-----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, T9VjqhnqKGzJoT3Mh9Zof0lfRPXeyfBiZfF9ego6e1m4jjGrYY/6G2eJatja0+HF PGwZucGz7pHXN3G0tjc5Hg== 0001193125-08-026699.txt : 20080212 0001193125-08-026699.hdr.sgml : 20080212 20080212094737 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-08-026699 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 13 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080206 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20080212 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080212 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RADISYS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000873044 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT, NEC [3577] IRS NUMBER: 930945232 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OR FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-26844 FILM NUMBER: 08595964 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5445 NE DAWSON CREEK DR CITY: HILLSBORO STATE: OR ZIP: 97124 BUSINESS PHONE: 5036461800 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5445 NE DAWSON CREEK DRIVE CITY: HILLSBORO STATE: OR ZIP: 97124 8-K 1 d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 6, 2008

 

 

RADISYS CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Oregon   0-26844   93-0945232

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

5445 NE Dawson Creek Drive  
Hillsboro, Oregon   97124
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (503) 615-1100

No Change

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

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

 

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

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 204.14a-12)

 

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

 

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

 

 

 


Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement dated as of February 6, 2008 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), between RadiSys Corporation (the “Company”) and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (the “Underwriter”), the Company made a public offering of $55.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.75% convertible senior notes due 2013 (the “Notes”) (including the underwriter’s option to purchase additional $5.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes to cover over-allotments). The offering of the Notes was registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and is being made pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No. 333-146977) and the Prospectus included therein, declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on November 7, 2007, the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto dated February 6, 2007 and the Free Writing Prospectuses filed with the Commission on February 5 and February 7, 2008. The Underwriting Agreement includes customary representations, warranties and covenants by the Company. It also provides for customary indemnification by each of the Company and the Underwriter against certain liabilities arising out of or in connection with sale of the Notes and customary contribution provisions in respect of those liabilities.

The foregoing description of the material terms of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement which is attached to this report as Exhibit 1.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture, to be dated as of February 12, 2008 (the “Base Indenture”), by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 12, 2008, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together, the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Notes will be represented by a global security, executed by the Company, in the form attached to the Supplemental Indenture.

The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company ranking equally with all of the Company’s existing and future senior indebtedness. The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 2.75% per annum from the date of issuance, payable semi-annually, in arrears, on each August 15 and February 15, beginning on August 15, 2008. The Notes mature on February 15, 2013. The Notes will be convertible into the Company’s common stock at an initial conversion rate of 76.7448 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes (which is equivalent to a conversion price of approximately $13.03 per share), subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events.

Holders of the Notes may require the Company to repurchase the Notes for cash equal to 100% of the principal amount to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest upon the occurrence of a fundamental change in accordance with the Indenture. In addition, if certain fundamental changes occur, the Company may be required in certain circumstances to increase the conversion rate for any Notes converted in connection with such fundamental changes by a specified number of shares of the Company’s common stock.

The Indenture includes customary agreements and covenants by the Company. The foregoing description of the material terms of the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture is qualified in its entirety by reference to each of the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture, which are attached to this report as Exhibit 4.1 and Exhibit 4.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.


In connection with the offering of the Notes, the Company entered into a capped call transaction with an affiliate of the Underwriter. The capped call transaction is expected to reduce the potential dilution upon conversion of the Notes. However, the dilution mitigation under the capped call will be limited to the extent that the market value per share of the Company’s common stock exceeds such cap price. The capped call transaction has a cap price of $23.085, which is approximately 125% higher than the closing price of the Company’s common stock on February 6, 2008. In connection with hedging the capped call transaction, the counterparty or its affiliates expect to purchase the Company’s common stock and/or enter into various derivative transactions with respect to the Company’s common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the Notes. In addition, the counterparty or its affiliates may then enter into or unwind various derivative transactions and/or purchase or sell the Company’s common stock in secondary market transactions following the pricing of the Notes. These activities could have the effect of increasing or preventing a decline in the price of the Company’s common stock concurrently with or following the pricing of the Notes.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
Number

 

Description

  1.1   Underwriting Agreement, dated February 6, 2008, by and between the Company and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.
  4.1   Indenture, dated February 12, 2008, by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
  4.2   First Supplemental Indenture, dated February 12, 2008, by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
  4.3   Form of Global Security for the 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013 (included in Exhibit 4.2).
  5.1   Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP.
  5.2   Opinion of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
12.1   Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23.1   Consent of Stoel Rives LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.2   Consent of Baker & McKenzie LLP (included in Exhibit 5.2).


SIGNATURE

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

 

    RADISYS CORPORATION
Date: February 12, 2008     By:  

/s/ Brian Bronson

      Brian Bronson
      Chief Financial Officer


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated February 6, 2008, by and between the Company and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.
  4.1    Indenture, dated February 12, 2008, by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
  4.2    First Supplemental Indenture, dated February 12, 2008, by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
  4.3    Form of Global Security for the 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013 (included in Exhibit 4.2).
  5.1    Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP.
  5.2    Opinion of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
12.1    Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23.1    Consent of Stoel Rives LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.2    Consent of Baker & McKenzie LLP (included in Exhibit 5.2).
EX-1.1 2 dex11.htm UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT Underwriting Agreement

Exhibit 1.1

$50,000,000

RADISYS CORPORATION

2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

February 6, 2008

CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,

Eleven Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10010-3629

Dear Sirs:

1. Introductory. RadiSys Corporation, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), agrees with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (“Credit Suisse” or the “Underwriter”) to issue and sell to the Underwriter $50,000,000 principal amount (the “Firm Securities”) of its 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013 (the “Securities”) and also agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriter, at the option of the Underwriter, an aggregate of not more than $5,000,000 additional principal amount (the “Optional Securities”) of its Securities as set forth below, all to be issued under an indenture, dated as of February 6, 2008 and as supplemented through the First Closing Date (the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee. The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities are herein collectively called the “Offered Securities”.

2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Underwriter that:

(a) Filing and Effectiveness of Registration Statement; Certain Defined Terms. The Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-146977), including a related prospectus or prospectuses, covering the registration of the Offered Securities under the Act, which has become effective. “Registration Statement” at any particular time means such registration statement in the form then filed with the Commission, including any amendment thereto, any document incorporated by reference therein and all 430B Information and all 430C Information with respect to such registration statement, that in any case has not been superseded or modified. “Registration Statement” without reference to a time means the Registration Statement as of the Effective Time. For purposes of this definition, 430B Information shall be considered to be included in the Registration Statement as of the time specified in Rule 430B.

For purposes of this Agreement:

430B Information” means information included in a prospectus then deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B(e) or retroactively deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B(f).

430C Information” means information included in a prospectus then deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430C.

Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


Applicable Time” means 4:00 P.M. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement.

Closing Date” has the meaning defined in Section 3 hereof.

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Effective Time” of the Registration Statement relating to the Offered Securities means the time of the first contract of sale for the Offered Securities.

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

Final Prospectus” means the Statutory Prospectus that discloses the public offering price, other 430B Information and other final terms of the Offered Securities and otherwise satisfies Section 10(a) of the Act.

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 to this Agreement.

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, relating to the Offered 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).

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

Rules and Regulations” means the rules and regulations of the Commission.

Securities Laws” means, collectively, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley”), the Act, the Exchange Act, the Trust Indenture Act, the Rules and Regulations, the auditing principles, rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors of “issuers” (as defined in Sarbanes-Oxley) promulgated or approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and, as applicable, the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Stock Market (“Exchange Rules”).

Statutory Prospectus” with reference to any particular time means the prospectus relating to the Offered Securities that is included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to that time, including all 430B Information and all 430C Information with respect to the Registration Statement. For purposes of the foregoing definition, 430B Information shall be considered to be included in the Statutory Prospectus only as of the actual time that form of prospectus (including a prospectus supplement) is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and not retroactively.

Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

Underlying Shares” shall mean shares of common stock into which the Securities are convertible.

Unless otherwise specified, a reference to a “rule” is to the indicated rule under the Act.

(b) Compliance with Securities Act Requirements. (i) (A) At the time the Registration Statement initially became effective, (B) at the time of each amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether by post-effective amendment, incorporated report or form of prospectus), (C) at the Effective Time relating to the Offered Securities and (D) on each Closing Date, the Registration Statement conformed and will conform in all respects to the requirements of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (ii) (A) on its date, (B) at the time of filing the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) and (C) on each Closing Date, the Final Prospectus will conform in all respects to the requirements of the

 

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Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules and Regulations, and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any such document based upon written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information is that described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.

(c) Shelf Registration Statement. The date of this Agreement is not more than three years subsequent to the more recent of the initial effective time of the Registration Statement or December 1, 2005. If, immediately prior to the third anniversary of the more recent of the initial effective time of the Registration Statement or December 1, 2005, any of the Offered Securities remain unsold by the Underwriter, the Company will prior to that third anniversary file, if it has not already done so, a new shelf registration statement relating to the Offered Securities, in a form satisfactory to Credit Suisse, will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective within 180 days after that third anniversary, and will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Offered Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired registration statement relating to the Offered Securities. References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new shelf registration statement.

(d) Ineligible Issuer Status. (i) At 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 Offered Securities and (ii) at the date of this Agreement, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405, including (x) the Company or any other subsidiary in the preceding three years not having been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor or having been made the subject of a judicial or administrative decree or order as described in Rule 405 and (y) the Company in the preceding three years not having been the subject of a bankruptcy petition or insolvency or similar proceeding, not having had a registration statement be the subject of a proceeding under Section 8 of the Act and not being the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the Act in connection with the offering of the Securities, all as described in Rule 405.

(e) General Disclosure Package. As of the Applicable Time, neither (i) the General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time and the preliminary prospectus supplement, dated February 5, 2008, including the base prospectus, dated November 7, 2007, (which is the most recent Statutory Prospectus distributed to investors generally), and the other information, if any, stated in Schedule A to this Agreement to be included in the General Disclosure Package, all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), nor (ii) 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 any Statutory Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.

(f) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. 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 Offered Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies Credit Suisse 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

 

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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, 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 Credit Suisse 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.

(g) Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly incorporated and is existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Oregon, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except for any jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken together as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”).

(h) Subsidiaries. Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly organized and is existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package; and each subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation or other business entity in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except for any such jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock or similar equity interests of each subsidiary of the Company has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable; and the capital stock or similar equity interests of each subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, is owned free from liens, encumbrances and defects. Each significant subsidiary of the Company, as defined under 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X, is set forth in Schedule D.

(i) Execution and Delivery of Indenture. The Indenture has been duly authorized and has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; the Offered Securities have been duly authorized and, when the Offered Securities are delivered and paid for pursuant to this Agreement on each Closing Date, the Indenture will have been duly executed and delivered, such Offered Securities will have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered, will conform to the information in the General Disclosure Package and to the description of such Offered Securities contained in the Final Prospectus and the Indenture and such Offered Securities will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

(j) Offered Securities. When the Offered Securities are delivered and paid for pursuant to this Agreement on each Closing Date, such Offered Securities will be convertible into the Underlying Shares of the Company in accordance with the terms of the Indenture; the Underlying Shares initially issuable upon conversion of such Offered Securities have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance upon such conversion, conform to the information in the General Disclosure Package and to the description of such Underlying Shares contained in the Final Prospectus; the authorized equity capitalization of the Company is as set forth in the General Disclosure Package; all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are, and when issued upon conversion the

 

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Underlying Shares will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable; the stockholders of the Company have no preemptive rights with respect to the Offered Securities or the Underlying Shares; and none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights of any security holder.

(k) No Finder’s Fee. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, 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 the Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering.

(l) Registration Rights. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package or with respect to the Company’s outstanding convertible notes due 2023, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to a Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company under the Act (collectively, “registration rights”), and any person to whom the Company has granted registration rights, other than the holders of the Company’s outstanding convertible notes due 2023, has agreed not to exercise such rights until after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period referred to in Section 5 hereof.

(m) Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing or registration with, any person (including any governmental agency or body or any court) is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Indenture in connection with the offering, issuance and sale of the Offered Securities and Underlying Shares by the Company, except such as have been obtained, or made and such as may be required under state securities laws.

(n) Title to Property. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, the Company and its subsidiaries (i) have good and marketable title to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free from liens, charges, encumbrances and defects that would affect the value thereof or interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by them and (ii) hold any leased real or personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no terms or provisions that would interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by them, except in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(o) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts Resulting from Transaction. The execution, delivery and performance of the Indenture and this Agreement, and the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities and Underlying Shares and compliance with the terms and provisions thereof will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or result in the imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, any statute, rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties, or any 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 or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; a “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

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(p) Absence of Existing Defaults and Conflicts. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of its respective charter or by-laws or in default (or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would be in default) under any existing obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease or other agreement or instrument to which any of them is a party or by which any of them is bound or to which any of the properties of any of them is subject, except such defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

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

(r) Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess, and are in compliance with the terms of, all adequate certificates, authorizations, franchises, licenses and permits (“Licenses”) necessary or material to the conduct of the business now conducted or proposed in the General Disclosure Package to be conducted by them and have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Licenses that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(s) Absence of Labor Dispute. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent that could have a Material Adverse Effect.

(t) Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries own, possess or can acquire on reasonable terms sufficient trademarks, trade names, patent rights, copyrights, domain names, licenses, approvals, trade secrets, inventions, technology, know-how and other intellectual property and similar rights, including registrations and applications for registration thereof (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) necessary or material to the conduct of the business now conducted or proposed in the General Disclosure Package to be conducted by them, and the expected expiration of any such Intellectual Property Rights would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package (i) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no rights of third parties to any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company or its subsidiaries; (ii) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no material infringement, misappropriation breach, default or other violation, or the occurrence of any event that with notice or the passage of time would constitute any of the foregoing, by the Company, its subsidiaries or third parties of any of the Intellectual Property Rights of the Company or its subsidiaries; (iii) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any subsidiary’s rights in or to, or the violation of any of the terms of, any of their Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (iv) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (v) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company or any subsidiary infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates or conflicts with any Intellectual Property Rights or other proprietary rights of others and the Company is unaware of any other fact which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; and (vi) none of the Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or its subsidiaries in their businesses has been obtained or is being used by the Company or its subsidiaries in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company, any of its subsidiaries in violation of the rights of any persons, except in each case covered by clauses (i) – (vi) such as would not, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(u) Environmental Laws. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “environmental laws”), owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any environmental laws, is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any environmental laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any environmental laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any pending investigation which might lead to such a claim.

(v) Accurate Disclosure. The statements in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the headings “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations”, “Description of the Notes”, “Description of Capital Stock”, “Capped Call Transaction” and “Underwriting”, insofar as such statements summarize legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings discussed therein, are accurate and fair summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings and present the information required to be shown.

(w) Absence of Manipulation. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action that is designed to or that has constituted or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.

(x) Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any third-party statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in a Registration Statement, a Statutory Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.

(y) Internal Controls and Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the Company, its subsidiaries and the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) are in compliance in all material respects with Sarbanes-Oxley and all applicable rules under the Exchange Act. The Company maintains a system of internal controls, including, but not limited to, disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls over accounting matters and financial reporting and legal and regulatory compliance controls (collectively, “Internal Controls”) that are sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Internal Controls are, or upon consummation of the offering of the Offered Securities will be, overseen by the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board in accordance with Exchange Rules. The Company has not publicly disclosed or reported to the Audit Committee or the Board, and within the next 90 days the Company does not reasonably expect to publicly disclose or report to the Audit Committee or the Board, a significant deficiency, material weakness, change in Internal Controls or fraud involving management or other employees who have a significant role in Internal Controls (each, an “Internal Control Event”), any violation of, or failure to comply with, the Securities Laws, or any matter which, if determined adversely, would have a Material Adverse Effect.

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Disclosure Package, the Audit Committee is not reviewing or investigating, and neither the Company’s independent auditors nor its internal auditors have recommended that the Audit Committee review or investigate, (i) adding to, deleting, changing the application of, or changing the Company’s disclosure with respect to, any of the Company’s material accounting policies; (ii) any matter which could result in a restatement of the Company’s financial statements for any annual or interim period during the current or prior three fiscal years; or (iii) any Internal Control Event.

(aa) Litigation. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings (including any inquiries or investigations by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign) against or affecting the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially and adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Offered Securities; and no such actions, suits or proceedings (including any inquiries or investigations by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign) are, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated.

(bb) Financial Statements. The financial statements included in the Registration Statement and the General Disclosure Package present fairly the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis; and the schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein; and the assumptions used in preparing the pro forma financial statements included in the Registration Statement and the General Disclosure Package provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions or events described therein, the related proforma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma columns therein reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the corresponding historical financial statement amounts.

(cc) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, since the end of the period covered by the latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package (i) there has been no change, nor any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that is material and adverse, (ii) except as disclosed in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock and (iii) except as disclosed in or contemplated by the General Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change in the capital stock, short-term indebtedness, long-term indebtedness, net current assets or net assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.

(dd) Investment Company Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the General Disclosure Package, will not be required to register as an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”).

(ee) Ratings. No “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) (i) has imposed (or has informed the Company that it is considering imposing) any condition (financial or otherwise) on the Company’s retaining any rating assigned to the Company or any securities of the Company or (ii) has indicated to the Company that it is considering any of the actions described in Section 7(c)(ii) hereof.

 

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(ff) Tax. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and non-U.S. tax returns that are required to be filed or have requested extensions thereof (except in any case in which the failure so to file would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect); and, except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the Company and its subsidiaries have paid all taxes (including any assessments, fines or penalties) required to be paid by them, except for any such taxes, assessments, fines or penalties currently being contested in good faith or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

3. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of the Offered Securities. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of 96.5% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest from February 12, 2008 to the First Closing Date (as hereinafter defined), the Firm Securities.

The Company will deliver the Firm Securities to or as instructed by the Underwriter in a form reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter against payment of the purchase price by the Underwriter in Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to Credit Suisse drawn to the order of Radisys Corporation at the office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1600 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, California 94025, at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on February 12, 2008, or at such other time not later than seven full business days thereafter as the Underwriter and the Company determine, such time being herein referred to as the “First Closing Date”. For purposes of Rule 15c6-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the First Closing Date (if later than the otherwise applicable settlement date) shall be the settlement date for payment of funds and delivery of securities for all the Offered Securities sold pursuant to the offering. The Firm Securities so to be delivered or evidence of their issuance will be made available for checking at the above office of Davis Polk & Wardwell at least 24 hours prior to the First Closing Date.

In addition, upon written notice from the Underwriter given to the Company from time to time not more than 30 days subsequent to the date of the Final Prospectus, the Underwriter may purchase all or less than all of the Optional Securities at the purchase price per principal amount of Securities (including any accrued interest thereon to the related Optional Closing Date) to be paid for the Firm Securities. The Company agrees to sell to the Underwriter the principal amount of Optional Securities specified in such notice and the Underwriter agrees to purchase such Optional Securities. Such Optional Securities shall be purchased for the account of the Underwriter and may be purchased by the Underwriter only for the purpose of covering over-allotments made in connection with the sale of the Firm Securities. No Optional Securities shall be sold or delivered unless the Firm Securities previously have been, or simultaneously are, sold and delivered. The right to purchase the Optional Securities or any portion thereof may be exercised from time to time and to the extent not previously exercised may be surrendered and terminated at any time upon notice by the Underwriter to the Company.

Each time for the delivery of and payment for the Optional Securities, being herein referred to as an “Optional Closing Date”, which may be the First Closing Date (the First Closing Date and each Optional Closing Date, if any, being sometimes referred to as a “Closing Date”), shall be determined by the Underwriter but shall be not earlier than one business day and not later than five full business days after written notice of election to purchase Optional Securities is given. The Company will deliver the Optional Securities being purchased on each Optional Closing Date to or as instructed by the Underwriter in a form reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter against payment of the purchase price therefor in Federal (same day) funds by wire transfer to an account at a bank acceptable to the Underwriter drawn to the order of Radisys Corporation, at the above office of Davis Polk & Wardwell. The Optional Securities being purchased on each Optional Closing Date or evidence of their issuance will be made available for checking at the above office of Davis Polk & Wardwell at a reasonable time in advance of such Optional Closing Date.

4. Offering by the Underwriter. It is understood that the Underwriter proposes to offer the Offered Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.

 

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5. Certain Agreements of the Company. The Company agrees with the Underwriter that:

(a) Filing of Prospectuses. The Company has filed or will file each Statutory Prospectus (including the Final Prospectus) pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 424(b)(2) (or, if applicable and consented to by the Underwriter, subparagraph (5)) not later than the second business day following the earlier of the date it is first used or the execution and delivery of this Agreement. The Company has complied and will comply with Rule 433.

(b) Filing of Amendments; Response to Commission Requests. The Company will promptly advise the Underwriter of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or any Statutory Prospectus at any time and will offer the Underwriter a reasonable opportunity to comment on any such amendment or supplement; and the Company will also advise the Underwriter promptly of (i) the filing of any such amendment or supplement, (ii) any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment to the Registration Statement, for any supplement to any Statutory Prospectus or for any additional information, (iii) the institution by the Commission of any stop order proceedings in respect of the Registration Statement or the threatening of any proceeding for that purpose, and (iv) the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Offered Securities in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceedings for such purpose. The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the suspension of any such qualification and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(c) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Offered Securities is (or but for the exemption in Rule 172 would be) required to be delivered under the Act by the Underwriter or dealer, any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act, the Company will promptly notify the Underwriter of such event and will promptly prepare and file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriter and the dealers and any other dealers upon request of the Underwriter, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance. Neither the Underwriter’s consent to, nor the Underwriter’s delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 7 hereof.

(d) Rule 158. 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 date of this Agreement and satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.

(e) Furnishing of Prospectuses. The Company will furnish to the Underwriter copies of the Registration Statement, including all exhibits, any Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to such documents, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as the Underwriter reasonably requests. The Company will pay the expenses of printing and distributing to the Underwriter all such documents.

(f) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company will arrange for the qualification of the Offered Securities for sale and the determination of their eligibility for investment under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriter designates and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution.

 

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(g) Reporting Requirements. During the period of 5 years hereafter, the Company will furnish to the Underwriter, as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, a copy of its annual report to stockholders for such year; and the Company will furnish to the Underwriter (i) as soon as available, a copy of each report and any definitive proxy statement of the Company filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act or mailed to stockholders, and (ii) from time to time, such other information concerning the Company as the Underwriter may reasonably request. However, so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and is timely filing reports with the Commission on its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”), it is not required to furnish such reports or statements to the Underwriter.

(h) Payment of Expenses. The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including but not limited to any filing fees and other expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriter) incurred in connection with qualification of the Offered Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriter designates and the preparation and printing of memoranda relating thereto, any fees charged by investment rating agencies for the rating of the Offered Securities, costs and expenses related to the review by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. of the Offered Securities (including filing fees and the fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriter relating to such review), costs and expenses relating to investor presentations or any “road show” in connection with the offering and sale of the Offered Securities including, without limitation, any travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company including the chartering of airplanes, fees and expenses incident to listing the Offered Securities on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Market and other national and foreign exchanges, fees and expenses in connection with the registration of the Offered Securities under the Exchange Act, and expenses incurred in distributing preliminary prospectuses and the Final Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) to the Underwriter and for expenses incurred for preparing, printing and distributing any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses to investors or prospective investors.

(i) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the net proceeds received in connection with this offering in the manner described in the “Use of Proceeds” section of the General Disclosure Package and, except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, the Company does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities hereunder to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of the Underwriter.

(j) Absence of Manipulation. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any securities of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.

(k) Restriction on Sale of Securities. For the period specified below (the “Lock-Up Period”), the Company will not, directly or indirectly, take any of the following actions with respect to its Securities, the Underlying Shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any of its Securities or Underlying Shares (“Lock-Up Securities”): (i) offer, sell, issue, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of Lock-Up Securities, (ii) offer, sell, issue, contract to sell, contract to purchase or grant any option, right or warrant to purchase Lock-Up Securities, (iii) enter into any swap, hedge or any other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic consequences of ownership of Lock-Up Securities, (iv) establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position in Lock-Up Securities within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act or (v) file with the Commission a registration statement under the Act relating to Lock-Up Securities, or publicly disclose the intention to take any such action, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, except issuances of Lock-Up Securities pursuant to the conversion or exchange of convertible or

 

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exchangeable securities or the exercise of warrants or options, in each case outstanding on the date hereof, grants of employee stock options or restricted stock units pursuant to the terms of a plan in effect on the date hereof, issuances of Lock-Up Securities pursuant to the exercise of such options or issuances of Lock-Up Securities pursuant to the Company’s dividend reinvestment plan. The initial Lock-Up Period will commence on the date hereof and continue for 90 days after the date hereof or such earlier date that the Underwriter consents to in writing.

6. Free Writing Prospectuses. (a) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of Credit Suisse, and the Underwriter represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Offered 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, except of any term sheet containing a description of the terms of the Offered Securities or their offering either that does not reflect the final terms or that is included in the final term sheet contemplated in Section 6(b) hereof. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company and Credit Suisse is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents that it has treated and agrees 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 requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely Commission filings where required, legending and record keeping.

(b) Term Sheets. The Company will prepare a final term sheet relating to the Offered Securities, containing only information that describes the final terms of the Offered Securities and otherwise in a form consented to by Credit Suisse, and will file such final term sheet within the period required by Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) following the date such final terms have been established for all classes of the offering of the Offered Securities. Any such final term sheet is an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of this Agreement. The Company also consents to the use by the Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that contains only (i)(x) information describing the preliminary terms of the Offered Securities or their offering or (y) information that describes the final terms of the Offered Securities or their offering and that is included in the final term sheet of the Company contemplated in the first sentence of this subsection or (ii) other information that is not “issuer information,” as defined in Rule 433, it being understood that any such free writing prospectus referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above shall not be an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of this Agreement.

7. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriter. The obligations of the Underwriter to purchase and pay for the Firm Securities on the First Closing Date and the Optional Securities to be purchased on each Optional Closing Date will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein (as though made on such Closing Date), to the accuracy of the statements of Company officers made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:

(a) KPMG Comfort Letters. The Underwriter shall have received letters, dated, respectively, the date hereof and each Closing Date, of KPMG LLP, confirming that they are a registered public accounting firm and independent public accountants within the meaning of the Securities Laws and substantially in the form of Schedule B-1 hereto (except that, in any letter dated a Closing Date, the specified date referred to in Schedule B-1 hereto shall be a date no more than three days prior to such Closing Date).

(b) PricewaterhouseCoopers Comfort Letters. The Underwriter shall have received letters, dated, respectively, the date hereof and each Closing Date, of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, confirming that they are a registered public accounting firm and were independent public accountants of the Company at the time they audited the Company’s financial statements within

 

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the meaning of the Securities Laws and substantially in the form of Schedule B-2 hereto (except that, in any letter dated a Closing Date, the specified date referred to in Schedule B-2 hereto shall be a date no more than three days prior to such Closing Date).

(c) Ernst & Young Comfort Letters. The Underwriter shall have received letters, dated, respectively, the date hereof and each Closing Date, of Ernst & Young LLP, confirming that they are a registered public accounting firm and independent public accountants to Intel Corporation within the meaning of the Securities Laws and substantially in the form of Schedule B-3 hereto (except that, in any letter dated a Closing Date, the specified date referred to in Schedule B-3 hereto shall be a date no more than three days prior to such Closing Date).

(d) CFO Certificate. The Underwriter shall have received letters, dated, respectively, the date hereof and each Closing Date, of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in the form of Schedule B-4 hereto.

(e) Filing of Prospectus. The Final Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission in accordance with the Rules and Regulations and Section 5(a) hereof. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Underwriter, shall be contemplated by the Commission.

(f) No Material Adverse Change. 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 otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole which, in the judgment of the Underwriter, is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to market the Offered Securities; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of any debt securities of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)), or any public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of any debt securities of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any change in U.S. or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Underwriter, impractical to market or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Offered Securities, whether in the primary market or in respect of dealings in the secondary market; (iv) any suspension or material limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Select market, or any setting of minimum or maximum 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 any U.S. federal or New York authorities; (vii) any major disruption of settlements of securities, payment, or clearance services in the United States or any other country where such securities are listed or (viii) any attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities or act of terrorism involving the United States, any declaration of war by Congress or any other national or international calamity or emergency if, in the judgment of the Underwriter, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or emergency is such as to make it impractical or inadvisable to market the Offered Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Offered Securities.

(g) Opinion of Special Counsel for Company. The Underwriter shall have received an opinion, dated such Closing Date, of Baker & McKenzie LLP, counsel for the Company, to the effect set forth in Schedule C-1:

 

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(h) Opinion of Oregon Counsel for Company. The Underwriter shall have received an opinion, dated such Closing Date, of Stoel Rives LLP, Oregon counsel for the Company, to the effect set forth in Schedule C-2:

(i) Opinion of Canadian Counsel for Company. The Underwriter shall have received an opinion, dated such Closing Date, of McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Canadian counsel for the Company, to the effect set forth in Schedule C-3:

(j) Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriter. The Underwriter shall have received from Davis Polk & Wardwell, counsel for the Underwriter, such opinion or opinions, dated such Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Underwriter may require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. In rendering such opinion, Davis Polk & Wardwell may rely as to the incorporation of the Company and all other matters governed by Oregon law upon the opinion of Stoel Rives LLP referred to above.

(k) Officer’s Certificate. The Underwriter shall have received a certificate, dated such Closing Date, of an executive officer of the Company and a principal financial or accounting officer of the Company in which such officers shall state that: the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct; the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the best of their knowledge and after reasonable investigation, are contemplated by the Commission; and, subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements in the General Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package or as described in such certificate.

The Company will furnish the Underwriter with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as the Underwriter reasonably requests. Credit Suisse may in its sole discretion waive compliance with any conditions to the obligations of the Underwriter hereunder, whether in respect of an Optional Closing Date or otherwise.

8. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) Indemnification of the Underwriter. The Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriter, its partners, members, directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls the Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each, an “Indemnified Party”), against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act, other Federal or state statutory law or regulation 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 any part of the Registration Statement at any time, any Statutory Prospectus as of any time, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Indemnified Party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending against any loss, claim, damage, liability, action, litigation, investigation or proceeding whatsoever (whether or not such Indemnified Party is a party thereto), whether threatened or commenced, and in connection with the enforcement of this provision with respect to any of the above as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriter specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Underwriter consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.

 

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(b) Indemnification of Company. The Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors and each of its officers who signs a Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each, an “Underwriter Indemnified Party”), against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which such Underwriter Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act, other Federal or state statutory law or regulation 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 any part of the Registration Statement at any time, any Statutory Prospectus as of any time, the Final Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein 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 the Underwriter specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending against any such loss, claim, damage, liability, action, litigation, investigation or proceeding whatsoever (whether or not such Underwriter Indemnified Party is a party thereto), whether threatened or commenced, based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission as such expenses are incurred, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Underwriter consists of the following information in the Final Prospectus furnished on behalf of the Underwriter: the concession disclosure appearing in the fourth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” and the information contained in the tenth and eleventh paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting.”

(c) Actions against Parties; Notification. 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. 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 a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party.

(d) Contribution. 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 Underwriter on the other

 

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from the offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter 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 Underwriter 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 underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriter. 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 Underwriter and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), the Underwriter shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which the Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Company and the Underwriter agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 8(d).

9. Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company or its officers and of the Underwriter 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 the 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 Offered Securities. If the purchase of the Offered Securities by the Underwriter is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 7(f)(iii)–(viii) hereof or if the Underwriter defaults in its obligation to purchase Offered Securities hereunder, the Company will reimburse the Underwriter for all out-of-pocket accountable expenses (including reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by it in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities, and the respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriter pursuant to Section 8 hereof shall remain in effect. In addition, if any Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder, the representations and warranties in Section 2 and all obligations under Section 5 shall also remain in effect.

10. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if sent to the Underwriter, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Underwriter at Eleven Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010-3629, Attention: LCD-IBD, or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to it at 5445 N.E. Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR 97124, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, Facsimile No. (503) 615-1114; provided, however, that notice to the Underwriter pursuant to Section 8 will be mailed, delivered or telegraphed and confirmed to the Underwriter.

11. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers and directors and controlling persons referred to in Section 8, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

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

13. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:

(a) No Other Relationship. The Underwriter has been retained solely to act as underwriter in connection with the sale of Offered Securities and that no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Underwriter has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Final Prospectus, irrespective of whether the Underwriter has advised or is advising the Company on other matters;

(b) Arms’ Length Negotiations. The price of the Offered Securities set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Underwriter and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

(c) Absence of Obligation to Disclose. The Company has been advised that the Underwriter and its affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Underwriter has no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and

(d) Waiver. The Company waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Underwriter for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Underwriter shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.

14. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

The Company hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York and irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit or proceeding in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Underwriter’s understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement between the Company and the Underwriter in accordance with its terms.

Very truly yours,

 

RADISYS CORPORATION

By  

/s/ Brian Bronson

Name:   Brian Bronson
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written.

 

CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC

By:  

/s/ John Metz

Name:   John Metz
Title:   Managing Director
EX-4.1 3 dex41.htm INDENTURE Indenture

Exhibit 4.1

RADISYS CORPORATION

AS ISSUER

AND

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

AS TRUSTEE

INDENTURE

DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 12, 2008

DEBT SECURITIES


Reconciliation and tie between

Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Trust Indenture Act”)

and Indenture

 

Trust Indenture Act Section

   Indenture
Section

(S)310(a)(1)

   6.8

(a)(2)

   6.8

(b)

   6.9

(S)312(a)

   7.1

(b)

   7.2

(c)

   7.2

(S)313(a)

   7.3

(b)(2)

   7.3

(c)

   7.3

(d)

   7.3

(S)314(a)

   7.4

(c)(1)

   1.2

(c)(2)

   1.2

(e)

   1.2

(f)

   1.2

(S)316(a) (last sentence)

   1.1

(a)(1)(A)

   5.2, 5.12

(a)(1)(B)

   5.13

(b)

   5.8

(S)317(a)(1)

   5.3

(a)(2)

   5.4

(b)

   10.3

(S)318(a)

   1.8

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


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE ONE   DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION    1

Section 1.1

  Definitions; Rules of Construction    1

Section 1.2

  Compliance Certificates and Opinions    9

Section 1.3

  Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee    10

Section 1.4

  Acts of Holders    10

Section 1.5

  Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company    12

Section 1.6

  Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver    12

Section 1.7

  Language of Notices    13

Section 1.8

  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act; Trust Indenture Act Controls    13

Section 1.9

  Effect of Headings and Table of Contents    13

Section 1.10

  Successors and Assigns    13

Section 1.11

  Separability Clause    13

Section 1.12

  Benefits of Indenture    13

Section 1.13

  Governing Law    14

Section 1.14

  Legal Holidays    14

Section 1.15

  Counterparts    14

Section 1.16

  Judgment Currency    14

Section 1.17

  No Security Interest Created    15

Section 1.18

  Limitation on Individual Liability    15
ARTICLE TWO   SECURITIES FORMS    15

Section 2.1

  Forms Generally    15

Section 2.2

  Form of Trustee’s and Security Registrar’s Certificate of Authentication    16

Section 2.3

  Securities in Global Form    16
ARTICLE THREE   THE SECURITIES    17

Section 3.1

  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series    17

Section 3.2

  Currency; Denominations    20

Section 3.3

  Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating    20

Section 3.4

  Temporary Securities    21

Section 3.5

  Registration, Transfer and Exchange    22

Section 3.6

  Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities    24

Section 3.7

  Payment of Interest and Certain Additional Amounts; Rights to Interest and Certain Additional Amounts Preserved    25

Section 3.8

  Persons Deemed Owners    26

Section 3.9

  Cancellation    27

Section 3.10

  Computation of Interest    27

Section 3.11

  CUSIP Numbers    27
ARTICLE FOUR   SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE    27

Section 4.1

  Satisfaction and Discharge    27

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Continued)

 

         Page

Section 4.2

  Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance    28

Section 4.3

  Application of Trust Money    32
ARTICLE FIVE   REMEDIES    32

Section 5.1

  Events of Default    32

Section 5.2

  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment    34

Section 5.3

  Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee    34

Section 5.4

  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim    35

Section 5.5

  Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities    36

Section 5.6

  Application of Money Collected    36

Section 5.7

  Limitations on Suits    36

Section 5.8

  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts    37

Section 5.9

  Restoration of Rights and Remedies    37

Section 5.10

  Rights and Remedies Cumulative    37

Section 5.11

  Delay or Omission Not Waiver    38

Section 5.12

  Control by Holders of Securities    38

Section 5.13

  Waiver of Past Defaults    38

Section 5.14

  Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws    38

Section 5.15

  Undertaking for Costs    39
ARTICLE SIX   THE TRUSTEE    39

Section 6.1

  Certain Duties and Responsibilities    39

Section 6.2

  Certain Rights of Trustee    39

Section 6.3

  Notice of Defaults    42

Section 6.4

  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities    42

Section 6.5

  May Hold Securities    42

Section 6.6

  Money Held in Trust    42

Section 6.7

  Compensation and Reimbursement    43

Section 6.8

  Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility    44

Section 6.9

  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor    44

Section 6.10

  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor    45

Section 6.11

  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business    46

Section 6.12

  Appointment of Authenticating Agent    47
ARTICLE SEVEN   HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY    48

Section 7.1

  Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders    48

Section 7.2

  Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders    49

Section 7.3

  Reports by Trustee    49

Section 7.4

  Reports by Company; Rule 144A Information    49
ARTICLE EIGHT   CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALES    50

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Continued)

 

         Page

Section 8.1

  Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms    50

Section 8.2

  Successor Person Substituted for Company    51
ARTICLE NINE   SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES    51

Section 9.1

  Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders    51

Section 9.2

  Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders    52

Section 9.3

  Execution of Supplemental Indentures    53

Section 9.4

  Effect of Supplemental Indentures    53

Section 9.5

  Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures    53

Section 9.6

  Conformity with Trust Indenture Act    54

Section 9.7

  Notice of Supplemental Indenture    54
ARTICLE TEN   COVENANTS    54

Section 10.1

  Payment of Principal, any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts    54

Section 10.2

  Maintenance of Office or Agency    54

Section 10.3

  Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust    55

Section 10.4

  Additional Amounts    56

Section 10.5

  Corporate Existence    57

Section 10.6

  Waiver of Certain Covenants    57

Section 10.7

  Company Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain Defaults    58

Section 10.8

  Calculation of Original Issue Discount    58
ARTICLE ELEVEN   REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES    58

Section 11.1

  Applicability of Article    58

Section 11.2

  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee    58

Section 11.3

  Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed    58

Section 11.4

  Notice of Redemption    59

Section 11.5

  Deposit of Redemption Price    60

Section 11.6

  Securities Payable on Redemption Date    60

Section 11.7

  Securities Redeemed in Part    60

Section 11.8

  Repurchases on the Open Market    61
ARTICLE TWELVE   SINKING FUNDS    61

Section 12.1

  Applicability of Article    61

Section 12.2

  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities    61

Section 12.3

  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund    62
ARTICLE THIRTEEN   REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS    62

Section 13.1

  Applicability of Article    62
ARTICLE FOURTEEN   SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES    62

Section 14.1

  Applicability of Article    62
ARTICLE FIFTEEN   MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES    63

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Continued)

 

         Page

Section 15.1

  Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called    63

Section 15.2

  Call, Notice and Place of Meetings    63

Section 15.3

  Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings    63

Section 15.4

  Quorum; Action    63

Section 15.5

  Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings    64

Section 15.6

  Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings    65

 

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INDENTURE dated as of dated as of February 12, 2008 by and between RADISYS CORPORATION, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Oregon, with offices at 5445 N.E. Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR 97124 (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”); and

RECITALS

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its debentures, notes or other evidences of Indebtedness (hereinafter called the “Securities”), unlimited as to principal amount, to bear such rates of interest, to mature at such time or times, to be issued in one or more series and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid and legally binding 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 (as herein defined) thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof as follows:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.1 Definitions; Rules of Construction.

Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or unless the context otherwise requires, for all purposes of this Indenture:

(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 terms “generally accepted accounting principles” or “GAAP” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;

(4) the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” 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; and

(5) the word “or” is always used inclusively (for example, the phrase “A or B” means “A or B or both,” not “either A or B but not both”).

(6) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;

(7) the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter; and

 

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(8) references to agreements and other instruments include subsequent amendments thereto.

Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in those Articles.

“Act,” when used with respect to any Holders, has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.

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

“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,

“control,” 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 the meanings correlative to the foregoing.

“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.12 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.

“Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper, in an official language of the place of publication or in the English language, customarily published on each day that is a Business Day in the place of publication, whether or not published on days that are Legal Holidays in the place of publication, and of general circulation in each place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of each such place. Where successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any day that is a Business Day in the place of publication.

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act generally or in any particular respect for the Company hereunder.

“Board Resolution” means a copy of one or more resolutions (which may be standing resolutions), certified by the Secretary or an Assistant 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, delivered to the Trustee.

“Business Day,” with respect to any Place of Payment or other location (in all events, including the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York), means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in such Place of Payment or other location are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close.

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act.

 

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“Common Stock” includes any stock of any class of the Company which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person, and any other obligor upon the Securities.

“Company Request” and “Company Order” mean, respectively, a written request or order, as the case may be, signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Vice Chairman, the President , a Vice President, the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer or other person authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Conversion Event” means the cessation of use of a Foreign Currency both by the government of the country or the confederation which issued such Foreign Currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of or within the international banking community or any currency unit or composite currency for the purposes for which it was established.

“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 at the date hereof is located at The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90017, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, except that with respect to presentation of the Notes for payment or for registration of transfer or exchange, such term shall mean any office or agency of the Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate agency business shall be conducted.

“Corporation” includes corporations and limited liability companies and, except for purposes of Article Eight, associations, companies (other than limited liability companies) and business trusts.

“Currency,” with respect to any payment, deposit or other transfer in respect of the principal of or any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security, means Dollars or the Foreign Currency, as the case may be, in which such payment, deposit or other transfer is required to be made by or pursuant to the terms hereof or such Security and, with respect to any other payment, deposit or transfer pursuant to or contemplated by the terms hereof or such Security, means Dollars.

“CUSIP number” means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a Security by Standard & Poor’s Corporation, CUSIP Service Bureau.

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.

“Dollars” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal tender for payment of public or private debts in the United States of America.

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

 

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“Foreign Currency” means any currency, currency unit or composite currency, including, without limitation, the euro, issued by the government of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.

“GAAP” means such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States of America as of the date or time of any computation required hereunder.

“Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of the United States of America or the other government or governments in the confederation which issued the Foreign Currency in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security or any Additional Amounts in respect thereof shall be payable, in each case where the payment or payments thereunder are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States or such government or governments or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or such other government or governments, in each case where the timely payment or payments thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America or such other government or governments, and which, in the case of (i) or (ii), are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer or issuers 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 or other amount with respect to 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 on or principal of or other amount with respect to the Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

“Holder,” in the case of any Registered Security, means the Person in whose name such Security is registered in the Security Register.

“Indebtedness” of any Person means:

(1) any indebtedness of such Person (i) for borrowed money or (ii) evidenced by a note, debenture or similar instrument (including a purchase money obligation) given in connection with the acquisition of any property or assets, including securities;

(2) any guarantee by such Person of any indebtedness of others described in the preceding clause (1); and

(3) any amendment, renewal, extension or refunding of any such indebtedness or guarantee.

“Indenture” means this instrument 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 and, with respect to any Security, by the terms and provisions of such Security established pursuant to Section 3.1 (as such terms and provisions may be amended pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof); provided, however, that, if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental

 

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hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of those particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established pursuant to Section 3.1, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted.

“Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” means a firm of accountants that, with respect to the Company and any other obligor under the Securities, is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder, who may be the independent registered public accounting firm regularly retained by the Company or who may be another independent registered public accounting firm. Such firm shall be entitled to rely upon any Opinion of Counsel as to the interpretation of any legal matters relating to this Indenture or certificates required to be provided hereunder.

“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,” means any interest specified in any Security as being payable with respect to that Security and, with respect to any Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity and, when used with respect to a Security which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.4, includes such Additional Amounts.

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

“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 1.16.

“Legal Holidays” has the meaning specified in Section 1.14.

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, or other similar encumbrance.

“Material Subsidiary” means, at any relevant time, any Subsidiary that meets any of the following conditions:

(1) the Company’s and its other Subsidiaries’ investments in and advances to the Subsidiary exceed 10% of the total consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or

(2) the Company’s and its other Subsidiaries’ proportionate share of the total assets (after intercompany eliminations) of the Subsidiary exceeds 10% of the total consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or

(3) the Company’s and its other Subsidiaries’ proportionate share of the total revenues (after intercompany eliminations) of the Subsidiary exceeds 10% of the total consolidated revenue of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or

(4) the Company’s and its other Subsidiaries’ equity in the income from continuing operations before income taxes, extraordinary items and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle of the Subsidiary exceeds 10% of such income of the Company and its Subsidiaries; all as calculated by reference to the then latest fiscal year-end accounts (or consolidated fiscal year-end accounts, as the case may be) of such Subsidiary and the then latest audited consolidated fiscal year-end accounts of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

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“Maturity,” with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption or repurchase, notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise, and includes the Redemption Date.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

“New York Banking Day” has the meaning specified in Section 1.16.

“Office” or “Agency,” with respect to any Securities, means an office or agency of the Company maintained or designated in a Place of Payment for such Securities pursuant to Section 10.2 or any other office or agency of the Company maintained or designated for such Securities pursuant to Section 10.2 or, to the extent designated or required by Section 10.2 in lieu of such office or agency, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President, the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer or other person authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, that, if applicable, complies with the requirements of Section 3.14(e) of the Trust Indenture Act and is delivered to the Trustee.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel for the Company reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

“Original Issue Discount Security” means a Security issued pursuant to this Indenture which provides, at any time prior to the final Stated Maturity of such Security, for declaration of an amount less than the principal face amount thereof to be due and payable upon acceleration pursuant to Section 5.2.

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

(a) any such Security theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or the Security Registrar or accepted by the Trustee or the Security Registrar for cancellation;

(b) any such Security for whose payment at the Maturity thereof money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited pursuant hereto (other than pursuant to Section 4.2) 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;

(c) any such Security with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance or covenant defeasance pursuant to the terms hereof, except to the extent provided in Section 4.2;

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Indenture, unless there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Security is held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Security is a valid obligation of the Company; and

(e) any such Security converted or exchanged as contemplated by this Indenture into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property, if the terms of such Security provide for such conversion or exchange pursuant to Section 3.1;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at a meeting of Holders of Securities for quorum purposes, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be equal to the amount of the principal thereof that pursuant to the terms of such Original Issue Discount Security would be declared (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration thereof pursuant to Section 5.2 at the time of such determination, and (ii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination 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 in or pursuant to this Indenture, and (iii) the principal amount of a Security denominated in a Foreign Currency shall be the Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (i) above) of such Security, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making any such determination or relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which shall have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of a Responsible Officer of the Trustee (A) the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and (B) that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or an Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.

“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security on behalf of the Company.

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

“Place of Payment,” with respect to any Security, means the place or places where the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to such Security are payable as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security.

“Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same Indebtedness as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same Indebtedness as the lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security.

 

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“Redemption Date,” with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be redeemed, means each date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security.

“Redemption Price,” with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed including, if applicable, accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts as determined by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security.

“Registered Security” means any Security established pursuant to Section 2.1 which is registered in the Security Register.

“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date therefor means the date, if any, specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security as the “Regular Record Date”.

“Required Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 1.16.

“Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer of the Trustee to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

“Security” or “Securities” means any note or notes, bond or bonds, debenture or debentures, or any other evidences of Indebtedness, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, “Securities,” with respect to any such Person, shall mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such Person is not Trustee.

“Security Register,” “Security Registrar” and “Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.

“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on any Registered Security means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.

“Stated Maturity,” with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, means the date established by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is, or such Additional Amounts are, due and payable.

“Subsidiary” means any corporation, association, limited liability company, partnership or other business entity of which a majority of the total voting power of the capital stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the incurrence of a contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, or trustees thereof is at the time owned, directly or indirectly, by (i) the Company, (ii) the Company and one or more of its Subsidiaries or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of the Company.

 

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“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and any reference herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a particular provision thereof shall mean such Act or provision, as the case may be, as amended or replaced from time to time or as supplemented from time to time by rules or regulations adopted by the Commission under or in furtherance of the purposes of such Act or provision, as the case may be.

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

“United States,” except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Security, means the United States of America (including the states thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

“United States Alien,” except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Security, means any Person who, for United States Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual, a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

“U.S. Depository” or “Depository” means, with respect to any Security issuable or issued in the form of one or more global Securities, the Person designated as U.S. Depository or Depository by the Company in or pursuant to this Indenture, which Person must be, to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, if so provided with respect to any Security, any successor to such Person. If at any time there is more than one such Person, “U.S. Depository” or “Depository” shall mean, with respect to any Securities, the qualifying entity which has been appointed with respect to such Securities.

“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”.

“Voting Stock” means stock of a Corporation of the class or classes having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such Corporation provided that, for the purposes hereof, stock which carries only the right to vote conditionally on the happening of an event shall not be considered voting stock whether or not such event shall have happened.

Section 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, 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 Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture 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 or any of them is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

 

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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such condition or covenant 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 condition or covenant has been complied with; and

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

Section 1.3 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 an Opinion of Counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the opinion with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such 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 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 or any Security, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

Section 1.4 Acts of Holders.

(1) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (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

 

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agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 3.15 of the Trust Indenture Act) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 15.6.

Without limiting the generality of this Section 1.4, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a U.S. Depository that is a Holder of a global Security, may make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies, duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities to be made, given or taken by Holders, and a U.S. Depository that is a Holder of a global Security may provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security through such U.S. Depository’s standing instructions and customary practices.

The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons who are beneficial owners of interest in any permanent global Security held by a U.S. Depository entitled under the procedures of such U.S. Depository to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders. If such a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date. No such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act shall be valid or effective if made, given or taken more than 90 days after such record date.

(2) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing referred to in this Section 1.4 may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient and in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine; and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section.

(3) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities held by any Person, and the date of the commencement and the date of the termination of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security Register.

(4) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of any Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may at its option (but is not obligated to), by Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders of Registered Securities entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act. 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 Registered Securities of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purpose of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders of Registered Securities 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.

 

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(5) 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 and 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 or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such Act is made upon such Security.

Section 1.5 Notices, etc. to Trustee and Company.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other 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 or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (which may be via facsimile) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office;

(2) the Company by the Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to the attention of its Treasurer (with a copy to the Chief Financial Officer) at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company; or

(3) the Trustee agrees to accept and act upon facsimile transmission of written instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture given by the Company, provided, however that: (i) the Company subsequent to such facsimile transmission of written instructions or directions, shall provide the originally executed instructions to the Trustee in a timely manner, and (ii) such originally executed instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized Officer of the Company.

Section 1.6 Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver.

Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Registered Securities if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Registered Security 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 Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities given as provided herein. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given or provided. In the case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

 

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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 of Securities 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 1.7 Language of Notices.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that, if the Company so elects, any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication (with a copy in English to be provided to the Trustee).

Section 1.8 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act; Trust Indenture Act Controls.

(a) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties that would be imposed by any of Sections 310 to 317 of the TIA through operation of Section 318(c) thereof on any person if this Indenture were qualified under the TIA, such imposed duties shall control.

obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any other obligor on the indenture securities.

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined in the TIA by reference to another statute or defined by SEC Rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

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

Section 1.9 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 1.10 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 1.11 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in this Indenture or 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 1.12 Benefits of Indenture.

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

 

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Section 1.13 Governing Law.

This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made or instruments entered into and, in each case, performed in said state.

Section 1.14 Legal Holidays.

Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, in any case where any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or Maturity of any Security, or the last date on which a Holder has the right to convert or exchange Securities of a series that are convertible or exchangeable, shall not be a Business Day (a “Legal Holiday”) at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security other than a provision in any Security that specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof) payment need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, and such Securities need not be converted or exchanged on such date but such payment may be made, and such Securities may be converted or exchanged, on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity or on such last day for conversion or exchange, and no interest shall accrue on the amount payable on such date or at such time for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity, Maturity or last day for conversion or exchange, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.

Section 1.15 Counterparts.

This Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 1.16 Judgment Currency.

The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or premium or interest, if any, or Additional Amounts on the Securities of any series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the requisite amount of the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which a final unappealable judgment is given and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with clause (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to be closed.

 

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Section 1.17 No Security Interest Created.

Nothing in this Indenture or in any Securities, express or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect in any jurisdiction where property of the Company or its Subsidiaries is or may be located.

Section 1.18 Limitation on Individual Liability.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company, either directly or through the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that this Indenture and the obligations issued hereunder are solely corporate obligations, and that no such personal liability whatever shall attach to, or is or shall be incurred by, the incorporators, shareholders, officers or directors, as such, of the Company, or any of them, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom; and that any and all such personal liability of every name and nature, either at common law or in equity or by constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and claims against, every such incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, because of the creation of the Indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom, are hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issuance of such Security.

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITIES FORMS

Section 2.1 Forms Generally.

Each Registered Security and temporary or permanent global Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be in the form established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Security as evidenced by their execution of such Security.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, the Securities shall be issuable in registered form without coupons and shall not be issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

Definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved border or 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.

 

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Section 2.2 Form of Trustee’s and Security Registrar’s Certificate of Authentication.

Subject to Section 6.12, the Trustee’s and Security Registrar’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

This is one of the Certificates described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

  , as Trustee
By  
Authorized Signatory  
Dated:  

Section 2.3 Securities in Global Form.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, the Securities shall be issuable in permanent global form. If Securities of a series shall be issuable in global form, any such Security may provide that it or any number of such Securities shall represent the aggregate amount of all Outstanding Securities of such series (or such lesser amount as is permitted by the terms thereof) from time to time endorsed thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of any Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights of Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made in such manner and by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered pursuant to Section 3.3 or Section 3.4 with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.3 and, if applicable, Section 3.4, 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 3.3 or Section 3.4 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers’ Certificate and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.7, unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, payment of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security in temporary or permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.8 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 as is represented by a global Security in the case of a global Security in registered form, the Holder of such global Security in registered form.

Each global Security shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless otherwise specified by the Depositary.):

“THIS DEBT SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS DEBT SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF, ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF AND NO SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE REGISTERED, EXCEPT IN

 

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THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. EVERY DEBT SECURITY AUTHENTICATED AND DELIVERED UPON REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF, OR IN EXCHANGE FOR OR IN LIEU OF, THIS DEBT SECURITY SHALL BE A GLOBAL SECURITY SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.”

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES

Section 3.1 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. With respect to any Securities to be authenticated and delivered hereunder, there shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,

(1) the title of such Securities and the series, including CUSIP numbers in which such Securities shall be included;

(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such title or the Securities of such series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of such series pursuant to Section 3.4, Section 3.5, Section 3.6, Section 9.5 or Section 11.7, upon repayment in part of any Registered Security of such series pursuant to Article Thirteen or upon surrender in part of any Registered Security for conversion or exchange into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property pursuant to its terms, or pursuant to the terms of such Securities);

(3) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form, when any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form and (i) whether such Securities are to be issued in temporary or permanent global form or both, (ii) whether beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security may exchange such interests for Securities of the same series and of like tenor and of any authorized form and denomination, and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner specified in Section 3.5, and (iii) the name of the Depository or the U.S. Depository, as the case may be, with respect to any global Security;

(4) the date as of which any global Security shall be dated (if other than the date of original issuance of the first of such Securities to be issued);

(5) the date or dates, or the method or methods, if any, by which such date or dates shall be determined, on which the principal and premium, if any, of such Securities is payable;

(6) the rate or rates at which such Securities shall bear interest, if any, or the method or methods, if any, by which such rate or rates are to be determined, the date or dates, if any, from which such interest shall accrue or the method or methods, if any, by which such date or dates are to be determined, the Interest Payment Dates, if any, on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on Registered Securities on any Interest Payment Date, whether and under what circumstances Additional Amounts on such Securities or any of them shall be payable, the notice, if any, to Holders regarding the

 

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determination of interest on a floating rate Security and the manner of giving such notice, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30- day months;

(7) if in addition to or other than the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, the place or places where the principal of, any premium and interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities shall be payable, any of such Securities that are Registered Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, any of such Securities may be surrendered for conversion or exchange and notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of such Securities and this Indenture may be served, the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payment or Additional Amounts on a global Security on an Interest Payment Date, will be paid and the manner in which any principal of or premium, if any, on any global Security will be paid;

(8) whether any of such Securities are to be redeemable at the option of the Company and, if so, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

(9) whether the Company is obligated to redeem or purchase any of such Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision or at the option of any Holder thereof and, if so, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such Securities shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation, and any provisions for the remarketing of such Securities so redeemed or purchased;

(10) the denominations in which any of such Securities that are Registered Securities shall be issuable if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof;

(11) whether the Securities of the series will be convertible into shares of Common Stock and/or exchangeable for other securities, cash or other property of the Company or of any other Person, and if so, the terms and conditions upon which such Securities will be so convertible or exchangeable, and any deletions from or modifications or additions to this Indenture to permit or to facilitate the issuance of such convertible or exchangeable Securities or the administration thereof;

(12) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any of such Securities that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2 or the method by which such portion is to be determined;

(13) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency in which payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any of such Securities shall be payable;

(14) if the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any of such Securities are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof or otherwise, in Dollars or in a Foreign Currency other than that in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which, and the other terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of determining the exchange rate between the Currency in which such Securities are stated to be payable and the Currency in which such Securities or any of them are to be paid pursuant to such

 

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election, and any deletions from or modifications of or additions to the terms of this Indenture to provide for or to facilitate the issuance of Securities denominated or payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof or otherwise, in a Foreign Currency;

(15) whether the amount of payments of principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities may be determined with reference to an index, formula, financial or economic measure or other method or methods (which index, formula, measure or method or methods may be based, without limitation, on one or more Currencies, commodities, equity indices or other indices), and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined and paid or be payable;

(16) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to any of such Securities, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;

(17) whether either or both of Section 4.2(2) relating to defeasance or Section 4.2(3) relating to covenant defeasance shall not be applicable to the Securities of such series, or any covenants in addition to those specified in Section 4.2(3) relating to the Securities of such series which shall be subject to covenant defeasance, and, if the Securities of such series are subject to repurchase or repayment at the option of the Holders thereof, whether the Company’s obligation to repurchase or repay such Securities will be subject to defeasance or covenant defeasance, and any deletions from, or modifications or additions to, the provisions of Article Four in respect of the Securities of such series;

(18) whether any of such Securities are to be issuable upon the exercise of warrants, and the time, manner and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered;

(19) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form and are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;

(20) if there is more than one Trustee or a Trustee other than The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., the identity of the Trustee and, if not the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar, Paying Agent or Authenticating Agent with respect to such Securities;

(21) whether the Securities are senior or subordinated debt securities, and if subordinated debt securities, the terms of such subordination.

(22) any other terms of such Securities and any deletions from or modifications or additions to this Indenture in respect of such Securities. All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided by the Company in or pursuant to the Board Resolution and set forth in the Officers’ Certificate or in any indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pertaining to such series of Securities. The terms of the Securities of any series may provide, without limitation, that the Securities shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee on original issue from time to time upon telephonic or written order of persons designated in the Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture (telephonic instructions to be promptly confirmed in writing by such person) and that such persons are authorized to determine, consistent with such Officers’ Certificate or any applicable supplemental indenture, such terms and conditions of the Securities of such series as are specified in such Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture. All Securities of any one series

 

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need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise so provided by the Company, a series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series or to establish additional terms of such series of Securities. If any of the terms of the Securities of any series shall be established by action taken by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Board Resolution shall be delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of such series.

Section 3.2 Currency; Denominations.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Security, the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities shall be payable in Dollars. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, Registered Securities denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. Securities not denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in such denominations as are established with respect to such Securities in or pursuant to this Indenture.

Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, one of its Vice Chairmen, its President, its Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, one of its Vice Presidents or other person authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices 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, executed by the Company, to the Trustee for authentication and, provided that the Board Resolution and Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture or indentures with respect to such Securities referred to in Section 3.1 and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities have been delivered to the Trustee, the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order and subject to the provisions hereof and of such Securities shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be provided with, and (subject to Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon,

(1) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that:

(a) the form or forms and terms of such Securities have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

(b) all conditions precedent to the authentication and delivery of such Securities have been complied with and that such Securities, when completed by appropriate insertions, executed under the Company’s corporate seal and attested by duly authorized officers of the Company, delivered by duly authorized officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication pursuant to this Indenture, and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute legally valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in

 

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accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, and subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law) and will entitle the Holders thereof to the benefits of this Indenture; such Opinion of Counsel need express no opinion as to the availability of equitable remedies;

(c) all laws and requirements in respect of the execution and delivery by the Company of such Securities have been complied with;

and, to the extent that this Indenture is required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in connection with the issuance of such Securities, to the further effect that:

(d) this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and

(2) an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent to the execution, authentication and delivery of such Securities have been complied with and that, to the best knowledge of the Persons executing such certificate, no event which is, or after notice or lapse of time would become, an Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing.

The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate or to cause an Authenticating Agent to authenticate any Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee or if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken.

Each Registered 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 in Section 2.2 or Section 6.12 executed by or on behalf of the Trustee or by the Authenticating Agent by the manual or facsimile signature of one of its authorized officers. Such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

Section 3.4 Temporary Securities.

Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute and deliver to the Trustee and, upon Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the manner provided in Section 3.3, temporary Securities in lieu thereof which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed 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 of the Company executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Such temporary Securities may be in global form.

Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form, which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary Securities are issued, the Company shall cause definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of the same series and containing terms and provisions that are identical to

 

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those of any temporary Securities, such temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for such definitive Securities upon surrender of such temporary Securities at an Office or Agency for such Securities, without charge to any Holder thereof. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations of the same series and containing identical terms and provisions. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture with respect to a temporary global Security, 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.

Section 3.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange.

With respect to the Registered Securities of each series, if any, the Company shall cause to be kept a register (each such register being herein sometimes referred to as the “Security Register”) at an Office or Agency for such series in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of the Registered Securities of such series and of transfers of the Registered Securities of such series.

Such Office or Agency shall be the “Security Registrar” or “Registrar” for that series of Securities. Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities, the Trustee shall be the initial Security Registrar for each series of Securities. The Company shall have the right to remove and replace from time to time the Security Registrar for any series of Securities; provided that no such removal or replacement shall be effective until a successor Security Registrar with respect to such series of Securities shall have been appointed by the Company and shall have accepted such appointment by the Company. In the event that the Trustee shall not be or shall cease to be Security Registrar with respect to a series of Securities, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register for such series at all reasonable times. There shall be only one Security Register for each series of Securities.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any Office or Agency for such 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 Registered Securities of the same series denominated as authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture, of a like aggregate principal amount bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding and containing identical terms and provisions.

At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series containing identical terms and provisions, in any authorized denominations, and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any Office or Agency for such series. Whenever any Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

A global Security may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary, by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or to another nominee of the Depositary, or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, any global Security shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities only if (i) the Depository is at any time unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as

 

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Depository and a successor depository is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of the date the Company is so informed in writing, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act of 1934, (iii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order to the effect that such global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iv) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Securities. If the beneficial owners of interests in a global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for definitive Securities as the result of an event described in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) of the preceding sentence, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities in such form and denominations as are required by or pursuant to this Indenture, and of the same series, containing identical terms and in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such global Security shall be surrendered from time to time by the U.S. Depository or such other Depository as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto, and in accordance with instructions given to the Trustee and the U.S. Depository or such other Depository, as the case may be (which instructions shall be in writing but need not be contained in or accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate or be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel), as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Company’s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or in part, for definitive Securities as described above without charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for each portion of such surrendered global Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such global Security to be exchanged; provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any selection of Securities of the same series to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption Date. Promptly following any such exchange in part, such global Security shall be returned by the Trustee to such Depository or the U.S. Depository, as the case may be, or such other Depository or U.S. Depository referred to above in accordance with the instructions of the Company referred to above. If a Registered portion of a global Security after the close of business at the Office or Agency for such Security where such exchange occurs on or after (i) any Regular Record Date for such Security and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the next Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date for such Security and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the related proposed date for payment of interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, interest shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such global Security shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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

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

 

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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, or redemption of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge and any other expenses (including fees and expenses of the Trustee) that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.4, 3.6 and 11.7 not involving any transfer.

Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, the Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection of Securities of like tenor and the same series under Section 11.3 for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such selection, (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed; or (iii) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security which, in accordance with its terms, 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 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 3.6, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series containing identical terms and of like principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If there 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 to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and, upon the Company’s request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series containing identical terms and of like principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.6, in case any 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 cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

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

 

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The provisions of this Section, as amended or supplemented pursuant to this Indenture with respect to particular Securities or generally, shall be 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 3.7 Payment of Interest and Certain Additional Amounts; Rights to Interest and Certain Additional Amounts Preserved.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered Security which shall be payable, and are 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 as of the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered Security which shall be payable, but shall not be punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for such Registered Security (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder; and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Person in whose name such Registered Security (or a Predecessor Security thereof) shall be 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 such Registered Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money 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 so deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Person entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon, the 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 mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Holder of such Registered Security (or a Predecessor Security thereof) at his address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, but such publication shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Registered Security (or a Predecessor Security thereof) shall be registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).

 

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(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Security 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 payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, at the option of the Company, interest on Registered Securities that bear interest may be paid by wire transfer in immediately available funds if the holder of the Registered Security has provided to the Company and the Trustee wire instructions at least five business days prior to the applicable payment date or by check mailed to the address of that holder as it appears on the books of the Securities Registrar if that holder has not provided wire instructions; provided that the final distribution in respect of any Security will be made only upon presentation and surrender of such certificated debenture at the applicable Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 3.5, 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.

In the case of any Registered Security of any series that is convertible, which Registered Security is converted after any Regular Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Registered Security with respect to which the Stated Maturity is prior to such Interest Payment Date), interest with respect to which the Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion, and such interest (whether or not punctually paid or duly provided for) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Registered Security (or one or more predecessor Registered Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Registered Security which is converted, interest with respect to which the Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Registered Security shall not be payable.

Section 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners.

Prior to due presentment of a Registered 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 Registered Security is registered in the Security Register as the owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, any premium and (subject to Section 3.5 and Section 3.7) interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect to such Registered Security shall 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.

No Holder of any beneficial interest in any global Security held on its behalf by a Depository shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such global Security, and such Depository may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

 

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Section 3.9 Cancellation.

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer, exchange or conversion or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities, as well as Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose, shall be cancelled promptly by the Trustee. 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 all Securities so delivered shall be cancelled promptly by the Trustee. 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 or pursuant to this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures.

Section 3.10 Computation of Interest.

Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, or in any Security, interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Section 3.11 CUSIP Numbers.

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

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge.

Upon the direction of the Company by a Company Order, this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company Order and the Trustee, on receipt of a Company Order, at the expense of the Company, 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 and have been accepted by the Trustee for cancellation (other than (i) Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6, and (ii) Securities of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3); or

 

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(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 deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose, money in the Currency in which such Securities are payable in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Maturity thereof, 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 the Outstanding Securities of such series; and

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

In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to Securities of such series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions thereto are met.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to any series of Securities, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (b) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series under Section 3.5, Section 3.6, Section 4.3, Section 10.2 and Section 10.3, with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such Securities as contemplated by Section 10.4 (but only to the extent that the Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Securities exceed the amount deposited in respect of such Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 4.1(1)(b), and with respect to any rights to convert or exchange such Securities into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

Section 4.2 Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance.

(1) Unless pursuant to Section 3.1, either or both of (i) defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under clause (2) of this Section 4.2 shall not be applicable with respect to the Securities of such series or (ii) covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under clause (3) of this Section 4.2 shall not be applicable with respect to the Securities of such series, then such provisions, together with the other provisions of this Section 4.2 (with such modifications thereto as may be specified pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to any Securities), shall be applicable to such Securities, and the Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities, elect to have Section 4.2(2) or Section 4.2(3) be applied to such Outstanding Securities upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Section 4.2.

 

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(2) Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section 4.2(2) with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities on the date the conditions set forth in clause (4) of this Section 4.2 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 Outstanding Securities, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of clause (6) of this Section 4.2 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) below, and to have satisfied all of 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: (i) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in clause (4) of this Section 4.2 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, and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to, such Securities when such payments are due, and any rights of such Holder to convert or exchange such Securities into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property, (ii) the obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect to such Securities under Section 3.5, Section 3.6, Section 10.2 and Section 10.3 and with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section 10.4 (but only to the extent that the Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Securities exceed the amount deposited in respect of such Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 4.2(4)(a) below), and with respect to any rights to convert or exchange such Securities into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property, (iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (iv) this Section 4.2. The Company may exercise its option under this Section 4.2(2) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under clause (3) of this Section 4.2 with respect to such Securities.

(3) Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section 4.2(3) with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be released from, to the extent specified pursuant to Section 3.1, any covenant applicable to such Securities, with respect to such Outstanding Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth in clause (4) of this Section 4.2 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 any such covenant, 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 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 5.1(4) insofar as it relates to, to the extent specified pursuant to Section 3.1, any covenant applicable to such Security, or Section 5.1(7) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

 

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(4) The following shall be the conditions to application of clause (2) or (3) of this Section 4.2 to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series:

(a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Section 4.2 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, (1) an amount in Dollars or in such Foreign Currency in which such Securities are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity, or (2) Government Obligations applicable to such Securities (determined on the basis of the Currency in which such Securities are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity) 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 (3) a combination thereof, in any case, in an amount, sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and interest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized independent registered public accounting firm 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, (y) the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities an the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (z) 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.

(b) 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.

(c) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit and, with respect to defeasance only, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

(d) In the case of an election under clause (2) of this Section 4.2, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that:

(i) the Company has received from the Internal Revenue Service a letter ruling, or there has been published by the Internal Revenue Service a Revenue Ruling, or

(ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law,

in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion 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.

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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.

(b) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, after the 91st day after the date of establishment of such trust, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 3.1) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) pursuant to this clause (4) to be held in trust will not be subject to any case or proceeding (whether voluntary or involuntary) in respect of the Company under any Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or any decree or order for relief in respect of the Company issued in connection therewith.

(c) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance or covenant defeasance under clause (2) or (3) of this Section 4.2 (as the case may be) have been complied with.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 4.2(4), such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 3.1.

(5) Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 3.1) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 4.2(5) and Section 4.3, the “Trustee”) pursuant to clause (4) of Section 4.2 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series 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 and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

(6) Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Security, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 4.2(4)(a) has been made, (a) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 3.1 or the terms of such Security to receive payment in a Currency other than that in which the deposit pursuant to Section 4.2(4)(a) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the Foreign Currency in which the deposit pursuant to Section 4.2(4)(a) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Security shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest, if any, on, and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to, such Security as the same becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in respect of such Security into the Currency in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on (x) in the case of payments made pursuant to clause (a) above, the

 

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applicable market exchange rate for such Currency in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, or (y) with respect to a Conversion Event, the applicable market exchange rate for such Foreign Currency in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.

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 this Section 4.2 or the principal or 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 Section 4.2 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 clause (4) of this Section 4.2 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized independent registered public accounting firm 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 a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Section 4.2.

Section 4.3 Application of Trust Money.

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all money and Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 or Section 4.2 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, 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, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, for whose payment such money has or Government Obligations have been deposited with or received by the Trustee; but such money and Government Obligations need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES

Section 5.1 Events of Default.

“Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), unless such event is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate establishing the terms of such series pursuant to this Indenture:

(1) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of such series, or any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto, when the interest becomes or the Additional Amounts become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;

(2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of such series, or any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto, when the principal or premium becomes or the Additional Amounts with respect thereto become due and payable at their maturity;

 

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(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of any Security of such series, subject to any cure period specified in any Security of such series;

(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in the Indenture or the Securities (other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance or the breach of which is elsewhere in this Section 5.1 specifically dealt with or which has been expressly included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than such series), and continuance of the default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice specifying the default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that the notice is a “Notice of Default” under Section 6.3;

(5) the entry by a court having competent jurisdiction of:

(a) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Material Subsidiary in an involuntary proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law and the decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(b) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any Material Subsidiary to be a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Company or any Material Subsidiary and the decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

(c) a final and non-appealable order appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or of any substantial part of the property of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Company or any Material Subsidiary;

(6) the commencement by the Company or any Material Subsidiary of a voluntary proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of a voluntary proceeding seeking to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent or the consent by the Company or any Material Subsidiary to the entry of a decree or order for relief in an involuntary proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against either of them, or the filing by the Company or any Material Subsidiary of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable law, or the consent by the Company or any Material Subsidiary to the filing of the petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or any substantial part of the property of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or the making by the Company or any Material Subsidiary or an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company or any Material Subsidiary in writing of their inability to pay their debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any Material Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action; or

 

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(7) any other Event of Default provided in or pursuant to the Indenture with respect to Securities of the series.

Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.1) occurs and is continuing, then the Trustee may, and at the direction of the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall declare the principal of all the Securities of such series, or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series, to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any declaration the principal or such lesser amount shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.1 above occurs, all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series (or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series) shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of any Security of such series.

At any time after a declaration of acceleration or automatic acceleration with respect to the 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 hereafter in this Article provided, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul the declaration and its consequences if:

(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum of money sufficient to pay (i) all overdue installments of interest on all Securities of such series and any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto, (ii) the principal of and any premium on any Securities of the series which have become due otherwise than by the declaration of acceleration and interest thereon and any Additional Amounts with respect thereto at the rate or rates borne by or provided in such Securities, (iii) interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and (iv) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of such series, other than the non-payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts with respect to Securities of such series which shall have become due solely by the acceleration, shall have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.

Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

The Company covenants that if

(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Security, or any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto, when such interest or Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable and such default continues for a period of 60 days, or

(2) default is made in the payment of any principal of or premium, if any, on, or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of any principal of or premium, if any, on any Security at its Maturity;

 

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the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount of money then due and payable with respect to such Securities, with interest upon the overdue principal, any premium and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest and Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount of money 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 and all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.7.

If the Company fails to pay the money it is required to pay the Trustee pursuant to the preceding paragraph forthwith upon the demand of the Trustee, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the money so due and unpaid, and 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 monies 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.

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may and at the direction of the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, so long as such Holders shall have provided the Trustee with such indemnity as it shall require, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or such Securities or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein or therein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

Section 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or 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 any overdue principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,

(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series, of the principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts 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 or counsel) and of the Holders of Securities allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

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and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities 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 of Securities, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to 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 6.7.

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

Section 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities.

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

Section 5.6 Application of Money Collected.

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal, or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts, 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 and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7;

SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities for principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts 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 aggregate amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts, respectively;

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

Section 5.7 Limitations 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

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(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

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

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

(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such 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 or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such Holders or Holders of Securities of any other series, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.

Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts.

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, any premium and (subject to Section 3.5 and Section 3.7) interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Security, on the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities therefor specified in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of such Holder if provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, on the date such repayment is due) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security 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 each such Holder 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 each such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to each and every Holder of a Security is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy, to the extent permitted by law, shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

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Section 5.11 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 any Holder of a Security may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by such Holder, as the case may be.

Section 5.12 Control by Holders of Securities.

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

(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture or with the Securities of any series,

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

(3) such direction is not unduly prejudicial to the rights of the other Holders of Securities of such series not joining in such action.

Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults.

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series may waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default

(1) in the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of such series, or

(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof 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 impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.

The Company covenants that (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) 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 or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company expressly waives (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) 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.

 

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Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs.

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of any 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 5.15 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 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, if any, on or Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date, and, in the case of repayment, on or after the date for repayment) or for the enforcement of the right, if any, to convert or exchange any Security into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property in accordance with its terms.

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE

Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Except during the continuance of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge, the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. In case an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge with respect to the Securities has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person s own affairs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, 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. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.

Section 6.2 Certain Rights of Trustee.

Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:

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

 

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(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or a Company Order (in each case, other than delivery of any Security to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.3 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 shall be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;

(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder 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 or pursuant to this Indenture or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto 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 security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it 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, coupon, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may but shall not be obligated to 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, during business hours and upon reasonable notice, the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

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

(8) the Trustee shall not be liable in its individual capacity for any action taken or suffered to be taken or error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent, acted in bad faith or engaged in willful misconduct;

(9) the Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, and Security Registrar shall have the same protections as the Trustee set forth hereunder;

(10) the Trustee shall not be liable in its individual capacity with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with this Indenture or at the direction of an Act of the Holders hereunder, and, to the extent not so provided herein, with respect to any act requiring the Trustee to exercise its own discretion, relating to the time,

 

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method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture or any Securities, unless it shall be proved that, in connection with any such action taken, suffered or omitted or any such act, the Trustee was negligent, acted in bad faith or engaged in willful misconduct;

(11) 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;

(12) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default or Event of Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture. In the absence of such notice or actual knowledge, the Trustee may conclusively assume that there is no default or Event of Default;

(13) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge or required to tale notice of any default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities unless either (i) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such default or Event of Default or (ii) written notice of such default or Event of Default shall have been given to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee by the Company or other obligor on such Securities or by any Holder of such Securities;

(14) the Trustee shall not be liable in its individual capacity for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

(15) 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, director, officer, employee and other Person employed to act hereunder;

(16) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ 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 Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded;

(17) the permissive rights of the Trustee to take certain actions under or perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified herein, and the Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of such action or act; and

(18) the Trustee shall not be liable in its individual capacity with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with this Indenture or at the direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate Principal Amount of the Outstanding Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising or omitting to exercise any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture.

(19) In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war

 

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or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

Section 6.3 Notice of Defaults.

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series entitled to receive reports pursuant to Section 7.3, notice of such default hereunder actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, 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, or Additional Amounts or any sinking fund or purchase fund installment with respect to, any Security 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 Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the best interest of the Holders of Securities of such series; and provided, further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 5.1(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificate 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, sufficiency or priority of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof. Except with respect to the authentication of Securities pursuant to Section 3.3, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the legality or the validity of this Indenture or any Securities issued or to be issued hereunder.

Section 6.5 May Hold Securities.

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

Section 6.6 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.

 

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Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement.

The Company agrees:

(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed upon from time to time in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by the Trustee 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) 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 arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be caused by the Trustee’s own negligence or willful misconduct; and

(3) to fully indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee and its agents, officers, directors and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, damage, claim or expense (including reasonable legal fees and expenses), including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee), incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on their part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim or liability (whether asserted by the Company, a Holder of Securities, or any other Person) in connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder.

As security for the performance of the payment obligations of the Company under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any series upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of, and premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities. Such lien shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after a Default or Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(5) and 5.1(6) hereof occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services (including the fees and expense of its agents and counsel) are intended to constitute expense of administration under U.S. Code, Title 11 or any other similar foreign, federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

To the extent permitted by law any compensation or expense incurred by the Trustee after a default specified in or pursuant to Section 5.1 is intended to constitute an expense of administration under any then applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law. “Trustee” for purposes of this Section 6.7 shall include any predecessor Trustee but the negligence or willful misconduct of any Trustee shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee under this Section 6.7.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary, in no event shall the Trustee be liable for special, indirect or consequential damages of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits) even if the Trustee had been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

The provisions of this Section 6.7 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee and shall apply with equal force and effect to the Trustee in its capacity as Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent or Security Registrar.

 

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Section 6.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a Corporation, organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, eligible under Section 3.10(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act to act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and that has a combined capital and surplus (computed in accordance with Section 3.10(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000 subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state authority. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

Section 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

(1) 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 pursuant to Section 6.10.

(2) 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 6.10 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to such series.

(3) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.10 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to such series. The Trustee for one or more series of Securities may be removed by the Company, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to such series.

(4) If at any time:

(a) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the obligations imposed upon it under Section 3.10(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to Securities of any series after written request therefor by the Company or any Holder of a Security of such series who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months, or

(b) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or any such Holder, or

(c) 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,

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(ii) subject to Section 5.15, any Holder of a Security 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 removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities of such series and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

(5) 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 Company Order, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of such 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) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.10. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapacity, 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 the applicable requirements of Section 6.10, 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 of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.10, any Holder of a Security 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.

(6) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of such series as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. 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.

(7) In no event shall any retiring Trustee be liable for the acts or omissions of any successor Trustee hereunder.

Section 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

(1) Upon the appointment hereunder of any successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and 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 hereunder of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or such successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon payment of its charges, shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and, subject to Section 10.3, shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 6.7.

 

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(2) Upon the appointment hereunder of any successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and such successor Trustee 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, such 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, 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 that no Trustee shall be responsible for any notice given to, or received by, or any act or failure to act on the part of any other Trustee hereunder, 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, such retiring Trustee shall have no further responsibility for the exercise of rights and powers or for the performance of the duties and obligations vested in the Trustee under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates other than as hereinafter expressly set forth, 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 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 such successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon payment of its charges with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates and subject to Section 10.3 shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee, to the extent contemplated by such supplemental indenture, the 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, subject to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 6.7.

(3) Upon request of any Person appointed hereunder as a successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.

(4) No Person shall accept its appointment hereunder as a successor Trustee unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Person shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.

Section 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

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the corporate trust business of the Trustee by sale or otherwise, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall otherwise be qualified under this Article VI 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.

Section 6.12 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

The Trustee may appoint one or more Authenticating Agents acceptable to the Company with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of that or those series issued upon original issue, exchange, registration of transfer, partial redemption or partial repayment or pursuant to Section 3.6, and 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. 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 must be acceptable to the Company and, except as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, shall at all times be a Corporation that would be permitted by the Trust Indenture Act to act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, is authorized under applicable law and by its charter to act as an Authenticating Agent and has a combined capital and surplus (computed in accordance with Section 3.10(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000. 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 all or substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, 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 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 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 mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent shall serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. 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.

 

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

The provisions of Section 3.3, Section 6.1, Section 6.4 and Section 6.5 shall be applicable to each Authenticating Agent.

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

This is one of the Certificates described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

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As Trustee  
By:  
As Authenticating Agent  
By:  
Authorized Officer  
Dated:  

If all of the Securities of any series may not be originally issued at one time, and if the Trustee does not have an office capable of authenticating Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment where the Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested in writing (which writing need not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers’ Certificate), shall appoint in accordance with this Section an Authenticating Agent having an office in a Place of Payment designated by the Company with respect to such series of Securities.

ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

Section 7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

In accordance with Section 3.12(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee

(1) semi-annually with respect to Securities of each series not later than January 15 and July 15 of the year or upon such other dates as are set forth in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series, a list, in each case in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Holders as of the applicable date, and

 

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(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar no such list shall be required to be furnished.

Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

The Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it pursuant to Section 3.12 of the Trust Indenture Act.

Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with Section 3.12 of the Trust Indenture Act, 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 Section 3.12(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 7.3 Reports by Trustee.

(1) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 following the first issuance of Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, if required by Section 3.13(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall transmit, pursuant to Section 3.13(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated as of such June 15 with respect to any of the events specified in said Section 3.13(a) which may have occurred since the later of the immediately preceding May 15 and the date of this Indenture.

(2) The Trustee shall transmit any reports required by Section 3.13(a) of the Trust Indenture Act at the times specified therein.

(3) A copy of the such report, if any, described in Section 7.3(1) and (2) shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if any, upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

Section 7.4 Reports by Company; Rule 144A Information.

The Company, pursuant to Section 3.14(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, shall:

(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 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 said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee 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; and provided further,

 

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however, that if the Company files information, documents or reports by virtue of its being subject to the requirements of Section 12, Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and its duty to file such information, documents or reports is subsequently suspended, then the Company shall no longer be required to file any such information, documents or reports pursuant to the provisions of this Section 7.4 with respect to Securities of any series that were issued prior to the effectiveness of the suspension of such duty.

(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 within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

(4) Unless the Company furnishes information to the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or this Section, the Company shall promptly furnish or cause to be furnished such information as is specified pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto) to such Holder or to a prospective purchaser of a Security who is designated by such Holder and is a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act), upon the request of such Holder or prospective purchaser, in order to permit compliance by such Holder with Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALES

Section 8.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into, or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or other dispose of all or substantially all of its assets and the properties and the assets and properties of its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to, any entity or entities (including limited liability companies) unless:

(1) the successor entity or entities, each of which shall be a Corporation organized and existing under the laws the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, shall expressly assume, by an indenture (or indentures, if at such time there is more than one Trustee) supplemental hereto executed by the successor Person and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to all the Securities and the performance of every obligation in this Indenture and the Outstanding Securities on the part of the Company to be performed or observed and shall provide for conversion or exchange rights in accordance with the provisions of the Securities of any series that are convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property;

 

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(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions, no Event of Default or event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(3) either the Company or the successor Person shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

Section 8.2 Successor Person Substituted for Company.

Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger of the Company into any other Person or Persons or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company and the properties and assets of its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any Person or Persons in accordance with Section 8.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein; and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture, the Securities.

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.

Without the consent of any Holders of Securities, the Company (when authorized by or pursuant to 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 contained 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 (as shall be specified in such supplemental indenture or indentures) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

(3) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Section 2.1 and Section 3.1; or

(4) 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 6.10; or

 

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(5) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series then Outstanding in any material respect; or

(6) to add to, delete from or revise the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms or purposes of issue, authentication and delivery of Securities, as herein set forth; or

(7) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or any series of Securities (as shall be specified in such supplemental indenture); or

(8) 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 Article Four, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of any Holder of an Outstanding Security of such series or any other Security in any material respect; or

(9) to make provisions with respect to conversion or exchange rights of Holders of Securities of any series; or

(10) to amend or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, provided that no such amendment or supplement shall materially adversely affect the interests of the Holders of any Securities then Outstanding; or

(11) to qualify the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority (or such other amount as is provided for a particular series of Securities) in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, voting as a single class, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company (when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution) and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or 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 or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture or of the Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, shall

(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any premium or installment of interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate (or modify the calculation of such rate) of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or otherwise, or change the obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.4 (except as contemplated by Section 8.1(1) and permitted by Section 9.1(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.4, change the redemption provisions or adversely affect the right of repayment at the option of any Holder as contemplated by Article Thirteen, or change the Place of Payment, Currency in which the principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security 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, on or after the Redemption Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the date for repayment), or

 

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(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any 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 reduce the requirements of Section 15.4 for quorum or voting, or

(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 5.13 or Section 10.6, 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, or

(4) make any change that adversely affects the right to convert or exchange any Security into or for Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property in accordance with the terms of such Security.

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which shall have been included expressly and solely for the benefit of one or more 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.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities 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 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

As a condition to executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trust created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and 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 or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 9.4 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 a Security theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

Section 9.5 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.

 

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Section 9.6 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 9.7 Notice of Supplemental Indenture.

Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 9.2, the Company shall transmit to the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series affected thereby a notice setting forth the substance of such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS

Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts.

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of each series that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of such series in accordance with the terms thereof and this Indenture.

Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Company shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any 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, where Securities of such series that are convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for conversion or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series relating thereto and this Indenture may be served. The Company will 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, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more 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 each Place of Payment 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 provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, the Company hereby designates as the Place of Payment for each series of Securities the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints a Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee located at 101

 

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Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, as the Office or Agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such purpose. The Company may subsequently appoint a different Office or Agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for the Securities of any series.

Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of this Indenture, then the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required, at least one exchange rate agent.

Section 10.3 Money for Securities 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, on or before each due date of the principal of, any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts with respect to any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and shall 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 shall, on or prior to each due date of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities of such series, deposit with any Paying Agent a sum (in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Company shall cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities (other than the Trustee) 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 shall:

(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to 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 provided in or pursuant to this Indenture;

(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, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to 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 terms as those upon which such 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.

 

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Except as otherwise provided herein or pursuant hereto, 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, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal or any such premium or interest or any such Additional Amounts shall have 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; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment for such series or to be mailed to Holders of Registered Securities of such series, or both, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing nor shall it be later than two years after such principal and any premium or interest or Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

Section 10.4 Additional Amounts.

If any Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company agrees to pay to the Holder of any such Security Additional Amounts as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or such Securities. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the terms of such series established hereby or pursuant hereto 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 provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities of the applicable series, if the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to such series of Securities (or if the Securities of such series shall not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee and the principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of such series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series who are United States Aliens (as demonstrated by delivery of appropriate tax forms) without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of such series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers’ Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities, and the Company agrees to pay to the Trustee or such Paying

 

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Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.

Section 10.5 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 and its rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not obligate the Company to preserve any such right or franchise if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of its business.

Section 10.6 Waiver of Certain Covenants.

The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 10.3 and 10.5 with respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a 66-2/3% majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, by Act of such Holders, either shall waive such compliance in such instance or generally shall have waived 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.

Section 10.7 Company Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain Defaults.

(1) If any Securities are Outstanding under this Indenture, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a written statement (which need not be contained in or accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate) signed by the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, the principal accounting officer or other officer authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company, stating that

(a) a review of the activities of the Company during such year and of its performance under this Indenture has been made under his or her supervision, and

(b) to the best of his or her knowledge, based on such review, (a) the Company has complied with all the conditions and covenants imposed on it under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to him or her and the nature and status thereof, and (b) no event has occurred and is continuing which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, or, if such an event has occurred and is continuing, specifying each such event known to him or her and the nature and status thereof.

(2) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 10 days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any Event of Default or any event which after notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default pursuant to clause (5) of Section 5.1.

(3) The Trustee shall have no duty to monitor the Company’s compliance with the covenants contained in this Indenture to other than if the Trustee receives a written notice described in Section 10.7(2).

 

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Section 10.8 Calculation of Original Issue Discount.

The Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

Section 11.1 Applicability of Article.

Redemption of Securities of any series at the option of the Company as permitted or required by the terms of such Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities and (except as otherwise provided herein or pursuant hereto) this Article.

Section 11.2 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

The election of the Company to optionally redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of (a) less than all of the Securities of any series or (b) all of the Securities of any series with the same issue date, interest rate or formula, Stated Maturity and other terms, 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.

Section 11.3 Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed.

If less than all of the Securities of any series with the same issue date, interest rate or formula, Stated Maturity and other terms 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 amount of Registered Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Registered Security of such series not redeemed to less than the minimum denomination for a Security of such series established herein or pursuant hereto.

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) 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 Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

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exchange right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have been converted or exchanged during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection.

Section 11.4 Notice of Redemption.

Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 1.6, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to the Holders of Securities to be redeemed. Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Registered Securities designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Securities or portion thereof.

Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(1) the Redemption Date,

(2) the Redemption Price,

(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Security or 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 of such Security 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 shall become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof to be redeemed, and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date,

(6) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and any accrued interest and Additional Amounts pertaining thereto,

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

(8) in the case of Securities of any series that are convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock or other securities, cash or other property, the conversion or exchange price or rate, the date or dates on which the right to convert or exchange the principal of the Securities of such series to be redeemed will commence or terminate and the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for conversion or exchange, and

(9) the CUSIP number (or any other numbers used by a Depository to identify such Securities).

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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.

Section 11.5 Deposit of Redemption Price.

At or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit, with respect to the Securities of any series called for redemption pursuant to Section 11.4, 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 10.3) an amount of money in the applicable Currency sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 or in the Securities of such series) any accrued interest on and Additional Amounts with respect thereto, all such Securities or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.

Section 11.6 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 specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. 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 any accrued interest and Additional Amounts to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Registered Securities of such series, installments of interest on Registered 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 Regular Record Dates therefor according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium, until paid, shall bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.

Section 11.7 Securities Redeemed in Part.

Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at any Office or Agency for such Security (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 his 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 Registered Security or Securities of the same series, containing identical terms and provisions, 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. If a Security in global form is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the U.S. Depository or other Depository for such Security in global form as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, without service charge, a new Security in global form in a denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security in global form so surrendered.

 

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Section 11.8 Repurchases on the Open Market.

The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may at any time or from time to time repurchase any of the Securities in the open market or otherwise. Such Securities may, at the option of the Company or the relevant Affiliate of the Company, be held, resold or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation.

ARTICLE TWELVE

SINKING FUNDS

Section 12.1 Applicability of Article.

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

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 such series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.2. 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 and this Indenture.

Section 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver Outstanding Securities of such series (other than any of such Securities previously called for redemption or any of such Securities in respect of which cash shall have been released to the Company), and (2) apply as a credit Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such series of Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided 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 sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities of any series in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 12.2, the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed in order to satisfy the remaining sinking fund payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such series for redemption, except upon Company Request, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall at the request of the Company from time to time pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment requested to be released to the Company.

 

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Section 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

Not less than 75 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that series pursuant to Section 12.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so credited and not theretofore delivered. If such Officers’ Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less 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 11.3 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 11.4. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section 11.6 and Section 11.7.

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS

Section 13.1 Applicability of Article.

Securities of any series which are repayable at the option of the Holders thereof before their Stated Maturity shall be repaid in accordance with the terms of the Securities of such series. The repayment of any principal amount of Securities pursuant to such option of the Holder to require repayment of Securities before their Stated Maturity, for purposes of Section 3.9, shall not operate as a payment, redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the Company, at its option, shall deliver or surrender the same to the Trustee with a directive that such Securities be cancelled. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 13.1, in connection with any repayment of Securities, the Company may arrange for the purchase of any Securities by an agreement with one or more investment bankers or other purchasers to purchase such Securities by paying to the Holders of such Securities on or before the close of business on the repayment date an amount not less than the repayment price payable by the Company on repayment of such Securities, and the obligation of the Company to pay the repayment price of such Securities shall be satisfied and discharged to the extent such payment is so paid by such purchasers.

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES

Section 14.1 Applicability of Article.

Whenever this Indenture provides for (i) any action by, or the determination of any of the rights of, Holders of Securities of any series in which not all of such Securities are denominated in the same Currency, or (ii) any distribution to Holders of Securities, in the absence of any provision to the contrary pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities of any particular series, any amount in respect of any Security denominated in a Foreign Currency shall be treated for any such action or distribution as that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount on

 

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such reasonable basis of exchange and as of the record date with respect to Registered Securities of such series (if any) for such action, determination of rights or distribution (or, if there shall be no applicable record date, such other date reasonably proximate to the date of such action, determination of rights or distribution) as the Company may specify in a written notice to the Trustee or, in the absence of such written notice, as the Trustee may determine.

ARTICLE FIFTEEN

MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

Section 15.1 Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.

A meeting of Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series.

Section 15.2 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.

(1) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 15.1, to be held at such time and at such place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 1.6, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

(2) In case at any time the Company (by or pursuant to a Board Resolution) or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in Section 15.1, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed notice of or made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request (whichever shall be required pursuant to Section 1.6) or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in clause (1) of this Section.

Section 15.3 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.

To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series, or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.

Section 15.4 Quorum; Action.

The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series;

 

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provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of at least 66-2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the Persons entitled to vote 66-2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum. The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of one or more series entitled to vote on a particular matter as a single class shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such matter. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 15.2(1), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series which shall constitute a quorum.

Except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series or all affected series voting as a single class, as the case may be; provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2, any resolution with respect to any consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of at least 66-2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly convened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of 66-2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; and provided, further, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2, any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act which this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series or all affected series voting as a single class, as the case may be, may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series.

Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series, whether or not such Holders were present or represented at the meeting.

Section 15.5 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of Securities of such series in regard to proof of the holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other

 

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matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 1.4 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 1.4. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 1.4 or other proof.

(2) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 15.2(2), in which case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.

(3) At any meeting, each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.

(4) Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called pursuant to Section 15.2 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

Section 15.6 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.

The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the permanent secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be prepared by the permanent secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 15.2 and, if applicable, Section 15.4. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

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This instrument 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 instrument.

 

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

 

RADISYS CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Brian Bronson

Name:   Brian Bronson
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST
COMPANY, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee,
By:  

/s/ Melonee Young

Name:   Melonee Young
Title:   Vice President

 

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EX-4.2 4 dex42.htm FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE First Supplemental Indenture

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

RADISYS CORPORATION,

AS ISSUER

AND

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

AS TRUSTEE

2.75% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2013

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 12, 2008

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.01.

  

Definitions

   2

Section 1.02.

  

Trust Indenture Act Provisions

   7

Section 1.03.

  

Relationship to Base Indenture

   7

Section 1.04.

  

Notices

   8

Section 1.05.

  

Communications by Holders with Other Holders

   9

Section 1.06.

  

Governing Law

   9

Section 1.07.

  

Multiple Counterparts

   9

Section 1.08.

  

Calculations in Respect of the Securities

   9

Section 1.09.

  

Table of Contents, Headings, etc

   9
ARTICLE 2
THE SECURITIES

Section 2.01.

  

Form and Dating

   10

Section 2.02.

  

Authentication

   11

Section 2.03.

  

Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent

   12

Section 2.04.

  

Paying Agent to Hold Money and Securities in Trust

   12

Section 2.05.

  

Holder Lists

   13

Section 2.06.

  

Transfer and Exchange

   13

Section 2.07.

  

Cancellation

   14

Section 2.08.

  

Ranking

   14

Section 2.09.

  

Persons Deemed Owners

   14
ARTICLE 3
REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS

Section 3.01.

  

Purchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon a Fundamental Change

   15

Section 3.02.

  

Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice

   19

Section 3.03.

  

Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price

   20

Section 3.04.

  

Securities Purchased in Part

   21

Section 3.05.

  

Repayment to the Company

   21

Section 3.06.

  

Compliance with Securities Laws upon Purchase of Securities

   21
ARTICLE 4
CONVERSION

Section 4.01.

  

Conversion Privilege

   21

Section 4.02.

  

Conversion Rate

   22

Section 4.03.

  

Conversion Procedure

   23

Section 4.04.

  

Taxes on Conversion

   24

 

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Section 4.05.

  

Company to Provide Stock

   25

Section 4.06.

  

Adjustment of Conversion Rate

   25

Section 4.07.

  

No Adjustment

   33

Section 4.08.

  

Shareholder Rights Agreements

   34

Section 4.09.

  

Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale on Conversion Privilege

   34

Section 4.10.

  

Other Adjustments

   35

Section 4.11.

  

Notice of Adjustment

   35

Section 4.12.

  

Trustee’s Disclaimer

   35

Section 4.13.

  

Settlement Upon Conversion

   35
ARTICLE 5
SUPPLEMENTAL COVENANTS

Section 5.01.

  

Payment of Securities

   36

Section 5.02.

  

Reports and Certain Information

   37

Section 5.03.

  

Stay, Extension and Usury Laws

   37

Section 5.04.

  

Additional Interest Notice

   37
ARTICLE 6
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

Section 6.01.

  

Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms

   37

Section 6.02.

  

Successor Substituted

   38
ARTICLE 7
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

Section 7.01.

  

Events of Default

   38

Section 7.02.

  

Acceleration

   40

Section 7.03.

  

Other Remedies

   40

Section 7.04.

  

Waiver of Defaults and Events of Default

   41

Section 7.05.

  

Control by Majority

   41

Section 7.06.

  

Limitations on Suits

   42

Section 7.07.

  

Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert

   42

Section 7.08.

  

Collection Suit by Trustee

   42

Section 7.09.

  

Priorities

   42

Section 7.10.

  

Undertaking for Costs

   43

Section 7.11.

  

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

   43
ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO TRUSTEE

Section 8.01.

  

Reports by Trustee

   43
ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS

Section 9.01.

  

Without Consent of Holders

   44

 

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Section 9.02.

  

With Consent of Holders

   45

Section 9.03.

  

Compliance with Trust Indenture Act

   46

Section 9.04.

  

Revocation and Effect of Consents

   46

Section 9.05.

  

Notation on or Exchange of Securities

   46

Section 9.06.

  

Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc

   46

Section 9.07.

  

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

   46
ARTICLE 10
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 10.01.

  

Satisfaction and Discharge of the Indenture

   47

Section 10.02.

  

Repayment to the Company

   48

 

Exhibit A    -    Form of Note:
   -    Assignment Form
   -    Form of Conversion Notice
   -    Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
Exhibit B    -    Table showing the Increase in Conversion Rate in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change

 

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This FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of February 12, 2008 (this “First Supplemental Indenture”) is between RadiSys Corporation, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, as trustee (in such capacity and not in its individual capacity, the “Trustee”).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore delivered to the Trustee an Indenture dated as of February12, 2008 (the “Base Indenture” and, the Base Indenture, as amended, supplemented or modified (including by virtue of the First Supplemental Indenture), the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of its debt securities evidencing its unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.

WHEREAS, ARTICLE NINE of the Base Indenture provides for the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to establish the form or terms of such debt securities of any series as provided by the Base Indenture.

WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the issue of a series of debt securities to be known as its 2.75% Convertible Senior Securities Due 2013 (as amended or supplemented from time to time pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, the “Securities”) to be issued under this First Supplemental Indenture, initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $55,000,000 (which includes $5,000,000 aggregate principal amount pursuant to the Underwriter’s exercise of its over-allotment option in full), and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company and the Board of Directors have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture.

WHEREAS, the Securities, the certificate of authentication to be borne by the Securities, the form of conversion notice, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the form of assignment and transfer to be borne by the Securities are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided for.

WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in this First Supplemental Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this First Supplemental Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Securities have in all respects been duly authorized.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Securities by the holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the Securities (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:


ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this First Supplemental 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 terms “generally accepted accounting principles” or “GAAP” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation;

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

(5) the word “or” is always used inclusively (for example, the phrase “A or B” means “A or B or both,” not “either A or B but not both”);

(6) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;

(7) the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter; and

(8) references to agreements and other instruments include subsequent amendments thereto.

Additional Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03.

Additional Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.

Additional Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b).

Adjustment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b).

Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.

Agent Members” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(d).

Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or exchange of beneficial ownership interests in a Global Security, the rules and procedures of the Depositary, in each case to the extent applicable to such transfer or exchange.

Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

 

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Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or, except as used in the definition of Fundamental Change and except where the context otherwise requires, any duly authorized committee of such board of directors.

capital stock” means (i) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock; (ii) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock; (iii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership interests (whether general or limited) or membership interests; or (iv) any other interest or participation that confers on a person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing person.

Cash” means such coin or currency of the United States as at any time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Close of Business” means 5:00 p.m. New York City time.

Closing Price” means, on any Trading Day, the reported last sale price per share of the Common Stock (or, if no last sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices per share or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices per share) on such date reported by Nasdaq or, if the Common Stock is not quoted or listed for trading on Nasdaq, as reported by the principal national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed for trading or otherwise as provided in this First Supplemental Indenture.

Common Stock” means, subject to Section 4.09, shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, at the date of this First Supplemental Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and that have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and that are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.

continuing director” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

Conversion Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a).

Conversion Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a).

Conversion Price” means, at any time, an amount equal to $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate in effect at such time, rounded to the nearest cent.

Conversion Rate” means the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Securities determined by the Company as set forth in Section 4.02(a).

 

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Current Market Price” means (i) in the case of the paragraph preceding the formula in Section 4.06(e), the Closing Price on the specified date and (ii) in the case of the definition of “SP’” in Section 4.06(e), the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on the Trading Day immediately following the date such tender or exchange offer expires.

Custodian” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

Default” means, when used with respect to the Securities, any event which is or, after notice or passage of time or both, would be an Event of Default.

Depositary” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).

Distributed Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(c).

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

Ex Date” means (i) when used with respect to any dividend or distribution, the first date on which the Common Stock trades, regular way, on the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the sale price was obtained without the right to receive such dividend or distribution; and (ii) when used with respect to any tender offer or exchange offer, the first date on which the Common Stock trades, regular way, on the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the sale price was obtained after the expiration time.

Fundamental Change” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

Fundamental Change Company Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(b).

Fundamental Change Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(c).

Fundamental Change Purchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

Global Security” means a permanent Global Security that is in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and that includes the information and schedule called for by footnotes 1 and 5 thereof and which is deposited with the Depositary or its custodian and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee.

Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person:

(a) all of such Person’s indebtedness, obligations and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, (i) for borrowed money, including overdrafts, foreign exchange contracts, currency exchange agreements, interest rate protection agreements, and any loans or advances from banks, whether or not evidenced by notes or similar instruments, or (ii) evidenced by credit or loan agreements, bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or any of its subsidiaries or to only a portion thereof;

 

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(b) all of such Person’s reimbursement obligations and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, with respect to letters of credit, bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances;

(c) all of such Person’s obligations and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, in respect of leases required, in conformity with GAAP, to be accounted for as capitalized lease obligations on such Person’s balance sheet;

(d) all of such Person’s obligations and other liabilities, contingent or otherwise, under any lease, purchase agreement, conditional sale or other title retention agreement, in connection with the lease or purchase of real property or improvements thereon (or any personal property included as part of any such lease) which provides that such Person is contractually obligated to purchase or cause a third party to purchase the leased property or pay an agreed upon residual value of the leased property, including such Person’s obligations under such lease or related documents to purchase or cause a third party to purchase such leased property or pay an agreed upon residual value of the leased property to the lessor;

(e) all of such Person’s obligations, contingent or otherwise, with respect to an interest rate or other swap, cap, floor or collar agreement or hedge agreement, forward contract or other similar instrument or agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange, purchase or similar instrument or agreement;

(f) all of such Person’s obligations for the deferred purchase price of property or services (including accrued salaries, vacation and other employee benefits but excluding trade accounts payable and accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business);

(g) all of such Person’s direct or indirect guarantees or similar agreements in respect of, and all obligations or liabilities to purchase or otherwise acquire or otherwise assure a creditor against loss in respect of, indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of another Person of the kinds described in clauses (a) through (f); and

(h) any and all deferrals, renewals, extensions, refinancings and refundings of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, any indebtedness, obligation or liability of the kinds described in clauses (a) through (g).

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date shall be (i) the outstanding principal amount of all unconditional obligations described above, as such amount would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the maximum liability at such date of such Person for any contingent obligations described above, (ii) the accreted value thereof, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount, and (iii) the principal amount thereof, together with any interest thereon that is more than 30 days past due, in the case of any other Indebtedness.

Initial Securities” means the Securities issued on the date hereof in the aggregate principal amount of $55,000,000, and any Securities issued in replacement thereof.

Interest Payment Date” has the meaning set forth in Exhibit A.

Interest Payment Record Date” has the meaning set forth in Exhibit A.

 

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Make-Whole Fundamental Change” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

Market Disruption Event” means (a) a failure by the primary exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock trades or is quoted to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Trading Day for the Common Stock of an aggregate one half hour period, of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the stock exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to the Common Stock.

Maturity Date” means February 15, 2013.

Merger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 4.09.

Nasdaq” means The Nasdaq Global Select Stock Market.

NYSE” means the New York Stock Exchange.

Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman or any Co-Chairman of the Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Legal Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or any Vice President of such Person.

Paying Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Principal Amount” of a Security means the Principal Amount as set forth on the face of the Security.

Prospectus” means that final prospectus supplement dated February 6, 2008 and the accompanying prospectus relating to the Securities.

Record Date” means (i) with respect to any payment of interest on the Securities, the Interest Payment Record Date and (ii) with respect to the events specified in Section 4.06, the meaning specified in Section 4.06.

Reference Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.09.

Register” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Registered Security” means a Security that is in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and that does not include the information or the schedule called for by footnotes 1 and 5 thereof.

Registrar” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Security” or “Securities” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

 

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Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from time to time.

Securities Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the Global Securities, or any successor thereto.

Significant Subsidiary” means, in respect of any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person that would constitute a “significant subsidiary”, as such term is defined under Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.

Spin-Off” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(c).

Spin-Off Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(c).

Stock Price” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b).

Trading Day” means a day during which (i) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs and (ii) there is no Market Disruption Event.

Trigger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(c).

Trustee” means The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as trustee hereunder, until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture and, thereafter, shall mean such successor Trustee.

Underwriter” means Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.

Section 1.02. Trust Indenture Act Provisions. Whenever this First Supplemental Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act, that provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this First Supplemental Indenture. The following Trust Indenture Act terms used in this First Supplemental Indenture have the following meanings:

indenture securities” means the Securities.

indenture security holder” means a Holder.

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

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

All other terms used in this First Supplemental Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, defined by Trust Indenture Act reference to another statute or defined by any Commission rule and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.

Section 1.03. Relationship to Base Indenture. For all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided for or unless the context otherwise requires.

 

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(a) Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Base Indenture;

(b) Terms defined both herein and in the Base Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them herein;

(c) Provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture that conflict with or are otherwise inconsistent with provisions of the Base Indenture shall be deemed to supersede and amend the Base Indenture for all purposes with respect to the Securities; and

(d) All references herein to Articles and Sections, unless otherwise specified, refer to the corresponding Articles and Sections of this First Supplemental Indenture.

Section 1.04. Notices. Any demand, authorization notice, request, consent or communication shall be given in writing and delivered in person, sent by overnight courier or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows or transmitted by facsimile transmission (confirmed by delivery in person or mail by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by guaranteed overnight courier) to the parties hereto as follows:

If to the Company, to:

RadiSys Corporation

5445 N.E. Dawson Creek Drive

Hillsboro, OR 97124

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

Facsimile No.: (503) 615-1114

If to the Trustee, to:

The Bank of New York Trust Company

700 South Flower Street

Suite 500

Los Angeles, CA 90017

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

(RadiSys 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013)

Facsimile No. (213) 630-6298

All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders) shall be deemed to have been duly given at the time delivered by Hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, if mailed by first class mail (registered or certified, returned receipt requested); upon acknowledgment of receipt, if transmitted by facsimile; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by guaranteed overnight or courier.

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon facsimile transmission of written instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture given by the Company, provided, however that: (i) subsequent to such facsimile transmission of written instructions or directions, the Company shall provide the originally executed instructions to the Trustee in a timely manner, and (ii) such originally executed instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized Officer of the Company.

 

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The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other in the manner prescribed above may designate additional or different addresses or facsimile numbers for subsequent notices or communications.

Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or delivered by hand or by an overnight delivery service to it at its address shown on the Register and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed or delivered within the time prescribed. Any notice or communication shall also be mailed to any Person described in Trust Indenture Act Section 313(c), to the extent required by the Trust Indenture Act.

Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. Except as set forth above as to the Trustee, if a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

Section 1.05. Communications by Holders with Other Holders. Holders may communicate pursuant to Trust Indenture Act Section 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this First Supplemental Indenture or the Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, the Paying Agent, the Conversion Agent and any other Person shall have the protection of Trust Indenture Act Section 312(c).

Section 1.06. Governing Law. This First Supplemental Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

Section 1.07. Multiple Counterparts. The parties may sign multiple counterparts of this First Supplemental Indenture. Each signed counterpart shall be deemed an original, but all of them together shall represent the same agreement.

Section 1.08. Calculations in Respect of the Securities. The Company or its agents shall make all calculations under this First Supplemental Indenture and the Securities in good faith. In the absence of manifest error, such calculations shall be final and binding on all Holders. The Company or its agents shall provide a copy of such calculations to the Trustee (or a Conversion Agent, if different from the Trustee), as required hereunder, and the Trustee and the Conversion Agent shall be entitled to rely on the accuracy of any such calculation without independent verification, and neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any responsibility for making any such calculations.

Section 1.09. Table of Contents, Headings, etc. The table of contents, cross-reference sheet and headings of the Articles and Sections of this First Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

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ARTICLE 2

THE SECURITIES

Section 2.01. Form and Dating. (a) The Securities and the corresponding Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, which Exhibit is incorporated in and made part of this First Supplemental Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, exchange rule, Applicable Procedures or usage. The Company shall provide any such notations, legends or endorsements to the Trustee in writing. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

The terms and provisions contained in the Securities shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this First Supplemental Indenture and the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby; provided, however, to the extent permitted by applicable law, if any provision of any Security conflicts with the express provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

(b) Global Securities. All of the Securities shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Securities, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Securities represented thereby with the Securities Custodian, as custodian for the depositary, The Depository Trust Company (such depositary, or any successor thereto, being hereinafter referred to as the “Depositary”), and registered in the name of its nominee, Cede & Co., or as otherwise instructed by the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Global Securities may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Securities Custodian and the Depositary as hereinafter provided, subject in each case to compliance with the Applicable Procedures and the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture.

(c) Global Securities In General. Each Global Security shall represent such of the outstanding Securities as shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges, purchases or conversions of such Securities, in each case in accordance with this First Supplemental Indenture. Any adjustment of the aggregate principal amount of a Global Security to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in accordance with instructions given by the Holder thereof as required by Section 3.5 of the Base Indenture, or otherwise in accordance with this First Supplemental Indenture, and shall be made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary.

The Company shall issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver in accordance with Section 2.02, initially one or more Global Securities that (i) shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co. or as otherwise instructed by the Depositary, (i) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or to the Securities Custodian pursuant to the Depositary’s instructions and (ii) shall bear legends required for Global Securities as set forth in Exhibit A hereto.

 

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(d) Book Entry Provisions. Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this First Supplemental Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depositary or under the Global Security, and the Depositary (including, for this purpose, its nominee) may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall (A) 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 such nominee, as the case may be, or (B) impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the Applicable Procedures or the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.

None of the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent or any agent of any of them shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in the Securities, for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests, or for any acts or omissions of a Depositary or for any transactions between a Depositary and any beneficial owner or between or among beneficial owners. No owner of a beneficial interest in the Securities shall have any rights under this First Supplemental Indenture, and the Depositary or its nominee, if any, shall be deemed and treated by the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent or any agent of any of them as the absolute owner and holder of such Securities for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent or any agent of any of them from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depositary, or any of its members and any other Person on whose behalf such member may act.

Section 2.02. Authentication. (a) The Trustee shall initially authenticate and make available for delivery Securities for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of up to $55,000,000 (which includes $5,000,000 aggregate principal amount pursuant to the Underwriter’s exercise of its over-allotment option in full) upon receipt of a Company Order. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders, re-open the Securities and issue additional Securities (the “Additional Securities”) with the same terms and with the same CUSIP number as the Securities in an unlimited aggregate principal amount; provided, however that no such Additional Securities may be issued unless fungible with the Securities offered hereby for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Trustee shall authenticate Additional Securities thereafter in unlimited aggregate principal amount (so long as permitted by the terms of this First Supplemental Indenture) for original issue upon a Company Order in aggregate principal amount as specified in such order (except as provided in Section 3.6 of the Base Indenture). Each such Company Order shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the date on which the Securities are to be authenticated. Such Additional Securities shall have identical terms to the Initial Securities except for adjustments for any differences in issuance dates and prices and with respect to interest accruing prior to their date of issuance, and will constitute the same series as the Initial Securities for all purposes hereunder, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments and offers to purchase.

 

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(b) The Trustee shall act as the initial authenticating agent. Thereafter, the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in the Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent shall have the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and any integral multiple thereof.

Section 2.03. Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent. The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (“Registrar”), an office or agency in the United States where Securities may be presented for purchase or payment (“Paying Agent”), an office or agency where Securities may be presented for conversion (“Conversion Agent”), and an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this First Supplemental Indenture may be served. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Securities (“Register”) and of their transfer and exchange.

The Company may have one or more co-registrars, one or more additional paying agents, and one or more additional conversion agents. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar, the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent and the term “Conversion Agent” includes any additional conversion agent, including any named pursuant to Section 10.2 of the Base Indenture.

The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this First Supplemental Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this First Supplemental Indenture. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent or agent for service of notices and demands in any place required by this First Supplemental Indenture, or fails to give the foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent.

The Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent in connection with the Securities.

Section 2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Money and Securities in Trust. Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of payments in respect of, or delivery of Cash or shares of Common Stock, as applicable and as provided herein, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent Cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on the due date) or with the Conversion Agent such number of shares of Common Stock or other consideration sufficient to make such payments or deliveries when so becoming due. The Company shall require each Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable (other than the Trustee), to agree in writing that such Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all Cash, Common Stock or other consideration, as applicable, held by such Agent for the making of payments or deliveries in respect of the Securities and shall notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Company in

 

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making any such payment or delivery. If the Company or an Affiliate of the Company acts as Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable, it shall segregate the Cash, Common Stock and other consideration, as applicable, held by it as Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable, and hold it as a separate trust fund.

The Company at any time may require the Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable, to pay all Cash, Common Stock or other consideration, as applicable, held by it to the Trustee, and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of any Default, upon written request to the Paying Agent or the Conversion Agent, as applicable, require such Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable, to pay forthwith to the Trustee all Cash, Common Stock or other consideration, as applicable, so held in trust by such Paying Agent or Conversion Agent. Upon doing so, the Paying Agent or the Conversion Agent, as applicable, shall have no further liability for such Cash, Common Stock or other consideration, as applicable.

Section 2.05. Holder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of the Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee on or before each Interest Payment Date, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list of the names and addresses of the Holders in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably request.

Section 2.06. Transfer and Exchange. (a) Subject to compliance with any applicable additional requirements contained in Section 3.5 of the Base Indenture, when a Security is presented to a Registrar with a request to register a transfer thereof or to exchange such Security for an equal principal amount of Securities of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested; provided, however, that every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall, if such Security is a Registered Security, be duly endorsed or accompanied by an assignment form, in the form included in Exhibit A attached hereto and, if applicable, a transfer certificate, in the form included in Exhibit A attached hereto, and in form reasonably satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, upon surrender of any Security for registration of transfer or exchange at an office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 2.03, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate Securities of a like aggregate principal amount at the Registrar’s request. Any exchange or transfer shall be without charge, except that the Company or the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Base Indenture or Section 9.05, Article 3 or Article 4 of this First Supplemental Indenture, in each case, not involving any transfer.

Neither the Company, any Registrar nor the Trustee shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Securities or portions thereof in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered and not validly withdrawn by the Holder thereof (except, in the case of the purchase of a Security in part, the portion thereof not to be purchased).

 

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

(b) Any Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 2.03 of this First Supplemental Indenture or Section 10.2 of the Base Indenture shall provide to the Trustee such information as the Trustee may reasonably request in connection with the delivery by such Registrar of Securities upon transfer or exchange of Securities.

The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this First Supplemental Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Agent Members or other beneficial owners of interests in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of such opinions of counsel, certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this First Supplemental Indenture (including if so requested by the Company exercising a right to require the delivery of such items), and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

Any Holder of a Global Security shall, by acceptance of such Global Security, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Security may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by the Depositary (or its agent), and that ownership of a beneficial interest in a Global Security shall be required to be reflected in a book-entry system.

Section 2.07. Cancellation. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or that any Holder has converted pursuant to Article 4.

All Securities that are purchased pursuant to Article 3 or otherwise acquired by the Company shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. If the Company shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a repurchase or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

Section 2.08. Ranking. The obligations of the Company arising under or in connection with this First Supplemental Indenture and every outstanding Security issued under this First Supplemental Indenture from time to time constitute and shall constitute an unsecured general obligation of the Company, ranking equal in right of payment to all senior indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all subordinated debt.

Section 2.09. 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, which shall initially be the Depositary, as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, Fundamental Change Purchase Price and interest on the Security, for the purpose of receiving Common Stock or Cash and for all other purposes, including without limitation, for purposes of giving notices hereunder, whatsoever, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the

 

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Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. The registered Holder of a Global Security may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this First Supplemental Indenture or the Securities.

ARTICLE 3

REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS

Section 3.01. Purchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon a Fundamental Change. (a) In the event a Fundamental Change shall occur at any time when any Securities remain outstanding, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase all of such Holders’ Securities or any portion of the principal amount thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof on a date specified by the Company (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Date”) that is not less than 15 nor more than 30 Business Days after the date the Company mails the Fundamental Change Company Notice pursuant to Section 3.01(b), at a purchase price in Cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities tendered for purchase, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) to, but not including, the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Price”), subject to satisfaction by or on behalf of any Holder of the requirements set forth in Section 3.01(c). No Securities may be purchased at the option of the Holders upon a Fundamental Change if there has occurred and is continuing an Event of Default other than an Event of Default that is cured by the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the Securities.

A “Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred upon the occurrence of any of the following:

(i) a “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act becomes the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of shares of the Common Stock representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Common Stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors and (A) files a Schedule 13D or Schedule TO or any other schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing such beneficial ownership or (B) the Company otherwise becomes aware of any such person or group; or

(ii) the Common Stock into which the Securities are then convertible ceases to be listed for trading on the NYSE, Nasdaq or another national securities exchange and is not then quoted on an established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States;

(iii) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s board of directors does not consist of continuing directors; or

 

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(iv) a consolidation, merger or binding share exchange, or any conveyance, transfer, sale, lease or other disposition in a single transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets other than:

(A) any transaction:

(1) that does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of the Company’s capital stock; and

(2) pursuant to which holders of the Company’s capital stock immediately prior to the transaction have the entitlement to exercise, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares of capital stock entitled to vote generally in elections of directors of the continuing or surviving or successor Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction in substantially the same proportion as their entitlement to exercise, directly or indirectly, voting power of shares of the Company’s capital stock entitled to vote generally in elections of the Company’s directors immediately prior to such transaction; or

(B) any transaction that is effected solely for the purpose of changing the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation and resulting in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of Common Stock, if at all, solely into shares of common stock of the surviving entity or a direct or indirect parent of the surviving corporation.

(v) the Company’s shareholders approve any plan or proposal for the Company’s liquidation or dissolution.

A “Make-Whole Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change described in clauses (i), (ii), (iv) or (v) above.

For purposes of this Section 3.01:

(I) “board of directors” means the board of directors or other governing body charged with the ultimate management of any person;

(II) “continuing director” means a director who either was a member of the Company’s board of directors on the date of the Prospectus, or who becomes a member of the board of directors subsequent to that date and whose election, appointment or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders is duly approved by a majority of the continuing directors on the Company’s board of directors at the time of such approval, either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy statement issued by the Company on behalf of the Company’s entire board of directors in which such individual is named as a nominee for director; and

 

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(III) “person” includes any syndicate or group that would be deemed to be a “person” under Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.

(b) Notices of Fundamental Change.

(i) Within 10 days after the public announcement of any event constituting a Fundamental Change, the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of such event and shall mail a written notice of the Fundamental Change to each Holder (and to beneficial owners as required by applicable law) in accordance with Section 1.04. The notice shall state:

(A) the events causing such Fundamental Change, the Adjustment Date of the Fundamental Change (in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change) and the anticipated date of effectiveness of such Fundamental Change;

(B) that the Holder will have a right to require the Company to purchase the Holder’s Securities if such Fundamental Change is consummated; and

(C) in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, that no Additional Shares will be added to the Conversion Rate if the Make-Whole Fundamental Change is not consummated and that payment of any Additional Shares associated with Securities surrendered for conversion in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change will occur no earlier than the date of effectiveness of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

(ii) Within 10 days after the effective date of each Fundamental Change, the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date and shall mail a written notice of the Fundamental Change (each such notice a “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) to each Holder (and to beneficial owners as required by applicable law) in accordance with Section 1.04. The notice shall include the form of a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice to be completed by the Holder and shall state, as applicable:

(A) the events causing such Fundamental Change, the adjustment date of the Fundamental Change (in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change) and the date of effectiveness of such Fundamental Change;

(B) that the Holder has a right to require the Company to purchase the Holder’s Securities;

(C) the date by which the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice must be delivered to the Paying Agent in order for a Holder to exercise the Fundamental Change purchase right;

(D) the Fundamental Change Purchase Date;

(E) the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;

 

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(F) the procedures that the Holder must follow to exercise its Fundamental Change purchase right under this Section 3.01;

(G) the names and addresses of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;

(H) that the Securities must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;

(I) that the Fundamental Change Purchase Price for any Security as to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been duly given and not withdrawn shall be paid promptly following the later of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date and the time of surrender of such Security;

(J) the Conversion Rate (after giving effect to any change in the Conversion Rate that resulted from the Fundamental Change);

(K) that the Securities with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been given may be converted pursuant to Article 4 of this First Supplemental Indenture only if either (i) the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of this First Supplemental Indenture or (ii) there shall be a default in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;

(L) the procedures for withdrawing a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice;

(M) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment of such Fundamental Change Purchase Price, interest on Securities surrendered for purchase by the Company shall cease to accrue on and after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date; and

(N) the CUSIP number(s) of the Securities.

If any of the Securities are in the form of a Global Security, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the Applicable Procedures for repurchases.

At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the Fundamental Change Company Notice on behalf of the Company and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that the Company makes such request at least three Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be consented to by the Trustee) prior to the date by which such Fundamental Change Company Notice must be given to the Holders in accordance with this Section 3.01(b); provided, further, however, that the text of such notice shall be prepared by the Company.

(c) Fundamental Change Purchase Notice. A Holder may exercise its right specified in Section 3.01(a) upon delivery of a written notice (which shall be in substantially the form included in Exhibit A hereto and which may be delivered by letter, overnight courier, hand

 

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delivery, facsimile transmission or in any other written form and, in the case of Global Securities, may be delivered electronically or by other means in accordance with the Applicable Procedures) of the exercise of such rights (a “Fundamental Change Purchase Notice”) to and such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice must be received by the Paying Agent no later than the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date. The Fundamental Change Purchase Notice must state:

(i) if Registered Securities are to be delivered, the certificate numbers of the Securities that the Holder shall deliver to be purchased;

(ii) the portion of the principal amount of the Securities that the Holder shall deliver to be purchased, which portion must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and

(iii) that such Securities are being tendered for and shall be purchased by the Company on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in this First Supplemental Indenture.

The book-entry transfer or delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent (together with all necessary endorsements) at the office of the Paying Agent shall be a condition to the receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price; provided, however, that such Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be paid pursuant to this Section 3.01 only if the Security so transferred by book-entry or delivered to the Paying Agent shall conform in all material respects to the description thereof in the related Fundamental Change Purchase Notice.

The Company shall purchase from the Holder thereof, pursuant to this Section 3.01, a portion of a Security if the principal amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000. Provisions of this Section 3.01 that apply to the purchase of all of a Security also apply to the purchase of such a portion of such Security.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice contemplated by this Section 3.01(c) shall have the right to withdraw such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice at any time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.02(b).

The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Purchase Notices or written notices of withdrawal thereof.

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the case of Global Securities, any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be delivered or withdrawn, and such Securities may be surrendered or transferred by book-entry or delivered for purchase, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

Section 3.02. Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice. (a) Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, the Holder of the Security in respect of which such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice was given shall (unless such Fundamental

 

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Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn as specified below) thereafter be entitled to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to such Security. Such Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder promptly following the later of (i) the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (provided such Holder has satisfied the conditions in Section 3.01(c) with respect to such Security) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or delivery of such Security to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 3.01(c). A Security in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been given by the Holder thereof may not be converted pursuant to Article 4 hereof on or after the date of the delivery of such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, unless either (i) such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has first been validly withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.02(b); or (ii) there shall be a default in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, provided, that the conversion right with respect to such Security shall terminate at the Close of Business on the date such default is cured and such Security is purchased in accordance herewith.

(b) A Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be withdrawn by any Holder delivering such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice upon delivery of a written notice of withdrawal (which may be delivered by mail, overnight courier, hand delivery, facsimile transmission or in any other written form and, in the case of Global Securities, may be delivered electronically or by other means in accordance with the Applicable Procedures) to and such notice of withdrawal must be received by the Paying Agent at any time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, specifying:

(i) if Registered Securities are to be withdrawn, the certificate numbers of the Securities in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted;

(ii) the principal amount of the Securities in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which principal amount must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and

(iii) the principal amount, if any, of the Securities that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and that has been or shall be delivered for purchase by the Company.

Section 3.03. Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price. Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on a Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or if the Company or an Affiliate of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.04) an amount in Cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on such Fundamental Change Purchase Date) sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all the Securities or portions thereof that are to be purchased on that Fundamental Change Purchase Date.

If the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with the terms hereof, at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day following a Fundamental Change Purchase Date, Cash sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all Securities for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered and not validly withdrawn in accordance with this First Supplemental Indenture, then, on and after such Fundamental Change

 

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Purchase Date, such Securities shall cease to be outstanding and interest (including Additional Interest) on such Securities shall cease to accrue, whether or not such Securities are transferred by book-entry or delivered to the Paying Agent, and the rights of the Holders in respect thereof shall terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price upon delivery of such Securities by their Holders to the Paying Agent).

Section 3.04. Securities Purchased in Part. Any Registered Security that is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing), and promptly after a Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order (which the Company agrees to deliver promptly), authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of such authorized denomination or denominations as may be requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the Security so surrendered that is not purchased.

Section 3.05. Repayment to the Company. To the extent that the aggregate amount of Cash deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 3.03 exceeds the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the Securities or portions thereof that the Company is obligated to purchase on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, then, within one day after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Paying Agent shall return any such excess Cash to the Company.

Section 3.06. Compliance with Securities Laws upon Purchase of Securities. When complying with the provisions of Article 3 hereof (provided that such offer or purchase constitutes an “issuer tender offer” for purposes of Rule 13e-4 (which term, as used herein, includes any successor provision thereto) under the Exchange Act at the time of such offer or purchase), and subject to any exemptions available under applicable law, the Company shall:

(a) comply with Rule 13e-4, Rule 14e-1 and any other tender offer rules under the Exchange Act that may then be applicable; and

(b) otherwise comply with all federal and state securities laws so as to permit the rights and obligations in connection with any purchase pursuant to this Article 3 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified herein.

ARTICLE 4

CONVERSION

Section 4.01. Conversion Privilege. The Securities shall be convertible in accordance with their terms and in accordance with and subject to this Article 4 into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate, subject to the provisions of Section 4.02 regarding fractional shares, at any time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date. Securities may be converted only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof.

 

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Section 4.02. Conversion Rate. (a) The initial Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Securities to be converted is 76.7448 shares (which is equal to an initial Conversion Price of $13.03 per share), subject to adjustment as described in Section 4.06. The Conversion Rate, including any Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, will not exceed 20.7211 shares (which is equal to a Conversion Price of $10.26 per share); provided, however, that such maximum conversion rate will be appropriately adjusted for Conversion Rate adjustments as described in Section 4.06.

A Holder of a Security otherwise entitled to a fractional share will receive cash in an amount equal to the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock for the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day prior to the Conversion Date.

A Security for which a Holder has delivered a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice requiring the Company to purchase the Securities may be surrendered for conversion only if such notice is withdrawn in accordance with this First Supplemental Indenture.

(b) If a Holder elects to convert Securities in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, then the Conversion Rate of the Securities being converted by such Holder shall be increased by an additional number of shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”) set forth in Exhibit B. For the avoidance of doubt, the increases provided for in this Section 4.02(b) shall only be made with respect to the Securities being converted in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change and shall not be effective as to any Securities not so converted. For purposes of this Section 4.02, a conversion shall be deemed to be “in connection” with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change if it occurs during the period that begins on (and includes) the public announcement of an event constituting a Make-Whole Fundamental Change and ends on (and includes) the Fundamental Change Purchase Date relating to such Make-Whole Fundamental Change as set forth in Article 3.

The increase in the Conversion Rate, expressed as a number of Additional Shares to be received per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, will be determined by the Company by reference to the table attached as Exhibit B hereto, based on the earliest of the date on which the Make-Whole Fundamental Change is publicly announced, occurs or becomes effective (the “Adjustment Date”) and the price paid or deemed to be paid per share of Common Stock in the transaction constituting the Make-Whole Fundamental Change (the “Stock Price”) subject to adjustment as set forth in the next paragraph; provided, however, that if a Holder of the Common Stock receives only Cash in connection with such transaction, the Stock Price shall be the Cash amount paid per share. In all other cases, the Stock Price will be the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Days prior to but not including the date of effectiveness of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change, provided, however, that (i) if the Stock Price is between two Stock Price amounts on the table or the Adjustment Date is between two Adjustment Dates on the table, the number of Additional Shares will be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Price amounts and the earlier and later adjustment dates based on a 365-day year, as applicable; (ii) if the Stock Price is in excess of $80.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Price), no increase in the Conversion Rate will be made; and (iii) if the Stock Price is less than $10.26 per share (subject to adjustment as set forth in the next paragraph), no increase in the Conversion Rate will be made. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in

 

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no event will the total number of Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate as a result of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change exceed 20.7211 shares per $1,000 principal amount of notes, subject to adjustment as described in Section 4.06.

The Stock Prices set forth in the first columns of the table attached as Exhibit B hereto will be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate is adjusted as described in Section 4.06. The adjusted Stock Prices will equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to the adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares will be adjusted in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 4.06.

If, as set forth in this Section 4.06(b), the Company is required to increase the Conversion Rate by the Additional Shares as a result of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, payment of such Additional Shares associated with Securities surrendered for conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change will be settled as follows:

 

   

if the Conversion Date occurs prior to the date of effectiveness of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, settlement shall occur no later than the third Trading Day immediately following such date of effectiveness; and

 

   

if the Conversion Date occurs on or following the date of effectiveness of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, settlement shall occur no later than the third Trading Day immediately following such Conversion Date.

The Company will settle such conversions by delivering Reference Property equivalent to shares of the Common Stock based on the increased Conversion Rate resulting from such Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

For the avoidance of doubt, in the event Securities are surrendered for conversion in connection with an anticipated Make-Whole Fundamental Change and such Make-Whole Fundamental Change does not in fact occur, no Additional Shares will be added to the Conversion Rate and no additional Cash or Reference Property will be paid as a result of the related anticipated Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

Section 4.03. Conversion Procedure. (a) The right of conversion attaching to any Security may be exercised at any time during which conversion is permitted in accordance with Section 4.01 (i)(i) if such Security is represented by a Global Security, by book-entry transfer to the Conversion Agent through the facilities of the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, or (ii) if such Security is represented by a Registered Security, by delivery of such Security at the specified office of the Conversion Agent, accompanied, in either case, by: (1) a duly signed and completed conversion notice, in the form as set forth on the reverse of Security attached hereto as Exhibit A (a “Conversion Notice”); (2) if such Registered Security has been lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated, a notice to the Conversion Agent in accordance with Section 3.6 of the Base Indenture regarding the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of the Security; (3) appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Conversion Agent; and (4) payment of any tax or duty, in accordance with Section 4.04, which may be

 

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payable in respect of any transfer involving the issue or delivery of the Common Stock in the name of a Person other than the Holder of the Security. The date on which the Holder satisfies all of those requirements is the “Conversion Date.” The Securities will be deemed to be converted immediately prior to the Close of Business on the Conversion Date. The Company shall deliver the shares to the Holder through a Conversion Agent in the form of a certificate for the number of whole shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion or, in the case of holders of Securities in book-entry form with DTC, in accordance with DTC customary practices. In each case, the Company shall also deliver to such holder Cash in lieu of any fractional shares pursuant to Section 4.02(a). The Company shall deliver such shares and Cash as promptly as practicable after the Conversion Date and the completion of the relevant calculations relating to the conversion considerations and, except as set forth in Section 4.02(b), in any event no later than the third Trading Day immediately following the Conversion Date.

(b) The person in whose name the Security is registered shall be deemed to be a shareholder of record on the Conversion Date; provided, however, that no surrender of a Security or satisfaction of the other conditions in Section 4.03(a) on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed shall be effective to constitute the person or persons entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock upon such conversion as the record holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock on such date, but such surrender shall, provided that all such conditions have been satisfied, be effective to constitute the person or persons entitled to receive such shares of Common Stock as the record holder or holders thereof for all purposes at the Close of Business on the next succeeding day on which such stock transfer books are open. Upon conversion of a Security, such person shall no longer be a Holder of such Security.

(c) The Company’s delivery to the Holder of the full number of shares of Common Stock into which the Security is convertible, together with any Cash payment for such holder’s fractional shares, will be deemed to satisfy the Company’s obligation to pay the principal amount of the Security and to satisfy the Company’s obligation to pay accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) to but not including the Conversion Date. As a result, accrued interest is deemed paid in full rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited.

(d) Upon surrender of a Security that is converted in part, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver to the Holder, a new Security equal in principal amount of the unconverted portion of the Security surrendered.

Section 4.04. Taxes on Conversion. If a Holder converts a Security, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes or duties relating to the issuance or delivery of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of such conversion rights. However, the Holder shall pay any tax or duty which may be payable relating to any transfer involving the issuance or delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name other than the Holder’s name. The Conversion Agent may, without obligation, refuse to deliver the certificate representing shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the Holder’s name until the Conversion Agent receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax or duties which will be due because the shares are to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name. Nothing herein shall preclude any tax withholding required by law or regulation.

 

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Section 4.05. Company to Provide Stock. (a) The Company shall, prior to the issuance of any Securities hereunder, and from time to time as may be necessary, reserve at all times and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock deliverable upon conversion of all of the Securities.

(b) All shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of the Securities shall be newly issued shares or shares held in the treasury of the Company, shall be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and shall be free of any preemptive rights and free of any lien or adverse claim.

(c) The Company shall comply with all applicable securities laws regulating the offer and delivery of any Common Stock upon conversion of Securities and, if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on the NYSE, Nasdaq or any other United States national or regional securities exchange or other market, shall list or cause to have quoted and keep listed and quoted the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities to the extent permitted or required by the rules of such exchange or market; provided, however, that, if the rules of such automated quotation system or exchange permit the Company to defer the listing of such Common Stock until the first conversion of the Securities into Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture, the Company covenants to list such Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with the requirements of such automated quotation system or exchange at such time.

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing herein shall give to any Holder any rights as a creditor in respect solely of its right to conversion.

Section 4.06. Adjustment of Conversion Rate. This Section 4.06 describes adjustments to the Conversion Rate to be made in connection with the events described below, as well as events that will not result in adjustment of the Conversion Rate, treatment of rights and treatment of Reference Property. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occur, except that the Company will not make any adjustment if Holders of Securities may participate, as a result of holding the Securities, in the transactions described without having to convert their Securities:

(a) If the Company, at any time or from time to time while any of the Securities are outstanding, issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination in respect of the Common Stock, then the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

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where

 

CR0    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date of such dividend or distribution, or effective date of such share split or combination, as applicable;
CR'    =    the Conversion Rate in effect on and after the Ex Date or effective date;
OS0    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Ex Date or effective date; and
OS'    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on and after the Ex Date or effective date.

Such adjustment shall become effective immediately after 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day following the Ex Date of such dividend or distribution or the effective date of such share split or share combination. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in treasury by the Company. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 4.06(a) is declared but not so paid or made, or the outstanding shares of Common Stock are not split or combined, as the case may be, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect if such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination had not been declared.

(b) If the Company, at any time or from time to time while any of the Securities are outstanding, issues to all holders of its outstanding shares of Common Stock any rights or warrants (other than pursuant to any dividend reinvestment or share purchase plans) entitling them for a period of not more than 45 days from the issuance date thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

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where

 

CR0    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such issuance;
CR'    =    the Conversion Rate in effect on and after the Ex Date for such issuance;
OS0    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Ex Date for such issuance;
X    =    the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights or warrants; and
Y    =    the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights or warrants divided by the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights or warrants.

 

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Such adjustment shall be successively made whenever any such rights or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day following the Ex Date of such issuance. To the extent that shares of Common Stock are not delivered pursuant to such rights or warrants upon the expiration or termination of such rights or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect had the adjustments made upon the issuance of such rights or warrants been made on the basis of the delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. In the event that such rights or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect if the announcement with respect to such rights, warrants or convertible securities had not been made.

In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at less than the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, and in determining the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights or warrants, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights or warrants and any amount payable on exercise thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than Cash, to be determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors.

(c) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock shares of any class of capital stock of the Company (other than Common Stock as covered by Section 4.06(a)), evidences of its Indebtedness or other non-cash assets (including shares of capital stock or similar equity interest in or relating to a subsidiary or other business unit), or rights or warrants, but excluding (i) dividends, distributions and rights or warrants covered by Section 4.06(a), Section 4.06(b) or Section 4.06(e) (in each case pursuant to which an adjustment is made) and (ii)to the extent provided in Section 4.08, rights distributed pursuant to a shareholder rights agreement (any of such shares of capital stock, Indebtedness, or other assets or property hereinafter in this Section 4.06(c) called the “Distributed Property”), then, in each such case the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

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where

 

CR0    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Ex Date for such distribution;
CR’    =    the Conversion Rate in effect on and after the Ex Date for such distribution;

 

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SP0    =    the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such distribution; and
FMV    =    the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors) of the portion of Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of Common Stock on the Ex Date for such distribution.

Such adjustment shall become effective immediately prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day following the Ex Date; provided that if the then fair market value (as so determined) of the portion of the Distributed Property so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock is equal to or greater than SP0 as set forth above, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each Holder shall have the right to receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities upon conversion, the amount of Distributed Property such holder would have received had such holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate on the record date fixed for determination for Shareholders entitled to receive such distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed. If the Board of Directors determines the fair market value of any distribution for purposes of this Section 4.06(c) by reference to the actual or when issued trading market for any securities, it shall in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock for purposes of calculating SP0 in the formula in this Section 4.06(c).

With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 4.06(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock consisting of shares of capital stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company (a “Spin-Off,” and any such dividend or distribution of Common Stock, shares of capital stock or equity interests being “Spin-Off Securities”), the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Close of Business on the 15th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the distribution of the Spin-Off Securities shall be increased based on the following formula:

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where

 

CR0    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Close of Business on the 15th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the distribution of the Spin-Off Securities;
CR'    =    the Conversion Rate in effect from and after the Close of Business on the 15th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Ex Date for the distribution of the Spin-Off Securities;

 

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FMV0    =    the average of the Closing Prices of the capital stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of Common Stock applicable to one share of Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the fifth Trading Day after the Ex Date for such distribution; and
MP0    =    the average of the Closing Prices of Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the fifth Trading Day after the Ex Date for such distribution.

Such adjustment shall occur at the Close of Business on the 15th Trading Day from, and including, the Ex Date for the distribution of the Spin-Off Securities; provided, however, that the Company may in lieu of the foregoing adjustment elect to make adequate provision so that each Holder of Securities shall have the right to receive upon conversion thereof the amount of such Spin-Off Securities that such Holder of Securities would have received if such Securities had been converted on the record date with respect to such distribution.

Rights or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of Common Stock entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or convert into shares of the Company’s capital stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”): (x) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock; (y) are not exercisable; and (z) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 4.06(c), (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.06(c), will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 4.06(c). If any such right or warrant, including any such existing rights or warrants distributed prior to the date of this First Supplemental Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of Indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and record date with respect to new rights or warrants with such rights (and a termination or expiration of the existing rights or warrants without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.06(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted upon such final redemption or repurchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or repurchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase, and (2) in the case of such rights or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights or warrants had not been issued.

 

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For purposes of this Section 4.06(c), Section 4.06(a) and Section 4.06(b), any dividend or distribution to which this Section 4.06(c) is applicable that also includes shares of Common Stock, or rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock to which Section 4.06(a) or 4.06(b) applies (or both), shall be deemed instead to be (1) a dividend or distribution of the evidences of Indebtedness, assets or shares of capital stock other than such shares of Common Stock or rights or warrants to which Section 4.06(a) or 4.06(b) applies (and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 4.06(c) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made) immediately followed by (2) a dividend or distribution of such shares of Common Stock or such rights or warrants to which Section 4.06(a) or 4.06(b) applies (and any further Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 4.06(a) or 4.06(b) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made), except (A) the Ex Date of such dividend or distribution shall be substituted for “the Ex Date,” “the Ex Date or effective date,” “the day following the Ex Date for such dividend or distribution or the effective date of such share split or share combination” and “the Ex Date for such issuance” within the meaning of Section 4.06(a) and Section 4.06(b) and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution shall not be deemed “outstanding immediately prior to the Ex Date or effective date” within the meaning of Section 4.06(a).

(d) If a cash dividend or distribution is made to all holders of Common Stock (other than (i) in connection with the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up or (ii) distributions described in Section (e)), the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

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CR'    =    the Conversion Rate in effect on and after the Ex Date for such distribution;
SP0    =    the average Closing Price of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex Date for such dividend or distribution; and
C    =    the amount in cash per share the Company dividends or distributes to holders of Common Stock.

Such adjustment shall become effective immediately after the Close of Business on the Ex Date for such dividend or distribution; provided that if the portion of the cash so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock is equal to or greater than SP0 as set forth above, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each Holder shall have the right to receive, for each $1,000 principal amount upon conversion, the amount of cash such Holder would have received had such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal

 

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to the Conversion Rate on the Ex Date. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this Section 4.06(d), in the event of any reclassification of the Common Stock, as a result of which the Securities become convertible into more than one class of Common Stock, if an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is required pursuant to this Section 4.06(d), references in this Section to one share of Common Stock or Closing Price of one share of Common Stock shall be deemed to refer to a unit or to the price of a unit consisting of the number of shares of each class of Common Stock into which the Securities are then convertible equal to the numbers of shares of such class issued in respect of one share of Common Stock in such reclassification. The above provisions of this paragraph shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications.

(e) If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries makes a distribution of cash or other consideration in respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for all or any portion of the Common Stock, in which such cash and the and the value of any such other consideration included in the distribution per share of Common Stock validly tendered or exchanged exceeds the Current Market Price of the Common Stock on the 10th Trading Day immediately following the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it may be amended), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

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CR0    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Close of Business on the expiration date;
CR'    =    the Conversion Rate in effect on and after the effective date of the adjustment;
AC    =    the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors) distributed (or to be distributed) for shares purchased in such tender or exchange offer;
OS0    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the time such tender or exchange offer expires (including shares validly tendered and not withdrawn in connection with the tender or exchange offer but excluding shares held in treasury);
OS'    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the last time tenders or exchanges could have been made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (excluding any shares validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the tender or exchange offer or shares held in treasury); and
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The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.06(e) shall retroactively occur immediately prior to the opening of business on the Ex Date.

If the Company or a Subsidiary is obligated to repurchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer, but the Company or such Subsidiary is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchases or all or any portion of such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender or exchange offer had not been made or had only been made in respect of the purchases that had been effected. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, if an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 4.06(e) with respect to any tender offer or exchange offer would result in a decrease in the Conversion Rate, no adjustment shall be made for such tender offer or exchange offer under this Section 4.06(e). If an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is required pursuant to this Section 4.06(e) during any settlement period in respect of Securities that have been tendered for conversion, delivery of the related conversion consideration will be delayed to the extent necessary in order to complete the calculations provided for in this Section 4.06(e).

(f) For purposes of this Section 4.06 the term “record date” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).

(g) If application of the formulas provided in Sections 4.06(a), 4.06(b), 4.06(c), 4.06(d) or 4.06(e) would result in a decrease in the Conversion Rate, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate shall be made except in the case of a share split or combination of the Common Stock.

(h) In any case in which this Section 4.06 shall require that an adjustment be made following a record date, Ex Date, effective date or expiration date, as the case may be, established for purposes of this Section 4.06, the Company may elect to defer (but only until five Business Days following the filing by the Company with the Trustee of the certificate described in Section 4.11) issuing to the Holder of any Security converted after such record date, Ex Date, effective date or expiration date the shares of Common Stock and other capital stock of the Company, evidences of indebtedness or other non-Cash assets or rights or warrants issuable upon such conversion over and above Cash payable, or the shares of Common Stock and other capital stock of the Company, evidences of indebtedness or other non-Cash assets or rights or warrants issuable, upon such conversion only on the basis of the Conversion Rate prior to adjustment; and, in lieu of the shares, evidences of indebtedness or other non-Cash assets or rights or warrants the issuance of which, or Cash the payment of which, is so deferred, the Company shall issue or cause its transfer agents to issue due bills or other appropriate evidence prepared by the Company of the right to receive such shares or Cash, as the case may be. If any distribution in respect of which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is required to be made as of the record

 

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date, Ex Date, effective date or expiration date therefor is not thereafter made or paid by the Company for any reason, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate which would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed or such Ex Date, effective date or expiration date had not occurred.

(i) If one or more events occur requiring an adjustment be made to the Conversion Rate for a particular period, adjustments to the Conversion Rate shall be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors to reflect the combined impact of such Conversion Rate adjustments, as set out in this Section 4.06, during such period.

Section 4.07. No Adjustment. No adjustment in the Conversion Rate shall be required unless the adjustment would result in a change in the Conversion Rate of at least 1.00%; provided, however, that any adjustment which by reason of this Section 4.07 is not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in subsequent adjustments and in connection with any conversion of Securities; provided, further, however, that adjustments not otherwise made by reason of this Section 4.07 will be made (i) upon conversion of any Securities, (ii) upon a repurchase of the Securities pursuant to Article 3 and (iii) 25 Trading Days prior to the Maturity Date. All calculations under this Article 4 shall be made to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000) of a cent or to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000) of a share, as the case may be.

No adjustment in the Conversion Rate or the Incremental Share Factor need be made for (i) issuances of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future Company plan for reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities or the investment of additional optional amounts thereunder in shares of Common Stock, (ii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described under (ii) above and outstanding as of the date the Securities were first issued, (iv) a change in the par value of the Common Stock or (v) accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Interest, if any.

No adjustment to the Conversion Rate need be made pursuant to Section 4.06 for a transaction if Holders are permitted to participate in the transaction without conversion on a basis and with notice that the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith to be fair and appropriate in light of the basis and notice on which holders of Common Stock participate in the transaction. For the avoidance of doubt, if a distribution occurs that would generally result in adjustment of the number of shares deliverable to Holders of the Securities as a portion of conversion consideration to which such Holders are entitled, instead of making that adjustment, the Company may instead deem such Holders to be Holders of record for purposes of that distribution so that such Holders would receive the distribution at the time they receive the conversion consideration.

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an adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex Date of the event occurs, at any time during the period from which the average is to be calculated.

Section 4.08. Shareholder Rights Agreements. Upon conversion of the Securities, the Holders shall receive, in addition to any shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion, any associated rights issued under any future shareholder rights agreement the Company adopts that provides that each share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Securities at any time prior to the distribution of separate certificates representing such rights will be entitled to receive such rights unless, prior to conversion, the rights have separated from the Common Stock, expired, terminated or been redeemed or exchanged in accordance with such rights plan, and no adjustment shall be made to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.06. If the rights have separated from the Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all holders of Common Stock, shares of capital stock, evidences of Indebtedness or assets as described in Section 4.06(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.

Section 4.09. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale on Conversion Privilege. If (1) there shall occur (a) any reclassification of the Common Stock (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or a change as a result of a subdivision or combination of the Common Stock); (b) a statutory share exchange, consolidation, merger or combination involving the Company; or (c) a sale or conveyance as an entirety or substantially as an entirety of the property and assets of the Company, directly or indirectly, to another Person; and (2) pursuant to such reclassification, statutory share exchange, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance, holders of outstanding shares of Common Stock would be entitled to receive stock, other securities, other property or assets (including Cash or any combination thereof) for such shares of Common Stock (any such event a “Merger Event”), then the Company, or such successor or surviving, purchasing or transferee Person, as the case may be, shall, as a condition precedent to such Merger Event, execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company and at least one other Officer of the Company and providing that, at the effective time of the Merger Event, the right to convert a Security will be changed into a right to convert it into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including Cash or any combination thereof) that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such Merger Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the “Reference Property”) upon such transaction (assuming for such purposes that such conversion were settled entirely in Common Stock and without giving effect to any adjustment to the Conversion Rate with respect to a Make-Whole Fundamental Change) immediately prior to such Merger Event, except that such Holders will not be entitled to an increase in the Conversion Rate if such Holder does not convert its Securities “in connection with” the relevant Fundamental Change. If the Merger Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of shareholder election), the Reference Property into which the Securities will be convertible will be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of Common Stock that affirmatively make such an election. None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Securities to

 

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convert its Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Article 4 prior to the effective date of such Merger Event. Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments of the Conversion Rate which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments of the Conversion Rate provided for in this Article 4. The provisions of this Section 4.09 shall similarly apply to successive Merger Events.

Section 4.10. Other Adjustments. Subject to applicable stock exchange rules and listing standards, the Company shall be entitled to increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least 20 days if the Board of Directors determines that such increase would be in the best interests in the Company, provided the Company has given to Holders at least 15 days’ prior notice, in accordance with Section 1.04, of any such increase in the Conversion Rate. Subject to applicable stock exchange rules and listing standards, the Company shall be entitled to increase the Conversion Rate, in addition to the events requiring an increase in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.06, as it in its discretion shall determine to be advisable in order to avoid or diminish any tax to shareholders in connection with any stock dividends, subdivisions of shares, distributions of rights to purchase stock or securities or distributions of securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock hereafter made by the Company to its shareholders.

Section 4.11. Notice of Adjustment. Whenever the Conversion Rate or conversion privilege is adjusted, the Company shall promptly mail to Holders a notice of the adjustment in accordance with Section 1.04, and file with the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate briefly stating the Conversion Rate, the facts requiring the adjustment and the manner of computing it. Unless and until the Trustee shall receive an Officers’ Certificate setting forth an adjustment of the Conversion Rate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that the Conversion Rate has not been adjusted and that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge remains in effect.

Section 4.12. Trustee’s / Conversion Agent’s Disclaimer. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any duty to determine when an adjustment under this Article 4 should be made, how it should be made or what such adjustment should be, but may accept as conclusive evidence of that fact or the correctness of any such adjustment set forth in, and shall be protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate, including the Officers’ Certificate with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.11. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent make any representation as to the validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of Securities, and shall not be responsible for the Company’s failure to comply with any provisions of this Article 4 Neither Trustee nor Conversion Agent shall have any obligation to monitor the stock price.

The Trustee shall not be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to Section 4.09, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness thereof, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, the Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.09.

Section 4.13. Settlement Upon Conversion. If Securities are surrendered for conversion after the Close of Business on a Record Date for the payment of interest but prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, a Holder of such Securities at the Close of Business, on such Record Date will receive the interest payable on such Securities

 

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on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion of those Securities prior to that Interest Payment Date, assuming such Holder was the holder of record of such Securities at the Close of Business on such Record Date; provided, however, that each Holder agrees, by accepting a Security, that if the Holder surrenders any Securities for conversion during such period, such Holder must pay the Company at the time such Holder surrenders its Securities for conversion interest in accordance with the next sentence. Securities surrendered for conversion during the period from the Close of Business on any Record Date to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the immediately following Interest Payment Date, must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of interest (including Additional Interest, if any) payable on such Interest Payment Date on the Securities so converted; provided that no such payment need be made (a) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Purchase Date in respect of the Securities that is after the Close of Business on a Record Date and on or prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time on the corresponding Interest Payment Date; (b) in respect of any conversion which occurs after the Close of Business on the Record Date for the interest payment due on the Maturity Date and on or prior to the Maturity Date or (c) to the extent of any overdue interest, if any such amount exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Security.

ARTICLE 5

SUPPLEMENTAL COVENANTS

Section 5.01. Payment of Securities. The Company shall promptly make all payments in respect of the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and this First Supplemental Indenture, including payments of Cash and shares of Common Stock due upon conversion. The principal amount and Fundamental Change Purchase Price and accrued and unpaid interest shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Paying Agent holds by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, in accordance with this First Supplemental Indenture, Cash designated and sufficient for the payment of all such amounts then due. The Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, pay interest on overdue principal and overdue installments of interest and Additional Interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Securities per annum.

The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue amounts from time to time on demand at the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest and Additional Interest, if any (in each case, without regard to any applicable grace periods), from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Each installment of accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, on the Securities due on any Interest Payment Date may be paid by mailing checks for the amount payable to or upon the written order of the Holders entitled thereto as they shall appear on the registry books of the Company, provided, however, that with respect to any Holder with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $5,000,000, at the application of such Holder in writing to the Registrar not later than the relevant record date accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, on such Holder’s Securities shall be paid by wire transfer in immediately

 

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available funds to such Holder’s account in the United States supplied by such Holder from time to time to the Trustee and Paying Agent (if different from Trustee); provided further, that payment of accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, made to the Depositary shall be paid by wire transfer in immediately available funds in accordance with such wire transfer instructions and other procedures provided by the Depositary from time to time.

Section 5.02. Reports and Certain Information. (a) The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 30 days after it is required to file them with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, copies of its annual report and the information, documents and other reports which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that any such reports, information or documents filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Date Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (or EDGAR) system shall be deemed filed with the Trustee. The Company shall comply with the provisions of Trust Indenture Act Section 314(a), whether or not the Company is required to file reports with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Trustee shall have no duty to review such documents for purposes of determining compliance with any provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture or any applicable law.

(b) The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any changes to its fiscal year.

Section 5.03. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants, to the extent it may lawfully do so, that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal amount or Fundamental Change Purchase Price in respect of Securities, or any interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of the Indenture, and the Company, to the extent it may lawfully do so, hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee or any Agent, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

Section 5.04. Additional Interest Notice. In the event that the Company elects to pay Additional Interest to the Holders pursuant to Section 7.03, the Company will provide written notice to the Trustee as set forth in Section 7.03.

ARTICLE 6

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

Section 6.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets to any successor Person in a single transaction or series of transactions, unless:

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(ii) the resulting, continuing, surviving or transferee Person is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the obligations of the Company under the Securities and this First Supplemental Indenture;

(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(c) if as a result of such transaction the Securities become convertible into Common Stock or other securities issued by a third party, such third party fully and unconditionally guarantees all obligations of the Company or such successor under the Securities and this First Supplemental Indenture; and

(d) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (upon which the Trustee may conclusively rely), each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

Section 6.02. Successor Substituted. Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company in accordance with Section 6.01, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this First Supplemental Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this First Supplemental Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE 7

DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

Section 7.01. Events of Default. An “Event of Default” shall occur if:

(a) the Company defaults in the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any) when due and payable, and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

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(c) the Company fails to deliver all shares of Common Stock or Reference Property, as applicable, when the same is required to be delivered upon conversion of any Securities;

(d) the Company fails to provide the Fundamental Change Company Notice when required by this First Supplemental Indenture;

(e) the Company defaults in the performance of, or breaches, any covenants or warranty in this First Supplemental Indenture or the Securities, and the Company does not cure such default or breach (and such default or breach is not waived) within 60 days after actual receipt of notice from the Trustee to the Company, or from the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding to the Company and the Trustee, of the default or breach. The notice given pursuant to this Section 7.01 must be in writing, specify the Default and demand that it be remedied and state that the notice is a “Notice of Default.” When any Default under this Section 7.01 is cured in accordance herewith, it shall cease to be a Default;

(f) (i) the Company fails, or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries fails, to make any payment by the end of any applicable grace period after maturity of principal and/or accrued interest with respect to any obligations (other than nonrecourse obligations) for Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, where the amount of such unpaid and due principal and/or accrued interest is in an aggregate amount in excess of $10 million, or (ii) the acceleration of principal and/or accrued interest with respect to any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, where the amount of such accelerated principal and/or interest is in an amount in excess of $10 million because of a default with respect to such Indebtedness;

(g) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries becomes subject to any judgment or judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $10 million (or its foreign currency equivalent at the time) and that shall not be waived, satisfied or discharged for any period of 60 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement shall not be in effect;

(h) the Company, or any Significant Subsidiary, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law, commences a voluntary case or proceeding; consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding or the commencement of any case against it; consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property; or makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or

(i) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that is for relief against the Company or a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding; appoints a Custodian of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary for any substantial part of the property of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary; or orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or a Significant Subsidiary; and in each case of this subclause (i) the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days.

The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code (or any successor thereto) or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

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The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default unless written notice thereof shall have been given to a Responsible Officer at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee by the Company (including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 10.7 of the Base Indenture), the Paying Agent, any Holder or any agent of any Holder, which notice references the Securities and this First Supplemental Indenture.

Section 7.02. Acceleration. If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default with respect to the Company specified in clauses (h) or (i) of Section 7.01) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may, by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may, by notice to the Company and the Trustee, declare all unpaid principal of, plus interest (including Additional Interest, if any) accrued and unpaid through the date of such declaration on, all the Securities then outstanding to be due and payable upon any such declaration, and the same shall thereupon become and be immediately due and payable.

If an Event of Default with respect to the Company specified in clause (g) or (i) of Section 7.01 occurs, all unpaid principal of, plus interest (including Additional Interest, if any) accrued and unpaid through the date of such default on, all the Securities then outstanding shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding or the Holders originally causing the acceleration by notice to the Trustee may rescind an acceleration of Securities and its consequences before a judgment or decree for the payment of money has been obtained by the Trustee if (a) the rescission would not conflict with any existing order or decree, (b) all existing Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on, the Securities that has become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived and (c) all payments due to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture have been made. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

Section 7.03. Other Remedies. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this indenture, to the extent elected by the Company, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with the covenant set forth in Section 5.02 hereof, for the failure to file any documents or reports that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or for any failure to comply with the requirements of Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act (any such obligation, the “Reporting Obligations”), shall (i) for the first 120 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the right to receive additional interest on the Securities in an amount equal to 0.25% of the principal amount of the Securities and (ii) for the next 90 days after the expiration of such 120 day period consist exclusively of the right to receive additional interest on the Securities in an amount equal to an additional 0.25% of the principal amount of Securities (such amounts under each of clause (i) and (ii), “Additional Interest”). If the

 

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Company so elects, such Additional Interest will be payable on all outstanding Securities on or before the date on which the Event of Default first occurs in the case of the first extension period and on or before the 120th day after such Event of Default first occurs in the case of the second extension period. On the 121st day after such Event of Default (if such Event of Default has not been cured or waived prior to such 121st day and if the Additional Interest relating to the second extension period is not paid on or before such date) or on the 211th day after such Event of Default (if the Additional Interest relating to the second extension period was paid and the Event of Default relating to failure to comply with Reporting Obligations is not cured or waived prior to such 211th day), the Securities will be subject to acceleration as provided above. The provisions set forth in this paragraph will not affect the rights of Holders of Securities in the event of the occurrence of any other Event of Default. In the event the Company does not elect to pay the Additional Interest in accordance with this paragraph, the Securities will be subject to acceleration as provided above. In order to elect to pay the Additional Interest as the sole remedy in respect of the first 210 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default relating to failure to comply with the Reporting Obligations, the Company must (i) notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of such election and (ii) pay all such Additional Interest as described above, in the case of the first extension period, on or before the close of business on the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and, in the case of the second extension period, on or before the 120th day after such Event of Default first occurs. Upon the Company’s failure to timely give such notice or pay the Additional Interest, the Securities will be subject to acceleration as provided above.

Section 7.04. Waiver of Defaults and Events of Default. Subject to Section 7.07 and 9.02, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may waive an existing or future Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or any interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on any Security, or the payment of any applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Price, or a failure by the Company to deliver shares of Common Stock (and Cash in lieu of any fractional shares) upon conversion in accordance with Article 4 or any Default or Event of Default in respect of any provision of this First Supplemental Indenture or the Securities that, under Section 9.02, cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holders of each outstanding Security. When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is deemed cured, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any consequent right. This Section 7.04 shall be in lieu of Section 316(a)(1)(B) of the Trust Indenture Act and such Section 316(a)(1)(B) is hereby expressly excluded from this First Supplemental Indenture, as permitted by the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 7.05. Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on it under this First Supplemental Indenture. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this First Supplemental Indenture, that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of another Holder or the Trustee, or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability unless the Trustee is offered security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it; provided that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction. This Section 7.05 shall be in lieu of Section 316(a)(1)(A) of the Trust Indenture Act and such Section 316(a)(1)(A) is hereby expressly excluded from this First Supplemental Indenture, as permitted by the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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Section 7.06. Limitations on Suits. Subject to Section 7.07, a Holder of a Security may not pursue any remedy with respect to this First Supplemental Indenture or the Securities unless:

(a) the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default;

(b) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Securities make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;

(c) such Holder or Holders offer to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense;

(d) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the notice, request and the offer of security or indemnity; and

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

A Holder may not use this First Supplemental Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over such other Holder.

Section 7.07. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert. Notwithstanding any other provision of this First Supplemental Indenture, the right of any Holder of a Security to receive payment in Cash of the principal amount, Fundamental Change Purchase Price or interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on any Security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Security and this First Supplemental Indenture, receive shares of Common Stock (and Cash in lieu of fractional shares) upon conversion in accordance with Article 4 and to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates or the right to convert, is absolute and unconditional and shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of the Holder.

Section 7.08. Collection Suit by Trustee. If an Event of Default in the payment of principal or interest (including Additional Interest, if any) or Additional Interest specified in clause (a) or (a) of Section 7.01 occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company or another obligor on the Securities for the whole amount owing with respect to the Securities and the amounts provided for in Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture.

Section 7.09. Priorities. Any money or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7, and after an Event of Default, any money or other property distributable in respect of the Company’s obligations under this First Supplemental Indenture shall be paid out in the following order:

First, to the Trustee (including any predecessor Trustee) for amounts due under Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture;

 

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Second, to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Securities for the principal amount, interest (including Additional Interest, if any), the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, amounts due upon conversion (including amounts resulting from a Make-Whole Fundamental Change), as the case may be, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to such amounts due and payable on the Securities; and

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

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 7.09. At least 15 days before such record date, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder and the Company a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.

Section 7.10. Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this First Supplemental Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 7.10 does not apply to a suit made by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 7.07, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding.

Section 7.11. 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 7 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.

ARTICLE 8

SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO TRUSTEE

Section 8.01. Reports by Trustee. (a) Within sixty (60) days after May 15 of each year commencing with the year 2008, the Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports dated as of May 15 of the year in which such report is made concerning the Trustee and its actions under the Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, including, without limitation, Section 313(a) thereof, at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. In the event that, on any such reporting date, no events have occurred under the applicable sections of the Trust Indenture Act within the 12 months preceding such reporting date, the Trustee shall be under no duty or obligation to provide such reports. The Trustee shall also comply with Trust Indenture Act Section 313(b)(2). The Trustee shall transmit by mail all reports as required by Trust Indenture Act Section 313(c).

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Securities are listed and with the Commission in accordance with Trust Indenture Act Section 313(d). The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

Section 8.02 Trustee Makes No Representation. The recitals contained herein are made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture. All rights, protections, privileges, indemnities and benefits granted or afforded to the Trustee under the Indenture shall be deemed incorporated herein by this reference and shall be deemed applicable to all actions taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee under this First Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE 9

AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS

Section 9.01. Without Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Securities without prior notice to, or consent of, any Holder:

(a) to evidence the succession of another person to the Company, in accordance with Section 6.01(a), and the assumption by any such other successor of the Company’s covenants contained in the Indenture and the Securities;

(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;

(c) to add a guarantor;

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

(e) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision in the Indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the Indenture which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect;

(f) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to any of the Securities;

(g) to supplement any of the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any of the Securities hereunder; provided, however, that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of any Holder in any material respect, as evidenced by an opinion of counsel;

(h) to make provisions with respect to conversion or exchange rights of Holders; provided, however, that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of any Holder in any material respect; or

 

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(i) to maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 9.02. With Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Securities or the Indenture with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding. Subject to Section 7.04 and Section 7.07, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may, without prior notice to the Holders of Securities, waive compliance in any instance by the Company with any provision of the Securities or the Indenture or waive any past default under the Indenture and its consequences, except a default in the payment of any amount due, or in the obligation to deliver Common Stock, with respect to any Security or in respect of any provision which under the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected. However, notwithstanding the foregoing but subject to Section 9.04, without the consent of the Holders of each Security then outstanding, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not:

(a) change the stated maturity of the principal of or the payment date of any installment of interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on or with respect to the Securities;

(b) reduce the principal amount of, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of, or the Conversion Rate (except as provided in the Indenture) or rate of interest or Additional Interest on, any Security;

(c) reduce the amount of principal payable upon acceleration of the maturity of any Security;

(d) change the currency in which payment of principal of, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of, or interest with respect to, the Securities is payable;

(e) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on, or with respect to, any Security;

(f) modify the provisions with respect to the repurchase rights of Holders as provided in Article 3 in a manner adverse to Holders;

(g) adversely affect the right of Holders to convert Securities in any material respect, other than as provided in the Indenture;

(h) cause the Securities to be subordinated to other Indebtedness;

(i) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required to take specific actions including, but not limited to, the waiver of past defaults or the modification or amendment of the Indenture; or

(j) alter the manner of calculation or rate of accrual of interest or Additional Interest or Fundamental Change Purchase Price or the Conversion Rate (except as provided in the Indenture) on any Security or extend the time for payment of any such amount.

 

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It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

After an amendment, supplement or waiver under Section 9.01 or this Section 9.02 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 or waiver.

Section 9.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment to or supplement of the Indenture or the Securities shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act as in effect at the date of such amendment or supplement.

Section 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to its Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective.

After any amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every applicable Holder.

Section 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Securities. If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security, the Trustee may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Security about the changed terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms.

Section 9.06. Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc. The Trustee shall sign any amendment or supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment or supplemental indenture does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee in any material respect. If it does adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee in any material respect, the Trustee may, in its sole discretion, but need not sign it. In signing or refusing to sign such amendment or supplemental indenture, the Trustee shall be provided with and, subject to Section 6.1 of the Base Indenture, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by the Indenture and that all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of such amendment or supplement have been satisfied or duly waived.

Section 9.07. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, the Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

 

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ARTICLE 10

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 10.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of the Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this First Supplemental Indenture, when

(a) either

(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6 of the Base Indenture) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable whether at the Maturity Date, upon acceleration, with respect to any Fundamental Change Purchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise and the Company deposits with the Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as the case may be, Cash, Common Stock or other consideration, or a combination thereof, as applicable hereunder, sufficient to pay on such date all amounts due and owing on all outstanding Securities (other than Securities replaced pursuant to Section 3.6 of the Base Indenture) on such date;

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

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

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this First Supplemental Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01(a)(ii), the obligations of the Trustee under Section 10.02 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Section 3.6, Section 3.7, Section 6.7 and Section 10.2 of the Base Indenture and Section 2.04, Section 2.06, Section 2.08, Section 5.01, Section 5.03, and Article 4 and Article 10 of this First Supplemental Indenture, shall survive any discharge of this First Supplemental Indenture until such time as there are no Securities outstanding.

 

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Section 10.02. Repayment to the Company. The Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any Cash or securities held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the Securities that remains unclaimed for two years, subject to applicable unclaimed property law. After return to the Company, Holders entitled to the Cash or securities must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person and the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent shall have no further liability to the Holders with respect to such Cash or securities for that period commencing after the return thereof.

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands as of the date and year first above written.

 

RADISYS CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Brian Bronson

Name:   Brian Bronson
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee,
By:  

/s/ Melonee Young

Name:   Melonee Young
Title:   Vice President

 

(Signature page to Supplemental Indenture)


EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY]

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), 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 IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE 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.


[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF SECURITY]

RADISYS CORPORATION

2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due February 15, 2013

 

No. 1   CUSIP: 750459 AE9   U.S. $55,000,000
  ISIN: US750459AE91  

RadiSys Corporation, an Oregon corporation (the “Company,” which term shall include any successor Person under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal amount of Fifty-Five Million Dollars ($55,000,000) on February 15, 2013, and to pay interest thereon, in arrears, from and including the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or if no interest has been paid, from, and including February 12, 2008), to, but excluding, February 15 and August 15 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), beginning on August 15, 2008, at a rate of 2.75% per annum until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment at February 15, 2013, or upon acceleration, or until such date on which this security is converted or purchased as provided herein. The interest so payable and punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security is registered at the Close of Business on the regular record date for such interest, which shall be the February 1 or August 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date (each, an “Interest Payment Record Date”); provided, however, that interest shall be paid to a Person other than the Person in whose name this Security is registered at the Close of Business on the Interest Payment Record Date as provided herein.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

[Signature page follows]

 

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

Dated: February 12, 2008

 

RADISYS CORPORATION,
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication: This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST

COMPANY, N.A., not in its individual capacity,

but solely as Trustee,

By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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RADISYS CORPORATION

2.75% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE FEBRUARY 15, 2013

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due February 15, 2013 (the “Securities”) of the Company issued under a first supplemental indenture, dated as of February 12, 2008 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), supplemental to the indenture, dated as of February 12, 2008 (the “Base Indenture,” and together with the Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”). The terms of the Security include those stated in the Indenture, those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”), and those set forth in this Security. This Security is subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of all such terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, if any provision of this Security conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless otherwise indicated.

 

1. Interest.

RadiSys Corporation, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest (including any Additional Interest) on the principal amount of this Security at the rate per annum shown above. The Company will pay interest (including any Additional Interest), payable semi-annually in arrears, on February 15 and August 15 of each year, with the first payment to be made on August 15, 2008, subject to limited exceptions if the Securities are converted prior to the relevant interest payment date. Interest on the Securities will accrue on the principal amount from, and including, the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from, and including, February 12, 2008, in each case to, but excluding, the next Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

2. Method of Payment.

Payment of the principal of, and interest (including any Additional Interest) on, the Securities shall be made at the office of the Paying Agent in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. The Holder must surrender this Security to a Paying Agent to collect payment of principal. Payment of interest on Registered Securities shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears in the Register; provided, however, that Holders with Securities in an aggregate principal amount in excess of $5.0 million shall be paid, at their written election, by wire transfer of immediately available funds. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Securities are registered in the name of a Depositary or its nominee, all payments with respect to the Securities shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.

 

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3. Paying Agent, Registrar, Conversion Agent.

Initially, the Trustee shall act as Paying Agent, Registrar and Conversion Agent. The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or Conversion Agent, subject to the terms of the Indenture.

 

4. Indenture.

The Securities are general unsecured senior obligations of the Company initially limited to $55,000,000 aggregate principal amount. The Company may, without consent of the Holders, issue Additional Securities under the Indenture with the same terms as the Securities in an unlimited aggregate principal amount. The Indenture does not limit other debt of the Company, secured or unsecured.

 

5. Purchase by the Company Upon a Fundamental Change.

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Article 3 of the Indenture, each Holder shall have the option to require the Company to repurchase its Securities upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change.

 

6. Conversion.

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Article 4 of the Supplemental Indenture, a Holder of a Security may convert the principal amount of such Security into shares of Common Stock at ay time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, at the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date; provided, however, that, if such Security is submitted or presented for repurchase pursuant to Article 3 of the Supplemental Indenture, such conversion right shall terminate at the Close of Business on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for such Security (unless the Company shall default in making the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price payment when due, in which case the conversion right shall terminate at the Close of Business on the date such default is cured and such Security is repurchased).

 

7. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder may register the transfer of or exchange Securities 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 taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that may be imposed in relation thereto by law or permitted by the Indenture.

 

8. Persons Deemed Owners.

The registered Holder of a Security may be treated as the owner of such Security for all purposes.

 

9. Unclaimed Money or Securities.

The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any Cash or securities held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the Securities that

 

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remains unclaimed for two years, subject to applicable unclaimed property law. After return to the Company, Holders entitled to the Cash or securities must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person and the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent shall have no further liability to the Holders with respect to such Cash or securities for that period commencing after the return thereof.

 

10. Amendment, Supplement and Waiver.

Subject to certain exceptions, the Securities or the Indenture may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, and, subject to certain exceptions, an existing or future Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities and its consequences or compliance with any provision of the Securities or the Indenture may be waived with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding. Subject to the terms of the Indenture, without the consent of or notice to any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Securities to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency or make any change that does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests under the Indenture of any Holder.

 

11. Defaults and Remedies.

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, if an Event of Default (excluding an Event of Default specified in Sections 7.01(h) or 7.01(i) of the Supplemental Indenture with respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company or the Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding by notice to the Company and the Trustee may declare the Securities to be due and payable. Upon such declaration, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on, all Securities shall be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Sections 7.01(h) or 7.01(i) of the Supplemental Indenture with respect to the Company occurs, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

 

12. Trustee Dealings with the Company.

Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee.

 

13. No Recourse Against Others.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company contained in the Indenture, or in this Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby or hereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such, or against any past, present or future employee, stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor, either

 

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directly or through the Company or any successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders and as part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.

 

14. Authentication.

This Security shall not be valid until the Trustee or an authenticating agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.

 

15. Abbreviations.

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

 

16. Indenture to Control; Governing Law.

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IF ANY PROVISION OF THIS SECURITY CONFLICTS WITH THE EXPRESS PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE, THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE SHALL GOVERN AND BE CONTROLLING. THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

17. Copies of Indenture.

The Company shall furnish to any Holder, upon written request and without charge, a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to: RadiSys Corporation, 5445 N.E. Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR 97124, Facsimile No.: (503) 615-1114, Attention: Chief Financial Officer.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

     
(Insert assignee’s social security or tax I.D. number)  

 

     

 

     

 

     

 

     

 

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

 

     

agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.

 

Date:     Your Signature:

 

   

 

   

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the

other side of this Security)

 

* Signature guaranteed by:

 

By:

 

 

* The signature must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature guaranty programs: (i) the Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) the Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP); or (iv) such other guaranty program acceptable to the Trustee.

 

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CONVERSION NOTICE

To convert this Security into Common Stock of the Company, check the box: ¨

To convert only part of this Security, state the principal amount to be converted (must be $1,000 or a integral multiple of $1,000): $

If you want the stock certificate made out in another person’s name, fill in the form below:

 

 

  

    (Insert assignee’s social security or tax I.D. number)

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

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

 

Date:     Your Signature:

 

   

 

   

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the

other side of this Security)

 

* Signature guaranteed by:

 

By:

 

 

* The signature must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature guaranty programs: (i) the Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) the Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP); or (iv) such other guaranty program acceptable to the Trustee.

 

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REPURCHASE EXERCISE NOTICE

UPON A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE

To: RadiSys Corporation

The undersigned registered owner of this Security hereby irrevocably acknowledges receipt of a notice from RadiSys Corporation (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and requests and instructs the Company to repurchase the entire principal amount of this Security, or the portion thereof (which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security at the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, together with accrued interest to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date, to the registered Holder hereof.

 

Dated:    

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

  Signature(s)
  Signature(s) must be guaranteed by a qualified guarantor institution with membership in an approved signature guarantee program pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 

 

  Signature Guaranty

Principal amount to be repurchased

(in an integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all):

NOTICE: The signature to the foregoing Election must correspond to the name as written upon the face of the Security in every particular, without alteration or any change whatsoever.

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF SECURITIES

The following exchanges, repurchases or conversions of a part of this Global Security have been made:

 

Date of Exchange,
Repurchase or Conversion

 

Amount of Decrease in
Principal Amount of this
Global Security

 

Amount of Increase in
Principal Amount of this
Global Security

   Principal Amount of this Global
Security Following Such
Decrease or Increase
   Signature of Authorized
Signatory of Securities
Custodian

 

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EXHIBIT B

The following table sets forth the Stock Price, Adjustment Date and number of Additional Shares of the Company’s Common Stock to be received per $1,000 principal amount of the Company’s 2013 notes, upon a conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that occurs in the corresponding period to be determined by reference to the Stock Price and Adjustment Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change:

 

    Adjustment Date
Stock Price   February 7,
2008
  February 15,
2009
  February 15,
2010
  February 15,
2011
  February 15,
2012
  February 15,
2013
$10.26   20.7211   20.7211   20.7211   20.7211   20.7211   20.7211
$11.00   17.9384   17.8605   17.5764   16.8785   15.3349   14.0283
$13.00   12.6030   12.1217   11.3381   10.0107   7.5697   1.0615
$15.00   9.2611   8.6259   7.6777   6.2060   3.7487   0.0000
$17.00   7.0556   6.3894   5.4379   4.0453   1.9343   0.0000
$19.00   5.5348   4.8957   4.0120   2.7816   1.0863   0.0000
$21.00   4.4460   3.8587   3.0686   2.0160   0.6860   0.0000
$23.00   3.6403   3.1132   2.4205   1.5328   0.4885   0.0000
$25.00   3.0271   2.5600   1.9587   1.2135   0.3822   0.0000
$30.00   2.0044   1.6674   1.2511   0.7658   0.2550   0.0000
$35.00   1.3873   1.1462   0.8570   0.5314   0.1866   0.0000
$40.00   0.9818   0.8087   0.6053   0.3808   0.1378   0.0000
$45.00   0.6998   0.5749   0.4303   0.2728   0.1001   0.0000
$50.00   0.4963   0.4059   0.3024   0.1913   0.0699   0.0000
$55.00   0.3462   0.2809   0.2068   0.1287   0.0452   0.0000
$60.00   0.2344   0.1875   0.1348   0.0805   0.0247   0.0000
$65.00   0.1507   0.1175   0.0804   0.0435   0.0081   0.0000
$70.00   0.0882   0.0653   0.0399   0.0162   0.0000   0.0000
$75.00   0.0421   0.0276   0.0116   0.0000   0.0000   0.0000
$80.00   0.0113   0.0036   0.0000   0.0000   0.0000   0.0000
EX-5.1 5 dex51.htm OPINION OF STOEL RIVES LLP Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP

Exhibit 5.1

February 12, 2008

Board of Directors

RadiSys Corporation

5445 NE Dawson Creek Road

Hillsboro, OR 97124

We have been requested by RadiSys Corporation, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), to deliver this opinion in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-146977) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Company on October 29, 2007 under the Securities Act of 1933 and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2007. The Company has provided us with a prospectus and prospectus supplement (together, the “Prospectus”), which form part of the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement, including the Prospectus, provides for the registration by the Company of:

 

  (i) $55,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013 (the “Notes”); and

 

  (ii) shares of common stock of the Company issuable upon conversion of the Notes (the “Shares”).

We have reviewed the corporate action of the Company in connection with this matter and have examined the documents, corporate records and other instruments we deemed necessary for the purpose of this opinion, including, but not limited to, the Base Indenture dated February 12, 2008 between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee and the Supplemental Indenture dated February 12, 2008 between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (together, the “Indenture”).

In rendering this opinion, we have assumed the genuineness and authenticity of all signatures on original documents; the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals; the conformity to originals of all documents submitted to us as copies; the accuracy, completeness and authenticity of certificates of public officials; and the execution and delivery of all documents where execution and delivery are prerequisites to the effectiveness of such documents. With respect to our opinion as to the Shares, we have assumed that, at the time of issuance and sale, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock will be authorized and available for issuance.


Board of Directors

RadiSys Corporation

February 12, 2008

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Our opinion herein is expressed solely with respect to the Oregon Business Corporation Act. Our opinion is based on these laws as in effect on the date hereof. We express no opinion as to whether the laws of any jurisdiction are applicable to the subject matter hereof.

On the basis of the foregoing and in reliance thereon, and subject to the qualifications herein stated, we are of the opinion that:

 

  (1) The Company is a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Oregon;

 

  (2) The Indenture has been duly authorized;

 

  (3) The Notes have been duly authorized and, when issued and sold in the manner described in the Registration Statement and in accordance with resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, will be legally issued; and

 

  (4) The Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued in the manner described in the Registration Statement and in accordance with resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, the Indenture and the Notes, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus which forms part of the Registration Statement. This opinion is expressed as of the date hereof, and we disclaim any undertaking to advise you of any subsequent changes in the facts stated or assumed herein or of any subsequent changes in applicable law.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ STOEL RIVES LLP

STOEL RIVES LLP

EX-5.2 6 dex52.htm OPINION OF BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP Opinion of Baker & McKenzie LLP

Exhibit 5.2

[LETTERHEAD OF BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP]

February 12, 2008

RadiSys Corporation

5445 NE Dawson Creek Drive

Hillsboro, Oregon 97124

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have acted as securities counsel to RadiSys Corporation, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-146977), including the prospectus dated November 7, 2007, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated February 6, 2008, filed by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) (the registration statement, as amended to date, is hereafter referred to as the “Registration Statement”). The Registration Statement relates to the public offering of $55,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2013 of the Company (the “Notes”).

We have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (i) the Second Restated Articles of Incorporation and the Restated Bylaws of the Company, each as amended to the date hereof (the “Charter Documents”), (ii) resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company and the Financing Committee of the Board of Directors authorizing the issuance of the Notes and related matters (the “Resolutions”), (iii) the Registration Statement and all exhibits thereto, (iv) the form of the Indenture, dated February 12, 2008, between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture between the Company and the Trustee, dated as of the date thereof, providing for the issuance of the Notes (the “Indenture”), and (v) such other certificates, statutes and other instruments and documents as we considered appropriate for purposes of the opinions hereafter expressed.

As to any facts material to our opinion, we have made no independent investigation of such facts and have relied, to the extent that we deem such reliance proper, upon certificates of public officials and officers or other representatives of the Company.

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have assumed that (i) all information contained in all documents reviewed by us is true and correct, (ii) all signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, (iii) all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and all documents submitted to us as copies conform to the originals of those documents, (iv) each natural person signing any document reviewed by us had the legal capacity to do so and (v) any document under which, if applicable, the Notes may be issued have been or will have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by persons with authority to sign in such capacity.

 


Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, when the Notes shall have been executed and authenticated as specified in the Indenture and offered and sold as described in the Registration Statement, the Notes will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by or subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer or conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and general equitable or public policy principles.

The foregoing opinion is limited in all respects to the corporate laws of the State of New York and the federal laws of United States of America, in each case, that, in our experience, are normally applicable to transactions of the type contemplated by the Registration Statement and, to the extent that judicial or regulatory orders or decrees or consents, approvals, licenses, authorizations, validations, filings, recordings or registrations with governmental authorities are relevant, to those required under such laws, and we do not express any opinions as to the laws of any other jurisdiction. With respect to all matters of Oregon law, we note that you are being provided with the opinion, dated on or about the date hereof, of Stoel Rives LLP, Oregon counsel to the Company. For purposes of our opinion, we have assumed that the Company has been duly incorporated and is a validly existing corporation under the laws of Oregon and that, where applicable, the issuance or delivery by the Company of any shares of its common stock upon exercise or otherwise pursuant to the terms of the Notes will be duly authorized, executed, authenticated, issued and delivered by the Company in accordance with Oregon law and pursuant to the authority granted in the Resolutions and that the authority granted in the Resolutions will remain in effect at all relevant times. We are expressing no opinion as to any obligations that parties other than the Company may have under or in respect of the Notes or as to the effect that their performance of such obligations may have upon any of the matters referred to above.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name under the caption "Legal Matters" in the prospectus supplement forming a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC issued thereunder.

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ Baker & McKenzie LLP

Baker & McKenzie LLP

 

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EX-12.1 7 dex121.htm COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

Exhibit 12.1

Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

 

     For the years ended
December 31,
     For the nine months
ended

September 30,
 
     2002     2003    2004    2005    2006      2006      2007  

Income (loss) before taxes and discontinued operations (a)

   (4,481 )   6,032    16,264    17,143    (13,762 )    (5,464 )    (19,563 )
                                         

Fixed charges:

                   

Interest expense (b)

   5,625     4,851    3,565    2,053    1,732      1,301      1,279  

Rentals:

                   

Buildings, net of sublease income – 14%(c)

   377     404    431    437    506      351      621  

Office and other equipment – 14%(c)

   39     15    8    9    3      2      6  
                                         

Total fixed charges

   6,041     5,270    4,004    2,499    2,241      1,654      1,906  
                                         

Income (loss) before taxes and discontinued operations, plus fixed charges

   1,560     11,302    20,268    19,642    (11,521 )    (3,810 )    (17,657 )
                                         

Ratio of earnings to fixed charges (d)

   —       2.1    5.1    7.9    —        —        —    

 

(a) Included in income (loss) before taxes and discontinued operations was a gain (loss) on repurchase of convertible subordinated notes of ($50) thousand, ($387) thousand, $825 thousand and $3.0 million for years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. The Company did not incur any gains or losses on early extinguishment of debt for the year ended December 31, 2006 or for the nine months ended September 30, 2007.
(b) Amortization of the discount on the Company’s outstanding convertible subordinated notes is included in Interest expense.
(c) Management believes that 14% is a reasonable approximation of the interest factor on rentals. Building, office and other equipment rental fees that were included in restructuring charges were excluded from fixed charges.
(d) For the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2007 and for the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2006, our earnings were insufficient to cover fixed charges; the amount of additional earnings needed to cover fixed charges for each period was $5.5 million, $19.6 million, $4.5 million and $13.8 million, respectively.
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