-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, OIGWBy+OKtRPzZeiO3iPIHtvmACFthtnVQEemqOZLqZkwLmHFAIYgx1hKhzhPn9e R9kcOeuBfUh4nB+fqMctIQ== 0001104659-08-043547.txt : 20080701 0001104659-08-043547.hdr.sgml : 20080701 20080701170810 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-08-043547 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080626 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20080701 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080701 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BE AEROSPACE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000861361 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC BUILDING AND RELATED FURNITURE [2531] IRS NUMBER: 061209796 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-18348 FILM NUMBER: 08930496 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1400 CORPORATE CTR WY CITY: WELLINGTON STATE: FL ZIP: 33414 BUSINESS PHONE: 5617915000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1400 CORPORATE CENTER WAY STREET 2: 1400 CORPORATE CENTER WAY CITY: WELLINGTON STATE: FL ZIP: 33414 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BE AVIONICS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920608 8-K 1 a08-17813_18k.htm 8-K

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 26, 2008

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

Delaware

 

0-18348

 

06-1209796

(State or other

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

 

 

Identification No.)

 

 

 

 

 

1400 Corporate Center Way, Wellington, Florida

 

33414

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (561) 791-5000

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 



 

Item 1.01                                           Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On June 26, 2008, BE Aerospace, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Mizuho Securities USA Inc. (the “Underwriters”), to sell $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 8½% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”) in an offering registered pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.  The Company completed the sale of the Notes to the Underwriters on July 1, 2008 with net proceeds (before expenses) to the Company of $586,500,000. The Underwriting Agreement contains customary terms and conditions.

 

The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of July 1, 2008 (the “Base Indenture”) between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture dated as of July 1, 2008 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) between the Company and the Trustee (the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).  Pursuant to the Indenture, the Company will pay interest on the Notes on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2009.  The Notes will mature on July 1, 2018. The Notes are unsecured senior obligations of the Company.  The Notes will rank equally with the Company’s existing and future senior indebtedness and will rank senior in right of payment to any future indebtedness that is subordinated to the Notes.  The Notes will be effectively subordinated to all of the existing and future secured indebtedness of the Company to the extent of the assets securing such indebtedness and the debt and other liabilities of all of the Company’s subsidiaries. The Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at any time prior to July 1, 2013 at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest plus a “make-whole” premium.  The Company may redeem some or all of the Notes at any time on or after July 1, 2013 at applicable redemption prices described in the Notes.  In addition, on or prior to July 1, 2011, the Company may redeem up to 35% of the Notes using the proceeds of certain equity offerings.  The Notes will not be entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.

 

The Indenture contains covenants that, among other things, will limit the ability of the Company and its restricted subsidiaries to incur indebtedness; pay dividends or make certain distributions in respect of the Company’s capital stock or repurchase the Company’s capital stock or make certain other restricted payments or investments; sell certain assets, including capital stock of the restricted subsidiaries; agree to restrictions affecting the ability of restricted subsidiaries to issue dividends or make other payments; enter into transactions with the Company’s affiliates; and merge, consolidate or sell substantially all of the Company’s assets. Additionally, upon the occurrence of a change of control (as defined in the Indenture), the Company will be required to make an offer to purchase the Notes at a price equal to 101% of their principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of repurchase. The Indenture provides for customary events of default.

 

The foregoing descriptions of the Underwriting Agreement and the Indenture do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the text of the applicable agreement, each of which is included as an exhibit to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

 

 



 

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

 

The information under Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01                                           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)                                 Exhibits

 

1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement dated as of June 26, 2008, among BE Aerospace, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

4.1

 

Indenture dated as of July 1, 2008, between BE Aerospace, Inc. and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee

4.2

 

First Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2008, between BE Aerospace, Inc. and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee

4.3

 

Form of 8½% Senior Note due 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to Appendix A to Exhibit 4.2 hereof)

 

 



 

SIGNATURE

 

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

 

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

 

 

 

By:

 /s/ Thomas P. McCaffrey

 

 

Name:

Thomas P. McCaffrey

 

 

Title:

Senior Vice President

 

 

 

and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

Date:   July 1, 2008

 

 

 



 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description of Exhibits

1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement dated as of June 26, 2008, among BE Aerospace, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

4.1

 

Indenture dated as of July 1, 2008, between BE Aerospace, Inc. and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee

4.2

 

First Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2008, between BE Aerospace, Inc. and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee

4.3

 

Form of 8½% Senior Note due 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to Appendix A to Exhibit 4.2 hereof)

 

 


EX-1.1 2 a08-17813_1ex1d1.htm UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

Exhibit 1.1

 

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

 

$600,000,000

 

8.5% Senior Notes due 2018

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

Dated:  June 26, 2008

 

 



 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

 

$600,000,000

 

8.5% Senior Notes due 2018

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

June 26, 2008

 

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

UBS Securities LLC

Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

270 Park Avenue

New York, NY  10017

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

BE Aerospace, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to each of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (“JPMorgan”), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (“CS”), UBS Securities LLC (“UBS”), Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Mizuho Securities USA Inc. (each an “Underwriter” and together, the “Underwriters”), $600,000,000 principal amount of its 8.5% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Securities”).  The Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture to be dated as of July 1, 2008 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the “Trustee”).  Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings specified in the Prospectus.

 

Section 1.                                            Representations and Warranties.  (a)  The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with the Underwriters as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Time as follows:

 

(i)                                     A post-effective amendment no. 1 to the registration statement on Form S-3 ASR (No. 333–141393) related to the Securities, has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), which post-effective amendment has become automatically effective and true and complete copies of which have heretofore been delivered to you.  Such post-

 



 

effective amendment to the registration statement, in the form in which it became effective, as amended through the Applicable Time (as defined below), including all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein through the Applicable Time and any information in a prospectus or a prospectus supplement deemed or retroactively deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B under the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1933 Act (the “1933 Act Regulations’) or, if applicable, Rule 430C, is hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement.”  For purposes of this definition, information contained in a form of prospectus or prospectus supplement that is deemed or retroactively deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B shall be considered to be included in the Registration Statement as of the time specified in Rule 430B.  The Company has prepared and filed with the Commission a preliminary prospectus supplement dated June 23, 2008 relating to the Securities.  Such preliminary prospectus supplement, together with the prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it became effective and all documents incorporated or deemed incorporated therein by reference, is herein called the “Preliminary Prospectus.”  Promptly after execution and delivery of this underwriting agreement (the “Agreement”), the Company will prepare and file a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with the provisions of Rule 424(b).  Such final prospectus supplement in the form first furnished to the Underwriters to confirm sales of the Securities, together with the prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it became effective and all documents incorporated therein by reference, is herein called the “Prospectus.”  “Applicable Time” means 3:25 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement.  For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”).  Any reference in this Agreement 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 1933 Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be and any reference to “amend”, “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “1934 Act”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.

 

In addition, for purposes of this Agreement:

 

“General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by its being so specified in Schedule A-1 to this Agreement.

 

“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 of the 1933 Act, relating to the Securities in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) of the 1933 Act.

 

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“Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

(ii)                                  At the respective times the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendments thereto became effective, at the Applicable Time and at the Closing Time, the Registration Statement and any amendments and supplements thereto complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Trust Indenture Act”), and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to (i) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act or (ii) statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through JPMorgan specifically for use therein.  Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective under the 1933 Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the 1933 Act and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the 1933 Act have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information has been complied with.  Neither the Prospectus nor any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement was issued and at the Closing Time, included or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(iii)                               At the time of initial filing of the Registration Statement, at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act or form of prospectus), and 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 Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163, the Company was a “well known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405, including not having been an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405.

 

(iv)                              The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement,” as defined in Rule 405, that initially became effective within three years of the date of the Agreement.

 

(v)                                 The Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration statement form.  If at any time when Securities remain unsold by the Underwriters the Company receives from the Commission a notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or otherwise ceases to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration statement form, the Company will (i) promptly notify

 

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JPMorgan, (ii) promptly file a new registration statement or post-effective amendment on the proper form relating to the Securities, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, (iii) use its best efforts to cause such registration statement or post-effective amendment to be declared effective as soon as practicable, and (iv) promptly notify JPMorgan representing the Underwriters of such effectiveness.  The Company will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Securities to continue as contemplated in the registration statement that was the subject of the Rule 401(g)(2) notice or for which the Company has otherwise become ineligible.  References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new registration statement or post-effective amendment, as the case may be.

 

(vi)                              At (i) the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2)) of the Securities and (ii) the date of this Agreement, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405.

 

(vii)                           As of the Applicable Time, neither (a) the General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es), if any, issued at or prior to the Applicable Time and the Preliminary Prospectus and the other information stated in Schedule A-2 to be included in the General Disclosure Package, all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), nor (b) any individual Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, 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 sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the General Disclosure Package or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through JPMorgan specifically for use therein.

 

(viii)                        Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies JPMorgan as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement.  If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement or as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when taken together with the Preliminary Prospectus, if republished immediately following such event or development, would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (i) the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify JPMorgan and (ii) the Company has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.

 

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(ix)                                The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “1934 Act Regulations”), and, when read together and with the other information in the Prospectus, at the respective times the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became effective, at the Applicable Time, at the time the Prospectus was issued and at the Closing Time, did not, do not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(x)                                   Deloitte & Touche LLP, which is reporting upon the Company’s audited financial statements and related notes included or incorporated in the Registration Statement and the General Disclosure Package, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company in accordance with the provisions of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and the rules and regulations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”).

 

(xi)                                (a)  The financial statements of the Company included in or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly (i) the financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the dates indicated and (ii) the results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the periods specified, subject, in the case of unaudited financial statements, to normal year-end adjustments which shall not be materially adverse to the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.  Such financial statements of the Company have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved.  The financial statement schedules of the Company, if any, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly the information required to be stated therein.  The selected financial data of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited consolidated financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(b)  To the knowledge of the Company, the financial statements of HCS included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects (a) the financial position of HCS and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the dates indicated and (b) the results of operations and cash flows of HCS and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the periods specified, subject, in the case of unaudited financial statements, to normal year end adjustments.  To the knowledge of the Company, such financial statements of HCS have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted

 

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accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved.  To the knowledge of the Company, the selected financial data of HCS included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited consolidated financial statements of HCS included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(c)  The assumptions used in preparing the pro forma financial information included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions or events described therein.  All financial statements and pro forma financial statements required by Regulation S-X to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement have been included or incorporated by reference.

 

(xii)                             The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware with corporate power and authority under such laws to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to transact business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property of a nature, or transacts business of a type, that would make such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to so qualify or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

 

(xiii)                          The Company has no significant subsidiaries (as defined in Rule 1.02 of the Commission’s Regulation S-X).  All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued or created and are fully paid and non-assessable and (other than in the case of BE Aerospace (France) S.A.R.L., of which five shares are owned by Marc Leveille, a French national and director of BEA France, and five shares are owned by The K.A.D. Companies, Inc., an investment, venture capital and consulting firm owned by Amin J. Khoury, the Chairman of the Company, and Advanced Thermal Sciences Corporation, of which approximately 6% of the outstanding shares are owned by officers and employees of the Company) are owned by the Company, directly or through one or more subsidiaries, free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, charge, claim, equity or encumbrance of any kind, except as pledged to the Administrative Agent by each of the subsidiaries pursuant to the amended and restated credit agreement among the Company, certain lenders, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and UBS Securities LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as Syndication Agents, dated August 24, 2006.  The Company does not, directly or indirectly, own any equity or long-term debt securities of any corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture or other entity, other than the stock of its Subsidiaries.

 

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(xiv)                         The Company had, at the date indicated in the Preliminary Prospectus, a duly authorized, issued and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the General Disclosure Package under the caption “Capitalization”.

 

(xv)                            All outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; and none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company was issued in violation of the preemptive rights of any stockholder of the Company.  There are no outstanding options to purchase, or any rights or warrants to subscribe for, or any securities or obligations convertible into, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, any shares of the capital stock of the Company, any shares of capital stock of any subsidiary, or any such warrants, convertible securities or obligations, except as set forth in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or issuances pursuant to plans referred to in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(xvi)                         The Securities and the Indenture conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(xvii)                      Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with the transaction contemplated hereby.

 

(xviii)                   The Company has corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Securities and the Indenture (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

 

(xix)                           The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and upon effectiveness of the Registration Statement was duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. When the Indenture is duly executed and delivered by the Company, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, the Indenture will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”).

 

(xx)                              The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

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(xxi)                           This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

 

(xxii)                        The Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Acquisition Agreement”), dated June 9, 2008, among the Company, Honeywell International Inc., Honeywell UK Limited, Honeywell Holding France SAS and Honeywell Deutschland GmbH, with respect to the acquisition by the Company of the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business (“HCS”), has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

 

(xxiii)                     Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except as otherwise stated therein or contemplated thereby, there has not been (A) any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (B) any transaction entered into by the Company or any subsidiary, other than in the ordinary course of business, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, or (C) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on its capital stock.

 

(xxiv)                    Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is (i) in violation of its charter or by-laws, (ii) is in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of its properties may be subject or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case clauses (ii) and (iii) above, except for such defaults or violations that would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.  The execution and delivery by the Company of each of this Agreement and the Indenture, the issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities by the Company, the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and compliance by the Company with the terms of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities (the “Transaction Documents”) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and do not and will not result in any violation of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any subsidiary, and do not and will not conflict with, or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary under, (A) any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any subsidiary is a party or by which they may be bound or to which any of their respective properties may be subject except as such would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business

 

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prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise or (B) any existing applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary or any of their respective properties.

 

(xxv)                       No authorization, approval, consent or license of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign (other than under the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations with respect to the Transaction Documents, the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act and the transactions contemplated thereunder and the securities or “blue sky” laws of the various states) is required for the valid authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities, for the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents or for the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except such of the foregoing as will be obtained prior to the Closing Time.

 

(xxvi)                    Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any government, governmental instrumentality or court,  domestic or foreign, now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any subsidiary or any of their respective officers, in their capacity as such, that could reasonably be expected to result in any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, or that could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the properties or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, or that could adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings that are not described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus to which the Company or any subsidiary is a party or which affect any of their respective properties, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business of the Company or any subsidiary, could not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

 

(xxvii)                 The Company and the subsidiaries each has good and marketable title to all properties and assets described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus as owned by it, free and clear of all liens, charges, encumbrances or restrictions, except such as (A) are described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (B) are neither material in amount nor materially significant in relation to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise; all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which the Company or any subsidiary holds properties described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect,

 

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and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of such corporation to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.

 

(xxviii)              The Company and the subsidiaries each owns, possesses or has obtained all material governmental licenses, permits, certificates, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations, including, without limitation, any licenses, permits, certificates, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations required to be obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration, necessary to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and to carry on its business as presently conducted, and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to revocation or modification of any such licenses, permits, certificates, consents, orders, approvals or authorizations except as such would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

 

(xxix)                      The Company and the subsidiaries each owns or possesses adequate patents, patent licenses, trademarks, service marks and trade names necessary to carry on its business as presently conducted, and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any patents, patent licenses, trademarks, service marks or trade names that in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, could materially adversely affect the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

 

(xxx)                         To the best knowledge of the Company, no labor problem exists with its employees or with the employees of any subsidiary or is imminent that could materially adversely affect the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or any subsidiary’s principal suppliers, contractors or customers that could be expected to materially adversely affect the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

 

(xxxi)                      Neither the Company nor any subsidiary has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to, or that might be reasonably expected to, cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.

 

(xxxii)                   All United States federal income tax returns of the Company and the Subsidiaries required by law to be filed have been filed and all United States federal income taxes which are due and payable have been paid, except assessments against which appeals have been or will be promptly taken and as to which adequate reserves have been provided.  The Company and the subsidiaries each has filed all other tax returns that are required to have been filed by it pursuant to applicable foreign, state,

 

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local or other law except insofar as the failure to file such returns would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and has paid all taxes due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company and the subsidiaries, except for such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been provided.  The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company in respect of any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally determined are adequate to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income tax for any years not finally determined, except to the extent of any inadequacy that would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

 

(xxxiii)                The Company and the subsidiaries each maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (E) any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal accounting controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information data, and any fraud whether or not material that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal accounting controls, are adequately and promptly disclosed to the Company’s independent auditors and the audit committee of the Company’s board of directors.  The Company and the subsidiaries have not made, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary has made, any payment of the Company’s funds or any subsidiary’s funds or received or retained any funds in violation of any applicable law, regulation or rule or that would be required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(xxxiv)               Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no holders of securities of the Company who have the right to require the Company to register securities held by them under the 1933 Act on any registration statement that will be used to register the Securities.

 

(xxxv)                  The Company is not an “investment company,” and will not be as a result of the sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).

 

(xxxvi)               Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and except as would not individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one

 

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enterprise, (A) the Company and the subsidiaries are each in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, (B) the Company and the subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no pending or threatened Environmental Claims against the Company or any of the subsidiaries, and (D) there are no circumstances with respect to any property or operations of the Company or any subsidiary that could reasonably be anticipated to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against the Company or any subsidiary.

 

For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:  “Environmental Law” means any United States (or other applicable jurisdiction’s) federal, state, local or municipal statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law and any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof including any judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to the environment, health, safety or any chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any governmental authority.  Environmental Claims means any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law.

 

(xxxvii)            The Company and its consolidated subsidiaries employ disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company and its subsidiary in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management and its subsidiaries management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.

 

(xxxviii)         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 “Money Laundering Laws”) and no 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 Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(xxxix)                 None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or Affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any

 

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subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

 

(xl)                                To the knowledge of the Company, the representations and warranties of HCS contained in the Acquisition Agreement are true and correct in all material respects.

 

(xli)                             The statements with respect to expected cost synergies in connection with the acquisition of HCS included in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, in the opinion of the Company, have been made on a reasonable basis and in good faith.

 

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any subsidiary and delivered to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.

 

(b)                                 The Underwriters represent and warrant to, and agrees with, the Company as of the date hereof, the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Time that the Underwriters have not prepared or used, authorized the use of, referred to, or participated in the planning for the use of, any “free writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act, other than (i) a free writing prospectus that, solely as a result of use by such underwriter, would not trigger an obligation to file such free writing prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus identified on Schedule A or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such underwriter and approved by the Company in advance in writing (each such free writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) and (iii) above, an “Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus”).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriters may use a term sheet substantially in the form of Schedule C hereto (the “Term Sheet”) without the consent of the Company, but only in the manner previously approved by the Company.

 

Section 2.                                            Purchase, Sale and Delivery of the Securities; Closing.  (a)  On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each of you, and each of you severally and not jointly agrees to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price equal to 97.750% of the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite your name on Schedule B, plus accrued interest, if any, from July 1, 2008, plus any additional amount of Securities that you may be obligated to purchase pursuant to Section 9 hereof.

 

(b)                                 Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of certificates for, the Securities shall be made at the offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP, 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York  10022, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Underwriters and the Company, at 9:00 A.M., New York time, on July 1, 2008 or at such other time not more than ten full business days thereafter as the Underwriters and the Company shall determine (such date and time of payment and delivery being herein called the “Closing Time”).  Certificates for the Securities shall be in such denominations and registered in such names as JPMorgan, representing the Underwriters, may request in writing at least two business days before the Closing Time.  The certificates for the Securities will be made available in New York City for examination and packaging by you not later than 10:00 A.M. on the last business day prior to the Closing Time.

 

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(c)                                  At the Closing Time, in connection with payment for the Securities, payment shall be made to an account, or accounts, designated by the Company in the aggregate amount of $586,500,000.00 in immediately available funds payable to the order of the Company against delivery to the nominee of The Depository Trust Company, for the respective accounts of the Underwriters of one or more global notes representing the Securities to be purchased by them.  It is understood that each Underwriter has authorized JPMorgan, for its account, to accept delivery of, receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Securities, which it has agreed to purchase.  Each of JPMorgan, CS and UBS, individually and not as representative of the Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price for the Securities to be purchased by any Underwriter whose funds have not been received by the Closing Time but such payment shall not relieve such Underwriter from its obligations hereunder.

 

Section 3.                                            Certain Covenants of the Company.  The Company covenants with you as follows:

 

(a)                                  The Company will promptly notify JPMorgan, representing the Underwriters, (i) of the effectiveness of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, (ii) of the mailing or the delivery to the Commission for filing of the Prospectus or any amendment to the Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any document to be filed pursuant to the 1934 Act during any period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, (iii) of the receipt of any comments or inquiries from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or Prospectus, (iv) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information, (v) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the 1933 Act, (vi) 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 1933 Act, and (vii) of the issuance by any state securities commission or other regulatory authority of any order suspending the qualification or the exemption from qualification of the Securities under state securities or Blue Sky laws or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose.  The Company will use its best effort to prevent the issuance by the Commission of any stop order and, if any such stop order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.  The Company will provide the Underwriters with copies of the form of Prospectus, in such number as the Underwriters may reasonably request, and file or transmit for filing with the Commission such Prospectus in accordance with Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations by the close of business in New York on the second business day immediately succeeding the date hereofThe Company will pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the 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).

 

(b)                                 At any time when a Prospectus is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations in connection with sales of the Securities, the Company will give JPMorgan, representing the Underwriters, notice of its intention to file or prepare any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment, supplement or revision to either the

 

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prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time it became effective, to the Prospectus, whether or not such revised prospectus is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations), will furnish the Underwriters with copies of any such amendment or supplement a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing or use, as the case may be, and will not file any such amendment or supplement or use any such prospectus to which the Underwriters or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to you, such amendment or supplement is required by law.

 

(c)                                  The Company has furnished or will deliver to you, without charge, a signed copy of the post effective amendment no. 1 to the Registration Statement as originally filed and of each subsequent amendment thereto relating to the offering of the Securities (including exhibits filed therewith and documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein) and as many conformed copies of the post-effective amendment no.1 to the Registration Statement as originally filed and of each subsequent amendment thereto relating to the offering of the Securities (including documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein but without exhibits filed therewith), as you may reasonably request.

 

(d)                                 The Company will furnish to you, from time to time during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as you may reasonably request.

 

(e)                                  If at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the General Disclosure Package as then amended or supplemented would 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, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with law, the Company will promptly notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (n) below, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representative may designate, such amendments or supplements to the General Disclosure Package as may be necessary so that the statements in the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances, be misleading or so that the General Disclosure Package will comply with law.

 

(f)                                    The Company will comply with the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Securities as contemplated in this Agreement and in the Prospectus.  If, at any time when a Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act in connection with sales of the Securities, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of your counsel or counsel for the Company, to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or if, in the opinion of your counsel or counsel for the Company, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, the Company, at its own expense, will promptly prepare such amendment or supplement as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so

 

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amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that such Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will comply with applicable law, as the case may be, and furnish you such number of copies as you may reasonably request.  The Company will not file any amendment or supplement without first providing the Underwriters with such amendment or supplement and having obtained the Underwriters’ consent to the filing, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to you, such amendment or supplement is required by law.  Neither the Underwriters consent to, nor the delivery of such amendment or supplement, shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions in Section 6 hereof.

 

(g)                                 The Company will endeavor, in cooperation with you, to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions as you may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect for a period of not less than a year from the date of the Prospectus; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.  The Company will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws of each jurisdiction in which the Securities have been qualified as above provided.  The Company will also supply you with such information as is necessary for the determination of the legality of the Securities for investment under the laws of such jurisdictions as you may request.

 

(h)                                 As soon as practicable, but not later than 16 months, after the date of this Agreement, the Company will make generally available to its securityholders an earnings statement covering a period of at least 12 months beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement and satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.

 

(i)                                     The Company will use its best efforts in cooperation with you to permit the Securities offered and sold in transactions by you to be eligible for clearance and settlement through The Depository Trust Company.

 

(j)                                     The Company will apply the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities in the manner specified in the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”

 

(k)                                  Prior to the Closing Time, the Company will not issue any press release or other communications directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company, the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company, without your prior consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to you, such press release or communication is required by law.

 

(l)                                     The Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act within the time periods required by the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations.

 

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(m)                               Except as contemplated by this Agreement with respect to the sale of the Securities, for a period of 90 days from the date of the Prospectus, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of JPMorgan, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company and having a tenor of more than one year.

 

(n)                                 The Company represents and agrees that it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act, other than as listed on Schedule A, without the prior consent of JPMorgan.  Any such free writing prospectus consented to by JPMorgan is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.”  The Company represents that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433,  and has complied and will comply with the applicable requirements of Rule 164 and Rule 433 of the 1933 Act applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely Commission filing where required, legending and record keeping.

 

Section 4.                                            Certain Covenants of the Underwriters.  Each of the Underwriters covenants severally and not jointly with the Company as follows:

 

(a)                                  The Underwriters covenant with the Company that the Underwriters will not use, authorize the use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for the use of, a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act which term includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement other than (i) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus identified on Schedule A or (ii) any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus and the Underwriters will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405, required to be filed with the Commission by the Company.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriters may use the Term Sheet without the consent of the Company, but only in the manner previously approved by the Company.

 

Section 5.                                            Payment of Expenses.  Whether or not any sale of the Securities is consummated, the Company will pay and bear all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (a) the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits) as originally filed and of each amendment thereto, (b) the preparation, reproduction and distribution of the Securities, the Indenture and this Agreement, (c) the delivery of the certificates for the Securities to the Underwriters, (d) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel and accountants, (e) the qualification of the Securities under the applicable securities laws in accordance with Section 3(f) and any filing for review of the offering with FINRA, including filing fees and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in connection with the preparation of any “blue sky” or legal investment memoranda, (f) the delivery to the Underwriters of copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and the printing and delivery of each amendment thereto, of each preliminary prospectus and of the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, (g) the preparation, printing and distribution of any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to investors or prospective investors, (h) the preparation, printing

 

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and delivery to the Underwriters of copies of the Blue Sky Survey and any supplement thereto, (i) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities, (j) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including reasonable fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties), and (k) one-half of the plane or private jet expenses of the Underwriters and the Company’s officers and employees in connection with attending or hosting meetings with prospective purchasers of the offered Securities.

 

If this Agreement is terminated by the Underwriters in accordance with the provisions of Section 6, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters.

 

Section 6.                                            Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations.  The obligations of each Underwriter to purchase and pay for the Securities that it has severally agreed to purchase hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and in certificates of any officer of the Company and any subsidiary delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:

 

(a)                                  The Registration Statement shall remain effective and at Closing Time no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings for such purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A of the 1933 Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of counsel to the Underwriters.  A prospectus containing the information to be provided in accordance with Rule 430B or, if applicable, Rule 430C shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 424(b) (or a post-effective amendment providing such information shall have become effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430B or, if applicable, Rule 430C).

 

(b)                                 At the Closing Time, each of you shall have received a signed opinion of each of Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel for the Company, and Edmund Moriarty, General Counsel of the Company, in each case dated as of the Closing Time, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto, respectively.  In giving such opinion, such counsel may rely, as to all matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions other than the law of the State of New York, the federal law of the United States and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, upon opinions of other counsel, who shall be counsel satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, in which case the opinion shall state that they believe you are entitled to so rely.  Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves factual matters, they have relied, to the extent they deem proper, upon certificates of officers of the Company and the subsidiaries and certificates of public officials; provided that such certificates have been delivered to the Underwriters.

 

(c)                                  At the Closing Time, each of you shall have received the favorable opinion of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of the Closing Time, to the effect that the opinions delivered pursuant to Section 6(b) appear on their face to be appropriately responsive to the requirements of this Agreement except, specifying the same, to the extent waived by you, and with respect to the incorporation and legal

 

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existence of the Company, the Securities, the Indenture, this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and such other related matters as you may require.  In giving such opinion such counsel may rely, as to all matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions other than the law of the State of New York, the federal law of the United States and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, upon the opinions of counsel satisfactory to you.  Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves factual matters, they have relied, to the extent they deem proper, upon certificates of officers of the Company and the Subsidiaries and certificates of public officials; provided that such certificates have been delivered to the Underwriters.

 

(d)                                 At the Closing Time, (i) the Registration Statement, as it may then be amended or supplemented, shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, the Prospectus, and any amendments and supplements thereto, and the General Disclosure Package shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (ii) there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package, except as otherwise stated therein or contemplated thereby, any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (iii) except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no action, suit or proceeding before or by any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any subsidiary that could reasonably be expected to result in any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, (iv) the Company shall have in all material respects complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Time, (v) neither the Company nor any subsidiary shall be in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of its properties may be subject, except for such defaults that would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, (vi) with the exception of the representations and warranties in Section 1(a) covered by (i), (ii) (iii) and (v) above, the other representations and warranties of the Company set forth herein shall be accurate in all material respects as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Time and (vii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the 1933 Act shall have been initiated or, to the knowledge of such officer, threatened by the Commission.  At the Closing Time, each of you shall have received a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Time, to such effect.

 

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(e)                                  (i)                                     At the time that this Agreement is executed by the Company, each of you shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm for the Company, a letter, dated such a date, in form and substance satisfactory to you.

 

(ii)                                  At the time that this Agreement is executed by the Company, each of you shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm for HCS, a letter, dated such a date, in form and substance satisfactory to you.

 

(f)                                    (i)                                     At the Closing Time, each of you shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP a letter, in form and substance satisfactory to you and dated as of the Closing Time, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to Section 6(e)(i), except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three days prior to the Closing Time.

 

(ii)                                  At the Closing Time, each of you shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP a letter, in form and substance satisfactory to you and dated as of the Closing Time, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to Section 6(e)(ii), except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three days prior to the Closing Time.

 

(g)                                 At the Closing Time, counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with all such documents, certificates and opinions as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated in this Agreement and the matters referred to in Section 6(d) and in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations, warranties or statements of the Company, the performance of any of the covenants of the Company, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company at or prior to the Closing Time in connection with the authorization, issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated in this Agreement shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters.

 

(h)                                 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 the subsidiaries taken as one enterprise which, in the judgment of JPMorgan, is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the offering or the sale of and payment for the Securities; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of the Securities or any other debt securities or preferred stock of or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the 1933 Act) or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of the Securities or any other debt securities or preferred stock of or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (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 change in U.S. or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls as would, in the judgment of

 

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JPMorgan, be likely to prejudice materially the success of the proposed issue, sale or distribution of the Securities, whether in the primary market or in respect of dealings in the secondary market; (iv) any material suspension or material limitation of trading in securities generally on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange; (v) or 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 JPMorgan, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the public offering or sale of and payment for the Securities.

 

(i)                                     The Acquisition Agreement shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been amended, modified or supplemented subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement in a manner that materially adversely affects the holders of the Securities without JPMorgan’s prior written consent.

 

If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required by this Agreement, this Agreement may be terminated by you on notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Closing Time, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except as provided in Section 5.  Notwithstanding any such termination, the provisions of Sections 1 (insofar as Section 8 provides for the survival of such representations or warranties), 7 and 8 shall remain in effect.

 

Section 7.                                            Indemnification and Contribution.  (a)  The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, partners, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter, its affiliate, partner, director and officer and any person controlling such Underwriter may become subject, under the 1933 Act or the 1934 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, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus or preliminary prospectus supplement, 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 Company’s failure to perform its obligations under Section 3(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 will 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

 

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the Company by any Underwriter through JPMorgan 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, its directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the 1933 Act or the 1934 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, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any related preliminary prospectus or preliminary prospectus supplement, 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 JPMorgan specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Preliminary Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter:  under the caption “Underwriting,” the third paragraph, the seventh paragraph and the ninth paragraph (in respect of the international selling legends); provided however, that the Underwriters shall not be liable for any losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising out of or based upon the Company’s failure to perform its obligations under Section 3(a) of this Agreement.

 

(c)                                  Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 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, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and 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 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall

 

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have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed in writing to the contrary; (ii) the indemnifying party has failed within a reasonable time after receiving notice of the commencement of the action to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party; (iii) the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded (based upon advice of counsel to the indemnified party) that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would (based upon advice of counsel to the indemnified party) be inappropriate due to a conflict or potential conflict between them.  It is understood and agreed that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all indemnified parties, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.  Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by JPMorgan and any such separate firm for the Company, its directors and officers and any control persons of the Company shall be designated in writing by the Company.  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 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 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 on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the 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 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 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 or the Underwriters 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

 

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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 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 under this Section shall be in addition to any liability which the Company 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 1933 Act or the 1934 Act; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 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 within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act.

 

Section 8.                                            Survival of Certain Representations and ObligationsThe respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company or its 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 or any of their respective representatives, officers or directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities.  If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9 or if for any reason the purchase of the 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 3 and the respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 6 shall remain in effect. If the purchase of the Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 or the occurrence of any event specified in clause (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii) or (viii) of Section 6(h), the Company will 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 Securities.

 

Section 9.                                            Default.  If one or more of the Underwriters shall fail at the Closing Time to purchase the Securities that it or they are obligated to purchase (the “Defaulted Securities”), the non-defaulting Underwriters shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Defaulted Securities upon the terms herein set forth; if, however, such non-defaulting Underwriters have not completed such arrangements within such 24-hour period, then:

 

(a)                                  if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities to be purchased, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated to purchase the full amount thereof, or

 

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(b)                                 if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities to be purchased, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters.

 

No action taken pursuant to this Section shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of its default.

 

In the event of any such default that does not result in a termination of this Agreement, either you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Time for a period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements.  As used herein, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section 9.

 

Section 10.                                      Acknowledgment.  The Company also acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of any Securities pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of the Securities and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters of such Securities, on the other hand, (ii) in connection with the public offering of the Securities contemplated hereby and the process leading thereto each Underwriter will act solely as a principal and not as agent or fiduciary of the Company or its stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (iii) no Underwriter will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) and no Underwriter will have any obligation to the Company with respect to the offering of the Securities except the obligations expressly set forth herein, (iv) any Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company and (v) the Underwriters have not provided and will not provide any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering of the Securities and the Company has consulted and will consult its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deems appropriate.

 

Section 11.                                      Notices.  All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if delivered, mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication.  Notices to the Underwriters shall be directed to the Underwriters at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017, Attention:  Gerry Murray with copies to Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP at 1 New York Plaza, New York, New York 10004, Attention: Valerie Ford Jacob, Esq.; and notices to the Company shall be directed to it at 1400 Corporate Center Way, Wellington, Florida 33414, Attention:  Mr. Thomas P. McCaffrey, Corporate Senior Vice President of Administration and Chief Financial Officer with copies to Shearman & Sterling LLP at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022, Attention:  Rohan S. Weerasinghe, Esq.

 

Section 12.                                      Parties.  This Agreement is made solely for the benefit of the Underwriters, the Company and, to the extent expressed, any person who controls the Company or any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, and the directors of the Company, its officers and their respective executors, administrators,

 

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successors and assigns and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement.  The term successors and assigns shall not include any purchaser, as such purchaser, from the Underwriters of the Securities.

 

Section 13.                                      Governing Law and Time.  This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York.  Specified times of the day refer to New York City time.

 

Section 14.                                      Waiver of Jury Trial.  Each of the Underwriters and the Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its stockholders and affiliates) waives all right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) in any way arising out of or relating to this Agreement.

 

Section 15.                                      Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and when a counterpart has been executed by each party, all such counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument will become a binding agreement between the Company and the Underwriters in accordance with its terms.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ THOMAS P. MCCAFFREY

 

 

Name:

Thomas P. McCaffrey

 

 

Title:

Senior Vice President and Chief

 

 

 

Financial Officer

 

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Confirmed and accepted as of

the date first above written:

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

UBS Securities LLC

Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

 

By:  J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

 

 

By

/s/ GERRY MURRAY

 

 

Name:

Gerry Murray

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

SCHEDULE A-1

 

General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (included in the General Disclosure Package)

 

Term Sheet

 

SCHEDULE A-2

 

Other Information (included in the General Disclosure Package)

 

None

 

SCHEDULE A-3

 

Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus

 

Electronic Net Roadshow

 



 

SCHEDULE B

 

 

 

Aggregate Principal Amount

 

Underwriters

 

of Securities to be Purchased

 

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

 

$

165,000,000

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

165,000,000

 

UBS Securities LLC

 

165,000,000

 

Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.

 

30,000,000

 

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

 

30,000,000

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

30,000,000

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

15,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

600,000,000

 

 



 

SCHEDULE C

 

BE Aerospace, Inc.

Pricing Term Sheet

$600,000,000 8.5% Senior Notes due 2018

 

Issuer:             

 

BE Aerospace, Inc.

 

Security Description:

 

Senior Notes

 

Distribution:       

 

SEC Registered

 

Face:               

 

$600,000,000

 

Gross Proceeds:     

 

$600,000,000

 

Net Proceeds to Issuer (before expenses):

  

$586,500,000

 

Coupon:             

 

8.500%

 

Maturity:           

 

July 1, 2018

 

Offering Price:     

 

100.000%

 

Yield to Maturity:  

 

8.500%

 

Spread to Treasury: 

 

+445 basis points

 

Benchmark:          

 

UST 3.875% due 5/15/2018

 

Ratings:            

 

Ba3/BB+

 

Interest Pay Dates: 

 

January 1 and July 1

 

Beginning:          

 

January 1, 2009

 

Equity Clawback:           

Up to 35% at 108.5%

 

Until:              

 

July 1, 2011

 

Optional redemption:

 

Makewhole call @ T+50bps prior to July 1, 2013, then:

 

 

 

On or after:

 

Price:

 

 

 

July 1, 2013

 

104.250

%

 

 

July 1, 2014

 

102.833

%

 

 

July 1, 2015

 

101.417

%

 

 

July 1, 2016 and thereafter

 

100.000

%

Change of control:  

 

Put @ 101% of principal plus accrued interest

Trade Date:         

 

June 26, 2008

 

Settlement Date:        

     (T+3)

July 1, 2008

 

CUSIP:

              

055381AQ0

 

ISIN:

               

US055381AQ03

 

Denominations:

      

$2,000 x $1,000

 

Bookrunners:

 

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

 

                    

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

                    

 

UBS Securities LLC

 

Co-Managers:

 

Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.

 

 

 

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

 

 

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

 

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

 



 

Use of Proceeds:

 

 

Upon closing of the HCS acquisition, we will use all of the net proceeds from this offering, together with term loan borrowings under a new senior credit facility, which we expect to be in the amount of $475 million, and an issuance of our common stock to Honeywell, and available cash, if necessary, to pay for the HCS acquisition, to repay indebtedness under our existing senior credit facility and to pay transaction fees and expenses.  If the HCS acquisition is not consummated by November 15, 2008 or it is earlier terminated, the net proceeds from this offering will be used to repay borrowings under our existing senior credit facility and any remaining funds will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

After giving effect to the HCS acquisition and the related financing, estimated pro forma interest expense resulting from the new indebtedness represented by the notes offered hereby and the term loan borrowings under the new senior credit facility would have been $22.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and $99.8 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.

 

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a 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 the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering.  You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov.  Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. collect at 1-212-270-3994, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC toll-free at 1-800-221-1037 or UBS Securities LLC toll-free at 877-827-6444, ext. 561-3884.

 

Any disclaimer or other notice that may appear below is not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded.  Such disclaimer or notice was automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent by Bloomberg or another email system.

 



 

EXHIBIT A

 

Form of Shearman & Sterling Opinion

 

1.                                       The Company has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of each Opinion Document to which it is a party.

 

2.                                       The execution and delivery by the Company of each Opinion Document to which it is a party does not, and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will not, (a) result in a violation of the Company’s certificate of incorporation or by-laws, (b) result in a violation of Generally Applicable Law, or (c) result in a breach of, a default under or the acceleration of (or entitle any party to accelerate) the maturity of any obligation of the Company under, or result in or require the creation of any lien upon or security interest in any property of the Company pursuant to the terms of, any agreement or document listed in Schedule B hereto.

 

3.                                       No authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any United States federal or New York governmental authority or regulatory body, or any third party that is a party to any of the documents listed in Schedule B hereto, is required for the due execution, delivery or performance by the Company of any Opinion Document to which it is a party, except as have been obtained and are in full force and effect under the Securities Act, or the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or as may be required under the securities or blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in the United States in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities.

 

4.                                       The Underwriting Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company.

 

5.                                       The Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

6.                                       The Securities have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture and delivered and paid for as provided in the Underwriting Agreement, the Securities will be the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

7.                                       The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

 

8.                                       The Company is not, and will not be as a result of the sale of the Securities pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

9.                                       The statements in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the caption “Description of notes,” insofar as such statements constitute

 



 

summaries of documents referred to therein, fairly summarize in all material respects the documents referred to therein.  The statements in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the caption “Material United States federal tax considerations,” insofar as such statements constitute summaries of legal matters referred to therein, fairly summarize in all material respects the legal matters referred to therein.

 

10.                                 The Acquisition Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

We further advise you that, subject to the limitations set forth in the second preceding paragraph, on the basis of the information we gained in the course of performing the services referred to above, no facts came to our attention that caused us to believe that (i) the Registration Statement (other than the financial statements and other financial data contained therein or omitted therefrom, as to which we have not been requested to comment, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which we express no opinion), at the time it became effective, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the General Disclosure Package (other than the financial statements and other financial data contained therein or omitted therefrom, as to which we have not been requested to comment, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which we express no opinion), at the Applicable Time, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (iii) the Final Prospectus (other than the financial statements and other financial data contained therein or omitted therefrom, as to which we have not been requested to comment, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which we express no opinion), as of its date or the date hereof, contained or contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 



 

EXHIBIT B

 

Form of General Counsel Opinion

 

(i)                                     The Company is a corporation, duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware with corporate power and authority to conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.  The Company (a) has corporate power to execute, perform and deliver each Opinion Document to which it is a party and (b) has taken all necessary corporate action necessary to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of each Opinion Document to which it is a party.  The Company is qualified to transact business, and is in good standing as a foreign corporation, in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.

 

(ii)                                  The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization.”

 

(iii)                               To the best of my knowledge, (i) the Company is not in violation of its certificate of incorporation or by laws or in default in the performance of any obligation, agreement or condition in any agreement or instrument known to me to which the Company is a party or by which any of them is bound and which default could have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole and (ii) the Company is not in violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation, or, to my knowledge after having made inquiry of the Company, any order, writ, injunction or decree, of any jurisdiction, court or governmental instrumentality, where such violation or default could have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

 

(iv)                              To the best of my knowledge, there is not pending or threatened any action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation, to which the Company or any subsidiary is a party, or to which the property of the Company or any subsidiary is subject, before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, which might reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or which might reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Opinion Documents or the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder.

 

I have reviewed and participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus with other officers or employees of the Company, with its counsel and its auditors, and with representatives of the underwriters and I advise you that, on the basis of the information I gained in the course of performing the services referred to above, no facts came to my attention which caused me to believe that (i) the Registration Statement (other than the financial statements and other financial data contained therein or omitted therefrom, as to which I have not been requested to comment, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which I express no opinion), at the time it

 



 

became effective, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the General Disclosure Package (other than the financial statements and other financial data contained therein or omitted therefrom, as to which I have not been requested to comment, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which I express no opinion), at the Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (iii) the Final Prospectus (other than the financial statements and other financial data contained therein or omitted therefrom, as to which I have not been requested to comment, and the Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, as to which I express no opinion), as of its date or the date hereof, contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 


EX-4.1 3 a08-17813_1ex4d1.htm INDENTURE

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.,

 

Issuer,

 

to

 

Wilmington Trust Company,

 

Trustee

 

Indenture

 

Dated July 1, 2008

 

Debt Securities

 

 



 

Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act

of 1939 and Indenture, dated July 1, 2008

 

Trust Indenture

 

 

Act Section

 

Indenture Section

 

 

 

§ 310(a)(1)

 

608

         (a)(2)

 

608

         (b)

 

604, 607, 609(d)(1)

§ 311(a)

 

101(2), 604, 613

         (b)

 

101(2), 604, 613

§ 312(c)

 

701

§ 313

 

702

§ 314(a)

 

703

         (a)(4)

 

1004

         (c)(1)

 

102

         (c)(2)

 

102

         (e)

 

101 (“Opinion of Counsel”), 102

§ 315(b)

 

601

§ 316(a)(last

 

 

         sentence)

 

101 (“Outstanding”)

         (a)(1)(A)

 

512

         (a)(1)(B)

 

513

         (b)

 

508

         (c)

 

104(d)

§ 317(a)(1)

 

503

         (a)(2)

 

504

         (b)

 

1003

§ 318(a)

 

107

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Page

ARTICLE ONE

 

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

 

 

SECTION 101.    Definitions

9

“Act”

10

“Additional Amounts”

10

“Affiliate”

10

“Authenticating Agent”

10

“Authorized Officer”

10

“Bankruptcy Law”

10

“Board of Directors”

10

“Board Resolution”

10

“Book-Entry Security”

10

“Business Day”

10

“Capital Stock”

10

“Commission”

10

“Company”

11

“Company Request” or “Company Order”

11

“corporation”

11

“covenant defeasance”

11

“Custodian”

11

“Default”

11

“Defaulted Interest”

11

“defeasance”

11

“Definitive Security”

11

“Depository”

11

“Euroclear”

11

“Event of Default”

11

“Exchange Act”

11

“Extension Notice” and “Extension Period”

12

“Final Maturity”

12

“generally accepted accounting principles” or “GAAP”

12

“Global Securities”

12

“Government Obligations”

12

“guarantee”

12

“Holder”

12

“incorporated provision”

12

“Indebtedness”

12

“Indenture”

12

“Indexed Security”

13

“interest”

13

“Interest Payment Date”

13

“mandatory sinking fund payment”

13

 



 

“Maturity”

13

“Officer’s Certificate”

13

“Opinion of Counsel”

13

“Option to Elect Repayment”

13

“Optional Reset Date”

13

“optional sinking fund payment”

13

“Original Issue Discount Security”

13

“Original Stated Maturity”

14

“Outstanding”

14

“Participants”

15

“Paying Agent”

15

“Person”

15

“Place of Payment”

15

“Predecessor Security”

15

“Redemption Date”

15

“Redemption Price”

15

“Regular Record Date”

15

“Repayment Date”

15

“Repayment Price”

15

“Reset Notice”

15

“Securities”

15

“Security Register” and “Security Registrar”

15

“Special Record Date”

16

“Stated Maturity”

16

“Subsequent Interest Period”

16

“Subsidiary”

16

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA”

16

“Trustee”

16

“Trustee Payments”

16

“United States”

16

“United States person”

16

“Vice President”

16

“Yield to Maturity”

16

SECTION 102.      Compliance Certificates and Opinions

17

SECTION 103.      Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

17

SECTION 104.      Acts of Holders

18

SECTION 105.      Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company

19

SECTION 106.      Notice to Holders; Waiver

19

SECTION 107.      Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act

20

SECTION 108.      Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

20

SECTION 109.      Successors and Assigns

20

SECTION 110.      Separability Clause

20

SECTION 111.      Benefits of Indenture

20

 

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SECTION 112.

Governing Law

20

SECTION 113.

Legal Holidays

21

SECTION 114.

No Recourse Against Others

21

 

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITY FORMS

 

SECTION 201.

Forms Generally

21

SECTION 202.

Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

22

SECTION 203.

Securities Issuable in Global Form

22

SECTION 204.

Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities

23

 

 

 

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES

 

 

 

SECTION 301.

Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

23

SECTION 302.

Denominations

26

SECTION 303.

Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

26

SECTION 304.

Book-Entry Securities

28

SECTION 305.

Temporary Securities

29

SECTION 306.

Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

30

SECTION 307.

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

31

SECTION 308.

Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset

32

SECTION 309.

Optional Extension of Stated Maturity

34

SECTION 310.

Persons Deemed Owners

35

SECTION 311.

Cancellation

36

SECTION 312.

Computation of Interest

36

SECTION 313.

CUSIP Numbers

36

 

 

 

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

 

 

SECTION 401.

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

36

SECTION 402.

Application of Trust Money

38

 

 

 

ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES

 

 

 

SECTION 501.

Events of Default

38

SECTION 502.

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

39

SECTION 503.

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

40

SECTION 504.

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

41

SECTION 505.

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

41

SECTION 506.

Application of Money Collected

42

 

5



 

SECTION 507.

Limitation on Suits

42

SECTION 508.

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest

43

SECTION 509.

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

43

SECTION 510.

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

43

SECTION 511.

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

43

SECTION 512.

Control by Holders

43

SECTION 513.

Waiver of Past Defaults

44

SECTION 514.

Undertaking for Costs

44

SECTION 515.

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

45

 

 

 

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE

 

 

 

SECTION 601.

Notice of Defaults

45

SECTION 602.

Certain Rights of Trustee

45

SECTION 603.

Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

48

SECTION 604.

May Hold Securities

48

SECTION 605.

Money Held in Trust

48

SECTION 606.

Compensation and Reimbursement

48

SECTION 607.

Conflicting Interests

49

SECTION 608.

Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests

49

SECTION 609.

Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

49

SECTION 610.

Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

51

SECTION 611.

Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

52

SECTION 612.

Appointment of Authenticating Agent

52

SECTION 613.

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

54

 

 

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

 

 

 

SECTION 701.

Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders

54

SECTION 702.

Reports by Trustee

54

SECTION 703.

Reports by Company

54

 

 

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

 

SECTION 801.

Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms

55

SECTION 802.

Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation

56

 

 

 

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

 

 

SECTION 901.

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

56

SECTION 902.

Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

58

 

6



 

SECTION 903.

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

59

SECTION 904.

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

59

SECTION 905.

Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

59

SECTION 906.

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

59

SECTION 907.

Notice of Supplemental Indentures

59

 

 

 

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS

 

 

 

SECTION 1001.

Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

60

SECTION 1002.

Maintenance of Office or Agency

60

SECTION 1003.

Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust

60

SECTION 1004.

Statement as to Compliance

62

SECTION 1005.

Corporate Existence

62

SECTION 1006.

Additional Amounts

62

SECTION 1007.

Waiver of Certain Covenants

63

 

 

 

ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

 

 

 

SECTION 1101.

Applicability of Article

63

SECTION 1102.

Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

63

SECTION 1103.

Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

64

SECTION 1104.

Notice of Redemption

64

SECTION 1105.

Deposit of Redemption Price

65

SECTION 1106.

Securities Payable on Redemption Date

65

SECTION 1107.

Securities Redeemed in Part

66

 

 

 

ARTICLE TWELVE

SINKING FUNDS

 

 

 

SECTION 1201.

Applicability of Article

66

SECTION 1202.

Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

67

SECTION 1203.

Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

67

 

 

 

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

REPAYMENT AT OPTION OF HOLDERS

 

 

 

SECTION 1301.

Applicability of Article

68

SECTION 1302.

Repayment of Securities

68

SECTION 1303.

Exercise of Option

68

SECTION 1304.

When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable

69

SECTION 1305.

Securities Repaid in Part

69

 

7



 

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

 

 

 

SECTION 1401.

Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

70

SECTION 1402.

Defeasance and Discharge

70

SECTION 1403.

Covenant Defeasance

70

SECTION 1404.

Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

71

SECTION 1405.

Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

72

SECTION 1406.

Reinstatement

73

 

8



 

INDENTURE, dated July 1, 2008, between BE Aerospace, Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein called the “Company”), and Wilmington Trust Company, a banking corporation with trust powers organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

 

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its debt securities (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.

 

This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that are required to be part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

 

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:

 

ARTICLE ONE

 

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

SECTION 101.       Definitions.  For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(1)           the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;

 

(2)           all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

 

(3)           all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States, as in effect on the date of determination, consistently applied; and

 

(4)           the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

 

9



 

Certain terms, used principally in Article Three, are defined in that Article.

 

“Act”, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.

 

“Additional Amounts” has the meaning specified in Section 1008.

 

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

 

 “Authenticating Agent” means any Person appointed by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee pursuant to Section 612 to authenticate Securities.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Book-Entry Security” has the meaning specified in Section 304.

 

“Business Day”, means any day that, in the city of the principal Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and in the City of New York, is neither a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close.

 

“Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests (however designated) in stock issued by a corporation.

 

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this

 

10



 

Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

 

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.  To the extent necessary to comply with the requirements of the provisions of TIA Sections 310 through 317 as they are applicable to the Company, the term “Company” shall include any other obligor with respect to the Securities for the purposes of complying with such provisions.

 

“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Vice President, any Assistant Treasurer, or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office on the date of execution of this Indenture is located at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention:  Corporate Client Services.

 

“corporation” includes corporations, associations, partnerships, limited liability companies, companies and business trusts.

 

“covenant defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1403 hereof.

 

“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar officer under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

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

 

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 308 hereof.

 

“defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1402 hereof.

 

“Definitive Security” has the meaning specified in Section 304 hereof.

 

“Depository” has the meaning specified in Section 304.

 

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System.

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

 

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

 

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“Extension Notice” and “Extension Period” shall have the meanings specified in Section 309.

 

“Final Maturity” has the meaning specified in Section 309.

 

“generally accepted accounting principles” or “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

 

“Global Securities” means one or more Securities evidencing all or part of the Securities to be issued as Book-Entry Securities, issued to the Depository in accordance with Section 304 and bearing the legend prescribed in Section 204.

 

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

 

“guarantee” means, as applied to any obligation, (i) a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or indirect, in any manner, of any part or all of such obligation or (ii) an agreement, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, providing assurance of the payment or performance (or payment of damages in the event of non-performance) of any part or all of such obligation, including, without limiting the foregoing, the payment of amounts drawn down by letters of credit.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a guarantee shall not include any agreement solely because such agreement creates a lien on the assets of any Person.  The amount of a guarantee shall be deemed to be the maximum amount of the obligation guaranteed for which the guarantor could be held liable under such guarantee.

 

“Holder” means the Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

 

“incorporated provision” has the meaning specified in Section 107.

 

“Indebtedness” means obligations for money borrowed, evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness.

 

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed (including all exhibits and schedules hereto) and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,

 

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and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more than one series of Securities issued under this instrument, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to each such series of Securities, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the provisions hereof applicable to such series and shall include the terms of such series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which do not relate to such series, regardless of when such provisions or terms were adopted.

 

“Indexed Security” means a Security the terms of which provide that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.

 

“interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity at the rate prescribed in such Original Issue Discount Security.

 

“Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any series of Securities, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Securities.

 

“mandatory sinking fund payment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 1201.

 

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

 

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Vice President, any Assistant Treasurer, or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be internal or external counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.  Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in TIA Section 314(e) to the extent applicable.

 

“Option to Elect Repayment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 1303.

 

“Optional Reset Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 308.

 

“optional sinking fund payment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 1201.

 

“Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.

 

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“Original Stated Maturity” shall have the meaning specified in Section 309.

 

“Outstanding” when used with respect to Securities means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

 

(i)            Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
 
(ii)           Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment, purchase, redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
 
(iii)          Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 1402 and 1403, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen; and
 
(iv)          Securities paid pursuant to Section 307 or Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a protected purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
 

provided, however, that, in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, direction, consent or waiver hereunder, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by TIA Section 316, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 301, and (iii) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which an Authorized Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.

 

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“Participants” has the meaning specified in Section 304.

 

“Paying Agent” means any Person (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

 

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

 

“Place of Payment” means, when used with respect to the Securities of or within any series, the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by Sections 301 and 1002.

 

“Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 307 in exchange for a mutilated Security or in lieu of a destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

 

“Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of or within any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

 

“Repayment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Repayment Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be repaid pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Reset Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 308.

 

“Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that if at any time there is more than one series of Securities, “Securities” with respect to the Indenture for such series shall mean the Securities authenticated and delivered under such Indenture for such series, exclusive, however, of the Securities of any series authenticated and delivered under any other Indenture.

 

“Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 306.

 

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“Special Record Date” means a date fixed by the Trustee for the payment of any Defaulted Interest pursuant to Section 308.

 

“Stated Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security representing such installment of principal or interest as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable, as such date may be extended pursuant to the provisions of Section 309.

 

“Subsequent Interest Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 308.

 

“Subsidiary” of the Company means (i) a corporation, a majority of whose Capital Stock with rights, under ordinary circumstances, to elect directors is owned, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination, by the Company, by one or more Subsidiaries or by the Company and one or more Subsidiaries or (ii) any other Person (other than a corporation) in which at the date of determination the Company, one or more Subsidiaries or the Company and one or more Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority ownership and power to direct the policies, management and affairs of that Person.

 

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 905.

 

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

 

“Trustee Payments” shall have the meaning specified in Section 610.

 

 “United States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

 

“United States person” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or an estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.

 

“Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”.

 

“Yield to Maturity” means the yield to maturity, computed at the time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such Security)

 

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and as set forth in such Security in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles.

 

SECTION 102.       Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

 

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture (including any covenant compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

 

Every certificate or opinion (other than the certificates required by Section 1004) with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall include:

 

(1)           a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

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

 

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

 

(4)           a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such covenant or condition has been complied with.

 

SECTION 103.       Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

 

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

 

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous.  Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or

 

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officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

 

Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

 

SECTION 104.       Acts of Holders.

 

(a)           Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of any series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing.  Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.  Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to TIA Section 315) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
 
(b)           The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
 
(c)           The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
 
(d)           If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of such Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.  Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), any such record date shall be the record date specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not more than 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and no later than the date such solicitation is completed.  If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Securities then Outstanding have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Securities then Outstanding shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act by the Holders on such record date

 

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shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date.
 
(e)           Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security or the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, suffered or omitted to be done by the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
 

SECTION 105.       Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company.

 

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

 

(1)           the Trustee by any Holder, an agent of any bank or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or delivered, in writing, to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention:  Corporate Client Services; or

 

(2)           the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or delivered, in writing, to the Company, addressed to it c/o 1400 Corporate Center Way, Wellington, Florida 33414, Attention:  Chief Financial Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.

 

SECTION 106.       Notice to Holders; Waiver.

 

Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Securities by the Company or the Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case where notice to Holders of Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Securities.  Any notice mailed to a Holder in the aforesaid manner shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such notice.

 

In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service or by reason of any other cause, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Holders of Securities when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be sufficient giving of such notice for every purpose hereunder.

 

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Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication.

 

Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.  Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

 

SECTION 107.       Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act.

 

If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by TIA Sections 310 to 318, inclusive, or conflicts with any provision (an “incorporated provision”) required by or deemed to be included in this Indenture by operation of such TIA Sections, such imposed duties or incorporated provision shall control.  If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or excluded, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 108.       Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

 

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

SECTION 109.       Successors and Assigns.

 

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 

SECTION 110.       Separability Clause.

 

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

 

SECTION 111.       Benefits of Indenture.

 

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 112.       Governing Law.

 

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NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD APPLY ANY OTHER LAW.  THIS INDENTURE IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT THAT ARE REQUIRED TO BE PART OF THIS INDENTURE AND SHALL, TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE, BE GOVERNED BY SUCH PROVISIONS.

 

SECTION 113.       Legal Holidays.

 

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date or Stated Maturity or Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of any Security other than a provision in the Securities of any series which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section), payment of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or sinking fund payment date, or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity; provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be, to such succeeding Business Day.

 

SECTION 114.       No Recourse Against Others.

 

A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder by accepting any of the Securities waives and releases all such liability.

 

ARTICLE TWO

 

SECURITY FORMS

 

SECTION 201.       Forms Generally.

 

The Securities shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.  If the forms of Securities of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.  Any portion of the text of any Security may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Security.

 

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The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article.

 

The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel-engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

 

SECTION 202.       Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

Subject to Section 612, the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

Dated:

 

 

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

Wilmington Trust Company,

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

Authorized Officer

 

SECTION 203.       Securities Issuable in Global Form.

 

When Securities of or within a series are issued in global form, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, then, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges.  Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or Section 305.  Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 305, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order.  If a Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or Section 305 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

 

The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form together with

 

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written instructions (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 303.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on any Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 310 and except as provided in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent Global Security the Holder of such permanent Global Security.

 

SECTION 204.       Form of Legend for Book-Entry Securities.

 

Any Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend (which would be in addition to any other legends required in the case of a Restricted Security) in substantially the following form:

 

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.  THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

 

ARTICLE THREE

 

THE SECURITIES

 

SECTION 301.       Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

 

The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

 

The Securities may be issued in one or more series.  There shall be established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set forth in, or determined in the manner provided in, an Officer’s Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of which, if so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company with respect to unissued Securities of the series and set forth in such Securities of the series when issued from time to time):

 

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(1)           The title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other series of Securities);

 

(2)           Whether the Securities of the series are subject to subordination and, if so, the terms of such subordination;

 

(3)           The aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series, the percentage of their principal amount at which the Securities of the series shall be issued and the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the series shall be payable or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined or extended;

 

(4)           If Securities of or within a series will be guaranteed by any guarantors;

 

(5)           The rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, and, if variable, the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined and the periods when such rate or rates will be in effect;

 

(6)           The date or dates from which any interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates will be determined, the date or dates on which any interest will be payable (including the Regular Record Dates for such Interest Payment Dates) or the method by which such dates will be determined, the terms under which payment of any interest may be deferred if it may be deferred, and the basis on which any interest will be calculated if other than on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;

 

(7)           The place or places, if any, other than or in addition to New York City, where the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series will be payable, where any Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where the Securities of the series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of the series may be served;

 

(8)           The period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, and the other terms and conditions upon which, the Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have that option and any restrictions on the sources of funds for redemption payments (which may benefit the holders of any other securities of the Company);

 

(9)           The obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, purchase or repay the Securities of the series, in whole or in part, pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision or at the option of a holder thereof, and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, and the other terms and conditions upon which, the Securities of the series will be so redeemed, purchased or repaid;

 

(10)         Whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula or method may, without limitation, be based on one or more commodities, equity indices or other indices) and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

 

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(11)         Any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to the Securities of the series, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth in this Indenture);

 

(12)         If other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or the method by which such portion shall be determined;

 

(13)         Any provisions in modification of, in addition to or in lieu of any provisions of Article Fourteen of this Indenture relating to defeasance and covenant defeasance that shall be applicable to the Securities of the series;

 

(14)         Any provisions granting special rights to the Holders of the Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;

 

(15)         If other than the Trustee, the designation of any Paying Agent or Security Registrar for the Securities of the series, and the designation of any transfer or other agents or depositories for the Securities of the series;

 

(16)         Whether the Securities of the series shall be issuable initially in temporary global form, whether any of the Securities of the series is to be issuable in permanent global form and, if so, whether beneficial owners of interests in any Global Security may exchange such interests for Definitive Securities of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in the Indenture, and, if the Securities are to be issuable as a Global Security, the identity of the depository for the Securities of the series;

 

(17)         The person to whom any interest on any Security shall be payable, if other than the person in whose name the Securities of the series (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, or the manner in which any interest payable on a temporary Security issued in global form shall be paid (if other than as described in Section 304);

 

(18)         The denomination or denominations in which the Securities of the series shall be issuable, if other than $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof;

 

(19)         Whether and under what circumstances the Company shall pay Additional Amounts, as contemplated by Section 1008 of this Indenture, on the Securities of the series to any Holder who is not a United States person (including any modification of the definition of such term as contained in this Indenture) in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge and, if so, whether the Company shall have the option to redeem the Securities of the series rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such option);

 

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(20)         If the Securities of the series are to be convertible into or exchangeable for any securities of any Person (including the Company), the terms and conditions upon which such Securities will be so convertible or exchangeable; and

 

(21)         Any other terms, conditions, rights and preferences (or limitations on such rights and preferences) of the Securities of the series, whether or not such terms, conditions, rights and preferences are consistent with the other provisions of this Indenture.

 

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to Section 303) and set forth in such Officer’s Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.  Not all Securities of any one series need be issued at the same time, and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional Securities of such series.

 

If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions, such Board Resolutions shall be delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officer’s Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.

 

SECTION 302.       Denominations.

 

The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301.  In the absence of any such provisions, the Securities of such series, other than Securities issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

 

SECTION 303.       Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

 

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, President or any Vice President.  The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

 

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signature of an individual who was at any time the proper officer of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such office at the date of such Securities.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and make available for delivery such Securities.  If not all the Securities of any series are to be issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and determining terms of particular Securities of such series such as interest rate, stated maturity, date of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue.

 

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In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Sections 315(a) through 315(d)) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating in effect (subject to customary exceptions):

 

(1)           that the form or forms of such Securities have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

 

(2)           that the terms of such Securities have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

 

(3)           that such Securities, when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights, to general equitable principles and to such other qualifications as such counsel shall conclude do not materially affect the rights of Holders of such Securities;

 

(4)           that all laws and requirements in respect of the execution and delivery by the Company of such Securities, and of the supplemental indentures, if any, have been complied with and that authentication and delivery of such Securities and the execution and delivery of the supplemental indenture, if any, by the Trustee will not violate the terms of the Indenture;

 

(5)           that the Company has the corporate power to issue such Securities, and all necessary corporate action with respect to such issuance has been taken; and

 

(6)           that the issuance of such Securities will not contravene the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the Company or result in any violation of any of the terms or provisions of any law or regulation or of any indenture, mortgage or other agreement known to such Counsel by which the Company is bound.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding two paragraphs, if not all the Securities of any series are to be issued at one time, so long as the terms and provisions of such Securities are substantially identical to the other Securities of such series, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officer’s Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs prior to or at the time of issuance of each Security, but such documents shall be delivered prior to or at the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.

 

The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate and make available for delivery any such Securities if the issuance of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, immunities, protections, privileges, indemnities and benefits under

 

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the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

 

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 311 together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 304.       Book-Entry Securities.

 

(a)           The Securities of a series may be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities (“Book-Entry Securities”) deposited with, or on behalf of, a Depository (the “Depository”).  In the case of Book-Entry Securities, one or more Global Securities will be issued in a denomination or aggregate denomination equal to the portion of the aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the series to be represented by such Global Security or Global Securities.  The additional provisions set forth in this Section 304 shall apply to Book-Entry Securities.
 
(b)           Book-Entry Securities will be deposited with, or on behalf of, the Depository, and registered in the name of the Depository’s nominee, for credit to the respective accounts of institutions that have accounts with the Depository or its nominee (“Participants”); provided that Book-Entry Securities purchased by Persons outside the United States may be credited to or through accounts maintained at the Depository by or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream International.  The accounts to be credited will be designated by the underwriters or agents of such Securities or, if such Securities are offered and sold directly by the Company, by the Company.  Ownership of beneficial interests in Book-Entry Securities will be limited to Persons that may hold interests through Participants.
 

Participants shall have no rights under this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto with respect to any Book-Entry Security held on their behalf by the Depository, or the Trustee as its custodian, and the Depository may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of the Book-Entry Security for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Indenture or any such supplemental indenture shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository or impair, as between a Depository and its

 

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Participants, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.

 

(c)           Transfers of Book-Entry Securities shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the Depository, its successors or their respective nominees.  Interests of beneficial owners in Book-Entry Securities may be transferred or exchanged for Securities in fully registered, certificated form (“Definitive Securities”) only if (i) the Depository notifies the Trustee in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to continue as Depository and a qualified successor Depository is not appointed by the Company within 60 days following such notice, (ii) the Company, at any time and in its sole discretion, determines not to have any Securities of one or more series represented by Global Securities or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to such Securities, a holder of Securities notifies the Trustee in writing that it wishes to receive a Definitive Security and provides to the Trustee evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee of its ownership interest in such Securities.  In any such instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Security will be entitled to physical delivery of Definitive Securities equal in principal amount to such beneficial interest and registered in its name.
 
(d)           In connection with any transfer or exchange of a portion of the beneficial interest in any Book-Entry Security to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (c) above, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of the Book-Entry Security in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Book-Entry Security to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Definitive Securities of like tenor and principal amount of authorized denominations.
 
(e)           In connection with the transfer of Book-Entry Securities as an entirety to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (c) above, the Book-Entry Securities shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depository in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Book-Entry Securities, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Securities of like tenor of authorized denominations.
 
(f)            The Holder of any Book-Entry Security may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Participants and Persons that may hold interests through Participants, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities.
 

SECTION 305.       Temporary Securities.

 

Pending the preparation of Definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are typewritten, printed, lithographed, engraved or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.  Such temporary Securities may be in global form.

 

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If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause Definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of Definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for Definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of Definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations.  Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Securities of such series.

 

Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities of any series, including temporary Global Securities (whether or not issued as Book-Entry Securities as provided in Section 304), shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder.

 

SECTION 306.       Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

 

The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register for each series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office of the Trustee and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 being herein sometimes referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities.  The Trustee is hereby initially appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.

 

Except as otherwise described in this Article Three, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at the office or agency of the Security Registrar in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, in each case, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount.

 

At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

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Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all documentary, stamp, similar issue or transfer taxes or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 305, 906, 1107 or 1305 not involving any transfer.

 

Neither the Company nor the Security Registrar shall be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the selection for redemption of Securities of that series under Section 1103 or 1203 and ending at the close of business on the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part, or (iii) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security which has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.

 

SECTION 307.       Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

 

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, or, in case any such mutilated Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

 

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

 

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

 

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer

 

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taxes or other governmental charges that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

 

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

 

The provisions of this Section 307 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

 

SECTION 308.       Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset.

 

(a)           Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest, if any, on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each installment of interest, if any, on any Security may at the Company’s option be paid by (i) mailing a check for such interest, payable to or upon the written order of the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 310, to the address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register or (ii) wire transfer to an account located in the United States maintained by the payee.
 

Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such defaulted interest and, if applicable, interest on such defaulted interest (to the extent lawful) at the rate specified in the Securities of such series (such defaulted interest and, if applicable, interest thereon herein collectively called “Defaulted Interest”) may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Subsection (1) or (2) below:

 

(1)           The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Subsection provided.  Thereupon the

 

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Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.  Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so given, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose name the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Subsection (2).

 

(2)           The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

 

(b)           The provisions of this Section 308(b) may be made applicable to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301 (with such modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified pursuant to such Section 301).  The interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) on any Security of such series may be reset by the Company on the date or dates specified on the face of such Security (each an “Optional Reset Date”).  The Company may exercise such option with respect to such Security by notifying the Trustee of such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to an Optional Reset Date for such Security, which notice shall contain such information as may be required by the Trustee to transmit the Reset Notice (as hereinafter defined).  Not later than 40 days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, to the Holder of any such Security a notice (the “Reset Notice”) indicating whether the Company has elected to reset the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable), and if so (i) such new interest rate (or such new spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) and (ii) the provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset Date to the next Optional Reset Date or if there is no such next Optional Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of such Security (each such period a “Subsequent Interest Period”), including the date or dates on which or the period or periods during which and the price or prices at which such redemption may occur during the Subsequent Interest Period.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to the Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice and establish an interest rate (or a spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) that is higher than the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice, for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, notice of such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) to the Holder of such Security; and such notice shall be

 

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irrevocable.  All Securities with respect to which the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) is reset on an Optional Reset Date, and with respect to which the Holders of such Securities have not tendered such Securities for repayment (or have validly revoked any such tender) pursuant to the next succeeding paragraph, will bear such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable).

 

The Holder of any such Security will have the option to elect repayment by the Company of the principal of such Security on each Optional Reset Date at a price equal to the principal amount thereof plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date.  In order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the procedures set forth in Article Thirteen for repayment at the option of Holders except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date and except that, if the Holder has tendered any Security for repayment pursuant to the Reset Notice, the Holder may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender or repayment until the close of business on the tenth day (or if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately succeeding Business Day)  before such Optional Reset Date.

 

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 306, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

 

SECTION 309.       Optional Extension of Stated Maturity.

 

The provisions of this Section 309 may be made applicable to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301 (with such modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified pursuant to such Section 301).  The Stated Maturity of any Security of such series may be extended at the option of the Company for the period or periods specified on the face of such Security (each an “Extension Period”) up to but not beyond the date (the “Final Maturity”) set forth on the face of such Security.  The Company may exercise such option with respect to any Security by notifying the Trustee of such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to the Stated Maturity of such Security in effect prior to the exercise of such option (the “Original Stated Maturity”).  If the Company exercises such option, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, to the Holder of such Security not later than 40 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity a notice (the “Extension Notice”) indicating (i) the election of the Company to extend the Stated Maturity, (ii) the new Stated Maturity, (iii) the interest rate, if any, applicable to the Extension Period and (iv) the provisions, if any, for redemption during such Extension Period.  Upon the Trustee’s transmittal of the Extension Notice, the Stated Maturity of such Security shall be extended automatically and, except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next paragraph, such Security will have the same terms as prior to the transmittal of such Extension Notice.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days before the Original Stated Maturity of such Security, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest rate provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a higher interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for in Section 106, notice of such higher interest

 

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rate to the Holder of such Security; and such notice shall be irrevocable.  All Securities with respect to which the Stated Maturity is extended will bear such higher interest rate.

 

If the Company extends the Maturity of any Security, the Holder will have the option to elect repayment of such Security by the Company on the Original Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount thereof, plus interest accrued to such date.  In order to obtain repayment on the Original Stated Maturity once the Company has extended the Maturity of such Security, the Holder must follow the procedures set forth in Article Thirteen for repayment at the option of Holders, except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity and except that, if the Holder has tendered any Security for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder may by written notice to the Trustee revoke such tender for repayment until the close of business on the tenth day (or if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately succeeding Business Day) before the Original Stated Maturity.

 

SECTION 310.       Persons Deemed Owners.

 

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 306 and 308) interest, if any, on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of (i) the records relating to or payments made on account of any Participants or any beneficial ownership interests of a Security in global form, (ii) maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records maintained by any Depository or Participant or any other Person relating to such beneficial ownership interests, (iii) the delivery or timeliness of delivery of any notice to any beneficial owner of Securities which is required or permitted under the terms of this Indenture or such Securities, (iv) the selection of the beneficial owners to receive payments in the event of a partial redemption or repayment, or (v) any consent given or other action taken by the Depository or other Holder of a Security, as the registered holder thereof.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Depository, as a Holder, with respect to such Global Security or impair, as between such Depository and owners of beneficial interests in such Global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such Depository (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Security.

 

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SECTION 311.       Cancellation.

 

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any current or future sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee.  All Securities so delivered to the Trustee shall be promptly cancelled by it.  The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  If the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation.  No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures, unless by Company Order the Company shall direct that cancelled Securities be returned to it.  The Trustee shall, at the Company’s written request, provide certification of the disposal of cancelled Securities.

 

SECTION 312.       Computation of Interest.

 

Interest, if any, on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

SECTION 313.       CUSIP Numbers.

 

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

 

ARTICLE FOUR

 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

SECTION 401.       Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

 

This Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series expressly provided for herein or pursuant hereto) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company,

 

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shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when

 

(1)           either

 

(A)          all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered have been delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 307 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust with the Trustee or any Paying Agent or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 

(B)           all Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

 

(i)            have become due and payable, or

 

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

 

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

 

and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

(2)           the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company with respect to such series; and

 

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

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 606, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 612 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Subsection (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.

 

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SECTION 402.       Application of Trust Money.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

ARTICLE FIVE

 

REMEDIES

 

SECTION 501.       Events of Default.

 

“Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events:

 

(1)           default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any Security of such series when it becomes due and payable, continued for 30 days; or

 

(2)           default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of such series at its Maturity; or

 

(3)           default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of the Securities of such series and Article Twelve; or

 

(4)           failure on the part of the Company to observe or perform any other covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement included in this Indenture not for the benefit of such series and other than a covenant or agreement specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section) for 60 days after written notice stating the Company is in breach has been given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities of such series; or

 

(5)           default under any indenture or instrument under which the Company has at the time outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantees thereof in any individual instance in excess of $50,000,000 and, if not already matured in accordance with its terms, such indebtedness has been accelerated and such acceleration is not cured within 30 days after notice thereof has been given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series; provided that, if, prior to the entry of judgment in favor of the Trustee for payment of the Securities of such series, the default under such indenture or instrument has been remedied by the Company, or waived by the holders of such indebtedness, then the Event of Default under this Indenture will be deemed likewise to have been remedied, cured, waived or not to have occurred; or

 

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

 

(7)           the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Company to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by the Company of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable federal or state law, or the consent by the Company to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of the property of the Company of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due; or

 

(8)           any other Event of Default provided for the benefit of Securities of such series.

 

SECTION 502.               Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

 

If any Event of Default described in Section 501 (other than an Event of Default specified in Sections 501(6) or 501(7)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of all of the Securities of that series and all accrued interest thereon to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified portion thereof) shall become immediately due and payable (other than a breach, violation or default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit of funds and the granting of liens in connection thereof).

 

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

 

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

 

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(1)           all overdue interest, if any, on all Outstanding Securities of that series,

 

(2)           all unpaid principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding Securities of that series which has become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, and interest on such unpaid principal (and premium, if any) at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,

 

(3)           interest upon such overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and

 

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

 

(b)           all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on) or interest, if any, on Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.

 

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

 

SECTION 503.       Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

 

The Company covenants that if:

 

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

 

(2)           default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,

 

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

 

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

 

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If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce such rights.

 

SECTION 504.       Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 606.

 

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

 

SECTION 505.       Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.

 

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,

 

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disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

 

SECTION 506.       Application of Money Collected.

 

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

 

First:  To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 606;

 

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

 

Third:  The balance, if any, to the Company.

 

SECTION 507.       Limitation on Suits.

 

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

 

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

 

(2)           the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of an Event of Default described in Section 501 in its own name as Trustee hereunder and such Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

 

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

 

(4)           no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority or more in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;

 

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Securities of the same series, in respect of any Event of Default described in Section 501, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner

 

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herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all Holders of Securities of the same series, in respect of such Event of Default.

 

SECTION 508.       Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 308) interest, if any, on, such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

 

SECTION 509.       Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

 

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

 

SECTION 510.       Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

 

Except as otherwise provided in Section 307, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.  The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

SECTION 511.       Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

 

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

 

SECTION 512.       Control by Holders.

 

With respect to the Securities of any series, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or

 

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exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, related to or arising under Section 501, provided that in each case

 

(1)           such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture or expose the Trustee to personal liability, and

 

(2)           subject to the provisions of the TIA Section 315, the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

 

SECTION 513.       Waiver of Past Defaults.

 

Subject to Section 502, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past Default or Event of Default in Section 501 in respect of such series and its consequences, except a Default or Event of Default,

 

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

 

(2)           in respect of a covenant or provision of such series which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.

 

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

 

SECTION 514.       Undertaking for Costs.

 

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of Securities of any series by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on Securities of any series on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date); provided that neither this Section 514 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.

 

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SECTION 515.       Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.

 

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

 

ARTICLE SIX

 

THE TRUSTEE

 

SECTION 601.       Notice of Defaults.

 

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any Default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series of which the Trustee is deemed to have knowledge pursuant to Section 602, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such Default hereunder, unless such Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Security of such series or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Board of Directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Authorized Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of such series; and provided further that in the case of any Default or breach of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof.

 

SECTION 602.       Certain Rights of Trustee.

 

The Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and the Securities to which it is a party.  If an Event of Default with respect to any Security exists, then the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.  Neither the Trustee, its agents nor its affiliates shall be liable for any act or omission made in connection with this Indenture or the Securities except in the case of their own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.  The duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.

 

The duties and rights of the Trustee hereunder shall be provided in TIA Sections 315(a) through 315(d) and, subject thereto,

 

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

 

(2)           any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other than delivery of any Security, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 303 which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

 

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

 

(4)           the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

 

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

 

(6)           the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;

 

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

 

(8)           no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have

 

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reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it;

 

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

 

(10)         The Trustee is not required to take notice or deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default hereunder, unless an Authorized Officer of the Trustee has received notice in writing of such Default or Event of Default from the Company or from the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of the series so affected, and in absence of any such notice, the Trustee may conclusively assume that no Default or Event of Default exists;

 

(11)         The Trustee is not required to give any bond or surety with respect to the performance of its duties or the exercise of its powers under this Indenture;

 

(12)         The Trustee’s immunities and protections from liability and its rights to compensation and indemnification in connection with the performance of its duties under this Indenture shall extend to the Trustee’s officers, directors, agents and employees.  Such immunities and protections and right to indemnification, together with the Trustees right to compensation, shall survive the Trustee’s resignation or removal and final payment of the Securities;

 

(13)         The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder;

 

(14)         The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded;

 

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

 

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

 

(17)         In no event shall the Trustee be liable, directly or indirectly, for any special, indirect or consequential damages, even if the Trustee has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

 

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SECTION 603.       Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

 

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except for the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements to be made by it in a Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate, subject to the qualifications set forth therein.  Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

SECTION 604.       May Hold Securities.

 

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company or of the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.

 

SECTION 605.       Money Held in Trust.

 

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

 

SECTION 606.       Compensation and Reimbursement.

 

The Company agrees:

 

(1)           to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

 

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

 

(3)           to indemnify each of Trustee or any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim, liability or expense including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee) incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with any action taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee hereunder.

 

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As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Section 606, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on particular Securities.

 

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or Section 501(7), the expenses (including the reasonable compensation of, duly documented expenses of, and disbursements by its counsel) and the compensation for its services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable United States federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

 

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

 

SECTION 607.       Conflicting Interests.

 

The Trustee shall comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

 

SECTION 608.       Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests.

 

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder qualified or to be qualified under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and which, to the extent there is such an institution eligible and willing to serve, shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recently published annual report of condition.  If such Trustee publishes or files reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 608, the combined capital and surplus of the Trustee shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published or filed.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 608, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

 

SECTION 609.       Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

 

(a)           No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 610.
 
(b)           The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company.  If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 610 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
 
(c)           The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and the Company.  If an
 

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instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the removed Trustee may, petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
 
(d)           If at any time:
 

(1)           the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

 

(2)           the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 608 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

 

(3)           the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

 

then, in any such case, (i) the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee  and appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to TIA Section 514, the Holder of any Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

 

(e)           If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series).  If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with Section 610, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.  If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

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Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to the Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided for in Section 106.  Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

 

SECTION 610.       Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

 

(a)           Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; provided, however, that the retiring Trustee shall continue to be entitled to the benefit of Section 606; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee and after payment of all amounts due and payable to such retiring Trustee pursuant to Section 606 (collectively, the “Trustee Payments”), such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of any additional charges therefor, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
 
(b)           In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series and after receipt by the retiring Trustee of the Trustee Payments, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee and after receipt by the retiring Trustee of all Trustee Payments, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

 

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(c)           Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
 
(d)           No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
 

SECTION 611.       Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

 

Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.  In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.  In case any of the Securities shall not have been authenticated by such predecessor Trustee, any successor Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee.  In all such cases such certificates shall have the full force and effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of the Trustee; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.

 

SECTION 612.       Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

 

At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series and the Trustee shall give written notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, in the manner provided for in Section 106.  Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder.  Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by an Authorized Officer of the Trustee, and a copy of such instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Company.  Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.  Each Authenticating Agent shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and

 

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subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority.  If such corporation publishes or files reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published or filed.  If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

 

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company.  The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company.  Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give written notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, in the manner provided for in Section 106.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.  No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.

 

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.

 

If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:

 

Dated:

 

 

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

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Wilmington Trust Company,

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

as Authenticating Agent

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

Authorized Officer

 

SECTION 613.       Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

 

If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor under the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

 

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

 

SECTION 701.       Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.

 

Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that none of the Company or the Trustee or any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders in accordance with TIA Section 312, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under TIA Section 312.

 

SECTION 702.       Reports by Trustee.

 

Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit to the Holders of Securities, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), a brief report dated as of such May 15 if required by TIA Section 313(a).

 

SECTION 703.       Reports by Company.

 

The Company shall:

 

(1)           file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee

 

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and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;

 

(2)           file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

 

(3)           transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Subsections (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

 

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

 

SECTION 801.       Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

 

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into, or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, any Person, unless:

 

(1)           Immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default (or event that with notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default) shall have happened and be continuing;

 

(2)           The corporation or other entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged, or the Person to which such properties and assets will have been conveyed, transferred or leased, assumes the Company’s obligation as to the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on all the Securities and the performance and observance of every covenant to be performed by the Company under this Indenture, and such entity will be organized under the laws of the United States, one of the states thereof or the District of Columbia; and

 

(3)           The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

 

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This Section shall only apply to a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving entity and to conveyances, leases and transfers by the Company as transferor or lessor.

 

SECTION 802.       Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.

 

In case of any such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer to which Section 801 applies and upon any such assumption by the successor corporation or Person, such successor corporation or Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company and the predecessor corporation shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture.  Such successor corporation or Person thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor corporation or Person, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor corporation or Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose.  All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.  As used in this Section, “successor corporation or Person” means the entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged, or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, in each case as provided in Section 801.

 

ARTICLE NINE

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

SECTION 901.       Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

 

(1)           to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or

 

(2)           to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are being included solely for the

 

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benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein or in the Securities conferred upon the Company; or

 

(3)           to add any additional Events of Default (and if such Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events of Default are being included solely for the benefit of such series); or

 

(4)           to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture; provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision; or

 

(5)           to secure the Securities if the Company so elects; or

 

(6)           to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or

 

(7)           to add guarantors or additional obligors with respect to the Securities of any series; or

 

(8)           to release a guarantor upon the satisfaction of all conditions for such release; or

 

(9)           to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 610(b); or

 

(10)         to comply with Section 801; or

 

(11)         to close this Indenture with respect to the authentication and delivery of additional series of Securities; or

 

(12)         to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or inconsistency; or

 

(13)         to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Sections 401, 1402 and 1403; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series or any other series of Securities in any material respect; or

 

(14)         to qualify, or maintain the qualification of, this Indenture under the TIA; or

 

(15)         to make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder.

 

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SECTION 902.       Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.

 

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities of the series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture applicable to such series or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture amendment or waiver shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected thereby:

 

(1)           change the Stated Maturity of the principal of (or premium, if any) or any installment of interest on any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof (or premium, if any) or the rate of interest, if any, thereon, or change any obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1008 (except as contemplated by Section 801(2) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Indexed Security or an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504, or adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of any Holder of any Security, or change any Place of Payment where, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the case may be), or adversely affect any right to convert or exchange any Security as may be provided pursuant to Section 301 herein, or

 

(2)           reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or

 

(3)           modify any of the provisions of this Section 902, Section 513 or Section 1009, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.

 

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture as applicable to a particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

 

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It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

 

SECTION 903.       Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

 

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the documents required by Section 102, and (subject to Section 602 hereof) shall be fully protected in relying upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.  The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, protections, privileges, indemnities, benefits or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

SECTION 904.       Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

 

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

 

SECTION 905.       Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

 

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

 

SECTION 906.       Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

 

Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture.  If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

 

SECTION 907.       Notice of Supplemental Indentures.

 

Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 902, the Company shall give notice thereof to the Holders of each Outstanding Security affected, in the manner provided for in Section 106, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.

 

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ARTICLE TEN

 

COVENANTS

 

SECTION 1001.     Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

 

The Company covenants and agrees, as to each series of Securities, that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on the Securities of such series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.

 

SECTION 1002.     Maintenance of Office or Agency.

 

The Company will maintain, as to each series of Securities, in each Place of Payment for each series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of such series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of such series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series and this Indenture may be served.

 

The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

 

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of any series for such purposes.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby designates as Places of Payment for each series of Securities the office or agency of the Trustee in Wilmington, Delaware, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office in Wilmington, Delaware and at the office of its agent in Wilmington, Delaware as Paying Agent in each such city as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

 

SECTION 1003.     Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust.

 

If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it shall, before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on Securities of such Series so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to

 

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such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

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

 

The Company shall cause each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) for any series of Securities to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest, if any, on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any, on) or interest has become due and payable, shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.

 

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SECTION 1004.     Statement as to Compliance.

 

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, commencing with its fiscal year ending after the date hereof, a brief certificate from any two of its principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the compliance by the Company with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture.  For purposes of this Section 1004, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 1005.     Corporate Existence.

 

Subject to Article Eight, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, in accordance with its organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company.

 

SECTION 1006.     Additional Amounts.

 

If any Securities of a series provide for the payment of additional amounts to any Holder who is not a United States person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge (“Additional Amounts”), the Company shall pay to the Holder of any Security of such series such Additional Amounts as may be specified pursuant to Section 301.   Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) or interest, if any, on, or in respect of, any Security of a series or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of a series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided for by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.  Except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, if the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date, if any, with respect to Securities of such series (or if the Securities of such series do not bear interest or will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of interest or principal and any premium if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officer’s Certificate, the Company shall furnish the Trustee and the Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officer’s Certificate instructing the Trustee and the Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of (and premium, if any, on) or interest, if any, on the Securities of such series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series who are not United States persons without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of the series.  If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officer’s Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities of such series and the Company shall pay to the Trustee or the Paying Agent or Paying Agents the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities.  In the event that the Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall not so receive the above-mentioned

 

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certificate, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be entitled (i) to assume that no such withholding or deduction is required with respect to any payment of principal, premium or interest with respect to any Securities of a series until it shall have received a certificate advising otherwise and (ii) to make all payments of principal, premium and interest with respect to the Securities of a series without withholding or deductions until otherwise advised.  The Company hereby covenants and agrees to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, cost or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officer’s Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.

 

SECTION 1007.     Waiver of Certain Covenants.

 

The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Section 1005, and, as specified pursuant to Section 301(11) for Securities of any series, in any covenants of the Company added to Section 10 pursuant to Section 301(11) or 301(14) in connection with the Securities of a series, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities of the series affected, by Act of such Holders, waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

 

ARTICLE ELEVEN

 

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

 

SECTION 1101.     Applicability of Article.

 

Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with the terms of such Securities and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.

 

SECTION 1102.     Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

 

The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution.  In case of any redemption at the election of the Company, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and shall deliver to the Trustee such documentation and records as shall enable the Trustee to select the Securities to be redeemed pursuant to Section 1103.  In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such restriction.

 

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SECTION 1103.     Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.

 

If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal of Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Security not redeemed to less than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series established pursuant to Section 301.

 

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

 

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.

 

SECTION 1104.     Notice of Redemption.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided for in Section 106 not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, all notices of redemption shall identify the Securities (including CUSIP number, if any) to be redeemed and shall state:

 

(1)           the Redemption Date,

 

(2)           the Redemption Price (or the appropriate method for calculating the redemption price) and the amount of accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any,

 

(3)           if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,

 

(4)           in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,

 

(5)           that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106 will become due and

 

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payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,

 

(6)           the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any,

 

(7)           any conditions applicable to the redemption, and

 

(8)           that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.

 

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, upon delivery to the Trustee at least 7 days prior to the Redemption Date, or such shorter period as may be satisfactory to the Trustee, of written direction to give, and a complete copy of, such notice.

 

SECTION 1105.     Deposit of Redemption Price.

 

On or prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and accrued interest, if any, on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

 

SECTION 1106.     Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

 

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein (together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest, and except to the extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 308.

 

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such Security.

 

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SECTION 1107.     Securities Redeemed in Part.

 

Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article or of Article Twelve) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.

 

ARTICLE TWELVE

 

SINKING FUNDS

 

SECTION 1201.     Applicability of Article.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, retirements of Securities of any series pursuant to any sinking fund shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities and in accordance with this Article.

 

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”.  If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.

 

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SECTION 1202.     Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

 

Subject to Section 1203, in lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at its option (1) deliver to the Trustee Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company and/or (2) receive credit for the principal amount of Securities of such series which have been previously delivered to the Trustee by the Company or for Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of the same series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such series; provided, however, that such Securities have not been previously so credited.  Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

 

SECTION 1203.     Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

 

Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering or crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202 (which Securities will, if not previously delivered, accompany such certificate) and whether the Company intends to exercise its right to make a permitted optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series.  Such certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery the Company shall be obligated to make the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date.  In the case of the failure of the Company to deliver such certificate, the sinking fund payment due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date for that series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem the principal amount of such Securities subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment without the option to deliver or credit Securities as provided in Section 1202 and without the right to make any optional sinking fund payment, if any, with respect to such series.

 

Not more than 60 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

 

Prior to any sinking fund payment date, the Company shall pay to the Trustee or a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) in cash a sum equal to the principal (and premium, if any) and

 

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interest that will accrue to the date fixed for redemption of Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date pursuant to this Section 1203.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a sinking fund for any series of Securities, if at any time the amount of cash to be paid into such sinking fund on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date, together with any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payment or payments for such series, does not exceed in the aggregate $100,000, the Trustee, unless requested by the Company, shall not give the next succeeding notice of the redemption of Securities of such series through the operation of the sinking fund.  Any such unused balance of moneys deposited in such sinking fund shall be added to the sinking fund payment for such series to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date or, at the written request of the Company, shall be applied at any time or from time to time to the purchase of Securities of such series, by public or private purchase, in the open market or otherwise, at a purchase price for such Securities (excluding accrued interest and brokerage commissions, for which the Trustee or any Paying Agent will be reimbursed by the Company) not in excess of the principal amount thereof.

 

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

 

REPAYMENT AT OPTION OF HOLDERS

 

SECTION 1301.     Applicability of Article.

 

Repayment of Securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities and in accordance with this Article.

 

SECTION 1302.     Repayment of Securities.

 

Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities.  The Company covenants that on or before the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest, if any, on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date.

 

SECTION 1303.     Exercise of Option.

 

Securities of any series subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse of such Securities.  To be repaid at the option of the Holder, any Security so providing for such repayment, with the “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse of such Security duly completed by the Holder (or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing), must be received by the Company at the

 

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Place of Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 45 days nor later than 30 days prior to the Repayment Date.  If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for Securities of such series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal amount of such Security surrendered that is not to be repaid, must be specified.  The principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment, the unpaid principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of Securities of the series of which such Security to be repaid is a part.  Except as otherwise may be provided by the terms of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof, exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the Company.

 

SECTION 1304.     When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable.

 

If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this Article and as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and except to the extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, together with all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment Date, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid shall be paid by the Company, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date; provided, however, that, in the case of Securities, installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 308.

 

If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such Security.

 

SECTION 1305.     Securities Repaid in Part.

 

Upon surrender of any Security which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the Holder, in an aggregate principal

 

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amount equal to and in exchange for the portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered which is not to be repaid.

 

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

 

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

 

SECTION 1401.     Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, the provisions of this Article Fourteen shall apply to each series of Securities, and the Company may, at its option, effect defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1402, or covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1403, in accordance with the terms of such Securities and in accordance with this Article.

 

SECTION 1402.     Defeasance and Discharge.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any series of Securities, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such series of Outstanding Securities on the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “defeasance”).  For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such series of Outstanding Securities, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in (A) and (B) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:  (A) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1404 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities when such payments are due, (B) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 305, 306, 307, 1002 and 1003 and with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section 1008, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article Fourteen.  Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1402 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities.

 

SECTION 1403.     Covenant Defeasance.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 1401 of the option applicable to this Section 1403 with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 801, 802, 1006 and 1007, and if specified pursuant to

 

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Section 301, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “covenant defeasance”), and such Securities shall thereafter be deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder.  For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 501(4), Section 501(5) or Section 501(8) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

 

SECTION 1404.     Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 1402 or Section 1403 to any series of Outstanding Securities:

 

(1)           The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 608 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Fourteen applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (A) an amount of money or (B) Government Obligations applicable to such Securities which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment of principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Securities, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities on the Stated Maturity (or Redemption Date, if applicable) of such principal (and premium, if any) or installment of interest, if any, and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities; provided that the Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the proceeds of such Government Obligations to said payments with respect to such Securities.  Before such a deposit, the Company may give to the Trustee, in accordance with Section 1102 hereof, a notice of its election to redeem all or any portion of such Outstanding Securities at a future date in accordance with the terms of the Securities of such series and Article Eleven hereof, which notice shall be irrevocable.  Such irrevocable redemption notice, if given, shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.

 

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(2)           No Default (other than a breach, violation or default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit of funds and the granting of liens in connection thereof) shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit.

 

(3)           The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as of the date of such opinion and subject to customary exceptions, following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of Section 547 of the Bankruptcy Law.

 

(4)           Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.

 

(5)           In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.

 

(6)           In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

 

(7)           In the case of an election under either Section 1402 or 1403, the Company shall represent to the Trustee that the deposit made by the Company pursuant to its election under Section 1402 or 1403 was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of Securities of any series over other creditors of the Company or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the Company or others.

 

(8)           The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance under Section 1402 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1403 (as the case may be) have been complied with.

 

SECTION 1405.     Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 301) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee,

 

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collectively for purposes of this Section 1405, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1404 in respect of such Outstanding Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1404 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities.

 

Anything in this Article Fourteen to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Article.

 

SECTION 1406.     Reinstatement.

 

If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 1405 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and such Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 1402 or 1403, as the case may be, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 1405; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any such Security following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Indenture.

 

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

 

 

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ THOMAS P. MCCAFFREY

 

 

Name:

Thomas P. McCaffrey

 

 

Title:

Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wilmington Trust Company,

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ MICHAEL G. OLLER, JR.

 

 

Name:

Michael G. Oller, Jr.

 

 

Title:

Assistant Vice President

 


EX-4.2 4 a08-17813_1ex4d2.htm SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Exhibit 4.2

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.,

 

as Issuer

 

and

 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,

 

as Trustee

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

Dated as of July 1, 2008

 

to the Indenture dated as of July 1, 2008

 

Senior Notes due 2018

 



 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

 

RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST
INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND INDENTURE

 

Trust Indenture
Act Section

 

Indenture Section

§ 310(a)(1)

 

608

(a)(2)

 

608

(b)

 

604, 607, 609(d)(1)

§ 311(a)

 

101(2), 604, 613

(b)

 

101(2), 604, 613

§ 312(c)

 

701

§ 313

 

702

§ 314(a)

 

703

(a)(4)

 

1004

(c)(1)

 

102

(c)(2)

 

102

(e)

 

101 (“Opinion of Counsel”), 102

§ 315(b)

 

601

§ 316(a)(last sentence)

 

101 (“Outstanding”)

(a)(1)(A)

 

512

(a)(1)(B)

 

513

(b)

 

508

(c)

 

104(d)

§ 317(a)(1)

 

503

(a)(2)

 

504

(b)

 

1003

§ 318(a)

 

107

 

N.A. means not applicable.

 

Note:                   This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of this Supplemental Indenture.

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

 

SECTION ONE

 

 

APPLICATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

 

AND CREATION OF THE INITIAL NOTES

 

 

 

 

I.

APPLICATION OF THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

2

 

 

 

II.

EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

2

 

 

 

III.

RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

2

 

 

 

 

SECTION TWO

 

 

AMENDMENT OF THE BASE INDENTURE

 

 

 

 

I.

ARTICLE 1

3

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 101: Definitions

3

 

 

 

II.

ARTICLE 2

28

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 201: Forms Generally

28

 

 

 

III.

ARTICLE 3

29

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 302: Denominations

29

 

 

 

 

 

(B)

Section 303: Execution and Authorization

29

 

 

 

 

 

(C)

Section 314: Issuance of Additional Notes

30

 

 

 

IV.

ARTICLE 4

30

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 401: Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

30

 

 

 

V.

ARTICLE 5

31

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 501: Events of Default

31

 

 

 

 

 

(B)

Section 502: Acceleration of Maturity

33

 

 

 

 

VI.

ARTICLE 7

33

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 703: Reports by the Company

33

 

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Page

 

 

 

VII.

ARTICLE 8

34

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 801: Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms

34

 

 

 

VIII.

ARTICLE 9

36

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 901: Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

36

 

 

 

 

(B)

Section 902: Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders

37

 

 

 

IX.

ARTICLE 10

38

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 1004: Statement by Officers as to Default

38

 

 

 

 

 

(B)

Section 1007: Waiver of Certain Covenants

38

 

 

 

 

 

(C)

Section 1008: Change of Control

39

 

 

 

 

 

(D)

Section 1009: Suspension of Certain Covenants when Notes Rated Investment Grade

40

 

 

 

 

 

(E)

Section 1010: Limitation on Restricted Payments

41

 

 

 

 

 

(F)

Section 1011: Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness

45

 

 

 

 

 

(G)

Section 1012: Limitations on Transactions with Affiliates

45

 

 

 

 

 

(H)

Section 1013: Limitation on Liens

47

 

 

 

 

 

(I)

Section 1014: Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries

48

 

 

 

 

 

(J)

Section 1015: Limitation on Asset Sales

50

 

 

 

 

 

(K)

Section 1016: Limitation of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries

53

 

 

 

 

 

(L)

Section 1017: Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

54

 

 

 

X.

ARTICLE 11

54

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 1102: Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

54

 

 

 

 

 

(B)

Section 1103: Selection by Trustee of Notes to be Redeemed

55

 

 

 

 

 

(C)

Section 1104: Notice of Redemption

55

 

 

 

 

 

(D)

Section 1105: Deposit of Redemption Price

56

 

 

 

 

 

(E)

Section 1106: Securities Payable on Redemption Date

56

 

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Page

 

 

 

 

 

(F)

Section 1107: Securities Redeemed in Part

57

 

 

 

XI.

ARTICLE 12: SINKING FUNDS

57

 

 

 

XII.

ARTICLE 14

57

 

 

 

 

(A)

Section 1401: Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

57

 

 

 

 

 

(B)

Section 1402: Legal Defeasance and Discharge

57

 

 

 

 

 

(C)

Section 1403: Covenant Defeasance

58

 

 

 

 

 

(D)

Section 1404: Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

59

 

 

 

 

SECTION THREE

 

 

ADDITIONAL TERMS OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

 

 

 

I.

INTERPRETATION OF BASE AND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

60

 

 

 

II.

CONFLICT OF ANY PROVISION OF INDENTURE WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT

60

 

 

 

III.

SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

60

 

 

 

IV.

SEVERABILITY

60

 

 

 

V.

BENEFITS OF INDENTURE

60

 

 

 

VI.

GOVERNING LAW

61

 

 

 

VII.

DEFINITIONS

61

 

 

 

VIII.

DUPLICATE ORIGINALS

61

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of July 1, 2008 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), between BE AEROSPACE, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called, the “Company”), having its principal office at 1400 Corporate Center Way, Wellington, FL 33414, and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a banking corporation with trust powers organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, as Trustee (herein called, the “Trustee”) to the Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2008, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Base Indenture” and, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

 

WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee entered into the Base Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of unsecured senior indebtedness (including instruments in global, temporary or definitive form) to be issued in one or more series (hereinafter called the “Securities”);

 

WHEREAS, Section 901 of the Base Indenture provides, among other things, that the Company and the Trustee may enter into indentures supplemental to the Base Indenture, without the consent of any Holders of Securities, to establish the form of any Security, as permitted by Section 201 of the Base Indenture, and to provide for the issuance of the Notes (as defined below), as permitted by Section 301 of the Base Indenture, and to set forth the terms thereof;

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 201 of the Base Indenture, the Company desires to execute this Supplemental Indenture to establish the form and pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture to provide for the issuance of a series of its senior notes designated as 8.50% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Initial Notes”), in an aggregate principal amount of $600,000,000.  The Initial Notes are a series of securities as referred to in Section 301 of the Base Indenture.

 

WHEREAS, the Company may, as set forth in the Indenture and in the Initial Notes, issue an unlimited aggregate principal amount of additional notes under this Indenture (the “Additional Notes” and, together with the Initial Notes, the “Notes”).  The Initial Notes and the Additional Notes, if any, will be treated as a single class for all purposes of this Indenture, including waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase.  Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this Indenture to the Notes include any Additional Notes actually issued;

 

WHEREAS, this Supplemental Indenture shall be subject to and governed by the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act;

 

WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done by the Company to make this Supplemental Indenture, when executed and delivered by the Company, a valid, binding and legal instrument;

 

WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done by the Company to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the valid obligations of the Company; and

 

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NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:

 

SECTION ONE

 

APPLICATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
AND CREATION OF THE INITIAL NOTES

 

I.                                         Application of This Supplemental Indenture.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Supplemental Indenture, all provisions of this Supplemental Indenture are expressly and solely for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and any such provisions shall not be deemed to apply to any other securities issued under this Indenture and shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supplement the Base Indenture for any purpose other than with respect to the Notes.  Unless otherwise expressly specified, references in this Supplemental Indenture to specific Article numbers or Section numbers refer to Articles and Sections contained in this Supplemental Indenture as they amend or supplement the Base Indenture, and not the Base Indenture or any other document.  All Initial Notes and Additional Notes, if any, will be treated as a single class for all purposes of this Indenture, including waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase.

 

II.                                     Effect of Supplemental Indenture.

 

With respect to the Notes only, the Base Indenture shall be supplemented pursuant to Section 901 thereof to establish the terms of the Notes as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture.

 

To the extent that the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture conflict with any provision of the Base Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

 

III.                                 Rules of Construction.

 

Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(a)                                 the terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture have the meanings assigned to them in the Supplemental Indenture and include the plural as well as the singular;

 

(b)                                all terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission hereunder, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

 

(c)                                 all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;

 

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(d)                                the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;

 

(e)                                 references to any Article, Section or other subdivision in this Supplemental Indenture, unless otherwise described, are references to an Article, Section or subdivision of the Base Indenture as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture;

 

(f)                                   “including” means including without limitation; and

 

(g)                                words used herein implying any gender shall apply to every gender.

 

IV.                                 The Trustee

 

The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Company.

 

SECTION TWO

 

AMENDMENT OF THE BASE INDENTURE

 

I.                                         Set forth below are the changes to Article 1 of the Base Indenture: Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application:

 

(A)                              Section 101 of the Base Indenture shall be amended to add new definitions thereto in appropriate alphabetical sequence, as follows:

 

Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of a Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or at the time it merges or consolidates with the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or is assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person and not incurred by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or such acquisition, merger or consolidation.

 

Additional Notes” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

Affiliate Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 1012.

 

Asset Acquisition” means:

 

(a)                                  an Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any other Person pursuant to which such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or is merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or

 

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(b)                                 the acquisition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of the assets of any Person which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person, any division or line of business of such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person other than in the ordinary course of business.

 

Asset Sale” means any direct or indirect sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition for value by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction that does not give rise to a Capitalized Lease Obligation, to any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of:

 

(a)                                  any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or

 

(b)                                any other property or assets, other than cash or Cash Equivalents, of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company other than in the ordinary course of business;

 

provided, however, that Asset Sales will not include:

 

(1)                                 a transaction or series of related transactions for which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries receive aggregate consideration, exclusive of indemnities, of less than $25.0 million;

 

(2)                                 the sale of accounts receivable and inventory or other assets held for sale in the ordinary course of business;

 

(3)                                 the sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets in the ordinary course of business;

 

(4)                                 the sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or any guarantor as permitted under Section 801;

 

(5)                                 sales, conveyances, transfers or other dispositions of assets resulting from the creation, incurrence or assumption of (or foreclosure with respect to) any Lien not prohibited by Section 1013;

 

(6)                                 sales, conveyances, transfers or other dispositions of damaged, obsolete or worn out property or equipment, or property or equipment that is no longer necessary or useful in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(7)                                 to the extent allowable under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any comparable or successor provision, any exchange of like property (excluding any boot thereon) for use in a Related Business;

 

(8)                                 sales, conveyances, transfers or other dispositions of assets in a transaction constituting a Permitted Investment or a Restricted Payment permitted by Section 1010;

 

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(9)                                 the grant of licenses to third parties in respect of intellectual property in the ordinary course of business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(10)                           execution of settlement of or unwinding of any Hedging Protection Obligations;

 

(11)                           any sale of Capital Stock in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary;

 

(12)                           sales, transfers and other dispositions of Investments in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell or put/call arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements; and

 

(13)                           the lease, assignment or sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business.

 

Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction consummated subsequent to the Issue Date means, at the time of determination, the present value, discounted at the rate of interest implicit in such transaction, determined in accordance with GAAP, of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended; provided, however, that “Attributable Debt” shall not include any such obligations to the extent they relate to the lease of manufacturing facilities, warehouses, offices, distribution facilities or other facilities, including without limitation, the fixtures appertaining thereto, unless such obligations are required to be recorded on the Company’s balance sheet in accordance with GAAP.

 

Average Life” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, as at any date of determination, the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the sum of the products of (i) the number of years from such date to the date or dates of each successive scheduled principal payment (including, without limitation, any sinking fund requirements) of such Indebtedness multiplied by (ii) the amount of each such principal payment by (b) the sum of all such principal payments.

 

Base Indenture” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph hereto.

 

Capitalized Lease Obligations” means, as to any Person, the obligations of such Person under a lease that are required to be classified and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet under GAAP and, for purposes of this definition, the amount of such obligations at any date shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

Cash Equivalents” means

 

(1)                                 United States dollars, euros or the currency of any country recognized by the United States;

 

(2)                                 marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full

 

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faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof;

 

(3)                                 marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s;

 

(4)                                 commercial paper maturing no more than two years from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody’s;

 

(5)                                 certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances (or, with respect to foreign banks, similar instruments) maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any country recognized by the United States having at the date of acquisition thereof combined capital and surplus of not less than $250.0 million;

 

(6)                                 repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (2) and (3) above entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (5) above; and

 

(7)                                 investments in money market funds which invest substantially all their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (1) through (6) above.

 

Change of Control” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events:

 

(1)                                 any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to any Person or group of related Persons for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (a “Group”) (whether or not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this Indenture);

 

(2)                                 the approval by the holders of Capital Stock of the Company of any plan for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company (whether or not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this Indenture);

 

(3)                                 any Person or Group shall become the owner, directly or indirectly, beneficially, of shares representing more than 50% of the aggregate voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Company entitled under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the directors of the Company (the “Voting Stock”); or

 

(4)                                 the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors.

 

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Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 1008(b).

 

Change of Control Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1008(b)(2).

 

Commodity Price Protection Obligation” means, in respect of a Person, any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to fix or hedge commodity price risk.

 

Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person, for any period, the sum (without duplication) of:

 

(1)                                 Consolidated Net Income; plus

 

(2)                                 to the extent Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby, all losses from Asset Sales or abandonments or reserves relating thereto, all items classified as extraordinary losses and all income taxes of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries paid or accrued in accordance with GAAP for such period (other than income taxes attributable to extraordinary gains or losses); plus

 

(3)                                 Consolidated Interest Expense; plus

 

(4)                                 Consolidated Non-Cash Charges.

 

Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Person, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person during the four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available (the “Four Quarter Period”) ending on or prior to the date of the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (the “Transaction Date”) to Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person for the Four Quarter Period. In addition to and without limitation of the foregoing, for purposes of this definition, “Consolidated EBITDA” and “Consolidated Fixed Charges” will be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis for the period of such calculation to:

 

(1)                                 the incurrence, or repayment, retirement or extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and the application of the proceeds thereof) giving rise to the need to make such calculation and any incurrence or repayment, retirement or extinguishment of other Indebtedness (and the application of the proceeds thereof) occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date (other than the incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes pursuant to working capital facilities), as if such incurrence or repayment, retirement or extinguishment, as the case may be (and the application of the proceeds thereof), occurred on the first day of the Four Quarter Period; and

 

(2)                                 any Asset Sales or Asset Acquisitions (including, without limitation, any Asset Acquisition giving rise to the need to make such calculation as a result of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including by any Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of an Asset Acquisition) incurring,

 

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assuming or otherwise being liable for Acquired Indebtedness and also including any Consolidated EBITDA (including any pro forma expense and cost reductions calculated on a basis consistent with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act, except that such pro forma calculations may include expense and cost reductions for such period not calculated on a basis consistent with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act resulting from the Asset Sale or Asset Acquisition (including, without limitation, the Honeywell Acquisition) for which pro forma effect is being given (A) that have been realized or (B) for which steps have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken within 12 months of the date of such transaction and are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable, provided that, in either case, such adjustments are set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, signed on behalf of the Company by its principal executive officer or principal financial officer, that states (x) the amount of such adjustment or adjustments and (y) that such adjustment or adjustments are based on the reasonable good faith expectation of the officer executing such certificate at the time of such execution) attributable to the assets which are the subject of the Asset Acquisition or Asset Sale during the Four Quarter Period) occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date, as if such Asset Sale or Asset Acquisition (including the incurrence, assumption or liability for any such Indebtedness or Acquired Indebtedness and the elimination of such operating expense and the realization of such cost reduction) occurred on the first day of the Four Quarter Period.

 

Furthermore, in calculating “Consolidated Fixed Charges” of this “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio,”

 

(a)                                 interest on outstanding Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis as of the Transaction Date and which will continue to be so determined thereafter will be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on such Indebtedness in effect on the Transaction Date;

 

(b)                                if interest on any Indebtedness actually incurred on the Transaction Date may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a Eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rates, then the interest rate in effect on the Transaction Date will be deemed to have been in effect during the Four Quarter Period or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Company may designate; and

 

(c)                                 notwithstanding clause (a) above, interest on Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is covered by agreements relating to Interest Rate Protection Obligations, will be deemed to accrue at the rate per annum resulting after giving effect to the operation of such agreements.

 

Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:

 

(1)                                 Consolidated Interest Expense; plus

 

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(2)                                 the product of:

 

(x)                                  the amount of all dividend payments on any series of Disqualified Stock of such Person or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person (other than dividends paid in Qualified Capital Stock) paid or accrued during such period; and

 

(y)                                a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current effective consolidated federal, state and local tax rate of such Person expressed as a decimal.

 

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication:

 

(1)                                 the aggregate of all cash and non-cash interest expense with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the net costs associated with Hedging Protection Obligations, capitalized interest, and imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt (but excluding (a) the write-off of deferred financing costs, (b) the amortization of deferred financing charges and (c) non-cash interest expense attributable to the movement in the mark-to-market valuation of Hedging Protection Obligations or other derivative instruments pursuant to GAAP), for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; and

 

(2)                                 the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; less

 

(3)                                 interest income for such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends; provided, however, that there shall be excluded therefrom:

 

(a)                                 after tax gains or losses from Asset Sales (without regard to the $25.0 million threshold in clause (1) of the definition of Asset Sales) or abandonments or reserves relating thereto;

 

(b)                                items classified as extraordinary gains or losses, and the related tax effects according to GAAP;

 

(c)                                 solely for the purposes of calculating the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 1011, unusual or non-recurring gains or losses and expenses and severance, relocation costs, consolidation and closing costs, integration and facilities opening costs, transition costs, restructuring costs, signing, retention or completion bonuses, and curtailments or modifications to

 

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pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans (in each case, as determined in good faith by an executive officer of the Company and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate);

 

(d)                                the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period;

 

(e)                                 the net income of any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that subsidiary of that income is restricted by contract, operation of law or otherwise; provided that Consolidated Net Income of such Person will be increased by the amount of the cash dividends or distributions actually paid to such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person to the extent not already included therein;

 

(f)                                   the net income (or net loss) of any Person (other than a Restricted Subsidiary), including Unrestricted Subsidiaries, in which such Person has an interest, except to the extent of cash dividends or distributions actually paid to such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person;

 

(g)                                amounts attributable to dividends paid in respect of Qualified Capital Stock to the extent such dividends are paid in shares of Qualified Capital Stock;

 

(h)                                any non-cash impairment charges resulting from the application of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142—“Goodwill and Other Intangibles” and No. 144—“Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets” and the amortization of intangibles including arising pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 141—“Business Combinations” and any successor statements,

 

(i)                                    accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted within twelve months after the Issue Date that are so required to be established as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP, or changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies;

 

(j)                                    to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Company has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (a) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (b) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption;

 

(k)                                 any non-cash compensation charges or other non-cash expenses (including write-offs and write-downs) or charges arising from the grant of or issuance or repricing of stock, stock options or other equity-based awards or any amendment, modification, substitution or change of any such stock, stock options or other equity-based awards; and

 

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(l)                                    any fees and expenses incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any Asset Acquisition, Investment, Asset Sale, issuance or repayment of Indebtedness, issuance of Equity Interests, refinancing transaction or amendment or modification of any debt instrument, including any net gain or loss arising from the extinguishment of any Indebtedness of any Person and the amortization or write-off of debt issuance costs or debt discount.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purpose of Section 1010 only (other than clause (3)(y) thereof), there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income any income arising from any sale or other disposition of Restricted Investments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, any repurchases and redemptions of Restricted Investments from the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, any repayments of loans and advances which constitute Restricted Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, any sale of the stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any distribution or dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case only to the extent such amounts increase the amount of Restricted Payments permitted under Section 1010 pursuant to clause (3)(y) thereof.

 

Consolidated Non-Cash Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization (including amortization of intangibles) and other non-cash expenses (including, without duplication, impairment charges and the impact of purchase accounting) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (excluding any such charges constituting an accrual of or a reserve for cash charges for any future period).

 

Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors who:

 

(1)                                 was a member of such Board of Directors on the date hereof; or

 

(2)                                 was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval or subsequent ratification of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election.

 

Covenant Suspension Event” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

 

Credit Agreement” means (a) the Credit Agreement in effect on the Issue Date between the Company and the lenders party thereto and (b) the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement to be dated on or about the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date, including in each case all related notes and collateral documents, in each case as such agreement may be amended (including any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement extending the maturity of, increasing the total commitment under, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring (including adding subsidiaries of the Company as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder) all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or any successor or replacement agreement and whether by the same or any other agent, lender or group of lenders.

 

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Credit Facilities” means one or more debt facilities (including, without limitation, the Credit Agreement or commercial paper facilities or other agreements or indentures, in each case with banks or other lenders providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables) or other debt) or letters of credit or other debt, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced (which replacement can occur after termination of the relevant agreement), refinanced or substituted in whole or in part from time to time by one or more of such facilities, whether with the same or different banks or lenders and whether or not increasing the amount thereunder.

 

Currency Exchange Protection Obligation” means, in respect of a Person, any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, currency option or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to fix or hedge currency exchange risk.

 

Debt Securities Lien” means any Lien securing Indebtedness incurred in connection with (a) any registered offering of securities under the Securities Act or (b) any private placement of securities (including under Rule 144A of the Securities Act) pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act which does not include, among other things, Liens securing Indebtedness incurred in connection with (i) the Credit Agreement and (ii) debt facilities or other agreements with one or more banks or one or more lenders providing for revolving credit loans, term loans or letters of credit facilities.

 

Description of Notes” means that section of the same name in the prospectus supplement, dated June 26, 2008, in connection with the Notes.

 

Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of non-cash consideration received by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an Asset Sale that is so designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate executed by an executive officer of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary;

 

Disqualified Capital Stock” means any Capital Stock which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event (other than an event which would constitute a Change of Control or an Asset Sale), matures (excluding any maturity as the result of an optional redemption by the issuer thereof) or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the sole option of the Holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or an Asset Sale), in whole or in part, on or prior to the final maturity date of the Notes.

 

Equity Interests” means all Capital Stock and all warrants, profits, interests, equity appreciation rights or options with respect to, or other rights to purchase, Capital Stock, but excluding Indebtedness convertible into equity.

 

Equity Offering” means any private or public offering of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company, other than any issuance registered on Form S-8 or any successor thereto.

 

Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or property, as determined in good faith by the Company, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length transaction taking into account the circumstances of the subject transaction; provided that where the value of the assets

 

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or property is in excess of $50.0 million, the Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board of Directors in good faith and will be evidenced by a Board Resolution delivered to the Trustee.

 

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is not organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

 

Four Quarter Period” has the meaning specified in the “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” definition.

 

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States which are in effect on the Issue Date.

 

Government Securities” means securities that are direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged.

 

Group” has the meaning specified in the “Change of Control” definition.

 

Hedging Protection Obligations” means, with respect to any specified Person, the obligations of such Person under Interest Rate Protection Obligations, Commodity Price Protection Obligations and Currency Exchange Protection Obligations.

 

Honeywell Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Company of the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business and the other transactions contemplated by the Honeywell Acquisition Documents.

 

Honeywell Acquisition Agreement” means the Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement, dated June 9, 2008, among the Company, Honeywell International Inc., Honeywell UK Limited, Honeywell Holding France SAS and Honeywell Deutschland GmbH, with respect to the Honeywell Acquisition, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

 

Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date” means the date the Honeywell Acquisition is consummated in accordance with the Honeywell Acquisition Documents.

 

Honeywell Acquisition Documents” means the Honeywell Acquisition Agreement, including all exhibits and schedules thereto, and all other agreements, documents and instruments relating to the Honeywell Acquisition, in each case as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented form time to time in accordance with the provisions thereof.

 

Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business” means the assets of the consumables solutions distribution business of Honeywell International Inc. to be purchased by the Company pursuant to the Honeywell Acquisition Documents on the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date.

 

Incur” or “incur” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee, acquire, become liable, contingently or otherwise with respect to, or otherwise become responsible for, payment of such Indebtedness.

 

Initial Notes” has the meaning specified in recitals hereto.

 

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Interest Rate Protection Obligations” means the obligations of any Person pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest on a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars and similar agreements.

 

Investment” means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or other acquisition for consideration by such Person of any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness issued by any other Person. “Investment” shall exclude extensions of trade credit, advances to customers, travel and similar advances to officers and employees in the ordinary course of business by the Company and its subsidiaries. For the purposes of Section 1010:

 

(1)                                 “Investment” will include and be valued at the Fair Market Value of the net assets of any Restricted Subsidiary at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and

 

(2)                                 the amount of any Investment will be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additional Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment, reduced by the payment of dividends or distributions (including tax sharing payments) in connection with such Investment or any other amounts received in respect of such Investment.

 

If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary sells or otherwise disposes of any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company will be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of such subsidiary not sold or disposed.

 

Investment Grade Rating” means BBB- or higher by S&P or Baa3 or higher by Moody’s, or the equivalent of such ratings by S&P and Moody’s, or of another Rating Agency.

 

Issue Date” means the date on which the Notes are originally issued under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Legal Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1402.

 

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

 

maximum fixed purchase price” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Indebtedness.”

 

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Moody’s” means Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. and its successors.

 

Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the proceeds in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations when received in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (other than the portion of any such deferred payment constituting interest) received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale net of:

 

(a)                                 all out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such Asset Sale (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees and sales commissions);

 

(b)                                taxes paid or payable after taking into account any reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements;

 

(c)                                 the amounts of:

 

(x)                                  any repayments of debt secured, directly or indirectly, by Liens on the assets that are the subject of such Asset Sale; and

 

(y)                                any repayments of debt associated with such assets that is due by reason of such Asset Sale (i.e., such disposition is permitted by the terms of the instruments evidencing or applicable to such debt, or by the terms of a consent granted thereunder, on the condition the proceeds (or portion thereof) of such disposition be applied to such debt), and other fees, expenses and other expenditures, in each case, reasonably incurred as a consequence of such repayment of debt (whether or not such fees, expenses or expenditures are then due and payable or made, as the case may be);

 

(d)                                any portion of cash proceeds which the Company determines in good faith should be reserved for post-closing adjustments, it being understood and agreed that on the day that all such post-closing adjustments have been determined, the amount (if any) by which the reserved amount in respect of such Asset Sale exceeds the actual post-closing adjustments payable by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries will constitute Net Cash Proceeds on such date;

 

(e)                                 all amounts deemed appropriate by the Company to be provided as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such assets which are the subject of such Asset Sale;

 

(f)                                   all foreign, federal, state and local taxes payable (including taxes reasonably estimated to be payable) in connection with or as a result of such Asset Sale; and

 

(g)                                with respect to Asset Sales by Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, the portion of such cash payments attributable to Persons holding a minority interest in such Restricted Subsidiary.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, Net Cash Proceeds will not include proceeds received in a foreign jurisdiction from an Asset Sale of an asset located outside the United States to the extent (and only to the extent):

 

(1)                                 such proceeds cannot under applicable law be transferred to the United States; or

 

(2)                                 such transfer would result (in the good faith determination of the Company) in an aggregate tax liability that would be materially greater than if such Asset Sale occurred in the United States;

 

provided that if, as, and to the extent that any of such proceeds may lawfully be in the case of clause (1) or are in the case of clause (2) transferred to the United States, such proceeds will be deemed to be cash payments that are subject to the terms of this definition of Net Cash Proceeds.

 

Net Proceeds Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 1015.

 

Net Proceeds Offer Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 1015.

 

Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1015.

 

Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1015.

 

Notes” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

Pari Passu Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Company or a guarantor of the Notes ranking pari passu with the Notes or a guarantee of the Notes, as the case may be, that the obligor thereon is required to offer to repurchase or repay on a permanent basis in connection with an Asset Sale.

 

Permitted Indebtedness” means, without duplication:

 

(1)                                 the Notes (other than Additional Notes) and the guarantees thereof;

 

(2)                                 Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Credit Facilities by the Company and any guarantee thereunder and the issuance and creation of letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances thereunder (with letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances being deemed to have a principal amount equal to the face amount thereof), up to an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $1,075 million, less the amount of any permanent prepayment thereunder made with the proceeds of an Asset Sale in accordance with and in satisfaction of Section 1015;

 

(3)                                 Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness contemplated by clause (1) or (2) of this definition) of the Company and its subsidiaries outstanding on the Issue Date;

 

(4)                                 Indebtedness under any of the Honeywell Acquisition Documents and Indebtedness of the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business existing on the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date following the Honeywell Acquisition

 

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(including any Indebtedness assumed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the Honeywell Acquisition Documents);

 

(5)                                 obligations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Hedging Protection Obligations which are not incurred for speculative purposes;

 

(6)                                 intercompany Indebtedness owed by the Company to any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or by any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company for so long as such Indebtedness is held by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided, however, that if, as of any date any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company owns or holds any such Indebtedness, such date will be deemed the date of incurrence of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness by the issuer of such Indebtedness under this clause (6);

 

(7)                                 Acquired Indebtedness, provided that after giving effect to the acquisition or merger, the Company could Incur at least $1.00 of Indebtedness under the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio in accordance with Section 1011 on the date such Indebtedness became Acquired Indebtedness;

 

(8)                                 (A) guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness of the Company or guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness of other Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent that such Indebtedness is otherwise permitted under this Indenture and (B) guarantees by the Company of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Indebtedness; provided that such Indebtedness is permitted to be incurred under this Indenture;

 

(9)                                 Indebtedness (including Capitalized Lease Obligations and purchase money obligations) incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the purchase, lease or improvement of property (real or personal) or equipment or other capital expenditures in connection with a related business whether through a direct purchase of assets or the Capital Stock of any Person owning such assets, in aggregate not to exceed $30.0 million in any fiscal year of the Company;

 

(10)                           guarantees, letters of credit and indemnity agreements relating to performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and completion guarantees incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(11)                           any refinancing, modification, replacement, renewal, restatement, refunding, deferral, extension, substitution, supplement, reissuance or resale of existing or future Indebtedness incurred in accordance with the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 1011 and clauses (1), (3), (4), (7), (9) and this clause (11) of this definition, including any additional Indebtedness incurred to pay premiums reasonably determined by the Company (including tender premiums) (“Required Premiums”), defeasance costs and fees and expenses in connection therewith prior to its respective maturity; provided, however, that any

 

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such event does not (1) result in an increase in the aggregate principal amount of Permitted Indebtedness (except to the extent such increase is a result of a simultaneous incurrence of additional Indebtedness (A) to pay premiums, defeasance costs and related fees and expenses or (B) otherwise permitted to be incurred under this Indenture) of the Company and its subsidiaries and (2) create Indebtedness with a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such refinanced Indebtedness is incurred that is less than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity at such time of the Indebtedness being refinanced, modified, replaced, renewed, restated, refunded, deferred, extended, substituted, supplemented, reissued or resold;

 

(12)                           additional Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $100.0 million at any one time outstanding (which amount may, but need not, be incurred in whole or in part under the Credit Agreement);

 

(13)                           Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries constituting reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business, including letters of credit in respect of workers’ compensation or employee health claims, or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers’ compensation or employee health claims; provided, however, that upon the drawing of such letters of credit or the incurrence of such Indebtedness, such obligations are reimbursed within 30 days following such drawing or incurrence;

 

(14)                           Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or a Subsidiary, other than guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or a Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition; provided, however, that such Indebtedness is not reflected on the balance sheet of the Company, or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (contingent obligations referred to in a footnote to financial statements and not otherwise reflected on the balance sheet will not be deemed to be reflected on such balance sheet for purposes of this clause (14));

 

(15)                           the guarantee by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that guarantees Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that was permitted to be incurred by another provision of this definition; provided that if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is subordinated to, or pari passu with, the Notes, then the guarantee shall be subordinated or pari passu, as applicable, to the same extent as the Indebtedness guaranteed;

 

(16)                           the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of

 

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a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds, so long as such Indebtedness is extinguished within five business days;

 

(17)                           Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount which, when taken together with all other Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries Incurred pursuant to this clause (17) and outstanding on the date of such incurrence, does not exceed $75.0 million; and

 

(18)                           Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, incurred in the ordinary course of business.

 

For purposes of determining compliance with Section 1011:

 

(a)                                 In the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Indebtedness, or is permitted to be incurred pursuant to the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 1011, the Company in its sole discretion, will be permitted to classify and/or divide such item of Indebtedness on the date of its incurrence or later reclassify and/or divide all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness in any manner that complies with Section 1011; provided, however, that all Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement which is in existence or available on or prior to the date of the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date, and any renewals, extensions, substitutions, refundings, refinancings or replacements thereof, will be deemed to have been incurred on such date under clause (2) of this definition of “Permitted Indebtedness,” and the Company will not be permitted to reclassify any portion of such Indebtedness thereafter.

 

(b)                                For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term Indebtedness, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness; provided that if such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-dominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-dominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount, together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon and any premium or fees and expenses related thereto, of such Indebtedness being refinanced. The principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which refinancing Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that

 

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the Company may incur pursuant to Section 1011 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies.

 

(c)                                 Accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value and the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness, Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness, Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock for purposes of Section 1011.

 

Permitted Investments” means:

 

(1)                                 Investments in the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or for the benefit of, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (whether existing on the Issue Date or created thereafter and including Investments in any Person, if after giving effect to such Investment, such Person would be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company);

 

(2)                                 Investments in cash or Cash Equivalents;

 

(3)                                 Investments existing on the Issue Date or acquired in connection with the Honeywell Acquisition;

 

(4)                                 Investments in securities of trade creditors or customers received pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of such trade creditors or customers or in settlement of or other resolution of claims or disputes, and in each case, extensions, modifications and amendments thereof;

 

(5)                                 loans and advances in the ordinary course of business by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to their respective employees not to exceed $15.0 million at any one time outstanding;

 

(6)                                 Investments in an amount not to exceed $50.0 million at any one time outstanding;

 

(7)                                 Investments received by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries as non-cash consideration for asset sales, including Asset Sales; provided, however, in the case of an Asset Sale, such Asset Sale is effected in compliance with Section 1015;

 

(8)                                 Hedging Protection Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of the Company’s or its Restricted Subsidiaries’ business;

 

(9)                                 extensions of credit to customers and suppliers in the ordinary course of business;

 

(10)                           Investments in joint ventures (in each case that are not subsidiaries of the Company) (measured on the date each such investment was made and without

 

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giving effect to subsequent changes in value) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (a) $75.0 million and (b) 2.5% of Total Assets;

 

(11)                           guarantees by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness permitted by Section 1011;

 

(12)                           any Investments received in exchange for the issuance of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or any warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any such Qualified Capital Stock; and

 

(13)                           Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries not to exceed $75.0 million.

 

Permitted Liens” means:

 

(1)                                 Liens (other than Debt Securities Liens) securing Indebtedness under a Credit Facility permitted to be incurred under this Indenture;

 

(2)                                 Liens outstanding on the Issue Date and on the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date;

 

(3)                                 Liens securing the Notes (other than any Additional Notes) or any guarantees;

 

(4)                                 Liens imposed by any governmental authority for taxes, assessments or charges not yet overdue for a period of more than 30 days or payable or subject to penalties for nonpayment or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Company or the affected Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in accordance with GAAP;

 

(5)                                 Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and Liens arising out of judgments or awards against the Company or its Restricted Subsidiary with respect to which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiary shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Company in accordance with GAAP;

 

(6)                                 pledges or deposits under worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance and other similar legislation;

 

(7)                                 deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or deposits of cash or U.S. government bonds to secure surety or appeal bonds to which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party, or deposits as security for contested taxes

 

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or import duties or for the payment of rent, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(8)                                 easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of zoning restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions on the use of property or minor imperfections in title thereto which, do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(9)                                 Liens on property of any entity (including shares of stock owned by such entity) which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company after the date on which the Notes are originally issued; provided that such Liens are in existence at the time such entity becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and were not created in anticipation thereof and do not extend to any other property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(10)                           Liens upon property, including software and license rights with respect to software, acquired after the date on which the Notes are originally issued (by purchase, construction or otherwise) by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, any of which Liens either (A) existed on such property before the time of its acquisition and was not created in anticipation thereof, or (B) was created solely for the purpose of securing Indebtedness representing, or incurred to finance, refinance or refund, the cost (including the cost of construction) of such property; provided that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any property of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary other than the property so acquired and improvements thereon; and provided, further, that the principal amount of Indebtedness secured by any such Lien shall not exceed (at the time of incurrence) 100% of the fair market value (as determined in good faith by a senior financial officer of the Company) of such property at the time it was acquired (by purchase, construction or otherwise);

 

(11)                           any Liens arising as a result of the sale of property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company which property is, immediately following such sale, leased back to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(12)                           Liens in favor of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(13)                           Liens securing Hedging Protection Obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted to be incurred under this Indenture;

 

(14)                           Liens on property necessary to defease Indebtedness that was not incurred in violation of this Indenture;

 

(15)                           Liens in favor of collecting or payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or chargeback with respect to money or instruments of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary on deposit or in possession of such bank;

 

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(16)                           Liens on the property of Foreign Subsidiaries to secure Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries permitted to be incurred under this Indenture;

 

(17)                           Liens related to bonds or similar instruments related to the Company’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s 401(k) or other retirement based benefit plans;

 

(18)                           Liens incurred with respect to any environmental remediation program;

 

(19)                           Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds securing obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

 

(20)                           leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses granted to others in the ordinary course of business which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(21)                           deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers;

 

(22)                           Liens that are contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks or other financial institutions not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness or (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries;

 

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

 

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

 

(25)                           Liens incurred pursuant to the Honeywell Acquisition Documents; and

 

(26)                           any extension, renewal or replacement (which replacement can occur after termination of the relevant agreement) of the foregoing; provided, however, that the Liens permitted hereunder shall not be spread to cover any additional Indebtedness or property (other than a substitution of like property).

 

Preferred Stock” of any Person means any Capital Stock of such Person that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of such Person with respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation.

 

Pro Rata Share” has the meaning specified in Section 1015.

 

Qualified Capital Stock” means any stock that is not Disqualified Capital Stock.

 

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Record Date” means the applicable Record Date (whether or not a Business Day) specified in the Notes.

 

Rating Agency” means (i) S&P, (ii) Moody’s or (iii) if neither S&P nor Moody’s is rating the Notes, another recognized rating agency, selected by the Company.

 

Related Business” means, as determined by the Company in good faith, the businesses of (x) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as conducted on the Issue Date and (y) the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business on the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date, and, in each case similar, complementary or related businesses or reasonable extensions, developments or expansions thereof.

 

Replacement Assets” means (a) assets of a kind used or usable in the businesses of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including capital expenditures) as conducted on the date of the relevant Asset Sale or (b) any Related Business (including the Capital Stock of a Person or Persons in any such businesses or Related Business and licenses or similar rights to operate).

 

Required Premiums” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” .

 

Restricted Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

 

Restricted Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 1010.

 

Restricted Subsidiary” of any Person means any subsidiary of such Person that at the time of determination is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

Reversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

 

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors to its ratings business.

 

Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person is a party, providing for the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property, whether owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary at the Issue Date or later acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Senior Debt” means any indebtedness that is pari passu as to ranking with the Notes issued under this Indenture.

 

Significant Subsidiary” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

 

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Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company which is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes.

 

Surviving Entity” has the meaning specified in Section 801(1).

 

Supplemental Indenture” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph hereto.

 

Suspended Covenants” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

 

Suspension Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

 

Suspension Period” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

 

Total Assets” means the total assets of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company or such other Person as may be expressly stated.

 

Transaction Date” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”

 

Transactions” means:

 

(a)                                 the consummation of the Honeywell Acquisition and the payment of all consideration, fees and expenses contemplated by the Honeywell Acquisition Documents;

 

(b)                                the issuance of Capital Stock of the Company as contemplated by the Honeywell Acquisition Agreement;

 

(c)                                 the entering into of the credit agreement to be dated on or about the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date and the payment of all fees and expenses in connection therewith;

 

(d)                                the repayment by the Company of Indebtedness under its existing credit agreement in effect on the Issue Date;

 

(e)                                 the issuance of the Notes and the guarantees thereof, and the payment of all fees and expenses in connection therewith; and

 

(f)                                   payment of all other fees and expenses payable in connection with and related to the items listed in (a) through (e).

 

Unrestricted Subsidiary” of any Person means:

 

(1)                                 any subsidiary of such Person that at the time of determination is or continues to be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the board of directors of such Person in the manner provided below; and

 

(2)                                 any subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

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The Board of Directors may designate any subsidiary (including any existing or newly acquired or newly formed subsidiary) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such subsidiary owns any Capital Stock of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, any subsidiary of the Company that is not a subsidiary of the subsidiary to be so designated; provided, however, that:

 

(x)                                  the Company certifies to the Trustee that such designation complies with Section 1010; and

 

(y)                                each subsidiary to be so designated and each of its subsidiaries has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of the assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries except to the extent permitted by Section 1010 and Section 1011.

 

The Board of Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary only if:

 

(x)                                  immediately after giving effect to such designation, the Company is able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 1011; and

 

(y)                                immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

Any such designation by the Board of Directors will be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with the Trustee a copy of the resolution giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing provisions. As of the Issue Date, the following Subsidiaries of the Company are Unrestricted Subsidiaries: Advanced Thermal Sciences Corporation, Aerospace Lighting Corporation and each of their respective subsidiaries.

 

Voting Stock” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Change of Control.”

 

Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing:

 

(a)                                 the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness into;

 

(b)                                the sum of the total of the products obtained by multiplying:

 

(1)                                 the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof; by

 

(2)                                 the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) which will elapse between such date and the making of such payment.

 

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(B)                                Section 101 of the Base Indenture shall be amended so that the following definitions in the Base Indenture shall be deleted in their entirety and replaced with the following:

 

An “Affiliate” of a Person means a Person who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person; provided, however, that with respect to the Company, the term Affiliate shall not include the Company or any subsidiary of the Company so long as no Affiliate of the Company has any direct or indirect interest therein, except through the Company or its subsidiaries.  The term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

Capital Stock” means (1) with respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents, however designated, of corporate stock, including each class of common stock and preferred stock of such Person and (2) with respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all partnership or other equity interests of such other Person or any other interest that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distribution of assets of, the issuing Person.

 

control” has the meaning specified in definition of “Affiliate.”

 

Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1403.

 

Default” means an event or condition the occurrence of which is, or with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

 

Indebtedness” means with respect to any Person, without duplication:

 

(1)                                 the principal amount of all obligations of such Person for borrowed money;

 

(2)                                 the principal amount of all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;

 

(3)                                 all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;

 

(4)                                 all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property (but excluding trade accounts payable and other similar liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business and excluding any earn-out obligations);

 

(5)                                 all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit or banker’s acceptance;

 

(6)                                 guarantees of such Person in respect of Indebtedness of a Person referred to in clauses (1) through (5) above and clause (8) below;

 

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(7)                                 all Indebtedness of any other Person of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (6) above which is secured by any Lien on any property or asset of such Person, the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the Fair Market Value at such date of any asset subject to any Lien securing the Indebtedness of others and the amount of the Indebtedness secured;

 

(8)                                 all Hedging Protection Obligations of such Person, excluding non-speculative Hedging Protection Obligations;

 

(9)                                 all Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person; and

 

(10)                           all Disqualified Capital Stock issued by such Person with the amount of Indebtedness represented by such Disqualified Capital Stock being equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and its maximum fixed repurchase price, but excluding accrued dividends, if any.

 

For purposes hereof, (1) the “maximum fixed repurchase price” of any Disqualified Capital Stock which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Capital Stock as if such Disqualified Capital Stock were purchased on any date on which Indebtedness is required to be determined pursuant to this Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the fair market value of such Disqualified Capital Stock, such fair market value will be determined reasonably and in good faith by the issuer of such Disqualified Capital Stock and (2) accrual of interest, accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, and the payment of dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class of Disqualified Capital Stock will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of Disqualified Capital Stock for purposes of Section 1011.  The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date will be the amount of all unconditional obligations described above, as such amount would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

Indenture” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph hereto.

 

Stated Maturity” means, when used with respect to any Note or any installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such Note as the fixed date on which the principal of such Note or such installment of interest is due and payable, and, when used with respect to any other Indebtedness, means the date specified in the instrument governing such Indebtedness as the fixed date on which the principal of such Indebtedness, or any installment of interest thereon, is due and payable.

 

II.                                     Set forth below are the changes to Article 2 of the Base Indenture: Security Forms:

 

(A)                              Section 201 of the Base Indenture shall be amended to include the following as an additional paragraph:

 

Provisions relating to the Initial Notes are set forth in Appendix A hereto which is hereby incorporated in, and expressly made part of, this Indenture.  The Initial Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereof shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 1 to Appendix A

 

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hereto, which is hereby incorporated in, and expressly made a part of, this Indenture.  The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage.  The Company and the Trustee shall approve the form of the Notes and any notation, legend or endorsement on them.  Each Notes shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall show the date of its issuance.  The terms of the Notes set forth in Appendix A and the exhibits thereto are part of the terms of this Indenture.

 

III.                                 Set forth below are the changes to Article 3 of the Base Indenture: The Securities:

 

(A)                              Section 302 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 302                                   Denominations.

 

The Notes shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any greater integral multiple of $1,000.

 

(B)                                Section 303 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 303                                   Execution and Authentication.

 

An Officer shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

 

If an Officer whose signature is on a Note was an Officer at the time of such execution but no longer holds that or any office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless.

 

A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

 

The Trustee shall authenticate Notes for original issue on the Issue Date in the aggregate principal amount of $600,000,000 and, at any time and from time to time thereafter, the Trustee shall authenticate Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified in a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.  The Officers’ Certificate shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the Notes are to be authenticated and, in the case of an issuance of Additional Securities pursuant to Section 314 after the Issue Date, shall certify that such issuance is in compliance with Section 1011.  Upon receipt of a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall authenticate Notes in substitution for Notes originally issued to reflect any name change of the Company.  The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes.  Unless otherwise provided in the appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so.  Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent.  An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company and Affiliates of the Company.

 

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(C)                                The following shall be added to the Base Indenture as Section 314:

 

Section 314                                   Issuance of Additional Notes.

 

After the Issue Date, the Company shall be entitled, subject to its compliance with Section 1011, to issue Additional Notes under this Indenture in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, which Notes shall have identical terms as the Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price.  The Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Notes shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture, including waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase.

 

With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in a Board Resolution of the Board of Directors and an Officers’ Certificate, a copy of each which shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

 

(1)                                 the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture and the provision of Section 1011 that the Company is relying on to issue such Additional Notes; and

 

(2)                                 the issue price, the issue date and the CUSIP number of such Additional Notes.

 

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Additional Notes under this Section 314 if the Trustee determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Company or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.

 

IV.                                 Set forth below are the changes to Article 4 of the Base Indenture:  Satisfaction and Discharge:

 

(A)                              Section 401 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 401                                  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

 

This Indenture shall be discharged and will cease to be of further effect as to all Notes issued hereunder when:

 

(1)                                 either (a) all Notes that have been authenticated (except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Company) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or (b) all Notes that have not been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable by reason of the making of a notice of redemption or otherwise or will become due and payable within one year and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient without consideration

 

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of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the notes not delivered to the trustee for cancellation for principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest to the date of maturity or redemption;

 

(2)                                 no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit and such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound;

 

(3)                                 the Company has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture; and

 

(4)                                 the Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee under this Indenture to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be.

 

In addition, the Company must deliver an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been satisfied.

 

V.                                     Set forth below are the changes to Article 5 of the Base Indenture: Remedies:

 

(A)                              Section 501 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 501                                  Events of Default.

 

An “Event of Default” means any of the following events:

 

(1)                                 the failure to pay interest on any Notes when the same becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or

 

(2)                                 the failure to pay the principal on any Notes, when such principal becomes due and payable, at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, including the failure to make a payment to repurchase Notes tendered pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or a Net Proceeds Offer; or

 

(3)                                 a default in the observance or performance of any other covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture not specified in clause (1) or (2) above which default continues for a period of 60 days after the Company receives written notice specifying the default, and demanding that such default be remedied, from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding principal amount of the Notes; or

 

(4)                                 the failure to pay at final maturity, giving effect to any extensions thereof, the principal amount of any Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is a Significant Subsidiary, other than intercompany Indebtedness, or the acceleration of the final stated maturity of any such Indebtedness, if, in either case, the aggregate principal amount of such

 

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Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness in default for failure to pay principal at final maturity or which has been accelerated, aggregates $50.0 million or more at any time; or

 

(5)                                 failure by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is a Significant Subsidiary to pay any final judgment or final judgments entered by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction for the payment of money in excess (net of amounts covered by third-party insurance) of $50.0 million rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is a Significant Subsidiary and is not discharged for any period of 60 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement is not in effect; or

 

(6)                                 the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is a Significant Subsidiary (i) admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, (ii) commences a voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to itself, (iii) consents to the entry of a judgment, decree or order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, (iv) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for substantially all of its property, (v) consents to or acquiesces in the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it, (vi) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (vii) takes any partnership or corporate action, as the case may be, to authorize or effect any of the foregoing;

 

(7)                                 a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, which shall (i) approve as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in respect of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) appoint a Custodian of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or for substantially all of any of their property or (iii) order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; and such judgment, decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

 

(8)                                 any of the guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company ceases to be in full force and effect or any guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company is held in a judicial proceeding to be null and void and unenforceable or any guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company is found to be invalid by a final judgment or order that is not appealable or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company that is a guarantor denies its liability under its guarantee, other than by reason of a release of such Significant Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

 

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(B)                                Section 502 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 502                                  Acceleration of Maturity.

 

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) and (7) above with respect to the Company) shall occur and be continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of Outstanding Notes may declare the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Notes to be due and payable by notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that it is a “notice of acceleration,” and the same will become immediately due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in Section (6) and (7) with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, then all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Outstanding Notes shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of Notes.

 

At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes as described in the preceding paragraph, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may rescind and cancel such declaration and its consequences:

 

(1)                                 if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree;

 

(2)                                 if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration;

 

(3)                                 to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal, which has become due other than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid;

 

(4)                                 if the Company has paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the Trustee for its reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances; and

 

(5)                                 in the event of the cure or waiver of an Event of Default of the type described in Section 501(6) and (7), the Trustee has received an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel that such Event of Default has been cured or waived.

 

No such recession shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

 

VI.                                 Set forth below are the changes to Article 7 of the Base Indenture: Holders’ Lists and Reports by the Trustee and Company:

 

(A)                              Section 703 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 703                                  Reports by the Company.

 

(1)                                 Whether or not the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company will file with the Commission, to the

 

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extent permitted, such quarterly and annual reports and such information, documents and other reports specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act within the time periods specified in those sections.  The Company promptly will deliver to the Trustee, but in any event no later than 15 days after the filing of the same with the Commission, copies of the quarterly and annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports, if any, which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.  For purposes of this Section 703, the Company will be deemed to have furnished all required reports and information referred to in this Section 703 to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes as required by this Section 703 if it has timely filed the reports referred to in this paragraph with the Commission via the EDGAR filing system and such reports are publicly available.  The Company will also comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a).

 

(2)                                  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company will not be deemed to have failed to comply with any of its obligations under this Section 703 for purposes of Section 501(3) until 90 days after the date any report hereunder is due.

 

(3)                                  Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee under this Section 703 is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on an Officers’ Certificate).

 

VII.                             Set forth below are the changes to Article 8 of the Base Indenture: Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease:

 

(A)                              Section 801 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 801                                  Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

 

The Company will not, directly or indirectly, (1) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation) in one or more related transactions or (2) sell, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to another Person, (other than if a Restricted Subsidiary merges or consolidates with or into, or sells, assigns, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entity to, the Company) unless:

 

(1)                                 either (A) the Company shall be the surviving or continuing Person or (B) the Person, if other than the Company, formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged, or the Person that acquires by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (the “Surviving Entity”), (x) shall be a Person organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of

 

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Columbia and (y) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Notes and the performance of every covenant of the Notes and this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

 

(2)                                 immediately after giving effect to such transaction, the Company or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall be able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness, other than Permitted Indebtedness, pursuant to Section 1011 or the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, would be greater than such ratio immediately prior to such transaction, provided, however, in no event shall the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, be less than 1.5 to 1.0 immediately after giving effect to such transaction;

 

(3)                                 immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such transaction, including, without limitation, giving effect to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred and any Lien granted in connection with or in respect of the transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

(4)                                 the Company or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, shall comply with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and that all conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to the execution of such supplemental indenture have been satisfied.

 

Upon any consolidation, combination or merger or any transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with the foregoing, in which the Company is not the continuing Person, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, lease or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such Surviving Entity had been named as such and the Company shall be relieved of all of its obligations and duties under this Indenture and the Notes.

 

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VIII.                         Set forth below are the changes to Article 9 of the Base Indenture: Supplemental Indentures:

 

(A)                              Section 901 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 901                                  Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

The Company and the Trustee, together, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without notice to or consent of any Holder:

 

(1)                                 to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or inconsistency;

 

(2)                                 to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes;

 

(3)                                 to comply with Section 801 and Section 1015;

 

(4)                                 to provide for the assumption of the Company’s or any guarantor’s obligations under this Indenture;

 

(5)                                 to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders or that does not adversely affect the legal rights under this Indenture of any such Holder;

 

(6)                                 to add covenants for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company or any guarantor;

 

(7)                                 to comply with requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;

 

(8)                                 to evidence and provide for the acceptance and appointment under this Indenture of a successor trustee thereunder pursuant to the requirements thereof;

 

(9)                                 to add a guarantor under this Indenture;

 

(10)                           to conform the text of this Indenture or the Notes to any provision of the “Description of Notes,” as set forth, to the extent that such provision in the “Description of Notes” was intended to be a verbatim recitation of a provision of this Indenture or the Notes;

 

(11)                           to make any amendment to the provisions of this Indenture relating to the transfer and legending of Notes as permitted by this Indenture, including, without limitation, to facilitate the issuance and administration of the Notes; or

 

(12)                           to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or grant any other Lien in favor of the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, as security for the payment and performance of all or any portion of the Notes, in any property or assets.

 

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provided that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate, each stating that such amendment or supplement complies with the provisions of this Section 901.

 

(B)                                Section 902 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 902                                 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

 

Subject to Section 508, the Company and the Trustee, together, with the written consent of the Holder or Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount, unless a greater principal amount is specified herein, of the Outstanding Notes, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes, without notice to any other Holders.  Subject to Section 508, the Holder or Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount, unless a greater principal amount is specified herein, of the Outstanding Notes may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes without notice to any other Holders.  Without the consent of each Holder affected, however, no amendment, supplement or waiver, including a waiver pursuant to Section 513, may:

 

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

 

(2)                                 reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest, including defaulted interest, on any Notes;

 

(3)                                 reduce the principal of or change or have the effect of changing the fixed maturity of any Notes, or change the date on which any Notes may be subject to redemption, or reduce the Redemption Price therefor;

 

(4)                                 make any Notes payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;

 

(5)                                 at any time after a Change of Control has occurred or the requirement to make a Net Proceeds Offer has occurred, amend, change or modify the obligation of the Company to make and consummate a Change of Control Offer in the event of a Change of Control in accordance with Section 1008 or a Net Proceeds Offer if one is required under Section 1015, as the case may be, including amending, changing or modifying any definition relating thereto;

 

(6)                                 make any change in provisions of this Indenture protecting the right of each Holder of a Note to receive payment of principal of and interest on such Note on or after the due date thereof or to bring suit to enforce such payment, or permitting Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes to waive Defaults or Events of Default (other than Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the payment of principal of or interest on the Notes);

 

(7)                                 adversely affect the classification of the Notes or the guarantees as Senior Debt in this Indenture; or

 

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(8)                                  release any guarantor from any of its obligations under its guarantee or this Indenture other than in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

 

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

 

After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 902 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver.  Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amendment, supplement, waiver or supplemental indenture.

 

IX.                                Set forth below are the changes to Article 10 of the Base Indenture: Covenants:

 

(A)                              Section 1004 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1004                           Statement by Officers as to Default.

 

(a)                                 The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of compliance by the Company with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture.  For purposes of this Section 1004(a), such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

 

(b)                                The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 10 days after the Company becomes aware of such event, written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice and/or the lapse of time would become an Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

(B)                                Section 1007 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1007                           Waiver of Certain Covenants.

 

The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 1010 through 1014, inclusive, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, by Act of such Holders, waive such compliance in such instance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect; provided, however, that the Holders of each Outstanding Note affected thereby is required to waive the obligation of the Company to make and

 

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consummate a Change in Control Offer in the event of a Change of Control or make and consummate a Net Proceeds Offer with respect to any Asset Sale.

 

(C)                                The following shall be added to Article 10 of the Base Indenture as follows:

 

Section 1008                           Change of Control.

 

(a)                                  Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to require that the Company repurchase all or a portion (in integral multiples of $1,000; provided that the Company will repurchase Notes of $2,000 or less in whole and not in part) of such Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase.

 

(b)                                 Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control occurred, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, offering to purchase the Notes as described above (the “Change of Control Offer”).  The notice to the Holders shall contain instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer.  Such notice shall state:

 

(1)                                 that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 1008 and that all Notes tendered and not withdrawn will be accepted for payment;
 
(2)                                 the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest) and the purchase date, which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 70 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”);
 
(3)                                 that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;
 
(4)                                 that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Payment Date;
 
(5)                                 that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Note completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date;
 
(6)                                 that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the Paying Agent receives, not later than 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the second Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date, a letter or facsimile transmission setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Notes the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased;

 

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(7)                                 that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; and
 
(8)                                 the circumstances and relevant facts regarding the Change of Control Offer.
 

On or before the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company will (i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof tendered (in integral multiples of $1,000; provided that the Company will repurchase notes of $2,000 or less in whole and not in part) pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent money in an amount sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued but unpaid interest, if any, of all Notes so tendered and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Company.  The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the Change of Control Payment Date and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail to such Holders new Notes equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered.  For purposes of this Section 1008, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.

 

Any amounts remaining after the purchase of Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer promptly shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, conditional upon such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making of the Change of Control Offer.

 

The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if (i) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under the Change of Control Offer or (ii) notice of redemption has been given pursuant to this Indenture as described under Section 1108, unless and until there is a default of the applicable Redemption Price.

 

The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 1008, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached their obligations under this Section 1008 by virtue thereof.

 

(D)                               Section 1009                             Suspension of Certain Covenants when Notes Rated Investment Grade.

 

During any period of time that: (i) the Notes have an Investment Grade Rating from either Rating Agency and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture (the occurrence of the events described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) being

 

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collectively referred to as a “Covenant Suspension Event”), the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not be subject to Sections 1010, 1011, 1012, 1014, 1015 and clause (2) of the first paragraph of Section 801 (collectively, the “Suspended Covenants”).  The Company shall give prompt written notice of any Covenant Suspension Event to the Trustee.

 

Upon the occurrence of a Covenant Suspension Event (the “Suspension Date”), the amount of Net Cash Proceeds that have not been invested or applied as provided under Section 1015 shall be set at zero as of such date. In the event that, on any date subsequent to any Suspension Date (the “Reversion Date”), the Notes do not have an Investment Grade Rating from at least one Rating Agency, or a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall thereafter again be subject to the Suspended Covenants with respect to future events. The period of time between the Suspension Date and the Reversion Date is referred to in this Indenture as the “Suspension Period.” Notwithstanding the reinstatement of the Suspended Covenants, no Default or Event of Default will be deemed to have occurred as a result of a failure to comply with the Suspended Covenants during the Suspension Period (or upon termination of the Suspension Period or after that time based solely on events that occurred during the Suspension Period).

 

Calculations made after the Reversion Date of the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under Section 1010 will be made as though Section 1010 had been in effect since the Issue Date and throughout the Suspension Period.  Accordingly, Restricted Payments made during the Suspension Period will reduce the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under the first paragraph of Section 1010.  On the Reversion Date all Indebtedness Incurred during the Suspension Period will be classified as having been Incurred under clause (3) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness.

 

(E)                                 Section 1010                             Limitation on Restricted Payments.

 

The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:

 

(a)                                 declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable in Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or in warrants, rights or options (other than debt securities or Disqualified Capital Stock) to acquire Qualified Capital Stock of the Company) on or in respect of shares of the Company’s Capital Stock to holders of such Capital Stock (other than dividends or distributions to a Restricted Subsidiary that owns Capital Stock of the Company);

 

(b)                                purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests, other than the exchange of Equity Interests to acquire Qualified Capital Stock;

 

(c)                                 make any principal payment on or repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to a scheduled principal payment, scheduled sinking fund payment or maturity, any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than payments on or repurchases, redemptions, defeasances or other acquisitions or retirement of (a) any Subordinated Indebtedness purchased in anticipation of

 

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satisfying a scheduled principal payment, maturity, sinking fund or amortization or other installment obligation or mandatory redemption, in each case due within one year of the date of payment, repurchase, acquisition or retirement) or (b) Subordinated Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under clause (6) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness);

 

(d)                                make any Restricted Investment (other than Permitted Investments);

 

(each of the foregoing actions set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) being referred to as a “Restricted Payment”), if at the time of such Restricted Payment, or immediately after giving effect thereto:

 

(1)                                 a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

 

(2)                                 the Company is not able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 1011; or

 

(3)                                 the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date (without duplication and excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (2)(a), (3), (4), (5), (6), (8) and (11) of the following paragraph) shall exceed the sum of:

 

(v)                                50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income, or if cumulative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss of the Company earned during the period beginning January 1, 2008 and ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available as of the date the Restricted Payment occurs, treating such period as a single accounting period; plus

 

(w)                              the aggregate net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value of property or assets received (i) by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any Person (other than a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) from the issuance and sale subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the date the Restricted Payment occurs of Qualified Capital Stock, or in respect of warrants, rights or options (other than debt securities or Disqualified Capital Stock) to acquire Qualified Capital Stock, including Qualified Capital Stock issued upon the conversion or exchange of Indebtedness and (ii) by the Company as capital contributions to the Company from its shareholders subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the date the Restricted Payment occurs; provided, however, that any Equity Interests of the Company issued in connection with the Honeywell Acquisition shall be excluded from this paragraph (w); plus

 

(x)                                  the amount by which Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary is reduced on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet upon the conversion or exchange (other than by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) subsequent to the Issue Date of any Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary for Qualified Capital Stock of the

 

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Company (less the amount of any cash, or the Fair Market Value of any other property, distributed by the Company upon such conversion or exchange); plus

 

(y)                                an amount equal to the net cash proceeds and Fair Market Value of property or assets received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date or from repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets, in each case to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or from the net cash proceeds from the sale of any such Restricted Investment (except, in each case, to the extent any such payment or proceeds are included in the calculation of the Company’s Consolidated Net Income), from the release of any guarantee (except to the extent any amounts are paid under such guarantee) or, in the case of a redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Fair Market Value of the Investment in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph will not prohibit:

 

(1)                                 the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution, if the dividend or distribution would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture on the date of declaration;

 

(2)                                 the making of any Restricted Payment, either:

 

(a)                                 in exchange for shares of Qualified Capital Stock and/or warrants, rights or options (other than debt securities or Disqualified Capital Stock) to acquire Qualified Capital Stock, or

 

(b)                                through the application of the net proceeds of a sale for cash (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock and/or warrants, rights or options (other than debt securities or Disqualified Capital Stock) to acquire Qualified Capital Stock, so long as such net proceeds are applied pursuant to this clause (b) within 180 days of such sale;

 

(3)                                 the repurchase by the Company of its Capital Stock if after giving effect thereto the aggregate consideration paid or payable for all such purchases does not exceed $100.0 million;

 

(4)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the repurchase of any Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company at a purchase price not greater than 100% of the principal amount of such Subordinated Indebtedness in the event of an Asset Sale pursuant to a provision similar to Section 1015; provided that prior to or concurrently with such repurchase the Company has made the Net Proceeds Offer as provided in such covenant with

 

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respect to the Notes and has repurchased all Notes validly tendered for payment in connection with such Net Proceeds Offer;

 

(5)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the repurchase of any Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company at a purchase price not greater than 101% of the principal amount of such Subordinated Indebtedness in the event of a Change of Control pursuant to a provision similar to Section 1008; provided that prior to or concurrently with such repurchase the Company has made the Change of Control Offer as provided in Section 1008 with respect to the Notes and has repurchased all Notes validly tendered for payment in connection with such Change of Control Offer;

 

(6)                                 the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Subordinated Indebtedness (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of a substantially concurrent incurrence (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary) of, Indebtedness of the Company so long as (A) the principal amount of such new Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or, if such Indebtedness being refinanced provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration thereof, such lesser amount as of the date of determination) of the Indebtedness being so purchased, redeemed, acquired or retired, plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, plus the amount of any premium required to be paid in connection with such refinancing pursuant to the terms of the Subordinated Indebtedness refinanced or the amount of any premium reasonably determined by the Company as necessary to accomplish such refinancing, plus the amount of any fees, expenses or defeasance costs of the Company incurred in connection with such refinancing, (B) such new Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes at least to the same extent as the Subordinated Indebtedness so purchased, redeemed, acquired or retired and (C) such new Indebtedness has an Average Life longer than the Average Life of the Subordinated Indebtedness and a Stated Maturity later than the Stated Maturity of the Subordinated Indebtedness;

 

(7)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, other Restricted Payments by the Company in an aggregate amount expended pursuant to this clause (7) not to exceed $100.0 million;

 

(8)                                 the repurchase of any Capital Stock of the Company or any warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any such Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options or warrants to acquire Qualified Capital Stock or other similar arrangements to acquire Qualified Capital Stock (including any fractional interests resulting therefrom), if such repurchased Capital Stock or warrants, rights or options to acquire shares of any such Capital Stock represent a portion of the exercise price thereof and applicable withholding taxes, if any;

 

(9)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of the Company held by any future, present or former officers, directors,

 

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employees, members of management or consultants (or their heirs, family members, spouses, former spouses or their estates or other beneficiaries under their estates), upon death, disability, retirement, severance or termination of employment or pursuant to any plan or agreement under which the Equity Interests were issued; provided that the aggregate cash consideration paid therefor in any calendar year after the Issue Date does not exceed an aggregate amount of $10.0 million (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to succeeding calendar years subject to a maximum of $15.0 million in any calendar year); provided, further, that cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary from members of management of the Company or any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Equity Interests of the Company will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this Section or any other provision of this Indenture;

 

(10)                           the declaration and payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any class or series of Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary issued in accordance with Section 1011; and

 

(11)                           Restricted Payments that are made in connection with or related to the Honeywell Acquisition.

 

In determining the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date in accordance with clause (3) of the immediately preceding paragraph, amounts expended (to the extent such expenditure is in the form of cash) pursuant to clauses (1), (2)(b), (7) and (9) of this paragraph will be included in such calculation.

 

(F)                                 Section 1011                             Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.

 

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, incur any Indebtedness, other than Permitted Indebtedness; provided, however, that the Company, any guarantor (or a Restricted Subsidiary which guarantees the Notes at the time of such incurrence) may incur Indebtedness if on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof and application of proceeds therefrom, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company would be equal to or greater than 2.0 to 1.0.

 

(G)                                Section 1012                             Limitations on Transactions with Affiliates.

 

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Company in any transaction or series of related transactions (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $20.0 million unless:

 

(1)                                 such Affiliate Transaction, as determined by the Company in good faith, is on terms that are not materially less favorable to the Company or its relevant

 

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Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis;

 

(2)                                 the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate with respect to such Affiliate Transaction stating that the Company has approved such Affiliate Transaction and stating that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above; and

 

(3)                                 for any transaction or series of related transactions with an aggregate value of $50.0 million or more, such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company, if any.

 

The foregoing restrictions will not apply to:

 

(1)                                 payment of reasonable fees and compensation paid to, or loans made to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Company or any subsidiary (including any employment agreements, employee benefit plans or indemnification agreements entered into with such Persons) as determined, in good faith, by the Company;

 

(2)                                 any transaction between the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or between Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company;

 

(3)                                 transactions (including the payment of fees and expenses related thereto) pursuant to any of the Honeywell Acquisition Documents or agreements of the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business in effect on the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date;

 

(4)                                 any agreement as in effect as of the Issue Date or the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date in the case of the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) or in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is, as determined by the Company, not more materially disadvantageous to the Holders when taken as a whole than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date or the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date in the case of the Honeywell Consumables Solutions Business;

 

(5)                                 Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments permitted by this Indenture;

 

(6)                                 transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are, in the determination of the Company, fair to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party;

 

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(7)                                 commercially reasonable transactions between the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and any joint venture or any Unrestricted Subsidiary and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are, in the determination of the Company at the time of entry into such transactions, fair to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; and

 

(8)                                 the issuance or sale of any Equity Interests of the Company.

 

(H)                               Section 1013                             Limitation on Liens.

 

(a)                                 The Company will not, and will not permit:

 

(x)                                  any of the guarantors, directly or indirectly, to create, incur or assume any Lien securing Indebtedness; or

 

(y)                                any of its non-guarantor Restricted Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to create, incur or assume any Debt Securities Lien;

 

in each case (other than Permitted Liens) upon any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by them, or any income or profits therefrom, or assign or convey any right to receive income therefrom.

 

(b)                                Notwithstanding the foregoing, in addition to creating Permitted Liens on their properties or assets:

 

(x)                                  the Company and any of the guarantors may create any Lien securing Indebtedness upon any of their properties or assets (including, but not limited to, any Capital Stock of its subsidiaries); or

 

(y)                                any of the Company’s non-guarantor Restricted Subsidiaries may create Debt Securities Liens upon any of its properties or assets (including, but not limited to, any Capital Stock of its subsidiaries);

 

in each case, if the Notes are secured equally and ratably with (or, if the Indebtedness to be secured by the Lien is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, prior to) the Indebtedness so secured, as the case may be, for so long as such obligations are so secured.

 

(c)                                 Any such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged in all respects upon (i) the release and discharge of the other Lien to which it relates (except a release and discharge upon payment of the obligation secured by such Lien during the pendency of any Default or Event of Default under this Indenture, in which case such Liens shall only be discharged and released upon payment of the Notes or cessation of such Default or Event of Default), (ii) in the case of any such Lien in favor of any guarantee, upon the termination and discharge of such guarantee in accordance with the terms of this Indenture or

 

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(iii) any sale, exchange or transfer (other than a transfer constituting a transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company that is governed by Section 801 in compliance with this Indenture to any Person (not an Affiliate of the Company) of the property or assets secured by such initial Lien, or of all of the Capital Stock held by the Company, any guarantor or any non-guarantor Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in, or all or substantially all the assets of, any guarantor or any non-guarantor Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, creating such initial Lien.

 

(I)                                    Section 1014                             Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.

 

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

 

(a)                                 pay dividends or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock;

 

(b)                                make loans or advances to or pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or

 

(c)                                 transfer any of its property or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;

 

except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:

 

(1)                                 applicable law, rule, regulation or order of, or agreements with, governmental authorities with respect to assets located in their jurisdiction;

 

(2)                                 the Notes, this Indenture or any guarantee thereof;

 

(3)                                 (A) customary provisions (i) restricting the subletting or assignment of any property or asset that is a lease, license, conveyance or contract or similar property or asset or (ii) contained in agreements related to the license of copyrighted or patented materials or other intellectual property, (B) provisions in agreements that restrict the assignment of such agreements or rights thereunder, (C) contained in the terms of Capital Stock restricting the payment of dividends and the making of distributions on Capital Stock or (D) in contracts with customers entered into the ordinary course of business that impose restriction on cash or other deposits or net worth;

 

(4)                                 any agreement or other instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than (a) the Person or the properties or assets of the Person so acquired (including the Capital Stock of such Person), or (b) any Restricted Subsidiary having no assets other than (i) the Person or the properties or assets of the Person so acquired (including the Capital Stock of such

 

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Person) and (ii) other assets having a fair market value not in excess of $1.0 million, and, in each case, the monetary proceeds thereof;

 

(5)                                 any agreement or instrument (A) in effect at or entered into on the Issue Date or on the Honeywell Acquisition Closing Date or (B) governing Indebtedness, including the Credit Agreement, provided that (x) such Indebtedness is permitted under this Indenture and (y) the Company has determined in good faith at the time of incurrence that such encumbrance or restriction will not adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Notes as and when due;

 

(6)                                 purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions of the nature discussed in clause (c) above on the property so acquired;

 

(7)                                 restrictions on the transfer of assets subject to any Lien permitted under this Indenture;

 

(8)                                 restrictions imposed by any agreement to sell assets not in violation of this Indenture to any Person pending the closing of such sale;

 

(9)                                 customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other agreements or arrangements relating solely to such joint venture;

 

(10)                           the subordination of any Indebtedness owed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary to any other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that such other Indebtedness is permitted under this Indenture;

 

(11)                           the Honeywell Acquisition Documents; or

 

(12)                           any encumbrances or restrictions of the type referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above imposed by any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancing of the contracts, instruments or obligations referred to in subclauses (1) through (11) above; provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are, in the good faith judgment of the Company, not materially more restrictive with respect to such encumbrance and other restrictions taken as a whole than those prior to such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing.

 

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(J)                                Section 1015           Limitation on Asset Sales.

 

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless:

 

(1)           the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of; and

 

(2)           at least 75% of the consideration received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from such Asset Sale is cash or Cash Equivalents, Replacement Assets or a combination thereof; provided that the amount of (a) any liabilities (other than Subordinated Indebtedness) of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary, as shown on the Company’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet, that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets, (b) any securities, notes or other obligations received by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 90 days of the time of such disposition, to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received and (c) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in such Asset Sale having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (c) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed $50.0 million, with the Fair Market Value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value, will each be deemed to be cash for the purposes of this clause (2); provided that the 75% limitation referred to above will not apply to any sale, transfer or other disposition of assets in which the cash portion of the consideration received therefor is equal to or greater than what the after-tax net proceeds would have been had such transaction complied with the aforementioned 75% limitation.

 

Within 365 days of the receipt of Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale, the Company may apply directly or through a Restricted Subsidiary, or causes such Restricted Subsidiary to apply, an amount equal to the Net Cash Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale thereof either (A) to repay Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Facility (and in the case of any Indebtedness outstanding under a revolving credit facility and repaid in satisfaction of this Section 1015, to permanently reduce the amounts that may be reborrowed thereunder by an equivalent amount), or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary with the Net Cash Proceeds received in respect thereof, (B) to reinvest in Replacement Assets or (C) a combination of prepayment, reduction and investment permitted by the foregoing clauses (A) and (B); provided that, if during such 365-day period the Company or Restricted Subsidiary enters into a definitive written agreement committing it to apply such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with the requirements of clauses (B) above, such 365-day period shall be extended with respect to the amount of Net Cash Proceeds so committed until the later of the date required to be paid in accordance with such agreement and 90 days. Pending the final application of any Net Cash Proceeds pursuant to clause (B) above, the Company may temporarily reduce revolving credit

 

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borrowings or otherwise invest the Net Cash Proceeds in any manner that is not prohibited by this Indenture.

 

On the later of the 366th day after an Asset Sale and the date the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary agreed to apply such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with it previously entered into definitive agreement; provided that such date may be earlier, as the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may determine (the “Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date”), such aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds that have not been so applied on or before such Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date as permitted in clauses (A), (B) and (C) of the preceding sentence (each, a “Net Proceeds Offer Amount”) will be applied by the Company to make an offer to repurchase (the “Net Proceeds Offer”) on a date (the “Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date”) not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the applicable Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date, from all Holders on a pro rata basis that amount of Notes equal to the Net Proceeds Offer Amount multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of Notes then Outstanding and the denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness then outstanding (the “Pro Rata Share”), at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued interest to the date of repurchase.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Net Proceeds Offer Amount is less than $50.0 million, the application of the Net Cash Proceeds constituting such Net Proceeds Offer Amount to a Net Proceeds Offer may be deferred until such time as such Net Proceeds Offer Amount plus the aggregate amount of all Net Proceeds Offer Amounts arising subsequent to the Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date relating to such initial Net Proceeds Offer Amount from all Asset Sales by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries aggregates at least $50.0 million, at which time the Company will apply all Net Cash Proceeds constituting all Net Proceeds Offer Amounts that have been so deferred to make a Net Proceeds Offer, the first date the aggregate of all such deferred Net Proceeds Offer Amounts is at least $50.0 million being deemed to be a Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date. To the extent that the aggregate purchase price of Notes tendered pursuant to any Net Proceeds Offer is less than the Pro Rata Share, the Company or any guarantor may use such amount for any purpose not prohibited by this Indenture. Upon completion of any Net Proceeds Offer, the Net Proceeds Offer Amount shall be reset to zero.

 

Notice of a Net Proceeds Offer will be mailed, by first class mail, by the Company to Holders as shown on the register of Holders at their last registered address not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days before the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, with a copy to the Trustee.  The notice shall contain instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender their Notes pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer and shall state the following terms:

 

(1)                                that the Net Proceeds Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 1015, that all Notes tendered will be accepted for payment; provided ,however, that if the aggregate principal amount of Notes tendered in a Net Proceeds Offer plus accrued interest at the expiration of such offer exceeds the aggregate amount of the Net Proceeds Offer, the Company shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in denominations of $2,000 or multiples thereof shall be purchased) and that the Net Proceeds Offer shall remain open for a period of 20 Business Days or such longer period as may be required by law;

 

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(2)                                the Net Proceeds Offer Amount (including the amount of accrued interest) and the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date (which shall be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the applicable Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date and which shall be at least five Business Days after the Trustee receives notice thereof from the Company);

 

(3)                                that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;

 

(4)                                that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date;

 

(5)                                that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Security completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date;

 

(6)                                that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the Paying Agent receives, not later than the second Business Day prior to the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Notes such Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Notes purchased; and

 

(7)                                that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; provided, however, that each Note purchased and each new Note issued shall be in an original principal amount of $2,000 or any greater integral multiple of $1,000 thereof.

 

On or before the Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date, the Company shall (i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer which are to be purchased in accordance with item (1) above, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent money in an amount sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Notes to be purchased and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Company.  The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any.  For purposes of this Section 1015, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.

 

Any amounts remaining after the purchase of Notes pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer promptly shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company.

 

If an offer is made to repurchase the Notes pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer, the Company will and will cause its Restricted Subsidiaries to comply with all tender offer rules under state and federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, Section 14(e) under the Exchange Act and Rule 14e-1 thereunder, to the extent applicable to such offer. To the extent that the provisions of

 

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any securities laws or regulations conflict with Section 1015, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached their obligations hereunder by virtue thereof.

 

(K)                            Section 1016           Limitation of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

(a)

 

The Company will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary (other than a guarantor) to guarantee any Indebtedness of the Company unless, in any such case:

 

 

 

 

 

(1)

 

such Restricted Subsidiary executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Indenture, providing a guarantee of payment of the Notes by such Restricted Subsidiary in the form required by this Indenture; and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2)

 

if such guarantee is provided in respect of Indebtedness that is expressly subordinated to the Notes, the guarantee or other instrument provided by such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such subordinated Indebtedness is similarly subordinated to the guarantee of the Notes;

 

provided that this paragraph shall not be applicable to any guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that (x) existed at the time such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and (y) was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company.

 

(b)                                 Any guarantee of the Notes by a Restricted Subsidiary will provide by its terms that it will be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged, without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, upon:

 

(1)                                 the release of such Restricted Subsidiary from its liability in respect of the Indebtedness in connection with which such guarantee of the Notes was executed and delivered pursuant to paragraph (a) above (except a release by or as a result of payment under such Indebtedness);

 

(2)                                 any sale or other disposition (by merger or otherwise) to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, of the Company’s Capital Stock in such Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that:

 

(x)                                 such sale or disposition of such Capital Stock is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture; and

 

(y)                                 the Company is deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of such entity not sold or disposed plus the Fair Market Value of any guarantee by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness of such entity;

 

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(3)                                 any sale or other disposition (by merger or otherwise) to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, of all of the Company’s Capital Stock in, or all or substantially all of the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that:

 

(x)

 

such sale or disposition of such Capital Stock or assets is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture; and

 

 

 

(y)

 

such assumption, guarantee or other liability of such Restricted Subsidiary has been released by the holders of the other Indebtedness so guaranteed;

 

(4)           the designation of such Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in compliance with the terms of this Indenture; or

 

(5)           the exercise by the Company of its Legal Defeasance option under Article 14 or the discharge of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture.

 

(L)                              Section 1017                                Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.

 

The Company shall pay prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments and governmental levies except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate negotiations or proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.

 

X.                                    Set forth below are the changes to Article 11 of the Base Indenture: Redemption of Securities:

 

(A)                              Section 1102 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1102          Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

 

If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to the redemption provisions of Paragraphs 5 through 7 of the Notes, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed.  The Company shall give notice of redemption, which notice shall include all information referenced in Section 1104(1) through (8), to the Paying Agent and Trustee at least 45 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), together with an Officers’ Certificate stating that such redemption will comply with the conditions contained herein.  Any such notice may be cancelled at any time prior to notice of such redemption being mailed to any Holder and shall thereby be void and of no effect.

 

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(B)                                Section 1103 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1103          Selection by Trustee of Notes to be Redeemed.

 

In the event that less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time pursuant to the redemption provisions of Paragraphs 5 through 7 of the Notes, the Trustee will select the Notes or portions thereof to be redeemed among the Holders of the Notes as follows:

 

(1)

 

if the Notes are listed, in compliance with any applicable requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which the notes are listed; or

 

 

 

(2)

 

if the Notes are not so listed, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by any other method the Trustee considers fair and appropriate;

 

The Trustee shall make the selection from the Notes Outstanding and not previously called for redemption and shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.  Notes in denominations of $2,000 or less may be redeemed only in whole.  The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to $2,000 or any greater integral multiple of $1,000 thereof) of the principal amount of Notes that have denominations larger than $2,000.  Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption.

 

(C)           Section 1104 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1104          Notice of Redemption.

 

In the case of an optional redemption pursuant to the provisions of Paragraphs 6 and 7 of the Notes, at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date, the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address.  At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense, provided, however, the Trustee shall not be required to give such notice if it has not received notice from the Company in accordance with Section 1102.  Each notice for redemption shall identify the Notes to be redeemed (including the CUSIP number(s), if any) and shall state:

 

(1)

 

the Redemption Date;

 

 

 

(2)

 

the Redemption Price and the amount of accrued interest, if any, to be paid;

 

 

 

(3)

 

the name and address of the Paying Agent;

 

 

 

(4)

 

that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any;

 

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(5)

 

that, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption payment or the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the Redemption Date, and the only remaining right of the Holders of such Notes is to receive payment of the Redemption Price upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed;

 

 

 

(6)

 

if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Security to be redeemed and that, after the Redemption Date, and upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued upon surrender of the original Note;

 

 

 

(7)

 

if fewer than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the identification of the particular Notes (or portion thereof) to be redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be outstanding after such partial redemption; and

 

 

 

(8)

 

the paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which the Securities are to be redeemed.

 

(D)          Section 1105 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1105          Deposit of Redemption Price.

 

On or before 11:00 a.m. New York Time on the Business Day prior to the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, of all Notes to be redeemed on that date (other than Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on that date which have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee for cancellation).  The Paying Agent or Trustee shall promptly return to the Company any money so deposited which is not required for that purpose.

 

If the Company complies with the preceding paragraph, then, unless the Company defaults in the payment when due of such Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, or the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest on the Notes to be redeemed will cease to accrue on and after the applicable Redemption Date, whether or not such Notes are presented for payment.

 

(E)           Section 1106 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1106          Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

 

Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 1104, Notes called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any.  Upon surrender to the Trustee or Paying Agent, such Notes called for redemption shall be paid at the Redemption Price (which shall include accrued interest thereon to

 

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the Redemption Date), but installments of interest, the maturity of which is on or prior to the Redemption Date, shall be payable to Holders of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates.

 

(F)           Section 1107 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1107          Securities Redeemed in Part.

 

Upon surrender and cancellation of a Note that is to be redeemed in part only, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Note or Notes in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.

 

XI.           Set forth below are the changes to Article 12 of the Base Indenture: Sinking Funds:

 

(A)          Article 12 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

 

XII.         Set forth below are the changes to Article 14 of the Base Indenture: Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance:

 

(A)          Section 1401 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1401          Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The Company may, at its option by Board Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, at any time, elect to have either Section 1402 or Section 1403 be applied to all Outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 1404.

 

(B)           Section 1402 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1402          Legal Defeasance and Discharge.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 1401 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 1402, the Company shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 1404, be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all Outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”).  For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in (A) and (B) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), and Holders of the Notes

 

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and any amounts deposited under Section 1404 shall cease to be subject to any other obligations, except for the following provisions, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium and liquidated damages, if any, on such Notes when such payments are due from the trust fund described in Section 1404; (B) the Company’s obligations with respect to the Notes concerning issuing temporary notes, registration of notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen notes and the maintenance of an office or agency for payment and money for security payments held in trust; (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee, and the Company’s obligations in connection therewith; and (D) this Article 14.  Subject to compliance with this Article 14, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1402 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities.

 

(C)           Section 1403 shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1403          Covenant Defeasance.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 1401 of the option applicable to this Section 1403, the Company shall be released from its obligations under Section 703, Section 1006, Section 1008 and Sections 1010 through 1017 and Article 8, and its obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”), and such Notes shall thereafter be deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes shall not be deemed Outstanding for financial accounting purposes) and Holders of the Notes and any amounts deposited under Section 1404 shall cease to be subject to any other obligations.  For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 501(3) or Section 501(4) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby.  In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 1401 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 1403, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 1404, Sections 501(3), 501(4), 501(5) and 501(8) shall not constitute Events of Default.

 

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(D)          Section 1404 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

Section 1404                          Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance as described in Section 1402 or Covenant Defeasance as described in Section 1403:

 

(1)                                 the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest and premium, if any, on the Outstanding Notes on the Stated Maturity or on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to maturity or to a particular Redemption Date;

 

(2)                                 in the case of Legal Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (a) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders and beneficial owners of the Outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;

 

(3)                                 in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders and beneficial owners of the Outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

 

(4)                                 the Company delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as of the date of such opinion and subject to customary assumptions and exclusions, following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of Section 547 of Title 11 of the United States Code;

 

(5)                                 such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under any material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound;

 

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(6)

 

the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of Notes over the other creditors of the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the Company or others; and

 

 

 

(7)

 

the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.

 

SECTION THREE

ADDITIONAL TERMS OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

I.              Interpretation of Base and Supplemental Indenture

 

The Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.  All provisions included in this Supplemental Indenture supersede any similar provisions included in the Base Indenture unless not permitted by law.

 

II.            Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act

 

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

 

III.           Successors and Assigns

 

All covenants and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 

IV.           Severability

 

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

 

V.            Benefits of Indenture

 

Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Holders of the Notes any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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VI.           Governing Law

 

This Supplemental Indenture and each Note shall be deemed to a contract made under the laws of the State of New York and this Supplemental Indenture and each such Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles that would apply any other law.

 

VII.          Definitions

 

All terms used in this Supplemental Indenture not otherwise defined herein that are defined in the Base Indenture shall have the meanings set forth therein.

 

VIII.        Duplicate Originals

 

This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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

 

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ THOMAS P. MCCAFFREY

 

 

Name:

Thomas P. McCaffrey

 

 

Title:

Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee

 

 

 

By:

/s/ MICHAEL G. OLLER, JR.

 

 

Name:

Michael G. Oller, Jr.

 

 

Title:

Assistant Vice President

 

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APPENDIX A

 

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL NOTES
AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

 

1.                                      Definitions

 

1.1.                           Definitions.

 

Capitalized terms used in this Appendix and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings provided in the Indenture.  For the purposes of this Appendix A and the Indenture as a whole, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:

 

Definitive Note” means a certificated Initial Note that does not include the Global Notes Legend.

 

Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors or another Person designated as Depositary by the Company, which must be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act.

 

Global Notes Legend” means the legend set forth under that caption in Exhibit 1 to this Appendix.

 

Initial Notes” means (1) $600.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.50% Senior Notes due 2018 issued on the Issue Date and (2) Additional Notes, if any, issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

Notes Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Note (as appointed by the Depositary) or any successor person thereto, who shall initially be the Trustee.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Underwriting Agreement” means (1) with respect to the Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date, the Underwriting Agreement dated as of June 26, 2008, among the Company and the representatives for the Underwriters and (2) any other similar purchase or underwriting agreement relating to Additional Notes.

 

Underwriters” means (1) with respect to the Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and Mizuho Securities USA Inc. and (2) with respect to each issuance of Additional Notes, the Persons purchasing such Additional Notes under the related underwriting agreement.

 

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1.2.          Other Definitions.

 

Term:

 

Defined in Section:

 

 

 

“Agent Members”

 

2.1(c)

“Global Note”

 

2.1(b)

 

2.                                      The Notes

 

2.1.                              Form and Dating.

 

(a)           The Initial Notes issued on the date hereof were offered and sold by the Company pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement to the Underwriters.  Additional Notes offered after the date hereof may be offered and sold by the Company from time to time pursuant to one or more Underwriting Agreements in accordance with applicable law.

 

(b)           Global Notes.  The Initial Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in definitive, fully registered form (collectively, the “Global Note”) without interest coupons and bearing the Global Notes Legend, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with the Notes Custodian, and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Indenture.  The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary or its nominee.

 

(c)           Book-Entry Provisions.  This Section 2.1(c) shall apply only to a Global Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depositary.

 

The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.1(c) and Section 303 of this Indenture, and pursuant to an authentication order delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 of this Indenture, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (i) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Note or Global Notes or the nominee of such Depositary and (ii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instructions or held by the Trustee as Notes Custodian.

 

Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary or by the Trustee as Notes Custodian or under such Global Note, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company (including any Agent) or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of such Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.

 

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(d)           Definitive Notes.  Except as provided in Section 2.2 or 2.3, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificated Notes.

 

2.2.                              Transfer and Exchange.  (a)  Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes.  When Definitive Notes are presented to the Registrar with a request:

 

(i)            to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes; or

 

(ii)           to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations,

 

the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

(b)           Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note.  A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar, together with written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the Notes Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase, then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct the Notes Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Notes Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled.  If no Global Notes are then outstanding and the Global Note has not been previously exchanged for certificated Notes pursuant to Section 2.3, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, in accordance with Section 303 of this Indenture, a new Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

 

(c)           Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes.  (i)  The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.  A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Note or another Global Note and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred.

 

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(ii)           If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note from which such interest is being transferred.

 

(iii)          Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.3), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

(d)           Legend.

 

Each Definitive Note shall bear the following additional legend:

 

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

(e)           Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note.  At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Depositary to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee.  At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Notes Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Notes Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

 

(f)            Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes.

 

(i)            To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Registrar’s request.

 

(ii)           No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes,

 

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assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 306, 1015 and1107 of this Indenture).

 

(iii)          Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

(iv)          All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

 

(g)           No Obligation of the Trustee.

 

(i)            The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in the Depositary or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes.  All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note).  The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary.  The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

 

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

 

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2.3.          Definitive Notes.

 

(a)           A Global Note deposited with the Depositary or with the Trustee as Notes Custodian pursuant to Section 2.1 or issued in connection with a Registered Exchange Offer shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.2 and (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depositary for such Global Note or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act, and a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 60 days of such notice or after the Company becomes aware of such cessation, (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (iii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to cause the issuance of certificated Notes under this Indenture.

 

(b)           Any Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations.  Any portion of a Global Note transferred pursuant to this Section shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations of $2,000 and any greater integral multiple of $1,000 thereof and registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct.

 

(c)           Subject to the provisions of Section 2.3(b), the registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

 

(d)           In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.3(a)(i), (ii) or (iii), the Company will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons.

 

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EXHIBIT 1

To

APPENDIX A

 

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

 

[Global Notes Legend]

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

[Definitive Notes Legend]

 

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 



 

No

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

CUSIP

 

8.50% Senior Notes due 2018

 

BE Aerospace, Inc., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to [               ] or registered assigns, the principal sum of [           ] Dollars [as such sum may be increased or reduced as reflected on the records of the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture] on July 1, 2018.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  January 1 and July 1

 

Record Dates:  December 15 and June 15

 

Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.

 



 

IN WITNESS HEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated: July  , 2008

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 



 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION

 

Dated: July 1, 2008

 

WILMINGTON TRUST
COMPANY

 

as Trustee, certifies
that this is one of
the Notes referred
to in the Indenture.

 

By

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 



 

[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF INITIAL NOTE]

 

8.50% Senior Notes due 2018

 

1.  Interest

 

BE AEROSPACE, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or the “Issuer”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  The Company will pay interest semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing January 1, 2009. 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 July 1, 2008. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

The Company shall pay interest at the rate of interest then borne by the Notes on overdue installments of principal and on overdue installments of interest to the extent lawful as provided in the Indenture.

 

2.  Method of Payment

 

The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the Notes are cancelled after such Record Date and before the corresponding Interest Payment Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts (“U.S. Legal Tender”). The Company may pay principal and interest by wire transfer of federal funds, or interest by check payable in such U.S. Legal Tender.  The Company may deliver any such interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder’s registered address.

 

3.  Paying Agent and Registrar

 

Initially, Wilmington Trust Company (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.  The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to the Holders.  The Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries may act as Registrar or Paying Agent.

 

4.  Indenture

 

The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2008 (the “Base Indenture”) as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 1, 2008 (the “Supplemental indenture” and collectively, the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and the Trustee. Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein. 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 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb)

 



 

(the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture until such time as the Indenture is qualified under the TIA, and thereafter as in effect on the date on which the Indenture is qualified under the TIA and as it may be amended from time to time. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Notes are senior obligations of the Company initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $600,000,000 on the Issue Date, and, subject to compliance with Section 1011 of the Indenture, unlimited in aggregate principal amount

 

5.  Optional Redemption

 

On and after July 1, 2013, the Company will be entitled, at its option on one or more occasions, to redeem all or any portion of the Notes upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on July 1 of the years set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date:

 

Period

 

Percentage

 

2013

 

104.250

%

2014

 

102.833

%

2015

 

101.417

%

2016 and thereafter

 

100.000

%

 

6.  Optional Redemption upon Equity Offering

 

On or prior to July 1, 2011, the Company may, at its option on one or more occasions, redeem up to 35% of the initially issued aggregate principal amount of the Notes (which includes Additional Notes, if any) with the net cash proceeds received by the Company from one or more Equity Offerings, at a Redemption Price equal to 108.5% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption; provided, however, that:

 

(1)           at least 65% of the initially issued aggregate principal amount of the Notes (which includes Additional Notes, if any) remains outstanding immediately after any such redemption; and

 

(2)           each such redemption occurs within 90 days after the date of the related Equity Offering.

 



 

7.  Redemption at Make-Whole Premium

 

At any time prior to July 1, 2013, the Company may redeem all or any portion of the Notes on one or more occasions upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days notice at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Record Dates occurring prior to the Redemption Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

As used in the preceding paragraph the following terms have the following meanings:

 

“Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Note on any Redemption Date, the greater of:

 

(a)           1.0% of the principal amount of such Note; and

 

(b)           the excess, if any, of:

 

(1)           the present value at such Redemption Date of (i) the Redemption Price of the Note at July 1, 2013 (such Redemption Price being set forth in the table appearing in Paragraph 5 of the Notes) plus (ii) all remaining required interest payments due on the Note through July 1, 2013 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest to the Redemption Date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such Redemption Date plus 50 basis points; over

 

(2)                                  the principal amount of the Note.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, as of any Redemption Date, the yield to maturity as of such Redemption Date of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to July 1, 2013; provided that, if the period from the Redemption Date to such date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be used.  The United States Treasury security used to calculate the Treasury Rate shall be selected by the Quotation Agent.

 

“Quotation Agent” means a nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by the Company that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

 



 

8.  Notice of Redemption

 

Notice of redemption will be sent, by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such Holder’s registered address. Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part.

 

Except as set forth in the Indenture, if monies for the redemption of the Notes called for redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent for redemption on such Redemption Date, then, unless the Company defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest from and after such Redemption Date and the only right of the Holders of such Notes will be to receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Redemption Date.

 

9.   Offers to Purchase

 

Sections 1008 and 1015 of the Indenture provide that upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the Indenture) and after certain Asset Sales (as defined in the Indenture), and subject to further limitations contained therein, the Company will make an offer to purchase certain amounts of the Notes in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture.

 

10.   Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and greater integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof (i) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing and (ii) selected for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

11.   Persons Deemed Owners

 

The registered Holder of this Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 



 

12.   Unclaimed Funds

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for one year, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company at its request. After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

13.   Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

 

The Company may be discharged from its Obligations under the Indenture and the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from its Obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Indenture and the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

14.   Amendment; Supplement; Waiver

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (other than a default in the payment of the principal of or interest on the Notes).  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes or comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder.

 

15.   Restrictive Covenants

 

The Indenture contains certain covenants that, among other things, limit the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to incur additional Indebtedness, create certain liens, pay dividends or make certain other restricted payments, consummate certain asset sales, enter into certain transactions with affiliates and merge or consolidate with any other person or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions. The Company must annually report to the Trustee on compliance with such covenants.

 

16.   Defaults and Remedies

 

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare the principal of and accrued interest on all the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default originating from certain bankruptcy events occurs, all Outstanding Notes will become due and payable without further action or notice.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture

 



 

or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it. The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

17.   Trustee Dealings with Company

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, the Subsidiaries of the Company or their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.

 

18.   No Recourse Against Others

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for any obligation 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 of a Note 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.

 

19.   Authentication

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee or authenticating agent signs the certificate of authentication on this Security by its manual signature.

 

20.   Abbreviations

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Security 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).

 

21.   CUSIP Numbers

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused a CUSIP number to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

24.   Governing Law

 

This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles that would apply any other law.

 



 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

and irrevocably appoint                           agent to transfer this 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 other side of this Note.

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with its terms.

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature of Signature Guarantee

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be

 



 

determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 



 

OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 1008 (Change of Control) or 1015 (Asset Sales) of the Indenture, check the box:

 

o  Change of Control

 

o  Asset Sales

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 1008 or 1015 of the Indenture, state the amount in principal amount:  $

 

 

Dated:

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears
on the other side of this Note.)

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

(Signature must be guaranteed)

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 


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