UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 27, 2017
General Motors Financial Company, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Texas | 1-10667 | 75-2291093 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
801 Cherry Street, Suite 3500, Fort Worth, Texas 76102
(Address of principal executive offices, including Zip Code)
(817) 302-7000
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
(Not Applicable)
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement |
Underwriting Agreement.
On June 30, 2017, General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (the Company) completed the public offering of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate Notes due 2022 (the Floating Rate Notes), $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (the 2027 Notes and, together with the Floating Rate Notes and 2022 Notes, the Notes) pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated June 27, 2017 (the Underwriting Agreement), among the Company, AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. and Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the Underwriters). The 2027 Notes are the same series as the $750,000,000 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (the Existing 2027 Notes) that the Company issued on January 17, 2017. The 2027 Notes have the same terms (except for the initial price to public and the issue date) as the Existing 2027 Notes. The 2027 Notes were consolidated with, have the same CUSIP number as, and form part of a single issue with the Existing 2027 Notes. Immediately after giving effect to the issuance of the 2027 Notes offered hereby, GM Financial had $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 outstanding. The Notes are guaranteed by the Companys principal United States operating subsidiary, AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. (the Guarantor).
The Company estimates that the net proceeds of the offering of the Notes will be approximately $2.25 billion, after deducting the Underwriters discounts and commissions and the estimated expenses of the offering. The net proceeds from the offering will be added to the Companys general funds and will be available for general corporate purposes.
The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company and the Guarantor, customary conditions to closing, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. Additionally, the Company and the Guarantor have agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act), or to contribute to payments the Underwriters may be required to make because of any of those liabilities.
The foregoing description is a brief summary of the Underwriting Agreement and does not purport to be a complete statement of the parties rights and obligations thereunder. The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
The Notes were sold pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-206678) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on August 31, 2015, and automatically effective on August 31, 2015. A prospectus supplement dated June 27, 2017 relating to the Notes and supplementing the prospectus dated August 31, 2015 was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2) under the Securities Act. The legal opinion of Hunton & Williams LLP related to the offering of the Notes pursuant to the Registration Statement is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Indenture; Supplemental Indentures
The Company issued the Notes pursuant to the Indenture, dated October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture), by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee), as supplemented with respect to the Floating Rate Notes by the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017 (the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, as further supplemented with respect to the 2022 Notes by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017 (the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, and as further supplemented with respect to the 2027 Notes by the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017 (the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture and, together with the Base Indenture, the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture and the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee.
The Floating Rate Notes will bear interest at a rate, reset quarterly, equal to three-month LIBOR plus 1.310%. Interest will accrue on the Floating Rate Notes from June 30, 2017 and the Company will pay interest on the Floating Rate Notes quarterly on March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30 of each year, beginning on September 30, 2017. The Floating Rate Notes will mature on June 30, 2022.
The 2022 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.150% per year on the principal amount of the 2022 Notes, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 30 and December 30 of each year, beginning on December 30, 2017. The 2022 Notes will mature on June 30, 2022.
The 2027 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.350% per year on the principal amount of the 2027 Notes, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 17 and July 17 of each year, beginning on July 17, 2017. The 2027 Notes will mature on January 17, 2027.
The Company may not redeem the Floating Rate Notes prior to maturity. The Company, at its option, may redeem the 2022 Notes or the 2027 Notes at any time in whole or from time to time in part. If the 2022 Notes are redeemed prior to May 30, 2022 (the date that is one month prior to the stated maturity date of the 2022 Notes) or if the 2027 Notes are redeemed prior to October 17, 2026 (the date that is three months prior to the stated maturity date for the 2027 Notes), the redemption price for the Notes to be redeemed will equal the greater of the following amounts, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued as of the date of redemption), discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points in the case of the 2022 Notes and 30 basis points in the case of the 2027 Notes. The Company will also pay the accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed to the date of redemption. If the 2022 Notes are redeemed on or after May 30, 2022, or if the 2027 Notes are redeemed on or after October 17, 2026, the redemption price for the Notes to be redeemed will equal 100% of the principal amount of such Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to but excluding the redemption date.
The Indenture contains covenants that limit the Companys ability to sell all or substantially all of its assets or merge or consolidate with or into other companies and that provide that the Company and certain of its subsidiaries may not grant liens to other creditors, unless the Notes are secured by liens on an equal and ratable basis to those granted to such other creditors.
The Indenture provides for customary events of default, including nonpayment, failure to comply with covenants or other agreements in the Indenture, any subsidiary guarantee shall cease to be in full force and effect or any guarantor shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under its subsidiary guarantee, and certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency. If any event of default occurs and is continuing with respect to a series of Notes, the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes of such series may declare all of the Notes of such series to be due and payable immediately.
Copies of the Base Indenture, the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture and the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture are attached as Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2, Exhibit 4.3 and Exhibit 4.4, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference herein. The foregoing description is a brief summary of the Indenture and does not purport to be a complete statement of the parties rights and obligations thereunder. The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by the terms of the Indenture.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit |
Description | |
1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated June 27, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, in connection with the offer and sale of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys Floating Rate Notes due 2022, $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027. | |
4.1 | Indenture, dated October 13, 2015, by and between General Motors Financial Company, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 13, 2015, and incorporated by reference herein. | |
4.2 | Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, with respect to the Floating Rate Notes due 2022. | |
4.3 | Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, with respect to the 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022. | |
4.4 | Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, with respect to the 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027. | |
4.5 | Form of Global Note for General Motors Financial Company, Inc.s Floating Rate Notes due 2022 (included in Exhibit 4.2). | |
4.6 | Form of Global Note for General Motors Financial Company, Inc.s 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (included in Exhibit 4.3). | |
4.7 | Form of Global Note for General Motors Financial Company, Inc.s 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (included in Exhibit 4.4). | |
5.1 | Opinion of Hunton & Williams LLP. | |
23.1 | Consent of Hunton & Williams LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. | ||||
(Registrant) | ||||
Date: June 30, 2017 | By: | /s/ Chris A. Choate | ||
Chris A. Choate | ||||
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Index to Exhibits
Exhibit |
Description | |
1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated June 27, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, in connection with the offer and sale of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys Floating Rate Notes due 2022, $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027. | |
4.1 | Indenture, dated October 13, 2015, by and between General Motors Financial Company, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 13, 2015, and incorporated by reference herein. | |
4.2 | Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, with respect to the Floating Rate Notes due 2022. | |
4.3 | Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, with respect to the 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022. | |
4.4 | Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, dated June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, with respect to the 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027. | |
4.5 | Form of Global Note for General Motors Financial Company, Inc.s Floating Rate Notes due 2022 (included in Exhibit 4.2). | |
4.6 | Form of Global Note for General Motors Financial Company, Inc.s 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (included in Exhibit 4.3). | |
4.7 | Form of Global Note for General Motors Financial Company, Inc.s 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (included in Exhibit 4.4). | |
5.1 | Opinion of Hunton & Williams LLP. | |
23.1 | Consent of Hunton & Williams LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1). |
Exhibit 1.1
General Motors Financial Company, Inc.
$500,000,000
Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2022
$1,250,000,000
3.150% Senior Notes due 2022
$500,000,000
4.350% Senior Notes due 2027
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
June 27, 2017
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC.
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP.
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
CREDIT AGRICOLE SECURITIES (USA) INC.
LLOYDS SECURITIES INC.
SMBC NIKKO SECURITIES AMERICA, INC.
as Representatives of the several Underwriters
listed in Schedule A hereto
c/o Barclays Capital Inc.
745 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York 10019
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
1. Introductory. General Motors Financial Company, Inc., a Texas corporation (the Company), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule A (the Underwriters) $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2022 (the Floating Rate Notes), $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (the 2027 Notes and, together with the Floating Rate Notes and the 2022 Notes, the Offered Securities) to be issued under an indenture dated October 13, 2015 (as hereinafter defined) (the Base Indenture), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture relating to the Floating Rate Notes, a supplemental indenture relating to the 2022 Notes and a supplemental indenture relating to the 2027 Notes, each to be dated as of the Closing Date (collectively, the Supplemental Indentures, and the Base Indenture as supplemented by the Supplemental Indentures, the Indenture), each among the Company, the Guarantor (as defined below) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee). The Offered Securities will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed (the Guarantee) as to payment of principal, interest and premium, on an
unsecured senior basis, by AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor). The 2027 Notes will have identical terms as the other debt securities of the same series issued on January 17, 2017, in an aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000 (the Existing Securities), other than their date of issue and their initial price to the public, and will trade interchangeably with, and will be assigned the same CUSIPs as, the Existing Securities immediately upon settlement. Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. are sometimes referred to collectively herein as the Representatives.
No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement (as defined below) or any other registration statement.
The Company and the Guarantor hereby agree with the several Underwriters as follows:
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Guarantor. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to, and agree with, the several Underwriters that:
(a) The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-206678), which contains a base prospectus (the Base Prospectus), to be used in connection with the public offering and sale of the Offered Securities. Such registration statement, as amended, including the financial statements, exhibits and schedules thereto, at each time of effectiveness under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the Securities Act), including any required information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430B or 430C under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the Exchange Act), is called the Registration Statement. Any preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Offered Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), together with the Base Prospectus, is hereafter called a Preliminary Prospectus. The term Prospectus shall mean the final prospectus supplement relating to the Offered Securities dated June 27, 2017 that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto, including the Base Prospectus. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act; any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be, under the Exchange Act, and incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and include any annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
(b) The Company and the offering of the Offered Securities each meet the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. The Registration Statement became effective with the Commission under the Securities Act on August 31, 2015. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, the Commission has not issued any order or notice preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus and no proceedings for such purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act have been instituted or are pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, are contemplated or threatened by the Commission.
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(c) The term General Disclosure Package shall mean (i) the Preliminary Prospectus dated June 27, 2017, as amended or supplemented as of the Applicable Time (as hereinafter defined), (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Communication (as hereinafter defined), (iii) any other free writing prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the General Disclosure Package and (iv) the final term sheet, which also shall be identified in Schedule B hereto. Applicable Time means 4:10 p.m. (New York City time) on the date of this Agreement. Each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus when filed complied in all material respects with the Securities Act. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at each time of effectiveness, at the date hereof and at the Closing Date, complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act. Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, as of its date did not and on the Closing Date will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading. Each of the Preliminary Prospectus, as of its date did not, and the Prospectus, on the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date will not, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. At the Applicable Time neither (i) the General Disclosure Package, nor (ii) any individual Supplemental Marketing Material (as hereinafter defined), when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding two sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or any Supplemental Marketing Material based upon written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information is that described as such in Section 6(b) hereof. The Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K most recently filed with the Commission and all subsequent reports (collectively, the Exchange Act Reports) which have been filed by the Company with the Commission, when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Any further documents filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement thereto, when such documents are filed with the Commission will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act.
Free Writing Communication means a written communication (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Offered Securities and is made by means other than the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus. Issuer Free Writing Communication means a Free Writing Communication prepared by or on behalf of the Company, used or referred to by the Company or containing a description of the final terms of the Offered Securities or of their offering. Supplemental Marketing Material means an Issuer Free Writing Communication other than any Issuer Free Writing Communication specified in Schedule B to this Agreement.
(d) (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Offered Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163 and (iv) at time of execution of this Agreement, the Company was or is (as the case may be) a well-known seasoned issuer as defined in Rule 405. The Company agrees to pay the fees required by the Commission relating to the Offered Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r).
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(e) None of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities) will violate or result in a violation of Section 7 of the Exchange Act, or any regulation promulgated thereunder, including, without limitation, Regulations T, U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
(f) The Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(g) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, subject to the qualification that the enforceability of the obligations of the Company and the Guarantor thereunder may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general equitable principles.
(h) The Base Indenture has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor, and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, subject to the qualification that the enforceability of the Companys and the Guarantors obligations thereunder may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general equitable principles; each of the Supplemental Indentures has been duly and validly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor, and upon execution and delivery of each of the Supplemental Indentures and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, the Indenture will constitute the valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, subject to the qualification that the enforceability of the Companys and the Guarantors obligations thereunder may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general equitable principles; and the Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the 1939 Act), and complies with the 1939 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission applicable to an indenture that is qualified thereunder.
(i) The Offered Securities have been duly and validly authorized by the Company and when duly executed by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and, assuming due authentication of the Offered Securities by the Trustee, upon delivery to the Underwriters against payment therefor in accordance with the terms hereof, will have been validly issued and delivered, and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the qualification that the enforceability of the Companys obligations thereunder may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general equitable principles.
(j) The Guarantee has been duly and validly authorized by the Guarantor and when duly executed and delivered by the Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and upon the due execution, authentication and delivery of the Offered Securities in accordance with the Indenture and upon delivery to the Underwriters against payment therefor in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute a valid and binding obligation of the Guarantor, enforceable against the Guarantor in
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accordance with its terms, subject to the qualification that the enforceability of the Guarantors obligations thereunder may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general equitable principles.
(k) There are no consents, waivers and amendments required under the terms of any existing Permitted Receivables Financing, any existing indebtedness of any Receivables Entity, any existing Bank Lines, any existing Residual Funding Facility or any existing Credit Enhancement Agreements (each, as defined in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus) necessary to ensure that the execution and delivery of, and the performance of all of the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement, the Offered Securities, the Guarantees and the Indenture (the Offered Securities, the Guarantees and the Indenture are collectively called the Operative Documents) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or a default under, any existing Permitted Receivables Financing, any existing indebtedness of any Receivables Entity, any existing Bank Lines, any existing Residual Funding Facility or any existing Credit Enhancement Agreement.
(l) The Company had, as of the date set forth herein, an authorized capitalization as set forth in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the Actual column under the heading Capitalization.
(m) Each of the Companys subsidiaries that constitutes a significant subsidiary within the meaning of Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act as of the date of this Agreement is listed on Exhibit A (collectively, the Subsidiaries).
(n) The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Texas with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package, and is duly registered and qualified to conduct its business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction or place where the nature of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such registration or qualification, except where the failure so to register or qualify or to be in good standing does not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), business, prospects, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole (a Material Adverse Effect).
(o) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries owns capital stock of any material corporation or material entity (excluding interests in Receivables Entities (as defined in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus)) other than the Subsidiaries and SAIC-GMAC Automotive Finance Company Limited. Each of the Subsidiaries is a corporation, trust, limited partnership or limited liability company duly incorporated or formed and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation, with all requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package, and is duly registered and qualified to conduct its business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction or place where the nature of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such registration or qualification, except where the failure so to register or qualify or be in good standing does not have a Material Adverse Effect. All the outstanding shares of capital stock or beneficial interests of each of the Subsidiaries that is a corporate entity, all of the limited partnership interests of each of the Subsidiaries that is a limited partnership and all of the membership interests in each of the Subsidiaries that is a limited liability company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable (except, in the case of any foreign subsidiary, for directors qualifying shares), and free and clear of any lien, adverse claim, security interest, equity or other encumbrance, except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and except for Permitted Liens, as defined in the General Disclosure Package.
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(p) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantor, threatened, against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or to which any of their respective properties, is subject, that are not disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and which, if adversely decided, are reasonably likely to cause a Material Adverse Effect or to materially affect the issuance of the Offered Securities or the consummation of the other transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents. The General Disclosure Package contains accurate summaries of all agreements, contracts, indentures, leases or other instruments that are material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole or otherwise summarized therein. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is involved in any strike, job action or labor dispute with any group of employees, and, to the Companys knowledge, no such action or dispute is threatened, which is reasonably likely to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
(q) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its certificate or articles of incorporation or by-laws or other organizational documents, (ii) in violation of any law, ordinance, administrative or governmental rule or regulation applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or of any decree of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or (iii) in default in the performance of any obligation, agreement or condition contained in any bond, debenture, note or any other evidence of indebtedness or in any agreement, indenture, lease or other instrument to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or any of their respective properties may be bound, except in the case of clause (i) with respect to the Subsidiaries (other than the Guarantor), clause (ii) and clause (iii) for any violations or defaults which, singly or in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse Effect and except as may be disclosed in the General Disclosure Package.
(r) None of the issuance, offer or sale of the Offered Securities, the execution, delivery or performance by the Company and the Guarantor of this Agreement or the other Operative Documents, compliance by the Company and the Guarantor with the provisions hereof or thereof nor consummation by the Company and the Guarantor of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (i) requires any consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental body, agency or official (except, as of the date of this Agreement, such as may be required in compliance with the securities or Blue Sky laws of various jurisdictions), or conflicts or will conflict with or constitutes or will constitute a breach of, or a default under, the certificate or articles of incorporation or formation or by-laws, or other organizational documents, of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or (ii) conflicts or will conflict with or constitutes or will constitute a breach of, or a default under any agreement, indenture, lease or other instrument that is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole and to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or any of their respective properties may be bound, or violates or will violate any statute, law, regulation or filing or judgment, injunction, order or decree applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, or will result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any agreement or instrument to which any of them is a party or by which any of them may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of any of them is subject.
(s) Deloitte & Touche LLP, which has certified the financial statements of the Company incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package and to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable published rules and regulations adopted thereunder and by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board at all times such independence was required.
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(t) The financial statements, together with the related notes forming part of the General Disclosure Package, present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position, results of operations, shareholders equity and cash flows of the Company and the Subsidiaries on the basis stated in the General Disclosure Package at the respective dates or for the respective periods to which they apply; such statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) consistently applied throughout the periods involved, except as disclosed therein, and meet the requirements of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act for registration statements on Form S-3; and the other financial and statistical information and data set forth in the General Disclosure Package is accurately presented and, to the extent such information and data is derived from the financial books and records of the Company, is prepared on a basis consistent with such financial statements and the books and records of the Company. The pro forma financial information and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the assumptions underlying such pro forma financial information are reasonable and are set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package fairly present the information called for in all material respects and have been prepared in accordance with the Commissions rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
(u) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any governmental agency or body or any court is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in connection with the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities by the Company or the Guarantee by the Guarantor.
(v) The Company and the Guarantor have all requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform their obligations under this Agreement; the execution and delivery of, and the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their obligations under this Agreement have been duly and validly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor.
(w) Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, subsequent to the date as of which such information is given in the General Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, or entered into any transaction, in each case not in the ordinary course of business, that is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and there has not been any material change in the capital stock, or material increase in the short-term or long-term debt, of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving or which would reasonably be expected to involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(x) Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and, except as disclosed in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock.
(y) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has good and indefeasible title to all property (real and personal) described in the General Disclosure Package as being owned by it, free and clear of all
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liens, claims, security interests or other encumbrances except such as are described in the General Disclosure Package and all the material property described in the General Disclosure Package as being held under lease by each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is held by it under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases, in each case with only such exceptions as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(z) Except as permitted by the Securities Act, the Company and the Guarantor have not distributed and, prior to the later to occur of the Closing Date and completion of the distribution of the Offered Securities, will not distribute any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Securities other than the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and those communications specified on Schedule B hereto.
(aa) Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has such permits, licenses, franchises, certificates of need and other approvals or authorizations of governmental or regulatory authorities (Permits) as are necessary under applicable law to own their respective properties and to conduct their respective businesses in the manner described in the General Disclosure Package, except to the extent that the failure to have such Permits would not have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and each of the Subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all their respective material obligations with respect to the Permits except to the extent that the failure to fulfill or perform such obligations would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and no event has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other material impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit, subject in each case to such qualification as may be set forth in the General Disclosure Package and except to the extent that any such revocation or termination would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(bb) Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, the Company and each of the Subsidiaries have filed all tax returns required to be filed, which returns are true and correct in all material respects, except where the failure to so file such returns or their failure to be true and correct in all material respects would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in default in the payment of any taxes which were payable pursuant to said returns or any assessments with respect thereto, except where the default in such payment would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(cc) No holder of any security of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries has any right to request or demand registration of shares of common stock or any other security of the Company because of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Except as described in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package and except for issuances to the Companys parent, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights calling for the issuance of, and there are no commitments, plans or arrangements to issue, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for capital stock of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries.
(dd) The Company or General Motors Company (GM) and each of the Subsidiaries owns or possesses all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets and rights described in the General Disclosure Package as being owned by any of them or necessary for the conduct of the respective businesses of the Company and the Subsidiaries with only such exceptions as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect and the Company is not aware of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of the Company, GM and the Subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing that, if such claim or challenge were sustained, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(ee) Neither the Company nor the Guarantor is and, upon sale of the Offered Securities to be issued and sold thereby in accordance herewith and the application of the net proceeds to the Company of such sale as described in the General Disclosure Package under the caption Use of Proceeds, neither will be an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(ff) The Company and the Subsidiaries have regular and ongoing regulatory compliance programs and procedures that the Company believes are adequate to ensure that all requirements of applicable federal, state and local laws, and regulations thereunder (including, without limitation, usury laws, the Federal Truth in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act) with respect to receivables owned and/or serviced by the Company or its Subsidiaries have been complied with in all material respects; and to the Companys knowledge, all such receivables comply with all such applicable legal and regulatory requirements, other than any non-compliance that is not material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(gg) Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the Company maintains (i) a system of internal controls, including, but not limited to, disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls over accounting matters and financial reporting and legal and regulatory compliance controls (collectively, Internal Controls) that comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley), the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the 1939 Act, the rules and regulations of the Commission, and the auditing principles, rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors of issuers (as defined in Sarbanes-Oxley) promulgated or approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (collectively, the Securities Laws), and are designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP and includes those policies and procedures that (A) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company, (B) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Company, and (C) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Companys assets that could have a material effect on the Companys financial statements, (ii) a system of disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commissions rules and forms, which include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Companys management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and (iii) any interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package fairly present the information called for in all material respects and are prepared in accordance with the Commissions rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as set forth in the Exchange Act Reports, the Company has not publicly disclosed or reported to the Board, and within the next 60 days the Company does not reasonably expect to publicly disclose or report to the Board, a significant deficiency, a material weakness, change in Internal Controls or fraud involving management or other employees who have a significant role in Internal Controls, or any violation of, or failure to comply with, the Securities Laws.
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(hh) On and immediately after the Closing Date, the Company (after giving effect to the issuance of the Offered Securities and the other transactions related thereto as described in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus) will not be insolvent, as such term is defined in Title 11, U.S. Code, and in the debtor and creditor law of the State of New York.
(ii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the best knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, any director, officer, agent, employee, controlled affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) or the U.K. Bribery Act 2010 (UK Bribery Act) or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment. To the knowledge of the Company, its controlled affiliates have conducted their businesses on behalf of the Company in compliance with the FCPA and the UK Bribery Act and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
(jj) The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance in all material respects with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the Anti-Money Laundering Laws) and no material action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(kk) None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or controlled affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is currently subject to any sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (OFAC), the U.S. Department of State, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the United Kingdom (including sanctions administered or enforced by Her Majestys Treasury) or other relevant sanctions authority; and the Company (i) will not knowingly directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Offered Securities hereunder, or knowingly lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any sanctions administered by the OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the United Kingdom (including sanctions administered or enforced by Her Majestys Treasury) or other relevant sanctions authority and (ii) has instituted and maintains policies and procedures that the Company believes are reasonably designed to detect any such use set forth in the immediately preceding clause (i).
(ll) Each Operative Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(mm) Each of the Company and the Guarantor acknowledge that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be delivered to the Underwriters pursuant to Section 5 hereof, counsel for the Company and the Guarantor and counsel for the Underwriters, will rely upon the accuracy and truth of the foregoing representations as to matters of fact and each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby consent to such reliance.
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3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of Offered Securities. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to the Underwriters, and the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, (i) with respect to the Floating Rate Notes, at a purchase price of 99.650% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest, if any, from June 30, 2017 to the Closing Date, the respective principal amounts of the Floating Rate Notes set forth opposite the names of the several Underwriters on Schedule A hereto, (ii) with respect to the 2022 Notes, at a purchase price of 99.480% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest, if any, from June 30, 2017 to the Closing Date, the respective principal amounts of the 2022 Notes set forth opposite the names of the several Underwriters on Schedule A hereto and (iii) with respect to the 2027 Notes, at a purchase price of 101.059% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest from January 17, 2017 to the Closing Date, the respective principal amounts of the 2027 Notes set forth opposite the names of the several Underwriters on Schedule A hereto.
The Company will deliver the Offered Securities to the Representatives for the accounts of the Underwriters in the form of one or more permanent global securities in definitive form (the Offered Global Securities) deposited with the Trustee as custodian for The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC, against payment of the purchase price. Interests in any permanent global securities will be held only in book-entry form through DTC, except in the limited circumstances described in the General Disclosure Package. Payment for the Offered Securities shall be made by the Underwriters in Federal (same day) funds by official check or checks or wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to the Representatives drawn to the order of the Company at the office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017, at 9:00 a.m. (New York time), on June 30, 2017 or at such other time not later than seven full business days thereafter as the Representatives and the Company determine, such time being herein referred to as the Closing Date, against delivery to the Trustee as custodian for DTC of the Offered Global Securities representing all of the Offered Securities. The Offered Global Securities will be made available for checking at the above office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP at least 24 hours prior to the Closing Date.
4. Certain Agreements of the Company and the Guarantor. The Company and the Guarantor agree with the several Underwriters that:
(a) The Company will advise the Representatives promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Preliminary Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and will not effect such amendment or supplementation without the Representatives consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). If, at any time prior to the completion of the resale of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters, any event occurs as a result of which the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package or any Supplemental Marketing Material would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the Company promptly will notify the Representatives of such event and promptly will prepare, at its own expense, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission. Neither the Representatives consent to, nor the Underwriters delivery to offerees or investors of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 5.
(b) Prior to the termination of the offering of the Offered Securities, the Company will not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus unless the Company has furnished you a copy for your review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object. The Company will cause the Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representatives, such approval not to be unreasonably
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withheld, with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing. The Company will promptly advise the Representatives (i) when the Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), (ii) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Offered Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (iii) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement or for any supplement to the Prospectus or for any additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act, (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act and (vi) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable.
(c) If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Prospectus, the Company promptly will (i) notify the Representatives of any such event, (ii) subject to the first two sentences of Section 4(b) above, prepare and file with the Commission an amendment or supplement or new registration statement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (iii) use its best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Prospectus and (iv) supply any supplemented Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.
(d) As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives an earnings statement or statements of the Company and its subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158.
(e) The Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Securities Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Communication and any supplement thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request. The Company will pay the expenses of printing or other production of all documents relating to the offering.
(f) Before making, preparing, using, authorizing, approving or referring to any Issuer Free Writing Communication, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of such written communication for review and will not make, prepare, use, authorize, approve or refer to any such written communication to which the Representatives reasonably object.
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(g) The Company and the Guarantor will cooperate with the Underwriters in connection with the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale and the determination of their eligibility for investment under the laws of such states in the United States as the Representatives designate and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the resale of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters provided that the Company and the Guarantor will not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any such state.
(h) The Company agrees that, unless it has or shall have obtained the prior written consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees with the Company that, unless it has or shall have obtained, as the case may be, the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Communication or that would otherwise constitute a free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than a free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule B hereto and any electronic road show. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives or the Company is hereinafter referred to as a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus. The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Communication and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.
(i) The Company consents to the use by any Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that (i) is not an issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433 or (ii) contains only (A) information describing the preliminary terms of the Offered Securities or their offering, (B) information that describes the final terms of the Offered Securities or their offering and that is included in the final term sheet of the Company or (C) information permitted under Rule 134 under the Securities Act; provided that each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not to take any action without the Companys consent which consent shall be confirmed in writing that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.
(j) The Company will assist the Underwriters in arranging for the Offered Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.
(k) During the period of two years after the Closing Date, the Company will not be, or become, an open-end investment company, unit investment trust or face-amount certificate company that is or is required to be registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act.
(l) The Company and the Guarantor will pay all expenses incidental to the performance of their obligations under this Agreement and the Indenture including (i) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and its professional advisers; (ii) all expenses in connection with the execution, issue, authentication, packaging and initial delivery of the Offered Securities, the preparation and printing of this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the Offered Securities, the Indenture, the Preliminary Prospectus, any other documents comprising any part of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, all amendments and supplements thereto, each item of Supplemental Marketing Material and any other
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document relating to the issuance, offer, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities; (iii) the cost of any advertising approved by the Company in connection with the issue of the Offered Securities; (iv) for any expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred in connection with qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives designate and the printing of memoranda relating thereto; (v) for any fees charged by investment rating agencies for the rating of the Offered Securities; (vi) for expenses incurred in the distribution and filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any other documents comprising any part of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) and any Supplemental Marketing Material to the Underwriters and (vii) any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such filings). The Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all travel expenses of the Underwriters and the Companys officers and employees and any other expenses of the Underwriters and the Company in connection with attending or hosting meetings with prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities.
(m) The Company will pay the registration fee for this offering within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.
(n) In connection with the offering, until the Representatives shall have notified the Company and the other Underwriters of the completion of the resale of the Offered Securities, except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package neither the Company nor any of its affiliates has or will, either alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase for any account in which it or any of its affiliates has a beneficial interest any Offered Securities or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Offered Securities; and neither it nor any of its affiliates will make bids or purchases for the purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in, or of raising the price of, the Offered Securities,
(o) During the period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the Closing Date, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to, any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company and having a maturity of more than one year from the date of issue, or publicly disclose the intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 4(o) shall prohibit the Company from entering into or consummating any securitization transactions or from incurring indebtedness under any Bank Lines, Credit Enhancement Agreements, Refinancing Indebtedness, Residual Funding Facilities or Permitted Receivables Financing or any indebtedness incurred by any Receivables Entity (in each case, as defined in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus).
(p) The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities as described in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading Use of Proceeds.
(q) Neither the Company nor the Guarantor will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Offered Securities; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent or prohibit the Companys election to redeem notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions set forth in the applicable indenture.
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5. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and the Guarantor herein, to the accuracy of the statements of officers of the Company and the Guarantor made pursuant to the provisions hereof, and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Underwriters shall have received, on the date hereof and on the Closing Date, letters dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters from Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public accountants to the Company, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants comfort letters to Underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the date hereof shall use a cut-off date not earlier than three business days prior to the date hereof and the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a cut-off date not earlier than three business days prior to such Closing Date.
(b) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as one enterprise which in the judgment of the Representatives is material and adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as one enterprise and makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the offering or the sale of and payment for the Offered Securities; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of any debt securities of the Company by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act), or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating) or any announcement that the Company has been placed on negative outlook; (iii) any material and adverse change in U.S. or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls as would, in the judgment of the Representatives, be likely to have a material adverse effect on the success of the proposed issue, sale or distribution of the Offered Securities; (iv) any material suspension or material limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange; (v) any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market; (vi) any banking moratorium declared by U.S. Federal or New York authorities; (vii) any major disruption of settlements of securities or clearance services in the United States or (viii) any attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United States, any declaration of war by Congress or any other national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the Representatives, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the offering or sale of and payment for the Offered Securities.
(c) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and a 10b-5 statement of Hunton & Williams LLP, counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
(d) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Frank E. Brown III, Esq., Senior Vice President, Corporate Counsel and Secretary of the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters to the effect set forth in Exhibit C hereto.
(e) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, special securitization counsel for the Company and the Subsidiaries, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriters to the effect set forth in Exhibit D hereto.
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(f) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Canadian counsel for the Company and the Subsidiaries, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriters to the effect set forth in Exhibit E hereto.
(g) The Underwriters shall have received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(h) The Underwriters shall have received a certificate, dated such Closing Date, of the President, Chief Executive Officer or any Vice President of the Company and the Guarantor in which such officer, to the best of his or her knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that (i) the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor in this Agreement are true and correct, that the Company and the Guarantor have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date; (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) shall have been issued and no proceeding for such purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act shall have been instituted or threatened and (iii) subsequent to the respective dates of the most recent financial statements in the Exchange Act Reports included in the General Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package or as described in such certificate.
(i) The Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, has been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) shall have been issued and no proceeding for such purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act shall have been instituted or threatened.
(j) The Offered Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.
(k) The Representatives shall have received on and as of a recent date relative to the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and the Guarantor in their respective jurisdictions of organization, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication, from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.
(l) The Company and Guarantor shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Underwriters such further certificates and documents as the Underwriters or their counsel shall have reasonably requested.
(m) The Company and the Guarantor shall not have failed at or prior to the Closing Date to have performed or complied in all material respects with any of their agreements herein contained and required to be performed or complied with by them hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date.
(n) The Company and the Guarantor will furnish the Underwriters with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Underwriters reasonably request. The Representatives may in their sole discretion waive on behalf of the Underwriters compliance with any conditions to the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder.
(o) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Offered Securities or the issuance of the Guarantee; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Offered Securities or the issuance of the Guarantee.
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6. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) The Company and the Guarantor will jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its partners, members, directors, officers, employees and agents and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Registration Statement for the registration of the Offered Securities as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, including information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B or 430C under the Securities Act, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statement therein not misleading or arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, and in each case including the Exchange Act Reports incorporated by reference therein, any Issuer Free Writing Communication, or any Supplemental Marketing Material, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, including any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising out of or based upon the Companys failure to perform its obligations under Section 4(a) of this Agreement, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company and the Guarantor will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.
(b) Each Underwriter will severally and not jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantor and each of their directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Guarantor within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company or any Guarantor may become subject, under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, in each case as amended or supplemented, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any Guarantor in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred, it being
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understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Preliminary Prospectus and Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: the first paragraph under the caption UnderwritingCommissions and Discounts, the third sentence of the first paragraph under the caption UnderwritingNew Issue of Notes and the first paragraph under the caption UnderwritingShort Positions and Stabilizing Transactions; provided, however, that the Underwriters shall not be liable for any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising out of or based upon the Companys failure to perform its obligations under Section 4(a) of this Agreement.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 6 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under subsection (a) or (b) above, notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof; provided, however, that if (i) the use of counsel (including local counsel) chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party having been advised by counsel reasonably concluded that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action within a reasonable time after receipt by the indemnifying party of notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party has authorized in writing the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying party, then in each such case, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties and such indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel (including local counsel) to defend such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties. After notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 6 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation, unless the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that in connection with such action the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to local counsel) in any one action or separate but substantially similar actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, designated by the Underwriters in the case of subsection (a) of this Section 6 or the Company in the case of subsection (b) of this Section 6, representing the indemnified parties under such subsection (a) or (b) of this Section 6, as the case may be, who are parties to such action or actions). The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any pending or threatened action effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party,
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in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party, from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters from the Company under this Agreement. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other and the parties relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity, to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Offered Securities purchased by it were resold exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. The Underwriters obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company and the Guarantor under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company and the Guarantor may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 6 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Guarantor within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
7. Default of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters default in their obligations to purchase Offered Securities hereunder on the Closing Date and the aggregate principal amount of the Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the total principal amount of the Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on the Closing Date, the Representatives may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons, including any of the Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by the Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on the Closing Date. If any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate principal amount of the Offered Securities with
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respect to which such default or defaults occur exceeds 10% of the total principal amount of the Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on the Closing Date and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons are not made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except as provided in Section 8. As used in this Agreement, the term Underwriter includes any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section 7. Nothing herein will relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
8. Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other written statements of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their officers and of the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation, or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective representatives, officers or directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7 or if for any reason the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company shall remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by it pursuant to Section 4 and the respective obligations of the Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 6 shall remain in effect and if any Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder the representations and warranties in Section 2 and all obligations under Section 4 shall remain in effect. If the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 7 or the occurrence of any event specified in clause (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii) or (viii) of Section 5(b), the Company and the Guarantor will jointly and severally reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities.
9. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if sent to the Underwriters will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Representatives, c/o Barclays Capital Inc. at 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Syndicate Registration (Facsimile: (646) 834-8133), with a copy to Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10017, Attention: Richard A. Drucker, Esq. (Facsimile: (212)-450-5527); or, if sent to the Company or any Guarantor, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to it at 801 Cherry Street Suite 3500, Fort Worth, Texas 76102, Attention: Secretary, with a copy to Hunton & Williams LLP, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 3700, Dallas Texas 75202, Attention: L. Steven Leshin, Esq., telecopy number: (214) 468-3599; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 6 will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to such Underwriter.
10. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the controlling persons referred to in Section 6, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
11. Representation of Underwriters. You will act for the several Underwriters in connection with this purchase, and any action under this Agreement taken by you jointly or by the Representatives will be binding upon all the Underwriters.
12. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier, facsimile or other electronic transmission (i.e., a pdf or tif) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.
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13. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company and the Guarantor acknowledge and agree that:
(a) the Underwriters have been retained solely to act as underwriters in connection with the underwriting, offering and resale of the Offered Securities and that no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Representatives on the other has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, irrespective of whether the Representatives have advised or are advising the Company or the Guarantor on other matters;
(b) the purchase price of the Offered Securities set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company and the Guarantor following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Representatives and the Company and the Guarantor are capable of evaluating and understanding and understand and accept the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) the Company and the Guarantor have been advised that the Representatives and their respective affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and the Guarantor and that the Representatives have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company and the Guarantor by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and
(d) the Company and the Guarantor waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims they may have against the Representatives for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agree that the Representatives shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company or the Guarantor in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company or the Guarantor, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company or the Guarantor.
14. Applicable Law. This Agreement, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.
15. Waiver of Jury Trial. Each the Company and the Representatives hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
The Company hereby submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Underwriters understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement between the Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours, | ||||
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |||
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |||
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |||
AMERICREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |||
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |||
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written.
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP. CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. CREDIT AGRICOLE SECURITIES (USA) INC. LLOYDS SECURITIES INC. SMBC NIKKO SECURITIES AMERICA, INC.
Acting severally on behalf of themselves and as the Representatives of the several Underwriters. |
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BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. | BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP. | |||||||||||
By: | /s/ Kenneth Chang |
By: | /s/ Richard Murphy | |||||||||
Name: | Kenneth Chang | Name: | Richard Murphy | |||||||||
Title: | Managing Director | Title: | Managing Director | |||||||||
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. | CREDIT AGRICOLE SECURITIES (USA) INC. | |||||||||||
By: | /s/ Brian D. Bednarski |
By: | /s/ David C. Travis | |||||||||
Name: | Brian D. Bednarski | Name: | David C. Travis | |||||||||
Title: | Managing Director | Title: | Managing Director | |||||||||
LLOYDS SECURITIES INC. | SMBC NIKKO SECURITIES AMERICA, INC. | |||||||||||
By: | /s/ David Keller |
By: | /s/ Yoshihiro Satake | |||||||||
Name: | David Keller | Name: | Yoshihiro Satake | |||||||||
Title: | Head U.S. DCM | Title: | Managing Director |
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
SCHEDULE A
Underwriter |
Principal Amount of Floating Rate Notes |
Principal Amount of 2022 Notes |
Principal Amount of 2027 Notes |
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Barclays Capital Inc. |
$ | 70,834,000 | $ | 177,083,000 | $ | 70,833,000 | ||||||
BNP Paribas Securities Corp. |
$ | 70,834,000 | $ | 177,083,000 | $ | 70,833,000 | ||||||
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. |
$ | 70,834,000 | $ | 177,083,000 | $ | 70,833,000 | ||||||
Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. |
$ | 70,833,000 | $ | 177,084,000 | $ | 70,833,000 | ||||||
Lloyds Securities Inc. |
$ | 70,833,000 | $ | 177,084,000 | $ | 70,833,000 | ||||||
SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. |
$ | 70,833,000 | $ | 177,084,000 | $ | 70,833,000 | ||||||
BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC |
$ | 23,333,000 | $ | 58,333,000 | $ | 23,334,000 | ||||||
Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. |
$ | 23,333,000 | $ | 58,333,000 | $ | 23,334,000 | ||||||
MUFG Securities Americas Inc. |
$ | 23,333,000 | $ | 58,333,000 | $ | 23,334,000 | ||||||
Great Pacific Securities |
$ | 2,500,000 | $ | 6,250,000 | $ | 2,500,000 | ||||||
Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. |
$ | 2,500,000 | $ | 6,250,000 | $ | 2,500,000 | ||||||
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Total |
$ | 500,000,000 | $ | 1,250,000,000 | $ | 500,000,000 | ||||||
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SCHEDULE B
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION ISSUER FREE WRITING COMMUNICATION
1. | Term sheet containing terms of securities, substantially in the form attached hereto. |
B-1
Final Term Sheet
[see attached.]
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 433
supplementing the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated
June 27, 2017 and the Prospectus dated August 31, 2015
Registration No. 333-206678
Terms Applicable to the Notes
Issuer: |
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. | |
Guarantor: |
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. | |
Trade Date: |
June 27, 2017 | |
Settlement Date: |
June 30, 2017 (T+3) | |
Form of Offering: |
SEC Registered (Registration No. 333-206678) |
Terms applicable to
Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2022
Aggregate Principal Amount: | $500,000,000 | |
Maturity Date: | June 30, 2022 | |
Public Offering Price: | 100.000%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, from June 30, 2017 | |
Interest Rate Basis: | Three-month LIBOR | |
Spread to LIBOR: | +131 bps | |
Interest Payment Dates: | March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30, commencing on September 30, 2017 | |
Interest Rate Determination: | Three-month LIBOR, determined as of two London business days prior to the settlement date or the relevant interest reset date, as applicable, plus 1.310% per annum | |
Interest Reset Dates: | Quarterly on March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30, commencing on September 30, 2017 | |
Day Count Convention: | Actual / 360 | |
Redemption: | The notes shall not be redeemable prior to their maturity | |
Regular Record Dates: | 15 calendar days prior to each interest payment date | |
Calculation Agent: | Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | |
CUSIP / ISIN: | 37045XBX3/ US37045XBX30 | |
Joint Book-Running Managers: | Barclays Capital Inc. |
BNP Paribas Securities Corp. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. Lloyds Securities Inc. SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | ||
Co-Managers: | BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. Great Pacific Securities Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. |
Terms applicable to
3.150% Senior Notes due 2022
Aggregate Principal Amount: | $1,250,000,000 | |
Final Maturity Date: | June 30, 2022 | |
Public Offering Price: | 99.830%, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, from June 30, 2017 | |
Benchmark Treasury: | 1.750% due May 31, 2022 | |
Benchmark Treasury Yield: | 1.817% | |
Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | T+137 bps | |
Coupon: | 3.150% | |
Yield to Maturity: | 3.187% | |
Interest Payment Dates: | June 30 and December 30, commencing on December 30, 2017 | |
Day Count Convention: | 30 / 360 | |
Optional Redemption: | Make-whole call at T+25 bps prior to May 30, 2022 (the date that is one month prior to the final maturity date)
Par call on or after May 30, 2022 (the date that is one month prior to the final maturity date) | |
CUSIP / ISIN: | 37045XBY1 / US37045XBY13 | |
Joint Book-Running Managers: | Barclays Capital Inc. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. Lloyds Securities Inc. SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | |
Co-Managers: | BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. Great Pacific Securities Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. |
Terms applicable to
4.350% Senior Notes due 2027
Aggregate Principal Amount: | $500,000,000 | |
Final Maturity Date: | January 17, 2027 | |
Public Offering Price: | 101.509%, plus accrued and unpaid interest deemed to have accrued from January 17, 2017 to the settlement date of $9,847,916.67 | |
Benchmark Treasury: | 2.375% due May 15, 2027 | |
Benchmark Treasury Yield: | 2.203% | |
Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | T+195 bps | |
Coupon: | 4.350% | |
Yield to Maturity: | 4.153% | |
Interest Payment Dates: | January 17 and July 17, commencing on July 17, 2017 | |
Day Count Convention: | 30 / 360 | |
Optional Redemption: | Make-whole call at T+30 bps prior to October 17, 2026 (the date that is three months prior to the final maturity date)
Par call on or after October 17, 2026 (the date that is three months prior to the final maturity date) | |
CUSIP / ISIN: | 37045X BT2 / US37045XBT28 | |
Joint Book-Running Managers: | Barclays Capital Inc. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. Lloyds Securities Inc. SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | |
Co-Managers: | BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. Great Pacific Securities Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. |
The Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents that the Issuer has filed with the SEC, including the preliminary prospectus supplement, for more complete information about the Issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus if you request it by contacting: Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: (888) 603-5847, email: barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com; BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Attention: Syndicate Desk, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, telephone: (800) 854-5674,
email: nyk_elo@us.bnpparibas.com; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013, Attention: General Counsel, telephone: (800) 831-9146, facsimile number: (646) 291-1469; Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., 1301 Avenue of the Americas, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Fixed Income Syndicate, telephone: (866) 807-6030; Lloyds Securities Inc., Attention: Ken Cawley, 1095 Avenue of the Americas, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10036, telephone: (212) 827 3117, email: NALSIFinanceandOperations@lbusa.com; and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., toll-free: (888) 868-6856.
Exhibit A
Subsidiaries
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc.
ACF Investment Corp.
GMF International LLC
GMF Global Assignment LLC
GM Financial Holdings LLC
GM Financial Consumer Discount Company
AmeriCredit Consumer Loan Company, Inc.
APGO Trust
ACAR Leasing Ltd.
Maven Leasing Ltd.
AFS SenSub Corp.
AmeriCredit Funding Corp. XI
AmeriCredit Syndicated Warehouse Trust
GMF Funding Corp.
GMF Leasing LLC
GMF Leasing Warehouse Trust
GMF Leasing Warehouse Trust 2016-A
GMF Leasing Warehouse Trust 2016-B
GMF Wholesale Receivables LLC
GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust
General Motors Financial of Canada, Ltd.
GM Financial Canada Leasing Ltd.
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2013-2
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2013-3
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2013-4
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2013-5
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-1
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-2
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-3
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-4
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2015-1
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2015-2
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2015-3
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2015-4
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2015-5
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AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2016-1
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2016-2
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2016-3
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2016-4
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2017-1
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2017-2
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2017-3
GM Financial Automobile Receivables Trust 2014-PP1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2014-PP1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-PP1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-PP2
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-PP3
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-PP4
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-PP5
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP2
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP3
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP4
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP5
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP6
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-PP7
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-PP1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-PP2
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-PP3
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-PP4
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-2
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2015-3
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-2
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2016-3
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-1
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust 2017-2
GMF Prime Automobile Trust 2015-PP1
GMF Prime Automobile Trust 2016-PP1
GMF Prime Automobile Trust 2016-PP2
GMF Prime Automobile Trust 2016-PP3
GMF Prime Automobile Trust 2017-PP1
GMF Prime Automobile Trust 2017-PP2
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GM Financial Consumer Automobile Receivables Trust 2017-1
GM Financial Consumer Automobile Receivables Trust 2017-2
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust I
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust II
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust III
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust IV
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust V
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust VI
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust VII
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust VIII
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust IX
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust X
GMF Prime Automobile Warehouse Trust XI
General Motors Investments Participações Ltda.
Banco GMAC S.A.
GMACI Corretora de Seguros Ltda.
GMAC Administradora de Consórcios Ltda.
GMAC Holdings UK Limited
GMAC UK plc
General Motors Financial Suisse SA
GM Financial AB
General Motors Financial International B.V.
GMAC Lease B.V.
GMAC Nederland N.V.
GMAC Continental Corporation
General Motors Financial Italia SpA
GMF Europe Holdco Limited
GM Financial Insurance Services GmbH
GMF Europe LLP
General Motors Financial UK Limited
Saab Finance Limited
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Exhibit 4.2
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC.,
AS ISSUER
AMERICREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.,
AS GUARANTOR
FLOATING RATE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2022
TWENTIETH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of June 30, 2017
To
INDENTURE
Dated as of October 13, 2015
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
AS TRUSTEE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE |
2 | |||||||
Section 1.01 |
Definitions | 2 | ||||||
Section 1.02 |
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act | 8 | ||||||
Section 1.03 |
Rules of Construction | 8 | ||||||
Section 1.04 |
Relationship With Base Indenture | 8 | ||||||
ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES | 8 | |||||||
Section 2.01 |
Establishment, Form and Dating | 8 | ||||||
Section 2.02 |
Registrar and Paying Agent | 9 | ||||||
ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION OF NOTES | 9 | |||||||
Section 3.01 |
Optional Redemption | 9 | ||||||
ARTICLE 4 COVENANTS | 9 | |||||||
Section 4.01 |
Liens | 9 | ||||||
Section 4.02 |
Corporate Existence | 10 | ||||||
Section 4.03 |
Additional Subsidiary Guarantees | 10 | ||||||
ARTICLE 5 DEFEASANCE | 10 | |||||||
ARTICLE 6 GUARANTEES | 10 | |||||||
ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS | 11 | |||||||
Section 7.01 |
Governing Law | 11 | ||||||
Section 7.02 |
Successors | 11 | ||||||
Section 7.03 |
Severability | 11 | ||||||
Section 7.04 |
Counterpart Originals | 11 | ||||||
Section 7.05 |
Table of Contents, Headings, etc. | 11 | ||||||
Section 7.06 |
Calculation Agent | 12 |
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This TWENTIETH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this Supplemental Indenture), dated as of June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., a Texas corporation (the Company), AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee).
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture and, as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto and the second supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 13, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of November 24, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of March 1, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of May 9, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the ninth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of July 5, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the tenth supplemental indenture thereto, the eleventh supplemental indenture thereto and the twelfth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 6, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the thirteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the fourteenth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of January 17, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventeenth supplemental indenture thereto and the eighteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of April 13, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the nineteenth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of May 9, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, and as may be amended or further supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture), between the Company and the Trustee, providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of one or more series of Securities;
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture to provide for the issuance of its Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2022 (the Notes), and the Company and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes;
WHEREAS, the Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture in order to provide for a Guarantee by the Guarantor of the Notes as to which Guarantee has been made applicable in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantor desire and have requested the Trustee to join with them in the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture in order to supplement the Base Indenture and to add covenants to and remove covenants from the Base Indenture with respect to the Notes as and to the extent set forth herein to provide for the issuance and the terms of the Notes; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid indenture and agreement of the Company and the Guarantor according to its terms have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders from time to time of the Notes as follows.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01 Definitions.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in those Articles. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Supplemental Indenture shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Base Indenture or in this Article. In the event of any conflict between any term defined in the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the defined terms in this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and control.
Acquired Indebtedness means, with respect to any specified Person, Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person merges with or into or becomes a Subsidiary of such specified Person, or Indebtedness incurred by such Person in connection with the acquisition of assets, in each case so long as such Indebtedness was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into or becoming a Subsidiary of such specified Person or the acquisition of such assets, as the case may be.
Additional Notes means any additional Notes issued under the Indenture as part of the same series as the Notes.
Bank Lines means, with respect to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans and/or letters of credit.
Base Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
Calculation Agent shall initially mean Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, or any successor appointed from time to time by the Company acting as calculation agent.
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom all current liabilities and all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, unamortized debt discounts and expense and other like intangibles of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, all as set forth in the most recent balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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Credit Enhancement Agreements means, collectively, any documents, instruments, guarantees or agreements entered into by the Company, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Receivables Entity for the purpose of providing credit support for one or more Receivables Entities or any of their respective securities, debt instruments, obligations or other Indebtedness.
Existing 2017 Notes means the Companys 4.75% Senior Notes due 2017, issued on August 16, 2012, pursuant to that certain indenture, dated as of August 16, 2012, among the Company, the Guarantor and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee.
Existing 2018 Notes means the Companys 6.75% Senior Notes due 2018, issued on June 1, 2011, pursuant to that certain indenture, dated as of June 1, 2011, among the Company, the Guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.
Global Note means a certificated Note deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and that has the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached thereto. As of the date of this Supplemental Indenture all of the Notes are represented by Global Notes.
Guarantee means any guarantee of any of the Notes by a Guarantor as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture; provided that the term Guarantee, when used with respect to the Notes of any Series means a guarantee of such Notes of such Series by a Guarantor of such Notes of such Series as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture.
Guarantee Termination Event means the first date following the date of this Indenture when (i) no Guarantor guarantees the Existing 2017 Notes and the Existing 2018 Notes and (ii) no Guarantor is an issuer or guarantor of any Triggering Indebtedness (other than any guarantee of Triggering Indebtedness that is being concurrently released). For purposes of clause (ii) of this definition, a Guarantors guarantee of any Triggering Indebtedness shall be deemed to be concurrently released when all of the conditions for the release of such guarantee are satisfied, other than for any condition related to the concurrent release of the Guarantors guarantee of any other Triggering Indebtedness. Upon the satisfaction of all of such conditions not related to the concurrent release of any guarantees of any other Triggering Indebtedness, a Guarantors guarantee of any Triggering Indebtedness and the Guarantee hereunder shall be deemed to be concurrently released and the conditions of clause (ii) shall be deemed to be satisfied.
Guarantor means AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and each other Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
Hedging Obligations means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under (i) interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements, and (ii) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates.
Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble hereto.
Initial Notes means the first $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes issued under the Indenture on the date hereof.
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Interest Determination Date means the second London Business Day immediately preceding the settlement date, in the case of the Initial Interest Period, or thereafter, the second London Business Day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Reset Date.
Initial Interest Reset Period (or Initial Interest Period) means the period from and including June 30, 2017 to but excluding the first Interest Reset Date.
Interest Payment Date refers to each day on which the interest rate on the Notes will be paid, which will be quarterly on March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30, commencing on September 30, 2017.
Interest Reset Date refers to each day on which the interest rate on the Notes will be reset, which will be quarterly on March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30, commencing on September 30, 2017, and at maturity.
Interest Reset Period (or Interest Period) means the period from and including an Interest Reset Date to but excluding the immediately succeeding Interest Reset Date; provided that the final Interest Reset Period for the Notes will be the period from and including the Interest Reset Date immediately preceding the maturity date of the Notes to but excluding the maturity date.
London Business Day means a day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.
Non-Domestic Entity means a Person not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
Notes has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto. For purposes of the Indenture, all references to the notes to be issued or authenticated upon transfer or replacement of or in exchange for Notes shall be deemed to refer to Notes. In addition, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the Notes shall include the Initial Notes and any Additional Notes.
Permitted Liens means: (i) Liens existing on the date of the Base Indenture; (ii) Liens to secure securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness of one or more Receivables Entities or guarantees thereof; (iii) Liens to secure Indebtedness under a Residual Funding Facility or guarantees thereof; (iv) Liens to secure Indebtedness and other obligations (including letter of credit indemnity obligations and obligations relating to expenses with respect to debt facilities), under one or more debt facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans and/or letters of credit or guarantees thereof; (v) Liens on spread accounts, reserve accounts and other credit enhancement assets, Liens on the Capital Stock of Subsidiaries of the Company substantially all of the assets of which are spread accounts, reserve accounts and/or other credit enhancement assets, and Liens on interests in one or more Receivables Entities, in each case incurred in connection with Credit Enhancement Agreements, Residual Funding Facilities or issuances of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness by a Receivables Entity; (vi) Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of such property (including properties acquired through merger or consolidation); (vii) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the construction or purchase of property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (but excluding
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Capital Stock of another Person); provided that any such Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at the time the Lien is incurred, and the Indebtedness secured by the Lien may not be incurred more than 180 days after the later of the acquisition or completion of construction of the property subject to the Lien; (viii) Liens securing Hedging Obligations; (ix) Liens to secure any Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to refinance any Indebtedness and all other obligations secured by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clause (i); provided that such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same property or type of property that secured the original Lien and the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clause (i) of this definition at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien; (x) Liens in favor of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (xi) Liens of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with respect to obligations that do not exceed five percent of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; (xii) Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, landlord Liens on leased properties); (xiii) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided, that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor; (xiv) Liens imposed by law or regulation, such as carriers, warehousemens, materialmens, repairmens and mechanics and similar Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue for a period of more than 30 days or that are 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; provided, that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor; (xv) Liens related to minor survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, ground leases, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, servitudes, sewers, electric lines, drains, telegraph and telephone and cable television lines, gas and oil pipelines and other similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions (including, without limitation, minor defects or irregularities in title and similar encumbrances) 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; (xvi) Liens on equipment of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries granted in the ordinary course of business; (xvii) deposits made or other security provided to secure liabilities to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements in the ordinary course of business; (xviii) purported Liens evidenced by filings of precautionary UCC financing statements relating solely to operating leases of personal property; (xix) Liens evidenced by UCC financing statement filings (or similar filings) regarding or otherwise arising under leases entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; (xx) Liens on accounts, payment intangibles, chattel paper, instruments and/or other Receivables granted in connection with sales of any of such assets; (xxi) Liens on Receivables and related assets and proceeds thereof arising in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing; and (xxii) Liens in favor of a Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries.
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Permitted Receivables Financing means any facility, arrangement, transaction or agreement (i) pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary finances the acquisition or origination of Receivables with, or sells Receivables that it has acquired or originated to, a third party on terms that the Board of Directors has concluded are customary and market-standard, and (ii) that grants Liens to, or permits filings of precautionary UCC financing statements by, the third party against the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, under such facility, arrangement, transaction or agreement relating to the subject Receivables, related assets and/or proceeds.
Receivable means each of the following: (i) any right to payment of a monetary obligation, including, without limitation, any promissory note, financing agreement, installment sale contract, lease contract, insurance and service contract, and any credit, debit or charge card receivable, and (ii) any assets related to such receivables, including, without limitation, any collateral securing, or property leased under, such receivables.
Receivables Entity means each of the following: (i) any Person (whether or not a Subsidiary of the Company) established for the purpose of transferring or holding Receivables or issuing securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness backed by Receivables and/or Receivable-backed securities, regardless of whether such Person is an issuer of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness, and (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company formed exclusively for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of Credit Enhancement Agreements, regardless of whether such Person is an issuer of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness.
Refinancing Indebtedness means any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
Residual Funding Facility means any funding arrangement with a financial institution or institutions or other lenders or purchasers under which advances are made to the Company or any Subsidiary based upon residual, subordinated or retained interests in Receivables Entities or any of their respective securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness.
Restricted Subsidiary of a Person means any Subsidiary of the referent Person that is not a Receivables Entity or Non-Domestic Entity.
Supplemental Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble hereto.
Three-Month LIBOR will be determined by the Calculation Agent as of the applicable Interest Determination Date in accordance with the following provisions:
(i) LIBOR is the rate for deposits in U.S. dollars for the 3-month period which appears on Reuters LIBOR 01 (as defined below) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the applicable Interest Determination Date. Reuters LIBOR 01 means the display designated on page LIBOR 01 on the Reuters Service (or such other page as may replace the LIBOR 01 page on that service, any successor service or such other service or services as may be nominated by the British Bankers Association for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates for U.S. dollar deposits). If no rate appears on Reuters LIBOR 01, LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be determined in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (ii) below.
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(ii) With respect to an Interest Determination Date on which no rate appears on Reuters LIBOR 01 as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date, the Calculation Agent shall request the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks (which may include affiliates of the Underwriters) in the London interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Company) to provide the Calculation Agent with a quotation of the rate at which deposits of U.S. dollars having a three-month maturity, commencing on the second London Business Day immediately following such interest determination date, are offered by it to prime banks in the London interbank market as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than U.S. $1,000,000 that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such quotations are provided, LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations as calculated by the Calculation Agent. If fewer than two quotations are provided, LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted as of approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Interest Determination Date by three major banks (which may include affiliates of the Underwriters) selected by the Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Company) for loans in U.S. dollars to leading European banks having a three-month maturity commencing on the second London Business Day immediately following such Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than U.S. $1,000,000 that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time; provided, however, that if the banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting such rates as mentioned in this sentence, LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be LIBOR determined with respect to the immediately preceding Interest Determination Date.
Triggering Indebtedness means any Indebtedness incurred after the date of the Base Indenture to the extent that the principal amount of such Indebtedness exceeds $100 million; provided, however, that Triggering Indebtedness shall not include: (i) Indebtedness that is or would be permitted to be secured by a Permitted Lien (whether or not such Indebtedness is in fact so secured); (ii) Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (iii) Acquired Indebtedness; and (iv) Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of extending, renewing or replacing in whole or in part Indebtedness permitted by any of clauses (i) through (iii) above.
Trustee means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving thereunder.
Underwriters means the underwriters as set forth in Schedule A to the Underwriting Agreement dated June 27, 2017 among the Company, the Guarantor and Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.
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Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them.
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(b) or is not exclusive;
(c) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;
(d) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and
(e) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement of successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time.
Section 1.04 Relationship With Base Indenture.
The terms and provisions contained in the Base Indenture shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
ARTICLE 2
THE NOTES
Section 2.01 Establishment, Form and Dating.
There is hereby established a new series of Securities to be issued under the Base Indenture, to be designated as the Companys Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2022.
There are to be authenticated and delivered $500,000,000 principal amount of Notes, and such principal amount of Notes may be increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Base Indenture by the issuance of Additional Notes. Any such Additional Notes will have the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Initial Notes, except for their issue price and, if applicable, the initial interest accrual date and the initial interest payment date, and shall
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constitute a single series of Securities with the Initial Notes; provided that if the Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, they will have a separate CUSIP number. No Notes shall be authenticated and delivered in addition to Notes for the principal amount as so increased except as provided by Sections 2.09, 2.10, 2.13 or, to the extent applicable, 3.08 of the Base Indenture. The Notes shall be senior debt securities and shall be issued in fully registered form.
The Notes and the Trustees certificate of authentication with respect thereto will be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note will be dated the date of its authentication, and except as provided in Section 2.09 of the Base Indenture, will be issued in the form of one or more Global Notes. The principal of, and any premium or interest on, the Notes shall be payable in United States dollars. The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of the Indenture and the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of the Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
Section 2.02 Registrar and Paying Agent.
The Company will maintain a Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the Notes. The Registrar will keep a register with respect to the Notes and of their transfer and exchange.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the Notes and to act as custodian for the Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
Section 3.01 Optional Redemption.
The Notes are not subject to optional redemption prior to maturity.
ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
The Notes shall be subject to the following covenants in addition to the provisions of Article 4 of the Base Indenture (provided that Section 4.07 of the Base Indenture shall not be applicable to the Notes):
Section 4.01 Liens.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur or assume any Lien of any kind (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of their property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, unless all payments due under this Indenture and the Notes are secured on an equal and ratable basis with the obligations so secured until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien.
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Section 4.02 Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article 5 of the Base Indenture, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect (i) its corporate existence in accordance with the organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company, and (ii) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided that the company shall not be required to preserve any such right license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.
Section 4.03 Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.
If any Restricted Subsidiary issues or guarantees any Triggering Indebtedness, then such Restricted Subsidiary shall execute a Subsidiary Guarantee; provided, that the Subsidiary Guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor under this Section shall be automatically discharged and released as provided under Section 10.05 of the Base Indenture or under Article 6 of this Supplemental Indenture. The foregoing covenant shall terminate upon the occurrence of a Guarantee Termination Event.
ARTICLE 5
DEFEASANCE
Legal defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.04 of the Base Indenture and covenant defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes, and the Company may at its option by a resolution of the Board of Directors, at any time, with respect to the Notes, elect to have Section 8.04 or Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture be applied to the outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 8.06 of the Base Indenture. In addition to Section 5.01 of the Base Indenture, Article 4 of this Supplemental Indenture shall be subject to covenant defeasance under Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture.
ARTICLE 6
GUARANTEES
The provisions of Article 10 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes.
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In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 10.05 of the Base Indenture, a Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all obligations under the Indenture and its Guarantee upon the occurrence of either of the following events:
(a) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale, exchange or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor, in each case following which such Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or
(b) the occurrence of a Guarantee Termination Event.
ARTICLE 7
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01 Governing Law.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES, IF APPLICABLE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
Section 7.02 Successors.
All agreements of the Company in this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes will bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors. All agreements of each Guarantor in this Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.04 of the Base Indenture.
Section 7.03 Severability.
In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 7.04 Counterpart Originals.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy will be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
Section 7.05 Table of Contents, Headings, etc.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings of the Articles and Sections of this Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and will in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
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Section 7.06 Calculation Agent
All calculations made by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company and the Holders of the Notes. So long as Three-Month LIBOR is required to be determined with respect to the Notes, there will at all times be a Calculation Agent. In the event that any then-acting Calculation Agent shall be unable or unwilling to act, or that such Calculation Agent shall fail duly to establish the Three-Month LIBOR for any Interest Period, or that the Company proposes to remove such Calculation Agent, the Company shall appoint the Company or another person which is a bank, trust company, investment banking firm or other financial institution to act as the Calculation Agent.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
General Motors Financial Company, Inc., as Issuer | ||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as Guarantor | ||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ Patrick T. Giordano | |
Name: | Patrick T. Giordano | |
Title: | Vice President |
[Signature Page to Twentieth Supplemental Indenture]
Exhibit A
THIS DEBT SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS DEBT SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF, ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF AND NO SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE REGISTERED, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. EVERY DEBT SECURITY AUTHENTICATED AND DELIVERED UPON REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF, OR IN EXCHANGE FOR OR IN LIEU OF, THIS DEBT SECURITY SHALL BE A GLOBAL SECURITY SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (DTC), TO GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNED HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.1
1 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
CUSIP No.: | 37045XBX3 | |
ISIN No.: | US37045XBX30 |
Floating Rate Senior Note due 2022
No. R-1 | $ |
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC.
promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]2
or registered assigns,
the principal sum of $ [(subject to the decreases and increases in principal amount set forth on the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached hereto)]3 on June 30, 2022.
Interest Payment Dates: March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30, commencing September 30, 2017.
Interest Rate: The interest rate for the Initial Interest Period will be the Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on June 28, 2017, plus 1.310% per annum. Thereafter, the interest rate for any Interest Period will be the Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date, plus 1.310% per annum. The interest rate will be reset quarterly on each Interest Reset Date.
Record Dates: 15 calendar days prior to each Interest Payment Date.
2 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
3 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
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Dated: | ||
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. | ||
By: |
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Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
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This is one of the Global
Notes referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture:
Dated:
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Trustee
By: |
| |
Name: | Patrick T. Giordano | |
Title: | Vice President |
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[Back of Note]
Floating Rate Senior Note due 2022
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities (the Securities) of General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (the Company, which term includes any successor Person under the Base Indenture hereinafter referred to), issued and issuable in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (the Trustee, which term includes any successor trustee under the Base Indenture), to which Base Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitation of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities issued thereunder and of the terms upon which said Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof as Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2022 (the Notes), which was issued under the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2017, to the Base Indenture (the Supplemental Indenture, together with the Base Indenture, and as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto and the second supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 13, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of November 24, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of March 1, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of May 9, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the ninth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of July 5, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the tenth supplemental indenture thereto, the eleventh supplemental indenture thereto and the twelfth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 6, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the thirteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the fourteenth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of January 17, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventeenth supplemental indenture thereto and the eighteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of April 13, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, and as further supplemented by the nineteenth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of May 9, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, the Indenture) and which is initially limited to $500,000,000 in principal amount. Capitalized terms used herein for which no definition is provided herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Indenture.
1. INTEREST. The Company promises to pay interest at a floating rate per annum, reset quarterly on each Interest Reset Date, equal to Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the Interest Determination Date for the Initial Interest Period and for each subsequent Interest Period, plus 1.310%, as calculated by the Calculation Agent, from June 30, 2017 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for. The Company will pay interest quarterly on March 30, June 30, September 30 and December 30 of
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each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, the Interest Payment Date, other than the maturity date, will be postponed to the immediately succeeding day that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on the date such payment was due, and no interest will accrue as a result of such delay, except that if that Business Day is in the immediately succeeding calendar month, the Interest Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day. If the maturity date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of principal and interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after the maturity date. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from June 30, 2017; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a Record Date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date; provided, further, that the first Interest Payment Date shall be September 30, 2017.
The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is 1% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful.
Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a 360-day year.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the date 15 calendar days prior to each Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such Record Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.08 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium and interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose within or without the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be made with respect to principal of and interest and premium on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to an account in the United States that are received by the Paying Agent no later than 10 Business Days prior to the payment date. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
3. PAYING AGENT, CALCULATION AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent, Calculation Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Calculation Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.
4. INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes under the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are
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subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company and are not limited as to aggregate principal amount. The Notes, including any Additional Notes issued hereunder, shall contain the terms set forth herein and in the Indenture and shall constitute and be treated as one series of Notes for all purposes.
5. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. The Notes are not subject to optional redemption prior to maturity.
6. MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company shall not be required to make mandatory redemption payments with respect to the Notes.
7. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, it need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a Record Date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.
8. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.
9. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. The Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented as provided in Article 9 of the Base Indenture.
10. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. The terms of Article 6 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes.
11. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
12. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company, as such, shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
13. AUTHENTICATION. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
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14. ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
15. CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to:
General Motors Financial Company, Inc.
801 Cherry Street, Suite 3500
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS NOTE, THE GUARANTEE AND THE INDENTURE.
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Assignment Form
To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to
(Insert assignees soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
(Print or type assignees name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Date:
Your Signature: | ||
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note) |
Signature Guarantee
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:
Date of Exchange |
Amount of decrease in Principal amount of this Global Note |
Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Note |
Principal Amount of this Global Note following such decrease (or increase) |
Signature of authorized officer of Trustee or Note Custodian |
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SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE
The Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes or the Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Notes or under the Indenture, that: (a) the principal of, and premium and interest on the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repurchase or otherwise, and interest on overdue principal of interest on any Note, if any, if lawful and all other Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Indenture or under the Notes shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed, for whatever reason, the Guarantor will obligated to pay the same immediately.
The Obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to this Subsidiary Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article 10 of the Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such Indenture for the precise terms of this Subsidiary Guarantee. The terms of Article 10 of the Indenture are incorporated herein by reference.
No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder, as such, past, present or future, of the Guarantor shall have any personal liability under this Subsidiary Guarantee by reason of its status as such director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder.
This is a continuing Subsidiary Guarantee and shall remain in full force and effect and shall be binding upon the Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns to the extent set forth in the Indenture until full and final payment of all of the Companys Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders of Notes and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee, the rights and privileges herein conferred upon that party shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
In certain circumstances more fully described in the Indenture, any Guarantor may be released from its liability under this Subsidiary Guarantee, and any such release will be effective whether or not noted hereon.
This Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Note upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers.
For purposes hereof, the Guarantors liability will be that amount from time to time equal to the aggregate liability of the Guarantor hereunder, but shall be limited to the lesser of (i) the aggregate amount of the Obligations of the Company under the Notes and the Indenture and (ii) the amount, if any, which would not have (A) rendered the Guarantor insolvent (as such term
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is defined in the federal Bankruptcy Law and in the debtor and creditor law of the State of New York) or (B) left it with unreasonably small capital at the time its Subsidiary Guarantee of the Notes was entered into, after giving effect to the incurrence of existing Indebtedness immediately prior to such time; provided that, it shall be a presumption in any lawsuit or other proceeding in which the Guarantor is a party that the amount guaranteed pursuant to its Subsidiary Guarantee is the amount set forth in clause (i) above unless any creditor, or representative of creditors of the Guarantor, or debtor in possession or trustee in bankruptcy of the Guarantor, otherwise proves in such a lawsuit that the aggregate liability of the Guarantor is limited to the amount set forth in clause (ii). The Indenture provides that, in making any determination as to the solvency or sufficiency of capital of a Guarantor in accordance with the previous sentence, the right of such Guarantor to contribution from any other Guarantors and any other rights such Guarantor may have, contractual or otherwise, shall be taken into account.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE, THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES.
Capitalized terms used herein have the same meanings given in the Indenture unless otherwise indicated.
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. | ||
By: |
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Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
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Exhibit 4.3
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC.,
AS ISSUER
AMERICREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.,
AS GUARANTOR
3.150% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2022
TWENTY-FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of June 30, 2017
To
INDENTURE
Dated as of October 13, 2015
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
AS TRUSTEE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE | 2 | |||||
Section 1.01 |
Definitions |
2 | ||||
Section 1.02 |
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act |
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Section 1.03 |
Rules of Construction |
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Section 1.04 |
Relationship With Base Indenture |
8 | ||||
ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES | 8 | |||||
Section 2.01 |
Establishment, Form and Dating |
8 | ||||
Section 2.02 |
Registrar and Paying Agent |
8 | ||||
ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION OF NOTES | 9 | |||||
Section 3.01 |
Optional Redemption |
9 | ||||
Section 3.02 |
Optional Redemption by Company |
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ARTICLE 4 COVENANTS | 10 | |||||
Section 4.01 |
Liens |
10 | ||||
Section 4.02 |
Corporate Existence |
10 | ||||
Section 4.03 |
Additional Subsidiary Guarantees |
10 | ||||
ARTICLE 5 DEFEASANCE | 10 | |||||
ARTICLE 6 GUARANTEES | 11 | |||||
ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS | 11 | |||||
Section 7.01 |
Governing Law |
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Section 7.02 |
Successors |
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Section 7.03 |
Severability |
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Section 7.04 |
Counterpart Originals |
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Section 7.05 |
Table of Contents, Headings, etc. |
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This TWENTY-FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this Supplemental Indenture), dated as of June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., a Texas corporation (the Company), AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee).
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture and, as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto and the second supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 13, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of November 24, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of March 1, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of May 9, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the ninth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of July 5, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the tenth supplemental indenture thereto, the eleventh supplemental indenture thereto and the twelfth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 6, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the thirteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the fourteenth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of January 17, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventeenth supplemental indenture thereto and the eighteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of April 13, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the nineteenth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of May 9, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the twentieth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of June 30, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, and as may be amended or further supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture), between the Company and the Trustee, providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of one or more series of Securities;
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture to provide for the issuance of its 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (the Notes), and the Company and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes;
WHEREAS, the Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture in order to provide for a Guarantee by the Guarantor of the Notes as to which Guarantee has been made applicable in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantor desire and have requested the Trustee to join with them in the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture in order to supplement the Base Indenture and to add covenants to and remove covenants from the Base Indenture with respect to the Notes as and to the extent set forth herein to provide for the issuance and the terms of the Notes; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid indenture and agreement of the Company and the Guarantor according to its terms have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders from time to time of the Notes as follows.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01 Definitions.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in those Articles. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Supplemental Indenture shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Base Indenture or in this Article. In the event of any conflict between any term defined in the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the defined terms in this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and control.
Acquired Indebtedness means, with respect to any specified Person, Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person merges with or into or becomes a Subsidiary of such specified Person, or Indebtedness incurred by such Person in connection with the acquisition of assets, in each case so long as such Indebtedness was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into or becoming a Subsidiary of such specified Person or the acquisition of such assets, as the case may be.
Additional Notes means any additional Notes issued under the Indenture as part of the same series as the Notes.
Bank Lines means, with respect to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans and/or letters of credit.
Base Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
Comparable Treasury Issue means that United States Treasury security or securities selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes of the applicable series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes of the applicable series.
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Comparable Treasury Price means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom all current liabilities and all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, unamortized debt discounts and expense and other like intangibles of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, all as set forth in the most recent balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Credit Enhancement Agreements means, collectively, any documents, instruments, guarantees or agreements entered into by the Company, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Receivables Entity for the purpose of providing credit support for one or more Receivables Entities or any of their respective securities, debt instruments, obligations or other Indebtedness.
Existing 2017 Notes means the Companys 4.75% Senior Notes due 2017, issued on August 16, 2012, pursuant to that certain indenture, dated as of August 16, 2012, among the Company, the Guarantor and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee.
Existing 2018 Notes means the Companys 6.75% Senior Notes due 2018, issued on June 1, 2011, pursuant to that certain indenture, dated as of June 1, 2011, among the Company, the Guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.
Global Note means a certificated Note deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and that has the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached thereto. As of the date of this Supplemental Indenture all of the Notes are represented by Global Notes.
Guarantee means any guarantee of any of the Notes by a Guarantor as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture; provided that the term Guarantee, when used with respect to the Notes of any Series means a guarantee of such Notes of such Series by a Guarantor of such Notes of such Series as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture.
Guarantee Termination Event means the first date following the date of this Indenture when (i) no Guarantor guarantees the Existing 2017 Notes and the Existing 2018 Notes and (ii) no Guarantor is an issuer or guarantor of any Triggering Indebtedness (other than any guarantee of Triggering Indebtedness that is being concurrently released). For purposes of clause (ii) of this definition, a Guarantors guarantee of any Triggering Indebtedness shall be deemed to be concurrently released when all of the conditions for the release of such guarantee are satisfied, other than for any condition related to the concurrent release of the Guarantors guarantee of any other Triggering Indebtedness. Upon the satisfaction of all of such conditions not related to the concurrent release of any guarantees of any other Triggering Indebtedness, a Guarantors guarantee of any Triggering Indebtedness and the Guarantee hereunder shall be deemed to be concurrently released and the conditions of clause (ii) shall be deemed to be satisfied.
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Guarantor means AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and each other Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
Hedging Obligations means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under (i) interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements, and (ii) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates.
Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble hereto.
Initial Notes means the first $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes issued under the Indenture on the date hereof.
Non-Domestic Entity means a Person not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
Notes has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto. For purposes of the Indenture, all references to the notes to be issued or authenticated upon transfer or replacement of or in exchange for Notes shall be deemed to refer to Notes. In addition, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the Notes shall include the Initial Notes and any Additional Notes.
Permitted Liens means: (i) Liens existing on the date of the Base Indenture; (ii) Liens to secure securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness of one or more Receivables Entities or guarantees thereof; (iii) Liens to secure Indebtedness under a Residual Funding Facility or guarantees thereof; (iv) Liens to secure Indebtedness and other obligations (including letter of credit indemnity obligations and obligations relating to expenses with respect to debt facilities), under one or more debt facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans and/or letters of credit or guarantees thereof; (v) Liens on spread accounts, reserve accounts and other credit enhancement assets, Liens on the Capital Stock of Subsidiaries of the Company substantially all of the assets of which are spread accounts, reserve accounts and/or other credit enhancement assets, and Liens on interests in one or more Receivables Entities, in each case incurred in connection with Credit Enhancement Agreements, Residual Funding Facilities or issuances of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness by a Receivables Entity; (vi) Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of such property (including properties acquired through merger or consolidation); (vii) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the construction or purchase of property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (but excluding Capital Stock of another Person); provided that any such Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at the time the Lien is incurred, and the Indebtedness secured by the Lien may not be incurred more than 180 days after the later of the acquisition or completion of construction of the property subject to the Lien; (viii) Liens securing Hedging Obligations; (ix) Liens to secure any Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to refinance any Indebtedness and all other obligations secured by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clause (i); provided that such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same property or type of property that secured the original Lien and the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the outstanding principal amount
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or, if greater, committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clause (i) of this definition at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien; (x) Liens in favor of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (xi) Liens of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with respect to obligations that do not exceed five percent of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; (xii) Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, landlord Liens on leased properties); (xiii) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided, that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor; (xiv) Liens imposed by law or regulation, such as carriers, warehousemens, materialmens, repairmens and mechanics and similar Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue for a period of more than 30 days or that are 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; provided, that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor; (xv) Liens related to minor survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, ground leases, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, servitudes, sewers, electric lines, drains, telegraph and telephone and cable television lines, gas and oil pipelines and other similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions (including, without limitation, minor defects or irregularities in title and similar encumbrances) 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; (xvi) Liens on equipment of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries granted in the ordinary course of business; (xvii) deposits made or other security provided to secure liabilities to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements in the ordinary course of business; (xviii) purported Liens evidenced by filings of precautionary UCC financing statements relating solely to operating leases of personal property; (xix) Liens evidenced by UCC financing statement filings (or similar filings) regarding or otherwise arising under leases entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; (xx) Liens on accounts, payment intangibles, chattel paper, instruments and/or other Receivables granted in connection with sales of any of such assets; (xxi) Liens on Receivables and related assets and proceeds thereof arising in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing; and (xxii) Liens in favor of a Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries.
Permitted Receivables Financing means any facility, arrangement, transaction or agreement (i) pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary finances the acquisition or origination of Receivables with, or sells Receivables that it has acquired or originated to, a third party on terms that the Board of Directors has concluded are customary and market-standard, and (ii) that grants Liens to, or permits filings of precautionary UCC financing statements by, the third party against the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, under such facility, arrangement, transaction or agreement relating to the subject Receivables, related assets and/or proceeds.
Quotation Agent means a Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company.
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Receivable means each of the following: (i) any right to payment of a monetary obligation, including, without limitation, any promissory note, financing agreement, installment sale contract, lease contract, insurance and service contract, and any credit, debit or charge card receivable, and (ii) any assets related to such receivables, including, without limitation, any collateral securing, or property leased under, such receivables.
Receivables Entity means each of the following: (i) any Person (whether or not a Subsidiary of the Company) established for the purpose of transferring or holding Receivables or issuing securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness backed by Receivables and/or Receivable-backed securities, regardless of whether such Person is an issuer of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness, and (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company formed exclusively for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of Credit Enhancement Agreements, regardless of whether such Person is an issuer of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness.
Reference Treasury Dealer means (i) any of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and a Primary Treasury Dealer (as defined herein) selected by each of the Company, Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. or any of their respective affiliates that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a Primary Treasury Dealer), and their respective successors, provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date.
Refinancing Indebtedness means any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
Remaining Scheduled Payments means the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Notes of any series called for redemption that would be due after the related redemption date but for that redemption; provided that if that redemption date is not an interest payment date with respect to the Notes of any series called for redemption, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on such Notes will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued to such redemption date.
Residual Funding Facility means any funding arrangement with a financial institution or institutions or other lenders or purchasers under which advances are made to the Company or any Subsidiary based upon residual, subordinated or retained interests in Receivables Entities or any of their respective securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness.
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Restricted Subsidiary of a Person means any Subsidiary of the referent Person that is not a Receivables Entity or Non-Domestic Entity.
Supplemental Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble hereto.
Treasury Rate means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.
Triggering Indebtedness means any Indebtedness incurred after the date of the Base Indenture to the extent that the principal amount of such Indebtedness exceeds $100 million; provided, however, that Triggering Indebtedness shall not include: (i) Indebtedness that is or would be permitted to be secured by a Permitted Lien (whether or not such Indebtedness is in fact so secured); (ii) Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (iii) Acquired Indebtedness; and (iv) Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of extending, renewing or replacing in whole or in part Indebtedness permitted by any of clauses (i) through (iii) above.
Trustee means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving thereunder.
Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them.
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(b) or is not exclusive;
(c) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;
(d) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and
(e) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement of successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time.
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Section 1.04 Relationship With Base Indenture.
The terms and provisions contained in the Base Indenture shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
ARTICLE 2
THE NOTES
Section 2.01 Establishment, Form and Dating.
There is hereby established a new series of Securities to be issued under the Base Indenture, to be designated as the Companys 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022.
There are to be authenticated and delivered $1,250,000,000 principal amount of Notes, and such principal amount of Notes may be increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Base Indenture by the issuance of Additional Notes. Any such Additional Notes will have the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Initial Notes, except for their issue price and, if applicable, the initial interest accrual date and the initial interest payment date, and shall constitute a single series of Securities with the Initial Notes; provided that if the Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, they will have a separate CUSIP number. No Notes shall be authenticated and delivered in addition to Notes for the principal amount as so increased except as provided by Sections 2.09, 2.10, 2.13 or 3.08 of the Base Indenture. The Notes shall be senior debt securities and shall be issued in fully registered form.
The Notes and the Trustees certificate of authentication with respect thereto will be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note will be dated the date of its authentication, and except as provided in Section 2.09 of the Base Indenture, will be issued in the form of one or more Global Notes. The principal of, and any premium or interest on, the Notes shall be payable in United States dollars. The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of the Indenture and the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of the Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
Section 2.02 Registrar and Paying Agent.
The Company will maintain a Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the Notes. The Registrar will keep a register with respect to the Notes and of their transfer and exchange.
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The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the Notes and to act as custodian for the Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
Section 3.01 Optional Redemption.
The Notes may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company pursuant to Section 3.02 hereof. Other than as specifically provided in this Article 3, any redemption pursuant to this Article 3 will be made pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Base Indenture.
Section 3.02 Optional Redemption by Company.
(a) The redemption price (the Redemption Price) of the Notes to be redeemed shall be calculated as follows:
(i) If the redemption date is prior to May 30, 2022, the Notes to be redeemed may be redeemed by the Company at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (2) as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes to be redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued and unpaid as of the date of redemption), discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption.
(ii) If the redemption date is on or after May 30, 2022, the Notes to be redeemed may be redeemed by the Company at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to but excluding the redemption date.
If the redemption date is after a record date and on or prior to a corresponding interest payment date, interest will be paid on the redemption date to the holder of record on the record date.
(b) The Trustee shall not be responsible for the calculation of such Redemption Price. The Company shall calculate such Redemption Price and promptly notify the Trustee in writing thereof.
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ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
The Notes shall be subject to the following covenants in addition to the provisions of Article 4 of the Base Indenture (provided that Section 4.07 of the Base Indenture shall not be applicable to the Notes):
Section 4.01 Liens.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur or assume any Lien of any kind (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of their property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, unless all payments due under this Indenture and the Notes are secured on an equal and ratable basis with the obligations so secured until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien.
Section 4.02 Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article 5 of the Base Indenture, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect (i) its corporate existence in accordance with the organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company, and (ii) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided that the company shall not be required to preserve any such right license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.
Section 4.03 Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.
If any Restricted Subsidiary issues or guarantees any Triggering Indebtedness, then such Restricted Subsidiary shall execute a Subsidiary Guarantee; provided, that the Subsidiary Guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor under this Section shall be automatically discharged and released as provided under Section 10.05 of the Base Indenture or under Article 6 of this Supplemental Indenture. The foregoing covenant shall terminate upon the occurrence of a Guarantee Termination Event.
ARTICLE 5
DEFEASANCE
Legal defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.04 of the Base Indenture and covenant defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes, and the Company may at its option by a resolution of the Board of Directors, at any time, with respect to the Notes, elect to have Section 8.04 or Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture be applied to the outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 8.06 of the Base Indenture. In addition to Section 5.01 of the Base Indenture, Article 4 of this Supplemental Indenture shall be subject to covenant defeasance under Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture.
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ARTICLE 6
GUARANTEES
The provisions of Article 10 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes.
In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 10.05 of the Base Indenture, a Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all obligations under the Indenture and its Guarantee upon the occurrence of either of the following events:
(a) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale, exchange or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor, in each case following which such Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or
(b) the occurrence of a Guarantee Termination Event.
ARTICLE 7
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01 Governing Law.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES, IF APPLICABLE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
Section 7.02 Successors.
All agreements of the Company in this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes will bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors. All agreements of each Guarantor in this Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.04 of the Base Indenture.
Section 7.03 Severability.
In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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Section 7.04 Counterpart Originals.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy will be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
Section 7.05 Table of Contents, Headings, etc.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings of the Articles and Sections of this Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and will in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
General Motors Financial Company, Inc., as Issuer | ||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as Guarantor | ||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ Patrick T. Giordano | |
Name: | Patrick T. Giordano | |
Title: | Vice President |
[Signature Page to Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture]
Exhibit A
THIS DEBT SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS DEBT SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF, ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF AND NO SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE REGISTERED, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. EVERY DEBT SECURITY AUTHENTICATED AND DELIVERED UPON REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF, OR IN EXCHANGE FOR OR IN LIEU OF, THIS DEBT SECURITY SHALL BE A GLOBAL SECURITY SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (DTC), TO GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNED HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.1
1 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
CUSIP No.: | 37045XBY1 | |
ISIN No.: | US37045XBY13 |
3.150% Senior Note due 2022
No. R-1 | $ |
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC.
promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]2
or registered assigns,
the principal sum of $ [(subject to the decreases and increases in principal amount set forth on the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached hereto)]3 on June 30, 2022.
Interest Payment Dates: June 30 and December 30, commencing December 30, 2017.
Record Dates: 15 calendar days prior to each Interest Payment Date.
2 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
3 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
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Dated: | ||
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. | ||
By: |
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Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
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This is one of the Global
Notes referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture:
Dated:
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee | ||
By: |
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Name: | Patrick T. Giordano | |
Title: | Vice President |
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[Back of Note]
3.150% Senior Note due 2022
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities (the Securities) of General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (the Company, which term includes any successor Person under the Base Indenture hereinafter referred to), issued and issuable in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (the Trustee, which term includes any successor trustee under the Base Indenture), to which Base Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitation of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities issued thereunder and of the terms upon which said Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof as 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (the Notes), which was issued under the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2017, to the Base Indenture (the Supplemental Indenture, together with the Base Indenture, and as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto and the second supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 13, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of November 24, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of March 1, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of May 9, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the ninth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of July 5, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the tenth supplemental indenture thereto, the eleventh supplemental indenture thereto and the twelfth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 6, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the thirteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the fourteenth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of January 17, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventeenth supplemental indenture thereto and the eighteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of April 13, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the nineteenth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of May 9, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, and as further supplemented by the twentieth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of June 30, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, the Indenture) and which is initially limited to $1,250,000,000 in principal amount. Capitalized terms used herein for which no definition is provided herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Indenture.
1. INTEREST. The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 3.150% per annum from and including June 30, 2017 until maturity. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on June 30 and December 30 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each an Interest Payment Date). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if
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no interest has been paid, from June 30, 2017; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a Record Date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date; provided, further, that the first Interest Payment Date shall be December 30, 2017. The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is 1% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the Record Date on the next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such Record Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.08 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium and interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose within or without the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be made with respect to principal of and interest and premium on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to an account in the United States that are received by the Paying Agent no later than 10 Business Days prior to the payment date. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.
4. INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes under the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company and are not limited as to aggregate principal amount. The Notes, including any Additional Notes issued hereunder, shall contain the terms set forth herein and in the Indenture and shall constitute and be treated as one series of Notes for all purposes.
5. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. The Notes are subject to redemption as provided in Article 3 of the Indenture.
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6. MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company shall not be required to make mandatory redemption payments with respect to the Notes.
7. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, it need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a Record Date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.
8. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.
9. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. The Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented as provided in Article 9 of the Base Indenture.
10. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. The terms of Article 6 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes.
11. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
12. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company, as such, shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
13. AUTHENTICATION. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
14. ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
15. CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
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The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to:
General Motors Financial Company, Inc.
801 Cherry Street, Suite 3500
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS NOTE, THE GUARANTEE AND THE INDENTURE.
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Assignment Form
To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to
(Insert assignees soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
(Print or type assignees name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Date:
Your Signature: |
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(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note) |
Signature Guarantee
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:
Date of Exchange |
Amount of decrease in Principal amount of this Global Note |
Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Note |
Principal Amount of this Global Note following such decrease (or increase) |
Signature of authorized officer of Trustee or Note Custodian |
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SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE
The Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes or the Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Notes or under the Indenture, that: (a) the principal of, and premium and interest on the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repurchase or otherwise, and interest on overdue principal of interest on any Note, if any, if lawful and all other Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Indenture or under the Notes shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed, for whatever reason, the Guarantor will obligated to pay the same immediately.
The Obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to this Subsidiary Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article 10 of the Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such Indenture for the precise terms of this Subsidiary Guarantee. The terms of Article 10 of the Indenture are incorporated herein by reference.
No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder, as such, past, present or future, of the Guarantor shall have any personal liability under this Subsidiary Guarantee by reason of its status as such director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder.
This is a continuing Subsidiary Guarantee and shall remain in full force and effect and shall be binding upon the Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns to the extent set forth in the Indenture until full and final payment of all of the Companys Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders of Notes and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee, the rights and privileges herein conferred upon that party shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
In certain circumstances more fully described in the Indenture, any Guarantor may be released from its liability under this Subsidiary Guarantee, and any such release will be effective whether or not noted hereon.
This Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Note upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers.
For purposes hereof, the Guarantors liability will be that amount from time to time equal to the aggregate liability of the Guarantor hereunder, but shall be limited to the lesser of (i) the aggregate amount of the Obligations of the Company under the Notes and the Indenture and (ii) the amount, if any, which would not have (A) rendered the Guarantor insolvent (as such term
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is defined in the federal Bankruptcy Law and in the debtor and creditor law of the State of New York) or (B) left it with unreasonably small capital at the time its Subsidiary Guarantee of the Notes was entered into, after giving effect to the incurrence of existing Indebtedness immediately prior to such time; provided that, it shall be a presumption in any lawsuit or other proceeding in which the Guarantor is a party that the amount guaranteed pursuant to its Subsidiary Guarantee is the amount set forth in clause (i) above unless any creditor, or representative of creditors of the Guarantor, or debtor in possession or trustee in bankruptcy of the Guarantor, otherwise proves in such a lawsuit that the aggregate liability of the Guarantor is limited to the amount set forth in clause (ii). The Indenture provides that, in making any determination as to the solvency or sufficiency of capital of a Guarantor in accordance with the previous sentence, the right of such Guarantor to contribution from any other Guarantors and any other rights such Guarantor may have, contractual or otherwise, shall be taken into account.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE, THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES.
Capitalized terms used herein have the same meanings given in the Indenture unless otherwise indicated.
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. | ||
By: |
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Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
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Exhibit 4.4
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC.,
AS ISSUER
AMERICREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.,
AS GUARANTOR
4.350% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2027
TWENTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of June 30, 2017
To
INDENTURE
Dated as of October 13, 2015
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
AS TRUSTEE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE | 2 | |||||
Section 1.01 |
Definitions | 2 | ||||
Section 1.02 |
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act | 7 | ||||
Section 1.03 |
Rules of Construction | 7 | ||||
Section 1.04 |
Relationship With Base Indenture | 8 | ||||
ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES | 8 | |||||
Section 2.01 |
Establishment, Form and Dating | 9 | ||||
Section 2.02 |
Registrar and Paying Agent | 9 | ||||
ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION OF NOTES | 9 | |||||
Section 3.01 |
Optional Redemption | 9 | ||||
Section 3.02 |
Optional Redemption by Company | 9 | ||||
ARTICLE 4 COVENANTS | 9 | |||||
Section 4.01 |
Liens | 10 | ||||
Section 4.02 |
Corporate Existence | 10 | ||||
Section 4.03 |
Additional Subsidiary Guarantees | 10 | ||||
ARTICLE 5 DEFEASANCE | 11 | |||||
ARTICLE 6 GUARANTEES | 11 | |||||
ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS | 11 | |||||
Section 7.01 |
Governing Law | 11 | ||||
Section 7.02 |
Successors | 11 | ||||
Section 7.03 |
Severability | 11 | ||||
Section 7.04 |
Counterpart Originals | 11 | ||||
Section 7.05 |
Table of Contents, Headings, etc | 11 |
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This TWENTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this Supplemental Indenture), dated as of June 30, 2017, by and among General Motors Financial Company, Inc., a Texas corporation (the Company), AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee).
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture and, as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto and the second supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 13, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of November 24, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of March 1, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of May 9, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the ninth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of July 5, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the tenth supplemental indenture thereto, the eleventh supplemental indenture thereto and the twelfth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 6, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the thirteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the fourteenth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifteenth supplemental indenture thereto (the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture), each dated as of January 17, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventeenth supplemental indenture thereto and the eighteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of April 13, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the nineteenth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of May 9, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the twentieth supplemental indenture thereto and the twenty-first supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of June 30, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, and as may be amended or further supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture), between the Company and the Trustee, providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of one or more series of Securities;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Base Indenture and the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture thereto, the Company established its 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (the Notes) and provided for the initial issuance of $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes (the Initial Notes);
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Base Indenture, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture to reopen the Notes and to provide for the issuance of an additional $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes (the New Notes), and the Company and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the New Notes;
WHEREAS, the New Notes and the Initial Notes shall form a single series and the New Notes shall be fully fungible with the Initial Notes;
WHEREAS, the Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture in order to provide for a Guarantee by the Guarantor of the New Notes as to which Guarantee has been made applicable in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantor desire and have requested the Trustee to join with them in the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture in order to supplement the Base Indenture and to add covenants to and remove covenants from the Base Indenture with respect to the New Notes as and to the extent set forth herein to provide for the issuance and the terms of the New Notes; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid indenture and agreement of the Company and the Guarantor according to its terms have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchase of the New Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders from time to time of the New Notes as follows.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01 Definitions.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in those Articles. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Supplemental Indenture shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Base Indenture or in this Article. In the event of any conflict between any term defined in the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the defined terms in this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and control.
Acquired Indebtedness means, with respect to any specified Person, Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person merges with or into or becomes a Subsidiary of such specified Person, or Indebtedness incurred by such Person in connection with the acquisition of assets, in each case so long as such Indebtedness was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into or becoming a Subsidiary of such specified Person or the acquisition of such assets, as the case may be.
Additional Notes means any additional Notes issued under the Indenture as part of the same series as the Initial Notes and the New Notes.
Bank Lines means, with respect to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans and/or letters of credit.
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Base Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
Comparable Treasury Issue means that United States Treasury security or securities selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes of the applicable series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes of the applicable series.
Comparable Treasury Price means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom all current liabilities and all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, unamortized debt discounts and expense and other like intangibles of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, all as set forth in the most recent balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Credit Enhancement Agreements means, collectively, any documents, instruments, guarantees or agreements entered into by the Company, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Receivables Entity for the purpose of providing credit support for one or more Receivables Entities or any of their respective securities, debt instruments, obligations or other Indebtedness.
Existing 2017 Notes means the Companys 4.75% Senior Notes due 2017, issued on August 16, 2012, pursuant to that certain indenture, dated as of August 16, 2012, among the Company, the Guarantor and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee.
Existing 2018 Notes means the Companys 6.75% Senior Notes due 2018, issued on June 1, 2011, pursuant to that certain indenture, dated as of June 1, 2011, among the Company, the Guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.
Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
Global Note means a certificated Note deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and that has the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached thereto. As of the date of this Supplemental Indenture all of the Notes are represented by Global Notes.
Guarantee means any guarantee of any of the Notes by a Guarantor as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture; provided that the term Guarantee, when used with respect to the Notes of any Series means a guarantee of such Notes of such Series by a Guarantor of such Notes of such Series as contemplated by Article 10 of the Base Indenture.
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Guarantee Termination Event means the first date following the date of this Indenture when (i) no Guarantor guarantees the Existing 2017 Notes and the Existing 2018 Notes and (ii) no Guarantor is an issuer or guarantor of any Triggering Indebtedness (other than any guarantee of Triggering Indebtedness that is being concurrently released). For purposes of clause (ii) of this definition, a Guarantors guarantee of any Triggering Indebtedness shall be deemed to be concurrently released when all of the conditions for the release of such guarantee are satisfied, other than for any condition related to the concurrent release of the Guarantors guarantee of any other Triggering Indebtedness. Upon the satisfaction of all of such conditions not related to the concurrent release of any guarantees of any other Triggering Indebtedness, a Guarantors guarantee of any Triggering Indebtedness and the Guarantee hereunder shall be deemed to be concurrently released and the conditions of clause (ii) shall be deemed to be satisfied.
Guarantor means AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and each other Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
Hedging Obligations means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under (i) interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements, and (ii) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates.
Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
Initial Notes has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
New Notes has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto.
Non-Domestic Entity means a Person not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
Notes has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals hereto. For purposes of the Indenture, all references to the notes to be issued or authenticated upon transfer or replacement of or in exchange for Notes shall be deemed to refer to Notes. In addition, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the Notes shall include the Initial Notes, the New Notes and any Additional Notes.
Permitted Liens means: (i) Liens existing on the date of the Base Indenture; (ii) Liens to secure securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness of one or more Receivables Entities or guarantees thereof; (iii) Liens to secure Indebtedness under a Residual Funding Facility or guarantees thereof; (iv) Liens to secure Indebtedness and other obligations (including letter of credit indemnity obligations and obligations relating to expenses with respect to debt facilities), under one or more debt facilities with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans and/or letters of credit or guarantees thereof; (v) Liens on spread accounts, reserve accounts and other credit enhancement assets, Liens on the Capital Stock of Subsidiaries of the Company substantially all of the assets of which are spread accounts, reserve accounts and/or other credit enhancement assets, and Liens on interests in one or more Receivables Entities, in each case incurred in connection with Credit Enhancement Agreements, Residual Funding Facilities or issuances of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness by a Receivables Entity; (vi)
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Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of such property (including properties acquired through merger or consolidation); (vii) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the construction or purchase of property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (but excluding Capital Stock of another Person); provided that any such Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at the time the Lien is incurred, and the Indebtedness secured by the Lien may not be incurred more than 180 days after the later of the acquisition or completion of construction of the property subject to the Lien; (viii) Liens securing Hedging Obligations; (ix) Liens to secure any Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to refinance any Indebtedness and all other obligations secured by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clause (i); provided that such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same property or type of property that secured the original Lien and the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clause (i) of this definition at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien; (x) Liens in favor of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (xi) Liens of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with respect to obligations that do not exceed five percent of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; (xii) Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, landlord Liens on leased properties); (xiii) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided, that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor; (xiv) Liens imposed by law or regulation, such as carriers, warehousemens, materialmens, repairmens and mechanics and similar Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue for a period of more than 30 days or that are 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; provided, that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor; (xv) Liens related to minor survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, ground leases, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, servitudes, sewers, electric lines, drains, telegraph and telephone and cable television lines, gas and oil pipelines and other similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions (including, without limitation, minor defects or irregularities in title and similar encumbrances) 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; (xvi) Liens on equipment of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries granted in the ordinary course of business; (xvii) deposits made or other security provided to secure liabilities to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements in the ordinary course of business; (xviii) purported Liens evidenced by filings of precautionary UCC financing statements relating solely to operating leases of personal property; (xix) Liens evidenced by UCC financing statement filings (or similar filings) regarding or otherwise arising under leases entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; (xx) Liens on accounts, payment intangibles, chattel paper, instruments and/or other Receivables granted in connection with sales of any of such assets; (xxi) Liens on Receivables and related assets and proceeds thereof arising in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing; and (xxii) Liens in favor of a Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries.
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Permitted Receivables Financing means any facility, arrangement, transaction or agreement (i) pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary finances the acquisition or origination of Receivables with, or sells Receivables that it has acquired or originated to, a third party on terms that the Board of Directors has concluded are customary and market-standard, and (ii) that grants Liens to, or permits filings of precautionary UCC financing statements by, the third party against the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, under such facility, arrangement, transaction or agreement relating to the subject Receivables, related assets and/or proceeds.
Quotation Agent means a Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company.
Receivable means each of the following: (i) any right to payment of a monetary obligation, including, without limitation, any promissory note, financing agreement, installment sale contract, lease contract, insurance and service contract, and any credit, debit or charge card receivable, and (ii) any assets related to such receivables, including, without limitation, any collateral securing, or property leased under, such receivables.
Receivables Entity means each of the following: (i) any Person (whether or not a Subsidiary of the Company) established for the purpose of transferring or holding Receivables or issuing securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness backed by Receivables and/or Receivable-backed securities, regardless of whether such Person is an issuer of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness, and (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company formed exclusively for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of Credit Enhancement Agreements, regardless of whether such Person is an issuer of securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness.
Reference Treasury Dealer means (i) any of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and a Primary Treasury Dealer (as defined herein) selected by the Company or any of its affiliates that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a Primary Treasury Dealer), and their respective successors, provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date.
Refinancing Indebtedness means any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
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Remaining Scheduled Payments means the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Notes of any series called for redemption that would be due after the related redemption date but for that redemption; provided that if that redemption date is not an interest payment date with respect to the Notes of any series called for redemption, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on such Notes will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued to such redemption date.
Residual Funding Facility means any funding arrangement with a financial institution or institutions or other lenders or purchasers under which advances are made to the Company or any Subsidiary based upon residual, subordinated or retained interests in Receivables Entities or any of their respective securities, debt instruments or other Indebtedness.
Restricted Subsidiary of a Person means any Subsidiary of the referent Person that is not a Receivables Entity or Non-Domestic Entity.
Supplemental Indenture has the meaning assigned to it in the preamble hereto.
Treasury Rate means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.
Triggering Indebtedness means any Indebtedness incurred after the date of the Base Indenture to the extent that the principal amount of such Indebtedness exceeds $100 million; provided, however, that Triggering Indebtedness shall not include: (i) Indebtedness that is or would be permitted to be secured by a Permitted Lien (whether or not such Indebtedness is in fact so secured); (ii) Indebtedness owed to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (iii) Acquired Indebtedness; and (iv) Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of extending, renewing or replacing in whole or in part Indebtedness permitted by any of clauses (i) through (iii) above.
Trustee means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving thereunder.
Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them.
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
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(b) or is not exclusive;
(c) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;
(d) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and
(e) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement of successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time.
Section 1.04 Relationship With Base Indenture.
The terms and provisions contained in the Base Indenture shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
ARTICLE 2
THE NEW NOTES
Section 2.01 Establishment, Form and Dating.
The Notes were established under the Base Indenture and the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture and were designated as the Companys 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027.
There are hereby to be authenticated and delivered an additional $500,000,000 principal amount of Notes, and such principal amount of Notes, along with such authenticated and delivered principal amount of Initial Notes, may be increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Base Indenture by the issuance of Additional Notes. Any such Additional Notes will have the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Initial Notes and the New Notes, except for their issue price and, if applicable, the initial interest accrual date and the initial interest payment date, and shall constitute a single series of Securities with the Initial Notes and New Notes; provided that if the Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes and New Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, they will have a separate CUSIP number. No Notes shall be authenticated and delivered in addition to Notes for the principal amount as so increased except as provided by Sections 2.09, 2.10, 2.13 or, to the extent applicable, 3.08 of the Base Indenture. The New Notes shall be senior debt securities and shall be issued in fully registered form.
The New Notes and the Trustees certificate of authentication with respect thereto will be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The New Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each New Note will be dated the date of its authentication, and except as provided in Section 2.09 of the Base Indenture, will be issued in the form of one or more Global Notes. The principal of, and any premium or interest on, the New Notes shall be payable in United States dollars. The New Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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The terms and provisions contained in the New Notes will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of the Indenture and the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of the Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any New Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.
Section 2.02 Registrar and Paying Agent.
The Company will maintain a Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the New Notes. The Registrar will keep a register with respect to the New Notes and of their transfer and exchange.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the New Notes and to act as custodian for the Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION OF NEW NOTES
Section 3.01 Optional Redemption.
The New Notes may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company pursuant to Section 3.02 hereof. Other than as specifically provided in this Article 3, any redemption pursuant to this Article 3 will be made pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Base Indenture.
Section 3.02 Optional Redemption by Company.
(a) The redemption price (the Redemption Price) of the New Notes to be redeemed shall be calculated as follows:
(i) If the redemption date is prior to October 17, 2026, the New Notes to be redeemed may be redeemed by the Company at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the New Notes to be redeemed and (2) as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments of principal and interest in respect of the New Notes to be redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued and unpaid as of the date of redemption), discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption.
(ii) If the redemption date is on or after October 17, 2026, the New Notes to be redeemed may be redeemed by the Company at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the New Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to but excluding the redemption date.
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If the redemption date is after a record date and on or prior to a corresponding interest payment date, interest will be paid on the redemption date to the holder of record on the record date.
(b) The Trustee shall not be responsible for the calculation of such Redemption Price. The Company shall calculate such Redemption Price and promptly notify the Trustee in writing thereof.
ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
The New Notes shall be subject to the following covenants in addition to the provisions of Article 4 of the Base Indenture (provided that Section 4.07 of the Base Indenture shall not be applicable to the New Notes):
Section 4.01 Liens.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur or assume any Lien of any kind (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of their property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, unless all payments due under this Indenture and the New Notes are secured on an equal and ratable basis with the obligations so secured until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien.
Section 4.02 Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article 5 of the Base Indenture, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect (i) its corporate existence in accordance with the organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company, and (ii) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided that the company shall not be required to preserve any such right license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the New Notes.
Section 4.03 Additional Subsidiary Guarantees.
If any Restricted Subsidiary issues or guarantees any Triggering Indebtedness, then such Restricted Subsidiary shall execute a Subsidiary Guarantee; provided, that the Subsidiary Guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor under this Section shall be automatically discharged and released as provided under Section 10.05 of the Base Indenture or under Article 6 of this Supplemental Indenture. The foregoing covenant shall terminate upon the occurrence of a Guarantee Termination Event.
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ARTICLE 5
DEFEASANCE
Legal defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.04 of the Base Indenture and covenant defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the New Notes, and the Company may at its option by a resolution of the Board of Directors, at any time, with respect to the New Notes, elect to have Section 8.04 or Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture be applied to the outstanding New Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 8.06 of the Base Indenture. In addition to Section 5.01 of the Base Indenture, Article 4 of this Supplemental Indenture shall be subject to covenant defeasance under Section 8.05 of the Base Indenture.
ARTICLE 6
GUARANTEES
The provisions of Article 10 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the New Notes.
In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 10.05 of the Base Indenture, a Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all obligations under the Indenture and its Guarantee upon the occurrence of either of the following events:
(a) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale, exchange or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor, in each case following which such Guarantor is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or
(b) the occurrence of a Guarantee Termination Event.
ARTICLE 7
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01 Governing Law.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NEW NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES, IF APPLICABLE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
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Section 7.02 Successors.
All agreements of the Company in this Supplemental Indenture and the New Notes will bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors. All agreements of each Guarantor in this Supplemental Indenture will bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.04 of the Base Indenture.
Section 7.03 Severability.
In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or in the New Notes is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 7.04 Counterpart Originals.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy will be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
Section 7.05 Table of Contents, Headings, etc.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings of the Articles and Sections of this Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and will in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
General Motors Financial Company, Inc., as Issuer | ||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., as Guarantor | ||
By: | /s/ Susan B. Sheffield | |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer | |
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ Patrick T. Giordano | |
Name: | Patrick T. Giordano | |
Title: | Vice President |
[Signature Page to Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture]
Exhibit A
THIS DEBT SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS DEBT SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF, ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF AND NO SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE REGISTERED, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. EVERY DEBT SECURITY AUTHENTICATED AND DELIVERED UPON REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF, OR IN EXCHANGE FOR OR IN LIEU OF, THIS DEBT SECURITY SHALL BE A GLOBAL SECURITY SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (DTC), TO GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNED HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.1
1 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
CUSIP No.: | 37045X BT2 | |
ISIN No.: | US37045XBT28 |
4.350% Senior Note due 2027
No. R-3 | $ |
GENERAL MOTORS FINANCIAL COMPANY, INC.
promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]2
or registered assigns,
the principal sum of $ [(subject to the decreases and increases in principal amount set forth on the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached hereto)]3 on January 17, 2027.
Interest Payment Dates: January 17 and July 17, commencing July 17, 2017.
Record Dates: January 2 and July 2.
2 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
3 | Insert in Global Notes only. |
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Dated: | ||
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. | ||
By: |
| |
Name: | Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
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This is one of the Global Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture: | ||
Dated: | ||
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee | ||
By: |
| |
Name: | Patrick T. Giordano | |
Title: | Vice President |
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[Back of Note]
4.350% Senior Note due 2027
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities (the Securities) of General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (the Company, which term includes any successor Person under the Base Indenture hereinafter referred to), issued and issuable in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (the Trustee, which term includes any successor trustee under the Base Indenture), to which Base Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitation of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities issued thereunder and of the terms upon which said Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof as 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (the Notes), which was issued under the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2017, to the Base Indenture (the Supplemental Indenture, together with the Base Indenture, and as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto and the second supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 13, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of November 24, 2015, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of March 1, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of May 9, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the ninth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of July 5, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the tenth supplemental indenture thereto, the eleventh supplemental indenture thereto and the twelfth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of October 6, 2016, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the thirteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the fourteenth supplemental indenture thereto and the fifteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of January 17, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, as further supplemented by the sixteenth supplemental indenture thereto, the seventeenth supplemental indenture thereto and the eighteenth supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of April 13, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, and as further supplemented by the twentieth supplemental indenture thereto and the twenty-first supplemental indenture thereto, each dated as of June 30, 2017, among the Company, the Trustee and the Guarantor, the Indenture) and which was initially limited to $750,000,000 in principal amount, and which limit was subsequently increased to $1,250,000,000 in principal amount. Capitalized terms used herein for which no definition is provided herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Indenture.
1. INTEREST. The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 4.350% per annum from and including January 17, 2017 until maturity. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on January 17 and July 17 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each an Interest Payment Date). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been
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paid or, if no interest has been paid, from January 17, 2017; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a Record Date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date; provided, further, that the first Interest Payment Date shall be July 17, 2017. The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is 1% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on January 2 or July 2 on the next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such Record Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.08 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium and interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose within or without the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be made with respect to principal of and interest and premium on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to an account in the United States that are received by the Paying Agent no later than 10 Business Days prior to the payment date. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.
4. INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes under the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company and are not limited as to aggregate principal amount. The Notes, including any Additional Notes issued hereunder, shall contain the terms set forth herein and in the Indenture and shall constitute and be treated as one series of Notes for all purposes.
5. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. The Notes are subject to redemption as provided in Article 3 of the Indenture.
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6. MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company shall not be required to make mandatory redemption payments with respect to the Notes.
7. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, it need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a Record Date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.
8. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.
9. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. The Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented as provided in Article 9 of the Base Indenture.
10. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. The terms of Article 6 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes.
11. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
12. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company, as such, shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
13. AUTHENTICATION. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
14. ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
15. CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.
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The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to:
General Motors Financial Company, Inc.
801 Cherry Street, Suite 3500
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS NOTE, THE GUARANTEE AND THE INDENTURE.
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Assignment Form
To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to
(Insert assignees soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.) |
(Print or type assignees name, address and zip code) |
and irrevocably appoint
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Date: |
Your Signature: |
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(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note) |
Signature Guarantee
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:
Date of Exchange |
Amount of decrease in Principal amount of this Global Note |
Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Note |
Principal Amount of this Global Note following such decrease (or increase) |
Signature of authorized officer of Trustee or Note Custodian |
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SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE
The Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes or the Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Notes or under the Indenture, that: (a) the principal of, and premium and interest on the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repurchase or otherwise, and interest on overdue principal of interest on any Note, if any, if lawful and all other Obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Indenture or under the Notes shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed, for whatever reason, the Guarantor will obligated to pay the same immediately.
The Obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to this Subsidiary Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article 10 of the Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such Indenture for the precise terms of this Subsidiary Guarantee. The terms of Article 10 of the Indenture are incorporated herein by reference.
No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder, as such, past, present or future, of the Guarantor shall have any personal liability under this Subsidiary Guarantee by reason of its status as such director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder.
This is a continuing Subsidiary Guarantee and shall remain in full force and effect and shall be binding upon the Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns to the extent set forth in the Indenture until full and final payment of all of the Companys Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders of Notes and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee, the rights and privileges herein conferred upon that party shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
In certain circumstances more fully described in the Indenture, any Guarantor may be released from its liability under this Subsidiary Guarantee, and any such release will be effective whether or not noted hereon.
This Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Note upon which this Subsidiary Guarantee is noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers.
For purposes hereof, the Guarantors liability will be that amount from time to time equal to the aggregate liability of the Guarantor hereunder, but shall be limited to the lesser of (i) the aggregate amount of the Obligations of the Company under the Notes and the Indenture and (ii) the amount, if any, which would not have (A) rendered the Guarantor insolvent (as such term
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is defined in the federal Bankruptcy Law and in the debtor and creditor law of the State of New York) or (B) left it with unreasonably small capital at the time its Subsidiary Guarantee of the Notes was entered into, after giving effect to the incurrence of existing Indebtedness immediately prior to such time; provided that, it shall be a presumption in any lawsuit or other proceeding in which the Guarantor is a party that the amount guaranteed pursuant to its Subsidiary Guarantee is the amount set forth in clause (i) above unless any creditor, or representative of creditors of the Guarantor, or debtor in possession or trustee in bankruptcy of the Guarantor, otherwise proves in such a lawsuit that the aggregate liability of the Guarantor is limited to the amount set forth in clause (ii). The Indenture provides that, in making any determination as to the solvency or sufficiency of capital of a Guarantor in accordance with the previous sentence, the right of such Guarantor to contribution from any other Guarantors and any other rights such Guarantor may have, contractual or otherwise, shall be taken into account.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE, THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES.
Capitalized terms used herein have the same meanings given in the Indenture unless otherwise indicated.
AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. | ||
By: |
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Name: |
Susan B. Sheffield | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President and Treasurer |
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Exhibit 5.1
HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP 1445 ROSS AVENUE SUITE 3700 DALLAS, TX 75202
TEL (214) 979-3000 FAX (214) 880-0011 |
June 30, 2017
General Motors Financial Company, Inc.
801 Cherry Street, Suite 3500
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
Re: | Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-206678) |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to General Motors Financial Company, Inc., a Texas corporation (the Company), and AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Guarantor), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) of a Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (Registration No. 333-206678) (the Registration Statement), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), the prospectus included therein, dated August 31, 2015, and the prospectus supplement, dated June 27, 2017, filed with the Commission on June 27, 2017 pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act (the Prospectus Supplement), and the offering by the Company pursuant thereto of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys Floating Rate Notes due 2022 (the Floating Rate Notes), $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 3.150% Senior Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 (the 2027 Notes, and together with the Floating Rate Notes and the 2022 Notes, the Notes), which were offered and sold pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated June 27, 2017, by and among the Company, the Guarantor and Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Lloyds Securities Inc. and SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named therein. The obligations of the Company under the Notes are guaranteed by the Guarantor (the Guarantee).
The 2027 Notes represent an additional issuance of 4.350% Senior Notes due 2027 of the Company, initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000 on January 17, 2017.
The Notes were issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of October 13, 2015 (the Base Indenture), by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee), as supplemented by a Twentieth Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 30, 2017 (the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, a Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 30, 2017 (the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the
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Trustee, and a Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 30, 2017 (the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture and, together with the Base Indenture, the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture and the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture), by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee.
In arriving at the opinion expressed below, we have examined originals or reproductions or certified copies of such records of the Company and the Guarantor, certificates of officers of the Company and the Guarantor and of public officials and such other documents as we have deemed relevant and necessary for the purpose of rendering this opinion, including, among other things:
(i) | the Registration Statement; |
(ii) | the Prospectus Supplement; |
(iii) | the Base Indenture; |
(iv) | the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture; |
(v) | the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture; |
(vi) | the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture; |
(vii) | the Notes and the Guarantee; |
(viii) | the certificate of formation of the Company and the certificate of incorporation of the Guarantor, each certified by the Secretaries of State of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation; |
(ix) | the bylaws of each of the Company and the Guarantor; and |
(x) | certificates, dated as of the date hereof, containing representations to this firm as to certain factual matters and executed by certain senior officers of the Company and the Guarantor. |
For purposes of the opinion expressed below, we have assumed (i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (ii) the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted as certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals thereof, (iii) the legal capacity of natural persons and (iv) the genuineness of signatures not witnessed by us. With your consent, we have also assumed that (a) the Base Indenture, the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantee (collectively, the Documents) have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, other than by the Company and the Guarantor, (b) the Documents constitute legally valid and binding obligations of the parties
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thereto, other than the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against each of them in accordance with their respective terms and (c) the status of the Documents as legally valid and binding obligations of the parties is not affected by any (i) breaches of, or defaults under, agreements or instruments, (ii) violations of statutes, rules, regulations or court or governmental orders or (iii) failures to obtain required consents, approvals or authorizations from, or make required registrations, declarations or filings with, any governmental authorities.
We are opining herein as to the internal laws of the States of New York and Texas and the Delaware General Corporation Law, and we express no opinion with respect to the applicability thereto, or the affect thereon, of the laws of any other jurisdiction.
Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
1. | The Notes are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company. |
2. | The Guarantee is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Guarantor. |
The opinions set forth above are subject to the qualification that the validity and enforceability of the Companys obligations under the Base Indenture, the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture and the Notes and the Guarantors obligations under the Guarantee may be subject to (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or affecting creditors rights generally, (ii) general principles of equity (whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and (iii) concepts of materiality, unconscionability, reasonableness, impracticability or impossibility of performance and any implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. We express no opinion regarding any provision of the Indenture that purports to avoid the effect of fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar provisions of applicable law or any provision that permits holders to collect any portion of the stated principal amount upon the acceleration of the Notes to the extent determined to constitute unearned interest.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion of counsel as Exhibit 5.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of the Company dated on or about the date hereof, to the incorporation by reference of this opinion of counsel into the Registration Statement and to the reference to our Firm under the heading Legal Matters in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving such consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission issued thereunder.
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This opinion is limited to the matters stated in this letter, and no opinions may be implied or inferred beyond the matters expressly stated in this letter. This opinion is given as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to advise you after the date hereof of facts or circumstances that come to our attention or changes in the law, including judicial or administrative interpretations thereof, that occur which could affect the opinions contained herein.
Very truly yours, |
/s/ Hunton & Williams LLP |