0001193125-13-320572.txt : 20130806 0001193125-13-320572.hdr.sgml : 20130806 20130806094534 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-320572 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 6 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130801 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20130806 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130806 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: STANDARD PACIFIC CORP /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000878560 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPERATIVE BUILDERS [1531] IRS NUMBER: 330475989 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10959 FILM NUMBER: 131012092 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 15360 BARRANCA PARKWAY CITY: IRVINE STATE: CA ZIP: 92618 BUSINESS PHONE: 9497891600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 15360 BARRANCA PARKWAY CITY: IRVINE STATE: CA ZIP: 92618 8-K 1 d580174d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 1, 2013

 

 

STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-10959   33-0475989

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

15360 Barranca Parkway

Irvine, California

  92618
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (949) 789-1600

Not Applicable

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

 

 

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

 

¨ 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 240.14a-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

Underwriting Agreement

On August 1, 2013, Standard Pacific Corp. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), by and among the Company, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto (the “Guarantors”) and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representative of the underwriters listed therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), relating to the sale by the Company of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”).

Senior Notes

The Notes will be issued under the indenture, dated as of April 1, 1999 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, Bank One Trust Company, N.A. and The First National Bank of Chicago), as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 6, 2013, among the Company, the Guarantors, and the Trustee (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture”). The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of the Company and will be guaranteed by the Guarantors on a senior unsecured basis.

The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 6.25% per year, payable semiannually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on December 15, 2013. The Notes will mature on December 15, 2021.

The Company may redeem any or all of the Notes at any time or from time to time. If the Company redeems the notes prior to June 15, 2021, the redemption price will be equal to the greater of (a) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed and (b) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments and interest on the notes being redeemed, discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the comparable treasury rate plus 50 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed to the date of redemption. If the Company redeems the notes on or after June 15, 2021, the redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed to the date of redemption.

Upon a “change of control triggering event” (as defined in the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture), holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase some or all of their notes at a price equal to 101% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase. A change of control triggering event occurs when both a change of control and a rating decline occur.

Pursuant to the terms of the Notes, the Company and its restricted subsidiaries will be subject to, among other covenants, restrictions on the incurrence of secured indebtedness, entering into sale and leaseback transactions, designating subsidiaries as unrestricted subsidiaries and the merger and sale of assets.

The Underwriters and their respective affiliates have in the past performed commercial banking, investment banking and advisory services for the Company from time to time for which they have received customary fees and reimbursement of expenses. In addition, affiliates of each of the Underwriters are lenders, and in some cases agents or managers for the lenders, under the Company’s revolving credit facility. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. is joint lead arranger under the Company’s revolving credit facility and Citicorp North America, Inc., an affiliate of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, an affiliate of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, are both lenders under the Company’s revolving credit facility.

The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes and the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement and the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (including the form of Notes), which are attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1 and Exhibit 4.1, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

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ITEM 2.03    CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT

The disclosure required by this item is included in Item 1.01 under the caption “Senior Notes” and is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.01    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

Attached hereto as exhibits are agreements and other information relating to the offering of the Notes pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-182942), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The exhibits are expressly incorporated herein by reference.

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description of Exhibit

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2013, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representative of the Underwriters named in Schedule I thereto, relating to the offer and sale of the Notes.
  4.1    Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 6, 2013, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
  5.1    Opinion of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.
  5.2    Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP regarding the validity of the Notes.
12.1    Statement re: Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23.1    Consent of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1).
23.2    Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.2).

 

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SIGNATURES

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 hereunto duly authorized.

Date: August 6, 2013

 

STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.
By:  

/s/ JEFFREY J. MCCALL

Name:   Jeffrey J. McCall
Title:   Executive Vice President, Chief
  Financial Officer & Treasurer


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description of Exhibit

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2013, by and among the Company, the Guarantors, and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representative of the Underwriters named in Schedule I thereto, relating to the offer and sale of the Notes.
  4.1    Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 6, 2013, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
  5.1    Opinion of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.
  5.2    Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP regarding the validity of the Notes.
12.1    Statement re: Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23.1    Consent of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1).
23.2    Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.2).
EX-1.1 2 d580174dex11.htm EX-1.1 EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.

6.25% Senior Notes due 2021

Underwriting Agreement

August 1, 2013

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

As Representative of the

several Underwriters listed

in Schedule I hereto

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Standard Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “Representative”), $300,000,000 principal amount of its 6.25% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued under an Indenture dated as of April 1, 1999 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company, as issuer, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. (as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company N.A. and The First National Bank of Chicago), as trustee, as amended and supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 13, 1999, a Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 5, 2000, a Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 28, 2001, a Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 4, 2003, a Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 12, 2003, a Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 23, 2003, a Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 11, 2004, an Eighth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 11, 2004, a Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, a Tenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, an Eleventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 22, 2006, a Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 5, 2006, a Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 8, 2009, a Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 3, 2010, a Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, a Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, a Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, an Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012, a Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012, and a Twentieth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors (as defined below), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Securities will be unconditionally guaranteed as to the payment of principal and interest (the “Guarantees”) by each of the subsidiaries of the Company listed on Schedule IV hereto (the “Guarantors”).


The Company and the Guarantors hereby confirm their agreement with the several Underwriters concerning the purchase and sale of the Securities, as follows:

1. Registration Statement and Prospectus. A registration statement (No. 333-182942), including a prospectus, relating to the Securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and has become effective. “Registration Statement” as of any time means such registration statement in the form then filed with the Commission, including any amendment thereto, any document incorporated by reference therein and any information in a prospectus or prospectus supplement deemed or retroactively deemed to be a part thereof as of such time pursuant to Rule 430B (“Rule 430B”) or Rule 430C (“Rule 430C”) under the Securities Act that has not been superseded or modified. “Registration Statement” without reference to a time means the Registration Statement as of the Effective Date. “Effective Date” means the date and time that the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto shall be deemed, pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2), to be effective in connection with the sale of the Securities. For purposes of determining the information contained in the Registration Statement as of any time, information contained in a form of prospectus or prospectus supplement that is deemed retroactively to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B shall be considered to be included in the Registration Statement as of the time specified in Rule 430B.

“Statutory Prospectus” as of any time means the prospectus relating to the Securities that is included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to that time, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any base prospectus or prospectus supplement deemed to be part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B or 430C that has not been superseded or modified. For purposes of determining the information contained in the Statutory Prospectus as of any time, information contained in a form of prospectus (including a prospectus supplement) that is deemed retroactively to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B 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) (“Rule 424(b)”) under the Securities Act. “Statutory Prospectus” without reference to a time means the Statutory Prospectus as of the Applicable Time.

“Prospectus” means the Statutory Prospectus that discloses the public offering price and other final terms of the offering of the Securities that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto.

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

“General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by it being specified as such in Schedule III to this Agreement.

 

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

“General Disclosure Package” means (i) the Statutory Prospectus contained in the Registration Statement at the Applicable Time, including the preliminary prospectus supplement used most recently prior to the Applicable Time, (ii) the General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, including the term sheet prepared pursuant to Section 7(b), and (iii) any other “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 (“Rule 405”) under the Securities Act) that the parties shall expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the General Disclosure Package, and listed as such in Schedule III to this Agreement.

“Applicable Time” means 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the date of this Agreement.

The terms “supplement” and “amendment” or “amend” as used in this Agreement with respect to the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus, as applicable.

2. Representations and Warranties. The Company and each Guarantor jointly and severally represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 2.

(a) Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined in Rule 405 that was filed within the last three years and was effective upon filing with the Commission; and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) has been received by the Company. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Securities has been initiated or threatened by the Commission; as of the applicable effective date of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, the Registration Statement and any such post-effective amendment complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act, and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and as of the Closing Date the Prospectus will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation, warranty or covenant with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 9(b) hereof. There are no current or pending actions, suits or proceedings that are

 

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required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and there are no contracts or other documents that are required under the Securities Act to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not so filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.

(b) General Disclosure Package. The General Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the General Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 9(b) hereof.

(c) Statutory Prospectus. No order preventing or suspending the use of any Statutory Prospectus has been issued by the Commission. The Statutory Prospectus included in the General Disclosure Package, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, and no Statutory Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Statutory Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 9(b) hereof.

(d) Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package, when they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package, when such documents are filed with the Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(e) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, has been or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance with the Securities Act (to the extent required thereby) and, when taken together with the Statutory Prospectus filed prior to delivery of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not

 

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misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation, warranty or covenant with respect to any statements or omissions made in each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Statutory Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 9(b) hereof.

(f) Investment Company Act. None of the Company or any Guarantor is, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus will be, an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Investment Company Act”).

(g) No Stabilization. None of the Company or any Guarantor has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

(h) Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each Guarantor has been duly organized and is a validly existing corporation, limited liability company or partnership in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized, with power and authority (corporate, limited liability company or partnership, as applicable) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation, partnership or limited liability company 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 where the failure to be so qualified is not reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or other), business, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”).

(i) Capitalization. The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization”; all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any preemptive or similar rights; and the capital stock of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(j) Subsidiary Capitalization. Each subsidiary of the Company that is not a Guarantor has been duly incorporated or, in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, formed and is a validly existing corporation, limited liability company or partnership in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, with power and authority (corporate, limited liability company or partnership, as applicable) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and each subsidiary of the Company that is not a Guarantor is duly qualified

 

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to do business as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or partnership 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 where the failure to be so qualified is not reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company that is a corporation has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable, and all of the partnership or membership interests of each subsidiary that is a partnership or limited liability company have been duly authorized and validly issued; and the outstanding capital stock or partnership or membership interests of each subsidiary of the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, is owned by the Company free from liens, encumbrances and defects, except in each case in this subsection (j) for liens, encumbrances and defects that are not reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, or that are permitted under, or created in connection with, the Company’s revolving credit facility and the indentures for its outstanding notes.

(k) Due Authorization. The Company and each Guarantor has the requisite power and authority (corporate, limited liability company or partnership, as applicable) to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due authorization, execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby has been duly and validly taken.

(l) Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and each of the Guarantors.

(m) The Indenture. The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company, and each Guarantor and, when executed and delivered by the Company and each Guarantor on the Closing Date, will be a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company and each Guarantor, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except that enforceability of the Indenture may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. The Base Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (the “Trust Indenture Act”). The Indenture will conform in all material respects to the description thereof in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(n) The Securities. The Securities have been duly and validly authorized for issuance and sale to the Underwriters by the Company and, when issued, authenticated and delivered by the Company against payment by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Indenture, the Securities will be legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except that enforceability of the Securities may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. The Securities, when issued, authenticated and delivered, will conform in all material respects to the description thereof in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

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(o) Guarantees. Each Guarantee has been duly and validly authorized by the respective Guarantor and, when each Guarantor has executed and delivered the Indenture, each Guarantee will be a legal, valid and binding obligation of the respective Guarantor, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against such Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except that enforceability of the Guarantee may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. Each Guarantee will conform in all material respects to the description thereof in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(p) No Registration Rights. No person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) to register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the issuance and sale of the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

(q) No Violation or Default. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) is (i) in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents; (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) is subject; or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such defaults or violations that are not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(r) No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required in connection with the transactions contemplated herein or in the Indenture, except for the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act and such as may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) and under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in which the Securities are offered and sold.

(s) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors, as applicable, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the Guarantees and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Indenture will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, (i) 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 subsidiary of the Company (including the Guarantors) or any of their properties, or (ii) any agreement or instrument to which the Company or any such subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any such subsidiary is bound or to which any of the properties of the Company or any such subsidiary is subject, or (iii) the charter or by-laws of the Company or any such subsidiary (or, in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, the

 

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comparable organizational documents), except in the cases of clauses (i) and (ii) as are not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(t) Financial Statements. The financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and present fairly the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods shown; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods presented (except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus); and the selected financial data set forth under the caption “Summary Consolidated Financial Information and Operating Data” in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly present, in all material respects, on the basis stated in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the information included therein.

(u) Independent Accountants. Ernst & Young, LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and delivered their report with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules included in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are independent registered public accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries in accordance with the Securities Act and the rules of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and as required by the Securities Act.

(v) Legal Proceedings. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) or any of their respective properties by or before any court, other governmental agency or body or arbitrator (A) that, individually or in the aggregate, is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (B) that is reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect the ability of the Company or any Guarantor to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees; and to the knowledge of each of the Company or any Guarantor no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened.

(w) Title to Real and Personal Property. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) have good and marketable title to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in each case free from liens, encumbrances and defects that materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by the Company or its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors); and (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) hold any leased real or personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no exceptions, except in each case for such liens, encumbrances, defects and exceptions that (1) are typically encountered in the development and acquisition of land, including unentitled land, and other properties, or (2) individually or in the aggregate, are not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(x) No Labor Disputes. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any subsidiary (including the Guarantors) exists or, to the knowledge of each of the Company or any Guarantor, is imminent that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(y) Title to Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) own, possess, have the right to use or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate trademarks, trade names and other rights to inventions, know-how, patents, copyrights, confidential information and other intellectual property (collectively, “intellectual property rights”) necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, or presently employed by them, and have not received any notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any intellectual property rights presently employed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors), except for such matters as, individually or in the aggregate, are not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(z) Compliance with and Liability under Environmental Laws. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, to the knowledge of the Company or any Guarantor none of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) 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 is reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; and none of the Company or any Guarantor is aware of any pending investigation which might lead to such a claim.

(aa) No Material Adverse Change. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event reasonably likely to result in a material adverse change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) taken as a whole, and, except as disclosed in or contemplated by the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or with respect to distributions between or among the Company’s subsidiaries, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or any of the Guarantors on any class of its capital stock.

(bb) Accounting and Disclosure Controls. The Company and each of its subsidiaries maintain a system of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) sufficient to provide reasonable assurance 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 generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and to maintain asset accountability; (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

 

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existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company has performed evaluations of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting as required by Rule 13a-15(c) under the Exchange Act. The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities. The Company has performed evaluations of the effectiveness of its disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act and determined that such controls and procedures are effective. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no material weaknesses in the Company’s internal controls.

(cc) eXtensible Business Reporting Language. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(dd) Compliance with Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes and the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Guarantor, threatened.

(ee) Compliance with OFAC. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Guarantor, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) is currently subject to any sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”); and the Company and each Guarantor will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(ff) No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) nor, to the knowledge of the Company or any Guarantor, any director, officer, agent, employee or other affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an

 

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offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA; and the Company, its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) and, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, their respective affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.

(gg) No Broker’s Fees. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company, on the one hand, and any person on the other hand that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Underwriters for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this Agreement or the issuance and sale of the Securities.

(hh) Status under the Securities Act. At the time of filing the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or any offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the Securities and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” and is a “well-known seasoned issuer,” in each case as defined in Rule 405. The Company has paid the registration fee for this offering pursuant to Rule 456(b) under the Securities Act or will pay such fee within the time period required by such rule (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any Guarantor and delivered to the Representative or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company or such Guarantor, as applicable, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.

3. Purchase and Sale. On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to issue and sell, and the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price of 98.875% of the principal amount of the Securities (the “Purchase Price”), plus accrued interest, if any, from August 6, 2013 to the Closing Date (as defined below), the respective principal amounts of the Securities set forth opposite the names of the several Underwriters in Schedule I hereto.

4. Terms of Public Offering. The Underwriters have advised the Company that the Underwriters propose (i) to make a public offering of the Securities as soon after the execution and delivery of this Agreement as in the Underwriters’ judgment is advisable and (ii) initially to offer the Securities upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Securities to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through any Underwriter.

 

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5. Delivery and Payment. The Securities shall be represented by definitive global securities registered in the name of the nominee of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”). The Company shall deliver the Securities, with any transfer taxes thereon duly paid by the Company, to the Representative through the facilities of DTC, for the account of the Underwriters, against payment to the Company of the Purchase Price therefor by wire transfer of Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City. The certificates representing the Securities shall be made available for inspection not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date, at the office of DTC or its designated custodian (the “Designated Office”). The time and date of delivery and payment for the Securities shall be 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on August 6, 2013 or such other time on the same or such other date as the Underwriters and the Company shall agree in writing. The time and date of such delivery and payment are hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date”.

The documents to be delivered on the Closing Date on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 of this Agreement shall be delivered at the offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York and the Securities shall be delivered at the Designated Office, all on the Closing Date.

6. Agreements. The Company agrees with each Underwriter that:

(a) Beginning on the date hereof, and continuing until the date that, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, a prospectus is (other than by reason of the exemption in Rule 172 under the Securities Act) no longer required by the Securities Act to be delivered in connection with sales of the Securities by the Underwriters or a dealer (the “Prospectus Delivery Period”), the Company will advise the Representative promptly, and, if requested by the Representative, confirm such advice in writing, (i) when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (ii) when any supplement to the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus has been filed; (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional information; (iv) upon receipt of notice of the issuance by the Commission of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, any of the documents contained in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (v) of the occurrence of any event as a result of which the Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; (vi) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act; and (vii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the

 

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use of any Statutory Prospectus, any of the documents contained in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will use its best efforts to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(b) To furnish the Representative five conformed copies of the Registration Statement as first filed with the Commission and of each amendment to it during the Prospectus Delivery Period, including all exhibits and documents incorporated therein by reference, and to furnish to the Representative such number of conformed copies of the Registration Statement as so filed and of each such amendment to it, without exhibits but including documents incorporated therein by reference, as you may reasonably request.

(c) To prepare the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, the form and substance of which shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, and to file the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus in such form with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act; during the Prospectus Delivery Period, not to file any further amendment to the Registration Statement and not to make any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus of which the Representative shall not previously have been advised or to which the Representative shall reasonably object after being so advised; and, during such period, to prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon the Representative’ reasonable request, any amendment to the Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to the Prospectus that may be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters, and to use its best efforts to cause any such amendment to the Registration Statement to become promptly effective. The Company has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

(d) Prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the second business day after the date of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter during the Prospectus Delivery Period, to furnish in New York City to the Underwriters and any dealer as many copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus and any documents incorporated therein by reference) as the Underwriters or any dealer may reasonably request.

(e) If during the Prospectus Delivery Period, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will not in the light of the circumstances when it is so delivered, be misleading, or so that the Prospectus will comply with applicable law, and to furnish to the Underwriters and to any dealer as many copies thereof as the Underwriters or any dealer may reasonably request.

(f) To cooperate with the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale by the Underwriters and by dealers under the state securities or Blue Sky laws of such United States jurisdictions as the Representative may request, to continue such registration or qualification in

 

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effect so long as required for distribution of the Securities and to file such consents to service of process or other documents as may be necessary in order to effect such registration or qualification; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to general consent to service of process or taxation other than as to matters and transactions relating to the Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the offering or sale of the Securities, in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so subject.

(g) To make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable an earnings statement covering the twelve-month period that shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158 under the Securities Act) of the Registration Statement.

(h) For a period of one year from the date of this Agreement, to furnish to the Representative as soon as available copies of all reports or other communications the Company furnishes to its security holders or public reports or other public communications the Company furnishes to or files with the Commission or any national securities exchange on which any class of securities of the Company is listed (except for so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of either Section 13 or 15 of the Exchange Act, and such communications are available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (or any successor thereto), the Company shall not be required to furnish to the Representative such communications) and such other publicly available information concerning the Company and its subsidiaries as the Representative may reasonably request.

(i) (A) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (iv) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification of the Securities under the state securities or blue sky laws of such United States jurisdictions as the Representative may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (v) the costs and charges of the Trustee; (vi) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, FINRA; and (vii) all expenses incurred by the Company (but not the Underwriters) in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors.

(B) If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 8 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section 11 hereof before the Closing Date or

 

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because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, but in no other event, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters severally through the Representative on demand for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities. Except as provided in this Section 6(i)(B) and Section 9 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel.

(j) For a period of 30 days after the date of this Agreement, the Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file with the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act (other than a resale registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i) under the Securities Act required to be filed pursuant to any agreement in effect on the date of this Agreement) relating to any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company and having a maturity of more than one year, or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any such securities, enter into a transaction which would have the same effect, or enter into any swap, hedge or other arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of such securities, whether any of these transactions are to be settled by delivery of such securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise, or publicly disclose its intention to make any such offer, sale, pledge, disposition or filing or enter into any such arrangement, without the prior written consent of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., other than debt securities issued in the ordinary course and secured by land purchases, community development district or similar bond financings on a private basis and letters of credit under the Company’s revolving credit facility.

(k) To use its reasonable best efforts to do and perform all things required or necessary to be done and performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Securities.

7. Free Writing Prospectuses.

(a) The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, represent and agree that, unless the Company obtains the prior consent of the Representative, and each Underwriter represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company and the Representative, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405, required to be filed with the Commission; provided that the prior written consent of the Representative and the Company shall be deemed to have been given with respect to any “free writing prospectus” specified in Schedule III to this Agreement. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company and the Representative is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company and each Guarantor represents that it has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely Commission filing where required, legending and record keeping.

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form attached hereto as Schedule II or otherwise in a form consented to by the Representative, 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 the 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 any Underwriter of (i) a free writing prospectus that contains only (x) information describing the preliminary terms of the Securities or their offering that do not reflect the final terms of the Securities or their offering or (y) information that describes the final terms of the 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) a free writing prospectus that, solely as a result of use by such Underwriter, would not trigger an obligation to file such free writing prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433, or to retain it in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g), it being understood that any such free writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) or (ii) above shall not be an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of this Agreement.

8. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligation of each of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities on the Closing Date as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company and each of the Guarantors of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) Opinion of Counsel for the Company. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, their written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, to the effect that (subject to customary qualifications, assumptions and limitations):

(i) the Company is a validly existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with the requisite corporate power to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;

(ii) each of the Guarantors incorporated or formed under the laws of the State of Delaware or California (the “DECA Guarantors”) is a validly existing corporation or limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation, and has the requisite corporate or limited liability company power to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus;

(iii) each of the Company and the DECA Guarantors has all requisite corporate or limited liability company power to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture (and the Guarantees included therein) and the Securities, to which it is a party, and to perform its respective obligations hereunder and thereunder;

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or limited liability company action on the part of the Company and each of the DECA Guarantors; this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and each of the DECA Guarantors;

(v) the execution and delivery by each of the Company and the DECA Guarantors of the Indenture (and the Guarantees included therein) and the performance of their respective obligations thereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or limited liability company action on the part of the Company and each of the DECA Guarantors; the Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and each of the DECA Guarantors, and the Indenture (and the Guarantees included therein) constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company and each of the DECA Guarantors, enforceable against the Company and each of the DECA Guarantors in accordance with its terms;

(vi) neither the Company nor any Guarantor is, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is not required to be registered under the Investment Company Act. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “investment company” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Investment Company Act;

(vii) the execution and delivery by the Company and the DECA Guarantors of this Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees, to which it is a party, the performance of their obligations hereunder and thereunder, and the issuance by the Company of the Securities and the Guarantees by each of the DECA Guarantors and the DECA Guarantors of the Guarantees to the Underwriters:

(A) do not and will not violate (A) the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the Company or the DECA Guarantors that are corporations or (B) the certificates of formation or limited liability company agreement of the DECA Guarantors that are limited liability companies;

(B) do not and will not result in a breach of or default under any agreement to which the Company is a party that is identified to such counsel in a certificate of the Company as being material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, which agreements shall be listed on Annex A to such opinion (the “Material Contracts”);

(C) do not and will not violate any order, judgment or decree of any court or other agency of government identified to such counsel in a certificate of the Company as constituting all orders, judgments or decrees that are material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole and that are binding on the Company, each of which orders, judgments and decrees shall be listed on Annex B to such opinion; and

 

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(D) do not and will not (i) violate, or require any filing with or approval of any governmental authority or regulatory body of the States of New York or California or the United States of America under, any law or regulation currently in effect of the States of New York or California or the United States of America applicable to the Company or any of the DECA Guarantors that, in such counsel’s experience, is generally applicable to transactions in the nature of those contemplated by this Agreement and the Indenture, or (ii) violate or require any filing with or approval of any governmental authority or regulatory body of the State of Delaware under the Delaware General Corporation Law or Delaware Limited Liability Company Act; this paragraph will not include any opinion regarding any federal or state securities or Blue Sky laws or regulations;

(viii) insofar as the statements in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Description of Notes” purport to describe specific provisions of the Indenture or the Securities, such statements present in all material respects an accurate summary of such provisions; and

(ix) to the extent that the statements under the caption “Material U.S. federal income tax considerations” in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus purport to describe specific provisions of the Internal Revenue Code or the rules and regulations thereunder, such statements present in all material respects an accurate summary of such provisions.

References to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus in this Section 8(a) include any amendment or supplement thereto at the Closing Date.

(b) Letter of Counsel for the Company. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, a letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, to the effect that (subject to customary qualifications, assumptions and limitations):

(i) based solely on the certificate of the Company attached to such letter as Annex A, such counsel is of the view that the Registration Statement has become effective under the Securities Act and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; to such counsel’s knowledge, based solely upon telephonic confirmation from the Staff of the Commission on the date of such letter, as of the time of such confirmation no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened by the Commission;

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reference therein, and the Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 of the Trustee, as to which such counsel need express no opinion or belief, no facts have come to such counsel’s attention that led such counsel to believe: (A) that the Registration Statement, at the time it became effective (which, for purposes of the letter, shall mean the date of this Agreement), or the Prospectus, as of its date, was not appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; or (B)(1) that the Registration Statement, at the time it became effective, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (2) that the General Disclosure Package, at the Applicable Time, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (3) that the Prospectus, as of its date or as of the date of such letter, included or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(c) Opinion of Florida Counsel for the Company. An opinion of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, special Florida counsel to the Company, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, to the effect that (subject to customary qualifications, assumptions and limitations):

(i) each of the subsidiaries of the Company formed under the laws of the State of Florida (each, a “Florida Guarantor”) is a validly existing limited liability company, limited partnership or registered general partnership, as applicable, and its status is Active under the laws of the State of Florida; each Florida Guarantor has the requisite limited liability company or partnership power, as applicable, to conduct its business as presently conducted, or as contemplated to be conducted by the Florida Guarantor as certified in a certificate of the Company, executed by two officers of the Company (the “Officers’ Certificate”), a copy of which has been delivered to the Representative; the membership interests and partnership interests, as applicable, of each Florida Guarantor have been duly authorized and validly issued; and, based solely upon the Officers’ Certificate and a review of the applicable partnership agreement or limited liability company agreement, as amended, of each Florida Guarantor, each of the membership interests or partnership interests, as applicable, are owned of record by the Company or a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company;

(ii) each of the Florida Guarantors has the limited liability company or partnership power, as applicable, to execute and deliver the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (and its Guarantee included therein) and to perform its respective obligations thereunder;

 

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(iii) the execution, delivery and performance by each of the Florida Guarantors of the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (and its Guarantee included therein) have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company or partnership action, as applicable, on the part of each of the Florida Guarantors;

(iv) the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by each of the Florida Guarantors; and

(v) the execution, delivery and performance by the Florida Guarantors of the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (and the Guarantee included therein) do not violate the partnership agreement, operating agreement or articles of formation of the Florida Guarantors, as applicable and do not violate any Florida law or regulation applicable to such Florida Guarantor or any order or judgment applicable to such Florida Guarantor identified to such counsel in the Officers’ Certificate as constituting an order or judgment, binding on one or more of the Florida Guarantors, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in either case based solely on such counsel’s review of such orders and judgments (to the extent any such orders or judgments exist as of the Closing Date).

The opinion of special Florida counsel to the Company shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and the Florida Guarantors and shall so state therein.

(d) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representative may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(e) Officer’s Certificate. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date a certificate of the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Company and one additional senior executive officer of the Company who is reasonably satisfactory to the Representative to the effect that such officer has examined the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto, and this Agreement and that:

(i) the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date, and the Company and each of the Guarantors has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date; and

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Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there has been no material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors), taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).

(f) Comfort Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date Ernst & Young, LLP shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, confirming that they are independent accountants within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder; provided, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date, shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to such Closing Date. All references in this Section 8(f) to the preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus include any amendment or supplement thereto at the date of the applicable letter.

(g) No Material Adverse Change. Subsequent to the Applicable Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the General Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any adverse change in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (f) of this Section 8; or (ii) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors), taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities as contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).

(h) No Downgrade. Subsequent to the Applicable Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.

(i) Registration Compliance; No Stop Order. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) has been received by the Company; the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the Securities Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,

 

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to the extent required by Rule 433) and in accordance with Section 6(c) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representative.

(j) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company, the Guarantors and their respective officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.

(k) Good Standing. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and its subsidiaries (including the Guarantors) in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing as foreign entities in such other jurisdictions as the Representative may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.

(l) Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date the Company and the Guarantors shall have furnished to the Representative such further certificates and documents as the Representative may reasonably request.

(m) All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.

9. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally agree, to indemnify and hold harmless each of the Underwriters, their respective affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (in each case, solely in such capacity as an affiliate, director, officer, employee, agent or control person of such Underwriter), from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading, (ii) or any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any issuer information the parties expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the General Disclosure Package, or the General Disclosure Package (including any General Disclosure Package that has subsequently been amended), or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue

 

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statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.

(b) Indemnification of the Company and the Guarantors. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Guarantors, and their respective directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Guarantor within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any General Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed upon that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: each Underwriter’s name, the information contained in the first sentence of the third paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”, the concession and reallowance figures appearing in the third paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”, the information contained in the seventh paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” and the information contained in the ninth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”.

(c) Notice and Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (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 Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b) above. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding

 

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(including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interest between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses, to the extent reasonable, shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, their respective affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any such separate firm for the Company or the Guarantors, their respective directors, their respective officers who signed the Registration Statement and any control persons of the Company or any Guarantor shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 60 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement (provided that the foregoing shall not be applicable to any failure to reimburse if the Company is disputing such payment in good faith and shall have paid any amounts not in dispute). No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

(d) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and each Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Guarantors from the sale

 

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of the Securities and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in connection therewith, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Securities sold. The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Guarantors or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

(e) Limitation on Liability. The Company, the Guarantors and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any reasonable legal or other expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9, in no event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that such 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 Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9 are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.

(f) Non-Exclusive Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 9 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.

10. Default by an Underwriter. If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule I hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event that the aggregate principal amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule I hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such nondefaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any nondefaulting Underwriter or the Company. In

 

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the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 10, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business Days, as the Representative shall determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company or the Guarantors or any nondefaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.

11. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representative, by notice in writing to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market or minimum prices shall have been established on such exchange or the over-the-counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the sole judgment of the Representative, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(a) Survival. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company and the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company or the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Securities and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company or the Underwriters.

12. No Fiduciary Duty. The Company and each of the Guarantors acknowledge and agree that:

(a) the Underwriters have been retained solely as underwriters in connection with the sale of the Securities and that no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, have been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Underwriters have advised or are advising the Company or any Guarantor on other matters;

(b) the price of the Securities set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Underwriters 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;

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to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company or any Guarantor by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and

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

13. Waiver of Tax Confidentiality. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, purchasers of the Securities (and each employee, representative or other agent of a purchaser) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the U.S. tax treatment and U.S. tax structure of any transaction contemplated herein and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to the purchasers of the Securities relating to such U.S. tax treatment and U.S. tax structure, other than any information for which nondisclosure is reasonably necessary in order to comply with applicable securities laws.

14. Certain Defined Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term “business day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City or Los Angeles; and (c) the term “subsidiary” means a corporation, a majority of the capital stock with voting power to elect directors of which is directly or indirectly owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any other person in which the Company and its subsidiaries have at least a majority ownership interest (other than unconsolidated joint ventures, over which the Company and its subsidiaries do not have voting or economic control).

15. Miscellaneous. (a) Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be given to the Representative c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013 (fax: (212) 816-7912); Attention: General Counsel. Notices to the Company shall be given to it at 15360 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, California 92618 (fax: (949) 789-3349); Attention: Legal Department.

(b) Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company, the Guarantors and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

(c) Governing Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such state.

 

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(d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

(e) Amendments or Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.

(f) Headings. The headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Representative understanding, please indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided below.

 

Very truly yours,
Standard Pacific Corp.
By:  

/s/ Scott D. Stowell

  Name:   Scott D. Stowell
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer
Lagoon Valley Residential, LLC
By:   Standard Pacific Corp., its Sole Member
Standard Pacific of Tonner Hills, LLC
By:   Standard Pacific Corp., its Sole Member
By:  

/s/ Scott D. Stowell

  Name:   Scott D. Stowell
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer

 

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HSP Arizona, Inc.
HWB Investments, Inc.
Standard Pacific 1, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Arizona, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Colorado, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Florida GP, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Las Vegas, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Orange County, Inc.
Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc.
Standard Pacific of South Florida
By:   Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc.,
  its Managing Partner
Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Tampa
By:   Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc.,
  its Managing Partner
Standard Pacific of Texas, Inc.
Standard Pacific of the Carolinas, LLC
Standard Pacific of Walnut Hills, Inc.
Westfield Homes USA, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Scott D. Stowell

Name:   Scott D. Stowell
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

 

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Accepted: August 1, 2013
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

For itself and as Representative of the

several Underwriters listed in

Schedule I hereto.
By:  

/s/ David Leland

  Name:   David Leland
  Title:   Managing Director

 

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SCHEDULE I

 

Underwriters

   Principal
Amount of
Securities to be
Purchased
 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

   $ 165,000,000   

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

     135,000,000   

Total

   $ 300,000,000   


SCHEDULE II

Standard Pacific Corp.

 

Issuer:

      Standard Pacific Corp.

Security Description:

      Senior Notes

Distribution:

      SEC Registered

Face:

      $300,000,000

Gross Proceeds:

      $300,000,000

Net Proceeds to Issuer (before expenses):

      $296,625,000

Coupon:

      6.25%

Maturity:

      December 15, 2021

Offering Price:

      100%

Yield to Maturity:

      6.25%

Spread to Treasury:

      +411 bps

Benchmark:

      UST 2% due July 31, 2020

Interest Payment Dates:

      June 15 and December 15

Beginning:

      December 15, 2013

Optional Redemption:

      Makewhole call @ T+50 bps; par call beginning 6 months prior to maturity

Change of Control Triggering Event:

      Put @ 101% of principal plus accrued interest

Trade Date:

      August 1, 2013

Settlement Date:

   (T+3)            August 6, 2013

CUSIP:

      85375C BD2

ISIN:

      US85375CBD20

Denominations:

      2,000x1,000

Bookrunners:

      Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

DEBT AND CASH: As a result of the increase in the size of the transaction, the following financial items will be reflected under the headings “Summary,” “Risk factors” and “Description of notes” of the Prospectus Supplement:

At June 30, 2013, after giving pro forma effect to the offering:

   

the principal amount of our homebuilding debt would have been $1,842.8 million (including the notes, but excluding indebtedness relating to our mortgage banking operation and letter of credit facilities of our Unrestricted Subsidiaries, as defined under “Description of notes—Certain Definitions”);

   

we and the subsidiary guarantors would have had $1,977.8 million in principal amount of debt outstanding (which is comprised of the homebuilding debt (including the notes) and $135 million of intercompany indebtedness to our subsidiaries that are not subsidiary guarantors) all of which is unsecured and would rank equally with the notes;

   

the maximum aggregate amount of indebtedness under our indentures and senior credit facilities that we could be required to repurchase or repay upon:

   

a change of control triggering event was approximately $1,861.2 million, and

   

a change of control without a ratings decrease event and requirement to purchase the notes was approximately $282.8 million;


CAPITALIZATION: As a result of the increase in the size of the transaction, the following items in the “As adjusted” column in the table set forth under the heading “Capitalization” on page S-18 of the Prospectus Supplement will read:

 

     As of June 30, 2013  

(Dollars in thousands) (unaudited)

   Actual     As adjusted for
this offering
 

Cash and equivalents(1)

   $ 90,589      $ 386,714   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Debt(2):

    

Revolving credit facility(3)

   $      $   

Secured project debt and other notes payable

     5,192        5,192   

  1/4% Senior Notes due 2014

     4,971        4,971   

7% Senior Notes due 2015

     29,789        29,789   

10   3/4% Senior Notes due 2016, net of discount(4)

     267,386        267,386   

  3/8% Senior Notes due 2018, net of premium(5)

     579,466        579,466   

  3/8% Senior Notes due 2021, net of discount(6)

     397,217        397,217   

  1/4% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032

     253,000        253,000   

  1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 offered hereby

            300,000   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total debt

     1,537,021        1,837,021   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

    

Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; 267,829 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2013

     3        3   

Common Stock, $0.01 par value; 600,000,000 shares authorized; 276,792,010 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2013(7)

     2,768        2,768   

Additional paid-in capital

     1,347,085        1,347,085   

Accumulated deficit

     (12,388     (12,388
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     1,337,468        1,337,468   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total capitalization

   $ 2,874,489      $ 3,174,489   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) Includes $25.5 million of restricted cash and excludes $17.3 million of cash and cash equivalents related to our financial services subsidiary.
(2) Excludes $97.0 million of debt related to our financial services subsidiary.
(3) As of June 30, 2013, we were party to a $350 million unsecured revolving credit facility. As of June 30, 2013, we satisfied the conditions that would allow us to borrow up to $317.5 million under the facility and had no amounts outstanding, and after giving effect to this offering we would have had $313.7 million of borrowing availability. There were no amounts outstanding under our revolving credit facility as of July 31, 2013.
(4) Represents accreted value, with principal amount of $280.0 million.
(5) Represents accreted value, with principal amount of $575.0 million.
(6) Represents accreted value, with principal amount of $400.0 million.
(7) Excludes 23.8 million shares of common stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of outstanding share-based awards.

USE OF PROCEEDS: As a result of the increase in the size of the transaction, the language set forth under the heading “Use of proceeds” on page S-17 of the Prospectus Supplement will read:

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the sale of the notes offered hereby will be approximately $296.1 million (net of underwriting discounts and commissions and fees and expenses of the offering). We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including land acquisition and development, home construction, and other related purposes.


Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

 

 

This communication is intended for the sole use of the person to whom it is provided by the sender. This material is confidential and is for your information only and is not intended to be used by anyone other than you. This information does not purport to be a complete description of the notes or the offering. This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any notes in any jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation in such jurisdiction.

Standard Pacific has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus and a prospectus supplement) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus (including the prospectus supplement) in that registration statement and other documents Standard Pacific has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Standard Pacific and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from your sales representative Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013 or toll free at 1-800-831-9146.

Any legends, disclaimers or other notices that may appear below are not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded. Such legends, disclaimers or other notices have been automatically generated as a result of this communication having been sent via Bloomberg or another system.


SCHEDULE III

 

A. General Disclosure Package

 

  1. Pricing Term Sheet of the Company filed on August 1, 2013.

 

B. Other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus

 

  2. Electronic roadshow, dated August 1, 2013.


SCHEDULE IV

Guarantors

HSP Arizona, Inc.

HWB Investments, Inc.

Lagoon Valley Residential, LLC

Standard Pacific 1, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Arizona, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Colorado, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Florida GP, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Las Vegas, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Orange County, Inc.

Standard Pacific of South Florida, general partnership

Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Tampa, general partnership

Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc.

Standard Pacific of Texas, Inc.

Standard Pacific of the Carolinas, LLC

Standard Pacific of Tonner Hills, LLC

Standard Pacific of Walnut Hills, Inc.

Westfield Homes USA, Inc.

EX-4.1 3 d580174dex41.htm EX-4.1 EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

TWENTIETH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

by and among

STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.,

the Guarantors listed herein

and

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

as Trustee

Dated as of August 6, 2013

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF

6  1/4% Senior Notes due 2021

(Supplemental to the Indenture dated as of April 1, 1999)

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I

Scope of Twentieth Supplemental Indenture

ARTICLE II

Definitions

 

SECTION 2.01.

  Definitions      2   
ARTICLE III   
Authorization and Terms   

SECTION 3.01.

  Authorization      12   

SECTION 3.02.

  Terms      12   
ARTICLE IV   
Redemption   

SECTION 4.01.

  Optional Redemption      15   

SECTION 4.02.

  Acceleration      17   

SECTION 4.03.

  Change of Control      17   
ARTICLE V   
Registrar of Securities; Paying Agent   

SECTION 5.01.

  Appointment of Registrar and Paying Agent      19   
ARTICLE VI   
Certain Covenants   

SECTION 6.01.

  Compliance with Securities Laws      19   

SECTION 6.02.

  Restrictions on Secured Indebtedness      19   

SECTION 6.03.

  Restrictions on Sale and Leaseback Transactions      20   

SECTION 6.04.

  Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries      21   

SECTION 6.05.

  Merger and Sales of Assets by the Company      22   

SECTION 6.06.

  Reports to Holders of the Notes      23   

SECTION 6.07.

  Future Subsidiary Guarantees      23   


ARTICLE VII   
Events of Default   

SECTION 7.01.

  Additional Events of Default      23   

SECTION 7.02.

  Inapplicability of Cure Provisions to Certain Events of Default      24   
ARTICLE VIII   
Defeasance and Discharge   

SECTION 8.01.

  Defeasance and Discharge      24   
ARTICLE IX   
Modifications and Waivers   

SECTION 9.01.

  Without Consent of Holders      25   

SECTION 9.02.

  With Consent of Holders      25   
ARTICLE X   
Guarantee   

SECTION 10.01.

  Unconditional Guarantee      26   

SECTION 10.02.

  Severability      27   

SECTION 10.03.

  Release of a Guarantor; Termination of Guarantee      27   

SECTION 10.04.

  Limitation of a Subsidiary Guarantor’s Liability      28   

SECTION 10.05.

  Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms      28   

SECTION 10.06.

  Contribution      28   

SECTION 10.07.

  Waiver of Subrogation      29   

SECTION 10.08.

  Compensation and Indemnity      29   

SECTION 10.09.

  Modification      29   

SECTION 10.10.

  Successors and Assigns      30   

SECTION 10.11.

  No Waiver      30   
ARTICLE XI   
Miscellaneous   

SECTION 11.01.

  Governing Law      30   

SECTION 11.02.

  The Trustee      30   

SECTION 11.03.

  No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements      30   

SECTION 11.04.

  No Recourse Against Others      30   

SECTION 11.05.

  Successors and Assigns      31   

SECTION 11.06.

  Duplicate Originals      31   

SECTION 11.07.

  Severability      31   

EXHIBIT A - FORM OF NOTE

     A-1   

 

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STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.

TWENTIETH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

This Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 6, 2013 (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture”), is entered into between Standard Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors (as defined herein) listed on the signature pages hereto and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, Bank One Trust Company, N.A. and The First National Bank of Chicago), as trustee (the “Trustee”);

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture is supplemental to the Indenture dated as of April 1, 1999 (the “Original Indenture”), as previously supplemented by that certain First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 13, 1999, Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 5, 2000, Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 28, 2001, Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 4, 2003, Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 12, 2003, Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 23, 2003, Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 11, 2004, Eighth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 11, 2004, Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, Tenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, Eleventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 22, 2006, Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 5, 2006, Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 8, 2009, Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 3, 2010, Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012 and Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012 (the Original Indenture, as supplemented, the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and the Trustee;

WHEREAS, the Company has determined to authorize the creation of its 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”), and currently desires to issue Notes in the aggregate amount of $300,000,000;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Original Indenture, the Company may establish one or more Series of Securities from time to time as authorized by a supplemental indenture; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and the Trustee, in accordance with its terms, and a valid amendment of, and supplement to, the Indenture have been done.


NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree, as follows:

ARTICLE I

Scope of Twentieth Supplemental Indenture

The changes, modifications and supplements to the Original Indenture affected by this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture shall be applicable only with respect to, and govern the terms of, the Notes, which shall be unlimited in aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time and which may be issued from time to time, and shall not apply to any other Securities that may be issued under the Original Indenture unless a supplemental indenture with respect to such other Securities specifically incorporates such changes, modifications and supplements. Except as specifically amended and supplemented by, or to the extent inconsistent with, this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, the Original Indenture shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed.

In the event that the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate any Notes issued under this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture subsequent to the Original Issue Date, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the same “CUSIP” number for such Notes as is printed on the Notes outstanding at such time; provided, however, that if any Notes issued under this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture subsequent to the Original Issue Date are determined, pursuant to an Opinion of Counsel for the Company in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, to be a different class of security than the Notes outstanding at such time for federal income tax purposes, the Company may obtain a “CUSIP” number for such Notes that is different than the “CUSIP” number printed on the Notes then outstanding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all Notes issued under this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture shall vote and consent together on all matters as one class and no Notes will have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter.

ARTICLE II

Definitions

SECTION 2.01. Definitions. The following terms shall have the meaning set forth below in this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture. Except as otherwise provided in this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, all words, terms and phrases defined in the Original Indenture (but not otherwise defined herein) shall have the same meaning herein as in the Original Indenture. To the extent terms defined herein differ from terms defined in the Original Indenture the terms defined herein will govern for purposes of this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes.

“2014 Notes” means the Company’s 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2014.

“2015 Notes” means the Company’s 7% Senior Notes due 2015.

“2016 Notes” means the Company’s 10.750% Senior Notes due 2016.

 

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“2016 Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of September 17, 2009 among Standard Pacific Escrow LLC, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “2016 Notes Indenture Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 8, 2009 among Standard Pacific Escrow LLC, the Company, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto and the 2016 Notes Indenture Trustee.

“2018 Notes” means the Company’s 8 3/8% Senior Notes due 2018.

“2018 Notes Indenture” means the Base Indenture as amended and supplemented by the Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture and the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture.

“2021 Notes” means the Company’s 8 3/8% Senior Notes due 2021.

“2021 Notes Indenture” means the Base Indenture as amended and supplemented by the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture.

“Additional Notes” means any newly issued Notes issued after the Original Issue Date of the Initial Notes from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

“Attributable Debt”, when used with respect to any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, means, as at the time of determination, the present value (discounted at a rate equivalent to the Company’s then-current weighted average cost of funds for borrowed money as at the time of determination, compounded on a semi-annual basis) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of any Capitalized Lease Obligations included in any such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.

“Bank Credit Facility” means the Company’s Revolving Credit Facility dated October 19, 2012, as amended, renewed, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and any other bank credit agreement or credit facility entered into in the future by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other agreement (including all related ancillary agreements) pursuant to which any of the Indebtedness, Obligations, commitments, costs, expenses, fees, reimbursements and other indemnities payable or owing under the Revolving Credit Facility, or any other bank credit agreement or credit facility (or under any subsequent Bank Credit Facility) may be refinanced, restructured, renewed, extended, refunded, replaced or increased, as the Revolving Credit Facility or any other such bank credit agreement, credit facility or other agreement may from time to time at the option of the parties thereto be amended, renewed, supplemented or otherwise modified.

“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.

 

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“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means any obligations under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:

 

  (1) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that for purposes of this clause such person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all shares that any such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company;

 

  (2) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person or the merger of another Person with or into the Company, or the sale of all or substantially all the assets of the Company to another Person, other than any such sale to one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, and in the case of any such merger or consolidation, the securities of the Company that are outstanding immediately prior to such transaction and which represent 100% of the aggregate voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company are changed into or exchanged for cash, securities or property, unless pursuant to such transaction such securities are changed into or exchanged for, in addition to any other consideration, securities of the surviving corporation, or a parent corporation that owns all of the Capital Stock of such surviving corporation, that represent immediately after such transaction, at least a majority of the aggregate voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving corporation or such parent corporation, as the case may be; or

 

  (3) a “Change of Control” occurs under any of the Other Public Notes or any other notes issued by the Company under an indenture or comparable documents to indentures used in jurisdictions outside of the United States.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Decline.

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, as of any date, the total amount of assets which would be included on a combined balance sheet of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries under GAAP (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom:

 

  (1)

all short-term liabilities, except for (x) liabilities payable by their terms more than one year from the date of determination (or

 

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  renewable or extendible at the option of the obligor for a period ending more than one year after such date) and (y) liabilities in respect of retiree benefits other than pensions for which the Restricted Subsidiaries are required to accrue pursuant to Accounting Standards Codification 715 (formerly Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106);

 

  (2) investments in Subsidiaries that are not Restricted Subsidiaries; and

 

  (3) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount, unamortized expense incurred in the issuance of debt and other intangible assets.

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

“Disqualified Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock which by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event:

 

  (1) matures or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise;

 

  (2) is convertible or exchangeable, at the option of the holder thereof, for Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock; or

 

  (3) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, in each case on or prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes;

provided, however, that Disqualified Stock shall not include Capital Stock which is redeemable solely pursuant to a change in control provision that does not (A) cause such Capital Stock to become redeemable in circumstances which would not constitute a Change of Control and (B) require the Company to pay the redemption price therefor prior to the Repurchase Date specified under Section 4.03 hereof.

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

“Fitch” means Fitch Ratings.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the accounting standards codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such or any other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession of the United States, as in effect on the date of the Indenture.

“Guarantor” means all Subsidiaries that execute a Guarantee of the Notes on the Original Issue Date and any Restricted Subsidiary that subsequently executes a Guarantee of the Notes pursuant to Section 6.07 hereof, until such time as any such Subsidiary is released from its Guarantee pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.

 

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“Hedging Obligations” of any Person means the net obligations of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Agreement or any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other similar agreement to which such Person is a party or a beneficiary.

“Holder” means the person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

“Incur” means issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become liable for; provided, however, that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary; provided further, however, that in the case of a discount security or a payment-in-kind security, neither the accrual or capitalization of interest nor the accretion of original issue discount shall be considered an Incurrence of Indebtedness. The term “Incurrence” when used as a noun shall have a correlative meaning.

“Indebtedness” means on any date of determination (without duplication),

 

  (1) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of:

 

  (A) indebtedness of such Person for money borrowed, and

 

  (B) indebtedness for borrowed money evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable;

 

  (2) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;

 

  (3) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services, all conditional sale obligations of such Person and all obligations of such Person under any title retention agreement (but in each case excluding (A) accounts payable and accrued expenses arising in the ordinary course of business and (B) any obligation to pay a contingent purchase price as long as such obligation remains contingent) which would appear as a liability on a balance sheet of a Person prepared on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, which purchase price or obligation is due more than six months after the date of placing such property in service or taking delivery and title thereto or the completion of such services (provided that, in the case of obligations of an acquired Person assumed in connection with an acquisition of such Person, such obligations would constitute Indebtedness of such Person);

 

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  (4) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction (other than obligations with respect to letters of credit securing obligations (other than obligations described in clauses (1) through (3) above) entered into in the ordinary course of business of such Person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the tenth Business Day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following payment on the letter of credit);

 

  (5) the amount of all obligations of such Person with respect to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any Subsidiary of such Person, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends);

 

  (6) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (5) of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons for the payment of which, in either case, such Person is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, including by means of any guarantee;

 

  (7) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (6) of other Persons secured by any Lien on any property or asset of such Person (whether or not such obligation is assumed by such Person), the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the value of such property or assets or the amount of the obligation so secured; and

 

  (8) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, Hedging Obligations of such Person.

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date shall be the outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon the occurrence of the contingency, other than a contingency solely within the control of such Person, giving rise to the obligations, of any contingent obligations as described above at such date. However, in the case of any loan to value maintenance agreement (or similar agreement) by which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary agrees to maintain for a joint venture a minimum ratio of Indebtedness outstanding to value of collateral property, only amounts owing by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary (or which would be owing upon demand of the lender) at such date under such agreements will be included in Indebtedness. In addition, the amount outstanding at any time of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount shall be deemed to be the face amount of such Indebtedness less the remaining unamortized portion of the original issue discount of such Indebtedness at such time as determined in conformity with GAAP.

 

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“Initial Notes” means Notes issued on August 6, 2013 and any Notes issued in replacement therefor.

“Interest Payment Date” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the Notes.

“Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement or other financial agreement or arrangement designed to protect the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary against fluctuations in interest rates.

“Investment” in any Person means any direct or indirect advance, loan (other than advances to customers in the ordinary course of business that are recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of such Person) or other extensions of credit (including by way of guarantee or similar arrangement) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other similar instruments issued by such Person. For purposes of Section 6.04 hereof, “Investment” shall include the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets of any Subsidiary of the Company at the time that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that upon a redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary of an amount (if positive) equal to:

 

  (1) the Company’s “Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation, less

 

  (2) the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation.

In determining the amount of any Investment made by transfer of any property other than cash, such property shall be valued at its fair market value at the time of such Investment as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith.

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge or security interest.

“Maturity” means the date on which the principal of the Notes becomes due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

“Measurement Date” means May 3, 2010.

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

“Non-Recourse Indebtedness” means Indebtedness or other obligations secured by a Lien on property to the extent that the liability for such Indebtedness or

 

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other obligations is limited to the security of the property (or to Persons other than the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary) without liability on the part of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than, in the case of Indebtedness or obligations of a Subsidiary, with respect to the Subsidiary that holds title to such property (if such property constitutes all or substantially all the property of such Subsidiary) and a pledge of the equity interests of such Subsidiary or its Subsidiaries) for any deficiency; provided that recourse obligations or liabilities of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary solely for indemnities, covenants (including, without limitation, performance, completion or similar covenants), or breach of any warranty, representation or covenant in respect of any Indebtedness, including indemnities for and liabilities arising from fraud, misrepresentation, misapplication or non-payment of rents, profits, insurance and condemnation proceeds and other sums actually received by the borrower from secured assets to be paid to the lender, waste and mechanics’ liens, will in each case not prevent Indebtedness from being classified as Non-Recourse Indebtedness.

“Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

“Original Issue Date” means the first date of the original issue of any of the Notes pursuant to the Indenture.

“Other Public Notes” means the Company’s 1 1/4% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032, the 2021 Notes, the 2018 Notes, the 2016 Notes, the 2015 Notes and the 2014 Notes.

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

“Preferred Stock”, as applied to the Capital Stock of any corporation, means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such corporation, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of such corporation.

“Prospectus Supplement” means the prospectus supplement dated August 1, 2013, to the prospectus dated July 31, 2012, relating to the offering by the Company of the Notes.

“Rating Agencies” means (a) each of S&P, Moody’s and Fitch and (b) if any of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons beyond the control of the Company, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act selected by the Company (as certified by an authorized officer of the Company) as a replacement agency for S&P, Moody’s or Fitch, or all of them, as the case may be.

 

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“Rating Category” means:

 

  (1) with respect to S&P and Fitch, any of the following categories: BB, B, CCC, CC, C and D (or equivalent successor categories);

 

  (2) with respect to Moody’s, any of the following categories: Ba, B, Caa, Ca, C and D (or equivalent successor categories); and

 

  (3) with respect to any other Rating Agency, those categories most closely approximating those set forth in (1) or (2) above.

In determining whether the rating of the Notes has decreased by one or more gradations, gradations within Rating Categories (+ and - for S&P and Fitch; 1, 2 and 3 for Moody’s; or the equivalent gradations for any other Rating Agency) will be taken into account (e.g., with respect to S&P and Fitch a decline in rating from BB+ to BB, as well as from BB- to B+, will constitute a decrease of one gradation).

“Rating Date” means the date which is 60 days prior to the earlier of (1) a Change of Control and (2) public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or of the intention by the Company to effect a Change of Control.

“Rating Decline” means the decrease (as compared with the Rating Date) by one or more gradations within Rating Categories as well as between Rating Categories of the rating of the Notes by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during the period commencing on the Rating Date and ending 60 days after the applicable Change of Control (which period will be extended for so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies). If less than three Rating Agencies are rating the Notes on any Rating Date, the ratings of the Rating Agency (or Rating Agencies) not rating the Notes will be deemed to have decreased by one or more gradations within Rating Categories or between Rating Categories until three Rating Agencies rate the Notes.

“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Notes means the dates specified in Section 3.02(f)(iii).

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any 80% or more owned Subsidiary that has not been designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

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

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means a sale or transfer made by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (except a sale or transfer made to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary) of any property which is either (1) a manufacturing facility, office building or warehouse whose book value equals or exceeds 1% of

 

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Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of determination or (2) another property (not including a model home) which exceeds 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of determination, if such sale or transfer is made with the agreement, commitment or intention of leasing such property to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary.

“Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness which is secured by (1) a Lien on any property of the Company or the property of any Restricted Subsidiary or (2) a Lien on Capital Stock owned directly or indirectly by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in any Person or in the Company’s rights or the rights of a Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Indebtedness of a Person in which the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary has an equity interest; provided that “Secured Indebtedness” shall not include Non-Recourse Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that was formed for and is engaged in homebuilding or land development operations which is secured principally by unimproved land (whether entitled or unentitled), improved land (including lots under development), housing units under construction, completed housing units and other related property customarily included as collateral under mortgages, deeds of trust and related documents for homebuilding or land development operations. The securing in the foregoing manner of any such Indebtedness which immediately prior thereto was not Secured Indebtedness shall be deemed to be the creation of Secured Indebtedness at the time security is given.

“Stated Maturity” means the date specified in the Notes as the fixed date on which an amount equal to the principal of or interest on the Notes is due and payable.

“Subsidiary” means a corporation, a majority of the capital stock with voting power to elect directors of which is directly or indirectly owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries, or any Person in which the Company or its Subsidiaries has at least a majority ownership interest.

“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means: (1) any Subsidiary in which the Company, directly or indirectly, has less than an 80% ownership interest; (2) any 80% or more owned Subsidiary which in accordance with Section 6.04 hereof has been designated in a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case unless and until such Subsidiary shall, in accordance with Section 6.04 hereof, be designated by a resolution of the Board of Directors as a Restricted Subsidiary; and (3) any 80% or more owned Subsidiary a majority of the Voting Stock of which shall at the time be owned directly or indirectly by one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person, securities of any class of Capital Stock of such Person entitling the holders thereof (whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has voting power by reason of any contingency) to vote in the election of members of the board of directors of such Person.

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minority interests owned by other Persons solely due to local law requirements that there be more than one stockholder, but which interest is not in excess of what is required for such purpose) is owned directly by the Company or through one or more Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries.

ARTICLE III

Authorization and Terms

SECTION 3.01. Authorization. The Company hereby establishes the 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 as a Series of Securities of the Company. The form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A is hereby approved and authorized in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture; provided, that to the extent that any provision of the Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Original Indenture (as supplemented by this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture), the Original Indenture (as supplemented by this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture) shall govern and be controlling. The requirement in Section 2.02 of the Original Indenture that the Company’s seal be reproduced on Securities shall not apply to the Notes.

SECTION 3.02. Terms. The terms of the Series of Securities established pursuant to this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture shall be as follows:

(a) Title. The title of the Series of Securities established hereby is the “6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021.”

(b) Aggregate Principal Amount. On August 6, 2013, which shall be the Original Issue Date, the Company will deliver to the Trustee for authentication Notes executed by the Company for original issue in aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000. The aggregate principal amount of the Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture is unlimited.

(c) Book-Entry System.

(i) The Notes will be issued in the form of one or more notes in registered global form (the “Global Note”) held in book-entry form. The Depository Trust Company, as depository (“DTC”), or its nominee will initially be the sole registered holder of the Notes for all purposes under the Indenture.

(ii) Except as set forth below, the Global Notes may be transferred, in whole and not in part, only to another nominee of DTC or to a successor of DTC or its nominee. A Global Note is exchangeable for certificated Notes only if: (A) DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a depositary for such Global Note or if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor depository within 90 days after the date of such notice, (B) the Company in its discretion at any time determines not to have all the Notes

 

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represented by such Global Note, or (C) there shall have occurred and be continuing a Default or an Event of Default with respect to the Notes represented by such Global Note. Any Global Note that is exchangeable for certificated Notes pursuant to the preceding sentence will be exchanged for certificated Notes in authorized denominations and registered in such names as DTC or any successor depositary holding such Global Note may direct. Subject to the foregoing, a Global Note is not exchangeable, except for a Global Note of like denomination to be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee. In the event that a Global Note becomes exchangeable for certificated Notes, (x) certificated Notes will be issued only in fully registered form in denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, (y) payment of principal of, and, if any, premium with respect to, and interest on, the certificated Notes will be payable, and the transfer of the certificated Notes will be registerable, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purposes, and (z) no service charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the certificated Notes although the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

(d) Persons to Whom Interest Payable. Interest on the Notes shall be payable to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business (whether or not a Business Day) on the Regular Record Date (as set forth in Section 3.02(f)(iii) below), for such interest payment, except (i) that interest payable on December 15, 2021 shall be payable to the Person to whom principal is payable, and (ii) that default interest shall be payable in the manner provided in Section 2.11 of the Original Indenture.

(e) Stated Maturity. The date on which the principal of the Notes shall be payable, unless earlier redeemed, repurchased or accelerated pursuant to the Indenture, is December 15, 2021.

(f) Rate of Interest; Interest Payment Dates; Regular Record Dates; Overdue Principal and Interest.

(i) Rate of Interest. The principal amount of each of the Notes shall bear simple interest at the rate of 6.25% per annum. Interest on each of the Notes shall accrue from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from August 6, 2013. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

(ii) Interest Payment Dates. Interest on the Notes shall be payable semiannually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing December 15, 2013. If any Interest Payment Date or Maturity of the Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment due on such Interest Payment Date or at Maturity will be made

 

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on the following day that is a Business Day as if it were made on the date such payment was due and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or Maturity, as the case may be.

(iii) Regular Record Dates. The Regular Record Dates for interest payable on each June 15 and December 15 will be the immediately preceding June 1 and December 1 (whether or not a Business Day), respectively.

(iv) Overdue Principal and Interest. Overdue principal and, to the extent payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, overdue installments of interest shall bear interest at the rate of 6.25% per annum.

(g) Place and Method of Payment; Registration of Transfer and Exchange; Notices to Company.

(i) Place and Method of Payment. Payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes will be made at the corporate trust office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose. The foregoing notwithstanding, payments in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by DTC or any successor. The Company will make all payments in respect of a certificated Note (including principal, premium and interest), (A) to Holders having an aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the registered addresses of such Holders and (B) to Holders having an aggregate principal amount of more than $2,000,000, either by check mailed to the registered address of each Holder or, upon request by a Holder to the Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Holder’s accounts within the United States, which request shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies the Registrar to the contrary in writing.

(ii) Registration of Exchange and Transfer. Notes may be presented for exchange and registration of transfer at the corporate trust office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at the office of any transfer agent hereafter designated by the Company for such purpose.

(iii) Notices to Company. Notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect to the Notes and the Indenture may be served at Standard Pacific Corp., 15360 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, California 92618, Attention: Secretary.

 

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(h) Issuance of Additional Notes. The Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes under the Indenture which shall have substantially identical terms as the Notes, other than with respect to the date of issuance, issue price, the initial date from which interest begins to accrue, the amount of interest payable on the first payment date applicable thereto or upon a registration default as provided under a registration rights agreement related to such Additional Notes, if any, and, if applicable, the existence of transfer restrictions pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Initial Notes and any Additional Notes shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under the Indenture.

With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, a copy of which shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

(1) the aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding immediately prior to the issuance of such Additional Notes;

(2) the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture;

(3) the issue price and the issue date of such Additional Notes and the amount of interest payable on the first payment date applicable thereto; and

(4) the “CUSIP”, “ISIN” or “Common Code” number, as applicable, of such Additional Notes.

ARTICLE IV

Redemption

SECTION 4.01. Optional Redemption. The Notes will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed by first-class mail to the registered address of each Holder of Notes to be redeemed. At any time prior to June 15, 2021, the Notes will be redeemable at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (ii) the sum, as determined by the Quotation Agent, as defined below, of 100% of the present values of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the redemption date to December 15, 2021 for the Notes to be redeemed, exclusive of interest accrued to the redemption date (the “Remaining Life”), discounted from their respective scheduled payment dates to the redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate, as defined below, plus 50 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed to the date of redemption. At any time on or after June 15, 2021, the Notes will be redeemable at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed to the redemption date.

 

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As used in this Section 4.01:

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

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

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

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (a) Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and its successors; provided, however, that if the foregoing ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “primary treasury dealer”), the Company will substitute therefor another primary treasury dealer, and (b) two other primary treasury dealers selected by the Company.

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

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, (1) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the stated maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined, and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third business day preceding the redemption date.

If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Notes to be redeemed on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair and appropriate. If money sufficient to pay the

 

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redemption price of and accrued interest on all of the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the redemption date, then on and after such redemption date interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or portions of them called for redemption.

Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part.

Anything to the contrary in the Original Indenture notwithstanding,

(a) If all of the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed.

(b) Any notice of redemption mailed pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Original Indenture may state that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP, ISIN or Common Code number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes.

(c) Redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if such notice is issued in connection with a satisfaction or discharge of the Indenture pursuant to Section 8.01 hereof.

SECTION 4.02. Acceleration. The principal amount of the Notes shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Original Indenture.

SECTION 4.03. Change of Control. Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, each Holder shall have the right to require that the Company repurchase all or a portion of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date), in accordance with the provisions of the next paragraph.

Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control Triggering Event, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute a Change of Control, the Company shall mail a notice to each Holder with a copy to the Trustee, stating:

(a) that a Change of Control Triggering Event has occurred or will occur and that such Holder has the right to require the Company to purchase such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount outstanding at the repurchase date plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest on the relevant Interest Payment Date) (the “Repurchase Price”);

 

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(b) the circumstances and relevant facts and relevant financial information regarding such Change of Control Triggering Event;

(c) the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed) (the “Repurchase Date”);

(d) that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment will continue to accrue interest;

(e) that any Note accepted for payment shall cease to accrue interest after the Repurchase Date;

(f) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased will be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse side of the Note completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least five days before the Repurchase Date;

(g) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the Paying Agent receives, not later than three days prior to the Repurchase Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Note the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have the Note purchased; and

(h) that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part will be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered.

The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control Triggering Event, state that the right to require the Company to purchase such Holders’ Notes is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Repurchase Date.

On the Repurchase Date, the Company shall (i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof properly tendered, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price of all Notes or portions thereof so accepted and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof accepted for payment by the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail or deliver to Holders of Notes so accepted, payment in an amount equal to the Repurchase Price, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail or deliver to such Holders a new Note equal in principal amount of any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered. The Company will publicly announce the results on the Repurchase Date or as soon as practicable thereafter. For purposes of this Section 4.03, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.

 

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ARTICLE V

Registrar of Securities; Paying Agent

SECTION 5.01. Appointment of Registrar and Paying Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as the Registrar and initial Paying Agent. The books of the Registrar for the Notes will be initially maintained at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

ARTICLE VI

Certain Covenants

The Company covenants as follows:

SECTION 6.01. Compliance with Securities Laws. The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of Notes pursuant to Section 4.03 hereof. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with said provisions hereunder, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under said provisions hereunder by virtue thereof.

SECTION 6.02. Restrictions on Secured Indebtedness. (a) The Company will not, and will not cause or permit a Restricted Subsidiary to, Incur any Secured Indebtedness unless the Notes will be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) such Secured Indebtedness.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph (a), the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may Incur Secured Indebtedness which is secured by:

(i) Liens on model homes, homes under construction, homes held for sale, homes that are under contract for sale, contracts for the sale of homes, land (improved or unimproved), manufacturing plants, warehouses or office buildings and fixtures, equipment located thereat or thereon and other related property customarily included as collateral under mortgages, deeds of trust and related documents for a homebuilding or other land development project;

(ii) Liens on assets at the time of their acquisition by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, including Capitalized Lease Obligations, which Liens secure obligations assumed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or on assets of a Person existing at the time such Person is acquired or merged with or into or consolidated with the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary (and not created in anticipation or contemplation thereof);

 

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(iii) Liens arising from conditional sales agreements or title retention agreements with respect to property acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(iv) Liens incurred in connection with pollution control, industrial revenue, water sewage or any similar item;

(v) Liens securing Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owed to the Company or to a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; and

(vi) any amendment, restatement, supplement, renewal, replacement, extension or refunding in whole or in part, of Secured Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to this Section 6.02 at the time of the original Incurrence thereof.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph (a), the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may Incur Secured Indebtedness, without equally or ratably securing the Notes, if immediately thereafter the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Secured Indebtedness outstanding Incurred by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding (A) Secured Indebtedness permitted under clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 6.02(b) above and (B) any Secured Indebtedness in relation to which the Notes have been equally and ratably secured) and (ii) all Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions (excluding Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions satisfying the conditions set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of Section 6.03(a) hereof and Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions to which Section 6.03 hereof does not apply pursuant to the first sentence of Section 6.03(b)) as of the date of determination would not exceed 20% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.

SECTION 6.03. Restrictions on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, unless:

(i) notice is promptly given to the Trustee of the Sale and Leaseback Transaction;

(ii) fair value is received by the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary for the property sold (as determined in good faith by the Company and communicated in writing to the Trustee); and

(iii) the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, within 365 days after the completion of the Sale and Leaseback Transaction, applies, or enters into a definitive agreement to apply within such 365-day period, an amount equal to the net proceeds therefrom either:

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any Notes or Other Public Notes delivered by the Company to the Trustee or the trustee of such Other Public Notes), (2) other Indebtedness of the Company that ranks equally with the Notes, including under the Bank Credit Facility, or (3) Indebtedness of any Guarantor that ranks equally with its Guarantee of the Notes, or

(B) to the purchase by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of property used in their respective businesses.

(b) This Section 6.03 will not apply to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction that relates to a sale of a property that occurs within 180 days from the later of (x) the date of acquisition of the property by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, (y) the date of the completion of the construction of that property or (z) the date of commencement of full operations on that property. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph (a), the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into a Sale and Leaseback Transaction without satisfying the conditions set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of Section 6.03(a) if immediately thereafter the sum of (1) the aggregate principal amount of all Secured Indebtedness outstanding Incurred by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding Secured Indebtedness permitted under clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 6.02(b) hereof and any Secured Indebtedness in relation to which the Notes have been equally and ratably secured) and (2) all Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions (excluding Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions satisfying the conditions set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of Section 6.03(a) and Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions to which this Section 6.03 does not apply pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 6.03(b)) as of the date of determination would not exceed 20% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.

SECTION 6.04. Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries. (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, (A) designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or (B) make any additional Investment in any Unrestricted Subsidiary unless the amount of such Investment (or deemed Investment in the case of a designation), when taken together with all Investments (including by way of designation) made in Unrestricted Subsidiaries after the Original Issue Date, would not exceed the sum of (without duplication):

(i) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments (measured at the time of any proposed Investment) that would be permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.08(c)(iii) (without giving effect to the other clauses of Section 4.08(c)) of the 2016 Notes Indenture; provided, however, that if the 2016 Notes are repaid, prepaid, redeemed, defeased, retired or otherwise cease to exist, “Unrestricted Subsidiary” and “Restricted Subsidiary”, as such terms are defined for purposes of the Notes, shall be used for purposes of the foregoing calculation;

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good faith) paid to the Company (or any Restricted Subsidiary) by an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that in the case of an Unrestricted Subsidiary that is created after the Measurement Date (other than a Subsidiary that is created by an Unrestricted Subsidiary existing on the Measurement Date), such credit shall not exceed the amount of Investments by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries made in such Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Measurement Date;

(iii) the portion (proportionate to the Company’s equity interest in such Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time such Unrestricted Subsidiary is designated a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that the foregoing amount shall not exceed, in the case of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is created after the Measurement Date (other than a Subsidiary that is created by an Unrestricted Subsidiary existing on the Measurement Date), the amount of Investments made by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Measurement Date; and

(iv) $10.0 million.

(b) The Company will not (A) permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be designated as a Restricted Subsidiary unless (1) immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (2) such Subsidiary complies with the provisions of Section 6.07 hereof or (B) permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is an Unrestricted Subsidiary under the 2016 Notes Indenture, the 2018 Notes Indenture or the 2021 Notes Indenture to be designated as a Restricted Subsidiary under the 2016 Notes Indenture, the 2018 Notes Indenture or the 2021 Notes Indenture unless it would be permitted to designate and concurrently does so designate such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary.

(c) Promptly after the adoption of any Board Resolution designating a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, a copy thereof shall be filed with the Trustee, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating that the provisions of this Section 6.04 have been complied with in connection with such designation.

(d) At the Original Issue Date, Standard Pacific Mortgage, Inc. and each of its Subsidiaries and Standard Pacific Investment Corp. and each of its Subsidiaries are Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

SECTION 6.05. Merger and Sales of Assets by the Company. The Company shall not consolidate with, merge into or transfer all or substantially all of its assets to another Person unless:

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(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

SECTION 6.06. Reports to Holders of the Notes. So long as the Company is subject to the periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, it shall continue to furnish the information required thereby to the SEC. Even if the Company is entitled under the Exchange Act not to furnish such information to the SEC or to the Holders of the Notes, it will nonetheless continue to furnish information under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act to the SEC and the Trustee as if it were subject to such periodic reporting requirements.

SECTION 6.07. Future Subsidiary Guarantees. The Company shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to guarantee, assume or in any manner become liable with respect to any of the Other Public Notes or other notes issued by the Company under an indenture or comparable documents to indentures used in jurisdictions outside of the United States unless such Restricted Subsidiary simultaneously executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to the Indenture providing for the guarantee of the Notes on the same terms as the guarantee of such Other Public Notes or other notes issued under an indenture or comparable documents used in jurisdictions outside of the United States (except that the guarantee of any notes issued under an indenture or comparable documents used in jurisdictions outside of the United States that are subordinated to the Notes shall be subordinated to the guarantee of the Notes to the same extent as such subordinated notes are subordinated to the Notes).

ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

SECTION 7.01. Additional Events of Default. In addition to the Events of Default specified in the Original Indenture, the following shall constitute Events of Default under Section 6.01 of the Original Indenture with respect to the Notes:

(i) default under any mortgage, indenture (including the Original Indenture and the supplemental indentures thereto in respect of the terms of the Other Public Notes) or instrument under which is issued or which secures or evidences Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Notes and Non-Recourse Indebtedness) which default constitutes a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness in an amount of $25,000,000 or more when due and payable (other than as a result of acceleration) or results in Indebtedness (other than the Notes and Non-Recourse Indebtedness) in the aggregate of $25,000,000 or more becoming or being declared due and payable before it would otherwise become due and payable;

 

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(ii) entry of a final judgment for the payment of money against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in an amount of $5,000,000 or more which remains undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days after the date on which the right to appeal such judgment has expired or becomes subject to an enforcement proceeding; and

(iii) except as permitted by the Indenture, any Guarantee shall be held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of any Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under its Guarantee.

SECTION 7.02. Inapplicability of Cure Provisions to Certain Events of Default. With respect to Section 6.01(3) of the Original Indenture, the failure of the Company to comply with the covenant described under Section 6.05 hereof will constitute an Event of Default with notice as provided in Section 6.01 of the Original Indenture, but without passage of time.

ARTICLE VIII

Defeasance and Discharge

SECTION 8.01. Defeasance and Discharge. The provisions of Article Eight of the Original Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes, except that Section 8.01(e) of the Original Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced, solely for purposes of the Notes, by the following:

“In addition to the Company’s rights above under this Section 8.01, the Company may terminate all of its obligations under this Indenture with respect to the Notes and the Guarantees, and the Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes and the Guarantees (except as to rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Notes which shall survive until all Notes have been cancelled), when:

 

  (i) Either (A) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.07 of the Original Indenture and Notes 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) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or (B) all such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable, will become due and payable at Stated Maturity within one year or are to be called for redemption by the Company within one year pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof, and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, under an irrevocable trust agreement, money or United States government obligations in an amount sufficient to pay principal of any interest on the Notes to their Stated Maturity or redemption;

 

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  (ii) the Company has paid all sums payable hereunder in respect of the Notes;

 

  (iii) the Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at Stated Maturity or on the date of redemption, as the case may be; and

 

  (iv) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (as to legal matters), stating that all conditions precedent specified herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.”

ARTICLE IX

Modifications and Waivers

SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of Holders. In addition to the provisions of Section 9.01 of the Original Indenture, the Company and the Trustee may execute a supplemental indenture without the consent of the Holders of the Notes:

(a) to conform the text of the Indenture or the Notes to any provision under the heading “Description of notes” in the Prospectus Supplement;

(b) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes as permitted by Section 3.02(h) hereof;

(c) to release a Guarantor from its obligations under its Guarantee, the Notes or this Indenture in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture and to evidence the succession of another Person to such Guarantor and the assumption by it of the obligations of such Guarantor under the Indenture and such Guarantee;

(d) to add Guarantees with respect to the Notes; or

(e) to pledge collateral to secure the Notes and Guarantees and to release the Notes and Guarantees as provided in the Indenture.

SECTION 9.02. With Consent of Holders.

(a) Section 9.02(6) of the Original Indenture shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced by the following: “adversely modify the ranking or priority of the Notes (except for releases of Guarantees as permitted under the Indenture); or”

 

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(b) In addition to the provisions of Section 9.02 of the Original Indenture (including Section 9.02(6) as amended pursuant to Section 9.02(a) above), without the consent of each Holder of a Note affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Guarantee or the Indenture other than in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

ARTICLE X

Guarantee

SECTION 10.01. Unconditional Guarantee. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally, jointly and severally, and irrevocably guarantees (each such guarantee to be referred to herein as a “Guarantee”) on a senior basis to each Holder of the Notes and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, that: (i) the principal of and interest on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise and interest on the overdue principal, if any, and interest on any interest of the Notes and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder, will be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or of any such other obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, subject, however, to the limitations set forth in Section 10.04 hereof. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that, subject to Section 10.03 hereof, this Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations of the Company contained in the respective Notes and this Indenture with respect to the respective Notes. If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, any Guarantor, or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or any Guarantor, any amount paid by the Company or any Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder, this Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between each Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the Maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in this Indenture for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any acceleration of such obligations as provided in this Indenture, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor for the purpose of this Guarantee.

 

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SECTION 10.02. Severability. In case any provision of this Guarantee shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

SECTION 10.03. Release of a Guarantor; Termination of Guarantee.

Upon:

(a) the sale or disposition (whether by merger, stock purchase, asset sale or otherwise) of a Guarantor (or all or substantially all its assets or its Capital Stock) to an entity which is not (after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary or the Company;

(b) discharge of the Indenture, as provided under Article Eight of the Original Indenture (as amended pursuant to Section 8.01 hereof);

(c) Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance in respect of the Notes as set forth under Article Eight of the Original Indenture;

(d) any Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the Company, directly or indirectly, owning less than 80% of such Subsidiary;

(e) any Guarantor ceasing to guarantee all Other Public Notes and any other notes issued by the Company under an indenture or comparable documents to indentures used in jurisdictions outside of the United States; or

(f) the designation of any Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of the Indenture,

in each such case such Guarantor shall be deemed automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all the Guarantor’s obligations under the Guarantee with respect to the Notes without any further action required on the part of the Guarantor, the Company, the Trustee or any Holder. In the event of a transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or Capital Stock of a Guarantor to an entity which is not (after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary or the Company, the Person acquiring such assets or stock of such Guarantor shall not be subject to the Guarantor’s obligations under the Guarantee.

An Unrestricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor shall be deemed automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all obligations under this Article X with respect to the Notes upon notice from the Company to the Trustee to such effect, without any further action required on the part of the Guarantor, the Company, the Trustee or any Holder.

 

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The Guarantee shall terminate and be of no further force or effect upon the redemption in full, retirement or other discharge of Notes. The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing any such release upon receipt of a request by the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel certifying as to the compliance with this Section 10.03.

Any Guarantor not released in accordance with this Section 10.03 remains liable for the full amount of principal of and interest on the Notes as provided in this Article X.

SECTION 10.04. Limitation of a Subsidiary Guarantor’s Liability. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, it is the intention of the parties that the guarantee by each Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar Federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the parties hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee of the Notes shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor (and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to Section 10.06), result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting such fraudulent transfer or conveyance.

SECTION 10.05. Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. (a) Except as permitted under Section 10.03, no Guarantor may transfer all or substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person), another Person, other than the Company or another Guarantor in a transaction to which subsection (b) applies, unless (i) the Person acquiring the property in any such transfer or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Guarantor) unconditionally assumes all the obligations of that Guarantor under this Indenture (including its Guarantee of the Notes) pursuant to an agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

(b) Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent any transfer of all or substantially all assets of a Guarantor to the Company or another Guarantor. Upon any such consolidation, merger, or transfer between a Guarantor and the Company or another Guarantor, the Guarantee given by the non-surviving or transferring Guarantor in the transaction shall no longer have any force or effect.

SECTION 10.06. Contribution. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Guarantors, the Guarantors agree, inter se, that in the event any payment or distribution is made by any Guarantor (a “Funding Guarantor”) under its

 

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Guarantee with respect to the Notes, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from all other Guarantors in a pro rata amount based on the Adjusted Net Assets of each Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging the Company’s obligations with respect to any Notes or any other Guarantor’s obligations with respect to the Guarantee of the Notes. “Adjusted Net Assets” of such Guarantor at any date shall mean the lesser of the amount by which (x) the fair value of the property of such Guarantor exceeds the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent liabilities incurred or assumed on such date and after giving effect to any collection from any other Subsidiary of the Guarantor in respect of the obligations of its Guarantee of the Notes), but excluding liabilities under the Guarantee of the Notes, of such Guarantor at such date and (y) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Guarantor at such date exceeds the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Guarantor on its debts (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent liabilities incurred or assumed on such date and after giving effect to any collection from any other Subsidiary of the Company in respect of the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee of the Notes), excluding debt in respect of the Guarantee of the Notes of such Guarantor, as they become absolute and matured.

SECTION 10.07. Waiver of Subrogation. Until all guaranteed obligations under this Indenture and with respect to all Notes are paid in full, each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any claim or other rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s obligations under the Guarantee of the Notes and this Indenture, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, indemnification, and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Holder of Notes against the Company, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or Note on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and the Notes shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall have been deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Holders of the Notes, and shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of such Holders to be credited and applied upon the Notes, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that the waiver set forth in this Section 10.07 is knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

SECTION 10.08. Compensation and Indemnity. Each of the Guarantors agrees to jointly and severally, with the Company, indemnify the Trustee as set forth in Section 7.07 of the Original Indenture.

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therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice to or demand on any Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.

SECTION 10.10. Successors and Assigns. This Article X shall be binding upon each Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders of Notes and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Notes shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.

SECTION 10.11. No Waiver. Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of either the Trustee or the Holders of Notes in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article X shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege. The rights, remedies and benefits of the Trustee and the Holders of Notes herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article X at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

ARTICLE XI

Miscellaneous

SECTION 11.01. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes.

SECTION 11.02. The Trustee. The Trustee is The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. The Trustee will be permitted to engage in certain transactions with the Company and its subsidiaries; provided, however, if the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest, it must eliminate such conflict or resign upon the occurrence of an Event of Default.

In case an Event of Default occurs and is not cured, the Trustee will be required, in the exercise of its power, to use the degree of care of a prudent person in similar circumstances in the conduct of its own affairs. The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power under the Indenture, unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.

SECTION 11.03. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Twentieth Supplemental Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture.

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obligations of the Company under the Notes or this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting the Notes waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes.

SECTION 11.05. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements of the Company in this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall bind its successors and assigns. All agreements of the Trustee in this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns.

SECTION 11.06. Duplicate Originals. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.

SECTION 11.07. Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture or the Notes.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Twentieth Supplemental Indenture by their officers thereunto as of the date first set forth above.

 

Standard Pacific Corp.,
  By:  

/s/ Scott Dawson Stowell

  Name:   Scott Dawson Stowell
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer
Lagoon Valley Residential, LLC
By: Standard Pacific Corp., its Sole Member
Standard Pacific of Tonner Hills, LLC
By: Standard Pacific Corp., its Sole Member
By:  

/s/ Scott Dawson Stowell

Name:  
Title:  

 

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HSP Arizona, Inc.
HWB Investments, Inc.
Standard Pacific 1, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Arizona, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Colorado, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Florida GP, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Las Vegas, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Orange County, Inc.
Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc.
Standard Pacific of South Florida
By:   Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc.,
  its Managing Partner
Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc.
Standard Pacific of Tampa
By:   Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc.,
  its Managing Partner
Standard Pacific of Texas, Inc.
Standard Pacific of the Carolinas, LLC
Standard Pacific of Walnut Hills, Inc.
Westfield Homes USA, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Scott Dawson Stowell

Name:   Scott Dawson Stowell
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

 

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

as trustee,

  By:  

/s/ Melonee Young

  Name:   Melonee Young
  Title:   Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT A

FORM OF NOTE

THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE 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) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR THE REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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No.   CUSIP No.: 85375CBD2

6  1/4% Senior Notes due 2021

STANDARD PACIFIC CORP., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to [Holder], or registered assigns, [the principal sum of          Dollars ($        )] [Insert if Global Note: the amount set forth in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases annexed hereto] on December 15, 2021.

Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15, commencing December 15, 2013

 

Regular Record Dates:    June 1 and December 1
Authenticated:   
Dated:   

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

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STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.,

  by  

 

  Name:  
  Title:  
  by  

 

  Name:  
  Title:  

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the Notes referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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STANDARD PACIFIC CORP.

6  1/4% Senior Notes due 2021

1. Interest. STANDARD PACIFIC CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above. The Company will pay interest semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing December 15, 2013 (each an “Interest Payment Date”) until the principal is paid or made available for payment. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from August 6, 2013. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

2. Method of Payment. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest, if any, which will be paid on such special payment date to Holders of record on such special record date as may be fixed by the Company) to the persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the June 1 or December 1 immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company will pay principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by DTC or any successor. The Company will make all payments in respect of a certificated Note (including principal, premium and interest), by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof except as provided in Section 3.02(g)(i) of the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (as defined below).

3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “Trustee”) will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change or appoint any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice. The Company or any of its domestically incorporated Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar.

4. Indenture. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of April 1, 1999, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Original Indenture,” as supplemented by that certain First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 13, 1999, Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 5, 2000, Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 28, 2001, Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 4, 2003, Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 12, 2003, Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 23, 2003, Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 11, 2004, Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 11, 2004, Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, Tenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, Eleventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 22, 2006, Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 5, 2006, Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 8, 2009, Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 3, 2010, Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010,

 

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Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012, Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012, and Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 6, 2013 (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture”), as so supplemented, the “Indenture”). The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the sections of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (“TIA”) as in effect on the date of the Indenture. Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.

The Notes are unsecured senior obligations of the Company. The Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes pursuant to the Indenture. The Initial Notes issued on the Original Issue Date and any Additional Notes issued thereafter will be treated as a single class for all purposes under the Indenture.

This Note will be guaranteed by the Guarantors as set forth in the Indenture.

The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to: Standard Pacific Corp., 15360 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, California 92618, Attention: Secretary.

5. Optional Redemption. As set forth in Section 4.01 of the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, the Notes will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed by first class mail to each Holder’s registered address, on the terms set forth in the Indenture.

6. Mandatory Repurchase Obligation. If there is a Change of Control Triggering Event of the Company, any Holder of Notes will have the right to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of the Notes of such Holder at a repurchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the related Interest Payment Date) as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.

7. Denominations, Transfer, Exchange. If this Note is issued in global form and contains a legend on the face hereof to such effect, the provisions of this Section 7 shall be deemed superseded by such legend and Section 3.02(c) of the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, to the extent the provisions of this Section 7 are inconsistent with such legend or Section 3.02(c). The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder may transfer or exchange Notes by presentation of such Notes to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register the transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes of other denominations. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents

 

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and to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not transfer or exchange any Note selected for redemption, except the unredeemed part thereof if the Note is redeemed in part, or transfer or exchange any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed.

8. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of this Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

9. Unclaimed Money. If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee or Paying Agent will pay the money back to the Company at its request. After that, Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment unless an abandoned property law designates another person.

10. Amendment, Supplement, Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, and any past default or compliance with any provision relating to the Notes may be waived in a particular instance with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes. Without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or to make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder.

11. Defaults and Remedies. The following are Events of Default: (i) failure by the Company to pay the principal of any Note when due; (ii) failure by the Company to pay any interest on any Note when due, continuing for 30 days; (iii) failure by the Company to comply with its other agreements or covenants in the Notes or the Indenture for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes upon the receipt by the Company of notice of such Default by the Trustee, or upon the receipt by the Company and the Trustee of notice of such Default by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes, and (except in the case of a Default with respect to certain covenants described in the Indenture) the Company’s failure to cure such Default within 60 days after receipt of such notice; (iv) certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency; (v) default under any mortgage, indenture (including the Original Indenture and the supplemental indentures thereto in respect of the terms of the Other Public Notes) or instrument under which is issued or which secures or evidences Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Notes and Non-Recourse Indebtedness) which default constitutes a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness in an amount of $25,000,000 or more when due and payable (other than as a result of acceleration) or results in Indebtedness (other than the Notes and Non-Recourse Indebtedness) in the aggregate of $25,000,000 or more becoming or being declared due and payable before it would otherwise become due and payable; (vi) entry of a final judgment for the payment of money against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in an amount of $5,000,000 or more which remains undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days after the date on which the right to appeal such judgment has expired or becomes subject to an enforcement proceeding; and (vii) except as permitted by the Indenture, any

 

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Guarantee shall be held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of any Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under its Guarantee.

In case an Event of Default (other than arising out of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), may declare to be due and payable immediately that portion of the principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of acceleration and upon such declaration the same shall become and be immediately due and payable. In case an Event of Default arising out of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency occurs and is continuing, the outstanding principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes shall become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any of the Holders.

Such declaration or acceleration and its consequences may be rescinded by Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Notes at the time outstanding if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived (except non-payment of principal that has become due solely because of the acceleration) and if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree.

An existing Default (other than a Default in payment of principal of or interest on the Notes or Default with respect to a provision which cannot be modified under the terms of the Indenture without the consent of each Holder affected) may be waived by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Notes at the time outstanding upon the conditions provided in the Indenture.

12. Successor Corporation. When a successor corporation assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the Indenture, the predecessor corporation will be released from those obligations.

13. No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes.

14. Trustee Dealings With Company. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or its affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its affiliates, as if it were not Trustee.

 

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15. Discharge of Indenture. The Indenture contains certain provisions pertaining to defeasance and discharge, which provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth herein.

16. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.

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

18. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern the Indenture and the Notes.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you the Holder want to assign this Note, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Note to:

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

(Insert assignee’s social security or tax ID number)

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

Date:

Your signature:

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:                                                                             

 

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTES]

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE

The initial principal amount of this Global Note is $[        ]. The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:

 

Date of

Exchange

 

Amount of decrease

in Principal amount

of this Global Note

 

Amount of increase

in Principal amount

of this Global Note

 

Principal amount of

this Global Note

following such

decrease or increase

 

Signature of

authorized officer of

Trustee

       
       
       
       
       

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company check the Box:  ¨

If you want to elect to have only a part of this Note purchased by the Company state the amount: $        

Date:

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

Signature Guarantee:                                                                         

 

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EX-5.1 4 d580174dex51.htm EX-5.1 EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

[SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL, LLP LETTERHEAD]

August 6, 2013

Board of Directors

Standard Pacific Corp.

15360 Barranca Parkway

Irvine, California 92618

 

  Re: Registration Statement in Form S-3 – 6 1/4% Senior Note – Guarantees of Florida Affiliates

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as Florida counsel to Standard Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and its affiliated Florida partnerships, Standard Pacific of South Florida, a Florida general partnership (“SPSF”), and Standard Pacific of Tampa, a Florida general partnership (“SPT”) (SPSF and SPT collectively herein referred to as the “Guarantors” and each individually sometimes called a “Guarantor”), in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), on or about the date hereof, relating to the Company’s issuance and sale of $300,000,000 principal amount of its 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Securities”). The Securities are being issued under an indenture dated as of April 1, 1999 (the “Base Indenture”) between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. (as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company N.A. and The First National Bank of Chicago), as trustee, as amended and supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 13, 1999, a Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 5, 2000, a Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 28, 2001, a Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 4, 2003, a Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 12, 2003, a Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 23, 2003, a Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 11, 2004, an Eighth Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 11, 2004, a Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, a Tenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2005, an Eleventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 22, 2006, a Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 5, 2006, a Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 8, 2009, and a Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 3, 2010, a Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, a Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, a Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 22, 2010, an Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012, a Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 6, 2012 (the First through the Nineteenth Supplemental Indentures, collectively, the “Prior Supplements”), and a Twentieth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of August 6, 2013 (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture and the Prior


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Supplements, the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”).

In connection with rendering the opinions set forth herein, we have reviewed the following documents:

 

  A. the Indenture;

 

  B. the following documents relating to SPSF:

 

  (i) Partnership Registration of Standard Pacific of South Florida (formerly known as The Westbrooke Partnership), filed on January 20, 1998 with the Florida Department of State, as amended June 23, 1998, December 17, 2002, May 20, 2003, May 23, 2003, May 10, 2004, April 5, 2005 and February 28, 2006;

 

  (ii) Second Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement of Westbrooke Homes (now known as Standard Pacific of South Florida), dated as of December 31, 2002, by and between HWB Investments, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Westbrooke Companies, Inc. (now known as Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc.), a Delaware corporation;

 

  (iii) Certificate of Status with respect to Standard Pacific of South Florida, certifying as to the status and existence of Standard Pacific of South Florida issued by the Florida Department of State, dated July 31, 2013; and

 

  (iv) Good Standing Certificate of each of HWB Investments, Inc. and Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc. issued by the Delaware Secretary of State, dated August 2, 2013;

 

  C. the following documents relating to SPT:

 

  (i) Partnership Registration Statement of Standard Pacific of Tampa (formerly known as Westfield Homes of Florida) filed with the Florida Department of State on December 30, 2002, as amended May 21, 2003, March 27, 2006 and December 23, 2010;

 

  (ii) General Partnership Agreement of Westfield Homes of Florida (now known as Standard Pacific of Tampa), dated as of August 13, 2002, by and between Westfield Homes USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Westfield Homes of Florida, Inc. (now known as Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc.), a Delaware corporation;


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Standard Pacific Corp.

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  (iii) Certificate of Status with respect to Standard Pacific of Tampa, certifying as to the status and existence of Standard Pacific of Tampa issued by the Florida Department of State, dated July 31, 2013; and

 

  (iv) Good Standing Certificate of each of Westfield Homes USA, Inc. and Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc. issued by the Delaware Secretary of State, dated August 2, 2013; and

 

  D. Secretary Certificate of each of the Managing Partners of SPSF and SPT as to the organizational documents of each such entity, adoption of resolutions, and the incumbency of its officers (the “Officers’ Certificate”).

In giving the opinions hereinafter expressed, we have relied only upon our examination of the documents, instruments and certificates enumerated above, and in our examination of the foregoing, we have assumed, without inquiry, the following:

 

  (a) the genuineness of all signatures;

 

  (b) the completeness and authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals;

 

  (c) the conformity to originals of all documents submitted to us as copies, and the authenticity of all such originals; and

 

  (d) the legal capacity and competence of all natural persons;

As to questions of fact on which our opinions are based, we have relied, without independent verification of the accuracy or completeness thereof, solely upon (i) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in the Indenture, (ii) the information set forth in the governing documents of the Guarantors enumerated above, and (iii) the statements and representations set forth in the certificates referred to above and in certificates of public officials.

Our opinions set forth herein are limited to the laws of the State of Florida.

1. Each of the Guarantors is a validly existing and registered general partnership, and its status is Active under the laws of the State of Florida.

2. Each Guarantor has the partnership power to execute and deliver the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (and its guarantee included therein) and to perform its respective obligations thereunder.

3. The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Guarantors of the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture (and its guarantee included therein) have been duly authorized by all necessary partnership action on the part of each of the Guarantors.


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4. The Twentieth Supplemental Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by each of the Guarantors.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the heading “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement, including the prospectus constituting a part thereof. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to the Act.

 

Very truly yours,
SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL, LLP
By:  

/s/ Adam J. Buss

  Adam J. Buss, Partner
EX-5.2 5 d580174dex52.htm EX-5.2 EX-5.2

Exhibit 5.2

[GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP LETTERHEAD]

Client: 87007- 01468

August 6, 2013

Standard Pacific Corp.

15360 Barranca Parkway

Irvine, California 92618

 

Re: Standard Pacific Corp.

Registration Statement on Form S-3(File No. 333-182942)

6 1/4% Senior Notes Offering

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Standard Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates listed on Annex A hereto (the “Guarantors”) in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) of a Registration Statement on Form S-3, file no. 333-182942 (the “Registration Statement”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the prospectus included therein, and the prospectus supplement, dated August 1, 2013, filed with the Commission on August 1, 2013 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (the “Prospectus Supplement”), and the offering by the Company pursuant thereto of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6 1/4% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”) and the guarantees of the Company’s payment obligations under the Notes (the “Guarantees”) by the Guarantors.

The Notes have been issued pursuant to the Indenture dated as of April 1, 1999 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, Bank One Trust Company, N.A. and The First National Bank of Chicago), as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated August 6, 2013, relating to the Notes and the Guarantees, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and are guaranteed pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.

In arriving at the opinions expressed below, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction as being true and complete copies of the originals, of the Indenture, the Notes and such other documents, corporate records, certificates of officers of the Company and the Guarantors and of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable to enable us to render these opinions. In our examination, we have assumed, without independent investigation, the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies. To the extent that our opinions may be dependent upon such matters, we have assumed, without independent investigation, that each of the Guarantors identified on Annex A as “Florida Guarantors” is validly existing under the laws


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August 6, 2013

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of its jurisdiction of incorporation, has all requisite partnership power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture and the Notes to which it is a party; that the execution and delivery of such documents by each such Guarantor and the performance of its obligations thereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary partnership action and do not violate any law, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to each such Guarantor; and that such documents have been duly executed and delivered by each such party. As to any facts material to these opinions, we have relied to the extent we deemed appropriate and without independent investigation upon statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company and the Guarantors and others.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:

1. The Notes are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

2. The Guarantees are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Guarantors, enforceable against such Guarantors in accordance with their respective terms.

The opinions expressed above are subject to the following additional exceptions, qualifications, limitations and assumptions:

A. We render no opinion herein as to matters involving the laws of any jurisdiction other than the States of New York and California, and, to the extent relevant for our opinions herein, the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act. We are not admitted to practice in the State of Delaware; however, we are generally familiar with the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act as currently in effect and have made such inquiries as we consider necessary. We have further assumed without independent investigation that the operating agreement of each of the Guarantors that is a Delaware limited liability company constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of each party thereto, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms; to the extent our opinions in paragraph 2 above are dependent on the interpretation of such agreement, it is based on the plain meaning of the provisions thereof in light of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act. Without limitation, we do not express any opinion regarding any Delaware contract law. This opinion is limited to the effect of the current state of the laws of the States of New York and California, and, to the limited extent set forth above, the Delaware General Corporation Law and Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, and the facts as they currently exist. We assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion in the event of future changes in such laws or the interpretations thereof or such facts.


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B. The opinions above are each subject to (i) the effect of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, arrangement or similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors’ generally, including without limitation the effect of statutory or other laws regarding fraudulent transfers or preferential transfers, and (ii) general principles of equity, including without limitation concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

C. We express no opinion regarding the effectiveness of (i) any waiver of stay, extension or usury laws or of unknown future rights, (ii) provisions relating to indemnification, exculpation or contribution, to the extent such provisions may be held unenforceable as contrary to public policy or federal or state securities laws, or (iii) any purported fraudulent transfer “savings” clause.

We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and we further consent to the use of our name under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement. In giving these consents, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

Very truly yours,

/S/ GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP


ANNEX A

Guarantors

California Guarantors

Lagoon Valley Residential, LLC, a California limited liability company

Delaware Guarantors

HSP Arizona, Inc., a Delaware corporation

HWB Investments, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific 1, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Arizona, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Colorado, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Florida GP, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Las Vegas, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Orange County, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of South Florida GP, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Tampa GP, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of Texas, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Standard Pacific of the Carolinas, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

Standard Pacific of Tonner Hills, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

Standard Pacific of Walnut Hills, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Westfield Homes USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation

Florida Guarantors

Standard Pacific of South Florida, general partnership, a Florida general partnership

Standard Pacific of Tampa, general partnership, a Florida general partnership

EX-12.1 6 d580174dex121.htm EX-12.1 EX-12.1

Exhibit 12.1

Standard Pacific Corp.

Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges - Continuing Operations

(Dollars in thousands)

 

     Six Months Ended June 30,     Year Ended December 31,  
     2013      2012     2012     2011     2010     2009     2008  

Earnings:

               

Net income (loss) from continuing operations

   $ 64,960       $ 22,786      $ 531,421      $ (16,417   $ (11,724   $ (13,217   $ (1,231,329

Add:

               

Cash distributions of income from unconsolidated joint ventures

     3,375         160        3,910        20        —          3,465        1,975   

Provision (benefit) for income taxes

     21,577         376        (453,234     (56     (557     (96,265     (5,495

Homebuilding interest amortized to cost of sales and interest expense

     58,547         47,187        110,298        94,804        100,739        134,188        93,551   

Interest portion of rent expense

     250         250        500        500        500        500        500   

Less:

               

Income (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures

     1,281         (2,668     (2,090     207        1,166        (4,598     (150,875
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Earnings:

   $ 147,428       $ 73,427      $ 194,985      $ 78,644      $ 87,792      $ 33,269      $ (989,923
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Fixed charges:

               

Homebuilding interest incurred

   $ 68,553       $ 70,620      $ 141,827      $ 140,905      $ 110,358      $ 107,976      $ 137,398   

Interest portion of rent expense

     250         250        500        500        500        500        500   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Fixed Charges

   $ 68,803       $ 70,870      $ 142,327      $ 141,405      $ 110,858      $ 108,476      $ 137,898   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

     2.1         1.0        1.4        0.6        0.8        0.3        (7.2
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Amount of additional earnings needed to cover fixed charges:

   $ —         $ —        $ —        $ 62,761      $ 23,066      $ 75,207      $ 1,127,821