of Counsel, if applicable; or
 
(F)           if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred to the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
the Trustee shall cancel the Transfer Restricted Security, and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of  the appropriate Restricted Global Security.
 
                (ii)Transfer Restricted Securities to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Securities.  A Holder of a Transfer Restricted Security may exchange such Transfer Restricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security or transfer such Transfer Restricted Security to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security only if the Registrar receives the following:
 
(A)           if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security; or
 
(B)           if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Securities proposes to transfer such Transfer Restricted Security to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security,
 
and, in each such case, if the Company or the Registrar so requests or if the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Securities Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.  Upon satisfaction of the conditions of this subparagraph (ii), the Trustee shall cancel the Transfer Restricted Securities and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate pri
 


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cipal amount of the Unrestricted Global Security.  If any such transfer or exchange is effected pursuant to this subparagraph (ii) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Security has not yet been issued, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities transferred or exchanged pursuant to this subparagraph (ii).
 
                (iii)Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Securities.  A Holder of an Unrestricted Definitive Security may exchange such Unrestricted Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security or transfer such Unrestricted Definitive Security to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Security at any time.  Upon receipt of a request for such an exchange or transfer, the Trustee shall cancel the applicable Unrestricted Definitive Security and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of one of the Unrestricted Global Securities.  If any such transfer or exchange is effected pursuant to this subparagraph (iii) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Security has not yet been issued, the Issuer shall issue and, upon receipt of an written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Unrestricted Definitive Securities transferred or exchanged pursuant to this subparagraph (iii).
 
                (iv)Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Securities.  An Unrestricted Definitive Security cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of, a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Security.
 
(e)           Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities for Definitive Securities.  Upon request by a Holder of Definitive Securities and such Holder’s compliance with the provisions of this Section 2.2(e), the Registrar shall register the transfer or exchange of Definitive Securities.  Prior to such registration of transfer or exchange, the requesting Holder shall present or surrender to the Registrar the Definitive Securities duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by such Holder or by its attorney, duly authorized in writing.  In addition, the requesting Holder shall provide any additional certifications, documents and information, as applicable, required pursuant to the following provisions of this Section 2.2(e).
 
                (i)Transfer Restricted Securities to Transfer Restricted Securities.  A Transfer Restricted Security may be transferred to and registered in the name of a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Transfer Restricted Security if the Registrar receives the following:
 
(A)           if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(B)           if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(C)           if the transfer will be made pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security;
 
(D)           if the transfer will be made to an IAI in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than those listed in subparagraphs (A) through (D) above, a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security; and
 
(E)           if such transfer will be made to the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, a certificate in the form attached to the applicable Security.
 


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(ii)           Transfer Restricted Securities to Unrestricted Definitive Securities.  Any Transfer Restricted Security may be exchanged by the Holder thereof for an Unrestricted Definitive Security or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Security if the Registrar receives the following:
 
(1)           if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Security proposes to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for an Unrestricted Definitive Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security; or
 
(2)           if the Holder of such Transfer Restricted Security proposes to transfer such Securities to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Security, a certificate from such Holder in the form attached to the applicable Security,
 
and, in each such case, if the Registrar so requests, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Restricted Securities Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.
 
                (iii)Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Unrestricted Definitive Securities.  A Holder of an Unrestricted Definitive Security may transfer such Unrestricted Definitive Securities to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Security at any time.  Upon receipt of a request to register such a transfer, the Registrar shall register the Unrestricted Definitive Securities pursuant to the instructions from the Holder thereof.
 
                (iv)Unrestricted Definitive Securities to Transfer Restricted Securities.  An Unrestricted Definitive Security cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of, a Transfer Restricted Security.
 
At such time as all beneficial interests in a particular Global Security have been exchanged for Definitive Securities or a particular Global Security has been redeemed, repurchased or canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Security shall be returned to or retained and canceled by the Trustee in accordance with Section 2.11.  At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security or for Definitive Securities, the principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Trustee or by the Depository at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security, such other Global Security shall be increased accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Trustee or by the Depository at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such increase.
 
(f)           Legend.
 
                          (i)Except as permitted by the following paragraph (ii), (iii) or (iv), each Security certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the Definitive Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only):
 
“THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.
 


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THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) IN THE UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (II) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF APPLICABLE) OR (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (IV) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN (A) ABOVE.”
 
Each Definitive Security shall bear the following additional legends:
 
“IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.”
 
“THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION ORIGINALLY EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, ANY U.S. PERSON EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.  TERMS USED ABOVE HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.”
 
                          (ii)Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security that is a Definitive Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a Definitive Security that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Security if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Security).
 
                          (iii)After a transfer of any Initial Securities during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Initial Securities, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Securities Legend on such Initial Securities shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Securities be issued in global form shall continue to apply.
 
                          (iv)Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Securities pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Securities are offered Exchange Securities in exchange for their Initial Securities, all requirements pertaining to Initial Securities that Initial Securities be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Securities in global form without the Restricted Securities Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Securities in such Registered Exchange Offer.
 
                          (v)Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Restricted Period of any Initial Security acquired pursuant to Regulation S, all requirements that such Initial Security bear the Restricted Securities Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Security be issued in global form shall continue to apply.
 
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(g)Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Security.  At such time as all beneficial interests in a particular Global Security have been exchanged for Definitive Securities or a particular Global Security has been redeemed, repurchased or canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Security shall be returned to or retained and canceled by the Trustee in accordance with Section 2.11 of this Indenture.  At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security or for Definitive Securities, the principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Trustee or by the Depository at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Security, such other Global Security shall be increased accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security by the Trustee or by the Depository at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such increase.
 
(h)           Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Securities.
 
                          (i)To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Securities and Global Securities at the Registrar’s request.
 
                          (ii)No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.06, 4.06, 4.08 and 9.05 of this Indenture).
 
                          (iii)Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Issuer, the Trustee, a Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
 
                          (iv)All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
 
(i)           No Obligation of the Trustee.
 
                          (i)The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Security, a member of, or a participant in the Depository or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depository or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Securities or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depository) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Securities.  All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to the Holders under the Securities shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depository or its nominee in the case of a Global Security).  The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depository subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository.  The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.
 
                          (ii)The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Depository participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
 


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EXHIBIT A
 
[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL SECURITY]
 
[Global Securities Legend]
 
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
 
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.
 
[Restricted Securities Legend]
 
“THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.
 
THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) IN THE UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES TO BE  A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (II) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF APPLICABLE) OR (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (IV) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN (A) ABOVE.”
 
Each Temporary Regulation S Security shall bear the following additional legend:
 
“THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION ORIGINALLY EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, ANY U.S. PE
 


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SON EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.  TERMS USED ABOVE HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.”
 
Each Definitive Security shall bear the following additional legends:
 
“IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.”
 
“THIS NOTE WAS ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”), FOR PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 1272, 1273, AND 1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED.  BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION (THE “COMPANY”) WILL, BEGINNING NO LATER THAN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE ISSUE DATE, PROMPTLY PROVIDE TO HOLDERS OF NOTES, UPON WRITTEN REQUEST, THE ISSUE PRICE, THE AMOUNT OF OID, THE ISSUE DATE AND THE YIELD TO MATURITY WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTES. ANY SUCH WRITTEN REQUEST SHOULD BE SENT TO THE COMPANY AT BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, 101 OAKLEY STREET EVANSVILLE, INDIANA  47710, ATTENTION: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.”
 


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[FORM OF INITIAL SECURITY]
 
                                                                                                                  $__________
No.
 
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015
 
 
CUSIP No. [144A:  085790 AN3]
 
[Reg S: U23836 AD8]
 
ISIN No.
[144A:  US085790 AN32]
 
[Reg S: USU23836 AD83]
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum [of           Dollars] [listed on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Security attached hereto]1 on February 15, 2015.
 
Interest Payment Dates:  January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15
 
Record Dates:  January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1
 
Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this instrument to be duly executed.
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION
 
 
By:
   
 
Name:
 
Title:
 
Dated:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
1
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
 
AUTHENTICATION
 
 
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as Trustee, certifies that this is
 
one of the Securities
 
referred to in the Indenture.
 
By:
   
 
Authorized Signatory
 
 
______________________
 
*/
If the Security is to be issued in global form, add the Global Securities Legend and the attachment from Exhibit A captioned “TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY.”


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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF INITIAL SECURITY]
 
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015
 
1.           Interest
 
(a)           Berry Plastics Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at a rate per annum, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR (as defined in the Indenture) plus 4.75%, as determined by the Calculation Agent.  Interest on the Securities will be payable quarterly in arrears on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year commencing July 15, 2008.  The Company shall make each interest payment to the holders of record of the Securities on the immediately preceding January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1.  Interest shall accrue from the date of issuance.
 
The amount of interest for each day that the Securities are outstanding (the “Daily Interest Amount”) will be calculated by dividing the interest rate in effect for such day by 360 and multiplying the result by the principal amount of the Securities. The amount of interest to be paid on the Securities for each Interest Period will be calculated by adding the Daily Interest Amounts for each day in the Interest Period.
 
All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point being rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
 
The interest rate on the Securities will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States law of general application. The Calculation Agent will, upon the written request of any holder of Securities, provide the interest rate then in effect with respect to the Securities. All calculations made by the Calculation Agent in the absence of manifest error will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company, the Note Guarantors and the Holders.
 
 (b)           Registration Rights Agreement.  The Holder of this Security is entitled to the benefits of a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of April 21, 2008, among Berry Plastics Corporation, the Note Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers.
 
2.           Method of Payment
 
The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 next preceding the interest payment date even if Securities are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date (whether or not a Business Day).  Holders must surrender Securities to the Paying Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal, premium, if any, and interest in money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.  Payments in respect of the Securities represented by a Global Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company or any successor depositary.  The Company shall make all payments in respect of a certificated Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) at the office of the Paying Agent, except that, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on the Securities may also be made, in the case of a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).
 


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3.           Paying Agent and Registrar
 
Initially, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice.  The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.
 
4.           Indenture
 
The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of April 21, 2008 (the “Indenture”), among the Company and the Trustee.  The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “TIA”).  Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.  The Securities are subject to all terms and provisions of the Indenture, and the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms and provisions.
 
The Securities are senior secured obligations of the Company.  This Security is one of the Initial Securities referred to in the Indenture.  The Securities include the Original Securities, any Additional Securities and any Exchange Securities issued in exchange for the Original Securities or any Additional Securities pursuant to the Indenture. The Original Securities, any Additional Securities and any Exchange Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture.  The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, make certain Investments and other Restricted Payments, pay dividends and other distributions, incur Indebtedness, enter into consensual restrictions upon the payment of certain dividends and distributions by such Restricted Subsidiaries, issue or sell shares of capital stock of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into or permit certain transactions with Affiliates, create or incur Liens and make Asset Sales.  The Indenture also imposes limitations on the ability of the Company and each Note Guarantor to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its property.
 
To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal and interest on the Securities and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture and the Securities when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities and the Indenture, the Note Guarantors have, jointly and severally, unconditionally guaranteed the Guaranteed Obligations on a senior basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
 
5.           Optional Redemption
 
Except as set forth in the following two paragraphs, the Securities shall not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior to April 15, 2010.  Thereafter, the Securities shall be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on April 15 of the years set forth below:
 
Year
Redemption Price
2010
102.000%
2011
101.000%
2012 and thereafter
100.000%

In addition, prior to April 15, 2010, the Company may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice mailed by first-class mail or sent electronically to each holder’s registered address, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and Additional
 


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Interest, if any, to, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time on or prior to April 15, 2010, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to the issuance of Additional Securities) issued as of the time of such redemption, with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings (1) by the Company or (2) by any direct or indirect parent of the Company, in each case, to the extent the net cash proceeds thereof are contributed to the common equity capital of the Company or used to purchase Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company from it, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof)  of 100% plus a premium (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) equal to the interest rate per annum on the Securities applicable on the date on which notice of redemption is given, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date  (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided, however, that at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to the issuance of Additional Securities) issued as of the time of such redemption must remain outstanding after each such redemption; and provided further that such redemption shall occur within 90 days after the date on which any such Equity Offering is consummated upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice mailed or sent electronically to each Holder being redeemed and otherwise in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture.  Notice of any redemption upon any Equity Offering may be given prior to the completion thereof, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of the Equity Offering.
 
6.           Sinking Fund
 
The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.
 
7.           Notice of Redemption
 
Notice of redemption will be mailed by first-class mail or sent electronically at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his, her or its registered address.  Securities in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000.  If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with a Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, on and after such date, interest ceases to accrue on such Securities (or such portions thereof) called for redemption.
 
8.           Repurchase of Securities at the Option of the
 
Holders upon Change of Control and Asset Sales
 
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture, to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.
 
In accordance with Section 4.06 of the Indenture, the Company will be required to offer to purchase Securities upon the occurrence of certain events.
 
9.           Ranking and Collateral
 
These Securities and the Guarantees are secured by a first priority security interest in the Collateral pursuant to certain Security Documents, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements.
 


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10.           Denominations; Transfer; Exchange
 
The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange of Securities in accordance with the Indenture.  Upon any registration of transfer or exchange, the Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes required by law or permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the Security not to be redeemed) or to transfer or exchange any Securities for a period of 15 days prior to a selection of Securities to be redeemed.
 
11.           Persons Deemed Owners
 
The registered Holder of this Security shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
 
12.           Unclaimed Money
 
If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and a Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at their written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person.  After any such payment, the Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors and the Trustee and a Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such monies.
 
13.           Amendment; Waiver
 
Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture, the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements or the Securities may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (voting as a single class) and (ii) any past default or compliance with any provisions may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities.  Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture, Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements or the Securities (i) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; (ii) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under the Indenture and the Securities; (iii) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Note Guarantor of the obligations of a Note Guarantor under the Indenture and its Guarantee; (iv) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities (provided that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code); (v) to add a Guarantee with respect to the Securities; (vi) to secure the Securities; (vii) to add additional assets as Collateral; (viii) to release Collateral from the Lien pursuant to the Indenture, the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements when permitted or required by the Indenture or the Security Documents, (ix) to modify the Security Documents and/or the Intercreditor Agreements to secure First Priority Lien Obligations and other obligations in accordance with the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements and this Indenture, (x) to add additional covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender rights and powers conferred on the Company; (xi) to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA; (xii) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder; or (xiii) to provide for the issuance of the Exchange Securities or Additional Securities.
 
14.           Defaults and Remedies
 
If an Event of Default occurs (other than an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company) and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities, in each case, by notice to the Company, may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Securities to be due and payable.  If an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company occurs, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the
 


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part of the Trustee or any Holders.  Under certain circumstances, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may rescind any such acceleration with respect to the Securities and its consequences.
 
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity or security against any loss, liability or expense and certain other conditions are complied with.  Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium (if any) or interest when due, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to the Indenture or the Securities unless (i) such Holder has previously given the Trustee notice that an Event of Default is continuing, (ii) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities  have requested the Trustee in writing to pursue the remedy, (iii) such Holders have offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, (iv) the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity and (v) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities  have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such request within such 60-day period.  Subject to certain restrictions, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities  are given the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee.  The Trustee, however, may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or the Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability.  Prior to taking any action under the Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.
 
15.           Trustee Dealings with the Company
 
Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.
 
16.           No Recourse Against Others
 
No director, officer, employee, incorporator or holder of any equity interests in the Company or of any Note Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent corporation, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Note Guarantors under the Securities, the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.
 
17.           Authentication
 
This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.
 
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 rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).
 
19.           Governing Law
 
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
 


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20.           CUSIP Numbers; ISINs
 
The Company has caused CUSIP numbers and ISINs to be printed on the Securities and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP numbers and ISINs in notices of redemption as a convenience to the Holders.  No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
 
21.
Discharge and Defeasance
 
Subject to certain conditions and as set forth in the Indenture, the Company at any time may terminate some of or all of its obligations under the Securities and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal and interest on the Securities to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.
 
The Company will furnish to any Holder of Securities upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Security.
 


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ASSIGNMENT FORM
 
To assign this Security, fill in the form below:
 
I or we assign and transfer this Security to:
 
 

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

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)
 
and irrevocably appoint                           agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.
 
Date:  _________________   Your Signature: _________________________________________________                                                                          
 

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.
 
Signature Guarantee:
 
Date:  _____________________________________________________                                                                
 
Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED SECURITIES
 
This certificate relates to $_________ principal amount of Securities held in (check applicable space) ____ book-entry or _____ definitive form by the undersigned.
 
The undersigned (check one box below):
 
  o
has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global Security held by the Depository a Security or Securities in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global Security (or the portion thereof indicated above);
 
  o
has requested the Trustee by written order to exchange or register the transfer of a Security or Securities.
 
In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:
 
CHECK ONE BOX BELOW
 
(1)
  o
to the Company; or
(2)
  o
to the Registrar for registration in the name of the Holder, without transfer; or
(3)
  o
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933; or
(4)
  o
inside the United States to a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933; or
(5)
  o
outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act of 1933 and such Security shall be held immediately after the transfer through Euroclear or Clearstream until the expiration of the Restricted Period (as defined in the Indenture); or
(6)
  o
to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements; or
(7)
  o
pursuant to another available exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933.



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Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5), (6) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company or the Trustee have reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.
 
 
Date:  _________________________________               Your Signature:  ___________________________________                                                                         
 
Signature Guarantee:
 
Date:      _____________________________________                                                          
  ________________________________________________
Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (4) ABOVE IS CHECKED.
 
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.
 
 
 
Dated:
     
 
NOTICE:  To be executed by an executive officer
 


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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]
 
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY
 
The initial principal amount of this Global Security is $______________.  The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:
 
Date of Exchange
Amount of decrease in Principal Amount of this Global Security
Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Security
Principal amount of this Global Security following such decrease or increase
Signature of authorized signatory of Trustee or Securities Custodian
         



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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
 
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, check the box:
 
Asset Saleo
Change of Controlo

If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, state the amount ($2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000):
 
$
 
 
Date:
Your Signature:
     
 
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)
 
Signature Guarantee: ______________________________________________________________                                                                                    
 
Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
 


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EXHIBIT B
 
[FORM OF FACE OF EXCHANGE SECURITY]
 
[Global Securities Legend]
 
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
 
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.
 
Each Definitive Security shall bear the following legend:
 
“THIS NOTE WAS ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”), FOR PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 1272, 1273, AND 1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED.  BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION (THE “COMPANY”) WILL, BEGINNING NO LATER THAN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE ISSUE DATE, PROMPTLY PROVIDE TO HOLDERS OF NOTES, UPON WRITTEN REQUEST, THE ISSUE PRICE, THE AMOUNT OF OID, THE ISSUE DATE AND THE YIELD TO MATURITY WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTES. ANY SUCH WRITTEN REQUEST SHOULD BE SENT TO THE COMPANY AT BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, 101 OAKLEY STREET EVANSVILLE, INDIANA  47710, ATTENTION: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.”
 

 

 


 
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                    No.                                                                               ;                                                         $__________
 
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015
 
 
CUSIP No. 085790 AP8
 
ISIN     No. US085790AP89
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum [of            Dollars] [listed on the Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Security attached hereto]2 on   February 15, 2015.
 
Interest Payment Dates:  January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15
 
Record Dates:  January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1
 
Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this instrument to be duly executed.
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION
 
 
 
By:
   
 
Name:
 
Title:
 
Dated:
 
 


 
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
 
AUTHENTICATION
 
 
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as Trustee, certifies that this is
 
one of the Securities
 
referred to in the Indenture.
 
By:
   
 
 
Authorized Signatory
 
 
______________________
 
*/
If the Security is to be issued in global form, add the Global Securities Legend and the attachment from Exhibit B captioned “TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY.”


 
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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF EXCHANGE SECURITY]
 
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015
 
1.           Interest
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at a rate per annum, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR (as defined in the indenture) plus 4.75%, as determined by the Calculation Agent. Interest on the Securities will be payable quarterly in arrears on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing July 15, 2008.3  The Company shall make each interest payment to the holders of record of the Securities on the immediately preceding January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1.  Interest shall accrue from the date of issuance.
 
The amount of interest for each day that the Securities are outstanding (the “Daily Interest Amount”) will be calculated by dividing the interest rate in effect for such day by 360 and multiplying the result by the principal amount of the Securities. The amount of interest to be paid on the Securities for each Interest Period will be calculated by adding the Daily Interest Amounts for each day in the Interest Period.
 
All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point being rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
 
The interest rate on the Securities will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States law of general application. The Calculation Agent will, upon the written request of any holder of Securities, provide the interest rate then in effect with respect to the Securities. All calculations made by the Calculation Agent in the absence of manifest error will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company, the Note Guarantors and the Holders.
 
2.           Method of Payment
 
The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 next preceding the interest payment date even if Securities are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date (whether or not a Business Day).  Holders must surrender Securities to the Paying Agent to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal, premium, if any, and interest in money of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.  Payments in respect of the Securities represented by a Global Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company or any successor depositary.  The Company shall make all payments in respect of a certificated Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest), at the office of the Paying Agent, except that, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on the Securities may also be made, in the case of a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities, by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).
 


 
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3.           Paying Agent and Registrar
 
Initially, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice.  The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.
 
4.           Indenture
 
The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture dated as of April 21, 2008, (the “Indenture”), among the Company and the Trustee.  The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “TIA”).  Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.  The Securities are subject to all terms and provisions of the Indenture, and the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms and provisions.
 
The Securities are senior secured obligations of the Company.  This Security is one of the Exchange Securities referred to in the Indenture.  The Securities include the Original Securities, any Additional Securities and any Exchange Securities issued in exchange for the Original Securities or any Additional Securities pursuant to the Indenture. The Original Securities, any Additional Securities and any Exchange Securities are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, make certain Investments and other Restricted Payments, pay dividends and other distributions, incur Indebtedness, enter into consensual restrictions upon the payment of certain dividends and distributions by such Restricted Subsidiaries, issue or sell shares of capital stock of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into or permit certain transactions with Affiliates, create or incur Liens and make Asset Sales.  The Indenture also imposes limitations on the ability of the Company and each Note Guarantor to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its property.
 
To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal and interest on the Securities and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture and the Securities when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities and the Indenture, the Note Guarantors have, jointly and severally, unconditionally guaranteed the Guaranteed Obligations on a senior basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
 
5.           Optional Redemption
 
Except as set forth in the following two paragraphs, the Securities shall not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior to April 15, 2010.  Thereafter, the Securities shall be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, at the following redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on April 15 of the years set forth below:
 
Year
Redemption Price
2010
102.000%
2011
101.000%
2012 and thereafter
100.000%

In addition, prior to April 15, 2010, the Company may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice mailed by first-class mail or sent electronically to each holder’s registered address, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the
 


 
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principal amount of the Securities redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to, the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time on or prior to April 15, 2010, the Company may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to the issuance of Additional Securities) issued as of the time of such redemption, with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings (1) by the Company or (2) by any direct or indirect parent of the Company, in each case, to the extent the net cash proceeds thereof are contributed to the common equity capital of the Company or used to purchase Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company from it, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof)  of 100% plus a premium (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) equal to the interest rate per annum on the Securities applicable on the date on which notice of redemption is given, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date  (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided, however, that at least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities (calculated after giving effect to the issuance of Additional Securities) issued as of the time of such redemption must remain outstanding after each such redemption; and provided further that such redemption shall occur within 90 days after the date on which any such Equity Offering is consummated upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice mailed or sent electronically to each Holder being redeemed and otherwise in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture.  Notice of any redemption upon any Equity Offering may be given prior to the completion thereof, and any such redemption or notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of the Equity Offering.
 
6.           Sinking Fund
 
The Securities are not subject to any sinking fund.
 
7.           Notice of Redemption
 
Notice of redemption will be mailed by first-class mail or sent electronically at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his, her or its registered address.  Securities in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000.  If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with a Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, on and after such date, interest ceases to accrue on such Securities (or such portions thereof) called for redemption.
 
8.           Repurchase of Securities at the Option of the
 
Holders upon Change of Control and Asset Sales
 
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the right, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture, to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Securities at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of the Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.
 
In accordance with Section 4.06 of the Indenture, the Company will be required to offer to purchase Securities upon the occurrence of certain events.
 
9.           Ranking and Collateral
 
These Securities and the Guarantees are secured by a first priority security interest in the Collateral pursuant to certain Security Documents, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements.
 


 
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10.           Denominations; Transfer; Exchange
 
The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange of Securities in accordance with the Indenture.  Upon any registration of transfer or exchange, the Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes required by law or permitted by the Indenture.  The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the portion of the Security not to be redeemed) or to transfer or exchange any Securities for a period of 15 days prior to a selection of Securities to be redeemed.
 
11.           Persons Deemed Owners
 
The registered Holder of this Security shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
 
12.           Unclaimed Money
 
If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and a Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at their written request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person.  After any such payment, the Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors and the Trustee and a Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such monies.
 
13.           Amendment; Waiver
 
Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture, the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements or the Securities may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (voting as a single class) and (ii) any past default or compliance with any provisions may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities.  Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture, Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements or the Securities (i) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; (ii) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under the Indenture and the Securities; (iii) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Note Guarantor of the obligations of a Note Guarantor under the Indenture and its Guarantee; (iv) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities (provided that the uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code); (v) to add a Guarantee with respect to the Securities; (vi) to secure the Securities; (vii) to add additional assets as Collateral; (viii) to release Collateral from the Lien pursuant to the Indenture, the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements when permitted or required by the Indenture or the Security Documents, (ix) to modify the Security Documents and/or the Intercreditor Agreements to secure First Priority Lien Obligations and other obligations in accordance with the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements and this Indenture, (x) to add additional covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender rights and powers conferred on the Company; (xi) to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA; (xii) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder; or (xiii) to provide for the issuance of the Exchange Securities or Additional Securities.
 
14.           Defaults and Remedies
 
If an Event of Default occurs (other than an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company) and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities, in each case, by notice to the Company, may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Securities  to be due and payable.  If an Event of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company occurs, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders.  Under certain circumstances, the Holders of a majority in
 


 
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principal amount of the outstanding Securities  may rescind any such acceleration with respect to the Securities and its consequences.
 
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity or security against any loss, liability or expense and certain other conditions are complied with.  Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium (if any) or interest when due, no Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to the Indenture or the Securities unless (i) such Holder has previously given the Trustee notice that an Event of Default is continuing, (ii) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities  have requested the Trustee in writing to pursue the remedy, (iii) such Holders have offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense, (iv) the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity and (v) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities  have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such request within such 60-day period.  Subject to certain restrictions, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities  are given the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee.  The Trustee, however, may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or the Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability.  Prior to taking any action under the Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.
 
15.           Trustee Dealings with the Company
 
Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.
 
16.           No Recourse Against Others
 
No director, officer, employee, incorporator or holder of any equity interests in the Company or of any Note Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent corporation, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Note Guarantors under the Securities, the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.
 
17.           Authentication
 
This Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.
 
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 rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).
 
19.           Governing Law
 
THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
 


 
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20.           CUSIP Numbers; ISINs
 
The Company has caused CUSIP numbers and ISINs to be printed on the Securities and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP numbers and ISINs in notices of redemption as a convenience to the Holders.  No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
 
21.
Discharge and Defeasance
 
Subject to certain conditions and as set forth in the Indenture, the Company at any time may terminate some of or all of its obligations under the Securities and the Indenture if the Company deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal and interest on the Securities to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.
 
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
 
To assign this Security, fill in the form below:
 
I or we assign and transfer this Security to:
 

 

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

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)
 
and irrevocably appoint agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.
 

 
 
 
Date:
Your Signature:
   
 
Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.
 
Signature Guarantee:
 
Date:    ________________________________________________                                                            
  ________________________________________________
Signature must be guaranteed by a participant in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
 
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, check the box:
 
Asset Saleo
Change of Controlo

If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06 (Asset Sale) or 4.08 (Change of Control) of the Indenture, state the amount ($2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000):
 
$
 
 
Date:
Your Signature:
     
 
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)
 
 
Signature Guarantee:
 
 
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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES]
 
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY
 
The initial principal amount of this Global Security is $______________.  The following increases or decreases in this Global Security have been made:
 
Date of Exchange
Amount of decrease in Principal Amount of this Global Security
Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Security
Principal amount of this Global Security following such decrease or increase
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EXHIBIT C
 
[FORM OF]
 
TRANSFEREE LETTER OF REPRESENTATION
 
Berry Plastics Corporation
 
c/o Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
 
Attention:  Vice President
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
This CERTIFICATE IS DELIVERED TO REQUEST A TRANSFER OF $[     ] PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE FIRST PRIORITY SENIOR SECURED FLOATING RATE NOTES DUE 2015 (THE “SECURITIES”) OF BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION (THE “ISSUER”).
 
Upon transfer, the Securities would be registered in the name of the new beneficial owner as follows:
 
Name:  ________________________
 
Address:  _____________________
 
Taxpayer ID Number:  __________
 
The undersigned represents and warrants to you that:
 
1)           We are an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)), purchasing for our own account or for the account of such an institutional “accredited investor” at least $100,000 principal amount of the Securities, and we are acquiring the Securities not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act.  We have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Securities, and we invest in or purchase securities similar to the Securities in the normal course of our business.  We, and any accounts for which we are acting, are each able to bear the economic risk of our or its investment.
 
2)           We understand that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act and, unless so registered, may not be sold except as permitted in the following sentence.  We agree on our own behalf and on behalf of any investor account for which we are purchasing Securities to offer, sell or otherwise transfer such Securities prior to the date that is two years after the later of the date of original issue and the last date on which either the Issuer or any affiliate of such Issuer was the owner of such Securities (or any predecessor thereto) (the “Resale Restriction Termination Date”) only (a) in the United States to a person whom we reasonably believe is a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in rule 144A under the Securities Act) in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, (b) outside the United States in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (c) pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act provided by Rule 144 thereunder (if applicable) or (d) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, in each of cases (a) through (d) in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States.  In addition, we will, and each subsequent holder is required to, notify any purchaser of the Security evidenced hereby of the resale restrictions set forth above.  The foregoing restrictions on resale will not apply subsequent to the Resale Restriction Termination Date.  If any resale or other transfer of the Securities is proposed to be made to an institutional “accredited investor” prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, the transferor shall deliver a letter from the transferee substantially in the form of this letter to the Issuer and the Trustee, which shall provide, among other things, that the transferee is an institutional “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act and that it is acquiring such Securities for investment purposes and not for distribution in violation of the Securities Act.  Each purchaser acknowledges that the Company and the Trustee reserve the right
 


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prior to the offer, sale or other transfer prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date of the Securities pursuant to clause 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) above to require the delivery of an opinion of counsel, certifications or other information satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee.
 
Dated:  ____________________
 
TRANSFEREE:  ____________________,
 
 
 
By:
   
 


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EXHIBIT D
 
[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE]
 
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”) dated as of  [               ], among [GUARANTOR] (the “New Note Guarantor”), a subsidiary of Berry Plastics Corporation (or its successor), a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”).
 
W I T N E S S E T H :
 
WHEREAS the Issuer and the existing Note Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an indenture (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Indenture”) dated as of April 21, 2008, providing initially for the issuance of $680,600,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015 collectively, (the “Securities”);
 
WHEREAS Sections 4.11 and 12.06 of the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Issuer is required to cause the New Note Guarantor to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the New Note Guarantor shall unconditionally guarantee all the Issuer’s Obligations under the Securities and the Indenture pursuant to a Guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and
 
WHEREAS pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee, the Issuer and the existing Note Guarantors are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;
 
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Note Guarantor, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows:
 
1.           Defined Terms.  As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined, except that the term “Holders” in this Guarantee shall refer to the term “Holders” as defined in the Indenture, the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent acting on behalf of and for the benefit of such Holders.  The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.
 
2.           Agreement to Guarantee.  The New Note Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all existing Note Guarantors (if any), to unconditionally guarantee the Issuer’s Obligations under the Securities and the Indenture on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article 12 of the Indenture and to be bound by all other applicable provisions of the Indenture and the Securities and to perform all of the obligations and agreements of a Note Guarantor under the Indenture.
 
3.           Notices.  All notices or other communications to the New Note Guarantor shall be given as provided in Section 13.02 of the Indenture.
 
4.           Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture.  Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect.  This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every holder of Securities heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
 
5.           Governing Law.  THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
 


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6.           Trustee Makes No Representation.  The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.
 
7.           Counterparts.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
 
8.           Effect of Headings.  The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not effect the construction thereof.
 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
 
[NEW GUARANTOR]
 
 
 
By:
   
 
Name:
 
Title:
 
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
as Trustee
 
 
 
By:
   
 
Name:
 
Title:
 








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EX-4.2 3 ex42.htm EXHIBIT 4.2 COLLATERAL AGREEMENT ex42.htm

 
COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
 
 
dated and effective as of
 
April 21, 2008,
 
among
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
 
 
each Subsidiary of the Company
identified herein,
 
and
 
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Collateral Agent
 

 
 

 

THIS COLLATERAL AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF (1) THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SENIOR LENDER PRIORITY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 5, 2008 AMONG BERRY PLASTICS GROUP, INC., THE COMPANY, CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, AS TERM FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND TERM FACILITY COLLATERAL AGENT, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS REVOLVING FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND REVOLVING FACILITY COLLATERAL AGENT, AND BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS BRIDGE LOAN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND BRIDGE LOAN COLLATERAL AGENT, SUPPLEMENTED AS OF THE DATE HEREOF THROUGH THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A JOINDER AGREEMENT BY THE TERM FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE TERM LOAN COLLATERAL AGENT, THE REVOLVING FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE REVOLVING FACILITY COLLATERAL AGENT, THE COLLATERAL AGENT, THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND BERRY PLASTICS GROUP, INC., (2) THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 5, 2008 AMONG BERRY PLASTICS GROUP, INC., THE COMPANY, CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH AND BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., EACH IN THEIR CAPACITY AS FIRST LIEN AGENT, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS BRIDGE LOAN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND BRIDGE LOAN COLLATERAL AGENT AND WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS SECOND PRIORITY NOTES TRUSTEE, SUPPLEMENTED AS OF THE DATE HEREOF THROUGH THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A JOINDER AGREEMENT BY CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH AND BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., EACH IN THEIR CAPACITY AS FIRST LIEN AGENTS, THE COLLATERAL AGENT, THE TRUSTEE AND THE SECOND PRIORITY NOTES TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AND BERRY PLASTICS GROUP, INC.,  AND (3) THE SENIOR FIXED COLLATERAL PRIORITY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 5, 2008 AMONG BERRY PLASTICS GROUP, INC., THE COMPANY, CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, AS TERM FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND TERM FACILITY COLLATERAL AGENT, AND BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS BRIDGE LOAN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND BRIDGE LOAN COLLATERAL AGENT, SUPPLEMENTED AS OF THE DATE HEREOF THROUGH THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A JOINDER AGREEMENT BY THE TERM FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE TERM LOAN COLLATERAL AGENT, THE COLLATERAL AGENT, THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AND BERRY PLASTICS GROUP, INC., AS SET FORTH MORE FULLY IN SECTION 9.18 HEREOF.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING HEREIN TO THE CONTRARY, THE LIEN AND SECURITY INTEREST GRANTED TO THE COLLATERAL AGENT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SECURED PARTIES, PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT
 

 
 

 

AND THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHT OR REMEDY BY THE COLLATERAL AGENT AND THE OTHER SECURED PARTIES HEREUNDER ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENTS.
 



 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
   
Page
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
 
3
 
Section 1.01.Indenture
3
 
Section 1.02.Other Defined Terms
3
ARTICLE II [RESERVED]
 
8
ARTICLE III PLEDGE OF SECURITIES
 
8
 
Section 3.01.Pledge
8
 
Section 3.02.Delivery of the Pledged Collateral
9
 
Section 3.03.Representations, Warranties and Covenants
10
 
Section 3.04.Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations
12
 
Section 3.05.Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest, Etc.
13
ARTICLE IV SECURITY INTERESTS IN OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY
 
15
 
Section 4.01.Security Interest
15
 
Section 4.02.Representations and Warranties
17
 
Section 4.03.Covenants
20
 
Section 4.04.Other Actions
22
 
Section 4.05.Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral
24
ARTICLE V OTHER SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND OTHER ACTIONS
 
25
 
Section 5.01.Mortgages
25
ARTICLE VI REMEDIES
 
26
 
Section 6.01.Remedies Upon Default
26
 
Section 6.02.Application of Proceeds
28
 
Section 6.03.Securities Act, Etc.
29
ARTICLE VII [RESERVED]
 
30
ARTICLE VIII [RESERVED]
 
30
ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS
 
30
 
Section 9.01.Notices
30
 
Section 9.02.Security Interest Absolute
30
 
Section 9.03.Limitation By Law
31
 
Section 9.04.Binding Effect; Several Agreement
31
 
Section 9.05.Successors and Assigns
31
 
Section 9.06.Collateral Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification
31
 
Section 9.07.Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact
32
 
Section 9.08.GOVERNING LAW
33
 
Section 9.09.Waivers; Amendment
33
 
Section 9.10.WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
34
 
Section 9.11.Severability
34
 
Section 9.12.Counterparts
34
 
Section 9.13.Headings
34
 
Section 9.14.Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
34
 
Section 9.15.Termination or Release
35
 
Section 9.16.Additional Subsidiaries
35
 
Section 9.17.Right of Set-off
35
 
Section 9.18.Subject to Intercreditor Agreements
36
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 
Schedules
 
Schedule I                  Subsidiary Parties
Schedule II                 Pledged Stock; Debt Securities
Schedule III                Intellectual Property
Schedule IV                Filing Offices
Schedule V                  Mortgaged Real Properties

 
Exhibits
 
Exhibit I                      Form of Supplement to the Collateral Agreement
Exhibit II                     Form of Perfection Certificate



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COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated and effective as of April 21, 2008 (this “Agreement”), among Berry Plastics Corporation (the “Company”), each subsidiary of the Company identified herein as a party (each such Subsidiary, together with any Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 9.16, a “Subsidiary Party”) and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as defined below).
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms, conditions and provisions of (a) the Indenture dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Subsidiary Parties and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee”), and (b) the Purchase Agreement dated as of April 16, 2008 (as amended, restated, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Purchase Agreement”), among Berry Plastics Corporation, certain of its subsidiaries, and the several parties named in Schedule I thereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), the Company is issuing $680,600,000 aggregate principal amount of its First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015, which will be guaranteed on a first priority senior secured basis by each of the Subsidiary Parties;
 
WHEREAS, the Company entered into that certain Senior Secured Bridge Loan Credit Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008, among the Company, the lenders party thereto from time to time, Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent and collateral agent for the lenders, and the other agents party thereto, the outstanding principal amount of which will be repaid in full on the date hereof with the proceeds of the issuance of the Original Securities (as defined in the Indenture);
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to (i) the Second Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of April 3, 2007, among Berry Plastics Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), the Company, the lenders party thereto from time to time, Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent and collateral agent for the lenders, and the other agents party thereto and (ii) the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2007, among Holdings, the Company, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, the lenders party thereto from time to time, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, and other agents party thereto and (iii) the Second Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2007, among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Grantors (as defined below) have granted to the Term Loan Collateral Agent and Revolving Facility Collateral Agent a first-priority lien and security interest in the Collateral (as defined below);
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms, conditions and provisions of the Indenture dated as of September 20, 2006, among the Company, subsidiaries of the Company parties thereto, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee, the Company issued $525,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 87/8% Second Priority Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2014 and $225,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Second Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2014, which were guaranteed on a second priority senior secured basis by each of the subsidiaries party thereto pursuant to, among others, a Collateral Agreement dated as of September 20, 2006 (the “Second Priority Notes Collateral Agreement”) among the
 

 
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Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, and the Second Priority Notes Trustee, as collateral agent;
 
WHEREAS, Holdings, the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent and the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent have entered into a Second Amended and Restated Senior Lender Priority and Intercreditor Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008, as supplemented on the date hereof through the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by the Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, Holdings, the Company and the Subsidiary Parties, governing the relationship between the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent and the Collateral Agent;
 
WHEREAS, Holdings, the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent and Bridge Loan Collateral Agent have entered into a Senior Fixed Collateral Priority and Intercreditor Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008, as supplemented on the date hereof through the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by the Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, Holdings, the Company and the Subsidiary Parties, governing the relationship between the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Collateral Agent.
 
WHEREAS, Holdings, the Company, the Subsidiary Parties, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Bridge Loan Administrative Agent, the Bridge Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Priority Notes Trustee have entered into a Second Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement dated as of February 5, 2008, as supplemented on the date hereof through the execution and delivery of a joinder agreement by the Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Term Facility Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, the Revolving Facility Collateral Agent, the Second Priority Notes Trustee, Holdings, the Company and the Subsidiary Parties, pursuant to which the lien upon and security interest in the Collateral granted by the Second Priority Notes Collateral Agreement are and shall be subordinated in all respects to the lien upon and security interest in the Collateral granted pursuant to, and subject to the terms and conditions of, this Agreement and the Security Agreement;
 
WHEREAS, each Grantor is executing and delivering this Agreement pursuant to the terms of the Indenture to induce the Trustee to enter into the Indenture and pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement to induce the Initial Purchasers to purchase the Original Securities;
 
WHEREAS, the Subsidiary Parties are affiliates of the Company, will derive substantial benefits from the extension of credit to the Company pursuant to the Indenture and are willing to execute and deliver this Agreement in order to induce the Trustee to enter into the Indenture and to induce the Initial Purchasers to purchase the Original Securities; and
 

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WHEREAS, each Grantor has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises, and of the mutual covenants herein contained, and in order to induce the Trustee to enter into the Indenture and the Initial Purchasers to purchase the Original Securities, each Grantor and the Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each Secured Party (and each of their respective successors or assigns), hereby agree as follows:
 
 
ARTICLE I
 
DEFINITIONS
 
 
Section 1.01. Indenture.
 
(a)           Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Indenture.  All terms defined in the New York UCC (as defined herein) and not defined in this Agreement have the meanings specified therein.  The term “instrument” shall have the meaning specified in Article 9 of the New York UCC.
 
(b)           The rules of construction specified in Section 1.04 of the Indenture also apply to this Agreement.
 
 
Section 1.02. Other Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
 
Account Debtor” means any person who is or who may become obligated to any Grantor under, with respect to or on account of an Account, Chattel Paper, General Intangibles, Instruments or Investment Property.
 
Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
 
Article 9 Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.
 
Collateral” means Article 9 Collateral and Pledged Collateral.
 
Collateral Agent” means the party named as such in this Agreement until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.
 
Company” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
 
Control Agreement” means a deposit account control agreement, a securities account control agreement or a commodity account control agreement, as applicable, enabling
 

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the Collateral Agent to obtain “control” (within the meaning of the New York UCC) of any such accounts, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
 
Copyright License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting any right to any Grantor under any Copyright now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Grantor under any such agreement (including, without limitation, any such rights that such Grantor has the right to license).
 
Copyrights” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor:  (a) all copyright rights in any work subject to the copyright laws of the United States or any other country, whether as author, assignee, transferee or otherwise and (b) all registrations and applications for registration of any such copyright in the United States or any other country, including registrations, supplemental registrations and pending applications for registration in the United States Copyright Office and the right to obtain all renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule III.
 
Federal Securities Laws” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.03.
 
General Intangibles” means all “General Intangibles” as defined in the New York UCC, including all choses in action and causes of action and all other intangible personal property of any Grantor of every kind and nature (other than Accounts) now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor, including corporate or other business records, indemnification claims, contract rights (including rights under leases, whether entered into as lessor or lessee, Swap Agreements and other agreements), Intellectual Property, goodwill, registrations, franchises, tax refund claims and any guarantee, claim, security interest or other security held by or granted to any Grantor to secure payment by an Account Debtor of any of the Accounts.
 
Governmental Authority” shall mean any federal, state, local or foreign court or governmental agency, authority, instrumentality or regulatory or legislative body.
 
Grantor” shall mean the Company and each Subsidiary Party.
 
Holder” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Indenture.
 
Holdings” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals of this Agreement.
 
Indenture” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals of this Agreement.
 
Indenture Documents” means (a) the Indenture, the Securities, the Security Documents and this Agreement and (b) any other related documents or instruments executed and delivered pursuant to the Indenture or any Security Document, in each case, as such agreements may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 

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Initial Purchasers” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals of this Agreement.
 
Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property of every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor, including, inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Patent Licenses, Copyright Licenses, Trademark Licenses, trade secrets, domain names, confidential or proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how or other data or information and all related documentation.
 
Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means a security agreement concerning Intellectual Property in the form hereof or a short form hereof.
 
 “IP Agreements” means all material Copyright Licenses, Patent Licenses, Trademark Licenses, and all other agreements, permits, consents, orders and franchises relating to the license, development, use or disclosure of any material Intellectual Property to which a Grantor, now or hereafter, is a party or a beneficiary, including, without limitation, the agreements set forth on Schedule III hereto.
 
Junior Intercreditor Agreement” refers to the “Second Priority Intercreditor Agreement” as defined in the Indenture.
 
 “Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a material adverse effect on the business, property, operations or condition of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the validity or enforceability of any of the material Note Documents or the rights and remedies of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders.
 
New York UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.
 
Obligations” shall mean (i) all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness (including, without limitation, principal, premium, interest (including, without limitation, all interest that accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding of any Grantor at the rate provided for in the respective documentation, whether or not a claim for post-petition interest is allowed in any such proceeding)) owing to the Collateral Agent, the Trustee and the Holders under the Securities, the Indenture and the Security Documents and the due performance and compliance by the Grantors with all of the terms, conditions and agreements contained in the Securities, the Indenture and in Security Documents; (ii) any and all sums advanced by the Collateral Agent in accordance with the Indenture or any of the Security Documents in order to preserve the Collateral or preserve its security interest in the Collateral; and (iii) in the event of any proceeding for the collection or enforcement of any indebtedness, obligations, or liabilities of the Grantors referred to in clause (i) above, the reasonable expenses of retaking, holding, preparing for sale or lease, selling or otherwise disposing of or realizing on the Collateral, or of any exercise by the Collateral Agent of its rights hereunder, together with reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs.
 
Patent License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting to any Grantor any right to make, use or sell any invention covered by a Patent, now
 

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or hereafter owned by any third party (including, without limitation, any such rights that such Grantor has the right to license).
 
Patents” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor:  (a) all letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country or jurisdiction, including those listed on Schedule III, and all applications for letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country or jurisdiction, including those listed on Schedule III and (b) all provisionals, reissues, extensions, continuations, divisions, continuations-in-part, reexaminations or revisions thereof, and the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, including the right to make, use, import and/or sell the inventions disclosed or claimed therein.
 
Perfection Certificate” means the Perfection Certificate with respect to the Grantors substantially in the form of Exhibit II, completed and supplemented with the schedules and attachments contemplated thereby, and duly executed by an Officer of the Company.
 
Permitted Liens” means any Lien not prohibited by Section 4.12 of the Indenture.
 
Pledged Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
 
Pledged Debt Securities” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
 
Pledged Securities” means any promissory notes, stock certificates or other certificated securities now or hereafter included in the Pledged Collateral, including all certificates, instruments or other documents representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral.
 
Pledged Stock” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
 
Possessory Collateral Agent” has the meaning attached to such term in the Senior Fixed Lender Intercreditor Agreement.
 
Purchase Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals of this Agreement.
 
Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned in fee or leased by the Grantor.
 
Second Priority Notes Collateral Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals of this Agreement.
 
Secured Parties” means (a) the Collateral Agent, (b) each Holder, (c) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Grantor under any
 

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Indenture Document, (d) the Trustee and (e) the successors and permitted assigns of each of the foregoing.
 
Securities” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Indenture.
 
Security Documents” means this Agreement, any agreement pursuant to which assets are added to the Collateral or otherwise pledged to secure the Obligations and any other instruments or documents entered into and delivered in connection with any of the foregoing, as such agreements, instruments or documents may from time to time be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
 
Senior Fixed Lender Intercreditor Agreement” refers to the “Senior Fixed Collateral Intercreditor Agreement” as defined in the Indenture.
 
Senior Lender Claims” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Junior Intercreditor Agreement.
 
Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Indenture.
 
Trademark License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting to any Grantor any right to use any Trademark now or hereafter owned by any third party (including, without limitation, any such rights that such Grantor has the right to license).
 
Trademarks” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor:  (a) all trademarks, service marks, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, trade dress, logos, other source or business identifiers, designs and general intangibles of like nature, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations thereof (if any), and all registration and recording applications filed in connection therewith, including registrations and registration applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in any State of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof (except for “intent-to-use” applications for trademark or service mark registrations filed pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051, unless and until an Amendment to Allege Use or a Statement of Use under Sections 1(c) and 1(d) of the Lanham Act has been filed, to the extent, if any, that any assignment of an “intent-to-use” application prior to such filing would violate the Lanham Act), and all renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule III and (b) all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized thereby.
 
Transactions” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Indenture.
 
Trustee” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals of this Agreement until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.
 

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ARTICLE II
 
[RESERVED]
 
 
 
ARTICLE III
 
PLEDGE OF SECURITIES
 
Section 3.01. Pledge.  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements and the immediately following paragraph, as security for the payment or performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), as the case may be, in full of its Obligations, each Grantor hereby assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under (a) the Equity Interests directly owned by it (including those listed on Schedule II) and any other Equity Interests obtained in the future by such Grantor and any certificates representing all such Equity Interests (the “Pledged Stock”); provided that the Pledged Stock shall not include (i) (A) more than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of any “first tier” Foreign Subsidiary directly owned by such Grantor, (B) more than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of any “first tier” Qualified CFC Holding Company directly owned by such Grantor, (C) any issued and outstanding Equity Interest of any Foreign Subsidiary that is not a “first tier” Foreign Subsidiary, (D) any issued and outstanding Equity Interests of any Qualified CFC Holdings Company that is not a “first tier” Qualified CFC Holding Company or (E) any Equity Interests in NIM Holdings Limited, Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation II, Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation XIV, LLC, Berry Plastics Asia Pte. Ltd., or Ociesse s.r.l.; (ii) to the extent applicable law requires that a Subsidiary of such Grantor issue directors’ qualifying shares, such shares or nominee or other similar shares; (iii) any Equity Interests that would not be required to be pledged, pursuant to Section 4.15(c) of the Indenture, if hereafter acquired, (iv) any Equity Interests of a Subsidiary to the extent that, as of the Issue Date, and for so long as, such a pledge of such Equity Interests would violate a contractual obligation binding on or relating to such Equity Interests; (v) any Equity Interests of a person that is not directly or indirectly a Subsidiary; and (vi) any Equity Interests or other securities of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to the extent that the pledge of such securities results in the Company’s being required to file separate financial statements of such Subsidiary with the SEC, but only to the extent necessary not to be subject to such requirement and only for so long as such requirement is in existence; (b) (i) the debt obligations listed opposite the name of such Grantor on Schedule II, (ii) any debt securities in the future issued to such Grantor having, in the case of each instance of debt securities, an aggregate principal amount in excess of $5.0 million (which pledge, in the case of any intercompany note evidencing debt owed by a Foreign Subsidiary to a Grantor, shall be limited to 65% of the amount outstanding thereunder), and (iii) the certificates, promissory notes and any other instruments, if any, evidencing such debt securities (the “Pledged Debt Securities”); (c) subject to Section 3.05 hereof, all payments of principal or interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other
 

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proceeds received in respect of, the property referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above; (d) subject to Section 3.05 hereof, all rights and privileges of such Grantor with respect to the securities and other property referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above; and (e) all proceeds of any of the foregoing (the items referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above being collectively referred to as the “Pledged Collateral”).
 
 
In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided herein, in the event that Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (or any successor regulation) is amended, modified or interpreted by the SEC to require (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is adopted, which would require) the filing with the SEC (or any other governmental agency) of separate financial statements of any Subsidiary of the Company due to the fact that such Subsidiary’s securities secure the Obligations, then the securities of such Subsidiary will not be subject to the Liens securing the Obligations and will automatically be deemed not to be part of the Collateral but only to the extent necessary not to be subject to such requirement and only for so long as required to not be subject to the requirement. In such event, this Agreement may be amended or modified, without the consent of any Secured Party, to the extent necessary to release the security interests in favor of the Collateral Agent on the Equity Interests or other securities that are so deemed to no longer constitute part of the Collateral for the relevant Obligations. In the event that Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (or any successor regulation) is amended, modified or interpreted by the SEC to permit (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is adopted, which would permit) such Subsidiary’s securities to secure the Obligations in excess of the amount then pledged without the filing with the SEC (or any other governmental agency) of separate financial statements of such Subsidiary, then the securities of such Subsidiary will automatically be deemed to be a part of the Collateral but only to the extent permitted to not be subject to any such financial statement requirement.
 
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, to the extent consistent with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, the Pledged Collateral, together with all right, title, interest, powers, privileges and preferences pertaining or incidental thereto, unto the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, forever; subject, however, to the terms, covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth.
 
 
Section 3.02. Delivery of the Pledged Collateral.
 
(a)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, (i) each Grantor agrees promptly to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, any and all Pledged Securities to the extent such Pledged Securities, in the case of promissory notes or other instruments evidencing Indebtedness, are required to be delivered pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 3.02, (ii) if any Pledged Stock that is uncertificated on the date hereof shall hereafter become certificated, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, the applicable Grantor shall promptly cause the certificate or certificates representing Pledged Stock to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, together with
 

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the accompanying stock powers or other documentation required by Section 3.02(c), and (iii) none of the Grantors shall permit any other party to “control” (for purposes of Section 8-106 of the New York UCC (or any analogous provision of the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the jurisdiction whose law applies)) any uncertificated securities that constitute Pledged Collateral other than the Collateral Agent and any other Collateral Agent (as such term is defined in the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement).
 
(b)           To the extent any Indebtedness for borrowed money constitutes Pledged Collateral  (other than (i) intercompany current liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the cash management operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries or (ii) to the extent that a pledge of such promissory note or instrument would violate applicable law), each Grantor holding such Indebtedness for borrowed money shall cause such Indebtedness to be evidenced by a duly executed promissory note and, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, such Grantor shall cause such promissory note to be  pledged and delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the terms hereof, provided that, such pledge in the case of any intercompany note evidencing debt owed by a Foreign Subsidiary to a Grantor shall be limited to 65% of the amount outstanding thereunder.  To the extent any such promissory note is a demand note, each Grantor party thereto agrees, if requested by the Collateral Agent, to immediately demand payment thereunder upon an Event of Default specified under Section 6.01(a), (b), (e), (f), or (g) of the Indenture unless such demand would not be commercially reasonable or would otherwise expose Grantor to liability to the maker as reasonably determined by the applicable Grantor.
 
(c)           Upon delivery, (i) any Pledged Securities required to be delivered pursuant to the foregoing paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 3.02 shall be accompanied by stock powers or note powers, as applicable, duly executed in blank or other instruments of transfer  and by such other instruments and documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request and (ii) all other property comprising part of the Pledged Collateral delivered pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be accompanied to the extent necessary to perfect the security interest in or allow realization on the Pledged Collateral by proper instruments of assignment duly executed by the applicable Grantor and such other instruments or documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request.  Each delivery of Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by a schedule describing the securities, which schedule shall be attached hereto as Schedule II (or a supplement to Schedule II, as applicable) and made a part hereof; provided that failure to attach any such schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such pledge of such Pledged Securities.  Each schedule so delivered shall supplement any prior schedules so delivered.
 
 
Section 3.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants.  The Grantors, jointly and severally, represent, warrant and covenant to and with the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, that:
 
(a)           Schedule II correctly sets forth the percentage of the issued and outstanding shares of each class of the Equity Interests of the issuer thereof represented by the Pledged Stock and includes all Equity Interests, debt securities and
 

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promissory notes or instruments evidencing Indebtedness required to be delivered pursuant to Section 3.02;
 
(b)           the Pledged Stock and Pledged Debt Securities (solely with respect to Pledged Debt Securities issued by a person that is not a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of any such Subsidiary, to the best of each Grantor’s knowledge) have been duly and validly authorized and issued by the issuer thereof and (i) in the case of Pledged Stock, are fully paid and nonassessable and (ii) in the case of Pledged Debt Securities (solely with respect to Pledged Debt Securities issued by a person that is not a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of any such Subsidiary, to the best of each Grantor’s knowledge) are legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuers thereof, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing;
 
(c)           except for the security interests granted hereunder, each Grantor (i) is and, subject to any transfers made in compliance with the Indenture, will continue to be the direct owner, beneficially and of record, of the Pledged Securities indicated on Schedule II as owned by such Grantor, (ii) holds the same free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens, (iii) will make no assignment, pledge, hypothecation or transfer of, or create or permit to exist any security interest in or other Lien on, the Pledged Collateral, other than pursuant to a transaction permitted by the Indenture  and other than Permitted Liens and (iv) subject to the rights of such Grantor under the Indenture Documents to dispose of Pledged Collateral, will use commercially reasonable efforts to defend its title or interest hereto or therein against any and all Liens (other than Permitted Liens), however arising, of all persons;
 
(d)           other than as set forth in the Indenture, and except for restrictions and limitations imposed by the Indenture Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements, or securities laws generally or otherwise permitted to exist pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, the Pledged Stock (other than partnership interests) is and will continue to be freely transferable and assignable, and none of the Pledged Stock is or will be subject to any option, right of first refusal, shareholders agreement, charter or by-law provisions or contractual restriction of any nature that might prohibit, impair, delay or otherwise affect the pledge of such Pledged Stock hereunder, the sale or disposition thereof pursuant hereto or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of rights and remedies hereunder;
 
(e)           each Grantor has the power and authority to pledge the Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder in the manner hereby done or contemplated;
 
(f)           other than as set forth in the Indenture or this Agreement or the schedules thereto or hereto, no consent or approval of any Governmental Authority, any securities exchange or any other person was or is necessary to the validity of the pledge effected hereby (other than such as have been obtained and are in full force and effect);
 

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(g)           by virtue of the execution and delivery by the Grantors of this Agreement, when any Pledged Securities are delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in accordance with this Agreement and a financing statement covering such Pledged Securities is filed in the appropriate filing office, the Collateral Agent will obtain, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and perfected lien upon and security interest in such Pledged Securities under the New York UCC, subject only to Permitted Liens or Liens arising by operation of law, as security for the payment and performance of the Obligations;
 
(h)           each Grantor that is an issuer of the Pledged Collateral confirms that it has received notice of the security interest granted hereunder and consents to such security interest and agrees to transfer record ownership of the Pledged Securities issued by it in connection with any request by the Collateral Agent;
 
(i)           if any additional direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Issuer is formed or acquired after the Issue Date (with any redesignation of such Subsidiary resulting in an Unrestricted Subsidiary becoming a Restricted Subsidiary being deemed to constitute the acquisition of a Subsidiary) and if such Subsidiary is a Domestic Subsidiary, the Issuer shall notify the Collateral Agent thereof, cause such Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Party and cause the outstanding Equity Interests in and Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owned by or on behalf of any Grantor to be pledged pursuant to this Agreement, in each case other than assets that are not required to become subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents or Section 4.15(c) of the Indenture; and
 
(j)           if any additional Foreign Subsidiary of the Issuer is formed or acquired after the Issue Date (with any redesignation of such Subsidiary resulting in an Unrestricted Subsidiary becoming a Restricted Subsidiary being deemed to constitute the acquisition of a Subsidiary) and if such Subsidiary is a “first tier” Foreign Subsidiary, the Issuer shall notify the Collateral Agent thereof and cause the outstanding Equity Interests in such Foreign Subsidiary owned by or on behalf of any Grantor to be pledged pursuant to this Agreement, in each case other than assets that are not required to become subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.15(c) of the Indenture or the Security Documents (including, without limitation, pursuant to clause (i) of the proviso of Section 3.01 of this Agreement).
 
 
Section 3.04. Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations.  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, shall have the right (in its sole and absolute discretion) to hold the Pledged Securities in the name of the applicable Grantor, endorsed or assigned in blank or in favor of the Collateral Agent or, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, in its own name as pledgee or the name of its nominee (as pledgee or as sub-agent).  Each Grantor will promptly give to the Collateral Agent copies of any notices or other communications received by it with respect to Pledged Securities registered in the name of such Grantor.  If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to exchange the certificates representing Pledged Securities for certificates of smaller or larger
 

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denominations for any purpose consistent with this Agreement.  Each Grantor shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any Subsidiary that is not a party to this Agreement to comply with a request by the Collateral Agent, pursuant to this Section 3.04, to exchange certificates representing Pledged Securities of such Subsidiary for certificates of smaller or larger denominations.
 
 
Section 3.05. Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest, Etc.
 
(a)           Unless and until an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Collateral Agent shall have given notice to the relevant Grantors of the Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its rights hereunder:
 
(i) Each Grantor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner of Pledged Collateral or any part thereof for any purpose consistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Indenture and the other Indenture Documents; provided, that, except as expressly permitted under the Indenture, such rights and powers shall not be exercised in any manner that could materially and adversely affect the rights inuring to a holder of any Pledged Collateral, the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent or the other Secured Parties under this Agreement, the Indenture or any other Indenture Document or the ability of the Secured Parties to exercise the same.
 
(ii) The Collateral Agent shall promptly execute and deliver to each Grantor, or cause to be executed and delivered to such Grantor, all such proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as such Grantor may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such Grantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to subparagraph (i) above.
 
(iii) Each Grantor shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest, principal and other distributions paid on or distributed in respect of the Pledged Collateral to the extent and only to the extent that such dividends, interest, principal and other distributions are permitted by, and otherwise paid or distributed in accordance with, the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the other Indenture Documents and applicable laws; provided, that (A) any noncash dividends, interest, principal or other distributions, payments or other consideration in respect thereof, including any rights to receive the same to the extent not so distributed or paid, that would constitute Pledged Securities, whether resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the outstanding Equity Interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities, received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or in redemption thereof, as a result of any merger, consolidation, acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be a party or otherwise or (B) any non-cash dividends and other distributions paid or payable in respect of any Pledged Securities that would constitute Pledged Securities, in connection with a partial or total liquidation or dissolution or in connection with a reduction of capital, capital surplus or paid in surplus, shall be and become part of the Pledged Collateral, and, if received
 

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(iv) by any Grantor, shall not be commingled by such Grantor with any of its other funds or property but shall be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the same form as so received (endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent), subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements.
 
(b)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and after notice by the Collateral Agent to the Company of the Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its rights hereunder, all rights of any Grantor to receive dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor is authorized to receive pursuant to paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.05 shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral Agent which, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to receive and retain such dividends, interest, principal or other distributions.  All dividends, interest, principal or other distributions received by any Grantor contrary to the provisions of this Section 3.05 shall not be commingled by such Grantor with any of its other funds or property but shall be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the same form as so received (endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent).  Any and all money and other property paid over to or received by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph (b) shall be retained by the Collateral Agent in an account to be established by the Collateral Agent upon receipt of such money or other property and shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.02 hereof.  After all Events of Default have been cured or waived and the Company has delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate to that effect, the Collateral Agent shall promptly repay to each Grantor (without interest) all dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor would otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.05 and that remain in such account established pursuant to this Section 3.05(b).
 
(c)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and after notice by the Collateral Agent to the Company of the Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its rights hereunder, all rights of any Grantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 3.05, and the obligations of the Collateral Agent under paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section 3.05, shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise such voting and consensual rights and powers; provided that, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements and the Indenture, unless the Collateral Agent shall have received written objections from Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, the Collateral Agent shall have the right from time to time following and during the continuance of an Event of Default to permit the Grantors to exercise such rights.  After all Events of Default have been cured or waived and the Company has delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate to that effect, each Grantor shall have the right to exercise the
 

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voting and/or consensual rights and powers that such Grantor would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to the terms of paragraph (a)(i) above.
 
 
ARTICLE IV
 
SECURITY INTERESTS IN OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY

 
 
Section 4.01. Security Interest.
 
(a)           As security for the payment or performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), as the case may be, in full of its Obligations, each Grantor hereby assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the “Security Interest”) in all right, title and interest in or to any and all of the following assets and properties now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the “Article 9 Collateral”):
 
(i) all Accounts;
 
(ii) all Chattel Paper;
 
(iii) all cash and Deposit Accounts;
 
(iv) all Documents;
 
(v) all Equipment;
 
(vi) all General Intangibles;
 
(vii) all Instruments;
 
(viii) all Inventory;
 
(ix) all Investment Property;
 
(x) all Letter of Credit Rights;
 
(xi) all Commercial Tort Claims;
 
(xii) all other personal property not otherwise described above (except for property specifically excluded from any defined term used in any of the foregoing clauses);
 
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(xiv) to the extent not otherwise included, all proceeds, Supporting Obligations and products of any and all of the foregoing and all collateral security and guarantees given by any person with respect to any of the foregoing.
 
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, this Agreement shall not constitute a grant of a security interest in, and the Article 9 Collateral shall not include, (a) any vehicle covered by a certificate of title or ownership, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, (b) any assets (including Equity Interests) whether now owned or hereafter acquired, which would not be required to be pledged pursuant to Section 4.15 (c) of the Indenture if hereafter acquired, (c) any property excluded from the definition of Pledged Collateral pursuant to Section 3.01 hereof, (d) any Letter of Credit Rights to the extent any Grantor is required by applicable law to apply the proceeds of a drawing of such Letter of Credit for a specified purpose, (e) any Grantor’s right, title or interest in any license, contract or agreement to which such Grantor is a party or any of its right, title or interest thereunder to the extent, but only to the extent, that such a grant would, under the terms of such license, contract or agreement, result in a breach of the terms of, or constitute a default under, or result in the abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability of, any license, contract or agreement to which such Grantor is a party (other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Section 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the New York UCC or any other applicable law (including, without limitation, Title 11 of the United States Code) or principles of equity); provided, that immediately upon the ineffectiveness, lapse or termination of any such provision, the Collateral shall include, and such Grantor shall be deemed to have granted a security interest in, all such rights and interests as if such provision had never been in effect, (f) any Equipment owned by any Grantor that is subject to a purchase money lien or a Capital Lease Obligation if the contract or other agreement in which such Lien is granted (or the documentation providing for such Capital Lease Obligation) prohibits or requires the consent of any person other than the Grantors as a condition to the creation of any other security interest on such Equipment, or (g) any Equity Interests or other securities of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to the extent that the pledge of such securities results in the Company’s being required to file separate financial statements of such Subsidiary with the SEC, but only to the extent necessary not to be subject to such requirement and only for so long as such requirement is in existence.  Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (a) through (f) above (but subject to clause (g) above), there shall not be excluded from the grant of the security interest set forth in this Section 4.01 any asset or property of a Grantor that is not also excluded from the grant of security interest to secure the Term Loan Obligations.
 
(b)           Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements (including fixture filings) with respect to the Article 9 Collateral or any part thereof and amendments thereto that contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement or amendment, including (i) whether such Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Grantor, (ii) in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing, a sufficient description of the real property to which such Article 9 Collateral relates and (iii) a description of collateral that describes such property in any other manner as the Collateral Agent may reasonably determine is necessary
 

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or advisable to ensure the perfection of the security interest in the Article 9 Collateral granted under this Agreement, including describing such property as “all assets” or “all property”.  Each Grantor agrees to provide such information to the Collateral Agent promptly upon request.
 
The Collateral Agent is further authorized to file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) such documents as may be reasonably necessary or advisable for the purpose of perfecting, confirming, continuing, enforcing or protecting the Security Interest granted by each Grantor, without the signature of such Grantor, and naming such Grantor or the Grantors as debtors and the Collateral Agent as secured party. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the preparation of the Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and the Intellectual Property Security Agreement and the filings thereof at any time or times.
 
(c)           The Security Interest is granted as security only and shall not subject the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the Article 9 Collateral.
 
 
Section 4.02. Representations and Warranties.  The Grantors jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties that:
 
(a)           Each Grantor has good and valid rights in and title to the Article 9 Collateral with respect to which it has purported to grant a Security Interest hereunder and has full power and authority to grant to the Collateral Agent the Security Interest in such Article 9 Collateral pursuant hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without the consent or approval of any other person other than any consent or approval that has been obtained and is in full force and effect or has otherwise been disclosed herein or in the Indenture.
 
(b)           The Perfection Certificate has been duly prepared, completed and executed and the information set forth therein, including the exact legal name of each Grantor, is correct and complete, in all material respects, as of the Issue Date.  The Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (including fixture filings, as applicable) or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations containing a description of the Article 9 Collateral that have been prepared based upon the information provided to the Collateral Agent in the Perfection Certificate for filing in each governmental, municipal or other office specified in Schedule IV hereto (or specified by notice from the Company to the Collateral Agent after the Issue Date in the case of filings, recordings or registrations required by Section 4.15 of the Indenture) constitute all the filings, recordings and registrations (other than filings required to be made in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office in order to perfect the Security Interest in Article 9 Collateral consisting of United States Patents, United States registered Trademarks and United States registered Copyrights) that are necessary to publish notice of and protect the
 

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validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in respect of all Article 9 Collateral in which the Security Interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary in any such jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable law with respect to the filing of continuation statements or amendments.  Each Grantor represents and warrants that fully executed Intellectual Property Security Agreements containing a description of all Article 9 Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property with respect to United States Patents (and Patents for which United States registration applications are pending), United States registered Trademarks (and Trademarks for which United States registration applications are pending) and United States registered Copyrights (and Copyrights for which United States registration applications are pending) has been delivered to the Collateral Agent for recording with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 261, 15 U.S.C. § 1060 or 17 U.S.C. § 205 and the regulations thereunder, as applicable, and reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, to protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in respect of all Article 9 Collateral consisting of such Intellectual Property in which a security interest may be perfected by recording with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary (other than such actions as are necessary to perfect the Security Interest with respect to any Article 9 Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights (or registration or application for registration thereof) acquired or developed after the date hereof).
 
(c)           The Security Interest constitutes (i) a legal and valid security interest in all the Article 9 Collateral securing the payment and performance of the Obligations, (ii) subject to the filings described in Section 4.02(b), a perfected security interest in all Article 9 Collateral (other than Commercial Tort Claims) in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registering a financing statement or analogous document in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law in such jurisdictions and (iii) a security interest that shall be perfected in all Article 9 Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected upon the receipt and recording of the Intellectual Property Security Agreements with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office upon the making of such filing with such office, in each case, as applicable, with respect to material Intellectual Property Collateral. The Security Interest is and shall be prior to any other Lien on any of the Article 9 Collateral, subject to Permitted Liens.
 
(d)           The Article 9 Collateral is owned by the Grantors free and clear of any Lien, other than Permitted Liens.  None of the Grantors has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing statement or analogous document under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable laws covering any Article 9 Collateral, (ii)
 

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any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Article 9 Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office or (iii) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Article 9 Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or other office, which financing statement or analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument is still in effect, except, in each case, for Permitted Liens.
 
(e)           None of the Grantors holds any Commercial Tort Claim individually in excess of $5.0 million as of the Issue Date except as indicated on the Perfection Certificate.
 
(f)           Except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate, as of the Issue Date, all Accounts have been originated by the Grantors and all Inventory has been produced or acquired by the Grantors in the ordinary course of business.
 
(g)           As to itself and its Article 9 Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property (the “Intellectual Property Collateral”), to the best of each Grantor’s knowledge:
 
(i) The Intellectual Property Collateral set forth on Schedule III includes all of the material Patents, domain names, Trademarks, Copyrights and IP Agreements owned by such Grantor as of the date hereof.
 
(ii) The Intellectual Property Collateral is subsisting and has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in whole or part, and to the best of such Grantor’s knowledge, is valid and enforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Such Grantor is not aware of any uses of any item of Intellectual Property Collateral that would be expected to lead to such item becoming invalid or unenforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(iii) Such Grantor has made or performed all commercially reasonable acts, including without limitation filings, recordings and payment of all required fees and taxes, required to maintain and protect its interest in each and every item of Intellectual Property Collateral in full force and effect in the United States and such Grantor has used proper statutory notice in connection with its use of each Patent, Trademark and Copyright in the Intellectual Property Collateral, in each case, except to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(iv) With respect to each IP Agreement, the absence, termination or violation of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:  (A) such Grantor has not received any notice of termination or cancellation under such IP Agreement; (B) such Grantor has not received any notice of a breach or default under such IP Agreement, which breach or default
 

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(v) has not been cured or waived; and (C) neither such Grantor nor any other party to such IP Agreement is in breach or default thereof in any material respect, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a breach or default or permit termination, modification or acceleration under such IP Agreement.
 
(vi) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no Grantor or Intellectual Property Collateral is subject to any outstanding consent, settlement, decree, order, injunction, judgment or ruling restricting the use of any Intellectual Property Collateral or that would impair the validity or enforceability of such Intellectual Property Collateral.
 
 
Section 4.03. Covenants.
 
(a)           Each Grantor agrees promptly to notify the Collateral Agent in writing of any change (i) in its corporate or organization name, (ii) in its identity or type of organization or corporate structure, (iii) in its Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification number or (iv) in its jurisdiction of organization.  Each Grantor agrees promptly to provide the Collateral Agent with certified organizational documents reflecting any of the changes described in the immediately preceding sentence.  Each Grantor agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the first sentence of this paragraph (a) unless all filings have been made, or will have been made within any applicable statutory period, under the Uniform Commercial Code or otherwise that are required in order for the Collateral Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected first priority security interest in all the Article 9 Collateral, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.  Each Grantor agrees promptly to notify the Collateral Agent if any material portion of the Article 9 Collateral owned or held by such Grantor is damaged or destroyed.
 
(b)           Subject to the rights of such Grantor under the Indenture Documents to dispose of Collateral, each Grantor shall, at its own expense, use commercially reasonable efforts to defend title to the Article 9 Collateral against all persons and to defend the Security Interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Article 9 Collateral and the priority thereof against any Lien that is not a Permitted Lien.
 
(c)           Each Grantor agrees, at its own expense, to execute, acknowledge, deliver and cause to be duly filed all such further instruments and documents and take all such actions that, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements and the Indenture, the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding or the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request to better assure, preserve, protect, defend and perfect the Security Interest and the rights and remedies created hereby, including, without limitation, the payment of any fees and taxes required in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the granting of the Security Interest and the filing of any financing statements (including fixture filings) or other documents in connection herewith or therewith, all in accordance with the terms hereof and of Section 4.15 of the Indenture. If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Article 9 Collateral that is in excess of $5.0 million shall be or become evidenced by any promissory note or other
 

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instrument, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, such note or instrument shall be promptly pledged and delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, duly endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements.
 
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent, with prompt notice thereof to the Grantors, to supplement this Agreement by supplementing Schedule III or adding additional schedules hereto to specifically identify any asset or item that may constitute material Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Copyright Licenses, Patent Licenses or Trademark Licenses; provided that any Grantor shall have the right, exercisable within 30 days after the Company has been notified by the Collateral Agent of the specific identification of such Article 9 Collateral, to advise the Collateral Agent in writing of any inaccuracy of the representations and warranties made by such Grantor hereunder with respect to such Article 9 Collateral.  Each Grantor agrees that it will use its commercially reasonable efforts to take such action as shall be necessary in order that all representations and warranties hereunder shall be true and correct with respect to such Article 9 Collateral within 30 days after the date it has been notified by Collateral Agent of the specific identification of such Article 9 Collateral.
 
(d)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, after the occurrence of an Event of Default and during the continuance thereof, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to verify under reasonable procedures the validity, amount, quality, quantity, value, condition and status of, or any other matter relating to, the Article 9 Collateral, including, in the case of Accounts or Article 9 Collateral in the possession of any third person, by contacting Account Debtors or the third person possessing such Article 9 Collateral for the purpose of making such a verification.  The Collateral Agent shall have the right to share any information it gains from such inspection or verification with any Secured Party.
 
(e)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, at its option, the Collateral Agent may discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on the Article 9 Collateral and not a Permitted Lien, and may pay for the maintenance and preservation of the Article 9 Collateral to the extent any Grantor fails to do so as required by the Indenture or this Agreement, and each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent on demand for any reasonable payment made or any reasonable expense incurred by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the foregoing authorization; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 4.03(e) shall be interpreted as excusing any Grantor from the performance of, or imposing any obligation on the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party to cure or perform, any covenants or other promises of any Grantor with respect to taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other encumbrances and maintenance as set forth herein or in the other Indenture Documents.
 
(f)           Each Grantor (rather than the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party) shall remain liable for the observance and performance of all the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it under each contract, agreement or instrument relating to the Article 9 Collateral and each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to indemnify and hold
 

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harmless the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties from and against any and all liability for such performance.
 
(g)           None of the Grantors shall make or permit to be made an assignment, pledge or hypothecation of the Article 9 Collateral or shall grant any other Lien in respect of the Article 9 Collateral, except as expressly permitted by the Indenture and the other provisions hereof.  None of the Grantors shall make or permit to be made any transfer of the Article 9 Collateral and each Grantor shall remain at all times in possession of the Article 9 Collateral owned by it, except as permitted by the Indenture and the other provisions hereof.
 
(h)           [Reserved].
 
(i)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, each Grantor irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Collateral Agent) as such Grantor’s true and lawful agent (and attorney-in-fact) for the purpose, during the continuance of an Event of Default, of making, settling and adjusting claims in respect of Article 9 Collateral under policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Grantor on any check, draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with respect thereto.  In the event that any Grantor at any time or times shall fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required hereby or to pay any premium in whole or part relating thereto, the Collateral Agent may, without waiving or releasing any obligation or liability of the Grantors hereunder or any Event of Default, in its sole discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premium and take any other actions with respect thereto as the Collateral Agent reasonably deems advisable.  All sums disbursed by the Collateral Agent in connection with this Section 4.03(i), including reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall be payable, upon demand, by the Grantors to the Collateral Agent and shall be additional Obligations secured hereby.
 
(j)             In the event any Grantor shall create any additional security interest upon any property or assets to secure any obligations under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, it shall concurrently grant a security interest upon such property as security for the Obligations.
 
(k)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, in the event any Grantor shall undertake any actions to perfect or protect any liens on any assets pledged in connection with the Term Loan Credit Agreement, such Grantor shall also at the same time undertake such actions with respect to the Collateral for the benefit of the Collateral Agent without request by the Collateral Agent.
 
 
Section 4.04. Other Actions.  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, in order to further ensure the attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Collateral Agent to enforce, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Article 9 Collateral, each Grantor agrees, in each case at such Grantor’s own expense, to take the following actions with respect to the following Article 9 Collateral:
 

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(a)           Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper.  If any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire any Instruments (other than checks received and processed in the ordinary course of business) or Tangible Chattel Paper evidencing an amount in excess of $5.0 million, subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, such Grantor shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
 
(b)           Investment Property.  Except to the extent otherwise provided in Article III and subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, if any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire any Certificated Security constituting Pledged Collateral or Article 9 Collateral, such Grantor shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably specify.  If any security of a domestic issuer now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor is uncertificated and is issued to such Grantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent of such uncertificated securities and (a) upon the Collateral Agent’s reasonable request and (b) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, such Grantor shall, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either (i) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Collateral Agent as to such security, without further consent of any Grantor or such nominee, or (ii) cause the issuer to register the Collateral Agent as the registered owner of such security. Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, if any security or other Investment Property, whether certificated or uncertificated, representing an Equity Interest in a third party and having a fair market value in excess of $5.0 million now or hereafter acquired by any Grantor is held by such Grantor or its nominee through a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at the Collateral Agent’s request and option, pursuant to a Control Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either (A) cause such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, as applicable, to agree, in the case of a securities intermediary, to comply with entitlement orders or other instructions from the Collateral Agent to such securities intermediary as to such securities or other Investment Property or, in the case of a commodity intermediary, to apply any value distributed on account of any commodity contract as directed by the Collateral Agent to such commodity intermediary, in each case without further consent of any Grantor or such nominee, or (B) in the case of Financial Assets or other Investment Property held through a securities intermediary, arrange for the Collateral Agent to become entitlement holders with respect to such Investment Property, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, with such Grantor being permitted, only with the consent of the Collateral Agent, to exercise rights to withdraw or otherwise deal with such Investment Property. The Collateral Agent agrees with each of the Grantors that the Collateral Agent shall not give any such entitlement orders or instructions or directions to any such issuer, securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, and shall not withhold its consent to the exercise of any withdrawal or dealing rights by
 

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any Grantor, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, after giving effect to any such withdrawal or dealing rights, would occur.  The provisions of this paragraph (b) shall not apply to any Financial Assets credited to a securities account for which the Collateral Agent is the securities intermediary.
 
(c)           Commercial Tort Claims.  If any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in an amount reasonably estimated to exceed $5.0 million, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof in a writing signed by such Grantor, including a summary description of such claim, and grant to the Collateral Agent in writing a security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof, all under the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
 
 
Section 4.05. Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral
 
(a)           Each Grantor agrees that it will not knowingly do any act or omit to do any act (and will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to prevent its licensees from doing any act or omitting to do any act) whereby any Patent that is material to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business may become prematurely invalidated, abandoned, lapsed or dedicated to the public, and agrees that it shall take commercially reasonable steps with respect to any material products covered by any such Patent as necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its rights under applicable patent laws.
 
(b)           Each Grantor will, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees or its sublicensees to, for each material Trademark necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business, (i) maintain such Trademark in full force free from any adjudication of abandonment or invalidity for non-use, (ii) maintain the quality of products and services offered under such Trademark, (iii) display such Trademark with notice of federal or foreign registration or claim of trademark or service mark as required under applicable law and (iv) not knowingly use or knowingly permit its licensees’ use of such Trademark in violation of any third-party rights.
 
(c)           Each Grantor will, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees or its sublicensees to, for each work covered by a material Copyright necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business that it publishes, displays and distributes, use a copyright notice as required under applicable copyright laws.
 
(d)           Each Grantor shall notify the Collateral Agent promptly if it knows that any Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business may imminently become abandoned, lapsed or dedicated to the public, or of any materially adverse determination or development, excluding office actions and similar determinations or developments in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office, any court or any similar office of any country, regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any such material Patent, Trademark or Copyright or its right to register or to maintain the same.
 

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(e)           Each Grantor, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, shall (i) inform the Collateral Agent on an annual basis of each application by itself, or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, for any Patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and each registration of any Trademark or Copyright with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any comparable office or agency in any other country filed during the preceding twelve-month period, in each case to the extent such application or registration relates to the Intellectual Property material to the normal course of such Grantor’s business and (ii) subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, execute and deliver any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers necessary or as the Collateral Agent may otherwise reasonably request to evidence the Collateral Agent’s security interest in such Patent, Trademark or Copyright and the perfection thereof.
 
(f)           Each Grantor shall exercise its reasonable business judgment consistent with the practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any comparable office or agency in any other country with respect to maintaining and pursuing each application relating to any Patent, Trademark and/or Copyright (and obtaining the relevant grant or registration) material to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business and to maintain (i) each issued Patent and (ii) the registrations of each Trademark and each Copyright that is material to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business, including, when applicable and necessary in such Grantor’s reasonable business judgment, timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if any Grantor believes necessary in its reasonable business judgment, to initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties.
 
(g)           In the event that any Grantor knows or has reason to know that any Article 9 Collateral consisting of a Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the normal conduct of its business has been or is about to be materially infringed, misappropriated or diluted by a third party, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent and shall, if such Grantor deems it necessary in its reasonable business judgment, promptly sue and recover any and all damages, and take such other actions as are reasonably appropriate under the circumstances.
 
 
ARTICLE V
 
OTHER SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND OTHER ACTIONS
 
 
Section 5.01. Mortgages.  In addition to the security interests created under Articles III and IV, the parties acknowledge that each Grantor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to the Collateral Agent as promptly as reasonably practicable, in any event within 120 days from the date of the Indenture, (a) counterparts of each Mortgage to be entered into with respect to each Real Property identified in Schedule V owned by a Grantor, which Real Property is currently subject to a Mortgage in favor of the secured parties under the Security Agreement, duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such
 

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property and suitable for recording or filing and such other documents including, but not limited to, any consents, agreements and confirmations of third parties with respect to any such Mortgage or property, in each case consistent in form and substance with such documents as previously delivered to the Term Facility Administrative Agent and the Revolving Facility Administrative Agent, and (b) a policy, policies or pro forma policy or policies or marked up unconditional binder(s) of title insurance or foreign equivalent thereof (if any and if available), as applicable, paid for by the Company, issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the lien of each mortgage (which may be the same as the company or companies insuring the Mortgages in favor of the secured parties under the Security Agreement) to be entered into on or after the date hereof as a valid lien on the applicable property described therein, free of any other liens, except for Permitted Liens and liens arising by operation of law, together with such customary endorsements (including zoning endorsements where reasonably appropriate and available), and with respect to any such property located in a state in which a zoning endorsement is not available, a zoning compliance letter from the applicable municipality in a form consistent with that previously delivered to the Term Facility Administrative Agent and Revolving Facility Administrative Agent or such other form as is customary for such municipality (it being understood that (x) no new or updated surveys shall be required to be delivered in connection with the delivery of any title insurance policies and (y) the last survey or update delivered or certified to the Term Facility Administrative Agent and Revolving Facility Administrative Agent shall be acceptable to the Collateral Agent together with an affidavit from the property owner (if required by the title company) stating there have been no substantial changes materially affecting the use of the property in the business since the date of such last survey or update, so long as the same is sufficient for the title insurance company to remove the so-called standard survey exception and issue all survey-related endorsements to the title insurance policies described in clause (b) of this sentence, in substantially the same manner and to substantially the same extent as the title company has previously insured such persons).
 
 
ARTICLE VI
 
REMEDIES

 
 
Section 6.01. Remedies Upon Default.  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor agrees to deliver each item of Collateral to the Collateral Agent, on demand, and it is agreed that the Collateral Agent shall have the right to take any of or all the following actions at the same or different times:  (a) with respect to any Article 9 Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property, on demand, to cause the Security Interest to become an assignment, transfer and conveyance of any of or all such Article 9 Collateral by the applicable Grantors to the Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) or to license or sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or a nonexclusive basis, any such Article 9 Collateral throughout the world on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Collateral Agent shall determine (other than in violation of any then-existing licensing arrangements to the extent that waivers thereunder cannot be obtained with the use of commercially reasonable efforts, which each Grantor hereby agrees
 

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to use) and (b) with or without legal process and with or without prior notice or demand for performance, to take possession of the Article 9 Collateral and without liability for trespass to the applicable Grantor to enter any premises where the Article 9 Collateral may be located for the purpose of taking possession of or removing the Article 9 Collateral and, generally, to exercise any and all rights afforded to a secured party under the applicable Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor agrees that the Collateral Agent shall have the right, subject to the mandatory requirements of applicable law, to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Collateral at a public or private sale or at any broker’s board or on any securities exchange, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery as the Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate.  The Collateral Agent shall be authorized in connection with any sale of a security (if it deems it advisable to do so) pursuant to the foregoing to restrict the prospective bidders or purchasers to persons who represent and agree that they are purchasing such security for their own account, for investment, and not with a view to the distribution or sale thereof.  Upon consummation of any such sale of Collateral pursuant to this Section 6.01, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to assign, transfer and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof the Collateral so sold.  Each such purchaser at any such sale shall hold the property sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of any Grantor, and each Grantor hereby waives and releases (to the extent permitted by law) all rights of redemption, stay, valuation and appraisal that such Grantor now has or may at any time in the future have under any rule of law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted.
 
The Collateral Agent shall give the applicable Grantors 10 Business Days’ written notice (which each Grantor agrees is reasonable notice within the meaning of Section 9-611 of the New York UCC or its equivalent in other jurisdictions) of the Collateral Agent’s intention to make any sale of Collateral.  Such notice, in the case of a public sale, shall state the time and place for such sale and, in the case of a sale at a broker’s board or on a securities exchange, shall state the board or exchange at which such sale is to be made and the day on which the Collateral, or portion thereof, will first be offered for sale at such board or exchange.  Any such public sale shall be held at such time or times within ordinary business hours and at such place or places as the Collateral Agent may fix and state in the notice (if any) of such sale.  At any such sale, the Collateral, or the portion thereof, to be sold may be sold in one lot as an entirety or in separate parcels, as the Collateral Agent may (in its sole and absolute discretion) determine.  The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of any Collateral if it shall determine not to do so, regardless of the fact that notice of sale of such Collateral shall have been given.  The Collateral Agent may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed for sale, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which the same was so adjourned.  In the case of any sale of all or any part of the Collateral made on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Collateral Agent until the sale price is paid by the purchaser or purchasers thereof, but the Collateral Agent shall not incur any liability in the event that any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in the case of any such failure, such Collateral may be sold again upon notice given in accordance with provisions above.  At any public (or, to the extent permitted by law, private) sale made pursuant to this Section 6.01, any Secured Party may bid for or purchase for cash, free (to the
 

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extent permitted by law) from any right of redemption, stay, valuation or appraisal on the part of any Grantor (all such rights being also hereby waived and released to the extent permitted by law), the Collateral or any part thereof offered for sale and such Secured Party may, upon compliance with the terms of sale, hold, retain and dispose of such property in accordance with Section 6.02 hereof without further accountability to any Grantor therefor.  For purposes hereof, a written agreement to purchase the Collateral or any portion thereof shall be treated as a sale thereof; the Collateral Agent shall be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement and no Grantor shall be entitled to the return of the Collateral or any portion thereof subject thereto, notwithstanding the fact that after the Collateral Agent shall have entered into such an agreement all Events of Default shall have been remedied and the Obligations paid in full.  As an alternative to exercising the power of sale herein conferred upon it, the Collateral Agent may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose under this Agreement and to sell the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court or courts having competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed receiver.  Any sale pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.01 shall be deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable standards as provided in Section 9-610(b) of the New York UCC or its equivalent in other jurisdictions.
 
 
Section 6.02. Application of Proceeds.
 
 
(a)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, the Collateral Agent shall promptly apply the proceeds, moneys or balances of any collection or sale of Collateral, as well as any Collateral consisting of cash, as follows:
 
FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent or the Trustee in connection with such collection or sale or otherwise in connection with this Agreement, any other Indenture Document or any of the Obligations, including without limitation all court costs and the fees and expenses of its agents and legal counsel, the repayment of all advances made by the Collateral Agent or the Trustee hereunder or under any other Indenture Document on behalf of any Grantor, any other costs or expenses incurred in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Indenture Document, and all other fees, indemnities and other amounts owing or reimbursable to the Collateral Agent or the Trustee under any Indenture Document in its capacity as such;
 
SECOND, to interest due in respect of the Obligations which such Collateral secures;
 
THIRD, to the principal of the Obligations which such Collateral secures; and
 
FOURTH, to the Company, its successors or assigns, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct (provided that the Company and other Grantors may separately allocate such excess proceeds among themselves after delivery by the Collateral Agent to the Company).
 

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(b)           Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, the Collateral Agent shall have absolute discretion as to the time of application of any such proceeds, moneys or balances in accordance with this Agreement.  Upon any sale of Collateral by the Collateral Agent (including pursuant to a power of sale granted by statute or under a judicial proceeding), the receipt of the purchase money by the Collateral Agent or of the officer making the sale shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the Collateral so sold and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obligated to see to the application of any part of the purchase money paid over to the Collateral Agent or such officer or be answerable in any way for the misapplication thereof.  If, despite the provisions of this Agreement, any Secured Party shall receive any payment or other recovery in excess of its portion of payments on account of the Obligations to which it is then entitled in accordance with this Agreement, such Secured Party shall hold such payment or other recovery in trust for the benefit of all Secured Parties hereunder for distribution in accordance with this Section 6.02.
 
 
(c)           If, after receipt of any payment which is applied to the payment of all or any part of any Obligations, a Secured Party is for any reason compelled to surrender such payment or proceeds to any person because such payment or application of proceeds is invalidated, declared fraudulent, set aside, determined to be void or voidable as a preference, impermissible set-off, or a diversion of trust funds, or for any other reason, then the Obligations or part thereof intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued and this Agreement shall continue in full force as if such payment or proceeds had not been received by such Secured Party and the Company shall be liable to pay to such Secured Party, and shall indemnify each Secured Party and hold such Secured Party harmless for the amount of such payment or proceeds surrendered.  The provisions of this Section 6.02(c) shall be and remain effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may have been taken by a Secured Party in reliance upon such payment or application of proceeds, and any such contrary action so taken shall be without prejudice to the Secured Parties’ rights under this Agreement and shall be deemed to have been conditioned upon such payment or application of proceeds having become final and irrevocable.  The provisions of this Section 6.02(c) shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
 
 
Section 6.03. Securities Act, Etc.  In view of the position of the Grantors in relation to the Pledged Collateral, or because of other current or future circumstances, a question may arise under the Securities Act of 1933, as now or hereafter in effect, or any similar federal statute hereafter enacted analogous in purpose or effect (such Act and any such similar statute as from time to time in effect being called the “Federal Securities Laws”) with respect to any disposition of the Pledged Collateral permitted hereunder.  Each Grantor understands that compliance with the Federal Securities Laws might very strictly limit the course of conduct of the Collateral Agent if the Collateral Agent were to attempt to dispose of all or any part of the Pledged Collateral, and might also limit the extent to which or the manner in which any subsequent transferee of any Pledged Collateral could dispose of the same.  Similarly, there may be other legal restrictions or limitations affecting the Collateral Agent in any attempt to dispose of all or part of the Pledged Collateral under applicable Blue Sky or other state securities laws or similar laws analogous in purpose or effect.  Each Grantor
 

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acknowledges and agrees that in light of such restrictions and limitations, the Collateral Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, (a) may proceed to make such a sale whether or not a registration statement for the purpose of registering such Pledged Collateral or part thereof shall have been filed under the Federal Securities Laws or, to the extent applicable, Blue Sky or other state securities laws and (b) may approach and negotiate with a single potential purchaser to effect such sale.  Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that any such sale might result in prices and other terms less favorable to the seller than if such sale were a public sale without such restrictions.  In the event of any such sale, the Collateral Agent shall incur no responsibility or liability for selling all or any part of the Pledged Collateral at a price that the Collateral Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, may in good faith deem reasonable under the circumstances, notwithstanding the possibility that a substantially higher price might have been realized if the sale were deferred until after registration as aforesaid or if more than a single purchaser were approached.  The provisions of this Section 6.03 will apply notwithstanding the existence of a public or private market upon which the quotations or sales prices may exceed substantially the price at which the Collateral Agent sells.
 
 
ARTICLE VII
 
[RESERVED]
 

 
 
ARTICLE VIII
 
[RESERVED]
 

 
 
ARTICLE IX
 
MISCELLANEOUS
 
 

 
 
Section 9.01. Notices.  All communications and notices hereunder shall (except as otherwise permitted herein) be in writing and given as provided in Section 13.02 of the Indenture.  All communications and notices hereunder to any Subsidiary Party shall be given to it in care of the Company, with such notice to be given as provided in Section 13.02 of the Indenture.
 
 
Section 9.02. Security Interest Absolute.  All rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder, the Security Interest in the Article 9 Collateral, the security interest in the Pledged Collateral and all obligations of each Grantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Indenture, any other Indenture Document, any agreement with respect to any of the Obligations or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of the foregoing, (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or
 

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waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Indenture, any other Indenture Document or any other agreement or instrument, (c) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Lien on other collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent under or departure from any guarantee, securing or guaranteeing all or any of the Obligations or (d) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the Obligations or this Agreement (other than a defense of payment or performance).
 
 
Section 9.03. Limitation By Law.  All rights, remedies and powers provided in this Agreement may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provision of law, and all the provisions of this Agreement are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of law that may be controlling and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they shall not render this Agreement invalid, unenforceable, in whole or in part, or not entitled to be recorded, registered or filed under the provisions of any applicable law.
 
 
Section 9.04. Binding Effect; Several Agreement.  This Agreement shall become effective as to any party to this Agreement when a counterpart hereof executed on behalf of such party shall have been delivered to the Collateral Agent and a counterpart hereof shall have been executed on behalf of the Collateral Agent, and thereafter shall be binding upon such party and the Collateral Agent and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of such party, the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties and their respective permitted successors and assigns, except that no party shall have the right to assign or transfer its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein or in the Collateral (and any such assignment or transfer shall be void) except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement or the Indenture.  This Agreement shall be construed as a separate agreement with respect to each party and may be amended, modified, supplemented, waived or released with respect to any party without the approval of any other party and without affecting the obligations of any other party hereunder.
 
 
Section 9.05. Successors and Assigns.  Whenever in this Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the permitted successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of any Grantor or the Collateral Agent that are contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective permitted successors and assigns; provided that no Grantor may assign, transfer or delegate any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent.  Written notice of resignation by the Collateral Agent as trustee pursuant to the Indenture shall also constitute notice of resignation as the Collateral Agent under this Agreement.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the trustee under the Indenture by a successor Collateral Agent, that successor trustee shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent pursuant hereto.
 

Section 9.06. Collateral Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification.
 
(a)           Each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to pay upon demand to the Collateral Agent the amount of any and all reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of its counsel and of any experts or agents, which the Collateral Agent may incur in connection with (i) the administration of this Agreement, (ii) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of, collection from or other realization upon any of the Collateral, (iii) the exercise, enforcement or protection of any rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder or (iv) the failure of any Grantor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof applicable to it.
 
 
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(b)           Without limitation of its indemnification obligations under the other Indenture Documents, each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to indemnify the Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Holders and each Affiliate of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel fees, charges and disbursements, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, (i) the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any other Indenture Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto and thereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions and other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) the use of proceeds of the Securities or (iii) any claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, or to the Collateral, whether or not any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee.
 
(c)           Any such amounts payable as provided hereunder shall be additional Obligations secured hereby and by the other Security Documents.  The provisions of this Section 9.06 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement or any other Indenture Document, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of any of the Obligations, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Indenture Document, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party.  All amounts due under this Section 9.06 shall be payable on written demand therefor, accompanied by reasonable documentation with respect to any reimbursement, indemnification or other amount requested.
 
 
Section 9.07. Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact.  Each Grantor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent the attorney-in-fact of such Grantor for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument that the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest.  The Collateral Agent shall have the right, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, with full power of substitution either in the Collateral Agent’s name or in
 

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the name of such Grantor, (a) to receive, endorse, assign or deliver any and all notes, acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of payment relating to the Collateral or any part thereof; (b) to demand, collect, receive payment of, give receipt for and give discharges and releases of all or any of the Collateral; (c) to ask for, demand, sue for, collect, receive and give acquittance for any and all moneys due or to become due under and by virtue of any Collateral; (d) to sign the name of any Grantor on any invoice or bill of lading relating to any of the Collateral; (e) to send verifications of Accounts to any Account Debtor; (f) to commence and prosecute any and all suits, actions or proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect or otherwise realize on all or any of the Collateral or to enforce any rights in respect of any Collateral; (g) to settle, compromise, compound, adjust or defend any actions, suits or proceedings relating to all or any of the Collateral; (h) to notify, or to require any Grantor to notify, Account Debtors to make payment directly to the Collateral Agent; and (i) to use, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with all or any of the Collateral, and to do all other acts and things necessary to carry out the purposes of this Agreement, as fully and completely as though the Collateral Agent were the absolute owner of the Collateral for all purposes; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring or obligating the Collateral Agent to make any commitment or to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Collateral Agent, or to present or file any claim or notice, or to take any action with respect to the Collateral or any part thereof or the moneys due or to become due in respect thereof or any property covered thereby.  The Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts actually received as a result of the exercise of the powers granted to them herein, and neither they nor their officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
 
 
Section 9.08. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
 
 
Section 9.09. Waivers; Amendment.
 
(a)           No failure or delay by the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder or under any other Indenture Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right, power or remedy, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy.  The rights, powers and remedies of the Trustee, Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties hereunder and under the other Indenture Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights, powers or remedies that they would otherwise have.  No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any Grantor therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 9.09, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
 

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the purpose for which given.  No notice or demand on any Grantor in any case shall entitle any Grantor to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
 
(b)           Neither this Agreement nor the Intercreditor Agreements or any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Collateral Agent and the Grantor or Grantors with respect to which such waiver, amendment or modification is to apply, subject to the limitations in the Indenture and the Intercreditor Agreements or as otherwise provided in the Indenture or the Intercreditor Agreements.
 
 
Section 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER INDENTURE DOCUMENTS.  EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 9.10.
 
 
Section 9.11. Severability.  In the event any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement or in any other Indenture Document should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.  The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
 
 
Section 9.12. Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute but one contract, and shall become effective as provided in Section 9.04 hereof.  Delivery of an executed counterpart to this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed original.
 
 
Section 9.13. Headings.  Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
 
 
Section 9.14. Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.
 
(a)           Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Indenture Documents, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court.  Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.  Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that the Trustee, Collateral Agent or any Secured Party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Indenture Document against any Grantor, or its properties, in the courts of any jurisdiction.
 
 
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(b)           Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Indenture Document in any New York State or federal court.  Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
 
 
Section 9.15. Termination or Release. This Agreement, pledges made herein, and all security interests granted hereby shall terminate only in accordance with the Indenture and consistent with the Intercreditor Agreements.
 
 
Section 9.16. Additional Subsidiaries.  If, pursuant to the Indenture or this Agreement, the Company is required to cause any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Party to become a Subsidiary Party to secure the Obligations of the Company, upon execution and delivery by the Collateral Agent and such Subsidiary of an instrument in the form of Exhibit I hereto, such Subsidiary shall become a Subsidiary Party hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Subsidiary Party herein.  The execution and delivery of any such instrument shall not require the consent of any other party to this Agreement.  The rights and obligations of each party to this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new party to this Agreement.
 
 
Section 9.17. Right of Set-off
 
.  If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Secured Party is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set-off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Secured Party to or for the credit or the account of any party to this
 

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Agreement against any of and all the obligations of such party now or hereafter existing under this Agreement owed to such Secured Party, irrespective of whether or not such Secured Party shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured.  The rights of each Secured Party under this Section 9.17 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of set-off) that such Secured Party may have. Any amounts received by any Holder pursuant to this Section 9.17 should be applied pursuant to Section 6.02.
 
Section 9.18. Subject to Intercreditor Agreements
 
.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the terms of this Agreement are expressly subject to the terms of (a) the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement, (b) the Junior Intercreditor Agreement and (c) Senior Fixed Lender Intercreditor Agreement.  In the event of any conflict between the terms of any Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the applicable Intercreditor Agreement shall govern. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, so long as the Senior Lender Intercreditor Agreement and/or the Senior Fixed Lender Intercreditor Agreement are outstanding, (i) the requirements of this Agreement to endorse, assign or deliver Collateral to the Collateral Agent shall be deemed satisfied by endorsement, assignment or delivery of such Collateral to the Possessory Collateral Agent and (ii) any endorsement, assignment or delivery to the Possessory Collateral Agent shall be deemed an endorsement, assignment or delivery to the Collateral Agent for all purposes hereunder.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
 

 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION
 
AEROCON, LLC
 
BERRY IOWA, LLC
 
BERRY PLASTICS DESIGN, LLC
 
BERRY PLASTICS OPCO, INC.
 
BERRY PLASTICS TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.
 
BERRY STERLING CORPORATION
 
CARDINAL PACKAGING, INC.
 
CPI HOLDING CORPORATION
 
KNIGHT PLASTICS, INC.
 
LANDIS PLASTICS, LLC
 
PACKERWARE CORPORATION
 
PESCOR, INC.
 
POLY-SEAL, LLC
 
VENTURE PACKAGING, INC.
 
VENTURE PACKAGING MIDWEST, INC.
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION III
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION V
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION VIII
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION IX
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION X
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XI
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XII
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XIII
 
KERR GROUP, LLC
 
SAFFRON ACQUISITION, LLC
 
SUN COAST INDUSTRIES, LLC
 
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XV, LLC
 
SETCO, LLC
 
TUBED PRODUCTS, LLC
 
COVALENCE SPECIALTY COATINGS LLC
 
COVALENCE SPECIALTY ADHESIVES LLC
 
ROLLPAK ACQUISITION CORPORATION

 
 

 

 
ROLLPAK CORPORATION
 
CAPTIVE HOLDINGS, INC.
 
CAPTIVE PLASTICS, INC.
 
CAPLAS NEPTUNE LLC
 
CAPLAS LLC
 
GRAFCO INDUSTRIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
 
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:
 

 
 

 

 
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Collateral Agent
 
 
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:
 

 
 

 

Exhibit I
to Collateral Agreement
 
SUPPLEMENT NO. ______ dated as of _____________ (this “Supplement”), to the Collateral Agreement dated as of April 21, 2008 (the “Collateral Agreement”), among BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, (the “Company”), each subsidiary of the Company identified herein as a party (each, a “Subsidiary Party”) and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as defined therein).
 
A.           Reference is made to (i) the Indenture dated as of April 21, 2008 (as amended, restated, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Subsidiary Parties and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee”) and (ii) the Purchase Agreement dated as of April 16, 2008 (as amended, restated, stated, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Purchase Agreement”), among the Company, the several parties named in Schedule I thereto (the “Initial Purchasers”) and the Subsidiary Parties thereto.
 
B.           Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture and the Collateral Agreement referred to therein.
 
C.           The Grantors have entered into the Collateral Agreement in order to induce the Trustee to enter into the Indenture and the Initial Purchasers to purchase the Original Securities.  Section 9.16 of the Collateral Agreement provides that additional Subsidiaries may become Subsidiary Parties under the Collateral Agreement by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Supplement.  The undersigned Subsidiary (the “New Subsidiary”) is executing this Supplement in accordance with the requirements of the Indenture to become a Subsidiary Party under the Collateral Agreement as consideration for credit previously extended to the Company.
 
Accordingly, the Collateral Agent and the New Subsidiary agree as follows:
 
SECTION 1.  In accordance with Section 9.16 of the Collateral Agreement, the New Subsidiary by its signature below becomes a Subsidiary Party and a Grantor under the Collateral Agreement with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Subsidiary Party and a Grantor, and the New Subsidiary hereby (a) agrees to all the terms and provisions of the Collateral Agreement applicable to it as a Subsidiary Party and a Grantor thereunder and (b) represents and warrants that the representations and warranties made by it as a Grantor thereunder are true and correct, in all material respects, on and as of the date hereof.  In furtherance of the foregoing, the New Subsidiary, as security for the payment and performance in full of the Obligations (as defined in the Collateral Agreement), does hereby create and grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and Lien on all the New Subsidiary’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) of the New Subsidiary.  Each reference to a “Subsidiary Party” or a “Grantor” in the Collateral Agreement shall be deemed to include the New Subsidiary.  The Collateral Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
 

 
 

 

SECTION 2.  The New Subsidiary represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties that this Supplement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (iii) implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing.
 
SECTION 3.  This Supplement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute but one contract.  This Supplement shall become effective when (a) the Collateral Agent shall have received a counterpart of this Supplement that bears the signature of the New Subsidiary and (b) the Collateral Agent has executed a counterpart hereof.
 
SECTION 4.   The New Subsidiary hereby represents and warrants that (a) set forth on Schedule I attached hereto is a true and correct schedule of the location of any and all Article 9 Collateral of the New Subsidiary as of the date hereof, (b) set forth on Schedule II attached hereto is a true and correct schedule of all the Pledged Securities of the New Subsidiary and (c) set forth under its signature hereto, is the true and correct legal name of the New Subsidiary, its jurisdiction of formation and the location of its chief executive office.
 
SECTION 5.  Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Collateral Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
 
SECTION 6.THIS SUPPLEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
 
SECTION 7.   In the event any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and in the Collateral Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.  The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
 
SECTION 8.  All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section 9.01 of the Collateral Agreement.
 
SECTION 9.  The New Subsidiary agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in connection with this Supplement, including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel for the Collateral Agent.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Subsidiary and the Collateral Agent have duly executed this Supplement to the Collateral Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
 

Exhibit I
 
 

 

[Name of New Subsidiary]
 
 
 
By:
 
 
Name:
 
Title:
 
Legal Name:
 
 
Jurisdiction of Formation:
 
 
Location of Chief Executive Office:
 
 
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,  as Collateral Agent
 
 
 
By:
 
 
Name:
 
Title:
 

Exhibit I
 
 

 

Exhibit II
to Collateral Agreement
 
[Form of]
 
PERFECTION CERTIFICATE
 





 
 

 

EX-4.3 4 ex43.htm EXHIBIT 4.3 REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT ex43.htm



REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT


by and among


Berry Plastics Corporation
(formerly Berry Plastics Holding Corporation),

the subsidiaries of Berry Plastics Corporation parties hereto

and


Banc of America Securities LLC
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Lehman Brothers Inc.





Dated as of April 21, 2008


 
 

 


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REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
 
This Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of April 21, 2008, by and among Berry Plastics Corporation (formerly Berry Plastics Holding Corporation), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the subsidiaries of the Company listed on Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Guarantors”)  and Banc of America Securities LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc. (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”), each of whom has agreed to purchase, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (as defined below), the First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015 (the “Initial Notes”) issued by the Company.  The Guarantors will fully and unconditionally guarantee (the “Initial Guarantees”), on a senior secured basis, the Company’s obligations under the Initial Notes.  The Initial Notes and the Initial Guarantees are herein collectively referred to as the “Initial Securities.”
 
This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 16, 2008 (the “Purchase Agreement”), among the Company, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers, for (i) the benefit of the Initial Purchasers and (ii) the benefit of the holders from time to time of the Initial Securities, including the Initial Purchasers.  In order to induce the Initial Purchasers to purchase the Initial Securities, the Company and the Guarantors have agreed to provide the registration rights set forth in this Agreement.  The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the obligations of the Initial Purchasers set forth in Section 6(g) of the Purchase Agreement.
 
The parties hereby agree as follows:
 
SECTION 1. Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized terms shall have the following meanings:
 
Additional Interest Payment Date:  With respect to the Initial Securities, each Interest Payment Date.
 
Broker-Dealer:  Any broker or dealer registered under the Exchange Act.
 
Business Day:  Any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or U.S. federal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies located in New York, New York are authorized or obligated to be closed.
 
Closing Date:  The date of this Agreement.
 
Commission:  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Consummate:  A registered Exchange Offer shall be deemed “Consummated” for purposes of this Agreement upon the occurrence of (i) the filing and effectiveness under the Securities Act of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement relating to the Exchange Securities to be issued in the Exchange Offer, (ii) the maintenance of such Registration Statement continuously effective and the keeping of the Exchange Offer open for a period not less than the minimum period required pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof, and (iii) the delivery by the Company to the Registrar under the Indenture of Exchange Securities in the same aggregate principal amount as the aggregate principal amount of Initial Securities that were tendered by Holders thereof pursuant to the Exchange Offer.
 
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Effectiveness Target Date:  As defined in Section 5 hereof.
 
Exchange Act:  The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
 
Exchange Offer:  The registration by the Company under the Securities Act of the Exchange Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement pursuant to which the Company offers the Holders of all outstanding Transfer Restricted Securities the opportunity to exchange all such outstanding Transfer Restricted Securities held by such Holders for Exchange Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities tendered in such exchange offer by such Holders.
 
Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date: As defined in Section 5 hereof.
 
Exchange Offer Registration Statement:  The Registration Statement relating to the Exchange Offer, including the related Prospectus.
 
Exchange Securities:  The First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015 of the same series under the Indenture as the Initial Notes of such series and the guarantees of such notes, to be issued to Holders in exchange for Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to this Agreement.
 
Free Writing Prospectus: Any free writing prospectus, as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, relating to any portion of the Initial Securities and the Exchange Securities.
 
Holders:  As defined in Section 2(b) hereof.
 
Indemnified Holder:  As defined in Section 8(a) hereof.
 
Indenture:  The Indenture dated as of April 21, 2008, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Initial Notes and the Exchange Securities are to be issued, as such Indenture may be further amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
 
Initial Guarantees:  As defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Initial Notes:  As defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Initial Placement:  The issuance and sale by the Company of the Initial Securities to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
 
Initial Purchasers:  As defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Initial Securities: As defined in the preamble hereto.
 
Interest Payment Date:  As defined in the Securities.
 
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NASD:  NASD Inc.
 
Person:  An individual, partnership, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
 
Prospectus:  The prospectus included in a Registration Statement, as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement and by all other amendments thereto, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference into such Prospectus.
 
Registration Default:  As defined in Section 5 hereof.
 
Registration Statement:  Any registration statement of the Company relating to (a) an offering of Exchange Securities pursuant to an Exchange Offer or (b) the registration for resale of Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, which is filed pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, in each case, including the Prospectus included therein, all amendments and supplements thereto (including post-effective amendments) and all exhibits and material incorporated by reference therein.
 
Securities:  As defined in the Indenture.
 
Securities Act:  The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
 
Shelf Filing Deadline:  As defined in Section 4(a) hereof.
 
Shelf Registration Effectiveness Date:  As defined in Section 5 hereof.
 
Shelf Registration Statement:  As defined in Section 4(a) hereof.
 
Transfer Restricted Securities:  Each Initial Security, until the earliest to occur of (a) the date on which such Initial Security is exchanged in the Exchange Offer for an Exchange Security entitled to be resold to the public by the Holder thereof without complying with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act, (b) the date on which such Initial Security has been effectively registered under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with a Shelf Registration Statement and (c) the date on which such Initial Security is distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or by a Broker-Dealer pursuant to the “Plan of Distribution” contemplated by the Exchange Offer Registration Statement (including delivery of the Prospectus contained therein).
 
Trust Indenture Act:  The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
 
Underwritten Registration or Underwritten Offering:  A registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an underwriter for reoffering to the public.
 
SECTION 2. Securities Subject to this Agreement.
 
(a) Transfer Restricted Securities.  The securities entitled to the benefits of this Agreement are the Transfer Restricted Securities.
 
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(b) Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities.  A Person is deemed to be a holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (each, a “Holder”) whenever such Person owns Transfer Restricted Securities.
 
SECTION 3. Registered Exchange Offer.
 
(a) Unless the Exchange Offer shall not be permissible under applicable law or Commission policy, each of the Company and the Guarantors shall (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be filed with the Commission as soon as practicable after the Closing Date, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective as promptly as possible (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing), but in no event later than 270 days after the Closing Date (or if such 270th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), (iii) in connection with the foregoing, file (A) all pre-effective amendments to such Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to cause such Registration Statement to become effective, (B) if applicable, a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act and (C) cause all necessary filings in connection with the registration and qualification of the Exchange Securities to be made under the state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as are necessary to permit Consummation of the Exchange Offer, and (iv) upon the effectiveness of such Registration Statement, commence the Exchange Offer.  The Exchange Offer Registration Statement shall be on the appropriate form permitting registration of the Exchange Securities to be offered in exchange for the Transfer Restricted Securities and to permit resales of Initial Securities held by Broker-Dealers as contemplated by Section 3(c) hereof.
 
(b) The Company and the Guarantors shall cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to be effective continuously and shall keep the Exchange Offer open for a period of not less than the minimum period required under applicable federal and state securities laws to Consummate the Exchange Offer; provided, however, that in no event shall such period be less than 30 days after the date notice of the Exchange Offer is mailed to the Holders.  The Company shall cause the Exchange Offer to comply with all applicable federal and state securities laws.  No securities other than the Exchange Securities shall be included in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement.  The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Exchange Offer to be Consummated on the earliest practicable date after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has become effective, but in no event later than 30 days after the date notice of the Exchange Offer is required to be mailed to the Holders (or if such 30th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).
 
(c) The Company shall indicate in a “Plan of Distribution” section contained in the Prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement that any Broker-Dealer who holds Initial Securities that are Transfer Restricted Securities and that were acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities (other than Transfer Restricted Securities acquired directly from the Company) may exchange such Initial Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer; however, such Broker-Dealer may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and must, therefore, deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resales of the Exchange Securities received by such Broker-Dealer in the Exchange Offer, which prospectus delivery requirement may be satisfied by the delivery by such Broker-Dealer of the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement.  Such “Plan of Distribution” section shall also contain all other information with respect to such resales by Broker-Dealers that the Commission may require in order to permit such resales pursuant thereto, but such “Plan of Distribution” shall not name any such Broker-Dealer or disclose the amount of Initial Securities held by any such Broker-Dealer except to the extent required by the Commission.
 
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Each of the Company and the Guarantors shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as required by the provisions of Section 6(c) hereof to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales of Initial Securities acquired by Broker-Dealers for their own accounts as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, and to ensure that it conforms with the requirements of this Agreement, the Securities Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the Commission as announced from time to time, for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 180 days from the date on which the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on which a Broker-Dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-making or other trading activities.
 
The Company shall provide sufficient copies of the latest version of such Prospectus to Broker-Dealers promptly upon request at any time during such 180-day (or shorter as provided in the foregoing sentence) period in order to facilitate such resales.
 
SECTION 4. Shelf Registration.
 
(a) Shelf Registration.  If with respect to the Initial Notes: (i) the Company and the Guarantors are not permitted to consummate the Exchange Offer because the Exchange Offer is not permitted by applicable law or Commission policy, (ii) for any reason the Exchange Offer is not Consummated within 30 days after the date notice of the Exchange Offer is required to be mailed to the Holders (or if such 30th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), or (iii) with respect to any Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (A) such Holder is prohibited by applicable law or Commission policy from participating in the Exchange Offer, or (B) such Holder may not resell the Exchange Securities acquired by it in the Exchange Offer to the public without delivering a prospectus (other than by reason of such Holder’s status as an affiliate of the Company) and the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is not appropriate or available for such resales by such Holder, or (C) such Holder is a Broker-Dealer and holds Initial Securities acquired directly from the Company or one of its affiliates, then, upon such Holder’s request prior to the 20th day following consummation of the Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantors shall, with respect to the Initial Notes:
 
(x)           cause to be filed a shelf registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, which may be an amendment to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement (in either event, the “Shelf Registration Statement”) as soon as practicable but in any event on or prior to 90 days after such filing obligation arises (or if such 90th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) (such date being the “Shelf Filing Deadline”), which Shelf Registration Statement shall provide for resales of all Transfer Restricted Securities the Holders of which shall have provided the information required pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof; and
 
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(y)           use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly as possible (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing), and in any event on or before the 270th day after the obligation to file such Shelf Registration Statement arises (or if such 270th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).
 
Each of the Company and the Guarantors shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as required by the provisions of Sections 6(b) and (c) hereof to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales of Initial Securities by the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities entitled to the benefit of this Section 4(a), and to ensure that it conforms with the requirements of this Agreement, the Securities Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the Commission as announced from time to time, for a period of at least two years following the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement (or shorter period that will terminate when all the Initial Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement have been sold pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement).  During the period during which the Company is required to maintain an effective Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement, the Company will, prior to the expiration of that Shelf Registration Statement, file, and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) within a period that avoids any interruption in the ability of Holders of Securities covered by the expiring Shelf Registration Statement to make registered dispositions, a new registration statement relating to the Securities, which shall be deemed the “Shelf Registration Statement” for purposes of this Agreement.
 
(b) Provision by Holders of Certain Information in Connection with the Shelf Registration Statement.  No Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities may include any of its Transfer Restricted Securities in any Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement unless and until such Holder furnishes to the Company in writing, within 20 Business Days after receipt of a request therefor, such information as the Company may reasonably request for use in connection with any Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus included therein or amendment or supplement thereto or Free Writing Prospectus.  Each Holder as to which any Shelf Registration Statement is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Company all information required to be disclosed in order to make the information previously furnished to the Company by such Holder not materially misleading.
 
SECTION 5. Additional Interest.  If (i) unless the Exchange Offer shall not be permissible under applicable law or Commission policy, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission (or become automatically effective) on or prior to 270 days after the Closing Date (the “Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date”), (ii) in the event the Company and the Guarantors are required to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof, the Shelf Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission (or become automatically effective) on or prior to 270 days after the obligation to file a Shelf Registration Statement arises (the “Shelf Registration Effectiveness Target Date” and, together with the Exchange Offer Effectiveness Date, the “Effectiveness Target Date”), (iii) the Exchange Offer has not been Consummated within 30 Business Days after the Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date with respect to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, or (iv) any Registration Statement required by this Agreement is filed and declared effective but shall thereafter cease to be effective or fail to be usable for its intended purpose without being succeeded immediately by a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement that cures such failure and that is itself immediately declared or automatically effective (except in the case of a Registration Statement that ceases to be effective or usable as specifically permitted by the last paragraph of Section 6 hereof) (each such event referred to in clauses (i) through (iv), a “Registration Default”), the Company and the Guarantors hereby agree that the interest rate borne by the affected series of Transfer Restricted Securities shall be increased by 0.25% per annum during the 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of any Registration Default and shall increase by 0.25% per annum at the end of each subsequent 90-day period, but in no event shall such increase exceed 1.00% per annum.  Following the earliest of (x) the cure of all Registration Defaults relating to any particular Transfer Restricted Securities, (y) the date on which such Transfer Restricted Security ceases to be a Transfer Restricted Security or otherwise becomes freely transferable by Holders other than affiliates of the Company without further registration under the Securities Act and (z) the date that is two years after the Closing Date, the interest rate borne by the relevant Transfer Restricted Securities will be reduced to the original interest rate borne by such Transfer Restricted Securities; provided, however, that, if after any such reduction in interest rate, a different Registration Default occurs, the interest rate borne by the relevant Transfer Restricted Securities shall again be increased pursuant to the foregoing provisions.
 
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the amount of Additional Interest payable shall not increase because more than one Registration Default has occurred and is pending and (ii) a Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities that is not entitled to the benefits of the Shelf Registration Statement (because, e.g., such Holder has not elected to include information or has not timely delivered such information to the Company pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof) shall not be entitled to Additional Interest with respect to a Registration Default that pertains to the Shelf Registration Statement.
 
All obligations of the Company and the Guarantors set forth in the preceding paragraph that are outstanding with respect to any Transfer Restricted Security at the time such security ceases to be a Transfer Restricted Security shall survive until such time as all such obligations with respect to such security shall have been satisfied in full.
 
SECTION 6. Registration Procedures.
 
(a) Exchange Offer Registration Statement.  In connection with the Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantors shall comply with all of the provisions of Section 6(c) hereof, shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to effect such exchange to permit the sale of Transfer Restricted Securities being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, and shall comply with all of the following provisions:
 
(i) If in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Company there is a question as to whether the Exchange Offer is permitted by applicable law, each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby agrees to seek a favorable decision from the Commission allowing the Company and the Guarantors to Consummate an Exchange Offer for such Initial Securities.  Each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby agrees to pursue the issuance of such a decision to the Commission staff level but shall not be required to take commercially unreasonable action to effect a change of Commission policy.  Each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby agrees, however, to (A) participate in telephonic conferences with the Commission, (B) deliver to the Commission staff an analysis prepared by counsel to the Company setting forth the legal bases, if any, upon which such counsel has concluded that such an Exchange Offer should be permitted and (C) diligently pursue a favorable resolution by the Commission staff of such submission.
 
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(ii) As a condition to its participation in the Exchange Offer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities shall furnish, upon the request of the Company, prior to the Consummation thereof, a written representation to the Company (which may be contained in the letter of transmittal contemplated by the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) to the effect that (A) it is not an affiliate of the Company, (B) it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, and has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in, a distribution of the Exchange Securities to be issued in the Exchange Offer and (C) it is acquiring the Exchange Securities in its ordinary course of business.  In addition, all such Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities shall otherwise cooperate in the Company’s preparations for the Exchange Offer.  Each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any Broker-Dealer and any such Holder using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the securities to be acquired in the Exchange Offer (1) could not under Commission policy as in effect on the date of this Agreement rely on the position of the Commission enunciated in Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. (available June 5, 1991) and Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available May 13, 1988), as interpreted in the Commission’s letter to Shearman & Sterling dated July 2, 1993, and similar no-action letters (which may include any no-action letter obtained pursuant to clause (i) above), and (2) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction and that such a secondary resale transaction should 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 if the resales are of Exchange Securities obtained by such Holder in exchange for Initial Securities acquired by such Holder directly from the Company.
 
(b) Shelf Registration Statement.  In connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, each of the Company and the Guarantors shall comply with all the provisions of Section 6(c) hereof and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such registration (unless automatically declared effective) to permit the sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof, and pursuant thereto each of the Company and the Guarantors will as expeditiously as is commercially reasonable prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement relating to the registration on any appropriate form under the Securities Act, which form shall be available for the sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof.
 
(c) General Provisions.  In connection with any Registration Statement and any Prospectus required by this Agreement to permit the sale or resale of Transfer Restricted Securities and any Free Writing Prospectus (including, without limitation, any Registration Statement and the related Prospectus required to permit resales of Initial Securities by Broker-Dealers and any Free Writing Prospectus related thereto), each of the Company and the Guarantors shall:
 
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(i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective during the period required by this Agreement and provide all requisite financial statements (including, if required by the Securities Act or any regulation thereunder, financial statements of the Guarantors for the period specified in Section 3 or 4 hereof, as applicable); upon the occurrence of any event that would cause any such Registration Statement or the Prospectus contained therein (A) to contain a material misstatement or omission or (B) not to be effective and usable for resale of Transfer Restricted Securities during the period required by this Agreement, the Company shall file promptly an appropriate amendment to such Registration Statement, in the case of clause (A), correcting any such misstatement or omission, and, in the case of either clause (A) or (B), use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such amendment to be declared effective (unless automatically declared effective) and such Registration Statement and the related Prospectus to become usable for their intended purpose(s) as soon as practicable thereafter;
 
(ii) prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the applicable Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep the Registration Statement effective for the applicable period set forth in Section 3 or 4 hereof, as applicable, or such shorter period as will terminate when all Transfer Restricted Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold; cause the Prospectus to be supplemented by any required Prospectus supplement, and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, and to comply fully with the applicable provisions of Rules 424 and 430A under the Securities Act in a timely manner; and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such Registration Statement during the applicable period in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution by the sellers thereof set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus;
 
(iii) advise the underwriter(s), if any, and selling Holders promptly and, if requested by such Persons, to confirm such advice in writing, (A) when the Prospectus, any Prospectus supplement, any post-effective amendment or any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed, and, with respect to any Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, when the same has become effective, (B) of any request by the Commission for amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Prospectus or for additional information relating thereto, (C) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement under the Securities Act, of the suspension by any state securities commission of the qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for any of the preceding purposes, of the issuance by the Commission of a notification of objection to the use of the form on which the Registration Statement has been filed, or of the happening of any event that causes the Company to become an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Commission Rule 405, (D) of the existence of any fact or the happening of any event that makes any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto or any document incorporated by reference therein untrue, or that requires the making of any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading.  If at any time the Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or a notification of objection to the use of the form on which the Registration Statement has been filed or if any state securities commission or other regulatory authority shall issue an order suspending the qualification or exemption from qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities under state securities or blue sky laws, each of the Company and the Guarantors shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of such order at the earliest practicable time;
 
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(iv) (A)           (1) furnish without charge to each of the Initial Purchasers, each selling Holder named in any Registration Statement that has requested such copies, if any, and each of the underwriter(s), if any, before filing with the Commission, copies of any Registration Statement or any Prospectus included therein or any amendments or supplements to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus (including all documents incorporated by reference after the initial filing of such Registration Statement), which documents will be subject to the review and comment of such requesting Holders and underwriter(s) in connection with such sale, if any, for a period of at least five Business Days, and (2) not file any such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus (including all such documents incorporated by reference) to which an Initial Purchaser of Transfer Restricted Securities covered by such Registration Statement or the underwriter(s), if any, shall reasonably object in writing within five Business Days after the receipt thereof (such objection to be deemed timely made upon confirmation of telecopy transmission within such period).  The objection of an Initial Purchaser, or underwriter, if any, shall be deemed to be reasonable if such Registration Statement, amendment, Prospectus or supplement, as applicable, as proposed to be filed, contains a material misstatement or omission;
 
(B)           (1) furnish without charge to each of the Initial Purchasers before filing with the Commission, a copy of any Free Writing Prospectus, which will be subject to the consent of the Initial Purchasers, and (2) not file any such Free Writing Prospectus to which the Initial Purchasers of Transfer Restricted Securities covered by such Registration Statement have not consented (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed);
 
(v) promptly prior to the filing of any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement or Prospectus, provide copies of such document to the Initial Purchasers, each selling Holder named in any Registration Statement that has requested such documents, if any, and to the underwriter(s), if any, make the Company’s and the Guarantors’ representatives available for discussion of such document and other customary due diligence matters, subject to customary confidentiality agreements, and include such information in such document prior to the filing thereof as such selling Holders or underwriter(s), if any, reasonably may request;
 
(vi) make available, subject to customary confidentiality agreements, at reasonable times for inspection by the Initial Purchasers, the managing underwriter(s), if any, participating in any disposition pursuant to such Registration Statement and any attorney or accountant retained by such Initial Purchasers or any of the underwriter(s), all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of each of the Company and the Guarantors, and cause the Company’s and the Guarantors’ officers, directors and employees to supply all information, in each case as shall be reasonably necessary to enable any such Holder, underwriter, attorney or accountant to exercise any applicable responsibilities in connection with such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto subsequent to the filing thereof and prior to its effectiveness and to participate in meetings with investors to the extent reasonably requested by the managing underwriter(s), if any;
 
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(vii) if requested by any selling Holders or the underwriter(s), if any, promptly incorporate in any Registration Statement or Prospectus, pursuant to a supplement or post-effective amendment if necessary, such information as such selling Holders and underwriter(s), if any, may reasonably request to have included therein, including, without limitation, information relating to the “Plan of Distribution” of the Transfer Restricted Securities, information with respect to the principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities being sold to such underwriter(s), the purchase price being paid therefor and any other terms of the offering of the Transfer Restricted Securities to be sold in such offering; and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after the Company is notified of the matters to be incorporated in such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment;
 
(viii) cause the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be rated with the appropriate rating agencies, if so requested by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Securities covered thereby or the underwriter(s), if any;
 
(ix) furnish to each Initial Purchaser each selling Holder and each of the underwriter(s), if any, without charge, at least one copy of the Registration Statement, as first filed with the Commission, and of each amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated by reference therein and all exhibits (including exhibits incorporated therein by reference);
 
(x) deliver to each selling Holder and each of the underwriter(s), if any, without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus (including each preliminary prospectus) and any amendment or supplement thereto as such Persons reasonably may request; each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby consents to the use of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders and each of the underwriter(s), if any, in connection with the offering and the sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto;
 
(xi) enter into such agreements (including an underwriting agreement), and make such representations and warranties, and take all such other commercially reasonable actions in connection therewith in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of the Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement, all to such extent as may be reasonably requested by any Initial Purchaser or by any Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities or underwriter in connection with any sale or resale pursuant to any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement; and whether or not an underwriting agreement is entered into and whether or not the registration is an Underwritten Registration, each of the Company and the Guarantors shall:
 
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(A)            furnish to each Initial Purchaser, each selling Holder and each underwriter, if any, in such substance and scope as they may reasonably request and as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in primary underwritten offerings, upon the date of the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement:
 
(1)           a certificate, dated the date of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, signed by (y) the President or any Vice President and (z) a principal financial or accounting officer of each of the Company and the Guarantors, confirming, as of the date thereof, the matters set forth in Section 6(c) of the Purchase Agreement and such other matters as such parties may reasonably request;
 
(2)           if requested by a majority of selling Holders, an opinion, dated the date of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, of counsel for the Company and the Guarantors, covering the matters set forth in the opinion delivered pursuant to Section 6(a)(i) of the Purchase Agreement and such other matter as such parties may reasonably request, and in any event including a statement to the effect that such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company and the Guarantors, representatives of the independent public accountants for the Company and the Guarantors, representatives of the underwriter(s), if any, and counsel to the underwriter(s), if any, in connection with the preparation of such Registration Statement and the related Prospectus and have considered the matters required to be stated therein and the statements contained therein, although such counsel has not independently verified the accuracy, completeness or fairness of such statements; and that such counsel advises that, on the basis of the foregoing, no facts came to such counsel’s attention that caused such counsel to believe that the applicable Registration Statement, (A) at the date of the opinion and at the time such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto became effective, (B) at the applicable time identified by such Holders or managing underwriters, and (C) in the case of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, as of the date of Consummation, in the case of (A), (B) and (C) contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus contained in such Registration Statement as of its date and, in the case of the opinion dated the date of Consummation of the Exchange Offer, as of the date of Consummation, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading.  Without limiting the foregoing, such counsel may state further that such counsel assumes no responsibility for, and has not independently verified, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the financial statements, notes and schedules and other financial data included in any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement or the related Prospectus; and
 
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(3)           a customary comfort letter, dated the date of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, from the Company’s independent accountants, in the customary form and covering matters of the type customarily requested to be covered in comfort letters by underwriters in connection with primary underwritten offerings, and covering or affirming the matters set forth in the comfort letters delivered pursuant to Section 6(d) of the Purchase Agreement, without exception;
 
(B)            set forth in full or incorporate by reference in the underwriting agreement, if any, the indemnification provisions and procedures of Section 8 hereof with respect to all parties to be indemnified pursuant to said Section; and
 
(C)            deliver such other documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by such parties to evidence compliance with Section 6(c)(xi)(A) hereof and with any customary conditions contained in the underwriting agreement or other agreement entered into by the Company or any of the Guarantors pursuant to this Section 6(c)(xi), if any.
 
If at any time the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors contemplated in Section 6(c)(xi)(A)(1) hereof cease to be true and correct, the Company or the Guarantors shall so advise the Initial Purchasers and the underwriter(s), if any, and each selling Holder promptly and, if requested by such Persons, shall confirm such advice in writing;
 
(xii) prior to any public offering of Transfer Restricted Securities, cooperate with the selling Holders, the underwriter(s), if any, and their respective counsel in connection with the registration and qualification of the Transfer Restricted Securities under the state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the selling Holders or underwriter(s), if any, may request and do any and all other acts or things necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement; provided, however, that none of the Company or the Guarantors shall be required to register or qualify as a foreign corporation where it is not then so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to the service of process in suits or to taxation, other than as to matters and transactions relating to the Registration Statement, in any jurisdiction where it is not then so subject;
 
(xiii) issue, upon the request of any Holder of Initial Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement, Exchange Securities having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Initial Securities surrendered to the Company by such Holder in exchange therefor or being sold by such Holder; such Exchange Securities to be registered in the name of such Holder or in the name of the purchaser(s) of such Securities, as the case may be; in return, the Initial Securities held by such Holder shall be surrendered to the Company for cancellation;
 
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(xiv) subject to the terms of the Indenture, cooperate with the selling Holders and the underwriter(s), if any, to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Transfer Restricted Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends; and enable such Transfer Restricted Securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as the Holders or the underwriter(s), if any, may request at least two Business Days prior to any sale of Transfer Restricted Securities made by such Holders or underwriter(s);
 
(xv) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the seller or sellers thereof or the underwriter(s), if any, to consummate the disposition of such Transfer Restricted Securities, subject to the proviso contained in Section 6(c)(xii) hereof;
 
(xvi) if any fact or event contemplated by Section 6(c)(iii)(D) hereof shall exist or have occurred, prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of Transfer Restricted Securities, the Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading;
 
(xvii) provide a CUSIP number for all Securities not later than the effective date of the Registration Statement covering such Securities and provide the Trustee under the applicable Indenture with printed certificates for such Securities which are in a form eligible for deposit with the Depository Trust Company and take all other action necessary to ensure that all such Securities are eligible for deposit with the Depository Trust Company;
 
(xviii) cooperate and assist in any filings required to be made with the NASD and in the performance of any due diligence investigation by any underwriter (including any “qualified independent underwriter”) that is required to be retained in accordance with the rules and regulations of the NASD;
 
(xix) otherwise use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission, and make generally available to its security holders, as soon as practicable, a consolidated earning statement meeting the requirements of Rule 158 (which need not be audited) for the twelve-month period (A) commencing at the end of any fiscal quarter in which Transfer Restricted Securities are sold to underwriters in a firm commitment or best efforts Underwritten Offering or (B) if not sold to underwriters in such an offering, beginning with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of the Registration Statement;
 
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(xx) cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act not later than the effective date of the first Registration Statement required by this Agreement, and, in connection therewith, cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders of Securities to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for such Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and to execute, and to use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents that may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the Commission to enable such Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner;
 
(xxi) maintain the listing of all Securities covered by the Registration Statement on The PORTALSM Market; and
 
(xxii) provide promptly to each Holder upon request each document filed with the Commission pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 and Section 15 of the Exchange Act.
 
Each Holder agrees by acquisition of a Transfer Restricted Security that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the existence of any fact of the kind described in Section 6(c)(iii)(D) hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to the applicable Registration Statement until such Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 6(c)(xvi) hereof, or until it is advised in writing (the “Advice”) by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated by reference in the Prospectus.  If so directed by the Company, each Holder will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus covering such Transfer Restricted Securities that was current at the time of receipt of such notice.  In the event the Company shall give any such notice, the time period regarding the effectiveness of such Registration Statement set forth in Section 3 or 4 hereof, as applicable, shall be extended by the number of days (a “Delay Period”) during the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice pursuant to Section 6(c)(iii)(D) hereof to and including the date when each selling Holder covered by such Registration Statement shall have received the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 6(c)(xvi) hereof or shall have received the Advice; provided that there shall not be more than 75 days of Delay Periods during any 12-month period; provided further, however, that (except as provided in Section 5(iv) hereof) no such extension shall be taken into account in determining whether Additional Interest is due pursuant to Section 5 hereof or the amount of such Additional Interest, it being agreed that the Company’s option to suspend use of a Registration Statement pursuant to this paragraph shall be treated as a Registration Default for purposes of Section 5 hereof.
 
SECTION 7. Registration Expenses.
 
(a) All expenses incident to the Company’s and the Guarantor’s performance of or compliance with this Agreement will be borne by the Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, regardless of whether a Registration Statement becomes effective, including, without limitation: (i) all registration and filing fees and expenses (including filings made by any Initial Purchaser or Holder with the NASD (and, if applicable, the fees and expenses of any “qualified independent underwriter”, and one counsel to such person, that may be required by the rules and regulations of the NASD)); (ii) all fees and expenses of compliance with federal securities and state securities or blue sky laws (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel to the Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities); (iii) all expenses of printing (including printing certificates for the Exchange Securities to be issued in the Exchange Offer and printing of Prospectuses), messenger and delivery services and telephone; (iv) all fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and the Guarantors and, subject to Section 7(b) hereof, one counsel to the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities; (v) all application and filing fees in connection with listing the Exchange Securities on a securities exchange or automated quotation system pursuant to the requirements thereof; and (vi) all fees and disbursements of independent certified public accountants of the Company and the Guarantors (including the expenses of any special audit and comfort letters required by or incident to such performance).
 
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Each of the Company and the Guarantors will, in any event, bear its internal expenses (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expenses of any annual audit and the fees and expenses of any Person, including special experts, retained by the Company or the Guarantors.
 
(b) In connection with any Registration Statement required by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and the Shelf Registration Statement), the Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, will reimburse the Initial Purchasers and the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities being tendered in the Exchange Offer and/or resold pursuant to the “Plan of Distribution” contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or registered pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, as applicable, for the reasonable fees and disbursements of not more than one counsel, who shall be Cahill Gordon & Reindel llp or such other counsel as may be chosen by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities for whose benefit such Registration Statement is being prepared.
 
SECTION 8. Indemnification.
 
(a) The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Holder and (ii) each Person, if any, who controls (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) any Holder (any of the Persons referred to in this clause (ii) being hereinafter referred to as a “controlling person”) and (iii) the respective officers, directors, partners, employees, representatives and agents of any Holder or any controlling person (any Person referred to in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) may hereinafter be referred to as an “Indemnified Holder”), to the fullest extent lawful, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, judgments, actions and expenses (including, without limitation, and as incurred, reimbursement of all reasonable costs of investigating, preparing, pursuing, settling, compromising, paying or defending any claim or action, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to any Indemnified Holder), joint or several, directly or indirectly caused by, related to, based upon, arising out of or in connection with any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or Free Writing Prospectus, or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are caused by an untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission that is made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any of the Holders furnished in writing to the Company by any of the Holders expressly for use therein.  This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability that the Company or any of the Guarantors may otherwise have.
 
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In case any action or proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation or proceeding) shall be brought or asserted against any of the Indemnified Holders with respect to which indemnity may be sought against the Company or the Guarantors, such Indemnified Holder (or the Indemnified Holder controlled by such controlling person) shall promptly notify the Company and the Guarantors in writing; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not relieve any of the Company or the Guarantors of its obligations pursuant to this Agreement.  Such Indemnified Holder shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such action and the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be paid, as incurred, by the Company and the Guarantors (regardless of whether it is ultimately determined that an Indemnified Holder is not entitled to indemnification hereunder).  The Company and the Guarantors shall not, in connection with any one such action or proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related actions or proceedings in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) at any time for such Indemnified Holders, which firm shall be designated by the Holders.  The Company and the Guarantors shall be liable for any settlement of any such action or proceeding effected with the Company’s and the Guarantors’ prior written consent, which consent shall not be withheld unreasonably, and each of the Company and the Guarantors agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Indemnified Holder from and against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of any settlement of any action effected with the written consent of the Company and the Guarantors.  The Company and the Guarantors shall not, without the prior written consent of each Indemnified Holder, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in or otherwise seek to terminate any pending or threatened action, claim, litigation or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not any Indemnified Holder is a party thereto), unless such settlement, compromise, consent or termination includes an unconditional release of each Indemnified Holder from all liability arising out of such action, claim, litigation or proceeding.
 
(b) Each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantors and their respective directors, officers of the Company and the Guarantors who sign a Registration Statement, and any Person controlling (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) the Company or any of the Guarantors, and the respective officers, directors, partners, employees, representatives and agents of each such Person, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company and the Guarantors to each of the Indemnified Holders, but only with respect to claims and actions based on information relating to such Holder furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement.  In case any action or proceeding shall be brought against the Company, the Guarantors or their respective directors or officers or any such controlling person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against a Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities, such Holder shall have the rights and duties given the Company and the Guarantors, and the Company, the Guarantors, their respective directors and officers and such controlling person shall have the rights and duties given to each Holder by the preceding paragraph.
 
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(c) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable to an indemnified party under Section 8(a) or (b) hereof (other than by reason of exceptions provided in those Sections) in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, judgments, actions or expenses referred to therein, then each applicable indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, from the Initial Placement (which in the case of the Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to be equal to the total gross proceeds to the Company and the Guarantors from the Initial Placement), the amount of Additional Interest which did not become payable as a result of the filing of the Registration Statement resulting in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, judgments actions or expenses, and such Registration Statement, or if such allocation is not permitted by applicable law, the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and of the Indemnified Holder on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or any of the Guarantors, on the one hand, or the Indemnified Holders, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.  The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in the second paragraph of Section 8(a) hereof, any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim.
 
The Company, the Guarantors and each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8(c) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph.  The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8, none of the Holders (and its related Indemnified Holders) shall be required to contribute, in the aggregate, any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discount received by such Holder with respect to the Initial Securities exceeds the amount of any damages which such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.  No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  The Holders’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8(c) are several in proportion to the respective principal amount of Initial Securities held by each of the Holders hereunder and not joint.
 
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SECTION 9. Rule 144A.  Each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby agrees with each Holder, for so long as any Transfer Restricted Securities remain outstanding, to make available to any Holder or beneficial owner of Transfer Restricted Securities in connection with any sale thereof and any prospective purchaser of such Transfer Restricted Securities from such Holder or beneficial owner, the information required by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act in order to permit resales of such Transfer Restricted Securities pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
 
SECTION 10. Participation in Underwritten Registrations.  No Holder may participate in any Underwritten Registration hereunder unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder’s Transfer Restricted Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b) completes and executes all reasonable questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements, lock-up letters and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.
 
SECTION 11. Selection of Underwriters.  The Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement who desire to do so may sell such Transfer Restricted Securities in an Underwritten Offering.  In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment banker(s) and managing underwriter(s) that will administer such offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities included in such offering; provided, however, that such investment banker(s) and managing underwriter(s) must be reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
 
SECTION 12. Miscellaneous.
 
(a) Remedies.  Each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby 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 agree to waive the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
(b) No Inconsistent Agreements.  Each of the Company and the Guarantors will not on or after the date of this Agreement enter into any agreement with respect to its securities that conflicts with the provisions hereof.  The rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with the rights granted to the holders of the Company’s or any of the Guarantors’ securities under any agreement in effect on the date hereof.
 
(c) Adjustments Affecting the Securities.  The Company will not effect any change, or permit any change to occur, in each case, with respect to the terms of the Securities that would materially and adversely affect the ability of the Holders to Consummate any Exchange Offer.
 
(d) Amendments and Waivers.  The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to or departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company has (i) in the case of Section 5 hereof and this Section 12(d)(i), obtained the written consent of Holders of all outstanding Transfer Restricted Securities and (ii) in the case of all other provisions hereof, obtained the written consent of Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities (excluding any Transfer Restricted Securities held by the Company or their Affiliates).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to departure from the provisions hereof that relates exclusively to the rights of Holders whose securities are being tendered pursuant to the Exchange Offer and that does not affect directly or indirectly the rights of other Holders whose securities are not being tendered pursuant to such Exchange Offer may be given by the Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities being tendered or registered; provided, however, 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 with respect to which such amendment, qualification, supplement, waiver, consent or departure is to be effective.
 
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(e) Notices.  All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telex, telecopier, or air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery:
 
(i) if to a Holder, at the address set forth on the records of the Registrar under the Indenture, with a copy to the Registrar under the Indenture; and
 
(ii) if to the Company or the Guarantors:
 
Berry Plastics Corporation
101 Oakley St.
Evansville, IN 47710
Telecopier No.:  (812) 424-0128
Attention:  James M. Kratochvil
 
With a copy to:
 
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Telecopier No.: (212) 403-2114
Attention:  Eric Rosof
 
All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given:  at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt acknowledged, if telecopied; and on the next Business Day, if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery.
 
Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee at the address specified in the Indenture.
 
(f) Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties, including, without limitation, and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities; provided, however, that this Agreement shall not inure to the benefit of or be binding upon a successor or assign of a Holder unless and to the extent such successor or assign acquired Transfer Restricted Securities from such Holder.
 
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(g) Counterparts.  This Agreement 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.
 
(h) Headings.  The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
 
(i) Governing Law.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAW RULES THEREOF.
 
(j) Severability.  In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby.
 
(k) Entire Agreement.  This Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein.  There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein with respect to the registration rights granted by the Company and the Guarantors with respect to the Transfer Restricted Securities.  This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.
 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.
 
Very truly yours,
 
BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION

By: _________________________________
      Name:
      Title:

BERRY PLASTICS TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.
BERRY STERLING CORPORATION
CARDINAL PACKAGING, INC.
CPI HOLDING CORPORATION
KNIGHT PLASTICS, INC.
PACKERWARE CORPORATION
PESCOR, INC.
VENTURE PACKAGING, INC.
VENTURE PACKAGING MIDWEST, INC.
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION III
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION V
BERRY PLASTICS OPCO, INC.
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION VIII
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION IX
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION X
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XI
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XII
BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XIII
ROLLPAK ACQUISITION CORPORATION
ROLLPAK CORPORATION
CAPTIVE HOLDINGS, INC.
CAPTIVE PLASTICS, INC.
CAPLAS NEPTUNE, LLC
CAPLAS LLC

By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:

 
 

 

COVALENCE SPECIALTY ADHESIVES LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member

By: _________________________________
Name:
Title:

COVALENCE SPECIALTY COATINGS LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member

By: _________________________________
Name:
Title:

AEROCON, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
Name:
Title:

BERRY IOWA, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
Name:
Title:

BERRY PLASTICS DESIGN, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:


 
 

 

POLY-SEAL, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

KERR GROUP, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

SAFFRON ACQUISITION, LLC
By: KERR GROUP, LLC,
  its sole member and manager
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

SUN COAST INDUSTRIES, LLC
By: SAFFRON ACQUISITION, LLC,
  its sole member and manager
  By: KERR GROUP, LLC,
    its sole member and manager
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:



 
 

 

LANDIS PLASTICS, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member and manager

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

SETCO, LLC
By: KERR GROUP, LLC,
  its sole member
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: ________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

TUBED PRODUCTS, LLC
By: KERR GROUP, LLC
  its sole member
    By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
      its sole member and manager

By: ________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

GRAFCO INDUSTRIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
By: Caplas Neptune, LLC
  its General Partner

By: ________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

BERRY PLASTICS ACQUISITION CORPORATION XV, LLC
By: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION,
  its sole member

By: _________________________________
       Name:
       Title:

 
 

 

The foregoing Registration Rights Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written:
 
The foregoing Agreement is hereby
confirmed and accepted as of the
date first above written.
 
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
 
By:     ___________________________
Managing Director
 
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
 
By:    _____________________________
(Goldman, Sachs & Co.)
 
LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.
 
By
___________________________
 
Name:
 
Title:
 

 
 

 

Schedule A
 
Guarantors
 
1.  
Berry Iowa, LLC
2.  
Packerware Corporation
3.  
Knight Plastics, Inc.
4.  
Berry Sterling Corporation
5.  
Berry Plastics Design, LLC
6.  
Poly-Seal, LLC
7.  
Venture Packaging, Inc.
8.  
Venture Packaging Midwest, Inc.
9.  
Berry Plastics Technical Services, Inc.
10.  
CPI Holding Corporation
11.  
Cardinal Packaging, Inc.
12.  
AeroCon, LLC
13.  
Pescor, Inc.
14.  
Landis Plastics, LLC
15.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation III
16.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation V
17.  
Berry Plastics Opco, Inc. (formerly Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation VII)
18.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation VIII
19.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation IX
20.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation X
21.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation XI
22.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation XII
23.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation XIII
24.  
Berry Plastics Acquisition Corporation XV, LLC
25.  
Kerr Group, LLC
26.  
Saffron Acquisition, LLC
27.  
Sun Coast Industries, LLC
28.  
Setco, LLC
29.  
Tubed Products, LLC
30.  
Covalence Specialty Adhesives LLC
31.  
Covalence Specialty Coatings LLC
32.  
Rollpak Acquisition Corporation
33.  
Rollpak Corporation
34.  
Captive Plastics, Inc.
35.  
Captive Holdings, Inc.
36.  
Caplas Neptune, LLC
37.  
Caplas LLC
38.  
Grafco Industries Limited Partnership


 
 

 

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