EX-99.1 2 exh_991.htm EXHIBIT 99.1

Exhibit 99.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC.


and


Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

as Trustee


INDENTURE


Dated as of May 19, 2020




4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

Article 1

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01.   Definitions 1
Section 1.02.   Other Definitions 16
Section 1.03.   References to Interest 16

Article 2

ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES

Section 2.01.   Designation and Amount 16
Section 2.02.   Form of Notes 16
Section 2.03.   Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts 17
Section 2.04.   Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes 19
Section 2.05.   Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary 19
Section 2.06.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes 22
Section 2.07.   Temporary Notes 23
Section 2.08.   Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc 24
Section 2.09.   CUSIP Numbers 24
Section 2.10.   Additional Notes; Repurchases 24
Section 2.11.   Additional Amounts 25

Article 3

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 3.01.   Satisfaction and Discharge 28

Article 4

PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

Section 4.01.   Payment of Principal and Interest 28
Section 4.02.   Maintenance of Office or Agency 29
Section 4.03.   Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office 29
Section 4.04.   Provisions as to Paying Agent 29
Section 4.05.   Existence 31
Section 4.06.   Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports 31
Section 4.07.   Stay, Extension and Usury Laws 32
Section 4.08.   Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults 32
Section 4.09.   Restriction on Certain Actions 33
Section 4.10.   Further Instruments and Acts 33
Section 4.11.   Anti-Layering 33
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Article 5

LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE

Section 5.01.   Lists of Holders 33
Section 5.02.   Preservation and Disclosure of Lists 34

Article 6

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 6.01.   Events of Default 34
Section 6.02.   Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment 35
Section 6.03.   Additional Interest 36
Section 6.04.   Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor 38
Section 6.05.   Application of Monies Collected by Trustee 39
Section 6.06.   Proceedings by Holders 40
Section 6.07.   Proceedings by Trustee 41
Section 6.08.   Remedies Cumulative and Continuing 41
Section 6.09.   Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders 42
Section 6.10.   Notice of Defaults 42
Section 6.11.   Undertaking to Pay Costs 42

Article 7

CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

Section 7.01.   Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee 43
Section 7.02.   Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc 45
Section 7.03.   No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc 46
Section 7.04.   Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar May Own Notes 46
Section 7.05.   Monies and Subordinate Voting Shares to Be Held in Trust 46
Section 7.06.   Compensation and Expenses of Trustee 47
Section 7.07.   Officer’s Certificate as Evidence 48
Section 7.08.   Eligibility of Trustee 48
Section 7.09.   Resignation or Removal of Trustee 48
Section 7.10.   Acceptance by Successor Trustee 49
Section 7.11.   Succession by Merger, Etc 50
Section 7.12.   Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company 50

Article 8

CONCERNING THE HOLDERS

Section 8.01.   Action by Holders 51
Section 8.02.   Proof of Execution by Holders 51
Section 8.03.   Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners 51
Section 8.04.   Company-Owned Notes Disregarded 52
Section 8.05.   Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound 52
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Article 9

HOLDERS’ MEETINGS

Section 9.01.   Purpose of Meetings 52
Section 9.02.   Call of Meetings by Trustee 53
Section 9.03.   Call of Meetings by Company or Holders 53
Section 9.04.   Qualifications for Voting 53
Section 9.05.   Regulations 53
Section 9.06.   Voting 54
Section 9.07.   No Delay of Rights by Meeting 54

Article 10

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 10.01.   Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders 55
Section 10.02.   Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders 56
Section 10.03.   Effect of Supplemental Indentures 57
Section 10.04.   Notation on Notes 57
Section 10.05.   Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished to Trustee 57
Section 10.06.   Amendment of Article 13 57

Article 11

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE

Section 11.01.   Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms 58
Section 11.02.   Successor Corporation to Be Substituted 58

Article 12

IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, SHAREHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

Section 12.01.   Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations 59

Article 13

Subordination

Section 13.01.   Agreement to Subordinate 59
Section 13.02.   Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy 60
Section 13.03.   Default on Senior Indebtedness 60
Section 13.04.   Acceleration of Notes 61
Section 13.05.   When Distribution Must Be Paid Over 61
Section 13.06.   Notice by Company 62
Section 13.07.   Subrogation 62
Section 13.08.   Relative Rights 62
Section 13.09.   Subordination May Not Be Impaired by the Company 63
Section 13.10.   Distribution or Notice to Representative or Holders of Senior Indebtedness 63
Section 13.11.   Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent 63
Section 13.12.   Authorization to Effect Subordination; Filing Proof of Claim 63
Section 13.13.   Reliance and Amendments 64
Section 13.14.   No Waiver of Subordination Provisions 64
Section 13.15.   Consenting Security 64
Section 13.16.   Issuance of Subordinate Voting Shares in accordance with this Indenture 65
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Article 14

CONVERSION OF NOTES

Section 14.01.   Conversion Privilege 65
Section 14.02.   Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion 66
Section 14.03.   Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or a Notice of Redemption 68
Section 14.04.   Adjustment of Conversion Rate 70
Section 14.05.   Adjustments of Prices 80
Section 14.06.   Shares to Be Fully Paid 80
Section 14.07.   Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Subordinate Voting Shares 80
Section 14.08.   Certain Covenants 83
Section 14.09.   Responsibility of Trustee and Conversion Agent 83
Section 14.10.   Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions. 84
Section 14.11.   Stockholder Rights Plans 84

Article 15

REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS

Section 15.01.   Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change 84
Section 15.02.   Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice 87
Section 15.03.   Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price 87
Section 15.04.   Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes 88

Article 16

OPTIONAL REDEMPTION

Section 16.01.   Optional Redemption 88
Section 16.02.   Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes 89
Section 16.03.   Redemption of Notes for Changes in Canadian Tax Law 90
Section 16.04.   Notice of Tax Redemption 90
Section 16.05.   Payment of Notes Called for Redemption 92
Section 16.06.   Restrictions on Redemption 93
Section 16.07.   Payment Upon Redemption or Maturity 93
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Article 17

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 17.01.   Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors 96
Section 17.02.   Official Acts by Successor Corporation 96
Section 17.03.   Addresses for Notices, Etc. 96
Section 17.04.   Governing Law; Jurisdiction 97
Section 17.05.   Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee 98
Section 17.06.   Legal Holidays 98
Section 17.07.   No Security Interest Created 99
Section 17.08.   Benefits of Indenture 99
Section 17.09.   Table of Contents, Headings, Etc 99
Section 17.10.   Authenticating Agent 99
Section 17.11.   Execution in Counterparts 100
Section 17.12.   Severability 100
Section 17.13.   Waiver of Jury Trial 100
Section 17.14.   Force Majeure 101
Section 17.15.   Calculations 101
Section 17.16.   USA PATRIOT Act 101
Section 17.17.   Currency Conversion 101
Section 17.18.   Anti-Money Laundering 102
Section 17.19.   No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements 102
Section 17.20.   Third Party 102
Section 17.21.   Waiver of Immunity 102

 

APPENDIX

 

Appendix A    Provisions Relating to Initial Notes and Additional Notes

 

EXHIBIT

 

Exhibit A    Form of Note
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INDENTURE dated as of May 19, 2020 between Colliers International Group INC., a corporation organized and existing under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), as issuer (the “Company,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States, as trustee (the “Trustee”, as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its 4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025, initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $230,000,000 (the “Initial Notes”), and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and

 

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

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

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

 

Article 1
DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01.                  Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.

 

Additional Amounts” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.11(b).

 

Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03, as applicable.

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Additional Notes” means additional Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.10.

 

Additional Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(a).

 

Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the determination of whether one Person is an “Affiliate” of another Person for purposes of this Indenture shall be made based on the facts at the time such determination is made or required to be made, as the case may be, hereunder.

 

Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada)” means Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.

 

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

 

Business Day” means, with respect to any Note, any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed or the banking institutions in New York, New York or Toronto, Ontario are authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed.

 

Canadian Dollars” and “C$” mean Canadian dollars or other equivalent units in such coin or currency of Canada that is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts at the time of payment.

 

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

 

“CDS” means CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc., or any successor securities clearing agency.

 

Clause A Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

 

Clause B Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

 

Clause C Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

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close of business” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).

 

Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Common Equity” of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control the management or policies of such Person.

 

Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada)” means the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Company” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 11, shall include its successors and assigns.

 

Company Order” means a written order of the Company signed by any of its Officers and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Conversion Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.

 

Conversion Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(c).

 

Conversion Obligation” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).

 

Conversion Price” means as of any time, $1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such time.

 

Conversion Rate” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).

 

Corporate Trust Office” means the designated office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at MAC N9303-060, 600 South 4th Street, 6th Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55415, Attention: Administrator – Colliers International Group Inc., or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the designated corporate trust office of any successor trustee (or such other address as such successor trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

Current Market Price” for any date means the average of the Daily VWAPs for the 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the fifth Trading Day preceding the date of the applicable event for determination.

 

Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.

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Daily VWAP” means, for each of the 30 consecutive Trading Days during the relevant period, the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “CIGI<equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one Subordinate Voting Share on such Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company); provided that, the “Daily VWAP” will be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.

 

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

 

Defaulted Amounts” means any amounts on any Note (including, without limitation, the Redemption Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, principal and interest) that are payable but are not punctually paid or duly provided for.

 

Definitive Notes” means permanent certificated Notes in registered form issued in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof.

 

Depositary” means, with respect to each Global Note, the Person specified in Section 2.05(c) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “Depositary” shall mean or include such successor.

 

Designated Senior Indebtedness” means (i) all of the Company’s indebtedness outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility, including all hedging obligations, all treasury management arrangements and all Obligations with respect to any of the foregoing (ii) the Senior Notes and (iii) the Company’s Obligations under any other Senior Indebtedness, the principal amount of which is in excess of $50,000,000.

 

Distributed Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

 

Dividend Threshold Amount” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(d).

 

DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, or any successor securities clearing agency.

 

Effective Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c), except that, as used in Section 14.04 and Section 14.05, “Effective Date” means the first date on which Subordinate Voting Shares trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable.

 

Event of Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.

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Ex-Dividend Date” means the first date on which the Subordinate Voting Shares trade on Nasdaq (or if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not then listed on Nasdaq, the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the TSX or the principal Canadian securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional or Canadian securities exchange, the other principal market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are listed or admitted for trading), regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Subordinate Voting Shares on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Form of Certificate to be Delivered in Connection with Certain Transfers Pursuant to Regulation S” means the “Form of Certificate to be Delivered in Connection with Certain Transfers Pursuant to Regulation S” attached as Attachment 4 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Form of Note” means the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Form of Notice of Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued if any of the following occurs:

 

(a)a “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and the employee benefit plans of the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, and other than a Permitted Person, has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of Common Equity of the Company representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Common Equity of the Company;

 

(b)the consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Subordinate Voting Shares (other than changes resulting from a share split or consolidation) as a result of which the Subordinate Voting Shares would be converted into, or exchanged for, shares, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (B) any share exchange, consolidation, amalgamation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Subordinate Voting Shares will be converted into cash, securities or other property or assets; or (C) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one or more of the Company’s Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; providedhowever, that a transaction described in clause (A) or (B) in which the holders of all classes of the Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of Common Equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such transaction in substantially the same proportions as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction shall not be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (b); or
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(c)the shareholders of the Company approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company;

 

providedhowever, that a transaction or transactions described in clause (a) or clause (b) above shall not constitute a Fundamental Change, if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares, excluding cash payments for fractional shares, in connection with such transaction or transactions consists of Common Equity that is listed or quoted on any of Nasdaq, the NYSE, the NYSE American or the TSX (or any of their respective successors) or will be so listed or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions and as a result of such transaction or transactions the Notes become convertible into such consideration, excluding cash payments for fractional shares. If any transaction in which the Subordinate Voting Shares are replaced by the securities of another entity occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period (or, in the case of a transaction that would have been a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change but for the proviso immediately following clause (c) of this definition, following the effective date of such transaction) references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity.

 

Fundamental Change Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(c).

 

Fundamental Change Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a).

 

Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(b)(i).

 

Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.01(a).

 

The terms “given”, “mailed”, “notify” or “sent” with respect to any notice to be given to a Holder pursuant to this Indenture, shall mean notice (x) given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary (in the case of a Global Note) or (y) mailed to such Holder by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register (in the case of a Definitive Note), in each case, in accordance with Section 17.03. Notice so “given” shall be deemed to include any notice to be “mailed” or “delivered,” as applicable, under this Indenture.

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Global Note” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).

 

Hennick Family” means the spouse, children or estate of Jay S. Hennick.

 

Holder,” as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder” or “beneficial owner”), means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.

 

Indemnified Taxes” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.11(b).

 

Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.

 

Ineligible Consideration” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b).

 

Initial Notes” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals of this Indenture.

 

Initial Purchasers” means BMO Capital Markets Corp., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., TD Securities (USA) LLC, CIBC World Markets Corp., BofA Securities, Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC, National Bank of Canada Financial Inc., Raymond James (USA) Ltd., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. and William Blair & Company, L.L.C.

 

Interest Act (Canada)” means the Interest Act (Canada), as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Interest Payment Date” means each June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2020.

 

Judgment Currency” shall have the meaning specified in Section 17.17.

 

Last Reported Sale Price” of the Subordinate Voting Shares (or other security for which a Last Reported Sale Price must be determined) on any date means the closing sale price (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) per Subordinate Voting Share (or such other security) on that date as reported in composite transactions for Nasdaq or the other principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are traded. If the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not listed for trading on Nasdaq or another U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” of the Subordinate Voting Shares (or other security for which a Last Reported Sale Price must be determined) on any date means the closing sale price (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) per Subordinate Voting Share (or such other security) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the TSX or the other principal Canadian securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are traded. If the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange or a Canadian securities exchange on the relevant date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the last quoted bid price for the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose. The “Last Reported Sales Price” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of regular trading session hours. Any price of the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) in Canadian Dollars shall be converted into U.S. Dollars based on then current exchange rate between the Canadian Dollar and the U.S. Dollar as determined by the Company.

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Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change (as defined above and determined after giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).

 

Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(a).

 

Market Disruption Event” means, for the purposes of determining the Current Market Price only, (a) a failure by Nasdaq or the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded, or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not traded on any U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the TSX or the other principal Canadian securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional or Canadian securities exchange, the other principal market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Subordinate Voting Shares for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in the Subordinate Voting Shares or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Subordinate Voting Shares.

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Maturity Date” means June 1, 2025.

 

Merger Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).

 

Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.

 

New Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(c).

 

Nonpayment Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a)(ii).

 

Notes” means the Initial Notes and more particularly means any Note authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. For all purposes of this Indenture, the term “Notes” shall also include any Additional Notes that may be issued under a supplemental indenture and Notes to be issued or authenticated upon transfer, replacement or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture.

 

Note Register” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).

 

Note Registrar” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).

 

Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(b).

 

Notice of Optional Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02(a).

 

Notice of Redemption” means a Notice of Optional Redemption or Notice of Tax Redemption, as applicable.

 

Notice of Tax Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.04(a).

 

NYSE” means the New York Stock Exchange.

 

NYSE American” means the NYSE American Exchange.

 

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

 

Offering Memorandum” means the preliminary offering memorandum dated May 14, 2020, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet dated May 15, 2020, relating to the offering and sale of the Notes.

 

Officer” means, with respect to the Company, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Legal Officer, the Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary, any Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”).

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Officer’s Certificate,” when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee and that is signed by any Officer of the Company. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. The Officer giving an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to Section 4.08 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

 

open of business” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).

 

Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing addressed to the Trustee, among others, signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, or other counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, which opinion may contain customary exceptions and qualifications as to the matters set forth therein, that is delivered to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section 17.05.

 

Optional Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.

 

outstanding,” when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:

 

(a)Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;

 

(b)Notes, or portions thereof, that have become due and payable and in respect of which monies (or, in the event of the exercise of the Share Repayment Right in accordance with Section 16.07, Subordinate Voting Shares) in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent);

 

(c)Notes that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in due course;

 

(d)Notes converted pursuant to Article 14 and required to be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.08;

 

(e)Notes repurchased by the Company pursuant to Section 2.10; and

 

(f)Notes redeemed pursuant to Article 16.

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Participant” means, with respect to the Depositary, CDS, a Person who has an account with the Depositary or with CDS, respectively (and, with respect to DTC, shall include CDS).

 

Paying Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.

 

Payment Blockage Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a)(ii).

 

Payment Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.03(a)(i).

 

Permitted Person” means any of (i) Jay S. Hennick, directly or indirectly, (ii)  the Hennick Family, (iii) a trust, the sole beneficiaries of which are any of the Hennick Family and (iv) any and all corporations or entities which are directly or indirectly controlled by any of the Hennick Family.

 

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

 

Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.

 

Purchase Agreement” means that certain Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 15, 2020, among the Company and BMO Capital Markets Corp. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several Initial Purchasers.

 

Record Date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares (or other applicable security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, statute, contract or otherwise).

 

Redemption Date” means the date on which Notes are redeemed pursuant to an Optional Redemption or a Tax Redemption, as applicable.

 

Redemption Notice Date” means the date on which a Notice of Optional Redemption is delivered pursuant to Section 16.02 or the date on which a Notice of Tax Redemption is delivered pursuant to Section 16.04.

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Redemption Period” means the period from, and including, the relevant Redemption Notice Date until the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the related Redemption Date.

 

Redemption Price” means, for any Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 16.01 or Section 16.03, 100% of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, payable in cash, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (unless the Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date, in which case interest accrued to the Redemption Date will be paid by the Company to Holders of record of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date, and the Redemption Price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Notes).

 

Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).

 

Regular Record Date,” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the May 15 or November 15 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable June 1 or December 1 Interest Payment Date, respectively.

 

Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a).

 

Representative” means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent or representative for any Senior Indebtedness; provided that, if no Representative has been appointed under the instrument governing any series of Senior Indebtedness, any holder or group of holders of such series of Senior Indebtedness certifying that it holds a percentage of such series of Senior Indebtedness sufficient to cause the acceleration thereof will be deemed a Representative.

 

Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the applicable Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, any trust officer or assistant trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

 

Restricted Securities” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on Nasdaq or the other principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded, or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not traded on any U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the TSX or the other principal Canadian securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional or Canadian securities exchange, the principal other market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are listed or admitted for trading. If the Subordinate Voting Shares are not so listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.

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Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

SEDAR” means the Canadian System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval.

 

Senior Credit Facility” means the second amended and restated credit agreement dated April 19, 2018, as amended through the date of the Offering Memorandum, among the Company and the lenders thereunder, as the same may be further amended, restated, amended and restated or otherwise modified.

 

Senior Indebtedness” means any of the Company’s indebtedness outstanding as of the date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed by the Company, including all deferrals, renewals, extensions or refundings of, or amendments modifications or supplements to, the foregoing, unless the instrument under which such indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that it is on a parity with or subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, in each case including, without limitation, expenses, fees, principal, interest, reimbursement obligations under letters of credit and indemnities payable in connection therewith. For the avoidance of doubt, “Senior Indebtedness” includes (x) all of the Company’s indebtedness outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility, including all hedging obligations, all treasury management arrangements and all Obligations with respect to any of the foregoing; and (y) the Senior Notes.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding paragraph, “Senior Indebtedness” shall not include:

 

(a)the Notes;

 

(b)any of the Company’s indebtedness that, when incurred, was without recourse to the Company;

 

(c)any liability for federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by the Company;

 

(d)any intercompany indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiaries of the Company to the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates;

 

(e)any repurchase, redemption or other obligation with respect to the Company’s Capital Stock;

 

(f)any indebtedness to any of the Company’s employees or the employees of the Company’s Subsidiaries; or
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(g)any trade payables, accrued expenses or indebtedness incurred for the purchase of goods or materials or for services obtained in the ordinary course of business.

 

Senior Notes” means the Company’s 2.23% guaranteed senior notes due May 30, 2028, issued pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 17, 2018, as amended through the date of the Offering Memorandum, among International EMEA Finco Plc, as issuer, the Company, as parent guarantor, and the purchasers party thereto, as the same may be further amended, restated, amended and restated or otherwise modified.

 

Share Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c).

 

Share Repayment Right” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.07(a).

 

Significant Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X.

 

Spin-Off” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

 

Spin-off Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(c).

 

Subordinate Voting Shares” means the subordinate voting shares of the Company, at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 14.07.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.

 

Successor Company” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).

 

Tax Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.03.

 

Taxes” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a).

 

Termination of Trading” shall have occurred if the Subordinate Voting Shares (or other Common Equity underlying the Notes) are not listed or quoted on at least one of the following: Nasdaq, the NYSE, the NYSE American or the TSX (or any of their respective successors).

 

Trading Day” means, except for determining amounts due upon conversion as set forth below, a day on which (i) trading in the Subordinate Voting Shares (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on Nasdaq or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not then listed on Nasdaq, on the other principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are then listed or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the TSX or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not then listed on the TSX, on the other principal Canadian regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are then listed or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange or a Canadian securities exchange, the principal other market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are then traded or quoted, and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market; provided that if the Subordinate Voting Shares (or such other security) are not so listed or traded, “Trading Day” means a Business Day; and provided, further, that for the purposes of determining the Current Market Price only, “Trading Day” means a day on which (x) there is no Market Disruption Event and (y) trading in the Subordinate Voting Shares generally occurs on Nasdaq or the other principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded, or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not traded on any U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the TSX or the other principal Canadian securities exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are traded or, if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not then listed on a U.S. national or regional or Canadian securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are then listed or admitted for trading, except that if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not so listed or admitted for trading, “Trading Day” means a Business Day.

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transfer” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).

 

Trigger Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

 

Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of this Indenture; providedhowever, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date hereof, the term “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.

 

Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean the Person who is then the Trustee hereunder.

 

TSX” means the Toronto Stock Exchange.

 

U.S. Dollars” and “$” mean United States dollars or other equivalent units in such coin or currency of the United States that is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts at the time of payment.

 

unit of Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).

 

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Valuation Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).

 

Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person, except that, solely for purposes of this definition, the reference to “more than 50%” in the definition of “Subsidiary” shall be deemed replaced by a reference to “100%.”

 

Section 1.02.                  Other Definitions.

 

Term

 

Defined in Section

“Applicable Procedures”   1.1(a) of Appendix A
“Canadian Restricted Securities Legend”   2.2(a) of Appendix A
“Definitive Notes Legend”   2.2(a) of Appendix A
“Distribution Compliance Period”   1.1(a) of Appendix A
“Global Notes Legend”   2.2(a) of Appendix A
“QIB”   1.1(a) of Appendix A
“Regulation S”   1.1(a) of Appendix A
“Regulation S Global Notes”   2.1 of Appendix A
“Regulation S Notes”   2.1 of Appendix A
“Restricted Securities Legends”   2.2(a) of Appendix A
“Rule 144A Global Notes”   2.1 of Appendix A
“Rule 144A Notes”   2.1 of Appendix A
“Rule 904”   1.1(a) of Appendix A
“U.S. Restricted Securities Legend”   2.2(a) of Appendix A

 

Section 1.03.                  References to Interest. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03. Unless the context otherwise requires, any express mention of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

 

Article 2
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES

 

Section 2.01.                  Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the “4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025.” The aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $230,000,000 subject to Section 2.10 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes to the extent expressly permitted hereunder. Other provisions relating to the Notes are set forth in Appendix A hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.

 

Section 2.02.                  Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, the terms and provisions of which shall constitute, and are hereby expressly incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture. To the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. In the case of any conflict between this Indenture and a Note, the provisions of this Indenture shall control and govern to the extent of such conflict.

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Any Global Note may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as may be required by the Custodian or the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded or designated for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

 

Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

 

Each Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect redemptions, repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers or exchanges permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon written instructions given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, a Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining Holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.

 

Section 2.03.                  Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts.

 

(a)               The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear cash interest from the date specified on the face of such Note. Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month. Solely for the purposes of disclosure under the Interest Act (Canada), the annual rate of interest to which the rate of interest provided in the Notes is equivalent in respect of any period is the rate so determined multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which such period ends and divided by 360.

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(b)               The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. The principal amount of any Note (x) in the case of any Definitive Note, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and (y) in the case of any Global Note, shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Company shall pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, interest (i) on any Definitive Notes (A) to Holders holding Definitive Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the Holders of these Notes at their address as it appears in the Note Register and (B) to Holders holding Definitive Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by check mailed to each such Holder or, upon written application by such a Holder to the Note Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Holder’s account within Canada or the United States if such Holder has provided the Company, the Trustee or the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) with the requisite information necessary to make such wire transfer, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.

 

(c)               Any Defaulted Amounts shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant payment date but shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, such relevant payment date, and such Defaulted Amounts together with such interest thereon shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:

 

(i)                 The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Amounts to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of the Defaulted Amounts proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Amounts or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Amounts as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment (unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date). The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of such special record date and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor to be delivered to each Holder not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor having been so delivered, such Defaulted Amounts shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii) of this Section 2.03(a)(c).

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(ii)              The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Amounts in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

 

Section 2.04.                  Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or electronic signature of its Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Corporate Secretary or any of its Executive or Senior Vice Presidents.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order (such Company Order to include the terms of the Notes) for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes, without any further action by the Company hereunder; provided that, subject to Section 17.05, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel of the Company with respect to the issuance, authentication and delivery of such Notes by the Trustee.

 

Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the Form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed by manual or electronic signature by authorized officers of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 17.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any Note executed by the Company as provided for in this Section 2.04 shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

 

In case any Officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the Officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

 

Section 2.05.                  Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary.

 

(a)               The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-Note Registrars in accordance with Section 4.02.

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Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(a), the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.

 

Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

All Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, repurchase or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.

 

No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent for any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for exchange or registration of transfer.

 

None of the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar shall be required to exchange for other Notes or register a transfer of (i) any Notes surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion, (ii) any Notes, or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article 15 or (iii) any Notes selected for redemption in accordance with Article 16, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

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

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(b)               So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, subject to the fourth paragraph from the end of Section 2.05(c) all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “Global Note”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. Each Global Note shall bear the Global Notes Legend as specified in Appendix A. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve the issuance of a Definitive Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests among Global Notes shall be effected in accordance with Appendix A.

 

(c)               Every Note that bears or is required under Appendix A to bear a Restricted Securities Legend (together with any Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon conversion of the Notes that are required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the “Restricted Securities”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (including the applicable Restricted Securities Legend), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company, and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and Section 2.05(d), the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.

 

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(c) and Appendix A), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole or in part except (i) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary and (ii) for exchange of a Global Note or a portion thereof for one or more Definitive Notes in accordance with the second immediately succeeding paragraph.

 

The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints DTC to act as Depositary with respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.

 

If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing and, subject to the applicable procedures of the Depositary, a beneficial owner of any Note requests that its beneficial interest therein be issued as a Definitive Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver (x) in the case of clause (iii), a Definitive Note to such beneficial owner in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Note corresponding to such beneficial owner’s beneficial interest and (y) in the case of clause (i) or (ii), Definitive Notes to each beneficial owner of the related Global Notes (or a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes, and upon delivery of the Global Notes to the Trustee such Global Notes shall be canceled.

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Definitive Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect Participants or otherwise, or, in the case of clause (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph, the relevant beneficial owner, shall instruct (either directly, if it is a Participant, or indirectly through its Participant, if it is not a Participant) the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such Definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such Definitive Notes are so registered.

 

At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, repurchased upon a Fundamental Change, redeemed or transferred, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, converted, canceled, repurchased upon a Fundamental Change, redeemed or transferred to a transferee who receives Definitive Notes therefor or any Definitive Note is exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately increased or decreased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such increase or decrease.

 

None of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any act or omission of the Depositary or for the payment of amounts to owners of beneficial interests in a Global Note, for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of those interests by the Depositary, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records of the Depositary relating to such beneficial ownership those interests.

 

(d)               Any Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon conversion of a Note shall bear a legend as specified in Appendix A.

 

(e)               Any Note or Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon the conversion or exchange of a Note that is repurchased or owned by any Affiliate of the Company (or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months immediately preceding) may not be resold by such Affiliate (or such Person, as the case may be) unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Note or Subordinate Voting Shares, as the case may be, no longer being a “restricted security” (as defined under Rule 144). The Company shall cause any Note that is repurchased or owned by it to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08.

 

Section 2.06.                  Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. In case any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon its written request the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a registration number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.

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The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating agent may require. No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent upon the issuance of any substitute Note, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new substitute Note being different from the name of the Holder of the old Note that became mutilated or was destroyed, lost or stolen. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been surrendered for redemption, required repurchase or is about to be converted in accordance with Article 14 shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.

 

Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

 

Section 2.07.                  Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon written request of the Company, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Definitive Notes but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Definitive Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Definitive Notes (other than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Definitive Notes authenticated and delivered hereunder.

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Section 2.08.                  Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. The Company shall cause all Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment at maturity, repurchase upon a Fundamental Change, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion, if surrendered to the Company or any of its agents or Subsidiaries, to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled promptly by it in accordance with its customary procedures. Except for any Notes surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, or as otherwise expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture, no Notes shall be authenticated in exchange for any Notes surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures and, after such disposition, shall deliver a certificate of such disposition to the Company, at the Company’s written request in a Company Order.

 

Section 2.09.                  CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in all notices issued to Holders as a convenience to such Holders; provided that the Trustee shall have no liability for any defect in the “CUSIP” numbers as they appear on any Note, notice or elsewhere, and, provided, further, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.

 

Section 2.10.                  Additional Notes; Repurchases. The Company may, without the consent of, or notice to, the Holders and notwithstanding Section 2.01, reopen this Indenture and issue additional Notes hereunder with the same terms as the Notes initially issued hereunder (other than differences in the issue date, the issue price, interest accrued prior to the issue date of such additional Notes and, if applicable, restrictions on transfer in respect of such additional Notes) in an unlimited aggregate principal amount (such additional Notes, the “Additional Notes”); provided that if any such Additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. or Canadian federal income tax or securities law purposes, such Additional Notes shall have one or more separate CUSIP numbers. Prior to the issuance of any such Additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a Company Order, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, such Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to cover such matters, in addition to those required by Section 17.05, as the Trustee shall reasonably request. In addition, the Company may, to the extent permitted by law, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered to the Company), repurchase Notes in the open market or otherwise, whether by the Company or its Subsidiaries or through a privately negotiated transaction or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other derivatives, in each case, without prior notice to the Holders. The Company shall surrender to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes that it may repurchase for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08 and such Notes shall no longer be considered outstanding under this Indenture upon their repurchase.

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Section 2.11.                  Additional Amounts.

 

(a)               All payments or deliveries (whether upon conversion, repurchase, redemption, maturity or otherwise, and whether in cash, Subordinate Voting Shares, Reference Property or otherwise) made by or on behalf of the Company under or with respect to the Notes are required to be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of, any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto) (hereinafter referred to as “Taxes”) imposed or levied by or on behalf of the government of Canada, any province or territory of Canada or any political subdivision or any authority or agency therein or thereof having power to tax (each, a “Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction”), unless such Person is required to withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by the interpretation or administration thereof.

 

(b)               If the Company is so required to withhold or deduct any amount for or on account of Taxes imposed by a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction from any payment or delivery made under or with respect to the Notes, the Company shall be required to pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary so that the net amount received by a Holder or beneficial owner of Notes (including Additional Amounts) after such withholding or deduction will not be less than the amount such Holder or beneficial owner of Notes would have received if such Taxes (including Taxes on any Additional Amounts) had not been withheld or deducted; providedhowever, that the foregoing obligations to pay Additional Amounts do not apply to:

 

(i)                 any Canadian withholding Taxes imposed on a payment to a Holder or beneficial owner of Notes (or the right to receive interest payable on the Notes) by reason of the Company not dealing at arm’s length (within the meaning of the Canadian Tax Act) with such Holder or beneficial owner of Notes (or the right to receive interest payable on the Notes) at the time of the payment;

 

(ii)              any Canadian withholding Taxes imposed on a payment to a Holder or beneficial owner of Notes by reason of such Holder or beneficial owner being a “specified shareholder” of the Company (as defined in subsection 18(5) of the Canadian Tax Act) or by reason of such Holder or beneficial owner not dealing at arm’s length with a specified shareholder of the Company in either case at the time of payment;

 

(iii)            any Canadian withholding Taxes imposed on a payment to a Holder, former Holder or beneficial owner of Notes by reason of such Holder’s, former Holder’s or beneficial owner’s failure to comply with any certification, identification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement if compliance is required by law, regulation, administrative practice or an applicable treaty as a precondition to exemption from, or a reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding of, such Taxes (provided that in the case of any imposition or change in any such certification, identification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement which applies to Holders, former Holders or beneficial owners of Notes who are not residents of Canada, at least sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of any such imposition or change, the Company shall give written notice, in the manner provided for in this Indenture, to the Trustee and the applicable Holders of Notes then outstanding of such imposition or change, as the case may be, and provide the Trustee and such Holders with such forms or documentation, if any, as may be required to comply with such certification, identification, information, documentation, or other reporting requirement);

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(iv)             any Taxes that would not have been so imposed but for the existence of any present or former connection between the relevant Holder or beneficial owner of Notes and the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction including, for greater certainty and without limitation, being or having been a citizen, resident or national thereof, or being or having been present or engaged in a trade or business therein or maintaining a permanent establishment or other physical presence in or otherwise having some connection with the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (other than a connection from the mere acquisition, ownership or holding of such Note or a beneficial interest therein or the enforcement of rights thereunder or the receipt of any payment in respect thereof); or

 

(v)               any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, excise, transfer, personal property tax or similar tax, assessment or governmental charge,

 

(any Taxes imposed by a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction that are not excluded pursuant to any of the above clauses are referred to as “Indemnified Taxes”).

 

(c)               The Company shall make any required withholding or deduction and remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law. Upon request, the Company shall provide the Trustee on behalf of Holders and beneficial owners of Notes (and the Trustee shall, at the Company’s written request and specific instruction, promptly provide Holders and beneficial owners of Notes) with official receipts or other documentation evidencing the payment of the Taxes with respect to which Additional Amounts are paid.

 

(d)               If the Company is or will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts under or with respect to any payment or delivery made on the Notes, at least 30 days prior to the date of such payment (unless such obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises after the 30th day prior to such date, in which case it shall be promptly thereafter), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) an Officer’s Certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts will be payable and the amount so payable and such other information necessary to enable the Paying Agent to pay Additional Amounts to Holders or beneficial owners on the relevant payment date.

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(e)               Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned in any context: (i) the payment of principal; (ii) Redemption Price in connection with an Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption of Notes; (iii) Fundamental Change Repurchase Price in connection with a repurchase of Notes upon a Fundamental Change; (iv) interest; or (v) any other amount payable on or with respect to any of the Notes (including amounts payable on conversion), such reference shall be deemed to include payment of Additional Amounts provided for in this Section 2.11 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof.

 

(f)                The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless a Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes for the amount of any Indemnified Taxes, including those payable pursuant to Regulation 803 of the Income Tax Regulations (Canada), levied or imposed and paid by such Holder or beneficial owner as a result of payments made under or with respect to the Notes, any liability (including penalties, interest, additions to tax and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto, and any such Indemnified Taxes levied or imposed and paid by such Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes with respect to any reimbursement under this paragraph.

 

(g)               The Company shall pay any present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes or any other excise, property or similar Taxes, charges or levies that arise in any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction from the execution, delivery, enforcement or registration of the Notes, this Indenture or any other document or instrument in relation thereof, or the receipt of any payments with respect to the Notes and the Company shall indemnify the Holders and beneficial owners of Notes for any such amounts (including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto) paid by such Holders or beneficial owners.

 

(h)               For certain payments made pursuant to the Indenture, the Trustee may be required to make a “reportable payment” or “withholdable payment” and in such cases the Trustee shall have the duty to act as a payor or withholding agent, respectively, that is responsible for any tax withholding and reporting required under Chapters 3, 4, and 61 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The Trustee shall have the sole right to make the determination as to which payments are “reportable payments” or “withholdable payments.” The Company shall provide an executed IRS Form W-9 or appropriate IRS Form W-8 (or, in each case, any successor form) to the Trustee on or prior to the date of this Indenture, and shall promptly update any such form to the extent such form expires or becomes inaccurate in any respect because of a change in circumstances. The Trustee shall have the right to request from any party to the Indenture, or any other Person entitled to payment thereunder, any additional forms, documentation or other information as may be reasonably necessary for the Trustee to satisfy its reporting and withholding obligations under the Code. To the extent any such forms to be delivered thereunder are not provided prior to or by the time the related payment is required to be made or are determined by the Trustee to be incomplete and/or inaccurate in any respect, the Trustee shall be entitled to withhold on any such payments thereunder to the extent withholding is required under Chapters 3, 4, or 61 of the Code, and shall have no obligation to gross up any such payment.

 

(i)                 The Company shall provide or cause to be provided to the Trustee all information necessary to allow the Trustee to comply with any applicable tax reporting obligations, including without limitation any cost basis reporting obligations under Internal Revenue Code Section 6045. The Trustee may rely on the information provided to it and shall have no responsibility to verify or ensure the accuracy of such information.

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(j)                 The Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 2.11, all payments made pursuant to the Indenture shall be made net of any deduction or withholding imposed or collected pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code, or any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such Sections of the Code (or any law implementing such an intergovernmental agreement) (any such withholding, a “FATCA Withholding Tax”), and no Additional Amounts shall be payable as a result of any such FATCA Withholding Tax.

 

(k)               The obligations described in this Section 2.11 will survive any termination or discharge of this Indenture.

 

Article 3
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

Section 3.01.                  Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture and the Notes shall upon the request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when (a)(i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) the Company has deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Holders, as applicable, after the Notes have become due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise, cash, Subordinate Voting Shares or a combination thereof, as applicable, sufficient to pay all of the outstanding Notes and all other sums due and payable under this Indenture or the Notes by the Company; and (b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.06 shall survive.

 

Article 4
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

 

Section 4.01.                  Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes. The Company will pay any cash amounts in U.S. Dollars that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments in cash, and payments in Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to Section 16.07 hereof, to any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall be subject to the applicable procedures of the Depositary.

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Section 4.02.                  Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (“Paying Agent”) or for conversion (“Conversion Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.

 

The Company may also from time to time designate as co-Note Registrars one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.

 

The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as the office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase or for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee shall not be a place for service of legal process for the Company.

 

Section 4.03.                  Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office. The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of the Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.09(a), an applicable Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee.

 

Section 4.04.                  Provisions as to Paying Agent.

 

(a)               If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04(a):

 

(i)                 that it will hold all sums and, if applicable, Subordinate Voting Shares held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes;

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(ii)              that it will give the Trustee prompt notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and

 

(iii)            that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust.

 

The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum, and, subject to Section 16.07, such number of Subordinate Voting Shares that are sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) or accrued and unpaid interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.

 

(b)               If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders a sum, and, subject to Section 16.07, such number of Subordinate Voting Shares that are sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.

 

(c)               Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay, cause to be paid or deliver to the Trustee all sums or amounts held in trust by the Company or any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04, such sums or amounts to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment or delivery by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability but only with respect to such sums or amounts. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i), the Trustee shall automatically become the Paying Agent.

 

(d)               Subject to applicable escheatment laws, any money and Subordinate Voting Shares deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on and the consideration due upon conversion of any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), interest or consideration due upon conversion has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money and Subordinate Voting Shares.

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Section 4.05.                  Existence. Subject to Article 11, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.

 

Section 4.06.                  Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports.

 

(a)               At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and not exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long as any of the Notes or any Subordinate Voting Shares issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time, constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3), promptly provide to the Trustee and, upon written request, any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or any Subordinate Voting Shares issuable upon conversion of such Notes, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) to facilitate the resale of such Notes or Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to Rule 144A. The Trustee will have no responsibility to determine whether such delivery has occurred. Delivery of such information to the Trustee shall be for informational purposes only and the information and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein, or determinable from information contained therein including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants thereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officer’s Certificate).

 

(b)               The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the same are required to be filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities, copies of any financial statements, management discussion and analysis, annual information form, material change report and business acquisition report that the Company is required to file with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws. Any such document that the Company files with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities via SEDAR (or any successor system) shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.06(b) at the time such documents are filed via SEDAR (or such successor system), it being understood that the Trustee shall not be responsible for determining whether such filings have been made.

 

(c)               Delivery of the reports, information and documents described in subsection (b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the information and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an Officer’s Certificate).

 

(d)               If, and for so long as, the restrictive legend on the Notes has not been removed, the Notes are assigned a restricted CUSIP number or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates or Holders that were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding or who acquired Notes from an Affiliate within 12 months (without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes) as of the 380th day after the last date of original issuance of the Notes, the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day for the first 90 days and at 0.50% per annum thereafter until the restrictive legend has been removed from the Notes, the Notes are assigned an unrestricted CUSIP number and the Notes are freely tradable as described above by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates (or Holders that were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding or who acquired Notes from an Affiliate within 12 months).

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(e)               Additional Interest that is payable in accordance with Section 4.06(d) will be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes and will be in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue at the Company’s election pursuant to Section 6.03.

 

(f)                Subject to the immediately succeeding sentence, the Additional Interest that is payable in accordance with Section 4.06(d) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any Additional Interest that may be payable as a result of the Company’s election pursuant to Section 6.03. However, in no event shall Additional Interest that is payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d), together with any Additional Interest that is payable pursuant to Section 6.03, accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum pursuant to this Indenture, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest.

 

(g)               If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06(d), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable. Unless and until Responsible Officers of the Trustee receive at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee such certificates, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.

 

Section 4.07.                  Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

Section 4.08.                  Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2020) an Officer’s Certificate stating whether the signers thereof have knowledge of any Event of Default or Default that occurred during the previous year and, if so, specifying each such Event of Default or Default and the nature thereof.

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In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the action that the Company is taking or proposing to take in respect thereof.

 

Section 4.09.                  Restriction on Certain Actions. The Company shall not, directly or indirectly through any Subsidiary or other person, undertake or announce any rights offering, issuance of securities, subdivision of the Subordinate Voting Shares, dividend or other distribution on the Subordinate Voting Shares or any other securities, capital reorganization, reclassification or any similar type of transaction in which:

 

(a)               the number of securities to be issued;

 

(b)               the price at which securities are to be issued, converted or exchanged; or

 

(c)               any property or cash that is to be distributed or allocated;

 

is in whole or in part based upon, determined in reference to, related to or a function of, directly or indirectly: (x) the exercise or potential exercise of the payment of the principal amount of the Notes in Subordinate Voting Shares; or (y) the Current Market Price determined in connection with the exercise or potential exercise of the payment of the principal amount of the Notes in Subordinate Voting Shares upon redemption or otherwise in accordance with this Indenture.

 

Section 4.10.                  Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.

 

Section 4.11.                  Anti-Layering. The Company shall not incur, create, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for any indebtedness of the Company that is contractually subordinated or junior in right of payment to any Senior Indebtedness and senior in right of payment to the Notes; provided that no such indebtedness shall be considered to be contractually subordinated or junior in right of payment to any Senior Indebtedness by virtue of being unsecured or by virtue of being secured on a junior priority basis.

 

Article 5
LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE

 

Section 5.01.                  Lists of Holders. The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each May 15 and November 15 in each year beginning with November 15, 2020, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 15 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished to the Trustee so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.

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Section 5.02.                  Preservation and Disclosure of Lists. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

 

Article 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

 

Section 6.01.                  Events of Default. Each of the following events shall be an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:

 

(a)               default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 days;

 

(b)               default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon Optional Redemption, upon Tax Redemption, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

 

(c)               failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with this Indenture upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion right and such failure continues for a period of three Business Days;

 

(d)               failure by the Company to issue a Fundamental Change Company Notice in accordance with Section 15.01(c) or notice of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change in accordance with Section 14.03(b), in each case when due;

 

(e)               failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 11;

 

(f)                except for such Events of Default referenced in clauses (a), (b) (c), (d), (e) and (k) of this Section 6.01, failure by the Company for 60 days after written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding has been received by the Company to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture;

 

(g)               default by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $50,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created: (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable; or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal or interest of any such debt when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

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(h)               the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking a stay, liquidation, reorganization, compromise, arrangement or other relief with respect to the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;

 

(i)                 an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary seeking a stay, liquidation, reorganization, compromise, arrangement or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 30 consecutive days;

 

(j)                 a final judgment or judgments for the payment of $50,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) or more (excluding any amounts covered by insurance) in the aggregate rendered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, which judgment is not discharged, bonded, paid, waived or stayed within 60 days after: (i) the date on which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has commenced; or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished; or

 

(k)               a Termination of Trading shall have occurred.

 

Section 6.02.                  Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) with respect to the Company or any Significant Subsidiary), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may (and the Trustee, at the written request of such Holders, shall) declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding, though payment of any sums owing may be stayed by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization laws. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) with respect to the Company or any Significant Subsidiary occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, all Notes shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable.

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The immediately preceding paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay installments of accrued and unpaid interest upon all Notes and the principal of any and all Notes, in each case, that shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, and on such principal at the rate borne by the Notes at such time) and amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06, and if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all existing Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.09, then and in every such case (except as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the Notes and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting from (i) the nonpayment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of or accrued and unpaid interest on, any Notes, (ii) a failure to repurchase any Notes when required, or (iii) a failure to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes.

 

Section 6.03.                  Additional Interest.

 

(a)               Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, to the extent the Company elects in writing, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k), shall, after the occurrence of such an Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes (i) in the case of an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b), at a rate equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the first 180 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default, and 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes outstanding from the 180th day to the 365th day following the occurrence of such an Event of Default during which such Event of Default is continuing (in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue (x) at the Company’s written election as a result of an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k) or (y) as a result of an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(d)) and (ii) in the case of an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k), at a rate equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of Notes outstanding for each day during the 60-day period on which such Event of Default is continuing beginning on, and including, the date on which such an Event of Default first occurs (in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue (x) at the Company’s written election as a result of an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or (y) as the result of an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(d)). If the Company so elects in writing, such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as the stated interest payable on the Notes. On the 365th day after an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) (if such Event of Default is not cured or waived prior to such 365th day), the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. On the 61st day after an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k) (if such Event of Default is not cured or waived prior to such 61st day), the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. The provisions of this paragraph will not affect the rights of Holders in the event of the occurrence of any Event of Default other than the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k). In the event the Company does not elect in writing to pay Additional Interest following an Event of Default in accordance with this Section 6.03 or the Company elected in writing to make such payment but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.

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(b)               In order to elect to pay Additional Interest as the sole remedy during (i) the first 365 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) in accordance with Section 6.03(a) or (ii) the first 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k), the Company must notify all Holders, the Trustee and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of such election prior to the beginning of such 365-day or 60-day period, as applicable. Upon the failure to timely give such notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.

 

(c)               Any Additional Interest payable as the remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall Additional Interest payable at the Company’s election for failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) as set forth in Section 6.03(a), together with any Additional Interest that may accrue as a result of the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(d), accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum pursuant to this Indenture, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest.

 

(d)               Notwithstanding the foregoing in this Section 6.03, the Company may elect in writing to cure an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k) by offering to purchase the outstanding Notes as if the occurrence of such Event of Default were an occurrence of a Fundamental Change. To make this election, the Company must send out a written notice setting out the terms of the repurchase offer either (i) if the Company has elected to pay Additional Interest for an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k), on or prior to the 60th day after such Event of Default; or (ii) if the Company has not elected in writing to pay Additional Interest for an Event of Default consisting of a Termination of Trading pursuant to Section 6.01(k), within a 20 Business Day grace period after the occurrence of such Event of Default. In each case, such written notice will be deemed a notice of the Fundamental Change for the purposes of the offer to purchase described under Article 15. During such 20 Business Day grace period in the case of an election under clause (ii) of this Section 6.03(d), Holders and the Trustee may not exercise any remedies or institute enforcement proceedings with respect to the Notes or this Indenture (or the related obligations) arising from the occurrence of such Event of Default, including, without limitation, acceleration of the Notes, or institute any bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

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Section 6.04.                  Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01 shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on any overdue principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06. If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, each Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys or other property adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law.

 

In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under Title 11 of the United States Code, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.04, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.

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

 

All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders.

 

In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders parties to any such proceedings.

 

In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of any waiver pursuant to Section 6.09 or any rescission and annulment pursuant to Section 6.02 or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

Section 6.05.                  Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies, upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid:

 

First, to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06;

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Second, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest on, and any cash due upon conversion of, the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest and cash due upon conversion, as the case may be, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon such overdue payments at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;

 

Third, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount (including, if applicable, the payment of the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) and interest without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) and accrued and unpaid interest; and

 

Fourth, to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.

 

Section 6.06.                  Proceedings by Holders. Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) or interest when due, or the right to receive payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, no Holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture or the Notes to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

 

(a)               such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as herein provided;

 

(b)               Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in their own name as Trustee hereunder;

 

(c)               such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee such security and/or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense (which shall include the reasonable costs of the Trustee’s legal counsel) to be incurred therein or thereby;

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(d)               the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of such security and/or indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; and

 

(e)               no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding within such 60-day period pursuant to Section 6.09,

 

it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or enforcement of rights are unduly prejudicial to any Holder), except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, each Holder shall have the right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be.

 

Section 6.07.                  Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its sole discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in the Trustee by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

 

Section 6.08.                  Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the last paragraph of Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article 6 to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.06, every power and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders.

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Section 6.09.                  Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders. The Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 shall have the right, subject to offering to the Trustee indemnity and/or security satisfactory to it, to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Notes; provided, however, that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such directions are unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder) or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except (i) a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, (ii) a failure by the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or (iii) a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 10 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.09, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

Section 6.10.                  Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence and continuance of a Default of which a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge, deliver to all Holders notice of all Defaults known to a Responsible Officer, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on, any of the Notes or a Default in the payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as it determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.

 

Section 6.11.                  Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by the Trustee as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section 6.11 (to the extent permitted by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note (including, but not limited to, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note, or receive the consideration due upon conversion, in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.

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Article 7
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

 

Section 7.01.                  Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee. The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default that may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In the event an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs; provided that if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the written request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity and/or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense (which includes the reasonable costs of the Trustee’s legal counsel) that might be incurred by it in compliance with such written request or direction.

 

No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, except that:

 

(a)               prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred:

 

(i)                 the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

 

(ii)              in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein); providedhowever, that the Trustee need not act or refrain from acting based on any certificate or opinion that it determines to be not in conformity with the requirements of this Indenture. If presented with a non-conforming certificate or opinion, the Trustee may request the delivering party to re-issue the certificate or opinion in the manner required by this Indenture before taking any action;

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(b)               the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

 

(c)               the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee in good faith (i) reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture or (ii) in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 8.04 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;

 

(d)               whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section;

 

(e)               the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any Paying Agent or any records maintained by any co-Note Registrar with respect to the Notes;

 

(f)                if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred, unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee had actual knowledge of such event;

 

(g)               in the absence of written investment direction from the Company, all cash received by the Trustee shall be placed in a non-interest bearing trust account, and in no event shall the Trustee be liable for the selection of investments or for investment losses incurred thereon or for losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any such investment prior to its maturity date or the failure of the party directing such investments prior to its maturity date or the failure of the party directing such investment to provide timely written investment direction, and the Trustee shall have no obligation to invest or reinvest any amounts held hereunder in the absence of such written investment direction from the Company; and

 

(h)               in the event that the Trustee is also acting as Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or transfer agent hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 shall also be afforded to such Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or transfer agent.

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None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

 

Section 7.02.                  Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:

 

(a)               the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, note, coupon or other paper or document believed by the Trustee in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

 

(b)               any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Corporate Secretary, an Assistant Corporate Secretary or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company;

 

(c)               the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and require an Opinion of Counsel and any advice of such counsel or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by the Trustee hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;

 

(d)               the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

 

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

 

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

 

(g)               the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder;

 

(h)               the Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture;

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(i)                 the Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; and neither the Trustee nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or affiliates shall be responsible for nor have any duty to monitor the performance or any action of the Company, or any of its directors, members, officers, agents, affiliates or employees, nor shall it have any liability in connection with the malfeasance or nonfeasance of any such party. The Trustee shall not be responsible for any inaccuracy or omission in the information obtained from the Company or for any inaccuracy or omission in the records that may result from such information or any failure by the Trustee to perform its duties as set forth herein as a result of any such inaccuracy or omission;

 

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

 

(k)               unless otherwise expressly provided herein, any direction, certificate, certification, notice, instruction, agreement, order, evidence, notification, request, withdrawal of a request, or other communication to or for the Trustee (in any of its capacities hereunder) shall be made in writing.

 

In no event shall the Trustee be liable for any consequential, punitive, special or indirect loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes, unless either (1) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company or by any Holder of the Notes in the manner required under this Indenture.

 

Section 7.03.                  No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

Section 7.04.                  Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar May Own Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent (if other than the Company or any Affiliate thereof) or Note Registrar, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights they would have if they were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or Note Registrar.

 

Section 7.05.                  Monies and Subordinate Voting Shares to Be Held in Trust. All monies and Subordinate Voting Shares received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. Money and Subordinate Voting Shares held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money or Subordinate Voting Shares received by the Trustee hereunder except as may be agreed from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.

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Section 7.06.                  Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time and the Trustee shall receive such compensation for all services rendered by the Trustee hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to in writing between the Trustee and the Company, and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture in any capacity thereunder (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall have been caused by a Trustee’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. Any amount owing hereunder and remaining unpaid after 30 days from the invoice date will bear interest at the then current rate charged by the Trustee against unpaid invoices and shall be payable upon demand. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee in any capacity under this Indenture and any other document or transaction entered into in connection herewith and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, claim, demand, assessment, interest, penalty, action, suit, proceeding, damage, liability, cost or expense, including, without limiting the foregoing, expert, consultant and reasonable counsel fees and disbursements on a solicitor and client basis, incurred without gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, its affiliates, officers, directors, agents or employees, or such agent or authenticating agent, as the case may be, and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs and expenses (including legal costs and expenses) of defending themselves against any claim of liability in the premises or enforcing the provisions of this Section 7.06. The obligations of the Company under this Section 7.06 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a senior claim to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except, subject to the effect of Section 6.05, funds held in trust herewith for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes. The Trustee’s right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company. The obligation of the Company under this Section 7.06 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The indemnification provided in this Section 7.06 shall extend to the affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees of the Trustee.

 

Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.

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Section 7.07.                  Officer’s Certificate as Evidence. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such Officer’s Certificate, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by the Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.

 

Section 7.08.                  Eligibility of Trustee. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act (as if the Trust Indenture Act were applicable hereto) to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least the minimum amount required by the Trust Indenture Act. If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

 

Section 7.09.                  Resignation or Removal of Trustee.

 

(a)               The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and by delivering notice thereof to the Holders. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation to the Holders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Holders, petition any court of competent jurisdiction, at the expense of the Company, for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.

 

(b)               In case at any time any of the following shall occur:

 

(i)                 there shall no longer be a Trustee eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.08 and the Trustee shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or Holders in the manner required by Section 7.09(c), or

 

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

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then, in either case, the Company may by a Board Resolution remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture), on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, or the Trustee (at the expense of the Company) may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.

 

(c)               The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, as determined in accordance with Section 8.04, may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee that shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless within ten days after notice to the Company of such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Holder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.09(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.

 

(d)               Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 7.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.10.

 

(e)               The resigning Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for the actions or inactions of any successor Trustee.

 

Section 7.10.                  Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.09(a) shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a senior claim to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.

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No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.10 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.

 

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.10, each of the Company and the successor trustee, at the written direction and at the expense of the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders. If the Company fails to deliver such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Company.

 

Section 7.11.                  Succession by Merger, Etc. Any corporation or other entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided that in the case of any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee such corporation or other entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.

 

In case at the time a successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; providedhowever, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.

 

Section 7.12.                  Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company. Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. In the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee shall not be liable to the Company for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the date any officer that the Company has indicated to the Trustee should receive such application actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date), unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of any omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in accordance with this Indenture in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.

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Article 8
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS

 

Section 8.01.                  Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 9, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders. Whenever the Company or the Trustee solicit the taking of any action by the Holders of the Notes, the Company or the Trustee may, but shall not be required to, fix in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders entitled to take such action. The record date if one is selected shall be not more than fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.

 

Section 8.02.                  Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02, Section 7.07 and Section 9.05, proof of the execution of any instrument or writing by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register or by a certificate of the Note Registrar. The record of any Holders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 9.06.

 

Section 8.03.                  Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent and any Note Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Note shall be registered upon the Note Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Note Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of and (subject to Section 2.03(a)) accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, for conversion of such Note and for all other purposes under this Indenture; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any Note Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The sole registered holder of a Global Note shall be the Depositary or its nominee. All such payments or deliveries so made to any Holder, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sums or Subordinate Voting Shares so paid or delivered, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable or shares deliverable upon any such Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Notes following an Event of Default, any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation, proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any other Person, such holder’s right to exchange such beneficial interest for a Definitive Note in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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Section 8.04.                  Company-Owned Notes Disregarded. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any Subsidiary thereof or by any Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section 8.04 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to so act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, a Subsidiary thereof or an Affiliate of the Company or a Subsidiary thereof. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above described Persons; and, subject to Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 7.07, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.

 

Section 8.05.                  Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01(a), of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Note that is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any Note issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof.

 

Article 9
HOLDERS’ MEETINGS

 

Section 9.01.                  Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article 9 for any of the following purposes:

 

(a)               to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (in each case, as permitted under this Indenture) and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article 6;

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(b)               to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article 7;

 

(c)               to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02; or

 

(d)               to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.

 

Section 9.02.                  Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action specified in Section 9.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 8.01(a), shall be delivered by the Trustee to Holders of such Notes. Such notice shall also be delivered to the Company. Such notices shall be delivered not less than 20 nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

 

Any meeting of Holders shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Notes then outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.

 

Section 9.03.                  Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have delivered the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 9.01, by delivering notice thereof as provided in Section 9.02.

 

Section 9.04.                  Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting or (b) be a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.

 

Section 9.05.                  Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.

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The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders as provided in Section 9.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

Subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held or represented by him or her; providedhowever, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by it or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating it as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02 or Section 9.03 may be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

 

Section 9.06.                  Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was delivered as provided in Section 9.02. The record shall show the aggregate principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.

 

Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

 

Section 9.07.                  No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing contained in this Article 9 shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes.

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Article 10
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

Section 10.01.              Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes:

 

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

 

(b)               to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture pursuant to Article 11;

 

(c)               to add guarantees with respect to the Notes;

 

(d)               to secure the Notes;

 

(e)               to add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;

 

(f)                to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;

 

(g)               in connection with any Merger Event, to provide that the Notes are convertible into Reference Property and make such related changes to the terms of the Notes to the extent expressly required by Section 14.07;

 

(h)               comply with the requirements of any Canadian securities regulatory authority, the Commission, Nasdaq, the TSX, DTC, CDS or any applicable securities depository or stock exchange or market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares may be principally listed or admitted for trading, provided that no such amendment or supplement materially and adversely affects the rights of any Holder of the Notes;

 

(i)                 provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with limitations set forth in this Indenture;

 

(j)                 make any amendment to the provisions of this Indenture relating to the transfer and legending of the Notes; provided, however, that (a) compliance with this Indenture as so amended would not result in the Notes being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any other applicable securities law and (b) no such amendment materially and adversely affects the rights of any Holder of the Notes;

 

(k)               evidence and provide the acceptance of the appointment of a successor trustee under this Indenture; or

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(l)                 to conform the provisions of this Indenture or the Notes to the “Description of Notes” section of the Offering Memorandum.

 

Upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 10.01 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 10.02.

 

Section 10.02.              Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (determined in accordance with Article 8 and including, without limitation, written consents obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes), the Company and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders; providedhowever, that, without the written consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected, no such supplemental indenture shall:

 

(a)               reduce the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;

 

(b)               reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any Note;

 

(c)               reduce the principal of or extend the Maturity Date of any Note;

 

(d)               make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes;

 

(e)               reduce the Redemption Price or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders the Company’s obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants or definitions hereof or otherwise;

 

(f)                make any Note payable in money, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Note, subject to the applicable procedures of the Depositary or CDS, as applicable;

 

(g)               modify Article 13 in a manner adverse to the Holders of Notes; or

 

(h)               make any change in this Article 10 that requires each Holder’s consent or in the waiver provisions in Section 6.02 or Section 6.09.

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Upon the written request of the Company, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid and subject to Section 10.05, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.

 

Holders do not need under this Section 10.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture. It shall be sufficient if such Holders approve the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture becomes effective, the Company shall prepare and deliver, at the Company’s expense, to the Holders a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders, or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture.

 

Section 10.03.              Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

 

Section 10.04.              Notation on Notes. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10 may, at the Company’s expense, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company’s expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 17.10) and delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding.

 

Section 10.05.              Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished to Trustee. In addition to the documents required by Section 17.05, the Trustee shall receive, and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article 10 and is permitted or authorized by this Indenture (which Opinion of Counsel shall state, subject to customary exceptions, that such supplemental indenture constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms).

 

Section 10.06.              Amendment of Article 13. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions in this Article 10, the provisions of Article 13 may not be amended or modified with respect to any Senior Indebtedness unless the Company has provided an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case, as required under Section 13.13(b).

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Article 11
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE

 

Section 11.01.              Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.02, the Company shall not consolidate or amalgamate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another Person, unless:

 

(a)               the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Canada, any province or territory thereof, or the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture; and

 

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

 

For purposes of this Section 11.01, the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another Person.

 

Section 11.02.              Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company, such Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets, shall be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein, and may thereafter exercise every right and power, of the Company under this Indenture. Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this Article 11 the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 11) may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.

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In case of any such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

 

Article 12
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, SHAREHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

 

Section 12.01.              Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations. No recourse for the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest on any Note, nor for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any Note, nor because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, shareholder, employee, agent, officer or director or Subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.

 

Article 13
Subordination

 

Section 13.01.              Agreement to Subordinate. The Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note agrees, that the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in this Article 13, to the prior payment in full, in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, of all Obligations due in respect of Senior Indebtedness, including Senior Indebtedness created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed after the date hereof, and that the subordination as set out in this Article 13 is for the benefit of, and enforceable by, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and any proper Representative thereof.

 

Section 13.02.              Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.

 

(a)               Upon any distribution to creditors of the Company in a liquidation or dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property, in an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshaling of the Company’s assets and liabilities:

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(i)                 holders of Senior Indebtedness will be entitled to receive payment in full, in cash or other payment satisfactory to such holders, of all Obligations due in respect of such Senior Indebtedness (including interest after the commencement of any bankruptcy proceeding at the rate specified in the applicable Senior Indebtedness) before the Holders of the Notes will be entitled to receive any payment of principal of and interest on, or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of or the Redemption Price of, the Notes or any other payment or distribution in respect of Obligations with respect to the Notes; and

 

(ii)              until all Obligations with respect to Senior Indebtedness (as provided in clause (i) above) are paid in full, any distribution to which Holders would be entitled but for this Article 13 will be made to holders of Senior Indebtedness, as their interests may appear.

 

(b)               To the extent any payment of Senior Indebtedness is declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be paid to any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other similar person under any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding, the Senior Indebtedness or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment had not occurred and the provisions of this Article 13 will be applied accordingly.

 

Section 13.03.              Default on Senior Indebtedness.

 

(a)               The Company shall not make, directly or indirectly through any Subsidiary or other person, any payment or distribution to the Trustee or any Holder in respect of Obligations with respect to the Notes, and the Company shall not acquire from the Trustee or any Holder any Notes for cash or property if:

 

(i)                 a default in the payment of principal, premium, if any, interest or any other Obligation due on any Senior Indebtedness (a “Payment Default”) occurs and is continuing (including, without limitation, a payment that has become due as a result of the acceleration of Senior Indebtedness); or

 

(ii)              any other default (a “Nonpayment Default”) occurs and is continuing on any Designated Senior Indebtedness that permits holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness to accelerate its maturity and the Trustee receives a notice of such default (a “Payment Blockage Notice”) from the Company or a Representative of such holders. The Trustee shall promptly deliver a copy of any Payment Blockage Notice received by it to the Company and the Company shall promptly deliver such copy to all holders of Designated Senior Indebtedness. If the holders of a majority in principal amount of all Designated Senior Indebtedness outstanding at the time such Payment Blockage Notice is delivered to the Company shall, within 10 days of their receipt thereof, deliver to the Company and the Trustee a notice rescinding such Payment Blockage Notice, such Payment Blockage Notice shall be deemed not to have been delivered for all purposes of this Indenture. If the Trustee receives any such Payment Blockage Notice, no subsequent Payment Blockage Notice will be effective for purposes of this Section 13.03 unless and until at least 360 days have elapsed since the delivery of the immediately prior Payment Blockage Notice. No Nonpayment Default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of any Payment Blockage Notice to the Trustee may be, or may be made, the basis for a subsequent Payment Blockage Notice unless such default has been cured or waived for a period of not less than 90 days.

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(b)               The Company may and will resume payments on and distributions in respect of the Notes and may acquire Notes, upon the earlier of:

 

(i)                 in the case of a Payment Default, upon the date upon which such default is cured or waived; and

 

(ii)              in the case of a Nonpayment Default, upon the earlier of the date on which such Nonpayment Default is cured or waived or 179 days after the date on which the applicable Payment Blockage Notice is received, unless the maturity of any Designated Senior Indebtedness has been accelerated (in which event the foregoing subclause (i) shall apply), if this Article 13 otherwise permits such payment, distribution or acquisition at the time of such payment, distribution or acquisition.

 

Section 13.04.              Acceleration of Notes.

 

The Company shall promptly notify holders of Designated Senior Indebtedness of any such acceleration because of an Event of Default. If payment of the Notes is accelerated because of an Event of Default and amounts owing are outstanding under any Senior Indebtedness, the Company shall not make, directly or indirectly through any Subsidiary or other person, any payment or distribution to the Trustee (other than with respect to fees and expenses payable to the Trustee, including its legal fees and expenses) or any Holder in respect of Obligations with respect to the Notes, and shall not acquire from the Trustee or any Holder any Notes for cash or property, unless the Senior Indebtedness has been repaid in full.

 

Section 13.05.              When Distribution Must Be Paid Over.

 

In the event that the Trustee or any Holder of the Notes receives any payment of any Obligations with respect to the Notes at a time when the payment is prohibited by Section 13.03 or Section 13.04, the Trustee or such Holder, as the case may be, upon written notice delivered by the Company, shall hold the payment in trust for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness. Upon the written request of the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee or such Holder, as the case may be, shall deliver the amounts in trust to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their proper Representative, provided, that in the case of the Trustee, the Trustee shall also have received an Officer’s Certificate from the Company stating (a) the holders of Senior Indebtedness entitled to payment, (b) the amounts to be delivered to such holders and (c) that such payment is in compliance with this Article 13. The Trustee undertakes no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and none will be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee will not be deemed to owe any duty whatsoever to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and will not be liable to any such holders for any reason whatsoever, including, without limitation, if the Trustee pays over or distributes to or on behalf of Holders or the Company or any other person money or assets to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness are then entitled by virtue of this Article 13.

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Section 13.06.              Notice by Company.

 

The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of any facts known to the Company that would cause a payment of any Obligations with respect to the Notes to violate this Article 13, but failure to give such notice will not affect the subordination of the Notes to the Senior Indebtedness as provided in this Article 13.

 

Section 13.07.              Subrogation.

 

After all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full and until the Notes are paid in full, Holders of Notes will be subrogated (equally and ratably with all other indebtedness pari passu with the Notes) to the rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive distributions applicable to Senior Indebtedness to the extent that distributions otherwise payable to the Holders of Notes have been applied to the payment of Senior Indebtedness. A distribution made under this Article 13 to holders of Senior Indebtedness that otherwise would have been made to Holders of Notes is not, as between the Company and Holders, a payment by the Company on the Notes.

 

Section 13.08.              Relative Rights.

 

This Article 13 defines the relative rights of Holders of Notes and holders of Senior Indebtedness. Nothing in this Indenture will:

 

(a)               impair, as between the Company and Holders of Notes, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of, and interest, if any, on, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of or the Redemption Price of, and to pay or deliver any amount due on conversion of, the Notes in accordance with their terms and to make any other required payment or distribution in respect of Obligations with respect to the Notes;

 

(b)               affect the relative rights of Holders of Notes and creditors of the Company other than their rights in relation to holders of Senior Indebtedness; or

 

(c)                prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising its available remedies upon a Default or Event of Default, subject to the rights of holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness to receive distributions and payments otherwise payable to Holders of Notes.

 

If the Company fails because of this Article 13 to pay principal of, or interest, if any, on, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of, the Redemption Price of or to pay or deliver any amount due on conversion of, the Notes in accordance with their terms, or to make any other required payment or distribution in respect of Obligations with respect to the Notes, the failure may still be a Default or Event of Default as determined in accordance with Article 6.

 

Section 13.09.              Subordination May Not Be Impaired by the Company. No right of any holder of Senior Indebtedness to enforce the subordination of the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes may be impaired by any act or failure to act by the Company or any Holder or by the failure of the Company or any Holder to comply with this Indenture.

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Section 13.10.              Distribution or Notice to Representative or Holders of Senior Indebtedness. Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of any Senior Indebtedness, the distribution may be made and the notice given to their Representative, if they have appointed one, and if no Representative has been appointed by the holders of any Senior Indebtedness, such distribution or notice shall be made or given directly to such holders.

 

Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article 13, the Trustee and the Holders of Notes will be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction or upon any written certificate of such Representative or of the liquidating trustee or agent or other person making any distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders of Notes for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article 13.

 

Section 13.11.              Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article 13 or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee will not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment or distribution by the Trustee, and the Trustee and the Paying Agent may continue to make payments on the Notes, unless the Trustee has received at its Corporate Trust Office at least three Business Days prior to the date of such payment detailed written instructions stating that the payment of any Obligations with respect to the Notes would violate this Article 13, except for any acceleration of the Notes prior to making any such payment or distribution which is known by any officer of the Trustee prior to making any such payment or distribution. The notice may only be given by the Company or a Representative. For the avoidance of doubt, no such notice shall constitute a Payment Blockage Notice unless delivered in accordance with Section 13.03. Nothing in this Article 13 will impair the claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 6.06.

 

The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Indebtedness with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Note Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, and their successors hereunder may do the same with like rights.

 

Section 13.12.              Authorization to Effect Subordination; Filing Proof of Claim. Each Holder of Notes, by the Holder’s acceptance thereof, authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Holder’s behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this Article 13, and appoints the Trustee to act (without any obligation of the Trustee to do so) as such Holder’s attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. If the Trustee does not file a proper proof of claim or proof of debt in the form required in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company with respect to the Notes or its creditors or properties at least 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim, the holders of Senior Indebtedness or any Representative are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the Holders of the Notes.

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Section 13.13.              Reliance and Amendments.

 

(a)               Each Holder of Notes by its acceptance thereof acknowledges and agrees that the subordination provisions set forth in this Article 13 are, and are intended to be, an inducement and a consideration for each holder of any Senior Indebtedness, whether such Senior Indebtedness was created or acquired before or after the issuance of the Notes, to acquire and continue to hold, or to continue to hold, such Senior Indebtedness, and such holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed conclusively to have relied on such subordination provisions in acquiring and continuing to hold or in continuing to hold such Senior Indebtedness.

 

(b)               The provisions of this Article 13 may not be amended or modified with respect to any Senior Indebtedness unless the Company has provided (i) an Officer’s Certificate certifying that the written consent of the holders of all such Senior Indebtedness has been obtained and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel.

 

Section 13.14.              No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. Without in any way limiting the generality of Section 13.09, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders, without incurring responsibility to the Holders and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article 13 or the obligations hereunder of the Holders to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following:

 

(a)                change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding;

 

(b)               sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Indebtedness;

 

(c)               release any person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior Indebtedness; and

 

(d)               exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other person.

 

Section 13.15.              Consenting Security. The Trustee, for itself and on behalf of the Holders, agrees that it shall not contest or bring into question the validity, perfection or enforceability of any of the Senior Indebtedness, any guarantees or security documents granted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as security for the Senior Indebtedness, or the relative priority of such guarantees and security documents.

 

Section 13.16.              Issuance of Subordinate Voting Shares in accordance with this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article 13, nothing in this Article 13 shall prevent the issuance and delivery of the Subordinate Voting Shares, and cash in lieu of any fractional Subordinate Voting Shares, upon conversion of any Note in accordance with the Indenture or the delivery of the Subordinate Voting Shares, in accordance with the Indenture, to satisfy in whole or in part the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of the Notes upon redemption or maturity, at the Company’s election, pursuant to Section 16.07.

 

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Article 14
CONVERSION OF NOTES

 

Section 14.01.              Conversion Privilege.

 

(a)               Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 14, each Holder of a Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert all or any portion (if the portion to be converted is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) of such Note until the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, in each case, at an initial conversion rate of 17.2507 Subordinate Voting Shares (subject to adjustment as provided in this Article 14, the “Conversion Rate”) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (subject to, and in accordance with, the settlement provisions of Section 14.02, the “Conversion Obligation”).

 

(b)               If, prior to the date that is five years plus one day from the last date of original issuance of Notes (including any Notes issued pursuant to the Initial Purchasers’ option to purchase additional Notes as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), Holders would otherwise be entitled to receive, upon conversion of the Notes, any property (including cash) or securities that would not constitute “prescribed securities” for the purposes of clause 212(1)(b)(vii)(E) of the Canadian Tax Act as it applied for the 2007 taxation year (referred to herein as “Ineligible Consideration”), such Holders shall not be entitled to receive such Ineligible Consideration but the Company or the successor or acquirer, as the case may be, shall have the right (at the sole option of the Company or the successor or acquirer, as the case may be) to deliver either such Ineligible Consideration or “prescribed securities,” for the purposes of clause 212(1)(b)(vii)(E) of the Canadian Tax Act as it applied for the 2007 taxation year, with a market value equal to the market value of such Ineligible Consideration. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing as promptly as practicable following the date the Company publicly announces such transaction but in no event less than 10 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date of such transaction. Such notice will also state the consideration into which the Notes will be convertible after the effective date of such transaction. After such notice, the Company or the successor or acquirer, as the case may be, may not change the consideration to be delivered upon conversion of the Notes except in accordance with any other provision of this Indenture.

 

Section 14.02.              Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion.

 

(a)               Subject to this Section 14.02, Section 14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall satisfy its Conversion Obligation by delivering to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted a number of Subordinate Voting Shares equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional Subordinate Voting Share in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 14.02, as set forth in this Section 14.02.

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(b)               Subject to Section 14.02(e), before any Holder of a Note shall be entitled to convert a Note as set forth above, such Holder shall (i) in the case of a Global Note, comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary in effect at that time and, if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and (ii) in the case of a Definitive Note or any Global Notes that are converted outside of the Depositary (1) complete, manually sign and deliver an irrevocable notice to the Conversion Agent as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (or a facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission thereof) (a notice pursuant to the applicable procedure of the Depositary or a notice as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion, a “Notice of Conversion”) at the office of the Conversion Agent and state in writing therein the principal amount of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or certificates for any Subordinate Voting Shares to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered, (2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank (and accompanied by appropriate endorsement and transfer documents), at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, (4) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and (5) provide any other information as requested by the Conversion Agent to effect such conversion. The Trustee (and if different, the Conversion Agent) shall notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article 14 on the Conversion Date for such conversion (or as soon as practicable thereafter). No Notes may be surrendered for conversion by a Holder thereof if such Holder has also delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and has not validly withdrawn such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 15.02(a).

 

If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.

 

(c)               A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date (the “Conversion Date”) that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in subsection (i) above. Except as set forth in Section 14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), the Company shall deliver the consideration due in respect of the Conversion Obligation on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. The Company shall issue or cause to be issued, and deliver to the Conversion Agent or to such Holder, or such Holder’s nominee or nominees, the full number of Subordinate Voting Shares to which such Holder shall be entitled, in book-entry format through the Depositary, in the case of Global Notes, or in certificated form, in the case of Definitive Notes, in each case, in satisfaction of the Company’s Conversion Obligation.

 

(d)               In case any Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the Holder of the Note so surrendered a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, without payment of any service charge by the converting Holder but, if required by the Company or the Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or similar governmental charge required by law or that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such conversion being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such conversion.

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(e)               If a Holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issuance of any Subordinate Voting Shares upon conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests such shares to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the Subordinate Voting Shares being issued in a name other than the Holder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax that is due by such Holder in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence.

 

(f)                Except as provided in Section 14.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article 14.

 

(g)               Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.

 

(h)               Upon conversion, a Holder shall not receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest, if any, except as set forth below. The Company’s settlement of the full Conversion Obligation shall be deemed to satisfy in full its obligation to pay the principal amount of the Note and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date. As a result, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Notes are converted after the close of business on a Regular Record Date, Holders of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date will receive the full amount of interest payable on such Notes on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. However, Notes surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of interest payable on the Notes so converted; provided that no such payment shall be required (1) for conversions following the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Redemption Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date; (3) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date; or (4) to the extent of any Defaulted Amounts, if any Defaulted Amounts exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note. Therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, all Holders of record on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date shall receive the full interest payment due on the Maturity Date in cash regardless of whether their Notes have been converted following such Regular Record Date.

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(i)                 The Person in whose name the Subordinate Voting Shares shall be issuable upon conversion shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the relevant Conversion Date. Upon a conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a Holder of such Notes surrendered for conversion.

 

(j)                 The Company shall not issue any fractional Subordinate Voting Shares upon conversion of the Notes and shall instead pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional Subordinate Voting Shares issuable upon conversion based on the Last Reported Sale Price of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the relevant Conversion Date or, if the Conversion Date is not a Trading Day, on the next succeeding Trading Day. The Company shall determine the cash in lieu and provide its determination and such calculations to the Trustee and Conversion Agent within one Business Day following the Conversion Date. The calculation shall be done on a per instruction basis if more than one Holder converts on the same day.

 

Section 14.03.              Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or a Notice of Redemption.

 

(a)               If (i) (A) the Effective Date of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Maturity Date and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or (B) the Company issues a Notice of Redemption as provided under Section 16.02 or Section 16.04, as applicable, and a Holder elects to convert its Notes during the related Redemption Period, the Company shall, under the circumstances described below, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional Subordinate Voting Shares (the “Additional Shares”), as described below. A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” such Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Notice of Conversion is received by the Conversion Agent from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change up to, and including, the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or, in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that would have been a Fundamental Change but for the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof, the 35th Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change) (such period, the “Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period”).

 

(b)               Upon surrender of Notes for conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or during a Redemption Period, the Company shall satisfy the related Conversion Obligation in accordance with Section 14.02, based on the Conversion Rate as increased to reflect the Additional Shares pursuant to the table set forth below; providedhowever, that if, at the effective time of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Reference Property following such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is composed entirely of cash, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Conversion Obligation shall be calculated based solely on the Share Price for the transaction and shall be deemed to be an amount of cash per $1,000 principal amount of converted Notes equal to the Conversion Rate (including any increase to reflect the Additional Shares), multiplied by such Share Price. In such event, the Conversion Obligation shall be determined and paid to Holders in cash on the second Business Day following the Conversion Date. The Company shall notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the Effective Date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change and issue a press release announcing such Effective Date no later than the Business Day after such Effective Date.

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(c)               The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased for conversions in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or a Notice of Redemption shall be determined by reference to the table below, based on the date on which the Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective (in each case, the “Effective Date”) or the Redemption Notice Date, and the price (the “Share Price”) paid (or deemed to be paid) per Subordinate Voting Share in the Make-Whole Fundamental Change or on the Redemption Notice Date, as applicable. If the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares receive in exchange for their Subordinate Voting Shares only cash in a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Share Price shall be the cash amount paid per share. Otherwise, the Share Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares over the ten Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the applicable Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date, as applicable. In the event that a conversion during a Redemption Period would also be deemed to be in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, a Holder of Notes to be converted shall be entitled to a single increase to the Conversion Rate with respect to the first to occur of the applicable Redemption Notice Date or the Effective Date of the applicable Make- Whole Fundamental Change, and the later event shall be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of this Section 14.03.

 

(d)               The Share Prices set forth in the column headings of the table below shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Notes is otherwise adjusted. The adjusted Share Prices shall equal the Share Prices immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Share Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth in the table below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 14.04.

 

(e)               The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased per $1,000 principal amount of Notes pursuant to this Section 14.03 for each Share Price and Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date set forth below:

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  Share Price (US$) 
Effective
Date/Redemption
Notice Date
$43.75 $45.00 $50.00 $55.00 $57.97 $60.00 $75.36 $100.00 $125.00 $175.00 $225.00
May 19, 2020 5.6064 5.3049 4.2973 3.5330 3.1689 2.9527 1.8244 0.9593 0.5493 0.2059 0.0000
June 1, 2021 5.6064 5.2204 4.1533 3.3584 2.9844 2.7627 1.6413 0.8313 0.4685 0.1762 0.0000
June 1, 2022 5.6064 5.0982 3.9513 3.1130 2.7256 2.4993 1.3958 0.6683 0.3693 0.1419 0.0000
June 1, 2023 5.6064 4.9715 3.6633 2.7602 2.3547 2.1210 1.0588 0.4623 0.2525 0.1048 0.0000
June 1, 2024 5.6064 4.9715 3.2373 2.2166 1.7785 1.5377 0.5850 0.2203 0.1245 0.0636 0.0000
June 1, 2025 5.6064 4.9715 2.7493 0.9311 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000

 

The exact Share Price and Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:

 

(i)                 if the Share Price is between two Share Prices in the table above or the Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date is between two dates in the table, the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Share Prices and the earlier and later dates, as applicable, based on a 365-day year;

 

(ii)              if the Share Price is greater than $225.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Share Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate; and

 

(iii)            if the Share Price is less than $43.75 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Share Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes exceed 22.8571 Subordinate Voting Shares, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04.

 

(f)                Nothing in this Section 14.03 shall prevent an adjustment to the Conversion Rate that would otherwise be required pursuant to Section 14.04 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

 

Section 14.04.              Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occurs, except that the Company shall not make any adjustments to the Conversion Rate if Holders of the Notes participate (other than in the case of: (x) a share split or share consolidation; or (y) a tender or exchange offer), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described in this Section 14.04, without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of Subordinate Voting Shares equal to the Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.

 

(a)               If the Company exclusively issues Subordinate Voting Shares as a dividend or distribution on the Subordinate Voting Shares, or if the Company effects a share split or share consolidation, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

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where,

 

CR0   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the open of business on the Effective Date of such share split or share consolidation, as applicable;
CR1   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date, as applicable;
OS0   =   the number of Subordinate Voting Shares outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date, as applicable, without giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share consolidation; and
OS1   =   the number of Subordinate Voting Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share consolidation.

 

Any adjustment made under this Section 14.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the open of business on the Effective Date for such share split or share consolidation, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 14.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

(b)               If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders of Subordinate Voting Shares any rights, options or warrants (other than in connection with a shareholder rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the issue date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase Subordinate Voting Shares at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where,

 

CR0   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance;
CR1   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
OS0   =   the number of Subordinate Voting Shares outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
X   =   the total number of Subordinate Voting Shares issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and
Y   =   the number of Subordinate Voting Shares equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options or warrants.

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Any increase made under this Section 14.04(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance. To the extent that the Subordinate Voting Shares are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of Subordinate Voting Shares actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance had not occurred.

 

For purposes of this Section 14.04(b), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares to subscribe for or purchase the Subordinate Voting Shares at less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such Subordinate Voting Shares, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors.

 

(c)               If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares, excluding (i) dividends, distributions or issuances as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 14.04(a) or Section 14.04(b), (ii) distributions of Reference Property in exchange for, or upon conversion of, Subordinate Voting Shares in a Merger Event, (iii) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which the provisions set forth in Section 14.04(d) shall apply, and (iv) Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 14.04(c) shall apply (any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities, the “Distributed Property”), then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

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where,

 

CR0   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;
CR1   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
SP0   =   the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and
FMV   =   the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, subject to the approval of the TSX) of the Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.

 

Any increase made under the portion of this Section 14.04(c) above shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. If such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount thereof, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares receive the Distributed Property, the amount and kind of Distributed Property that such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of Subordinate Voting Shares equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for the distribution.

 

With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 14.04(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Subordinate Voting Shares of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange or reasonably comparable Canadian or non-U.S. equivalent (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where,

 

CR0   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the Valuation Period;
CR1   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the end of the Valuation Period;
FMV0   =   the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares applicable to one share of the Subordinate Voting Shares (determined by reference to the definition of Last Reported Sale Price as set forth in Section 1.01 as if references therein to Subordinate Voting Shares were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of the Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); and
MP0   =   the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares over the Valuation Period.

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The increase to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur at the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period; provided that if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the Valuation Period, the reference to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the Ex-Dividend Date for such Spin-Off and such Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate.

 

For purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and subject in all respect to Section 14.11), rights, options or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s Capital Stock, including Subordinate Voting Shares (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such Subordinate Voting Shares; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of the Subordinate Voting Shares, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 14.04(c). If any such right, option or warrant, including any such existing rights, options or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and Ex-Dividend Date with respect to new rights, options or warrants with such rights (in which case the existing rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on such date without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights, options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any holders thereof, upon such final redemption or purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued and (y) the Conversion Rate shall then again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase price received by a holder or holders of Subordinate Voting Shares with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Subordinate Voting Shares as of the date of such redemption or purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options and warrants had not been issued.

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For purposes of Section 14.04(a), Section 14.04(b) and this Section 14.04(c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable also includes one or both of:

 

(A)             a dividend or distribution of Subordinate Voting Shares to which Section 14.04(a) is applicable (the “Clause A Distribution”); or

 

(B)              a dividend or distribution of rights, options or warrants to which Section 14.04(b) is applicable (the “Clause B Distribution”),

 

then, in either case, (1) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 14.04(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall then be made, and (2) the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 14.04(a) and Section 14.04(b) with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company (I) the “Ex-Dividend Date” of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to be the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause C Distribution and (II) any Subordinate Voting Shares included in the Clause A Distribution or Clause B Distribution shall be deemed not to be “outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(a) or “outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(b).

 

(d)               If the Company makes any cash dividend or distribution to all or substantially all holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares to the extent such cash dividend or distribution, together with any other cash dividends or distributions paid during the preceding 12 months, exceeds US$0.10 per share (the “Dividend Threshold Amount”) (the Dividend Threshold Amount is subject to proportionate adjustment to reflect a share split or share consolidation of the Subordinate Voting Shares), the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

 

 

where,

 

CR0   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;
CR1   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;
SP0   =   the Last Reported Sale Price of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; and
C   =   the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares, together with any other cash dividends or distributions paid during the preceding twelve months, in excess of the Dividend Threshold Amount (less any excess in respect of which the Conversion Rate had previously been adjusted pursuant to this Section 14.04(d)).

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Any increase pursuant to this Section 14.04(d) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to make or pay such dividend or distribution, to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of Subordinate Voting Shares, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of Subordinate Voting Shares equal to the Conversion Rate on the Ex-Dividend Date for such cash dividend or distribution.

 

(e)               If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Subordinate Voting Shares, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Subordinate Voting Shares exceeds the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

 

where,

 

CR0   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires;
CR1   =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires;
AC   =   the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors) paid or payable for Subordinate Voting Shares purchased in such tender or exchange offer;
OS0   =   the number of Subordinate Voting Shares outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all Subordinate Voting Shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer);
OS1   =   the number of Subordinate Voting Shares outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase of all Subordinate Voting Shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and
SP1   =   the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Subordinate Voting Shares over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.

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The increase to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(e) shall occur at the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the expiration date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the expiration date of such tender or exchange offer and such Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate.

 

(f)                Notwithstanding this Section 14.04 or any other provision of this Indenture or the Notes, if a Conversion Rate adjustment becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date, and a Holder that has converted its Notes on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or prior to the related Record Date would be treated as the record holder of the Subordinate Voting Shares as of the related Conversion Date as described under Section 14.02(i) based on an adjusted Conversion Rate for such Ex-Dividend Date, then, notwithstanding the Conversion Rate adjustment provisions in this Section 14.04, the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date shall not be made for such converting Holder. Instead, such Holder shall be treated as if such Holder were the record owner of the Subordinate Voting Shares on an unadjusted basis and participate in the related dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.

 

(g)               Except as stated herein, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of Subordinate Voting Shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable Subordinate Voting Shares or the right to purchase Subordinate Voting Shares or such convertible or exchangeable securities.

 

(h)               In addition to those adjustments required by clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 14.04, and subject to applicable exchange listing rules (including the approval of the TSX), the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least 20 Business Days if the Board of Directors determines that such increase would be in the Company’s best interest. In addition, subject to applicable exchange listing rules (including the approval of the TSX), the Company may (but is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate to avoid or diminish income tax to holders of Subordinate Voting Shares or rights to purchase Subordinate Voting Shares in connection with a dividend or distribution of Subordinate Voting Shares (or rights to acquire Subordinate Voting Shares) or similar event. Any such increases in the Conversion Rate by the Board of Directors shall not, without the approval of the shareholders of the Company, if required by the rules of Nasdaq or the TSX (or if the Subordinate Voting Shares are not listed on Nasdaq or the TSX, on such other national or regional exchange or market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are then listed or quoted), result in the sale or issuance of 20% in the case of Nasdaq (25% in the case of the TSX and the highest percentage permitted under the applicable listing rules in the case of such other national or regional exchange or market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are then listed or quoted) or more of the Subordinate Voting Shares, or 20% in the case of Nasdaq (25% in the case of the TSX and the highest percentage permitted under the applicable listing rules in the case of such other national or regional exchange or market on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are then listed or quoted) or more of the voting power of the Company, outstanding as of the date of the Offering Memorandum.

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(i)                 Except as stated in this Article 14, the Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted:

 

(i)                 upon the issuance of any Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in Subordinate Voting Shares under any plan;

 

(ii)              upon the issuance of any Subordinate Voting Shares, restricted stock or restricted stock units or options, rights or other derivatives to purchase Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries;

 

(iii)            upon the issuance of any Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security (including the Company’s multiple voting shares) not described in clause (ii) of this subsection and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;

 

(iv)             upon the issuance of any Subordinate Voting Shares in satisfaction of the exercise of call or put options contained in shareholders’ agreements existing on the date of this Indenture and similar agreements existing on the date of this Indenture to which the Company or its Subsidiaries are subject which are payable at the Company’s option in any combination of Subordinate Voting Shares and cash, and the entry into additional like agreements containing similar call or put options and the issuance of any of Subordinate Voting Shares in satisfaction of the exercise thereof;

 

(v)               upon the issuance of any Subordinate Voting Shares in satisfaction of amounts owing under the long term incentive fee contained in Article 4.0 of the restated management services agreement among the Company, Jayset Management CIG Inc. and Jay S. Hennick, effective on June 1, 2015;

 

(vi)             upon the repurchase of any Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to an open-market share repurchase program or other buy-back transaction that is not a tender offer or exchange offer of the nature described in clause (e) of this Section 14.04, including pursuant to “10b-18” purchases on Nasdaq or other U.S. securities exchange or market or “normal course issuer bids” effected through the facilities of the TSX or alternative Canadian trading systems;

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(vii)          solely for a change in the par value of the Subordinate Voting Shares; or

 

(viii)        for accrued and unpaid interest, if any.

 

(j)                 All calculations and other determinations under this Article 14 shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000th) of a share. Neither the Trustee nor Conversion Agent shall have any duty to make any such calculations.

 

(k)               If an adjustment to the Conversion Rate otherwise required by this Section 14.04 would result in a change of less than 1% to the Conversion Rate, then, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may, at its election, defer and carry forward such adjustment, except that all such deferred adjustments must be given effect immediately upon the earliest to occur of the following: (i) when the aggregate of all such deferred adjustments equals or exceeds 1% of the Conversion Rate, (ii) regardless of whether the aggregate adjustment is less than 1% of the applicable Conversion Rate on the Conversion Date for any Notes and (iii) on the effective date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change, Termination of Trading and/or Fundamental Change, in each case, unless the adjustment has already been made.

 

(l)                 Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if not the Trustee) an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officer’s Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth (i) a brief description of the transaction or other event on account of which such adjustment was made, (ii) the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such adjustment and (iii) the effective time of such adjustment and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee). Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.

 

(m)             For purposes of this Section 14.04, the number of Subordinate Voting Shares at any time outstanding shall not include Subordinate Voting Shares held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on Subordinate Voting Shares held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include Subordinate Voting Shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of Subordinate Voting Shares.

 

(n)               Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 14.04, if: (i) a Note is to be converted, (ii) the Record Date or Effective Date for any event that requires an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to the provisions described in described in clauses (a) through (d) of this Section 14.04, inclusive, has occurred on or before the Conversion Date for such conversion, but an adjustment to the Conversion Rate for such event has not yet become effective as of such Conversion Date, (iii) the consideration due upon such conversion includes any whole Subordinate Voting Shares, and (iv) such Subordinate Voting Shares are not entitled to participate in such event (because they were not held on the related Record Date or otherwise), then, solely for purposes of such conversion, the Company shall, without duplication, give effect to such adjustment on such Conversion Date, and, for the avoidance of doubt, such Subordinate Voting Shares will not be entitled to participate in such event. In such case, if the date the Company is otherwise required to deliver the consideration due upon such conversion is before the first date on which the amount of such adjustment can be determined, then the Company shall delay the settlement of such conversion until the second Business Day after such first date.

 

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Section 14.05.              Adjustments of Prices. Whenever any provision of this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices or the Daily VWAPs over a span of multiple days (including the Share Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or a Redemption Period), the Board of Directors shall, in good faith, make appropriate adjustments to each to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Effective Date or expiration date, as the case may be, of the event occurs at any time during the period when the Last Reported Sale Prices or the Daily VWAPs are to be calculated.

 

Section 14.06.              Shares to Be Fully Paid. The Company shall provide, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient Subordinate Voting Shares to provide for conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion (assuming delivery of the maximum number of Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03(a) and that at the time of computation of such number of shares, all such Notes would be converted by a single Holder).

 

Section 14.07.              Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Subordinate Voting Shares.

 

(a)               In the case of:

 

(i)                 any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Subordinate Voting Shares (other than changes resulting from a share split or consolidation),

 

(ii)              any consolidation, merger, amalgamation or combination involving the Company,

 

(iii)            any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer to a third party of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries or

 

(iv)             any statutory share exchange,

 

in each case, as a result of which the Subordinate Voting Shares would be converted into, or exchanged for, shares, stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (any such event, a “Merger Event”), then, at and after the effective time of such Merger Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be changed into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes into the kind and amount of shares, stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that a holder of a number of Subordinate Voting Shares equal to the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such Merger Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the “Reference Property,” with each “unit of Reference Property” meaning the kind and amount of Reference Property that a holder of one share of Subordinate Voting Shares are entitled to receive) upon such Merger Event and, prior to or at the effective time of such Merger Event, the Company or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section 10.01(g) providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; providedhowever, that at and after the effective time of the Merger Event (A) the Company shall continue to have the right to determine the form of consideration to be paid or delivered, as the case may be, upon payment of principal of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.07 and (B)(I) any Subordinate Voting Shares that the Company would have been required to deliver upon exercise of the Company’s option to deliver Subordinate Voting Shares to satisfy in whole or in part the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.07 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of Subordinate Voting Shares would have received in such Merger Event and (II) the Current Market Price shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property.

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If the Merger Event causes the Subordinate Voting Shares to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of shareholder election), then (i) the Reference Property into which the Notes will be convertible, or the Reference Property deliverable upon exercise of the Company’s option to satisfy its obligation to pay the principal of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.07, as applicable, shall be deemed to be (A) the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares that affirmatively make such an election or (B) if no holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares affirmatively make such an election, the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares, and (ii) the unit of Reference Property for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) of this paragraph attributable to one Subordinate Voting Shares. If the holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares receive only cash in such Merger Event, then (A) for all conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs after the effective date of such Merger Event (I) the consideration due upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may be increased by any Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03(a)), multiplied by the price paid per share of Subordinate Voting Shares in such Merger Event and (II) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying cash to converting Holders on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date and (B) the Company shall pay the principal amount of the Notes in cash only upon redemption or maturity. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of such weighted average as soon as practicable after such determination is made.

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The supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph, which shall also provide that Reference Property shall be deliverable upon exercise of the Company’s option to satisfy the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.07, shall provide for anti-dilution and other adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as is possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article 14. If, in the case of any Merger Event, the Reference Property includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (including any combination thereof) of a Person other than the Company or the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such Merger Event, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other Person and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders as the Board of Directors shall in good faith reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including the provisions providing for the purchase rights set forth in Article 15.

 

(b)               When the Company executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 14.07, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of cash, securities or property or asset that will comprise a unit of Reference Property after any such Merger Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and that all conditions precedent have been complied with, and shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered notice thereof to all Holders. The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be delivered to each Holder within 20 days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.

 

(c)               Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company effects a transaction that would be a Spin-Off, but for the fact that it is, for tax, securities law or other reasons, structured as a Merger Event, and in such transaction (i) the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares receive both shares of a new series or class of Common Equity (the “New Shares”) and shares of the entity being spun off (the “Spin-off Shares”), and (ii) the rights and privileges of the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares are not materially adversely affected, then the Company may (but is not obligated to), by notice to Holders and the Trustee prior to the effective date of such transaction, elect to treat the distribution of the Spin-off Shares as being subject to the adjustment provisions set forth in Section 14.04(c) and the distribution of the New Shares as being subject to this Section 14.07, as if the distribution of the Spin-off Shares was in a separate transaction subject only to Section 14.04(c).

 

(d)               The Company shall not become a party to any Merger Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 14.07. None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Notes to convert its Notes into Subordinate Voting Shares, as set forth in Section 14.01(a) and Section 14.02 prior to the effective date of such Merger Event.

 

(e)               The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive Merger Events.

 

(f)                Upon the consummation of any Merger Event, references to “Subordinate Voting Shares” shall be deemed to refer to any Reference Property that constitutes Common Equity after giving effect to such Merger Event.

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Section 14.08.              Certain Covenants.

 

(a)               The Company covenants that all Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon conversion of Notes will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.

 

(b)               The Company covenants that, if any Subordinate Voting Shares to be provided for the purpose of conversion of Notes hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such Subordinate Voting Shares may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the Commission, secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.

 

(c)               The Company further covenants that if at any time the Subordinate Voting Shares shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system the Company will list and keep listed, so long as the Subordinate Voting Shares shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Subordinate Voting Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes.

 

Section 14.09.              Responsibility of Trustee and Conversion Agent. The Trustee and Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any Subordinate Voting Shares, or of any securities, property or cash that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any Subordinate Voting Shares or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 14.07 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 14.07 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 7.07 may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto.

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Section 14.10.              Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions.  In case of any:

 

(a)               action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04 or Section 14.11; or

 

(b)               voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company;

 

then, in each case (unless notice of such event is otherwise required pursuant to another provision of this Indenture), the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and to be delivered to each Holder, as promptly as possible but in any event at least 10 days prior to the applicable date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares of record are to be determined for the purposes of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) the date on which such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is expected to become effective or occur, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Subordinate Voting Shares of record shall be entitled to exchange their Subordinate Voting Shares for securities or other property deliverable upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.

 

Section 14.11.              Stockholder Rights Plans. If the Company has a stockholder rights plan in effect upon conversion of the Notes, each share of Subordinate Voting Shares, if any, issued upon such conversion shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended from time to time. However, if, prior to any conversion of Notes, the rights have separated from the Subordinate Voting Shares in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights plan, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Subordinate Voting Shares, the Distributed Property as provided in Section 14.04(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.

 

Article 15
REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS

 

Section 15.01.              Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change.

 

(a)               If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time, the Company shall be required to offer to repurchase for cash all of the outstanding Notes in integral multiples of $1,000 on the date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 Business Days or more than 35 Business Days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”), unless the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest to Holders of record as of such Regular Record Date, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased pursuant to this Article 15.

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(b)               Repurchases of Notes under this Section 15.01 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:

 

(i)                 delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice”) in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Definitive Notes, or in compliance with the Depositary’s procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case, on or before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and

 

(ii)              delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Definitive Notes, to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent, or book-entry transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary, in each case, such delivery or transfer being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor.

 

The Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in respect of any Definitive Notes to be repurchased shall state:

 

(iii)            the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;

 

(iv)             the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and

 

(v)               that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture.

 

If the Notes are Global Notes, to exercise the Fundamental Change repurchase right, Holders must surrender their Notes in accordance with applicable Depositary procedures.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice contemplated by this (b) shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 15.02(a).

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The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.

 

(c)               On or before the 20th Business Day after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders, the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (in the case of a Conversion Agent other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent (in the case of a Paying Agent other than the Trustee) a notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the Fundamental Change, including an offer to repurchase the Notes. In the case of Definitive Notes, such notice shall be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. Simultaneously with providing such notice, the Company shall publish such information on the Company’s website or through such other public medium as the Company may use at that time. Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:

 

(i)                 the events causing the Fundamental Change;

 

(ii)              the date of the Fundamental Change;

 

(iii)            the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article 15;

 

(iv)             the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;

 

(v)               the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;

 

(vi)             the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;

 

(vii)          if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;

 

(viii)        that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and

 

(ix)             the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.

 

No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 15.01.

 

At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company.

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(d)               Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders upon a Fundamental Change if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Definitive Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary shall be deemed to have been cancelled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

 

Section 15.02.              Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.

 

(a)               A Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) in respect of Definitive Notes by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Paying Agent in accordance with this Section 15.02(a) at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, specifying:

 

(i)                 the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof,

 

(ii)              the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and

 

(iii)            the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, which portion must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000;

 

If the Notes are Global Notes, Holders may withdraw their Notes subject to repurchase at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date in accordance with applicable procedures of the Depositary.

 

Section 15.03.              Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.

 

(a)               The Company will deposit with the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company, or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04(a) and Section 7.05) on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), payment for Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not validly withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (provided the Holder has satisfied the conditions in Section 15.01(a)) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 15.01(a) by mailing checks for the amount payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; providedhowever, that payments to the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Trustee shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.

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(b)               If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) holds money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of the Notes to be repurchased on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for repurchase and have not been validly withdrawn, (i) such Notes will cease to be outstanding, (ii) interest will cease to accrue on such Notes (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes has been made or whether or not the Notes have been delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent) and (iii) all other rights of the Holders of such Notes will terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price).

 

(c)               Upon surrender of a Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to Section 15.01(a), the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased portion of the Note surrendered.

 

Section 15.04.              Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes. In connection with any repurchase offer upon a Fundamental Change pursuant to this Article 15, the Company will, if required:

 

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

 

(b)               file all materials required under applicable U.S. and Canadian securities laws or other applicable laws; and

 

(c)               otherwise comply with all U.S. federal and state and Canadian securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to repurchase the Notes;

 

in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article 15 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article 15.

 

Article 16
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION

 

Section 16.01.              Optional Redemption. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to June 1, 2023, except as provided in Section 16.03. On or after June 1, 2023, the Company may redeem (an “Optional Redemption”) all or any portion of the Notes, at its option, at the Redemption Price, if the Last Reported Sale Price of the Subordinate Voting Shares for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides the Notice of Optional Redemption in accordance with Section 16.02(a) has been at least 130% of the Conversion Price then in effect on each such Trading Day.

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Section 16.02.              Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes.

 

(a)               In case the Company exercises its Optional Redemption right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Notes pursuant to Section 16.01, it shall fix a Redemption Date and it or, at its written request received by the Trustee not less than 5 Business Days prior to the date such Notice of Optional Redemption is to be sent (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee, in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall deliver or cause to be delivered a notice of such Optional Redemption (a “Notice of Optional Redemption”) not less than 30 nor more than 60 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder so to be redeemed as a whole or in part; providedhowever, that, if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also give the Notice of Optional Redemption to the Trustee and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee). The Redemption Date must be a Business Day; and provided, further, that if the Company elects to exercise its Share Repayment Right in accordance with Section 16.07, such Notice of Optional Redemption shall be delivered in accordance with the time frame specified in such Section.

 

(b)               The Notice of Optional Redemption, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such Notice of Optional Redemption or any defect in the Notice of Optional Redemption to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.

 

(c)               Each Notice of Optional Redemption shall specify:

 

(i)                 the Redemption Date;

 

(ii)              the Redemption Price

 

(iii)            if applicable, the aggregate principal amount of Notes in respect of which the Company is exercising the Share Repayment Right pursuant to Section 16.07;

 

(iv)             that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each Note to be redeemed, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;

 

(v)               the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;

 

(vi)             that Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date;

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(vii)          the procedures a converting Holder must follow to convert its Notes;

 

(viii)        the Conversion Rate and, if applicable, the number of Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate in accordance with Section 14.03(a);

 

(ix)             the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers, if any, assigned to such Notes; and

 

(x)               in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued.

 

A Notice of Optional Redemption shall be irrevocable.

 

(d)               If fewer than all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed the Trustee shall select the Notes or portions thereof to be so redeemed (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) by lot, on a pro rata basis or by another method the Trustee considers to be fair and appropriate. If any Note selected for partial redemption is submitted for conversion in part after such selection, the portion of the Note submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be the portion selected for redemption, subject, in the case of Notes represented by a Global Note, to the Depositary’s applicable procedures.

 

Section 16.03.              Redemption of Notes for Changes in Canadian Tax Law. The Company may redeem (a “Tax Redemption”) for cash all, but not part of, the Notes, at its option, at the Redemption Price, if the Company has, or on the next Interest Payment Date would, become obligated to pay to the Holder of any Notes Additional Amounts (which are more than a de minimis amount) as a result of any change or amendment that is announced or becomes effective on or after the date of the Offering Memorandum in the laws or regulations of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction, or any change that is announced on or after the date of the Offering Memorandum in an interpretation, administration or application of such laws or regulations by any legislative body, court, governmental agency, taxing authority or regulatory authority (including the enactment of any legislation and the publication of any judicial decision or regulatory or administrative determination); provided that the Company may only redeem the Notes under this Section 16.03 if (x) it cannot avoid these obligations by taking reasonable measures available to it and (y) it delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (which shall be provided by outside legal counsel) and an Officer’s Certificate, in each case, attesting to such change and obligation to pay Additional Amounts. The Trustee will have no obligation or liability to determine whether any such change in law exists and whether the Company has taken measures necessary to avoid these obligations.

 

Section 16.04.              Notice of Tax Redemption.

 

(a)               In case the Company exercises its Tax Redemption right to redeem all of the Notes pursuant to Section 16.03, it shall fix a Redemption Date and it or, at its written request received by the Trustee not less than 5 Business Days prior to the date such Notice of Tax Redemption is to be sent (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee, in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall deliver or cause to be delivered a notice of such Tax Redemption (a “Notice of Tax Redemption”) not less than 30 nor more than 60 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder; providedhowever, that, (x) the Company shall not give a Notice of Tax Redemption earlier than 60 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the earliest date on or from which the Company would be obligated to pay any such Additional Amounts; and (y) at the time the Company gives a Notice of Tax Redemption, the circumstances creating the Company’s obligation to pay such Additional Amounts remain in effect; and (z) if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also give the Notice of Tax Redemption to the Trustee and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee). The Redemption Date must be a Business Day; and provided, further, that if the Company elects to exercise its Share Repayment Right in accordance with Section 16.07, such Notice of Tax Redemption shall be delivered in accordance with the time frame specified in such Section.

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(b)               The Notice of Tax Redemption, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such Notice of Tax Redemption or any defect in the Notice of Tax Redemption to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.

 

(c)               Each Notice of Tax Redemption shall specify:

 

(i)                 the Redemption Date;

 

(ii)              the Redemption Price

 

(iii)            if applicable, the aggregate principal amount of Notes in respect of which the Company is exercising the Share Repayment Right pursuant to Section 16.07;

 

(iv)             that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each Note to be redeemed, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;

 

(v)               the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;

 

(vi)             that Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date;

 

(vii)          the procedures a converting Holder must follow to convert its Notes;

 

(viii)        the Conversion Rate and, if applicable, the number of Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate in accordance with Section 14.03(a);

 

(ix)             the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers, if any, assigned to such Notes; and

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(x)               that each Holder who does not wish to have the Company redeem its Notes will have the right to elect to not have its Notes redeemed and the procedures for making such election.

 

A Notice of Tax Redemption shall be irrevocable.

 

(d)               Upon receiving such Notice of Tax Redemption, each Holder who does not wish to have the Company redeem its Notes will have the right to elect to (i) convert its Notes; or (ii) not have its Notes redeemed, in which case the Company will not be obligated to pay any Additional Amounts on any payment with respect to such Notes solely as a result of such change in tax law that resulted in the obligation to pay such Additional Amounts (whether upon conversion, required repurchase in connection with a Fundamental Change, upon any Optional Redemption as described under Section 16.01, maturity or otherwise, and whether in cash, Subordinate Voting Shares, Reference Property or otherwise) after the Redemption Date for such Tax Redemption (or, if the Company fails to pay the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date, such later date on which the Company pays the Redemption Price), and all future payments with respect to such Notes will be subject to the deduction or withholding of such Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction taxes required by law to be deducted or withheld as a result of such change in tax law; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Holder electing not to have its Notes redeemed converts its Notes during the related Redemption Period, the Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such conversion.

 

(e)               The Holder must deliver to the Paying Agent a written notice of election so as to be received by the Paying Agent no later than the close of business on a Business Day at least five Business Days prior to the Redemption Date. A Holder may withdraw any notice of election by delivering to the Paying Agent a written notice of withdrawal prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Redemption Date. Where no election is made, the Holder’s Notes will be redeemed without any further action.

 

Section 16.05.              Payment of Notes Called for Redemption.

 

(a)               If any Notice of Redemption has been given in respect of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.02(a) or Section 16.04(a), as applicable, the Notes shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the place or places stated in the Notice of Redemption and at the applicable Redemption Price. On presentation and surrender of the Notes at the place or places stated in the Notice of Redemption, the Notes shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price.

 

(b)               Prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent or, if the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04 and Section 7.05 an amount of cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on the Redemption Date), and, subject to Section 16.07, such number of Subordinate Voting Shares that are sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all of the Notes to be redeemed on such Redemption Date. Subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, payment for the Notes to be redeemed shall be made on the Redemption Date for such Notes. The Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Redemption Price.

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Section 16.06.              Restrictions on Redemption. The Company may not redeem any Notes on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Redemption Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to such Notes).

 

Section 16.07.              Payment Upon Redemption or Maturity.

 

(a)               The Company may, at its option, on not less than 40 nor more than 90 Scheduled Trading Days’ notice to Trustee, the Paying Agent and each Holder, and subject to any required regulatory approvals and this Section 16.07, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to satisfy its obligation to pay, in whole or in part, the principal amount of the Notes which are to be redeemed or which are to mature by delivering, subject to Section 14.07, that number of Subordinate Voting Shares obtained by dividing the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or that are to mature, as the case may be, by 95% of the Current Market Price of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable (the “Share Repayment Right”). The principal amount of Notes in respect of which the Company is exercising the Share Repayment Right pursuant to Section 16.07 may be specified as a percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding as of the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable, that will be redeemed or that will mature.

 

(b)               The Company shall specify the aggregate principal amount of Notes in respect of which it is exercising the Share Repayment Right, (i) in the case of a redemption, in the related Notice of Redemption and (ii) in the case of payment upon maturity, in a notice delivered in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. Any such notice shall be irrevocable.

 

(c)               The Company’s right to exercise the Share Repayment Right shall be conditional upon the following conditions being met on the Business Day preceding the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable:

 

(i)                 the issuance of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the exercise of the Share Repayment Right shall be made in accordance with applicable Canadian and U.S. securities laws or pursuant to an available exemption therefrom;

 

(ii)              such additional Subordinate Voting Shares shall be approved for listing, on each stock exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are then listed if so required by the rules and regulations of the applicable exchange(s);

 

(iii)            the Company shall be a reporting issuer in good standing or the equivalent under applicable Canadian securities laws where the distribution of such Subordinate Voting Shares occurs;

 

(iv)             no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

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(v)               the receipt by the Trustee of an Officer’s Certificate stating that conditions (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above have been satisfied and setting forth the number of Subordinate Voting Shares to be delivered for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes and the Current Market Price of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable; and

 

(vi)             the receipt by the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such Subordinate Voting Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered pursuant to the terms of this Indenture in payment of the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date or the principal amount of the Notes on the Maturity Date, as applicable, will be validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable, that conditions (i) and (ii) above have been satisfied and that, relying exclusively on certificates of good standing issued by, or a list of issuers in default maintained by, as applicable, the relevant securities authorities, condition (iii) above is satisfied, except that the opinion in respect of condition (iii) need not be expressed with respect to those provinces where such lists or certificates, as applicable, are not maintained or issued.

 

If the foregoing conditions are not satisfied prior to the close of business on the Business Day preceding the Redemption Date or the Maturity Date, as applicable, the Company shall pay the amount payable on the Redemption Date or the Maturity Date, as applicable, entirely in cash.

 

(d)               In the event that the Company duly exercises its Share Repayment Right, the Company shall on or before 11:00 a.m. New York time on the Business Day immediately prior to the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable, deliver to the Paying Agent, for delivery to and on account of the Holders of the Notes, upon the due presentation and surrender of the Notes, evidence of the Subordinate Voting Shares to which such Holders are entitled. To the extent that any Notes are converted pursuant to Article 14 hereof after the delivery by the Company of such evidence, then the number of Subordinate Voting Shares that would otherwise be deliverable in respect of such converted Notes shall automatically be deducted from the aggregate number of Subordinate Voting Shares deliverable pursuant to this Section 16.07(d) on the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable, and shall not be issued or delivered to the Holders for such converted Notes pursuant to this Section 16.07(d). The Company shall also deposit with the Paying Agent cash sufficient to pay accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes to, but excluding, the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable, together with any cash payable for fractional shares as provided in Section 16.07(e) below or in respect of any portion of the Notes to be redeemed or repaid in cash as provided in Section 16.07(g) below and cash sufficient to pay any charges or expenses which may be incurred by the Paying Agent in connection with the Share Repayment Right. Every such deposit shall be irrevocable ; provided that any cash amounts to be paid in respect of Notes converted pursuant to Article 14 hereof prior to the Redemption Date or Maturity Date (and after the delivery by the Company of an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such cash amounts are to be paid in respect of Notes converted pursuant to Article 14), as applicable, shall be remitted by the Paying Agent to the Company promptly following such Redemption Date or Maturity Date. From the Subordinate Voting Shares and cash so deposited, in addition to the amounts payable by the Company, if any, pursuant to Section 4.04(a) or Section 16.05(b), the Paying Agent shall pay or cause to be paid, to the Holders of such Notes, upon surrender of such Notes, the amounts to which they are respectively entitled on the Redemption Date or the Maturity Date, as applicable, including any accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date or the Maturity Date, as applicable, in cash, and deliver to such Holders the certificates for Subordinate Voting Shares to which such Holders are entitled; provided that the Subordinate Voting Shares to which such Holders shall be entitled shall be delivered, subject to the applicable procedures of the Depositary, through the Depositary, in the case of Global Notes, or in certificated form, in the case of Definitive Notes, in each case, in satisfaction of the Company’s obligation to deliver Subordinate Voting shares upon exercise the Share Repayment Right.

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(e)               No fractional Subordinate Voting Shares shall be delivered upon the exercise of the Share Repayment Right but, in lieu thereof, the Company shall pay to the Paying Agent for the account of the Holders (after taking into account any conversions of Notes pursuant to Article 14 hereof prior to the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable), at the time contemplated in Section 16.07(d), the cash equivalent thereof determined on the basis of the Current Market Price of the Subordinate Voting Shares on the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable.

 

(f)                A Holder of Notes shall be treated as the shareholder of record of the Subordinate Voting Shares issued on due exercise by the Company of its Share Repayment Right effective immediately after the close of business on the Redemption Date or the Maturity Date, as applicable, and shall be entitled to all substitutions therefor, all income earned thereon or accretions thereto and all dividends or distributions (including any dividends or distributions in kind) thereon and arising thereafter, and in the event that the Trustee receives the same, it shall hold the same in trust for the benefit of such Holder.

 

(g)               If the Company has elected to satisfy its obligation to pay the principal amount of the Notes partly in cash and partly by the delivery of Subordinate Voting Shares, then the portion payable in cash and the portion payable in Subordinate Voting Shares shall be the same for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed or which are to mature, subject to the payment of cash in lieu of fractional Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to Section 16.07(e), and such cash payment shall be deposited with the Paying Agent as provided for in Section 16.07(d) above.

 

(h)               The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized Subordinate Voting Shares (if the number thereof is or becomes limited), solely for the purpose of issue and delivery upon the exercise of the Company’s Share Repayment Right as provided herein, and shall issue to Holders of Notes to whom Subordinate Voting Shares will be issued pursuant to exercise of the Share Repayment Right, such number of Subordinate Voting Shares as shall be issuable in such event.

 

(i)                 All Subordinate Voting Shares issued and delivered upon exercise of the Share Repayment Right shall be fully paid and non-assessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.

 

(j)                 The Company shall comply will all applicable Canadian securities laws, the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws regulating the issue and delivery of the Subordinate Voting Shares upon exercise of the Share Repayment Right and shall cause to be listed and posted for trading such Subordinate Voting Shares on each stock exchange on which the Subordinate Voting Shares are then listed.

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(k)               The Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax which shall be payable with respect to the issuance or delivery of Subordinate Voting Shares to Holders upon exercise of the Share Repayment Right pursuant to the terms of the Notes and this Indenture.

 

(l)                 For the avoidance of doubt, the Company’s obligation to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 2.11 is applicable to all payments or deliveries made pursuant to this Section 16.07.

 

(m)             The Trustee will only act pursuant to a Company Order when acting under this Section 16.07.

 

(n)               Accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes that are outstanding on the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable, shall be paid in cash.

 

Article 17
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Section 17.01.              Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.

 

Section 17.02.              Official Acts by Successor Corporation. Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or Officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any corporation or other entity that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the Company.

 

Section 17.03.              Addresses for Notices, Etc. Any notice or demand that by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders on the Company shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if given or served by overnight courier or by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the Trustee) to Colliers International Group Inc., 1140 Bay Street, Suite 4000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2B4, Attention: Christian Mayer (fax no.: (416) 960-5333). Any notice, direction, request or demand hereunder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed to the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or sent electronically in PDF format.

 

The Trustee, by notice to the Company, may designate an additional or different address for subsequent notices or communications.

 

Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Definitive Notes shall be mailed to it by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register and shall be sufficiently given to it if so mailed within the time prescribed. Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Global Notes shall be delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary and shall be sufficiently given to it if so delivered within the time prescribed. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Note, where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event (including any Fundamental Change Company Notice) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with the Depositary’s applicable procedures.

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Failure to mail or deliver a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed or delivered, as the case may be, in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

 

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to Holders by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

 

Section 17.04.              Governing Law; Jurisdiction. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

The Company irrevocably consents and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Notes and the Trustee, that any legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Notes may be brought in any United States federal or State of New York court located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and, until amounts due and to become due in respect of the Notes have been paid, hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of each such court with respect to any such legal action, suit or proceeding for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.

 

The Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Indenture brought in the any United States federal or State of New York court located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. A final judgment in any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any other courts to whose jurisdiction the Company is or may be subject, by suit upon judgment. The Company further agrees that nothing herein shall affect any Holder’s right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or bring an action, suit or proceeding (including a proceeding for enforcement of a judgment) in any other court or jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law.

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The Company hereby appoints Ferrante & Associates, located at 126 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA, USA 02139 (telephone: 617-868-5000) as its agent for service of process in any suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Indenture and the Notes and for actions brought under the U.S. federal or state securities laws with respect thereto brought in any U.S. federal or state court located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York. Service of any process on Ferrante & Associates in any such action (and written notice of such service to the Company) shall be effective service of process against the Company for any suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court.

 

Section 17.05.              Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee. Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall, if requested by the Trustee, furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that such action is permitted by the terms of this Indenture.

 

Each Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel provided for, by or on behalf of the Company in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with this Indenture (other than the Officer’s Certificates provided for in Section 4.08) shall include (a) a statement that the person signing such certificate is familiar with the requested action and this Indenture; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statement contained in such certificate is based; (c) a statement that, in the judgment of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed judgment as to whether or not such action is permitted by this Indenture; and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the judgment of such person, such action is permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to such action have been complied with; provided that no Opinion of Counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection with (1) the original issuance of the Initial Notes on the date hereof under this Indenture, (2) any exchange by the Company in its sole discretion of the restricted CUSIP of the Restricted Securities to an unrestricted CUSIP pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Depositary upon the Notes becoming freely tradeable by non-Affiliates of the Company under Rule 144, or (3) a request by the Company that the Trustee deliver a notice to Holders under this Indenture where the Trustee receives an Officer’s Certificate with respect to such notice. With respect to matters of fact, an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officer’s Certificate or certificates of public officials.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 17.05, if any provision in this Indenture specifically provides that the Trustee shall or may receive an Opinion of Counsel in connection with any action to be taken by the Trustee or the Company hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to, or entitled to request, such Opinion of Counsel.

 

Section 17.06.              Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, any Redemption Date or the Maturity Date is not a Business Day, then any action to be taken on such date need not be taken on such date, but may be taken on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if taken on such date, and no interest shall accrue in respect of the delay.

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Section 17.07.              No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.

 

Section 17.08.              Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the Holders, the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, any authenticating agent, any Note Registrar and their successors hereunder, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

Section 17.09.              Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The table of contents and the titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

Section 17.10.              Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Section 2.04, Section 2.05(a), Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 10.04 and Section 15.03(a) as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes “by the Trustee” and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.08.

 

Any corporation or other entity into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder, if such successor corporation or other entity is otherwise eligible under this Section 17.10, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the authenticating agent or such successor corporation or other entity.

 

Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent (which may be the Trustee), shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall deliver notice of such appointment to all Holders.

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The Company agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, provided, that the Company may terminate the authenticating agent if it determines such agent’s fees to be unreasonable.

 

The provisions of Section 7.02, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 8.03 and this Section 17.10 shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.

 

If an authenticating agent is appointed pursuant to this Section 17.10, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in lieu of the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

 

_______________________________,

as Authenticating Agent, certifies that this is one of the Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.

 

By:  _______________________________
       Authorized Signatory

 

Section 17.11.              Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the other parties hereto shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Indenture or any document to be signed in connection with this Indenture shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.

 

Section 17.12.              Severability. In the event any provision of this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.

 

Section 17.13.              Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND THE HOLDERS, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

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Section 17.14.              Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes, epidemics, pandemics, other recognized emergencies or acts of God, and interruptions, or loss or malfunctions of utilities; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts that are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

Section 17.15.              Calculations. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Company shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Share Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Redemption Period, the Current Market Price, the Last Reported Sale Price, the Daily VWAPs, accrued interest payable on the Notes, currency exchange rates and the Conversion Rate. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Company’s calculations shall be final and binding on Holders. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent, and the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Note Registrar and the Conversion Agent are entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification and the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Note Registrar and the Conversion Agent shall have no liability or responsibility whatsoever for any such calculations. The Trustee will forward the Company’s calculations to any Holder upon the written request of that Holder.

 

Section 17.16.              USA PATRIOT Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, are required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The Company agrees that it will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.

 

Section 17.17.              Currency Conversion. Payments of principal (except in accordance with Section 16.07) and interest and the cash payable in lieu of fractional shares in respect of the Notes are payable in U.S. Dollars. If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due under this Indenture to the Holder from U.S. dollars to another currency, the Company agrees, and each Holder by holding such Note will be deemed to have agreed, to the fullest extent that the Company and they may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures such Holder could purchase U.S. dollars with such other currency in New York City, New York on the Business Day preceding the day on which final judgment is given. The Company’s obligations to any Holder will, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than U.S. dollars, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by such Holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, of any amount in such Judgment Currency, such Holder may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase U.S. dollars with the Judgment Currency.

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If the amount of the U.S. dollars so purchased is less than the amount originally to be paid to such Holder or the Trustee in the Judgment Currency (as determined in the manner set forth in the preceding paragraph), as the case may be, the Company agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Holder and the Trustee, as the case may be, against any such loss. If the amount of the U.S. dollars so purchased is more than the amount originally to be paid to such Holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, such Holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, will pay the Company such excess; provided that such Holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall not have any obligation to pay any such excess if the Company shall have failed to pay such Holder or the Trustee any amounts then due and payable under such Note or this Indenture, in which case such excess may be applied by such Holder or the Trustee to such Obligations.

 

Section 17.18.              Anti-Money Laundering. Subject at all times to Article 8, the Trustee shall retain the right not to act and shall not be liable for refusing to act if, due to a lack of information or for any other reason whatsoever, the Trustee, in its sole judgment, determines that such act might cause it to be in non-compliance with any applicable anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist or economic sanctions legislation, regulation or guideline. Further, should the Trustee in its sole judgment, determine at any time that its acting under this Indenture has resulted in its being in non-compliance with any applicable anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist or economic sanctions legislation, regulation or guideline, then it shall have the right to resign in accordance with the requirements of Section 7.09.

 

Section 17.19.              No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

 

Section 17.20.              Third Party. The Company hereby represents to the Trustee that any account to be opened by, or interest to be held by, the Trustee in connection with this Indenture, for or to the credit of the Company, either (i) is not intended to be used by or on behalf of any third party; or (ii) is intended to be used by or on behalf of a third party, in which case, the Company hereto agrees to complete and execute forthwith a declaration in the Trustee’s prescribed form as to the particulars of such third party.

 

Section 17.21.              Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that the Company or any of its properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to, or have attributed to the Company, any right of immunity, on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise, from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from the giving of any relief in any such legal action, suit or proceeding, from setoff or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of any Canadian, New York state or U.S. federal court, from service of process, from attachment upon or prior to judgment, from attachment in aid of execution of judgment, or from execution of judgment, or other legal process or proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of any judgment, in any such court in which proceedings may at any time be commenced, with respect to the obligations and liabilities of the Company, the Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives or

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will waive such right to the extent permitted by applicable law, and agrees not to plead or claim any such immunity and consents to such relief and enforcement.

 

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

 

 Colliers International Group INC.
  
  
By:Christian Mayer
  Name: Christian Mayer
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Colliers International Group Inc. - Signature Page to Indenture]

 

 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee
   
   
By:Stefan Victory
  Name: Stefan Victory
  Title:   Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Colliers International Group Inc. - Signature Page to Indenture]

 

APPENDIX A

 

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL NOTES
AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

 

Section 1.1.  Definitions.

 

(a)       Capitalized Terms.

 

Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Appendix A have the meanings given to them in this Indenture. The following capitalized terms have the following meanings:

 

Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Regulation S Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Global Note, and CDS, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

 

Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date” means, with respect to the Initial Notes, September 20, 2020, and with respect to any Additional Notes, the date that is four months and one day following the latest possible issue date of such Additional Notes.

 

Canadian Tax Act” means the Income Tax Act (Canada), as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

CDS” means CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc., or any successor securities clearing agency.

 

Distribution Compliance Period”, with respect to any Regulation S Notes, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the last original issue date thereof.

 

QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

 

Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Rule 904” means Rule 904 promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

(b)       Other Definitions.

 

Term

 

Defined in Section

“Canadian Restricted Securities Legend”   2.2(a)
“Definitive Notes Legend”   2.2(a)
“Global Notes Legend”   2.2(a)
“Regulation S Global Notes”   2.1
“Regulation S Notes”   2.1
“Restricted Securities Legends”   2.2(a)
“Rule 144A Global Notes”   2.1
“Rule 144A Notes”   2.1
“U.S. Restricted Securities Legend”   2.2(a)

 

 Appendix A-1 

 

Section 2.1. Form and Dating; Global Notes. The Initial Notes issued on the date hereof shall be (i) offered and sold by the Company to the Initial Purchasers and (ii) resold, initially only to (1) QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A (“Rule 144A Notes”) and (2) outside the United States to Persons other than U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S (“Regulation S Notes”). Rule 144A Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in fully registered form (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Notes”) and Regulation S Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more global Notes in fully registered form (collectively, the “Regulation S Global Notes”), in each case without interest coupons and bearing the Global Notes Legend and the applicable Restricted Securities Legends, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with the Custodian, and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in the Indenture.

 

Section 2.2. Legends.

 

(a)       Legends on the Notes.

 

(i)       Except as permitted by this Section 2.2, each Note shall bear legends in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the first legend below, the “U.S. Restricted Securities Legend” and the second legend, the “Canadian Restricted Securities Legend” and collectively, “Restricted Securities Legends”):

 

“THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER AGREES [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF] (1) THAT IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY, EXCEPT (A) TO Colliers International Group INC. (THE “ISSUER”) OR A SUBSIDIARY OF THE ISSUER; (B) UNDER A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; (C) TO A PERSON THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A ADOPTED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, ALL IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A (IF AVAILABLE); (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR (E) UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (2) THAT IT WILL, PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY, FURNISH TO THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE OR TRANSFER AGENT FOR THIS SECURITY, AS APPLICABLE, SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS.

 Appendix A-2 

 

IN CANADA, UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE September 20, 2020.”1

 

Each Definitive Note shall bear the following additional legend (“Definitive Notes Legend”):

 

“IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE NOTE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.”

 

Each Global Note shall bear the following additional legend (“Global Notes Legend”):

 

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

 

 

 

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 1In the case of any Additional Notes, the actual Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date for such Additional Notes will be inserted in place of September 20, 2020 (the date that is four months and one day following the latest possible issue date of any Notes that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of the Initial Purchasers’ option to purchase Additional Notes).
 Appendix A-3 

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.”

 

(ii)       Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date of any Initial Note or Additional Note, all requirements that such Initial Note or Additional Note bear the Canadian Restricted Securities Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Note or Additional Note be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

 

(iii)       Any Additional Notes sold in a registered offering under the Securities Act shall not be required to bear the U.S. Restricted Securities Legend; provided that, any such Additional Notes may be required to include the Canadian Restricted Securities Legend unless such Additional Notes are qualified for distribution by a prospectus under Canadian securities laws or otherwise not subject to any applicable resale restrictions under securities laws.

 

(iv)       The Company may, in its sole discretion, cause the U.S. Restricted Securities Legend on any Global Note to be removed (or deemed removed) and cause such Global Note to be identified by an unrestricted CUSIP at any time on or after the Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date, without delivering an Opinion of Counsel, by:

 

(A)       delivering to the Trustee a written notice (x) certifying that (1) in the case of any Regulation S Global Note, all Notes represented by such Regulation S Global Note would be freely tradable under Rule 904, Section 4(a)(1) of the Securities Act or Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act, and (2) in the case of any Rule 144A Global Note, all Notes represented by such Rule 144A Global Note would be freely tradable under Rule 144 by a person who is not an Affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 144) and has not been an Affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 144A) during the immediately preceding 90 days, the Company is no longer subject to the limitations imposed by Rule 144(i), (y) instructing the Trustee to take any actions as may be necessary so that the Restricted Securities Legends set forth on the Global Notes shall be deemed removed from the Global Notes in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notes and the Indenture, without further action on the part of Holders and (z) instructing the Trustee to take any actions as may be necessary so that the restricted CUSIP number for the Notes shall be removed from the Global Notes and replaced with an unrestricted CUSIP number. Immediately upon receipt of such notice by the Trustee the Restricted Securities Legends will be deemed removed from such Global Notes specified in such notice and the restricted CUSIP number will be deemed removed from each of such Global Notes and deemed replaced with an unrestricted CUSIP number; and

 Appendix A-4 

 

(B)       providing the Depositary an instruction letter for the Depositary’s mandatory exchange process (or any successor notice, form or action required pursuant to the Applicable Procedures) to the extent required.

 

(b)       Legends on Subordinate Voting Shares.

 

(i)       Any share certificate representing Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon conversion of a Note that bears the U.S. Restricted Securities Legend shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Subordinate Voting Shares):

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER AGREES [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE UNDERLYING CONVERTIBLE NOTES] (1) THAT IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY, EXCEPT (A) TO Colliers International Group INC. (THE “ISSUER”) OR A SUBSIDIARY OF THE ISSUER; (B) UNDER A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; (C) TO A PERSON THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A ADOPTED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, ALL IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A (IF AVAILABLE); (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR (E) UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (2) THAT IT WILL, PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY, FURNISH TO THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE OR TRANSFER AGENT FOR THIS SECURITY, AS APPLICABLE, SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS.

 Appendix A-5 

 

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE LISTED ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE (“TSX”); HOWEVER, THE SAID SECURITIES CANNOT BE TRADED THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF TSX SINCE THEY ARE NOT FREELY TRANSFERABLE, AND CONSEQUENTLY ANY CERTIFICATE REPRESENTING SUCH SECURITIES IS NOT “GOOD DELIVERY” IN SETTLEMENT OF TRANSACTIONS ON TSX,

 

provided, that if the Subordinate Voting Shares, are being sold in compliance with the requirements of Rule 904 of Regulation S and in compliance with applicable local laws and regulations, the legends may be removed by providing a declaration to the Company and to the share transfer agent for the Subordinate Voting Shares, in the form attached as Attachment 4 (or as the Company may prescribe from time to time); provided further, if any of the Subordinate Voting Shares, are being sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act, if available, the legends may be removed by delivering to the Company and the transfer agent for the Company an opinion of counsel of recognized standing in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that the legends are no longer required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act.

 

Further, any stock certificate representing Subordinate Voting Shares issued upon conversion of a Note that bears the Canadian Restricted Securities Legend shall, if the conversion occurs prior to the date referenced in the Canadian Restricted Securities Legend, bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

IN CANADA, UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE September 20, 2020.2

 

Section 2.3. Transfer and Exchange of Interests in Global Notes.

 

(a)       Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing information regarding the Participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Note or another Global Note and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred.

 

 

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 2In the case of any Additional Notes, the actual Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date for such Additional Notes will be inserted in place of September 20, 2020 (the date that is four months and one day following the latest possible issue date of any Notes that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of the Initial Purchasers’ option to purchase Additional Notes).

 Appendix A-6 

 

(i)       Until the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note to a transferee who takes a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note shall be made only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Notes from the transferor to the effect that (A) such a transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 144A; (B) the Notes are being transferred to a person who (1) the transferor reasonably believes is a QIB and (2) is purchasing for its own account or the account of another QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A; and (C) the Notes are being transferred in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the United States, Canada and other jurisdictions.

 

(ii)       Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through the Regulation S Note, whether before or after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, shall be made only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Notes from the transferor to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S or (if available) Rule 144 and in accordance with all applicable securities laws of Canada and other jurisdictions; provided that if the sale is being made in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S after the Distribution Compliance Period, the transferor shall have provided a declaration to the Company and to the Trustee for the Company, in the form attached as Attachment 4 (or as the Company may otherwise prescribe from time to time).

 

(iii)       If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Note Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Note Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of Global Note from which such interest is being transferred.

 

(iv)       Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix A (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.05 of the Indenture relating to the issuance of Definitive Notes), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

(v)       In the event that a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes pursuant to Section 2.05 of the Indenture, such Notes may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of this Section 2.3 (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Initial Notes intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144A, Regulation S or such other applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act, as the case may be) and/or such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company.

 Appendix A-7 

 

(b)       Restrictions on Transfer of Regulation S Note.

 

(i)       During the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through CDS in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and only (1) to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (2) under a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act; (3) to a person whom the selling holder reasonably believes is a QIB that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of another QIB and to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A; (4) outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in a transaction meeting the requirements of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or (5) pursuant to any other available exception from the registration requirements of the Securities Act; provided that, in the case of a sale, pledge or transfer pursuant to subclauses (2), (3), (4) or (5) of this paragraph, such sale, pledge or transfer shall also be made in accordance with all applicable securities laws of Canada and other jurisdictions.

 

(ii)       Upon the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Note shall be transferable in accordance with all applicable securities laws of Canada and other jurisdictions and the other terms of the Indenture.

 

(c)       Transfers to Global Notes without Restricted Securities Legends.

 

(i)       Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note bearing Restricted Securities Legends may be transferred to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Global Note that does not bear the Restricted Securities Legends from and after the Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date; provided that the transferor shall have provided a declaration to the Company and to the Trustee for the Company, in the form attached as Attachment 4 (or as the Company may otherwise prescribe from time to time); and

 

(ii)       Sales by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note bearing Restricted Securities Legends may be sold to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Global Note that does not bear a Restricted Securities Legend provided that (A) (1) such sale occurs on and after the date that is the later of (x) the date that is six months after the last date of original issuance of the Initial Notes or Additional Notes, as applicable, and (y) such later date, if any, as may be required by applicable law, and (2) upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification that such transfer shall have been effected in reliance on Rule 144; or (B) under a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act or (C) otherwise upon receipt by the Trustee from an appropriate direction or consent from the Company or (D) such Note has been sold outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act and in compliance with all applicable Canadian and other securities laws, and the Holder selling such Notes has delivered to the Trustee a certificate in the form of Attachment 4 hereto.

 Appendix A-8 

 

(d)       No obligation of the Trustee. The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under the Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of the Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

(e)       Additional Global Notes. In connection with any transfer of beneficial interests in a Global Note that bears Restricted Securities Legends for any Global Note that does not bear a Restricted Securities Legends in accordance with Section 2.2, if a Global Note that does not bear a Restricted Securities Legend is not then outstanding (or an insufficient principal amount of such Global Notes are outstanding to permit such transfer) and the Global Notes have not been previously transferred for Definitive Notes in compliance with Section 2.05 of the Indenture, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of the Company in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, one or more new Global Note without the Restricted Securities Legends in the appropriate principal amounts.

 

(f)       Canadian Resale Restrictions. Initial Notes and Additional Notes may not be transferred in Canada prior to the applicable Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date except pursuant to an exemption from the prospectus requirements of Canadian securities laws or otherwise in compliance with such laws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Appendix A-9 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]

 

[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]

 

[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREUNDER IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.]

 

[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A DEFINITIVE NOTE]

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE NOTE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.]

 

[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A RESTRICTED SECURITY]

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER AGREES [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF] (1) THAT IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY

 Exhibit A-1 

 

EVIDENCED HEREBY, EXCEPT (A) TO Colliers International Group INC. (THE “ISSUER”) OR A SUBSIDIARY OF THE ISSUER; (B) UNDER A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; (C) TO A PERSON THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A ADOPTED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, ALL IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A (IF AVAILABLE); (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR (E) UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (2) THAT IT WILL, PRIOR TO ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY, FURNISH TO THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE OR TRANSFER AGENT FOR THIS SECURITY, AS APPLICABLE, SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS.

 

IN CANADA, UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE SECURITY BEFORE [__].3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 3The Canadian Resale Restriction Termination Date for the Initial Notes or Additional Notes, as applicable, will be inserted (the date that is four months and one day following the latest possible issue date of any Notes that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of the Initial Purchasers’ option to purchase Additional Notes).

 Exhibit A-2 

 

Colliers International Group Inc.

 

4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Note due 2025

 

CUSIP No. [                ]

 

No. [            ] [Initially]4 $[                ]

 

Colliers International Group Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]5 [            ]6, or registered assigns, the principal sum [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Notes” attached hereto]7 [of $[            ]]8, which amount, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed $230,000,000 in aggregate at any time, in accordance with the rules and applicable procedures of the Depositary, on June 1, 2025, and interest thereon as set forth below.

 

This Note shall bear cash interest at the rate of 4.00% per year from May 19, 2020, or from the most recent date to which interest had been paid or provided for to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date until June 1, 2025. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on each June 1 and December 1, commencing on December 1, 2020, to Holders of record at the close of business on the preceding May 15 and November 15 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note therein shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of such Section 4.06(d) or Section 6.03, and any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision therein shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.

 

Any Defaulted Amounts shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election, in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.

 

The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, in immediately available funds (and/or, in the event the Company elects to exercise its Share Repayment Right pursuant to Section 16.07 of the Indenture, Subordinate Voting Shares) to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company shall pay the principal of any Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or agency designated by the Company for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent and Note Registrar in respect of the Notes and its agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.

 

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 4Include if a global note.
 5Include if a global note.
 6Include if a definitive note.
 7Include if a global note.
 8Include if a definitive note.
 Exhibit A-3 

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into Subordinate Voting Shares, on the terms and subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

 

This Note, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York.

 

In the case of any conflict between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.

 

This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually or by facsimile by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.

 

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 Exhibit A-4 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.

 

 Colliers International Group Inc.
   
   
By:   
  Name:
  Title:

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.

 

By:   
 Authorized Signatory  

 

 Exhibit A-5 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]

 

Colliers International Group Inc.
4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Note due 2025

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its 4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), limited to the aggregate principal amount of $230,000,000 all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of May 19, 2020 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Trustee”) to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not defined in this Note shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.

 

In case certain Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture.

 

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company will make all payments and deliveries in respect of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Redemption Price on a Redemption Date and the principal amount on the Maturity Date, as the case may be, to the Holder who surrenders a Note to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the Note. The Company will pay cash amounts in U.S. Dollars that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts, subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture.

 

The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, and in certain other circumstances, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences.

 

Each Holder shall have the right to receive delivery of the Subordinate Voting Shares due upon conversion of this Note at the place, at the respective times and at the rate, prescribed in the Indenture.

 

The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. At the office or agency of the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without payment of any service charge but, if required by the Company or the Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.

 Exhibit A-6 

 

The Notes shall be redeemable at the Company’s option on or after June 1, 2023 in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the Indenture. The Notes shall be redeemable in full and not in part at the Company’s option for certain changes in Canadian tax law in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the Indenture. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.

 

Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall be required to offer to repurchase for cash all of the outstanding Notes (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.

 

The Company may elect to satisfy its obligation to repay all or any portion of the principal amount of the Notes due upon redemption or at maturity by delivery of Subordinate Voting Shares in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture.

 

The indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in Article 13 of the Indenture, to the prior payment in full of the Company’s Senior Indebtedness.

 

Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof into Subordinate Voting Shares at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as provided in the Indenture.

 

 

 Exhibit A-7 

 

ABBREVIATIONS

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM = as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

 

CUST = Custodian

 

TEN ENT = as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

 

 

 Exhibit A-8 

 

SCHEDULE A9

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES

 

Colliers International Group Inc.
4.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025

 

The initial principal amount of this Global Note is              U.S. DOLLARS ($[            ]). 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
signatory of
Trustee or
Custodian

                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 

 

 

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 9Include if a global note.

 Exhibit A-9 

 

ATTACHMENT 1

 

[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]

 

To:Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
MAC N9303-060
600 South 4th Street, 6th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
CMESCONVERSIONS@wellsfargo.com
Attention:  Corporate Trust Conversions Team

 

The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, into Subordinate Voting Shares in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any Subordinate Voting Shares issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If any Subordinate Voting Shares or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 14.02(d) and Section 14.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

 

In the case of Definitive Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be converted are as set forth below:

 

Dated: ___________________________________  
   
   
  Signature(s)

 

 

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Signature Guarantee

Signature(s) must be guaranteed
by an eligible Guarantor Institution
(banks, stock brokers, savings and
loan associations and credit unions)
with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program
pursuant to Securities and Exchange
Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if Subordinate Voting Shares are to be issued, or
Notes are to be delivered, other than
to and in the name of the registered holder.
Fill in for registration of shares if
to be issued, and Notes if to
be delivered, other than to and in the
name of the registered holder:

 

 

   
(Name)  
   
   
(Street Address)  
   
   
(City, State and Zip Code)  
Please print name and address.  

 

 

  Principal amount to be converted (if less than all):
   
  $            ,000
   
  NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
   
   
  Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number

 

 

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ATTACHMENT 2

 

[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]

 

To:Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
MAC N9303-060
600 South 4th Street, 6th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
CMESCONVERSIONS@wellsfargo.com
Attention:  Corporate Trust Conversions Team

 

The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from Colliers International Group Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.01(a) of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

 

In the case of Definitive Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:

 

 

Dated: ___________________________________  
   
   
  Signature(s)

 

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Signature Guarantee

 

Signature(s) must be guaranteed
by an eligible Guarantor Institution
(banks, stock brokers, savings and
loan associations and credit unions)
with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program
pursuant to Securities and Exchange
Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if shares
of Subordinate Voting Shares are to be issued, or
Notes are to be delivered, other than
to and in the name of the registered holder.
Fill in for registration of Notes if to
be delivered, other than to and in the
name of the registered holder:

 

   
(Name)  
   
   
(Street Address)  
   
   
(City, State and Zip Code)  
Please print name and address.  

 

  Principal amount to be repurchased (if less than all):
   
  $            ,000
   
  NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
   
   
  Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number

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ATTACHMENT 3

[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]

For value received                                      hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto                      (Please also insert social security number or Taxpayer Identification Number, social insurance number or corporate number of assignee) the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                              attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

In connection with any transfer of the within restricted security, the undersigned confirms that such Note is being transferred:

 

1.   To Colliers International Group Inc. or a subsidiary thereof; or

 

2.   Pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

 

3.   Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended[; and

 

Include the following in the case of transfers of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note to a transferee taking an interest in a Rule 144A Note prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period:

 

·To a person who the undersigned reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A (a “QIB”) and is purchasing for its own account or the account of another QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A; and

 

·in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the United States and other jurisdictions.]; or

 

4.   Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

 

5.   Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

 

and:

 

A.   If the transfer is being made in Canada or otherwise subject to the laws of Canada, pursuant to an exemption from the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws or pursuant to a prospectus filed and receipted by the Company under applicable Canadian securities laws; or

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B.   The transfer is being made outside of Canada and is not otherwise subject to the laws of Canada.

 

The undersigned further confirms that such Note is being transferred outside Canada, or pursuant to an exemption from the prospectus requirements of Canadian securities laws if the Notes remain subject to any restriction on transfer under Canadian securities laws.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof; providedhowever, that if items (4) or (5) are checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made in compliance with all transfer restrictions applicable to the Notes.

 

Dated:      

 

   
   
   
Signature(s)  
   
   
Signature Guarantee  

 

Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an
eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock
brokers, savings and loan associations and
credit unions) with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program pursuant
to Securities and Exchange Commission
Rule 17Ad-15 if Notes are to be delivered, other
than to and in the name of the registered holder.

 

NOTICE: The signature on the assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

 

 

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ATTACHMENT 4

 

[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED
IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN TRANSFERS
PURSUANT TO REGULATION S]

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Attn: DAPS – Reorg
600 South 4th Street – 7th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Facsimile: (866) 969-1290
Phone: (800) 344-5128
Email: DAPSReorg@wellsfargo.com

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

The undersigned seller (i) acknowledges that the sale of [$             principal amount of Notes] [             subordinate voting shares] of Colliers International Group Inc. to which this declaration relates[, represented by certificate no.         ], is being made in reliance on Rule 904 of Regulation S (“Regulation S”) under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and (ii) certifies that: (A) it is not an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of Colliers International Group Inc. (except for any officer or director who is an affiliate solely by virtue of holding such position); (B) the offer of the securities was not made to a person in the United States and either (1) at the time the buy order was originated, the buyer was outside the United States, or the seller and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe that the buyer was outside the United States, or (2) the transaction was executed on or through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and neither the seller nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States; (C) neither the seller nor any affiliate of the seller nor any person acting on any of their behalf has engaged or will engage in any “directed selling efforts” (as such term is defined in Regulation S) in the United States in connection with the offer and sale of the securities; (D) the sale is bona fide and not for the purpose of “washing off” the resale restrictions imposed because the securities are “restricted securities” (as that term is defined in Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act); (E) the seller does not intend to replace the securities sold in reliance on Rule 904 of Regulation S with fungible unrestricted securities; and (F) the contemplated sale is not a transaction, or part of a series of transactions which, although in technical compliance with Regulation S, is part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration provisions of the Securities Act.

 

You, the Company and counsel for the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

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Dated:      

 

   
   
   
Signature(s)  
   
   
Signature Guarantee  

 

Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an
eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock
brokers, savings and loan associations and
credit unions) with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program pursuant
to Securities and Exchange Commission
Rule 17Ad-15 if Securities are to be delivered, other
than to and in the name of the registered holder.

 

NOTICE: The signature on the assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Security in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

 

 

 

 

 

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