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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950129-01-503828
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: T-3/A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 15
FILED AS OF DATE: 20011107
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PCI CHEMICALS CANADA INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001050385
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
IRS NUMBER: 760549506
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587
FILM NUMBER: 1777512
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 4300 NATIONSBANK CENTER
STREET 2: 700 LOUISIANA ST
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KWT INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001160301
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: []
IRS NUMBER: 223008143
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-01
FILM NUMBER: 1777513
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: SUITE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: (713) 570-3200
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: SUITE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001160302
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: []
IRS NUMBER: 760491274
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-02
FILM NUMBER: 1777514
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: SUITE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: (713) 570-3200
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: SUITE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KEMWATER NORTH AMERICA CO
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001160299
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: []
IRS NUMBER: 952375683
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-03
FILM NUMBER: 1777515
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: SUITE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: (713) 570-3200
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: SUITE 4300
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: IMPERIAL WEST CHEMICAL CO
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000944719
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
IRS NUMBER: 952375683
STATE OF INCORPORATION: NV
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-04
FILM NUMBER: 1777516
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 4200 NATIONSBANK CENTER
STREET 2: 700 LOUISIANA STREET
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER LICENSING INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001050376
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
IRS NUMBER: 522058031
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-05
FILM NUMBER: 1777517
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 900 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: SUITE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER AMERICAS INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000944717
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
IRS NUMBER: 760280373
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-06
FILM NUMBER: 1777518
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER EAST INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001041862
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: []
IRS NUMBER: 860311265
STATE OF INCORPORATION: NM
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-07
FILM NUMBER: 1777519
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER CORP OF AMERICA
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000944649
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
IRS NUMBER: 061420850
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-08
FILM NUMBER: 1777520
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA ST
STREET 2: SUITE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER AMERICAS ACQUISITION CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950428
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER AMERICAS INC /TX
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990317
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIONEER COMPANIES INC
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000830141
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
IRS NUMBER: 061215192
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: T-3/A
SEC ACT: 1939 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 022-22587-09
FILM NUMBER: 1777521
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
BUSINESS PHONE: 7132253831
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 700 LOUISIANA
STREET 2: STE 4200
CITY: HOUSTON
STATE: TX
ZIP: 77002
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FINEVEST FOODS INC
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GEV CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930902
T-3/A
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PCI CHEMICALS CANADA INC. - AMENDMENT
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM T-3
FOR APPLICATIONS FOR QUALIFICATION OF INDENTURES
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
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PCI CHEMICALS CANADA INC./PCI CHIMIE CANADA INC.
PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
PIONEER CORPORATION OF AMERICA
PIONEER (EAST), INC.
PIONEER AMERICAS, INC.
PIONEER LICENSING, INC.
IMPERIAL WEST CHEMICAL CO.
KEMWATER NORTH AMERICA COMPANY
PIONEER WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
KWT, INC.
(Names of Applicants)
630 Rene-Levesque Blvd. W.
Suite 3100
Montreal, Quebec
H3B 1S6 Canada
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
SECURITIES TO BE ISSUED UNDER THE INDENTURE TO BE QUALIFIED
Title of Class Amount
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10% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes Due 2008 $150,000,000
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Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: November 30, 2001
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Kent R. Stephenson, Esq.
Pioneer Companies, Inc.
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
With a copy to:
Robert C. Feldman, Esq.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
100 Crescent Court, Suite 1300
Dallas, Texas 75201-6950
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The Applicants hereby amend this application for qualification on such date or
dates as may be necessary to delay its effectiveness until: (i) the 20th day
after the filing of a further amendment which specifically states that it shall
supercede this amendment, or (ii) such date as the Commission, acting pursuant
to Section 307(c) of the Act, may determine upon the written request of the
Applicants.
FORM T-3
GENERAL
ITEM 1. GENERAL INFORMATION.
(A) FORM OF ORGANIZATION.
Each of PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada Inc. (the
"Issuer"), Pioneer Companies, Inc. ("PCI"), Pioneer Corporation of America
("PCA"), Pioneer (East), Inc. ("PEI"), Pioneer Americas, Inc. ("PAI"), Pioneer
Licensing, Inc. ("PLI"), Imperial West Chemical Co. ("IWC"), Kemwater North
America Company ("KNA"), Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc. ("PWT") and KWT, Inc.
("KWT" and, together with PCI, PCA, PEI, PAI, PLI, IWC, KNA and PWT, the
"Guarantors") is a corporation. The Issuer and the Guarantors are sometimes
hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Applicants."
(B) STATE OR OTHER SOVEREIGN POWER UNDER THE LAWS OF WHICH ORGANIZED.
The Issuer is a corporation incorporated under the laws of New
Brunswick, Canada. Except for IWC, each of the Guarantors is a corporation
incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. IWC is a corporation
incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada.
ITEM 2. SECURITIES ACT EXEMPTION APPLICABLE.
The Applicants rely upon Section 1145(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Reform
Act of 1978, as amended, Title 11, United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code"),
as the basis for their claim that registration of the offer and sale to the
holders of Allowed PCA U.S. Secured Term and Note Claims and the holders of
Allowed Canadian Secured Term and Note Claims (as such terms are defined in the
Plan (as defined below)) (such holders collectively referred to as the
"Claimholders") in partial satisfaction of their claims against all of the
Debtors (as defined below), pursuant to the Plan, of the 10% Senior Secured
Guaranteed Notes Due 2008 (the "Notes") to be issued by the Issuer under an
indenture (the "Indenture") to be dated as of the effective date of the Plan
(the "Effective Date"), among the Issuer, the Guarantors and Wells Fargo Bank
Minnesota, National Association, as trustee (the "Trustee"), is not required
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
On July 31, 2001, the Issuer and certain affiliates of the Issuer filed
petitions for relief under Chapter 11 ("Chapter 11") of the Bankruptcy Code in
the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston
Division (the Issuer and such affiliates, in such capacity, collectively, the
"Debtors," and such District Court, the "Bankruptcy Court"). Since such time,
the Debtors have continued to operate their businesses and manage their
properties as debtors in possession pursuant to Sections 1107 and 1108 of the
Bankruptcy Code.
Pursuant to the Debtors' Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization Under
Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, dated September 21, 2001 (as it may be
altered, amended or modified from time to time, the "Plan"), on the Effective
Date, the Notes will be issued to Claimholders in partial satisfaction of their
claims against all of the Debtors. Each of the Applicants is a Debtor. In order
to ensure that no such Claimholder is an "underwriter" with respect to the Notes
within the meaning of Section 1145(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, each such
Claimholder will be required, as a condition to receiving Notes without a legend
restricting transfers thereof, to represent and agree that such Claimholder is
not such an "underwriter." An integral and essential element of the Plan is that
the issuance of the Notes pursuant to the Plan shall be exempt from registration
under the Securities Act pursuant to Section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code.
AFFILIATIONS
ITEM 3. AFFILIATES.
Each of the Applicants is an affiliate of the other Applicants. Set
forth below is a description of the corporate organization of the Applicants as
of November 6, 2001.
Pioneer Companies, Inc., the ultimate parent company of the other
Applicants, directly owns 100% of the voting securities of the following
subsidiaries:
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Pioneer Corporation of America
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc.
Pioneer Corporation of America directly owns 100% of the voting
securities of the following subsidiaries:
PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada Inc.
Pioneer (East), Inc.
Pioneer Americas, Inc.
Pioneer Licensing, Inc.
Imperial West Chemical Co.
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc. directly owns 100% of the voting
securities of the following subsidiary:
KWT, Inc.
Imperial West Chemical Co. directly owns 100% of the voting securities
of the following subsidiary:
Kemwater North America Company
OTHER AFFILIATES
As of May 10, 2001, Interlaken Investment Partners, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership ("Interlaken") beneficially owns 34.9% of the voting
securities of PCI, the parent company of the Issuer. William R. Berkley, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors of PCI, is the sole owner of Interlaken and
therefore may be deemed to beneficially own the voting securities held by
Interlaken. Together with the voting securities of PCI held by Interlaken, as of
May 10, 2001 Mr. Berkley beneficially owns approximately 59.8% of the voting
power of PCI.
AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE (SUCH INFORMATION IS PROVIDED,
AS REQUIRED BY FORM T-3, ON THE BASIS OF PRESENT INFORMATION)
Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date the Issuer will
be continued from the jurisdiction of New Brunswick, Canada to the jurisdiction
of Nova Scotia, Canada and then amalgamated to form an unlimited liability
company under the name PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada.
The Articles of Association of the Issuer will provide for a minimum of one and
a maximum of twenty directors. The exact number of directors of the Issuer
initially appointed and the names and mailing addresses of such persons will be
provided by amendment.
Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date PCA will be
converted into a Delaware limited liability company. After such conversion, PCI
will contribute PCA to the Issuer in exchange for a number of the Issuer's
preferred shares of equal value. PAI will then be merged with and into PCA, with
PCA being the surviving company. Upon the consummation of such merger, PCA will
change its name to Pioneer Americas LLC.
Each of the Applicants will remain affiliates of the other Applicants,
however, pursuant to the terms of the Plan, on or before the Effective Date the
corporate structure of the Applicants will be reorganized as follows:
As of the Effective Date, Pioneer Companies, Inc. will directly own
100% of the voting securities of the following subsidiaries:
PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc.
Pioneer (East), Inc.
Pioneer Licensing, Inc.
Imperial West Chemical Co.
As of the Effective Date, PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI
Chimie Canada will directly own 100% of the voting securities of the following
subsidiary:
Pioneer Americas LLC
As of the Effective Date, Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc. will
directly own 100% of the voting securities of the following subsidiary:
KWT, Inc.
As of the Effective Date, Imperial West Chemical Co. will directly own
100% of the voting securities of the following subsidiary:
Kemwater North America Company
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Pursuant to the Plan, on the Effective Date all of the outstanding
shares of Series A Common Stock, Series B Common and Series A Preferred Stock of
PCI, and all options or warrants to purchase or other rights in any such common
stock or preferred stock will be cancelled. Commencing on the Effective Date,
PCI will issue 10,000,000 shares of New Common Stock (as such term is defined in
the Plan) to certain creditors pursuant to the terms of the Plan. The holders of
New Common Stock will be entitled to one vote per share on all matters to be
voted upon by the stockholders. Holders of a plurality of the shares voting for
the election of directors can elect all of the directors since the holders of
the New Common Stock will not have cumulative voting rights.
The identities of any other affiliates of the Issuer as of the
Effective Date will be included by amendment.
MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
ITEM 4. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.
DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF EACH OF THE ISSUER AND PAI AS OF
NOVEMBER 6, 2001
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Michael J. Ferris c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Philip J. Ablove c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Officer and Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 and Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Jerry B. Bradley c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Human Resources
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Samuel Z. Chamberlain c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Environmental, Health and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Safety
Houston, Texas 77002
Ronald E. Ciora c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Western Regional Sales and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Marketing
Houston, Texas 77002
James E. Glattly c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Sales and Marketing
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
John DuManoir c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Technology
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Pierre Prud'homme c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President and Controller
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Scholes c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Manufacturing
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Roger A. Zampini c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Supply Chain Management
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Leslie c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF EACH OF PCI AND PCA AS OF
NOVEMBER 6, 2001
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Michael J. Ferris c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Philip J. Ablove c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Officer and Director
Houston, Texas 77002
William R. Berkley c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Andrew M. Bursky c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Richard C. Kellogg, Jr. c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
John R. Kennedy c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Jack H. Nusbaum c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, General Counsel and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Secretary
Houston, Texas 77002
Jerry B. Bradley c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Human Resources
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Samuel Z. Chamberlain c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Environmental, Health and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Safety
Houston, Texas 77002
Ronald E. Ciora c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Western Regional Sales and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Marketing
Houston, Texas 77002
James E. Glattly c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Sales and Marketing
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
John DuManoir c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Technology
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Pierre Prud'homme c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President and Controller
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Scholes c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Manufacturing
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Roger A. Zampini c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Supply Chain Management
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Leslie c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF PEI AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001(1)
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President, Secretary and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Victoria L. Garrett c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary, Assistant Treasurer and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Director
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Leslie c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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(1) One seat on the Board of Directors is currently vacant.
DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF PLI AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001(1)
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President, Secretary and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
John DuManoir c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Victoria L. Garrett c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary, Assistant Treasurer and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Pierre Prud'homme c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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(1) One seat on the Board of Directors is currently vacant.
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DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF KNA AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Michael J. Ferris c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Philip J. Ablove c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 and Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Jerry B. Bradley c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Human Resources
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Samuel Z. Chamberlain c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Environmental, Health and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Safety
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Leslie c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer and Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF PWT AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Michael J. Ferris c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Philip J. Ablove c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 and Director
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Leslie c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer and Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF EACH KWT AND IWC AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001
NAME ADDRESS OFFICE/POSITION
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Michael J. Ferris c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. President and Director
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Philip J. Ablove c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Kent R. Stephenson c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 and Director
Houston, Texas 77002
Samuel Z. Chamberlain c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Vice President, Environmental, Health and
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 Safety
Houston, Texas 77002
David A. Leslie c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Treasurer and Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Eva Clark c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. Assistant Secretary
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE APPLICANTS
AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE (SUCH INFORMATION IS PROVIDED, AS
REQUIRED BY FORM T-3, ON THE BASIS OF PRESENT INFORMATION)
Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date the Issuer will
be continued from the jurisdiction of New Brunswick, Canada to the jurisdiction
of Nova Scotia, Canada and then amalgamated to form an unlimited liability
company under the name PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada.
The Articles of Association of the Issuer will provide for a minimum of one and
a maximum of twenty directors. The exact number of directors of the Issuer
initially appointed and the names and mailing addresses of such persons will be
provided by amendment.
Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date PCA will be
converted into a Delaware limited liability company. After such conversion, PCI
will contribute PCA to the Issuer in exchange for a number of the Issuer's
preferred shares of equal value. PAI will then be merged with and into PCA, with
PCA being the surviving company. Upon the consummation of such merger, PCA will
change its name to Pioneer Americas LLC. Pioneer Americas LLC will have only one
member and will be member-managed. As of the effective date such member will be
the Issuer.
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The directors and executive officers of each of the Applicants as of
the Effective Date will remain as disclosed above, with the exception of PCA,
which will become a one-member limited liability company, and PCI. The executive
officers of PCI as of the Effective Date will remain as disclosed above,
however, pursuant to the terms of the Plan, the Fourth Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of PCI will provide for a Board of Directors
consisting of not less than five nor more than nine members. The names and
addresses of such persons and their respective mailing addresses will be
provided by amendment.
ITEM 5. PRINCIPAL OWNERS OF VOTING SECURITIES.
AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001
I. ISSUER.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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Pioneer Corporation of America Common Shares, no par value 100 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc.
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
II. PCI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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William R. Berkley Class A Common Stock 6,375,335 59.8%(1)
165 Mason Street, par value $0.01
Greenwich, CT 06830
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(1) Includes 3,723,850 shares held by Interlaken Investment Partners, L.P.,
representing 34.9% of the voting power of PCI's capital stock.
Mr. Berkley is the sole owner of a company that indirectly controls
Interlaken, and so he may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the
shares held by Interlaken.
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III. PCA.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Stock, par 1,679,614 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 value $.01 per share
Houston, Texas 77002
IV. PEI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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Pioneer Corporation of America Common Stock, $0.01 1,000 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
V. PAI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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Pioneer Corporation of America Common Stock, $1.00 1,000 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
VI. PLI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Corporation of America Common Stock, $0.01 1,000 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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VII. IWC.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Corporation of America Common Stock, $1.00 1,000 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
VIII. KNA.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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Imperial West Chemical Co. Common Stock, $0.10 11,167 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Imperial West Chemical Co. Preferred Stock, $1.00 6,965 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
IX. PWT.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Stock, $1.00 1,000 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 par value
Houston, Texas 77002
X. KWT.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc. Common Stock, $1.00 100 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE (SUCH INFORMATION
IS PROVIDED, AS REQUIRED BY FORM T-3, ON THE BASIS
OF PRESENT INFORMATION, AND TO THE EXTENT
SUCH INFORMATION IS DIFFERENT THAN THE ABOVE DISCLOSURE)
I. ISSUER.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Shares 100 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Class A Preferred Shares(2) -- 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
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(1) Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date the Issuer will
be continued from the jurisdiction of New Brunswick, Canada to the
jurisdiction of Nova Scotia, Canada and will have amalgamated with a
wholly-owned subsidiary to continue as an unlimited liability company
under the name PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada.
(2) Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date PCI will
contribute PCA to the Issuer in exchange for a number of Class A
Preferred Shares of equal value. The number of such preferred
shares to be issued by the Issuer pursuant to the Plan will be
provided in an amendment.
II. PCA.(1)(2)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PCI Chemicals Canada Company/
Societe PCI Chimie Canada Membership Interest 100%(3) 100.0%
630 Rene-Levesque Blvd. W.
Suite 3100
Montreal, Quebec
H3B 1S6 Canada
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(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
(2) Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date PCA will be
converted into a Delaware limited liability company. After such
conversion, PCI will contribute PCA to the Issuer for a number of the
Issuer's preferred shares of equal value. PAI will then be merged with
and into PCA, with PCA being the surviving company. Upon the
consummation of such merger, PCA will change its name to Pioneer
Americas LLC.
(3) The membership interest in PCA will be expressed as a percentage of
ownership rather than a number of units.
III. PCI.(1)(2)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned Amount Owned Securities Owned
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-- Common Stocks, $0.01 par value -- --
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(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
(2) Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date PCI will issue
its common stock in exchange for the partial satisfaction of certain
claims against the Issuer and PCA. Disclosure with respect to the
ownership of PCI at the effective date will be provided by amendment.
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IV. PEI.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned(1) Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Stock, $0.01 1,000 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 par value
Houston, Texas 77002
----------
(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
V. PLI.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned(1) Amount Owned Securities Owned
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Stock, $0.01 1,000 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 par value
Houston, Texas 77002
----------
(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
VI. IWC.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned(1) Amount Owned Securities Owned
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Stock, $1.00 1,000 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 par value
Houston, Texas 77002
----------
(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
VII. KNA.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned(1) Amount Owned Securities Owned
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imperial West Chemical Co. Common Stock, $0.10 11,167 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
Imperial West Chemical Co. Preferred Stock, $1.00 6,965 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
----------
(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
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VIII. PWT.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned(1) Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Companies, Inc. Common Stock, $1.00 1,000 100.0%
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300 par value
Houston, Texas 77002
----------
(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
IX. KWT.(1)
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Col. A Col. B Col. C Col. D
Percentage of
Name and Voting
Complete Mailing Address Title of Class Owned(1) Amount Owned Securities Owned
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc. Common Stock, $1.00 100 100.0%
c/o Pioneer Companies, Inc. par value
700 Louisiana, Suite 4300
Houston, Texas 77002
----------
(1) This Applicant will also act as a Guarantor of the Notes to be issued
by the Issuer.
UNDERWRITERS
ITEM 6. UNDERWRITERS.
(a) None.
(b) No underwriter within the meaning of Section 303(4) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "1939 Act"), has been proposed with
respect to the Notes.
CAPITAL SECURITIES
ITEM 7. CAPITALIZATION.
AS OF NOVEMBER 6, 2001
(A) CAPITALIZATION.
I. ISSUER.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Shares Unlimited, without par value 100
9 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2007 $175,000,000 principal amount $175,000,000 principal amount
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II. PCI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 46,000,000 10,678,893
Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 4,000,000 858,831
Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred
Stock, par value $0.01 10,000,000 55,000
III. PCA.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock (voting) 2,500,000 shares, par value $0.01 1,679,614
Common Stock (non-voting) 500,000 shares, par value $0.01 0
Preferred Stock 100,000 shares, par value $100.00 0
9 1/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2007 $200,000,000 principal amount $200,000,000 principal amount
IV. PEI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock 1,000 shares, par value $0.01 1,000
V. PAI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock 1,000 shares, par value $1.00 1,000
VI. PLI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock 1,000 shares, par value $0.01 1,000
VII. IWC.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock 25,000 shares, par value $1.00 1,000
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VIII. KNA.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock 30,000 shares, par value $0.10 11,167
Preferred Stock 50,000 shares, par value $1.00 6,965
IX. PWT.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock 25,000 shares, par value $1.00 1,000
X. KWT.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock 1,000 shares, par value $1.00 100
CAPITALIZATION AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE (SUCH INFORMATION
IS PROVIDED, AS REQUIRED BY FORM T-3, ON THE BASIS
OF PRESENT INFORMATION, AND TO THE EXTENT
SUCH INFORMATION IS DIFFERENT THAN THE ABOVE DISCLOSURE)
Pursuant to the terms of the Plan, on the basis of present information,
the Claimholders will receive their pro rata portion of (A)(i) the Notes issued
by the Issuer and guaranteed by the Guarantors, (ii) up to $50,000,000 in
aggregate principal amount Senior Secured Floating Rate Guaranteed Notes due
2006 issued by Pioneer Corporation of America or its successor in interest and
guaranteed by the Issuer and the Guarantors or their successors in interest and
(iii) a new class of common stock, par value $0.01, to be issued by PCI in
exchange for, among other claims, (B)(i) all of the Issuer's 9 1/4% Senior
Secured Notes due 2007 outstanding and (ii) all of PCA's 9 1/4% Senior Secured
Notes due 2007 outstanding. The principal amount of the Notes to be issued by
the Issuer will be determined by the election of the Claimholders either (x) to
participate in a term loan agreement among the Issuer, the Guarantors and Wells
Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as agent (the "Loan Agreement") or
(y) to receive their pro rata portion of the Notes. In no event will the sum of
the aggregate principal amount of the Loan Agreement and the Notes exceed
$50,000,000.
I. ISSUER.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Shares Unlimited, without par value 100
Class A Preferred Shares (1) 150,000,000, without par value --
Class B Preferred Shares 150,000,000, without par value 0
10% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes
due 2008 $150,000,000 $150,000,000
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(1) Pursuant to the Plan, on or before the Effective Date PCI will
contribute PCA to the Issuer in exchange for a number of the Issuer's
Class A Preferred shares of equal value. The number of Class A
Preferred Shares to be issued will be provided by amendment.
II. PCI.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Common Stock, par value $0.01 50,000,000 10,000,000
Preferred Stock 10,000,000 0
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III. PCA.
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Col. A Col. B Col. C
Title of Class Amount Authorized Amount Outstanding
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Membership Interest(1) n/a n/a
Senior Secured
Floating Rate Guaranteed Notes due 2006 $50,000,000 $50,000,000
----------
(1) The membership interest in PCA will be expressed as a percentage of
ownership rather than a number of units.
(B) VOTING RIGHTS.
I. ISSUER.
COMMON SHARES
The holders of the outstanding common shares of the Issuer have the
right to elect the Board of Directors and to vote on all others matters that may
be acted on at any meeting of shareholders.
II. PCI.
CLASS A COMMON STOCK
Each outstanding share of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share, of PCI has one vote with respect to all matters subject to stockholder
vote. The holders of Class A Common Stock, voting together with the holders of
Class B Common Stock and Series A Preferred Stock as a single class, have the
right to elect the Board of Directors of PCI and to vote on all other matters
that may be acted on at any meeting of stockholders of PCI.
CLASS B COMMON STOCK
Each outstanding share of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share, of PCI has one-tenth of one vote with respect to all matters subject to
stockholder vote. The holders of Class B Common Stock, voting together with the
holders of Class A Common Stock and Series A Preferred Stock as a single class,
have the right to elect the Board of Directors of PCI and to vote on all others
matters that may be acted on at any meeting of stockholders of PCI.
SERIES A CONVERTIBLE REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK
Each outstanding share of Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred
Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of PCI, has the right to vote together with
the holders of Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock as a single
class on other all matters that may be acted on at any meeting of stockholders
of PCI. Each share of Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock will be
entitled to such number of votes as are equal to the number of votes which could
be cast by the number of shares of Class A Common Stock into which such shares
of Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock is then convertible in
accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designations for such
preferred stock.
III. PCA AND KNA.
COMMON STOCK
The holders of outstanding voting common stock of each PCA and KNA,
with respect to each such company, have the right to elect the Board of
Directors and to vote on all others matters that may be acted on at any meeting
of stockholders of such companies.
PREFERRED STOCK
Except as otherwise provided by applicable law or by determination of
the respective Board of Directors of such companies, no shares of preferred
stock have any voting power.
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IV. PEI, PAI, PLI, IWC, PWT AND KWT.
COMMON STOCK
The holders of the common stock of each of PEI, PAI, PLI, IWC, PWT and
KWT, have the right, with respect to each such company, to elect the Board of
Directors and to vote on all other matters that may be acted on at any meeting
of stockholders of such companies.
The information set forth above is provided pursuant to the
requirements of Form T-3. However, the Applicants are currently under the
protection of the Bankruptcy Court and a stockholder that presently holds equity
interests in any of the Applicants is subject to the provisions of the
Bankruptcy Code. Under the Bankruptcy Code, all actions taken pursuant to the
Plan must be approved by order of the Bankruptcy Court. For Applicants
incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, in accordance with Section
303 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, such actions may then be carried
out by each Applicant without further action by the stockholder(s) of such
Applicant.
VOTING RIGHTS AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE
(SUCH INFORMATION IS PROVIDED, AS REQUIRED BY
FORM T-3, ON THE BASIS OF PRESENT INFORMATION, AND TO THE
EXTENT SUCH INFORMATION IS DIFFERENT THAN THE ABOVE DISCLOSURE)
I. ISSUER.
COMMON SHARES
Pursuant to the Articles of Association of the Issuer, each outstanding
common share of the Issuer will have one vote with respect to all matters
subject to shareholder vote. The holders of such common shares, voting together
with the holders of the preferred shares of the Issuer as a single class, have
the right to elect the Board of Directors of the Issuer and to vote on all other
matters that may be acted on at any meeting of shareholders of the Issuer.
PREFERRED SHARES
Pursuant to the Articles of Association of the Issuer, each outstanding
Class A Preferred Share and Class B Preferred Share of the Issuer will have
one-tenth of one vote with respect to all matters subject to shareholder vote.
The holders of such preferred shares, voting together with the holders of the
common shares of the Issuer as a single class, will have the right to elect the
Board of Directors of the Issuer and to vote on all others matters that may be
acted on at any meeting of shareholders of the Issuer.
II. PCI.
Pursuant to the Plan, on the Effective Date all of the outstanding
common stock of PCI will be canceled. Shares of New Common Stock (as such term
is defined in the Plan) will be issued to certain creditors of the Issuer and
PCA in partial exchange for the claims of such creditors against the Issuer and
PCA.
COMMON STOCK
Pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the Fourth Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of PCI, to be filed on the Effective Date, each
outstanding share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, to be issued on
the Effective Date will have one vote with respect to all matters subject to
stockholder vote. The holders of such common stock will have the right to elect
the Board of Directors of PCI and to vote on all other matters that may be acted
on at any meeting of stockholders of PCI.
PREFERRED STOCK
Pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the Fourth Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of PCI, to be filed on the Effective Date, PCI may
issue shares of preferred stock from time to time in one or more series, each
such series to have such voting and other rights as are fixed by the Board of
Directors prior to the issuance of any shares thereof; provided, however, that
in compliance with Section 1123 of the Bankruptcy Code, no non-voting securities
may be issued.
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III. PCA.
Pursuant to the terms of the Plan, PCA will be converted to a Delaware
limited liability company consisting of one member. As of the Effective Date
such member will be the Issuer. The Certificate of Conversion of PCA to be filed
on the Effective Date will provide for a single-member, member-managed company.
INDENTURE SECURITIES
ITEM 8. ANALYSIS OF INDENTURE PROVISIONS.
The following analysis of provisions of the Indenture required under
Section 305(a)(2) of the 1939 Act is a summary and is qualified in its entirety
by reference to the Indenture, a copy of the form of which is filed as Exhibit
T3C hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. Capitalized terms used in
this section and not otherwise defined in this application shall have the
meanings given to them in the Indenture.
(A) EVENTS OF DEFAULT
The Indenture defines an Event of Default as:
(a) (i) a default by the Issuer in the payment of any
principal of any Note when the same becomes due, whether by acceleration, at
maturity, upon redemption, in connection with a Change of Control or an Asset
Sale, or otherwise, or (ii) a failure by the Issuer to pay any interest, fee or
penalty on any Note, or any other amount payable under the Indenture, within
three (3) days after any such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture;
(b) a default by any other obligor in the payment when due of
any fee with respect to any Note or any monetary indenture obligation (other
than those covered by clause (a) hereof), and such default shall continue
unremedied for a period of three (3) days;
(c) the failure by obligors (including the Issuer) to observe
or perform any covenant, condition or agreement on the part of such obligors to
be observed or performed pursuant to certain covenants in the Indenture, or
Article Eight (Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease) thereof;
(d) the failure by obligors (including the Issuer) to duly
observe or perform any other covenant, condition or agreement in, to and under
the Indenture or in any other Indenture Document executed by it and such failure
continues for a period of thirty (30) days;
(e) a denial, disaffirmation or repudiation by any obligor
(including the Issuer) of its obligations under the Indenture (including the
Guaranties of the Notes), the Notes, or any other Indenture Documents or
Transaction Documents to which such obligor is party, or any material provision
in the Indenture, such other Indenture Documents or Transaction Documents
ceasing to be valid and binding, or any obligor so asserting in writing;
(f) a default (i) in the payment when due, whether by
acceleration or otherwise, of any amount (including principal, premium or
interest) in respect of any Indebtedness of any obligor (including the Issuer),
including Indebtedness in respect of the New Tranche A Notes (as such term is
defined in the Plan) (subject only to any applicable grace period pursuant to
the terms of such Indebtedness) but not including the Indebtedness described in
and covered by clauses (a) and (b) hereof, (ii) a default in the performance or
observance of any obligation or condition with respect to such Indebtedness if
the effect of such default is to accelerate the maturity of any such
Indebtedness or such default shall continue unremedied for any applicable period
of time sufficient to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness, or any
trustee or agent for such holders, to cause such Indebtedness to become due and
payable prior to its expressed maturity, or (iii) a default in, or an event of
default in connection with, the performance or observance of any obligation or
condition of any agreement (including any Transaction Document) to which any
obligor (including the Issuer) is party or by which it is bound and such default
or event of default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
(g) a final judgment has been, or final judgments have been,
rendered by any court or courts of competent jurisdiction against any obligor
(including the Issuer) or any subsidiary of such obligor and such judgment or
judgments remain undischarged, unbonded or unstayed for a period of thirty (30)
days, provided that the aggregate of all such judgments equals or exceeds
$1,000,000 or any such
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individual judgment exceeds $500,000 (other than, in each case, any judgment as
to which and only to the extent that, a reputable insurance company has
acknowledged coverage of such claim in writing);
(h) the issuance of a notice of Lien, levy, assessment,
injunction or attachment (other than pursuant to the Security Documents) against
the property of any obligor (including the Issuer) having an aggregate value in
excess of $1,000,000 which is not stayed or lifted within thirty (30) days;
(i) any representation, warranty or certification of any
obligor (including the Issuer) made or deemed made under the Indenture or in any
other Indenture Document or Transaction Document executed by it or in any other
writing or certificate furnished by or on behalf of such obligor (including the
Issuer) for the purposes of or in connection with the Indenture or such other
Indenture Document or any other Transaction Document is or shall be incorrect
when made or deemed made in any material respect;
(j) any of the Security Documents ceasing to give the
Collateral Agent a valid and perfected Lien of the priority required thereby or
the rights, powers and privileges purported to be created thereby (other than in
accordance with their respective terms or if released by the Trustee, at the
direction of all of the Holders in accordance with the terms of the Indenture),
(ii) any of the Security Documents being declared null and void, (iii) the
denial by any obligor (including the Issuer) of any of its obligations under any
of the Security Documents, (iv) any Collateral becoming subject to any Lien
other than the Liens created or permitted by the Security Documents or the
Indenture, or (v) any Collateral (or part thereof) being seized or taken by any
governmental agency or authority;
(k) any obligor (including the Issuer) or any subsidiary of
such obligor, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law, (i)
commencing a voluntary case, (ii) consenting to the entry of an order for relief
against it in an involuntary case in which it is a debtor, (iii) consenting to
the appointment of a receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official
of it or for all or substantially all of its property, (iv) making a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors or (v) admitting in writing its
inability to pay debts as they become due;
(l) the entry of an order or decree by a court of competent
jurisdiction under any Bankruptcy Law that (i) is for relief against any obligor
(including the Issuer) or any subsidiary of such obligor in an involuntary case
in which it is a debtor, (ii) appoints a receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator
or similar official of such obligor or such subsidiary for all or substantially
all of their respective property, (iii) orders the liquidation of such obligor
or such subsidiary, and such order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for
sixty (60) days;
(m) any obligor (including the Issuer) or Subsidiary of such
obligor committing or suffering to occur a Canadian Act of Bankruptcy; or
(n) the Guaranty of any Guarantor for any reason ceasing to
be, or being asserted by any Guarantor or the Issuer not to be, in full force
and effect or enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent
contemplated in the Guaranty.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
clauses (k), (l) or (m) above) occurs and is continuing for any reason, whether
voluntary or involuntary, then the Trustee by notice to the Issuer, or the
Holders of at least 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at any
time outstanding by written notice to the Issuer and the Trustee, may declare
the unpaid principal of, premium, if any, and any accrued interest on all the
Notes to be immediately due and payable. Upon such declaration the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes shall become automatically and
immediately due and payable, without further notice, demand or presentment. If
an Event of Default specified in clauses (k), (l) or (m) above occurs, unpaid
principal of, premium, if any, and any accrued interest on all the Notes shall
ipso facto automatically be and become immediately due and payable, without any
declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, and such
amount shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of an intercreditor
and collateral agency agreement among the Holders and others.
Other than in respect of (i) a continuing Default or Event of Default
in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note
held by a non-consenting Holder, or (ii) a covenant or provision in the
Indenture which under Article Nine (Supplemental Indentures) of the Indenture
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note
then outstanding, or (iii) any
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continuing Default or Event of Default in respect of any matter involving the
release of Collateral, which shall not be waived without the consent of the
Holder of each then outstanding Note, Holders of a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (or, in the case of the failure
to make a Change of Control Offer, two-thirds of the aggregate principal amount
of Notes then outstanding) by written notice to the Trustee, may rescind an
acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any
judgment or decree and if (A) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Trustee
a sum sufficient to pay (i) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee under the
Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, (ii) all overdue interest on all Notes,
(iii) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Notes which have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the
rate borne by the Notes, and (iv) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Notes, and (B)
all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of principal of the Notes
which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been
cured or waived in accordance with the Indenture. No such rescission shall
affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Within thirty (30) days after the occurrence of any Default, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, notice of such Default under the
Indenture known to the Trustee, unless such Default shall have been cured or
waived.
(B) AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF THE NOTES UNDER THE INDENTURE;
APPLICATION OF THE PROCEEDS THEREOF.
The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and
delivered under the Indenture is limited to $150,000,000 in principal amount of
Notes. The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by one of its
Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents under its
corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its
Assistant Secretaries, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver such Notes
as provided in the Indenture and not otherwise.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for in the
Indenture duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized
signatory, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and
the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered
under the Indenture.
The Notes are to be issued pursuant to the Plan to Claimholders in
exchange therefor and, accordingly, no proceeds will be derived from the
issuance of the Notes. The Notes will be distributed to the Claimholders as
described in Item 2 of this application.
(C) RELEASE OR RELEASE AND SUBSTITUTION OF ANY PROPERTY SUBJECT TO THE
LIEN OF THE INDENTURE.
The Trustee shall not direct the Collateral Agent to release any
Collateral subject to the lien of the Indenture and the Security Documents
unless such release is in accordance with the provisions of the Security
Documents and Section 314(d) of the 1939 Act. The Indenture permits any obligor
(including the Issuer) or any subsidiary of such obligor to sell, lease, convey,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets, provided that certain
conditions are met (including the application of Net Proceeds in accordance with
the Indenture), and provided, further, that if any such assets comprise
Collateral, the consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding is obtained prior to the disposition
thereof and cash in an amount equal to the Collateral Proceeds is pledged to the
Collateral Agent and deposited in the Intercreditor Collateral Account. Any
non-cash consideration permitted by the Indenture received by any such obligor
or subsidiary pursuant to such disposition of assets shall be subject to the
lien of the Indenture and the Security Documents.
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(D) SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF THE INDENTURE
The Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Notes therein
expressly provided for) when each of the following are satisfied:
(a) either (1) all Notes authenticated and delivered under the
Indenture have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (2) all Notes
not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (x) have become due
and payable, (y) shall become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year, or (z) are to be called for redemption within one year, and the Issuer
or any Guarantor, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount in United States
dollars sufficient to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) the Issuer or any other obligor has paid or caused to be
paid all other sums payable under the Indenture by the Issuer or such other
obligor, and has indefeasibly discharged all Indebtedness thereunder; and
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an officers'
certificate and an opinion of counsel stating that (i) all conditions precedent
in the Indenture provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the
Indenture have been complied with and (ii) such satisfaction and discharge shall
not result in a breach or violation of or constitute a default under the
Indenture or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Issuer or
any other obligor is a party or by which Issuer or such obligor is bound.
The Issuer may effect a defeasance (i.e., the discharge of certain
obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture, including the Indebtedness
represented by such Notes), or a covenant defeasance (i.e., the release of
certain covenant obligations of the Issuer and each Guarantor under the
Indenture) with respect to the defeased Notes upon the satisfaction of certain
conditions, including, (1) the irrevocable deposit by the Issuer with the
Trustee in trust, for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, trust funds
which constitute (a) United States dollars in an amount, or (b) U.S. Government
Obligations, or (c) a combination thereof, sufficient to pay and discharge (and
which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay and discharge) the principal of,
interest and premium, if any, on the Defeased Securities on the Stated Maturity
of such principal or installment of principal or interest, (2) the delivery to
the Trustee of certain prescribed opinions of counsel (including an opinion with
respect to certain U.S. Federal income tax and Canadian federal or provincial
income tax matters) and the delivery to the Trustee of certain prescribed
officers' certificates of the Issuer, (3) that (x) no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit; or
(y) in so far as clauses (k), (l) or (m) specified in paragraph A (Events of
Default) above are concerned, at any time during the period ending on 91st day
after the date of deposit, or (4) that such defeasance or covenant defeasance
shall not have resulted in a breach or violation of, nor constitute a Default
under, any material agreement or instrument (other than the Indenture) to which
the Issuer or any Guarantor is a party or by which it is bound.
(E) THE EVIDENCE REQUIRED TO BE FURNISHED BY THE OBLIGOR UPON THE
INDENTURE SECURITIES TO THE TRUSTEE AS TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS AND
COVENANTS PROVIDED FOR IN THE INDENTURE.
The Indenture requires:
(a) the Issuer to furnish, within (x) 90 days after the end of
its fiscal year, and (y) 45 days after the end of the first three quarters of
each fiscal year, an officers' certificate stating that a review of the
activities of each obligor (including the Issuer) and each subsidiary of each
such obligor, has been made under the supervision of the signing officer, with a
view to determine whether each such obligor or such subsidiary has kept,
observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under the Indenture and the
other Indenture Documents, and further stating, as to each such signing officer,
that to the best of such officer's knowledge, each obligor and subsidiary has
kept, observed, performed and fulfilled all of its obligations under the
Indenture and the other Indenture Documents to which it is a party and is not in
default in the performance or observance thereof (or if a Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred, describing such Default or Event of Default, and
what action is being taken or proposed to be taken in respect thereto);
(b) the Issuer to furnish, (x) within ninety (90) days after
each fiscal year, a copy of the annual audited financial statements of the
Issuer and its parent corporation and their respective subsidiaries, as well as
of any of the Guarantors as are required to file their annual financial
statements pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder, certified by an independent certified public accountant
satisfactory to the Trustee, together with a certificate from such accountant,
to the effect that, in making the examination necessary for the signing of such
annual audit report, such accountant has not become aware of any Default or
Event of Default that has occurred and is continuing and that relates to
financial or other accounting matters or the covenants set forth in the
Indenture or, if such accountant has become aware of any such event, describing
it, and (y) within forty-five (45) days after the end of each fiscal quarter, a
copy of the unaudited financial statements of the Issuer and its parent
corporation and their respective subsidiaries, as well as of any of the
Guarantors as are required to file their quarterly financial statements pursuant
to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder;
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(c) the Issuer to give (A) prompt notice of the occurrence of
(i) a Default or an Event of Default or (ii) a default by any obligor (including
the Issuer) or any subsidiary of such obligor under any material note,
indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease, deed or other material similar
agreement to which such obligor or subsidiary, as appropriate, is a party or by
which it is bound (including any of the Indenture Documents and Transaction
Documents), and (B) so long as any of the Notes are outstanding, to deliver to
the Trustee, forthwith upon becoming aware of the occurrence of any matters
referred to in clauses (A)(i) or (ii) above, an officers' certificate specifying
such Default, Event of Default or such other default or event of default and
what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto; and
(d) Upon any application or request by any obligor (including
the Issuer) to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of the
Indenture, such obligor shall furnish to the Trustee (x) an officers'
certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in the
Indenture (including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition
precedent) relating to the proposed action have been complied with, (y) an
opinion of counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that, in the case
of such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents,
certificates and/or opinions is specifically required by any provision of the
Indenture relating to such application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished.
ITEM 9. OTHER OBLIGORS.
None.
CONTENTS OF APPLICATION FOR QUALIFICATION. THIS APPLICATION FOR QUALIFICATION
COMPRISES -
(A) Pages number 1 to 32, consecutively.
(B) The statement of eligibility and qualification on Form T-1 of
Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as trustee
under the indenture to be qualified (filed herewith as
Exhibit 25.1).
(C) The following exhibits in addition to those filed as part of
the statement of eligibility and qualification of the Trustee:
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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Exhibit T3A-1 Articles of Incorporation of PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI
Chimie Canada Inc. (formerly known as Chemicals Canada
Inc./Produits Chimiques PCI Canada Inc.), as amended by
Articles of Amendment, as in effect on the date of filing
hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-2 Form of Articles of Association of PCI Chemicals Canada
Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada to become effective as of
the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-3 Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer
Companies, Inc. (formerly known as Finevest Foods, Inc.), as
amended by Certificate of Amendment of Third Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, and in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-4 Certificate of Designations of Series A Convertible Redeemable
Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Pioneer
Companies, Inc. (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-5 Form of Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Pioneer Companies, Inc., to be filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and to become
effective as of the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-6 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Corporation of America
(formerly known as Pioneer Americas Acquisition Corp.), as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-7 Form of Certificate of Conversion of Pioneer Corporation of
America, to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware and to become effective as of the Effective Date
(filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-8 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer (East), Inc., as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-9 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Pioneer (East), Inc., to be filed with the Secretary of State
of the State of Delaware and to become effective as of the
Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-10 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Americas, Inc.
(formerly known as Atkemix Twenty-Nine Inc.), as in effect on
the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-11 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Licensing, Inc., as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
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Exhibit T3A-12 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Pioneer Licensing, Inc., to be filed with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware and to become effective as of
the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-13 Articles of Incorporation of Imperial West Chemical Co., as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-14 Form of Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of
Imperial West Chemical Co., to be filed with the Secretary of
State of the State of Nevada and to become effective as of the
Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-15 Certificate of Incorporation of Kemwater North America
Company, as in effect on the date of filing hereof (previously
filed).
Exhibit T3A-16 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Kemwater North America Company, to be filed with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware and to become effective as
of the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-17 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Water Technologies,
Inc., as in effect on the date of filing hereof (previously
filed).
Exhibit T3A-18 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., to be filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and to become
effective as of the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-19 Certificate of Incorporation of KWT, Inc. (formerly known as
Kemira Water Treatment, Inc.), as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-20 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
KWT, Inc., to be filed with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware and to become effective as of the Effective
Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3B-1 Bylaws of PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada Inc., as
in effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-2 Form of Memorandum of Association of PCI Chemicals Canada
Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada to become effective as of
the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3B-3 Bylaws of Pioneer Companies, Inc., as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-4 Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Pioneer Companies, Inc.
to become effective on the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3B-5 Bylaws of Pioneer Corporation of America, as in effect on the
date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-6 Bylaws of Pioneer (East), Inc., as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-7 Bylaws of Pioneer Licensing, Inc., as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
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Exhibit T3B-8 Bylaws of Imperial West Chemical Co., as in effect on the date
of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-9 Bylaws of Kemwater North America Company, as in effect on the
date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-10 Bylaws of Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., as in effect on
the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-11 Bylaws of KWT, Inc. as in effect on the date of filing hereof
(previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-12 Bylaws of Pioneer Americas, Inc. as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3C Form of Indenture, to be dated as of the Effective Date,
between the Issuer, the Guarantors and Wells Fargo Bank
Minnesota, National Association, as trustee, in the
form to be qualified, including an itemized table of contents
showing the articles, sections and subsections of the
Indenture, together with the subject matter thereof and the
pages on which they appear (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3D Not applicable.
Exhibit T3E Amended Joint Disclosure Statement of the Applicants Pursuant
to Section 1125 of the Bankruptcy Code dated September 21,
2001 (previously filed).
Exhibit T3F A cross reference sheet showing the location in the Indenture
of the provisions inserted therein pursuant to Section 310
through 318(a), inclusive, of the 1939 Act (filed herewith).
Exhibit 25.1 Form T-1 qualifying Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National
Association, as trustee under the Indenture to be qualified
(filed herewith).
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, each of the Applicants, PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada
Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of New Brunswick,
Canada, Pioneer Companies, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware, Pioneer Corporation of America, a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of Delaware, Pioneer East, Inc., a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of Delaware, Pioneer Americas, Inc., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, Pioneer Licensing, Inc., a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, Kemwater North
America Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
Delaware, Imperial West Chemical Co., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of Nevada, and KWT, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of Delaware, has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to Application on
Form T-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, and its seal to be hereunto affixed and attested, all in the City of
Houston, and State of Texas, as of the 7th day of November, 2001.
PCI CHEMICALS CANADA INC./PCI CHIMIE
CANADA INC.
(SEAL) By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President and Chief Executive
Officer
Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President and Chief Executive
Officer
Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) PIONEER CORPORATION OF AMERICA
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President and Chief Executive
Officer
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Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) PIONEER (EAST), INC.
By: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
---------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: President
Attest: /s/ Eva Clark
--------------------------------
Name: Eva Clark
Title: Assistant Secretary
(SEAL) PIONEER AMERICAS, INC.
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President and Chief Executive
Officer
Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) PIONEER LICENSING, INC.
By: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
---------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: President
Attest: /s/ Eva Clark
--------------------------------
Name: Eva Clark
Title: Assistant Secretary
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(SEAL) IMPERIAL WEST CHEMICAL CO.
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President
Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) KEMWATER NORTH AMERICA COMPANY
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President
Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) PIONEER WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President
Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
(SEAL) KWT, INC.
By: /s/ Michael J. Ferris
---------------------------------
Name: Michael J. Ferris
Title: President
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Attest: /s/ Kent R. Stephenson
--------------------------------
Name: Kent R. Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary
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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
NUMBER DESCRIPTION
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Exhibit T3A-1 Articles of Incorporation of PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI
Chimie Canada Inc. (formerly known as Chemicals Canada
Inc./Produits Chimiques PCI Canada Inc.), as amended by
Articles of Amendment, as in effect on the date of filing
hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-2 Form of Articles of Association of PCI Chemicals Canada
Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada to become effective as of
the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-3 Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer
Companies, Inc. (formerly known as Finevest Foods, Inc.), as
amended by Certificate of Amendment of Third Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, and in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-4 Certificate of Designations of Series A Convertible Redeemable
Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Pioneer
Companies, Inc. (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-5 Form of Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Pioneer Companies, Inc., to be filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and to become
effective as of the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-6 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Corporation of America
(formerly known as Pioneer Americas Acquisition Corp.), as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-7 Form of Certificate of Conversion of Pioneer Corporation of
America, to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware and to become effective as of the Effective Date
(filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-8 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer (East), Inc., as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-9 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Pioneer (East), Inc., to be filed with the Secretary of State
of the State of Delaware and to become effective as of the
Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-10 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Americas, Inc.
(formerly known as Atkemix Twenty-Nine Inc.), as in effect on
the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-11 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Licensing, Inc., as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-12 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Pioneer Licensing, Inc., to be filed with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware and to become effective as of
the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-13 Articles of Incorporation of Imperial West Chemical Co., as in
effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-14 Form of Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of
Imperial West Chemical Co., to be filed with the Secretary of
State of the State of Nevada and to become effective as of the
Effective Date (filed herewith).
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Exhibit T3A-15 Certificate of Incorporation of Kemwater North America
Company, as in effect on the date of filing hereof (previously
filed).
Exhibit T3A-16 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Kemwater North America Company, to be filed with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware and to become effective as
of the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-17 Certificate of Incorporation of Pioneer Water Technologies,
Inc., as in effect on the date of filing hereof (previously
filed).
Exhibit T3A-18 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., to be filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and to become
effective as of the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3A-19 Certificate of Incorporation of KWT, Inc. (formerly known as
Kemira Water Treatment, Inc.), as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3A-20 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
KWT, Inc., to be filed with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware and to become effective as of the Effective
Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3B-1 Bylaws of PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada Inc., as
in effect on the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-2 Form of Memorandum of Association of PCI Chemicals Canada
Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada to become effective as of
the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3B-3 Bylaws of Pioneer Companies, Inc., as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-4 Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Pioneer Companies, Inc.
to become effective on the Effective Date (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3B-5 Bylaws of Pioneer Corporation of America, as in effect on the
date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-6 Bylaws of Pioneer (East), Inc., as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-7 Bylaws of Pioneer Licensing, Inc., as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-8 Bylaws of Imperial West Chemical Co., as in effect on the date
of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-9 Bylaws of Kemwater North America Company, as in effect on the
date of filing hereof (previously filed).
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Exhibit T3B-10 Bylaws of Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., as in effect on
the date of filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-11 Bylaws of KWT, Inc. as in effect on the date of filing hereof
(previously filed).
Exhibit T3B-12 Bylaws of Pioneer Americas, Inc. as in effect on the date of
filing hereof (previously filed).
Exhibit T3C Form of Indenture, to be dated as of the Effective Date,
between the Issuer, the Guarantors and Wells Fargo Bank
Minnesota, National Association, as trustee, in the
form to be qualified, including an itemized table of contents
showing the articles, sections and subsections of the
Indenture, together with the subject matter thereof and the
pages on which they appear (filed herewith).
Exhibit T3D Not applicable.
Exhibit T3E Amended Joint Disclosure Statement of the Applicants Pursuant
to Section 1125 of the Bankruptcy Code dated September 21,
2001 (previously filed).
Exhibit T3F A cross reference sheet showing the location in the Indenture
of the provisions inserted therein pursuant to Section 310
through 318(a), inclusive, of the 1939 Act (filed herewith).
Exhibit 25.1 Form T-1 qualifying Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National
Association, as trustee under the Indenture to be qualified
(filed herewith).
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FORM OF ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF PCI
EXHIBIT T3A-2
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY/SOCIETE PCI CHIMIE CANADA
INTERPRETATION
1. In these Articles, unless there be something in the subject or context
inconsistent therewith:
(1) "Act" means the Companies Act (Nova Scotia);
(2) "Articles" means these Articles of Association of the Company
and all amendments hereto;
(3) "Company" means the company named above;
(4) "director" means a director of the Company;
(5) "Memorandum" means the Memorandum of Association of the Company
and all amendments thereto;
(6) "month" means calendar month;
(7) "Office" means the registered office of the Company;
(8) "person" includes a body corporate;
(9) "proxyholder" includes an alternate proxyholder;
(10) "Register" means the register of members kept pursuant to the
Act, and where the context permits includes a branch register of
members;
(11) "Registrar" means the Registrar as defined in the Act;
(12) "Secretary" includes any person appointed to perform the duties
of the Secretary temporarily;
(13) "shareholder" means member as that term is used in the Act in
connection with an unlimited company having share capital and as
that term is used in the Memorandum;
(14) "special resolution" has the meaning assigned by the Act;
(15) "in writing" and "written" includes printing, lithography and
other modes of representing or reproducing words in visible
form;
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(16) words importing number or gender include all numbers and genders
unless the context otherwise requires.
2. The regulations in Table A in the First Schedule to the Act shall not
apply to the Company.
3. The directors may enter into and carry into effect or adopt and carry
into effect any agreement made by the promoters of the Company on
behalf of the Company and may agree to any modification in the terms of
any such agreement, either before or after its execution.
4. The directors may, out of the funds of the Company, pay all expenses
incurred for the amalgamation and organization of the Company.
SHARES
5. The capital of the company shall consist of 150,000,000 common shares
without nominal or par value, 150,000,000 Class A preferred shares
without nominal or par value and 150,000,000 Class B preferred shares
without nominal or par value, all having the rights, restrictions,
conditions and limitations set out in Annex 1 hereto with power to
divide the shares in the capital for the time being into several
classes and to attach thereto respectively any preferred, deferred or
qualified rights, privileges or conditions, including restrictions on
voting rights and including redemption and purchase of such shares,
subject, however, to the provisions of the Companies Act of Nova
Scotia.
6. The directors shall control the shares and, subject to the provisions
of these Articles, may allot or otherwise dispose of them to such
person at such times, on such terms and conditions and, if the shares
have a par value, either at a premium or at par, as they think fit.
7. The directors may pay on behalf of the Company a reasonable commission
to any person in consideration of subscribing or agreeing to subscribe
(whether absolutely or conditionally) for any shares in the Company, or
procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolute or
conditional) for any shares in the Company. Subject to the Act, the
commission may be paid or satisfied in shares of the Company.
8. On the issue of shares the Company may arrange among the holders
thereof differences in the calls to be paid and in the times for their
payment.
9. If the whole or part of the allotment price of any shares is, by the
conditions of their allotment, payable in instalments, every such
instalment shall, when due, be payable to the Company by the person who
is at such time the registered holder of the shares.
10. Shares may be registered in the names of joint holders not exceeding
three in number.
11. Joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable for the
payment of all instalments and calls due in respect of such share. On
the death of one or more joint holders of shares
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the survivor or survivors of them shall alone be recognized by the
Company as the registered holder or holders of the shares.
12. Save as herein otherwise provided, the Company may treat the registered
holder of any share as the absolute owner thereof and accordingly shall
not, except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or required
by statute, be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or
interest in such share on the part of any other person.
13. The Company is a private company, and:
(1) no transfer of any share or prescribed security of the Company
shall be effective unless or until approved by the directors;
(2) the number of holders of issued and outstanding prescribed
securities or shares of the Company, exclusive of persons who
are in the employment of the Company or in the employment of an
affiliate of the Company and exclusive of persons who, having
been formerly in the employment of the Company or the employment
of an affiliate of the Company, were, while in that employment,
and have continued after termination of that employment, to own
at least one prescribed security or share of the Company, shall
not exceed 50 in number, two or more persons or companies who
are the joint registered owners of one or more prescribed
securities or shares being counted as one holder; and
(3) the Company shall not invite the public to subscribe for any of
its prescribed securities.
In this Article, "private company" and "securities" have the meanings
ascribed to those terms in the Securities Act (Nova Scotia), and
"prescribed security" means any of the securities prescribed by the
Nova Scotia Securities Commission from time to time for the purpose of
the definition of "private company" in the Securities Act (Nova
Scotia).
CERTIFICATES
14. Certificates of title to shares shall comply with the Act and may
otherwise be in such form as the directors may from time to time
determine. Unless the directors otherwise determine, every certificate
of title to shares shall be signed manually by at least one of the
Chairman, President, Secretary, Treasurer, a vice-president, an
assistant secretary, any other officer of the Company or any director
of the Company or by or on behalf of a share registrar transfer agent
or branch transfer agent appointed by the Company or by any other
person whom the directors may designate. When signatures of more than
one person appear on a certificate all but one may be printed or
otherwise mechanically reproduced. All such certificates when signed as
provided in this Article shall be valid and binding upon the Company.
If a certificate contains a printed or mechanically reproduced
signature of a person, the Company may issue the certificate,
notwithstanding that the person has ceased to be a director or an
officer of the Company and the certificate is as valid as if such
person were a director or an officer
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at the date of its issue. Any certificate representing shares of a
class publicly traded on any stock exchange shall be valid and binding
on the Company if it complies with the rules of such exchange whether
or not it otherwise complies with this Article.
15. Except as the directors may determine, each shareholder's shares may be
evidenced by any number of certificates so long as the aggregate of the
shares stipulated in such certificates equals the aggregate registered
in the name of the shareholder.
16. Where shares are registered in the names of two or more persons, the
Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate or set of
certificates, and such certificate or set of certificates shall be
delivered to the person first named on the Register.
17. Any certificate that has become worn, damaged or defaced may, upon its
surrender to the directors, be cancelled and replaced by a new
certificate. Any certificate that has become lost or destroyed may be
replaced by a new certificate upon proof of such loss or destruction to
the satisfaction of the directors and the furnishing to the Company of
such undertakings of indemnity as the directors deem adequate.
18. The sum of one dollar or such other sum as the directors from time to
time determine shall be paid to the Company for every certificate other
than the first certificate issued to any holder in respect of any share
or shares.
19. The directors may cause one or more branch Registers of shareholders to
be kept in any place or places, whether inside or outside of Nova
Scotia.
CALLS
20. The directors may make such calls upon the shareholders in respect of
all amounts unpaid on the shares held by them respectively and not made
payable at fixed times by the conditions on which such shares were
allotted, and each shareholder shall pay the amount of every call so
made to the person and at the times and places appointed by the
directors. A call may be made payable by instalments.
21. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the
resolution of the directors authorizing such call was passed.
22. At least 14 days' notice of any call shall be given, and such notice
shall specify the time and place at which and the person to whom such
call shall be paid.
23. If the sum payable in respect of any call or instalment is not paid on
or before the day appointed for the payment thereof, the holder for the
time being of the share in respect of which the call has been made or
the instalment is due shall pay interest on such call or instalment at
the rate of 9% per year or such other rate of interest as the directors
may determine from the day appointed for the payment thereof up to the
time of actual payment.
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24. At the trial or hearing of any action for the recovery of any amount
due for any call, it shall be sufficient to prove that the name of the
shareholder sued is entered on the Register as the holder or one of the
holders of the share or shares in respect of which such debt accrued,
that the resolution making the call is duly recorded in the minute book
and that such notice of such call was duly given to the shareholder
sued in pursuance of these Articles. It shall not be necessary to prove
the appointment of the directors who made such call or any other
matters whatsoever and the proof of the matters stipulated shall be
conclusive evidence of the debt.
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
25. If any shareholder fails to pay any call or instalment on or before the
day appointed for payment, the directors may at any time thereafter
while the call or instalment remains unpaid serve a notice on such
shareholder requiring payment thereof together with any interest that
may have accrued and all expenses that may have been incurred by the
Company by reason of such non-payment.
26. The notice shall name a day (not being less than 14 days after the date
of the notice) and a place or places on and at which such call or
instalment and such interest and expenses are to be paid. The notice
shall also state that, in the event of non-payment on or before the day
and at the place or one of the places so named, the shares in respect
of which the call was made or instalment is payable will be liable to
be forfeited.
27. If the requirements of any such notice are not complied with, any
shares in respect of which such notice has been given may at any time
thereafter, before payment of all calls or instalments, interest and
expenses due in respect thereof, be forfeited by a resolution of the
directors to that effect. Such forfeiture shall include all dividends
declared in respect of the forfeited shares and not actually paid
before the forfeiture.
28. When any share has been so forfeited, notice of the resolution shall be
given to the shareholder in whose name it stood immediately prior to
the forfeiture and an entry of the forfeiture shall be made in the
Register.
29. Any share so forfeited shall be deemed the property of the Company and
the directors may sell, re-allot or otherwise dispose of it in such
manner as they think fit.
30. The directors may at any time before any share so forfeited has been
sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, annul the forfeiture
thereof upon such conditions as they think fit.
31. Any shareholder whose shares have been forfeited shall nevertheless be
liable to pay and shall forthwith pay to the Company all calls,
instalments, interest and expenses owing upon or in respect of such
shares at the time of the forfeiture together with interest thereon at
the rate of 9% per year or such other rate of interest as the directors
may determine from the time of forfeiture until payment. The directors
may enforce such payment if they think fit, but are under no obligation
to do so.
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32. A certificate signed by the Secretary stating that a share has been
duly forfeited on a specified date in pursuance of these Articles and
the time when it was forfeited shall be conclusive evidence of the
facts therein stated as against any person who would have been entitled
to the share but for such forfeiture.
LIEN ON SHARES
33. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon all shares
(other than fully paid-up shares) registered in the name of a
shareholder (whether solely or jointly with others) and upon the
proceeds from the sale thereof for debts, liabilities and other
engagements of the shareholder, solely or jointly with any other
person, to or with the Company, whether or not the period for the
payment, fulfilment or discharge thereof has actually arrived, and such
lien shall extend to all dividends declared in respect of such shares.
Unless otherwise agreed, the registration of a transfer of shares shall
operate as a waiver of any lien of the Company on such shares.
34. For the purpose of enforcing such lien the directors may sell the
shares subject to it in such manner as they think fit, but no sale
shall be made until the period for the payment, fulfilment or discharge
of such debts, liabilities or other engagements has arrived, and until
notice in writing of the intention to sell has been given to such
shareholder or the shareholder's executors or administrators and
default has been made by them in such payment, fulfilment or discharge
for seven days after such notice.
35. The net proceeds of any such sale after the payment of all costs shall
be applied in or towards the satisfaction of such debts, liabilities or
engagements and the residue, if any, paid to such shareholder.
VALIDITY OF SALES
36. Upon any sale after forfeiture or to enforce a lien in purported
exercise of the powers given by these Articles the directors may cause
the purchaser's name to be entered in the Register in respect of the
shares sold, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the
regularity of the proceedings or to the application of the purchase
money, and after the purchaser's name has been entered in the Register
in respect of such shares the validity of the sale shall not be
impeached by any person and the remedy of any person aggrieved by the
sale shall be in damages only and against the Company exclusively.
TRANSFER OF SHARES
37. The instrument of transfer of any share in the Company shall be signed
by the transferor. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder
of such share until the name of the transferee is entered in the
Register in respect thereof and shall be entitled to receive any
dividend declared thereon before the registration of the transfer.
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38. The instrument of transfer of any share shall be in writing in the
following form or to the following effect:
For value received, _____ hereby sell, assign, and transfer unto
_________, _____ shares in the capital of the Company represented by
the within certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and
appoint ___________ attorney to transfer such shares on the books of
the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated the __ day of ________, ______
Witness:
39. The directors may, without assigning any reason therefor, decline to
register any transfer of shares
(1) not fully paid-up or upon which the Company has a lien, or
(2) the transfer of which is restricted by any agreement to which the
Company is a party.
40. Every instrument of transfer shall be left for registration at the
Office of the Company, or at any office of its transfer agent where a
Register is maintained, together with the certificate of the shares to
be transferred and such other evidence as the Company may require to
prove title to or the right to transfer the shares.
41. The directors may require that a fee determined by them be paid before
or after registration of any transfer.
42. Every instrument of transfer shall, after its registration, remain in
the custody of the Company. Any instrument of transfer that the
directors decline to register shall, except in case of fraud, be
returned to the person who deposited it.
TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
43. The executors or administrators of a deceased shareholder (not being
one of several joint holders) shall be the only persons recognized by
the Company as having any title to the shares registered in the name of
such shareholder. When a share is registered in the names of two or
more joint holders, the survivor or survivors or the executors or
administrators of the deceased shareholder, shall be the only persons
recognized by the Company as having any title to, or interest in, such
share.
44. Notwithstanding anything in these Articles, if the Company has only one
shareholder (not being one of several joint holders) and that
shareholder dies, the executors or administrators of the deceased
shareholder shall be entitled to register themselves in the Register as
the
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holders of the shares registered in the name of the deceased
shareholder whereupon they shall have all the rights given by these
Articles and by law to shareholders.
45. Any person entitled to shares upon the death or bankruptcy of any
shareholder or in any way other than by allotment or transfer, upon
producing such evidence of entitlement as the directors require, may be
registered as a shareholder in respect of such shares, or may, without
being registered, transfer such shares subject to the provisions of
these Articles respecting the transfer of shares. The directors shall
have the same right to refuse registration as if the transferee were
named in an ordinary transfer presented for registration.
SURRENDER OF SHARES
46. The directors may accept the surrender of any share by way of
compromise of any question as to the holder being properly registered
in respect thereof. Any share so surrendered may be disposed of in the
same manner as a forfeited share.
INCREASE AND REDUCTION OF CAPITAL
47. Subject to the Act, the shareholders may by special resolution amend
these Articles to increase or alter the share capital of the Company as
they think expedient. Without prejudice to any special rights
previously conferred on the holders of existing shares, any share may
be issued with such preferred, deferred or other special rights, or
with such restrictions, whether in regard to dividends, voting, return
of share capital or otherwise, as the shareholders may from time to
time determine by special resolution. Except as otherwise provided by
the conditions of issue, or by these Articles, any capital raised by
the creation of new shares shall be considered part of the original
capital and shall be subject to the provisions herein contained with
reference to payment of calls and instalments, transfer and
transmission, forfeiture, lien and otherwise.
48. The Company may, by special resolution where required, reduce its share
capital in any way and with and subject to any incident authorized and
consent required by law. Subject to the Act and any provisions attached
to such shares, the Company may redeem, purchase or acquire any of its
shares and the directors may determine the manner and the terms for
redeeming, purchasing or acquiring such shares and may provide a
sinking fund on such terms as they think fit for the redemption,
purchase or acquisition of shares of any class or series.
MEETINGS AND VOTING BY CLASS OR SERIES
49. Where the holders of shares of a class or series have, under the Act,
the terms or conditions attaching to such shares or otherwise, the
right to vote separately as a class in respect of any matter then,
except as provided in the Act, these Articles or such terms or
conditions, all the provisions in these Articles concerning general
meetings (including, without limitation, provisions respecting notice,
quorum and procedure) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to every meeting
of holders of such class or series of shares convened for the purpose
of such vote.
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50. Unless the rights, privileges, terms or conditions attached to a class
or series of shares provide otherwise, such class or series of shares
shall not have the right to vote separately as a class or series upon
an amendment to the Memorandum or Articles to:
(1) increase or decrease any maximum number of authorized shares of
such class or series, or increase any maximum number of
authorized shares of a class or series having rights or
privileges equal or superior to the shares of such class or
series;
(2) effect an exchange, reclassification or cancellation of all or
part of the shares of such class or series; or
(3) create a new class or series of shares equal or superior to the
shares of such class or series.
BORROWING POWERS
51. The directors on behalf of the Company may:
(1) raise or borrow money for the purposes of the Company or any of
them;
(2) secure the repayment of funds so raised or borrowed in such
manner and upon such terms and conditions in all respects as they
think fit, and in particular by the execution and delivery of
mortgages of the Company's real or personal property, or by the
issue of bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company
secured by mortgage or other charge upon all or any part of the
property of the Company, both present and future including its
uncalled capital for the time being;
(3) sign or endorse bills, notes, acceptances, cheques, contracts,
and other evidence of or securities for funds borrowed or to be
borrowed for the purposes aforesaid;
(4) pledge debentures as security for loans;
(5) guarantee obligations of any person.
52. Bonds, debentures and other securities may be made assignable, free
from any equities between the Company and the person to whom such
securities were issued.
53. Any bonds, debentures and other securities may be issued at a discount,
premium or otherwise and with special privileges as to redemption,
surrender, drawings, allotment of shares, attending and voting at
general meetings of the Company, appointment of directors and other
matters.
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GENERAL MEETINGS
54. Ordinary general meetings of the Company shall be held at least once in
every calendar year at such time and place as may be determined by the
directors and not later than 15 months after the preceding ordinary
general meeting. All other meetings of the Company shall be called
special general meetings. Ordinary or special general meetings may be
held either within or without the Province of Nova Scotia.
55. The President, a vice-president or the directors may at any time
convene a special general meeting, and the directors, upon the
requisition of shareholders in accordance with the Act shall forthwith
proceed to convene such meeting or meetings to be held at such time and
place or times and places as the directors determine.
56. The requisition shall state the objects of the meeting requested, be
signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the Office of the
Company. It may consist of several documents in like form each signed
by one or more of the requisitionists.
57. At least seven clear days' notice, or such longer period of notice as
may be required by the Act, of every general meeting, specifying the
place, day and hour of the meeting and, when special business is to be
considered, the general nature of such business, shall be given to the
shareholders entitled to be present at such meeting by notice given as
permitted by these Articles. With the consent in writing of all the
shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting, a meeting may be
convened by a shorter notice and in any manner they think fit, or
notice of the time, place and purpose of the meeting may be waived by
all of the shareholders.
58. When it is proposed to pass a special resolution, the two meetings may
be convened by the same notice, and it shall be no objection to such
notice that it only convenes the second meeting contingently upon the
resolution being passed by the requisite majority at the first meeting.
59. The accidental omission to give notice to a shareholder, or non-receipt
of notice by a shareholder, shall not invalidate any resolution passed
at any general meeting.
RECORD DATES
60. (1) The directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for the
determination of shareholders
(a) entitled to receive payment of a dividend or entitled to
receive any distribution;
(b) entitled to receive notice of a meeting; or
(c) for any other purpose.
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(2) If no record date is fixed, the record date for the determination
of shareholders
(a) entitled to receive notice of a meeting shall be the day
immediately preceding the day on which the notice is given,
or, if no notice is given, the day on which the meeting is
held; and
(b) for any other purpose shall be the day on which the directors
pass the resolution relating to the particular purpose.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
61. The business of an ordinary general meeting shall be to receive and
consider the financial statements of the Company and the report of the
directors and the report, if any, of the auditors, to elect directors
in the place of those retiring and to transact any other business which
under these Articles ought to be transacted at an ordinary general
meeting.
62. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless the
requisite quorum is present at the commencement of the business. A
corporate shareholder of the Company that has a duly authorized agent
or representative present at any such meeting shall for the purpose of
this Article be deemed to be personally present at such meeting.
63. One person, being a shareholder, proxyholder or representative of a
corporate shareholder, present and entitled to vote shall constitute a
quorum for a general meeting, and may hold a meeting.
64. The Chairman shall be entitled to take the chair at every general
meeting or, if there be no Chairman, or if the Chairman is not present
within fifteen 15 minutes after the time appointed for holding the
meeting, the President or, failing the President, a vice-president
shall be entitled to take the chair. If the Chairman, the President or
a vice-president is not present within 15 minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting or if all such persons present
decline to take the chair, the shareholders present entitled to vote at
the meeting shall choose another director as chairman and if no
director is present or if all the directors present decline to take the
chair, then such shareholders shall choose one of their number to be
chairman.
65. If within half an hour from the time appointed for a general meeting a
quorum is not present, the meeting, if it was convened pursuant to a
requisition of shareholders, shall be dissolved; if it was convened in
any other way, it shall stand adjourned to the same day, in the next
week, at the same time and place. If at the adjourned meeting a quorum
is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the
meeting, the shareholders present shall be a quorum and may hold the
meeting.
66. Subject to the Act, at any general meeting a resolution put to the
meeting shall be decided by a show of hands unless, either before or on
the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll is demanded
by the chairman, a shareholder or a proxyholder; and unless a poll is
so
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demanded, a declaration by the chairman that the resolution has been
carried, carried by a particular majority, lost or not carried by a
particular majority and an entry to that effect in the Company's book
of proceedings shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof
of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour or against
such resolution.
67. When a poll is demanded, it shall be taken in such manner and at such
time and place as the chairman directs, and either at once or after an
interval or adjournment or otherwise. The result of the poll shall be
the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. The
demand of a poll may be withdrawn. When any dispute occurs over the
admission or rejection of a vote, it shall be resolved by the chairman
and such determination made in good faith shall be final and
conclusive.
68. The chairman shall not have a casting vote in addition to any vote or
votes that the chairman has as a shareholder.
69. The chairman of a general meeting may with the consent of the meeting
adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no
business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the
business left unfinished at the meeting that was adjourned.
70. Any poll demanded on the election of a chairman or on a question of
adjournment shall be taken forthwith without adjournment.
71. The demand of a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for
the transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll
has been demanded.
VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS
72. Subject to the Act and to any provisions attached to any class or
series of shares concerning or restricting voting rights:
(1) on a show of hands every shareholder entitled to vote present in
person, every duly authorized representative of a corporate
shareholder, and, if not prevented from voting by the Act, every
proxyholder, shall have one vote; and
(2) on a poll every shareholder present in person, every duly
authorized representative of a corporate shareholder, and every
proxyholder, shall have one vote for every share held;
whether or not such representative or proxyholder is a shareholder.
73. Any person entitled to transfer shares upon the death or bankruptcy of
any shareholder or in any way other than by allotment or transfer may
vote at any general meeting in respect thereof in the same manner as if
such person were the registered holder of such shares so long as the
directors are satisfied at least 48 hours before the time of holding
the meeting of such person's right to transfer such shares.
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74. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any of such
holders may vote such share at any meeting, either personally or by
proxy, as if solely entitled to it. If more than one joint holder is
present at any meeting, personally or by proxy, the one whose name
stands first on the Register in respect of such share shall alone be
entitled to vote it. Several executors or administrators of a deceased
shareholder in whose name any share stands shall for the purpose of
this Article be deemed joint holders thereof.
75. Votes may be cast either personally or by proxy or, in the case of a
corporate shareholder by a representative duly authorized under the
Act.
76. A proxy shall be in writing and executed in the manner provided in the
Act. A proxy or other authority of a corporate shareholder does not
require its seal.
77. A shareholder of unsound mind in respect of whom an order has been made
by any court of competent jurisdiction may vote by guardian or other
person in the nature of a guardian appointed by that court, and any
such guardian or other person may vote by proxy.
78. A proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under
which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or
authority shall be deposited at the Office of the Company or at such
other place as the directors may direct. The directors may, by
resolution, fix a time not exceeding 48 hours excluding Saturdays and
holidays preceding any meeting or adjourned meeting before which time
proxies to be used at that meeting must be deposited with the Company
at its Office or with an agent of the Company. Notice of the
requirement for depositing proxies shall be given in the notice calling
the meeting. The chairman of the meeting shall determine all questions
as to validity of proxies and other instruments of authority.
79. A vote given in accordance with the terms of a proxy shall be valid
notwithstanding the previous death of the principal, the revocation of
the proxy, or the transfer of the share in respect of which the vote is
given, provided no intimation in writing of the death, revocation or
transfer is received at the Office of the Company before the meeting or
by the chairman of the meeting before the vote is given.
80. Every form of proxy shall comply with the Act and its regulations and
subject thereto may be in the following form:
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I, _________ of _______ being a shareholder of ______________ hereby
appoint ____________ of ______________ (or failing him/her
____________ of ________________) as my proxyholder to attend and to
vote for me and on my behalf at the ordinary/special general meeting
of the Company, to be held on the ___ day of ________ and at any
adjournment thereof, or at any meeting of the Company which may be
held prior to [insert specified date or event].
[If the proxy is solicited by or behalf of the management of the
Company, insert a statement to that effect.]
Dated this __ day of ________ ____.
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Shareholder
81. Subject to the Act, no shareholder shall be entitled to be present or
to vote on any question, either personally or by proxy, at any general
meeting or be reckoned in a quorum while any call is due and payable to
the Company in respect of any of the shares of such shareholder.
82. Any resolution passed by the directors, notice of which has been given
to the shareholders in the manner in which notices are hereinafter
directed to be given and which is, within one month after it has been
passed, ratified and confirmed in writing by shareholders entitled on a
poll to three-fifths of the votes, shall be as valid and effectual as a
resolution of a general meeting. This Article shall not apply to a
resolution for winding up the Company or to a resolution dealing with
any matter that by statute or these Articles ought to be dealt with by
a special resolution or other method prescribed by statute.
83. A resolution, including a special resolution, in writing and signed by
every shareholder who would be entitled to vote on the resolution at a
meeting is as valid as if it were passed by such shareholders at a
meeting and satisfies all of the requirements of the Act respecting
meetings of shareholders.
DIRECTORS
84. Unless otherwise determined by resolution of shareholders, the number
of directors shall not be less than one or more than twenty.
85. Notwithstanding anything herein contained the persons named in the
Amalgamation Agreement pursuant to which the Company was formed shall
be the first directors of the Company.
86. The directors may be paid out of the funds of the Company as
remuneration for their service such sums, if any, as the Company may by
resolution of its shareholders determine, and such
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remuneration shall be divided among them in such proportions and manner
as the directors determine. The directors may also be paid their
reasonable travelling, hotel and other expenses incurred in attending
meetings of directors and otherwise in the execution of their duties as
directors.
87. The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their
body, but if their number falls below the minimum permitted, the
directors shall not, except in emergencies or for the purpose of
filling vacancies, act so long as their number is below the minimum.
88. A director may, in conjunction with the office of director, and on such
terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the directors arrange or
determine, hold any other office or place of profit under the Company
or under any company in which the Company is a shareholder or is
otherwise interested.
89. The office of a director shall ipso facto be vacated, if the director:
(1) becomes bankrupt or makes an assignment for the benefit of
creditors;
(2) is, or is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be, of
unsound mind;
(3) by notice in writing to the Company, resigns the office of
director; or
(4) is removed in the manner provided by these Articles.
90. No director shall be disqualified by holding the office of director
from contracting with the Company, either as vendor, purchaser, or
otherwise, nor shall any such contract, or any contract or arrangement
entered into or proposed to be entered into by or on behalf of the
Company in which any director is in any way interested, either directly
or indirectly, be avoided, nor shall any director so contracting or
being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit
realized by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such
director holding that office or of the fiduciary relations thereby
established, provided the director makes a declaration or gives a
general notice in accordance with the Act. No director shall, as a
director, vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which the
director is so interested, and if the director does so vote, such vote
shall not be counted. This prohibition may at any time or times be
suspended or relaxed to any extent by a resolution of the shareholders
and shall not apply to any contract by or on behalf of the Company to
give to the directors or any of them any security for advances or by
way of indemnity.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
91. At the dissolution of every ordinary general meeting at which their
successors are elected, all the directors shall retire from office and
be succeeded by the directors elected at such meeting. Retiring
directors shall be eligible for re-election.
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92. If at any ordinary general meeting at which an election of directors
ought to take place no such election takes place, or if no ordinary
general meeting is held in any year or period of years, the retiring
directors shall continue in office until their successors are elected.
93. The Company may by resolution of its shareholders elect any number of
directors permitted by these Articles and may determine or alter their
qualification.
94. The Company may, by special resolution or in any other manner permitted
by statute, remove any director before the expiration of such
director's period of office and may, if desired, appoint a replacement
to hold office during such time only as the director so removed would
have held office.
95. The directors may appoint any other person as a director so long as the
total number of directors does not at any time exceed the maximum
number permitted. No such appointment, except to fill a casual vacancy,
shall be effective unless two-thirds of the directors concur in it. Any
casual vacancy occurring among the directors may be filled by the
directors, but any person so chosen shall retain office only so long as
the vacating director would have retained it if the vacating director
had continued as director.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
96. The directors may appoint one or more of their body to be managing
directors of the Company, either for a fixed term or otherwise, and may
remove or dismiss them from office and appoint replacements.
97. Subject to the provisions of any contract between a managing director
and the Company, a managing director shall be subject to the same
provisions as to resignation and removal as the other directors of the
Company. A managing director who for any reason ceases to hold the
office of director shall ipso facto immediately cease to be a managing
director.
98. The remuneration of a managing director shall from time to time be
fixed by the directors and may be by way of any or all of salary,
commission and participation in profits.
99. The directors may from time to time entrust to and confer upon a
managing director such of the powers exercisable under these Articles
by the directors as they think fit, and may confer such powers for such
time, and to be exercised for such objects and purposes and upon such
terms and conditions, and with such restrictions as they think
expedient; and they may confer such powers either collaterally with, or
to the exclusion of, and in substitution for, all or any of the powers
of the directors in that behalf; and may from time to time revoke,
withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.
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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
100. The directors may elect one of their number to be Chairman and may
determine the period during which the Chairman is to hold office. The
Chairman shall perform such duties and receive such special
remuneration as the directors may provide.
PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS
101. The directors shall elect the President of the Company, who need not be
a director, and may determine the period for which the President is to
hold office. The President shall have general supervision of the
business of the Company and shall perform such duties as may be
assigned from time to time by the directors.
102. The directors may also elect vice-presidents, who need not be
directors, and may determine the periods for which they are to hold
office. A vice-president shall, at the request of the President or the
directors and subject to the directions of the directors, perform the
duties of the President during the absence, illness or incapacity of
the President, and shall also perform such duties as may be assigned by
the President or the directors.
SECRETARY AND TREASURER
103. The directors shall appoint a Secretary of the Company to keep minutes
of shareholders' and directors' meetings and perform such other duties
as may be assigned by the directors. The directors may also appoint a
temporary substitute for the Secretary who shall, for the purposes of
these Articles, be deemed to be the Secretary.
104. The directors may appoint a treasurer of the Company to carry out such
duties as the directors may assign.
OFFICERS
105. The directors may elect or appoint such other officers of the Company,
having such powers and duties, as they think fit.
106. If the directors so decide the same person may hold more than one of
the offices provided for in these Articles.
PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS
107. The directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn
and otherwise regulate their meetings and proceedings, as they think
fit, and may determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of
business. Until otherwise determined, one director shall constitute a
quorum and may hold a meeting.
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108. If all directors of the Company entitled to attend a meeting either
generally or specifically consent, a director may participate in a
meeting of directors or of a committee of directors by means of such
telephone or other communications facilities as permit all persons
participating in the meeting to hear each other, and a director
participating in such a meeting by such means is deemed to be present
at that meeting for purposes of these Articles.
109. Meetings of directors may be held either within or without the Province
of Nova Scotia and the directors may from time to time make
arrangements relating to the time and place of holding directors'
meetings, the notices to be given for such meetings and what meetings
may be held without notice. Unless otherwise provided by such
arrangements:
(1) A meeting of directors may be held at the close of every ordinary
general meeting of the Company without notice.
(2) Notice of every other directors' meeting may be given as
permitted by these Articles to each director at least 48 hours
before the time fixed for the meeting.
(3) A meeting of directors may be held without formal notice if all
the directors are present or if those absent have signified their
assent to such meeting or their consent to the business
transacted at such meeting.
110. The President or any director may at any time, and the Secretary, upon
the request of the President or any director, shall summon a meeting of
the directors to be held at the Office of the Company. The President,
the Chairman or a majority of the directors may at any time, and the
Secretary, upon the request of the President, the Chairman or a
majority of the directors, shall summon a meeting to be held elsewhere.
111. (1) Questions arising at any meeting of directors shall be decided by
a majority of votes. The chairman of the meeting may vote as a
director but shall not have a second or casting vote.
(2) At any meeting of directors the chairman shall receive and count
the vote of any director not present in person at such meeting on
any question or matter arising at such meeting whenever such
absent director has indicated by telegram, letter or other
writing lodged with the chairman of such meeting the manner in
which the absent director desires to vote on such question or
matter and such question or matter has been specifically
mentioned in the notice calling the meeting as a question or
matter to be discussed or decided thereat. In respect of any such
question or matter so mentioned in such notice any director may
give to any other director a proxy authorizing such other
director to vote for such first named director at such meeting,
and the chairman of such meeting, after such proxy has been so
lodged, shall receive and count any vote given in pursuance
thereof notwithstanding the absence of the director giving such
proxy.
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112. If no Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting of directors the
Chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed
for holding the meeting, or declines to take the chair, the President,
if a director, shall preside. If the President is not a director, is
not present at such time or declines to take the chair, a
vice-president who is also a director shall preside. If no person
described above is present at such time and willing to take the chair,
the directors present shall choose some one of their number to be
chairman of the meeting.
113. A meeting of the directors at which a quorum is present shall be
competent to exercise all or any of the authorities, powers and
discretions for the time being vested in or exercisable by the
directors generally.
114. The directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting
of such number of directors as they think fit. Any committee so formed
shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any
regulations that may be imposed on them by the directors.
115. The meetings and proceedings of any committee of directors shall be
governed by the provisions contained in these Articles for regulating
the meetings and proceedings of the directors insofar as they are
applicable and are not superseded by any regulations made by the
directors.
116. All acts done at any meeting of the directors or of a committee of
directors or by any person acting as a director shall, notwithstanding
that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the
appointment of the director or person so acting, or that they or any of
them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been
duly appointed and was qualified to be a director.
117. A resolution in writing and signed by every director who would be
entitled to vote on the resolution at a meeting is as valid as if it
were passed by such directors at a meeting.
118. If any one or more of the directors is called upon to perform extra
services or to make any special exertions in going or residing abroad
or otherwise for any of the purposes of the Company or the business
thereof, the Company may remunerate the director or directors so doing,
either by a fixed sum or by a percentage of profits or otherwise. Such
remuneration shall be determined by the directors and may be either in
addition to or in substitution for remuneration otherwise authorized by
these Articles.
REGISTERS
119. The directors shall cause to be kept at the Company's Office in
accordance with the provisions of the Act a Register of the
shareholders of the Company, a register of the holders of bonds,
debentures and other securities of the Company and a register of its
directors. Branch registers of the shareholders and of the holders of
bonds, debentures and other securities may be kept elsewhere, either
within or without the Province of Nova Scotia, in accordance with the
Act.
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MINUTES
120. The directors shall cause minutes to be entered in books designated for
the purpose:
(1) of all appointments of officers;
(2) of the names of directors present at each meeting of directors
and of any committees of directors;
(3) of all orders made by the directors and committees of directors;
and
(4) of all resolutions and proceedings of meetings of shareholders
and of directors.
Any such minutes of any meeting of directors or of any committee of
directors or of shareholders, if purporting to be signed by the
chairman of such meeting or by the chairman of the next succeeding
meeting, shall be receivable as prima facie evidence of the matters
stated in such minutes.
POWERS OF DIRECTORS
121. The management of the business of the Company is vested in the
directors who, in addition to the powers and authorities by these
Articles or otherwise expressly conferred upon them, may exercise all
such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done
by the Company and are not hereby or by statute expressly directed or
required to be exercised or done by the shareholders, but subject
nevertheless to the provisions of any statute, the Memorandum or these
Articles. No modification of the Memorandum or these Articles shall
invalidate any prior act of the directors that would have been valid if
such modification had not been made.
122. Without restricting the generality of the terms of any of these
Articles and without prejudice to the powers conferred thereby, the
directors may:
(1) take such steps as they think fit to carry out any agreement or
contract made by or on behalf of the Company;
(2) pay costs, charges and expenses preliminary and incidental to the
promotion, formation, establishment, and registration of the
Company;
(3) purchase or otherwise acquire for the Company any property,
rights or privileges that the Company is authorized to acquire,
at such price and generally on such terms and conditions as they
think fit;
(4) pay for any property, rights or privileges acquired by, or
services rendered to the Company either wholly or partially in
cash or in shares (fully paid-up or otherwise), bonds, debentures
or other securities of the Company;
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(5) subject to the Act, secure the fulfilment of any contracts or
engagements entered into by the Company by mortgaging or charging
all or any of the property of the Company and its unpaid capital
for the time being, or in such other manner as they think fit;
(6) appoint, remove or suspend at their discretion such experts,
managers, secretaries, treasurers, officers, clerks, agents and
servants for permanent, temporary or special services, as they
from time to time think fit, and determine their powers and
duties and fix their salaries or emoluments and require security
in such instances and to such amounts as they think fit;
(7) accept a surrender of shares from any shareholder insofar as the
law permits and on such terms and conditions as may be agreed;
(8) appoint any person or persons to accept and hold in trust for the
Company any property belonging to the Company, or in which it is
interested, execute and do all such deeds and things as may be
required in relation to such trust, and provide for the
remuneration of such trustee or trustees;
(9) institute, conduct, defend, compound or abandon any legal
proceedings by and against the Company, its directors or its
officers or otherwise concerning the affairs of the Company, and
also compound and allow time for payment or satisfaction of any
debts due and of any claims or demands by or against the Company;
(10) refer any claims or demands by or against the Company to
arbitration and observe and perform the awards;
(11) make and give receipts, releases and other discharges for amounts
payable to the Company and for claims and demands of the Company;
(12) determine who may exercise the borrowing powers of the Company
and sign on the Company's behalf bonds, debentures or other
securities, bills, notes, receipts, acceptances, assignments,
transfers, hypothecations, pledges, endorsements, cheques,
drafts, releases, contracts, agreements and all other instruments
and documents;
(13) provide for the management of the affairs of the Company abroad
in such manner as they think fit, and in particular appoint any
person to be the attorney or agent of the Company with such
powers (including power to sub-delegate) and upon such terms as
may be thought fit;
(14) invest and deal with any funds of the Company in such securities
and in such manner as they think fit; and vary or realize such
investments;
(15) subject to the Act, execute in the name and on behalf of the
Company in favour of any director or other person who may incur
or be about to incur any personal liability
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for the benefit of the Company such mortgages of the Company's
property, present and future, as they think fit;
(16) give any officer or employee of the Company a commission on the
profits of any particular business or transaction or a share in
the general profits of the Company;
(17) set aside out of the profits of the Company before declaring any
dividend such amounts as they think proper as a reserve fund to
meet contingencies or provide for dividends, depreciation,
repairing, improving and maintaining any of the property of the
Company and such other purposes as the directors may in their
absolute discretion think in the interests of the Company; and
invest such amounts in such investments as they think fit, and
deal with and vary such investments, and dispose of all or any
part of them for the benefit of the Company, and divide the
reserve fund into such special funds as they think fit, with full
power to employ the assets constituting the reserve fund in the
business of the Company without being bound to keep them separate
from the other assets;
(18) make, vary and repeal rules respecting the business of the
Company, its officers and employees, the shareholders of the
Company or any section or class of them;
(19) enter into all such negotiations and contracts, rescind and vary
all such contracts, and execute and do all such acts, deeds and
things in the name and on behalf of the Company as they consider
expedient for or in relation to any of the matters aforesaid or
otherwise for the purposes of the Company;
(20) provide for the management of the affairs of the Company in such
manner as they think fit.
SOLICITORS
123. The Company may employ or retain solicitors any of whom may, at the
request or on the instruction of the directors, the Chairman, the
President or a managing director, attend meetings of the directors or
shareholders, whether or not the solicitor is a shareholder or a
director of the Company. A solicitor who is also a director may
nevertheless charge for services rendered to the Company as a
solicitor.
THE SEAL
124. The directors shall arrange for the safe custody of the common seal of
the Company (the "Seal"). The Seal may be affixed to any instrument in
the presence of and contemporaneously with the attesting signature of
(i) any director or officer acting within such person's authority or
(ii) any person under the authority of a resolution of the directors or
a committee thereof. For the purpose of certifying documents or
proceedings the Seal may be affixed by any director or the President, a
vice-president, the Secretary, an assistant
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secretary or any other officer of the Company without the authorization
of a resolution of the directors.
125. The Company may have facsimiles of the Seal which may be used
interchangeably with the Seal.
126. The Company may have for use at any place outside the Province of Nova
Scotia, as to all matters to which the corporate existence and capacity
of the Company extends, an official seal that is a facsimile of the
Seal of the Company with the addition on its face of the name of the
place where it is to be used; and the Company may by writing under its
Seal authorize any person to affix such official seal at such place to
any document to which the Company is a party.
DIVIDENDS
127. The directors may from time to time declare such dividend as they deem
proper upon shares of the Company according to the rights and
restrictions attached to any class or series of shares, and may
determine the date upon which such dividend will be payable and that it
will be payable to the persons registered as the holders of the shares
on which it is declared at the close of business upon a record date. No
transfer of such shares registered after the record date shall pass any
right to the dividend so declared.
128. Dividends may be paid as permitted by law and, without limitation, may
be paid out of the profits, retained earnings or contributed surplus of
the Company. No interest shall be payable on any dividend except
insofar as the rights attached to any class or series of shares provide
otherwise.
129. The declaration of the directors as to the amount of the profits,
retained earnings or contributed surplus of the Company shall be
conclusive.
130. The directors may from time to time pay to the shareholders such
interim dividends as in their judgment the position of the Company
justifies.
131. Subject to these Articles and the rights and restrictions attached to
any class or series of shares, dividends may be declared and paid to
the shareholders in proportion to the amount of capital paid-up on the
shares (not including any capital paid-up bearing interest) held by
them respectively.
132. The directors may deduct from the dividends payable to any shareholder
amounts due and payable by the shareholder to the Company on account of
calls, instalments or otherwise, and may apply the same in or towards
satisfaction of such amounts so due and payable.
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133. The directors may retain any dividends on which the Company has a lien,
and may apply the same in or towards satisfaction of the debts,
liabilities or engagements in respect of which the lien exists.
134. The directors may retain the dividends payable upon shares to which a
person is entitled or entitled to transfer upon the death or bankruptcy
of a shareholder or in any way other than by allotment or transfer,
until such person has become registered as the holder of such shares or
has duly transferred such shares.
135. When the directors declare a dividend on a class or series of shares
and also make a call on such shares payable on or before the date on
which the dividend is payable, the directors may retain all or part of
the dividend and set off the amount retained against the call.
136. The directors may declare that a dividend be paid by the distribution
of cash, paid-up shares (at par or at a premium), debentures, bonds or
other securities of the Company or of any other company or any other
specific assets held or to be acquired by the Company or in any one or
more of such ways.
137. The directors may settle any difficulty that may arise in regard to the
distribution of a dividend as they think expedient, and in particular
without restricting the generality of the foregoing may issue
fractional certificates, may fix the value for distribution of any
specific assets, may determine that cash payments will be made to any
shareholders upon the footing of the value so fixed or that fractions
may be disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all parties, and
may vest cash or specific assets in trustees upon such trusts for the
persons entitled to the dividend as may seem expedient to the
directors.
138. Any person registered as a joint holder of any share may give effectual
receipts for all dividends and payments on account of dividends in
respect of such share.
139. Unless otherwise determined by the directors, any dividend may be paid
by a cheque or warrant delivered to or sent through the post to the
registered address of the shareholder entitled, or, when there are
joint holders, to the registered address of that one whose name stands
first on the register for the shares jointly held. Every cheque or
warrant so delivered or sent shall be made payable to the order of the
person to whom it is delivered or sent. The mailing or other
transmission to a shareholder at the shareholder's registered address
(or, in the case of joint shareholders at the address of the holder
whose name stands first on the register) of a cheque payable to the
order of the person to whom it is addressed for the amount of any
dividend payable in cash after the deduction of any tax which the
Company has properly withheld, shall discharge the Company's liability
for the dividend unless the cheque is not paid on due presentation. If
any cheque for a dividend payable in cash is not received, the Company
shall issue to the shareholder a replacement cheque for the same amount
on such terms as to indemnity and evidence of non-receipt as the
directors may impose. No shareholder may recover by action or other
legal process against the Company any dividend represented by a cheque
that has not been duly presented to a banker of the
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Company for payment or that otherwise remains unclaimed for 6 years
from the date on which it was payable.
ACCOUNTS
140. The directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept of the
amounts received and expended by the Company, the matters in respect of
which such receipts and expenditures take place, all sales and
purchases of goods by the Company, and the assets, credits and
liabilities of the Company.
141. The books of account shall be kept at the head office of the Company or
at such other place or places as the directors may direct.
142. The directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what
extent and at what times and places and under what conditions the
accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to
inspection of the shareholders, and no shareholder shall have any right
to inspect any account or book or document of the Company except as
conferred by statute or authorized by the directors or a resolution of
the shareholders.
143. At the ordinary general meeting in every year the directors shall lay
before the Company such financial statements and reports in connection
therewith as may be required by the Act or other applicable statute or
regulation thereunder and shall distribute copies thereof at such times
and to such persons as may be required by statute or regulation.
AUDITORS AND AUDIT
144. Except in respect of a financial year for which the Company is exempt
from audit requirements in the Act, the Company shall at each ordinary
general meeting appoint an auditor or auditors to hold office until the
next ordinary general meeting. If at any general meeting at which the
appointment of an auditor or auditors is to take place and no such
appointment takes place, or if no ordinary general meeting is held in
any year or period of years, the directors shall appoint an auditor or
auditors to hold office until the next ordinary general meeting.
145. The first auditors of the Company may be appointed by the directors at
any time before the first ordinary general meeting and the auditors so
appointed shall hold office until such meeting unless previously
removed by a resolution of the shareholders, in which event the
shareholders may appoint auditors.
146. The directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of the auditor
but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or continuing
auditor or auditors, if any, may act.
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147. The Company may appoint as auditor any person, including a shareholder,
not disqualified by statute.
148. An auditor may be removed or replaced in the circumstances and in the
manner specified in the Act.
149. The remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the shareholders, or
by the directors pursuant to authorization given by the shareholders,
except that the remuneration of an auditor appointed to fill a casual
vacancy may be fixed by the directors.
150. The auditors shall conduct such audit as may be required by the Act and
their report, if any, shall be dealt with by the Company as required by
the Act.
NOTICES
151. A notice (including any communication or document) shall be
sufficiently given, delivered or served by the Company upon a
shareholder, director, officer or auditor by personal delivery at such
person's registered address (or, in the case of a director, officer or
auditor, last known address) or by prepaid mail, telegraph, telex,
facsimile machine or other electronic means of communication addressed
to such person at such address.
152. Shareholders having no registered address shall not be entitled to
receive notice.
153. All notices with respect to registered shares to which persons are
jointly entitled may be sufficiently given to all joint holders thereof
by notice given to whichever of such persons is named first in the
Register for such shares.
154. Any notice sent by mail shall be deemed to be given, delivered or
served on the earlier of actual receipt and the third business day
following that upon which it is mailed, and in proving such service it
shall be sufficient to prove that the notice was properly addressed and
mailed with the postage prepaid thereon. Any notice given by electronic
means of communication shall be deemed to be given when entered into
the appropriate transmitting device for transmission. A certificate in
writing signed on behalf of the Company that the notice was so
addressed and mailed or transmitted shall be conclusive evidence
thereof.
155. Every person who by operation of law, transfer or other means
whatsoever becomes entitled to any share shall be bound by every notice
in respect of such share that prior to such person's name and address
being entered on the Register was duly served in the manner
hereinbefore provided upon the person from whom such person derived
title to such share.
156. Any notice delivered, sent or transmitted to the registered address of
any shareholder pursuant to these Articles, shall, notwithstanding that
such shareholder is then deceased and that the Company has notice
thereof, be deemed to have been served in respect of any registered
shares, whether held by such deceased shareholder solely or jointly
with other persons, until some other person is registered as the holder
or joint holder thereof, and such
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service shall for all purposes of these Articles be deemed a sufficient
service of such notice on the heirs, executors or administrators of the
deceased shareholder and all joint holders of such shares.
157. Any notice may bear the name or signature, manual or reproduced, of the
person giving the notice written or printed.
158. When a given number of days' notice or notice extending over any other
period is required to be given, the day of service and the day upon
which such notice expires shall not, unless it is otherwise provided,
be counted in such number of days or other period.
INDEMNITY
159. Every director or officer, former director or officer, or person who
acts or acted at the Company's request, as a director or officer of the
Company, a body corporate, partnership or other association of which
the Company is or was a shareholder, partner, member or creditor, and
the heirs and legal representatives of such person, in the absence of
any dishonesty on the part of such person, shall be indemnified by the
Company against, and it shall be the duty of the directors out of the
funds of the Company to pay, all costs, losses and expenses, including
an amount paid to settle an action or claim or satisfy a judgment, that
such director, officer or person may incur or become liable to pay in
respect of any claim made against such person or civil, criminal or
administrative action or proceeding to which such person is made a
party by reason of being or having been a director or officer of the
Company or such body corporate, partnership or other association,
whether the Company is a claimant or party to such action or proceeding
or otherwise; and the amount for which such indemnity is proved shall
immediately attach as a lien on the property of the Company and have
priority as against the shareholders over all other claims.
160. No director or officer, former director or officer, or person who acts
or acted at the Company's request, as a director or officer of the
Company, a body corporate, partnership or other association of which
the Company is or was a shareholder, partner, member or creditor, in
the absence of any dishonesty on such person's part, shall be liable
for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other director,
officer or such person, or for joining in any receipt or other act for
conformity, or for any loss, damage or expense happening to the Company
through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any property
acquired for or on behalf of the Company, or through the insufficiency
or deficiency of any security in or upon which any of the funds of the
Company are invested, or for any loss or damage arising from the
bankruptcy, insolvency or tortious acts of any person with whom any
funds, securities or effects are deposited, or for any loss occasioned
by error of judgment or oversight on the part of such person, or for
any other loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which happens in the
execution of the duties of such person or in relation thereto.
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REMINDERS
161. The directors shall comply with the following provisions of the Act or
the Corporations Registration Act (Nova Scotia) where indicated:
(1) Keep a current register of shareholders (Section 42).
(2) Keep a current register of directors, officers and managers, send
to the Registrar a copy thereof and notice of all changes therein
(Section 98).
(3) Keep a current register of holders of bonds, debentures and other
securities (Section 111 and Third Schedule).
(4) Call a general meeting every year within the proper time (Section
83). Meetings must be held not later than 15 months after the
preceding general meeting.
(5) Send to the Registrar copies of all special resolutions (Section
88).
(6) Send to the Registrar notice of the address of the Company's
Office and of all changes in such address (Section 79).
(7) Keep proper minutes of all shareholders' meetings and directors'
meetings in the Company's minute book kept at the Company's
Office (Sections 89 and 90).
(8) Obtain a certificate under the Corporations Registration Act
(Nova Scotia) as soon as business is commenced.
(9) Send notice of recognized agent to the Registrar under the
Corporations Registration Act (Nova Scotia).
ANNEX 1
SHARE CONDITIONS
1. CLASS A PREFERRED SHARES
The Class A preferred shares shall carry and be subject to the
following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions:
(a) The Class A preferred shares, along with the Class B preferred
shares (collectively, the "PREFERRED SHARES") with respect to
which the Class A preferred shares rank pari passu, shall
rank, as regards dividends and return of capital, in priority
to the common shares but shall not, except as herein provided,
confer any right to participate in the profits or assets of
the Company.
(b) The holders of the Class A preferred shares shall in each
calendar month in the discretion of the directors, but in
preference and priority to any payment of dividends on the
common shares for such calendar month, be entitled to receive
out of moneys of the Company properly applicable to the
payment of dividends, fixed, non-cumulative, preferential
dividends at the rate of Zero Point Three Three Percent
(0.33%) per month, calculated on the redemption price (as
defined below) of each Class A preferred share which may be
paid in money or property or by issuing fully paid shares of
the Company as the directors may, from time to time determine;
if in any calendar month after providing for the full dividend
on the Class A preferred shares and the Class B preferred
shares there shall remain any profits or surplus available for
dividends, such profits or surplus or any part thereof may, in
the discretion of the directors, be applied to dividends on
common shares; the holders of Class A preferred shares shall
not be entitled to any dividends other than or in excess of
the non-cumulative dividends at the rate hereinbefore provided
if in any calendar month, such dividend or any part thereof is
not declared, the rights of the holders of the Class A
preferred shares to such dividend or any part thereof are
forever extinguished.
(c) Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, the Company
may redeem, upon giving notice as hereinafter provided, the
whole or any part of the Class A preferred shares on payment
for each share to be redeemed of the redemption price (as
defined below) of each Class A preferred share together with
all dividends declared thereon and unpaid; in case a part only
of the then outstanding Class A preferred shares is at any
time to be redeemed, the shares to be redeemed shall be
selected by lot in such manner as the directors in their
discretion shall decide or, if the directors so determine, may
be redeemed pro rata, disregarding fractions, and the
directors may make such adjustments as may be necessary to
avoid the redemption of fractional parts of shares; not less
than Thirty (30) days notice in writing of such redemption
shall be given by mailing such notice to the registered
holders of the shares to be redeemed to the last known address
of each such holder, specifying the date and place or places
of redemption; if any notice of any such redemption be given
by the
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Company in the manner aforesaid and an amount sufficient to
redeem the shares be deposited with any trust company or
chartered bank in Canada as specified in the notice on or
before the date fixed for redemption, dividends on the Class A
preferred shares to be redeemed shall cease after the date so
fixed for redemption and the holders thereof shall thereafter
have no rights against the Company in respect thereof except,
upon the surrender of certificates for such shares, to receive
payment therefor, without interest, out of the moneys so
deposited.
(d) Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, the Company
shall have the right at its option at any time and from time
to time to purchase or otherwise acquire the whole or any part
of the Class A preferred shares pursuant to tenders or by
private contract at the lowest price at which, in the opinion
of the directors, such shares are obtainable but not exceeding
the redemption price thereof together with all dividends
declared thereon and unpaid. If in response to an invitation
for tenders, Two (2) or more holders of the Class A preferred
shares submit tenders at the same price and if such tenders
are accepted by the Company in whole or in part, then unless
the Company accepts all such tenders in whole, the Company
shall accept such tenders in proportion as nearly as may be to
the number of shares offered in each such tender.
(e) (i) A holder of Class A preferred shares shall be
entitled to require the Company to redeem at any time
and from time to time after the date of issuance of
any Class A preferred shares, upon giving notice as
hereinafter provided, all or any number of the Class
A preferred shares registered in the name of such
holder on the books of the Company at a price per
share equal to the redemption price thereof together
with all dividends declared thereon and unpaid.
(ii) A holder of Class A preferred shares exercising his
option to have the Company redeem, shall give notice
to the Company which notice shall set out the date on
which the Company is to redeem such shares which date
shall not be less than Three (3) days nor more than
Thirty (30) days from the date of the notice and if
the holder desires to have less than all of the Class
A preferred shares registered in his name redeemed by
the Company, the number of the holder's shares to be
redeemed. The date on which the redemption at the
option of the holder is to occur shall be the
optional redemption date. The holder of any such
Class A preferred shares may, with the consent of the
Company, revoke such notice prior to the optional
redemption date.
(iii) Upon delivery to the Company of a share certificate
or certificates representing the Class A preferred
shares which the holder desires to have the Company
redeem, the Company shall on the optional redemption
date, to the extent permitted by applicable law,
redeem such preferred shares by paying to the holder
thereof the redemption price thereof together with
all dividends declared thereon and unpaid.
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(iv) Upon payment of the redemption price of the Class A
preferred shares so redeemed by the Company together
with all dividends declared thereon and unpaid, the
holders thereof shall cease to be entitled to
dividends or to exercise any rights of holders in
respect thereof.
(v) If the redemption by the Company on any optional
redemption date of all such Class A preferred shares
to be redeemed on such date would be contrary to
applicable law, the Company shall be obliged to
redeem only the maximum number of such Class A
preferred shares (rounded to the next lower number of
shares) which the Company determines it is then
permitted to redeem, such redemptions to be made pro
rata (disregarding fractions of shares) according to
the number of such Class A preferred shares required
by each such holder to be redeemed by the Company and
the Company shall issue new certificates representing
the Class A preferred shares not redeemed by the
Company and the Company shall thereafter redeem on a
subsequent date or dates on which the Company has
moneys properly applicable for the redemption of
shares the maximum number of such Class A preferred
shares as would then not be contrary to applicable
law.
(f) In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, the holders of the
Class A preferred shares, pari passu with the Class B
preferred shares, shall be entitled to receive, in preference
and priority to any distribution of any part of the assets of
the Company among the holders of the common shares, for each
preferred share, an amount equal to the redemption price
thereof together with all dividends declared thereon and
unpaid.
(g) So long as any of the Class A preferred shares are
outstanding, no dividends shall at any time be declared or
paid on or set apart for payment on the common shares of the
Company unless, immediately thereafter the Company shall have
sufficient net assets to redeem all the outstanding Class A
preferred shares. A determination by the directors in such
bona fide manner as they in their discretion may consider
proper that the Company has sufficient net assets to redeem
all the outstanding Class A preferred shares shall be
conclusive and binding on the Company and the holders of the
shares of every class.
(h) The holders of Class A preferred shares shall as such be
entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote an any
meetings of the shareholders of the Company and shall be
entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for every ten Class
A preferred shares held.
(i) So long as any of the Class A preferred shares are
outstanding, the Company shall not redeem, purchase or
otherwise acquire the common shares or any other shares
ranking junior to the preferred shares without the approval of
the holders of the Class A preferred shares given in the
manner provided in subparagraph (j) hereof in addition to any
other approval required by law and unless the Company has
sufficient
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net assets (as determined by the directors in the manner
provided in subparagraph (g) of this paragraph) to redeem all
the outstanding Class A preferred shares.
(j) Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, the terms of
the Class A preferred share provisions may be altered, amended
or repealed or the application thereof suspended in any
particular case and changes made in the rights, privileges,
restrictions and conditions attaching to the Class A preferred
shares but no such alteration, amendment, repeal or suspension
shall be adopted until approved by special resolution passed
by the holders of at least Two-Thirds (2/3rds) of the Class A
preferred shares then outstanding.
2. CLASS B PREFERRED SHARES
The Class B preferred shares shall carry and be subject to the
following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions:
(a) The Class B preferred shares, along with the Class A preferred
shares with respect to which the Class B preferred shares rank
pari passu, shall rank, as regards dividends and return of
capital, in priority to the common shares but shall not,
except as herein provided, confer any right to participate in
the profits or assets of the Company.
(b) The holders of the Class B preferred shares shall in each
calendar month in the discretion of the directors, but in
preference and priority to any payment of dividends on the
common shares for such calendar month, be entitled to receive
out of moneys of the Company properly applicable to the
payment of dividends, fixed, non-cumulative, preferential
dividends at the rate of Zero point Five Percent (0.5%) per
month, calculated on the redemption price (as defined below)
of each Class B preferred share, which may be paid in money or
property or by issuing fully paid shares of the Company as the
directors may, from time to time determine; if in any calendar
month after providing for the full dividend on the Class B
preferred shares and the Class A preferred shares there shall
remain any profits or surplus available for dividends, such
profits or surplus or any part thereof may, in the discretion
of the directors, be applied to dividends on common shares;
the holders of Class B preferred shares shall not be entitled
to any dividends other than or in excess of the non-cumulative
dividends at the rate hereinbefore provided if in any calendar
month, such dividend or any part thereof is not declared, the
rights of the holders of the Class B preferred shares to such
dividend or any part thereof are forever extinguished.
(c) Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, the Company
may redeem, upon giving notice as hereinafter provided, the
whole or any part of the Class B preferred shares on payment
for each share to be redeemed of the redemption price (as
defined below) of each Class B preferred share together with
all dividends declared thereon and unpaid; in case a part only
of the then outstanding Class B preferred shares is at any
time to be redeemed, the shares to be redeemed shall be
selected by lot in such
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manner as the directors in their discretion shall decide or,
if the directors so determine, may be redeemed pro rata,
disregarding fractions, and the directors may make such
adjustments as may be necessary to avoid the redemption of
fractional parts of shares; not less than Thirty (30) days
notice in writing of such redemption shall be given by mailing
such notice to the registered holders of the shares to be
redeemed to the last known address of each such holder,
specifying the date and place or places of redemption; if any
notice of any such redemption be given by the Company in the
manner aforesaid and an amount sufficient to redeem the shares
be deposited with any trust company or chartered bank in
Canada as specified in the notice on or before the date fixed
for redemption, dividends on the Class B preferred shares to
be redeemed shall cease after the date so fixed for redemption
and the holders thereof shall thereafter have no rights
against the Company in respect thereof except, upon the
surrender of certificates for such shares, to receive payment
therefor, without interest, out of the moneys so deposited.
(d) Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, the Company
shall have the right at its option at any time and from time
to time to purchase or otherwise acquire the whole or any part
of the Class B preferred shares pursuant to tenders or by
private contract at the lowest price at which, in the opinion
of the directors, such shares are obtainable but not exceeding
the redemption price thereof together with all dividends
declared thereon and unpaid. If in response to an invitation
for tenders, Two (2) or more holders of the Class B preferred
shares submit tenders at the same price and if such tenders
are accepted by the Company in whole or in part, then unless
the Company accepts all such tenders in whole, the Company
shall accept such tenders in proportion as nearly as may be to
the number of shares offered in each such tender.
(e) (i) A holder of Class B preferred shares shall be
entitled to require the Company to redeem at any time
and from time to time after the date of issuance of
any Class B preferred shares, upon giving notice as
hereinafter provided, all or any number of the Class
B preferred shares registered in the name of such
holder on the books of the Company at a price per
share equal to the redemption price thereof together
with all dividends declared thereon and unpaid.
(ii) A holder of Class B preferred shares exercising his
option to have the Company redeem, shall give notice
to the Company which notice shall set out the date on
which the Company is to redeem such shares which date
shall not be less than Three (3) days nor more than
Thirty (30) days from the date of the notice and if
the holder desires to have less than all of the Class
B preferred shares registered in his name redeemed by
the Company, the number of the holder's shares to be
redeemed. The date on which the redemption at the
option of the holder is to occur shall be the
optional redemption date. The holder of any such
Class B preferred shares may, with the consent of the
Company, revoke such notice prior to the optional
redemption date.
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(iii) Upon delivery to the Company of a share certificate
or certificates representing the Class B preferred
shares which the holder desires to have the Company
redeem, the Company shall on the optional redemption
date, to the extent permitted by applicable law,
redeem such preferred shares by paying to the holder
thereof the redemption price thereof together with
all dividends declared thereon and unpaid.
(iv) Upon payment of the redemption price of the Class B
preferred shares so redeemed by the Company together
with all dividends declared thereon and unpaid, the
holders thereof shall cease to be entitled to
dividends or to exercise any rights of holders in
respect thereof.
(v) If the redemption by the Company on any optional
redemption date of all such Class B preferred shares
to be redeemed on such date would be contrary to
applicable law, the Company shall be obliged to
redeem only the maximum number of such Class B
preferred shares (rounded to the next lower number of
shares) which the Company determines it is then
permitted to redeem, such redemptions to be made pro
rata (disregarding fractions of shares) according to
the number of such Class B preferred shares required
by each such holder to be redeemed by the Company and
the Company shall issue new certificates representing
the Class B preferred shares not redeemed by the
Company and the Company shall thereafter redeem on a
subsequent date or dates on which the Company has
moneys properly applicable for the redemption of
shares the maximum number of such Class B preferred
shares as would then not be contrary to applicable
law.
(f) In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, the holders of the
Class B preferred shares, pari passu with the Class A
preferred shares, shall be entitled to receive, in preference
and priority to any distribution of any part of the assets of
the Company among the holders of the common shares, for each
preferred share, an amount equal to the redemption price
thereof together with all dividends declared thereon and
unpaid.
(g) So long as any of the Class B preferred shares are
outstanding, no dividends shall at any time be declared or
paid on or set apart for payment on the common shares of the
Company unless, immediately thereafter the Company shall have
sufficient net assets to redeem all the outstanding Class B
preferred shares. A determination by the directors in such
bona fide manner as they in their discretion may consider
proper that the Company has sufficient net assets to redeem
all the outstanding Class B preferred shares shall be
conclusive and binding on the Company and the holders of the
shares of every class.
(h) The holders of Class B preferred shares shall as such be
entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote an any
meetings of the shareholders of the Company and shall
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be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for every ten
Class A preferred shares held.
(i) So long as any of the Class B preferred shares are
outstanding, the Company shall not redeem, purchase or
otherwise acquire the common shares or any other shares
ranking junior to the preferred shares without the approval of
the holders of the Class B preferred shares given in the
manner provided in subparagraph (j) hereof in addition to any
other approval required by law and unless the Company has
sufficient net assets (as determined by the directors in the
manner provided in subparagraph (g) of this paragraph) to
redeem all the outstanding Class B preferred shares.
(j) Subject to the provisions of any applicable law, the terms of
the Class B preferred share provisions may be altered, amended
or repealed or the application thereof suspended in any
particular case and changes made in the rights, privileges,
restrictions and conditions attaching to the Class B preferred
shares but no such alteration, amendment, repeal or suspension
shall be adopted until approved by special resolution passed
by the holders of at least Two-Thirds (2/3rds) of the Class B
preferred shares then outstanding.
3. COMMON SHARES
The common shares shall carry and be subject to the following rights,
privileges, restrictions and conditions namely:
(a) The holders of the common shares shall as such be entitled to
receive notice of and to attend and vote an any meetings of
the shareholders of the Company and shall be entitled to one
vote in person or by proxy for each common share held.
(b) After payment of all dividends to which the holders of
preferred shares are entitled in priority thereto, the holders
of the common shares shall be entitled to receive any dividend
declared by the Company.
(c) In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, after distribution
of all preferential amounts to the holders of the preferred
shares, the holders of the common shares shall be entitled to
receive equally on a share for share basis the remaining
assets of the Company.
4. DEFINITIONS
With respect to each class of preferred shares, the following term
shall have the meaning ascribed to them below:
(a) "NET FAIR MARKET VALUE" with respect to the Purchased Assets or other
property shall mean the fair market value, as at the Transfer Date of
the Purchased Assets or other property, as agreed to by the Company and
the transferor of the Purchased Assets (collectively the "PARTIES") on
the Transfer Date.
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(b) "PURCHASED ASSETS" means any assets transferred to the Company in
consideration for the issuance of shares of the relevant class on the
date of the first issuance thereof and the payment of any non-share
consideration.
(c) "REDEMPTION AMOUNT" means the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum
of any cash consideration for the shares of the relevant class on the
date of the first issuance thereof and the Net Fair Market Value of the
Purchased Assets less any non-share consideration given by the Company
to the person transferring the Purchased Assets by (ii) the number of
shares of the relevant class issued on the date of the first issuance
thereof as partial consideration for the Purchased Assets, provided
that if subsequent to any determination of the Net Fair Market Value of
the Purchased Assets or non-share consideration, the Parties shall
agree, or the Department of National Revenue, or any other taxing
authority, shall assert by assessment, reassessment or otherwise,
within the time period prescribed by the Income Tax Act (Canada), or
applicable provincial legislation, for such action, that the Net Fair
Market Value of such Purchased Assets or non-share consideration on the
Transfer Date was greater or less than the amount determined, then the
Redemption Amount of each share of the relevant class shall be deemed
to be and always to have been the amount that is determined in the
manner described above, provided the Net Fair Market Value of the
Purchased Assets and the Net Fair Market Value of the non-share
consideration shall be deemed to be such amount as may be finally
determined by agreement of the Parties or by agreement among the
particular taxing authority and the Parties to have been the Net Fair
Market Value of the Purchased Assets and the non-share consideration,
as the case may be, on the Transfer Date, or in the absence of such
determination, such amount as shall be finally determined by a court
having jurisdiction in the matter (after all appeal rights have been
exhausted or all time periods for appeal have expired without appeals
having been taken) to have been the Net Fair Market Value on the
Transfer Date.
For greater certainty, if shares of the relevant class are issued on
more than one Transfer Date the Redemption Amount shall be determined
based only upon the shares issued, and consideration received therefor,
on the first Transfer Date.
The Redemption Amount of each share of the relevant class so adjusted
shall be deemed retroactively to the Transfer Date to have been its
Redemption Amount; and in the event that any of such preferred shares
have been redeemed prior to the date the Net Fair Market Value of the
Purchased Assets is ultimately determined as provided herein, a cash or
property settlement in the amount or value of any such adjustment shall
be made by the holder of shares of the relevant class, or the Company,
as the case may be.
The Redemption Amount shall also be adjusted in the event of any return
of capital or other amendment to the capital of the Company so that the
economic value of the shares of the relevant class, less any amount of
capital returned to the holders thereof, remains constant so near as
may be. Any resolution of the directors of the Company determining the
adjusted Redemption Amount shall be constant subject to further
adjustment.
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(d) "TRANSFER DATE" means the date of transfer to the Company of Purchased
Assets or payment of money in consideration for the issue of shares of
the relevant class provided that if shares of the relevant class are
issued after the date on which Purchased Assets are transferred or cash
is paid in consideration therefor the date of such issuance will be the
Transfer Date.
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FORM OF 4TH AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-5
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
Pioneer Companies, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies as follows:
1. The name of the Corporation is Pioneer Companies, Inc.
2. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 16, 1987,
amended and restated on February 29, 1988, amended and restated on July 9, 1992,
amended and restated on May 21, 1993 (the "Third Restatement"), amended on April
20, 1995 (the "First Amendment"), and amended on April 27, 1995 (the "Second
Amendment"). The Third Restatement, as amended by the First Amendment and the
Second Amendment is hereby referred to as the "Third Certificate of
Incorporation".
3. This Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has
been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242, 245 and 303 of the Delaware
General Corporation Law (the "DGCL").
4. The text of the Third Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended
and restated to read in full as follows:
ARTICLE I
The name of the Corporation is Pioneer Companies, Inc.
ARTICLE II
The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is No.
1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of
its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE III
The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is:
To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be
organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE IV
A. The aggregate number of shares of capital stock of all classes which
the Corporation shall have authority to issue is sixty million (60,000,000)
shares, of which fifty
million (50,000,000) shares shall be common stock, par value one cent ($.01) per
share ("Common Stock"), and ten million (10,000,000) shares shall be preferred
stock, par value one cent ($.01) per share ("Preferred Stock").
B. The Preferred Stock shall have the following terms:
1. The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more
series, each such series to have such distinctive designation or title as may be
fixed by the Board of Directors by resolution prior to the issuance of any
shares of such series. Each such series may differ from every other series
already outstanding in such respects as may be determined from time to time by
the Board of Directors by resolution prior to the issuance of any shares
thereof, including but not limited to the following:
(a) the rate of dividend (or the method by which such rate may
be determined), if any, which the Preferred Stock of any such series
shall be entitled to receive, whether the dividends of such series
shall be cumulative or non-cumulative and, if such dividends shall be
cumulative, the date from which they shall be cumulative;
(b) the right or obligation, if any, of the Corporation to
redeem shares of Preferred Stock of any series and the amount per share
which the Preferred Stock of any such series shall be entitled to
receive in case of the redemption thereof, as well as other terms of
any such redemption, and the right of the Corporation, if any, to
reissue any such shares after the same shall have been redeemed;
(c) the amount per share which the Preferred Stock of any such
series shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the
Corporation in case of the voluntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation, or in case of the involuntary
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation;
(d) the relative rights of priority as between each series of
Preferred Stock;
(e) the right, if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of
any such series to convert the same into shares of any other classes of
stock, and the terms and conditions of such conversion;
(f) the voting power, if any, of the holders of Preferred
Stock of any series, and the terms and conditions under which they may
exercise such voting power; provided, however, that the Corporation
shall not issue any non-voting equity securities and with respect to
any series of Preferred Stock the terms of such stock shall include
adequate provisions for the election of directors representing such
Preferred Stock in the event of default in the payment of dividends on
such Preferred Stock;
(g) the terms of the sinking fund or fund of a similar nature,
if any, to be provided for the purchase or redemption of the Preferred
Stock of any such series and the terms and conditions upon which
Preferred Stock of such series shall be purchased or redeemed in whole
or in part; and
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(h) such other preferences and relative, participating,
optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations
or restrictions thereof, which are fixed by resolution or resolutions
of the Board of Directors (the "Authorization Resolutions") providing
for the issuance of the Preferred Stock of any such series.
2. The description and terms of the Preferred Stock of each series in
respect of the foregoing particulars shall be fixed and determined by the Board
of Directors by appropriate Authorization Resolutions at or prior to the time of
the authorization of the issue of the original shares of each such series.
3. In case the stated dividends in respect of any Preferred Stock (to
the extent then payable) and the amount payable on liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation in respect of the same are not paid in full, the
shareholders of all series of the Preferred Stock shall share in the payment of
dividends, including accumulations, if any, and in any distribution of assets
other than by way of dividends, in accordance with and to the extent permitted
by the preferences fixed by the Authorization Resolutions of all series of
Preferred Stock then outstanding.
4. The holders of each series of the Preferred Stock shall be entitled
to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors by resolution, out of
funds legally available therefor, preferential dividends in cash at the annual
or other rate fixed for such series. The holders of the Preferred Stock of each
series shall be entitled to receive any additional dividends thereon as may be
specified in the Authorization Resolutions of such series.
5. So long as any of the Preferred Stock remains outstanding, in no
event shall any dividend whatever, whether in cash or other property (other than
in shares of Common Stock), be paid or declared on the Common Stock by the
Corporation unless (a) the full dividends of the Preferred Stock for all past
dividend periods from the respective date or dates on which they become
cumulative shall have been paid and the full dividend thereon for the then
current dividend period shall have been paid or declared and a sum set apart
sufficient for the payment thereof, and (b) if at any time the Corporation is
obligated to retire or redeem shares of any series of the Preferred Stock
pursuant to a sinking fund or a fund of a similar nature or otherwise, all
arrears, if any, in respect of the retirement or redemption of the Preferred
Stock of all such series shall have been paid. Subject to the foregoing
provisions, such dividends (payable in cash, stock or otherwise) as may be
determined by the Board of Directors by resolution may be declared and paid on
the Common Stock from time to time out of the remaining funds of the Corporation
legally available therefor, and the Preferred Stock shall not, unless otherwise
permitted by the Authorization Resolutions of such series, be entitled to
participate in any such dividend, whether payable in cash, stock or otherwise.
No limitations, conditions or restrictions whatever are imposed by the
provisions of this paragraph 5 upon the purchase or redemption or other
acquisitions by the Corporation of any class or classes of any capital stock or
other securities of the Corporation.
6. In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, before any distribution or
payment shall be made to the holders of the Common Stock, the holders of the
Preferred Stock of each series shall be entitled to be paid in cash the
applicable liquidation price per share determined in the manner, or in the
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amount, fixed by the relevant Authorization Resolutions, together with a sum, in
the case of each share of the Preferred Stock, computed at the annual dividend
rate for the series of which the particular share is a part from the date on
which dividends on such share became cumulative to the date fixed for such
distribution or payment less the aggregate amount of all dividends theretofore
and on such distribution or payment date paid thereon. If such payment shall
have been made in full to the holders of all series of Preferred Stock, the
remaining assets and funds of the Corporation shall be distributed among the
holders of the Common Stock and the holders of the Preferred Stock of each
series, if any, entitled to participate in the remaining assets and funds of the
Corporation in accordance with the terms fixed in the Authorization Resolutions
of such series.
C. The Common Stock shall have the following terms:
1. Except as otherwise required by law and except as expressly provided
in this Certificate of Incorporation or in any resolution or resolutions adopted
by the Board of Directors pursuant to authority expressly vested in it by the
foregoing provisions of this Article IV with respect to the Preferred Stock, the
holders of Common Stock (a) shall have the exclusive voting rights for the
election of directors and for all other purposes, each holder of Common Stock
being entitled to one vote for each share thereof held by such holder, and (b)
shall be entitled to receive dividends payable in such property or shares of the
capital stock of the Corporation when and as declared by the Board of Directors
by resolution.
2. Subject to any applicable provisions of this Article IV, the
Corporation may at any time or from time to time purchase or otherwise acquire
shares of its Common Stock in any manner now or hereafter permitted by law or
pursuant to any agreement.
3. All shares of Common Stock will be identical and will entitle the
holders thereof to the same rights and privileges.
D. The issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock
authorized hereunder and any other actions permitted to be taken by the Board of
Directors pursuant to this Article IV must be authorized by the affirmative vote
of a majority of the entire Board of Directors or by a committee of the Board of
Directors constituted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board
of Directors.
E. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of
Incorporation, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting
power of the shares entitled to vote at election of directors shall be required
to amend, alter, change or repeal, or adopt any provision as part of this
Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with the purpose and intent of,
Sections B through E of this Article IV.
F. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
ARTICLE V
Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of
Delaware, as the by-laws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept
(subject to any provision
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contained in the statutes of the State of Delaware) outside the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the
Board of Directors or in the by-laws of the Corporation. Elections of directors
need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws of the Corporation shall so
provide.
Special meetings of stockholders may be called only by the Board of
Directors or by the President, and shall be called by the President at the
request of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the capital
stock entitled to vote at such meeting.
ARTICLE VI
The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
ARTICLE VII
No director shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by such
director as a director. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, a director shall
be liable to the extent provided by applicable law (i) for any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to section 174 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit.
ARTICLE VIII
A. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or
under the direction of a Board of Directors consisting of at least five (5) but
not more than nine (9) directors, the exact number of directors to be determined
in accordance with the by-laws of the Corporation. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or the by-laws of the
Corporation, whenever the holders of any one or more classes or series of
Preferred Stock issued by the Corporation shall have the right, voting
separately by class or series, to elect directors at an annual or special
meeting of stockholders, the election, term of office, filling of vacancies and
other features of such directorships shall be governed by the provisions of this
Certificate of Incorporation applicable thereto.
B. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Certificate of
Incorporation or the by-laws of the Corporation (and notwithstanding the fact
that a lesser percentage of separate class vote may be specified by law, this
Certificate of Incorporation or the by-laws of the Corporation), the affirmative
vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares entitled to
vote at an election of directors shall be required to amend, alter, change or
repeal, or to adopt any provision as part of this Certificate of Incorporation
inconsistent with the purpose and intent of, this Article VIII.
ARTICLE IX
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by
the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors shall have the power
to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Corporation's by-laws. The affirmative vote
of a majority of the entire Board of Directors
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shall be required to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Corporation's by-laws,
except that the unanimous consent of the entire Board of Directors shall be
required to increase or decrease the number of members of the Board of Directors
as set forth at any time in the Corporation's by-laws. Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation or the by-laws of the
Corporation (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser percentage or separate
class vote may be specified by law, this Certificate of Incorporation or the
by-laws of the Corporation), the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority
of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote at an election of directors
shall be required to adopt, amend, alter or repeal, or adopt any provision as
part of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with the purpose and
intent of, this Article IX.
ARTICLE X
Except as provided in Articles IV, VIII and IX, the Corporation
reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in
this Certificate of Incorporation in any manner now or hereafter prescribed by
statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject
to this reservation.
ARTICLE XI
The Corporation elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to be
signed by _______________________, its Chairman of the Board, and
_________________________, its Secretary, this ____ day of ______________, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Secretary
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EX-99.T3A.7
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FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF CONVERSION
EXHIBIT T3A-7
CERTIFICATE OF CONVERSION
TO
A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
OF
PIONEER CORPORATION OF AMERICA
This Certificate of Conversion to a Limited Liability Company, dated
[____________] [__], 2001 is being duly executed and filed by Pioneer
Corporation of America, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation") to convert
the Corporation to Pioneer Americas LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(the "Company"), pursuant to Section 266 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
(the "DGCL") and Section 18-214 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act
(the "Act").
1. The name of the Corporation immediately prior to the filing of this
Certificate of Conversion to a Limited Liability Company was "Pioneer
Corporation of America". The name under which the Corporation was originally
incorporated is "Pioneer Americas Acquisition Corp.".
2. The Corporation was incorporated in Delaware on March 6, 1995.
3. The name of the Company as set forth in its certificate of formation
filed in accordance with Section 18-214 of the Act is "Pioneer Americas LLC".
4. The conversion of the Corporation to the Company has been approved
in accordance with Section 18-214 of the Act and Section 266 of the DGCL.
Pioneer Corporation of America
By:
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Name: Kent Stephenson
Title: Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary
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FORM OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-9
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PIONEER (EAST), INC.
Pioneer (East), Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies as follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is Pioneer (East), Inc.
B. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on the 5th day of
June, 1996.
C. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly
adopted in accordance with Section 303 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware (the "DGCL").
D. The text of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and
restated to read in full as follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Pioneer (East), Inc.
SECOND: The address of its registered office in the State of
Delaware is 900 Market Street, Suite 200, in the City of Wilmington, County of
New Castle, 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is Griffin
Corporate Services, Inc.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act
or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL; provided
that the Corporation's activities shall be confined to the management and
maintenance of its intangible investments and the collection and distribution of
the income from such investments or from tangible property physically located
outside Delaware, all as defined in, and in such manner to qualify for exemption
from income taxation under Section 1902(b)(8) of Title 30 of the Delaware Code,
or under the corresponding provision of any subsequent law.
FOURTH: The Corporation shall have authority to issue One Thousand
(1,000) shares of common stock, par value of One Cent ($.01) per share.
FIFTH: Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
SIXTH: The Corporation shall indemnify directors and officers of the
Corporation to the fullest extent permissible by law.
SEVENTH: The directors of the Corporation shall incur no personal
liability to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for any
breach of fiduciary duty as a director; provided, however, that the directors of
the Corporation shall continue to be subject to liability (i) for any breach of
their duty of loyalty to the Corporation or to stockholders, (ii) for acts or
omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any
transaction from which the directors derived any improper personal benefit. In
discharging the duties of their respective positions, the board of directors,
committees of the board, individual directors and individual officers may, in
considering the best interest of the Corporation, consider the effects of any
actions upon employees, suppliers and customers of the Corporation communities
in which offices or other establishments of the Corporation are located, and all
other pertinent factors. In addition, the personal liability of the directors
shall further be limited to the fullest extent permitted by any future
amendments to Delaware law.
EIGHTH: The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed
by or under the direction of the board of directors, the number of members of
which shall be set forth in the by-laws of the Corporation. The directors need
not be elected by ballot unless required by the by-laws of the Corporation.
NINTH: Meetings of the stockholders may be held within or without
the State of Delaware. The books of the Corporation will be kept (subject to the
provisions contained in the DGCL) in the State of Delaware at such place or
places as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in
the by-laws of the Corporation.
TENTH: In the furtherance and not in limitation of the objects,
purposes and powers prescribed herein and conferred by the laws of the State of
Delaware, the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, amend and
repeal the by-laws.
ELEVENTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend or repeal any
provision contained in the Certificate of Incorporation in the manner now or
hereinafter prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware. All rights herein
conferred are granted subject to the reservation.
TWELFTH: The Corporation shall have no power and may not be
authorized by its stockholders or directors (i) to perform or omit to do any act
that would cause the Corporation to lose its status as a corporation exempt from
the Delaware Corporation income tax under Section 1902(b)(8) of Title 30 of the
Delaware Code, or under the corresponding provision of any subsequent law, or
(ii) to conduct any activities outside of Delaware which could result in the
Corporation being subject to tax outside of Delaware.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this
certificate to be signed by _______________________, its Chairman of the Board,
and _________________________, its Assistant Secretary, this ____ day of
______________________, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Assistant Secretary
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FORM OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-12
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PIONEER LICENSING, INC.
Pioneer Licensing, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies as
follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is Pioneer Licensing, Inc.
B. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on the 15th day of
September, 1997.
C. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly
adopted in accordance with Section 303 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
(the "DGCL").
D. The text of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and
restated to read in full as follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Pioneer Licensing, Inc.
SECOND: The address of its registered office in the State of
Delaware is 900 Market Street, 2nd Floor, in the City of Wilmington, County of
New Castle, 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is Delaware
Trust Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or
promoted by the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which
corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation
shall have authority to issue is: One Thousand (1,000) and the par value of such
shares One Cent ($0.01) amounting in the aggregate to Ten Dollars ($10.00).
FIFTH: Notwithstanding any other provisions contained herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
SIXTH: The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as
provided in the bylaws of the Corporation, as the same may be amended from time
to time.
SEVENTH: The Board of Directors is authorized to make, alter or
repeal the by-laws of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by
written ballot.
EIGHTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable
to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director
expect for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts of or omissions not in good faith
or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii)
under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the
director derived any improper personal benefit.
NINTH: The Corporation shall indemnify its officers, directors,
employees and agents to the extent permitted by the DGCL.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to
be signed by ___________, its Chairman of the Board, and ________, its Assistant
Secretary, this _____ day of __________, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Assistant Secretary
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FORM OF AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-14
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
IMPERIAL WEST CHEMICAL CO.
Imperial West Chemical Co., a corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Nevada (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies as
follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is Imperial West Chemical Co.
B. The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation were filed in the
office of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada on the 12th day of
August, 1977.
C. This Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation has been duly
adopted in accordance with Section 78.622 of the Nevada General Corporation Law.
D. The text of the Articles of Incorporation is hereby amended and
restated to read in full as follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Imperial West Chemical Co.
SECOND: Its principal office in the State of Nevada is located at
One East First Street, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada 89501. The name and address
of its resident agent is The Corporation Trust Company of Nevada, 6100 Neil
Road, Suite 500, Reno, Nevada 89511.
THIRD: The nature of the business, or objects or purposes proposed
to be transacted, promoted or carried on are:
To engage in any lawful activity and to manufacture, purchase or
otherwise acquire, invest in, own, mortgage, pledge, sell, assign
and transfer or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with
goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every class
and description.
To hold, purchase and convey real and personal estate and to
mortgage or lease any such real and personal estate with its
franchise and to take the same by devise or bequest.
To acquire, and pay for in cash, stock or bonds of this Corporation
or otherwise, the good will, rights, assets and property, and to
undertake or assume the whole or any part of the obligations or
liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation.
To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant license in respect
of, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of letters patent of the United
States or any foreign country,
patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions, improvements and
processes, copyrights, trademarks and trade names, relating to or
useful in connection with any business of this Corporation.
To guarantee, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage,
pledge, or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock of
or any bonds, securities or evidence of the indebtedness created by
any other corporation or corporations of this state, or any other
state or government, and, while owner of such stock, bonds,
securities or evidences of indebtedness, to exercise all the rights,
powers and privileges of ownership, including the rights of others,
if any.
To borrow money and contract debts when necessary for the
transaction of its business, or for the exercise of its corporate
rights, privileges or franchises, or for any other lawful purposes
of its incorporation; to issue bonds, promissory notes, bills of
exchange, debentures, and other obligations and evidences of
indebtedness, payable at specified time or times, or payable upon
the happening of a specific event or events, whether secured by
mortgage, pledge, or otherwise, or unsecured, for money borrowed, or
a payment for property purchased, or acquired, or for any other
lawful objects.
To purchase, hold, sell and transfer shares of its own capital
stock, and use therefor its capital, capital surplus, surplus, or
other property or funds; provided it shall not use its funds or
property for the purchase of its own share of capital stock when
such use would cause any impairment of its capital; and provided
further, that shares of its own capital stock belonging to it shall
not be voted upon, directly or indirectly, not counted as
outstanding, for the purpose of computing any stockholders' quorum
or vote.
To conduct business, have one or more offices, and hold, purchase,
mortgage or convey real and personal property in this sate, and in
any of the several states, territories, possessions and dependencies
of the United States, the District of Columbia, and in any foreign
countries.
To do all and everything necessary and proper for the accomplishment
of the objects hereinbefore enumerated or necessary or incidental to
the protection and benefit of the Corporation, and, in general, to
carry on any lawful business necessary or incidental to the
attainment of the objects of the Corporation, whether or not such
business is similar in nature to the objects hereinabove set forth.
The objects and purposes specified in the foregoing clauses shall,
except where otherwise expressed, be in no way limited or restricted
by reference to, or inference from, the terms of any other clause in
these articles of incorporation, but the objects and purposes
specified in each of the foregoing clauses of there articles shall
be regarded as independent objects and purposes.
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FOURTH: The amount of the total authorized capital stock of the
Corporation is Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) consisting of
Twenty-Five Thousand (25,000) shares of common stock, par value of One Dollar
($1.00) each.
FIFTH: The governing board of this Corporation shall be known as
directors, and the number of directors may from time to time be increased or
decreased in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws of this
Corporation, provided that the number of directors shall not be reduced to less
than three (3), except that in cases where all the shares of the Corporation are
owned beneficially and of record by either one or two stockholders, the number
of directors may be less than three (3) but not less than the number of
stockholders.
SIXTH: The capital stock, after the amount of the subscription
price, or par value has been paid shall not be subject to assessment to pay the
debts of the Corporation.
SEVENTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
EIGHTH: Meetings of stockholders may be held outside the State of
Nevada, if the bylaws so provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept
(subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Nevada
at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the board of
directors or in the bylaws of the Corporation.
NINTH: Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
TENTH: This Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change
or repeal any provision contained in the articles of incorporation, in the
manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, or by the articles of
incorporation, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted
subject to this reservation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these articles to be
signed by ____________, its Chairman of the Board, and ______________, its
Assistant Secretary, this _____ day of _______, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Assistant Secretary
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FORM OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-16
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
KEMWATER NORTH AMERICA COMPANY
Kemwater North America Company, a corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies as
follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is Kemwater North America Company.
B. The Certificate of Incorporation was filed in the office of the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on the 26th day of January, 1996.
C. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been
duly adopted in accordance with Section 303 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law (the "DGCL").
D. The text of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended
and restated to read in full as follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Kemwater North America
Company.
SECOND: The address of its registered office in the State of
Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle
19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust
Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or
promoted is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may
be organized under the General Corporation Laws of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation
shall have authority to issue is Eighty Thousand (80,000), consisting of Fifty
Thousand (50,000) shares of Preferred Stock, par value of One Dollar ($1.00) per
share (hereinafter called "Preferred Stock"), and Thirty Thousand (30,000)
shares of Common Stock, par value of Ten Cents ($0.10) per share (hereinafter
called "Common Stock").
The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more
series. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to provide for the issuance
of shares of Preferred Stock in series, to establish from time to time the
number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation,
powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the
qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof.
The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each series shall
include, but not be limited to, determination of any or all of the following:
(a) The designation of the series, which may be by distinguishing
number, letter or title;
(b) The number of shares of the series, which number the Board of
Directors may thereafter (except where otherwise provided in the creation of the
series) increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the
class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares then outstanding);
(c) Whether dividends, if any, shall be cumulative or noncumulative,
the dividend rate of the series and the dates at which dividends, if any, shall
be payable;
(d) The redemption rights and price or prices, if any, for shares of
the series;
(e) The terms and amount of any sinking fund provided for the
purchase or redemption of shares of the series;
(f) The amounts payable on shares of the series in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs
of the Corporation;
(g) Whether the shares of the series shall be convertible into or
exchangeable for shares of any other class or series of shares, or any other
security, of the Corporation or any other corporation, and, if so, the
specification of such other class or series or such other security, the
conversion price or prices or rate or rates of exchange, any adjustments
thereof, the date or dates as of which such shares shall be convertible and all
other terms and conditions upon which such conversion or exchange may be made;
(h) Restrictions on the issuance of shares of the same series or of
any other class or series and the right, if any, to subscribe for or purchase
any securities of the Corporation or any other corporation;
(i) The voting rights of the holders of such series; provided,
however, that with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, the terms of such
stock shall include adequate provisions for the election of a director
representing such Preferred Stock in the event of default in the payment of
dividends on such Preferred Stock; and
(j) Any other relative, participating, optional or other special
powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof
all as determined from time to time by the Board of Directors and stated in the
resolutions providing for the issuance of such preferred stock (a "Preferred
Stock Designation").
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The holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each
such share upon all questions presented to the stockholders. Except as may be
provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or by the Board of Directors in a
Preferred Stock Designation, the Common Stock shall have the exclusive right to
vote for the election of directors and for all other purposes, and holders of
Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meeting of
stockholders at which they are not entitled to vote or consent.
The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the person in whose name
any share of its stock is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes and
shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in,
such share on the part of any other person, whether or not the Corporation shall
have notice thereof; except as expressly provided by applicable laws.
FIFTH: The Board of Directors is authorized to adopt, amend or
repeal the bylaws of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by
written ballot.
SIXTH: The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as
provided in the bylaws of the Corporation, as the same may be amended from time
to time.
SEVENTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally
liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the
DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting
the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the
Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by
the DGCL, as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this paragraph by the
stockholders of the Corporation shall be prospective only, and shall not
adversely affect any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the
Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
EIGHTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by
the DGCL (including, without limitation, Section 145 thereof), as amended from
time to time, indemnify any officer or director whom it shall have power to
indemnify from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other
losses of any nature. The indemnification provided in this Article EIGHTH shall
not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be
entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as
to action in another capacity, while holding such office, and shall continue as
to a person who has ceased to be an officer or director and shall inure to the
benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
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NINTH: Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to
be signed by _______________________, its Chairman of the Board, and
_________________________, its Assistant Secretary, this ____ day of
______________________, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Assistant Secretary
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FORM OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-18
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PIONEER WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby
certifies as follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc.
B. The Certificate of Incorporation was filed in the office of the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on the 30th day of January, 1996.
C. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been
duly adopted in accordance with Section 303 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law (the "DGCL").
D. The text of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended
and restated to read in full as follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Pioneer Water Technologies,
Inc.
SECOND: The address of its registered office in the State of
Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle,
19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust
Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or
promoted by the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which
corporations may be organized under the DGCL.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation
shall have authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of common stock,
par value Ten Cents ($0.10) per share.
FIFTH: Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
SIXTH: The Board of Directors is authorized to adopt, amend or
repeal the bylaws of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by
written ballot.
SEVENTH: The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as
provided in the bylaws of the Corporation, as the same may be amended from time
to time.
EIGHTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable
to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the
DGCL is amended to authorize corporation action further eliminating or limiting
the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the
Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by
the DGCL, as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this paragraph by the
stockholders of the Corporation shall be prospective only, and shall not
adversely affect any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the
Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
NINTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the
DGCL (including, without limitation, Section 145 thereof), as amended from time
to time, indemnify any officer or director whom it shall have power to indemnify
from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other losses of any
nature. The indemnification provided in this Article NINTH shall not be deemed
exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under
any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in
another capacity, while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person
who has ceased to be a officer or director and shall inure to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to
be signed by ______________, its Chairman of the Board, and ________________,
its Assistant Secretary, this _______ day of __________, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Assistant Secretary
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FORM OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT T3A-20
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
KWT, INC.
KWT, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), hereby certifies as follows:
A. The name of the Corporation is KWT, Inc.
B. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on the 7th day of
November, 1989, and amended on April 15, 1996.
C. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly
adopted in accordance with Section 303 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware (the "DGCL").
D. The text of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and
restated to read in full as follows:
FIRST. The name of the Corporation is:
KWT, INC.
SECOND. The address of its registered office in the State of
Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County
of New Castle, 19808. The name of its registered agent at such address is
Corporation Service Company.
THIRD. The purpose or purposes of the Corporation shall be to
engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized
under the DGCL.
FOURTH. The total number of shares of stock which this
Corporation is authorized to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares, par value One
Dollar ($1.00) per share, amounting to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
FIFTH. The Board of Directors shall have the power to adopt,
amend or repeal the by-laws.
SIXTH. The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as
provided in the bylaws of the Corporation, as the same may be amended from time
to time.
SEVENTH. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein
to the contrary, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this
certificate to be signed by _______________________, its Chairman of the Board,
and _________________________, its Assistant Secretary, this ____ day of
______________________, 2001.
BY:
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Chairman of the Board
ATTEST:
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Assistant Secretary
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EX-99.T3B.2
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FORM OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF PCI
EXHIBIT T3B-2
SCHEDULE A
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY/SOCIETE PCI CHIMIE CANADA
1. The name of the Company is PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY and in its
french language form SOCIETE PCI CHIMIE CANADA and the Company may be
legally designated by either of such language forms and, unless
expressly required by law to use a particular language form or all
language forms of its name, may use any one language form of its name
by itself in any case where its name is required to be used.
2. There are no restrictions on the objects and powers of the Company and
the Company shall expressly have the following powers:
(1) to sell or dispose of its undertaking, or a substantial part
thereof;
(2) to distribute any of its property in specie among its members;
and
(3) to amalgamate with any company or other body of persons.
3. The liability of the members is unlimited.
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FORM OF AMENDED BYLAWS
EXHIBIT T3B-4
ADOPTED: _________, 2001
PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
Incorporated Under the Law of the
State of Delaware
AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS
PREAMBLE
These Amended and Restated By-Laws ("By-Laws") have been duly
adopted in accordance with Sections 109 and 303 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware ("DGCL").
These By-Laws are subject to, and governed by, the DGCL and
the Certificate of Incorporation (as amended from time to time, the "Certificate
of Incorporation") of Pioneer Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Corporation"). In the event of a direct conflict between the provisions of
these By-Laws and the mandatory provisions of the DGCL or the provisions of the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, such provisions of the DGCL or
the Certificate of Incorporation, as the case may be, shall control.
ARTICLE I
OFFICES.
The registered office of the Corporation in Delaware shall be
at 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, in the
State of Delaware, and The Corporation Trust Company shall be the registered
agent of the
Corporation in charge thereof. The Corporation may also have such other offices
at such other places, within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of
Directors may from time to time designate or the business of the Corporation may
require.
ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDERS.
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of stockholders for the
election of directors and the transaction of any other business shall be held on
such date and at such time as the Board of Directors may determine by resolution
in such city and state and at such time and place as may be designated by the
Board of Directors, and set forth in the notice of such meeting. At the annual
meeting any business may be transacted and any corporate action may be taken,
whether stated in the notice of meeting or not, except as otherwise expressly
provided by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation.
Section 2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders for
any purpose may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, or by the
President, and shall be called by the President at the request of the holders of
a majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote at such
meeting. Special meetings shall be held at such place or places within or
without the State of Delaware as shall from time to time be designated by the
Board of Directors, or by the President, and stated in the notice of such
meeting. At a special meeting no business shall be transacted and no corporate
action shall be taken other than that stated in the notice of the meeting.
Section 3. Notice of Meetings. Notice of the time and place of any
stockholders' meeting, whether annual or special, shall be given to each
stockholder
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entitled to vote thereat, by personal delivery or by mailing the same to such
stockholder at the stockholder's address as the same appears upon the records of
the Corporation at least ten (10) days but not more than sixty (60) days before
the day of the meeting. Every notice of a special meeting shall state the
purpose or purposes of such special meeting. Notice of any adjourned meeting
need not be given other than by announcement at the meeting so adjourned, unless
otherwise ordered in connection with such adjournment pursuant to Article II,
Section 5, of these By-Laws. Such further notice, if any, shall be given as may
be required by law.
Section 4. Quorum. At any meeting duly called, any number of
stockholders, together holding at least a majority of the voting power of the
capital stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at
such meeting, who shall be present in person or represented by proxy at such
meeting, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business at such
meeting, except as otherwise provided by law, by the Certificate of
Incorporation or by these By-Laws.
Section 5. Adjournment. If less than a quorum shall attend at the time
for which a meeting shall have been called, the meeting may adjourn from time to
time by a majority vote of the stockholders present or represented by proxy and
entitled to vote thereat, without notice other than by announcement at the
meeting, until a quorum shall attend. Any meeting at which a quorum is present
may also be adjourned in like manner and for such time or upon such call as may
be determined by a majority vote of the stockholders present or represented by
proxy and entitled to vote thereat. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum
shall be present, any business may be transacted and any corporate action may be
taken which might have been transacted at the meeting
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as originally called. If any meeting is adjourned for more than thirty (30) days
or if a new record date is fixed for a meeting after the adjournment, a notice
of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder in accordance with
Article II, Section 3, of these By-Laws as it relates to notices in respect of
adjourned meetings.
Section 6. Organization. Meetings of stockholders shall be presided
over by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, if any, or if none or in the
Chairman of the Board of Directors' absence the President, if any, or if none or
in the President's absence a Vice-President, or, if none of the foregoing is
present, by a chairman chosen by a majority of the Board of Directors present at
such meeting, and in the absence of such a person, a person chosen by the
stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting who are present in person or by
proxy at the meeting. The Secretary of the Corporation, or in the Secretary's
absence an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but if
neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present, the presiding
officer of the meeting shall appoint any person present to act as secretary of
the meeting.
Section 7. Conduct of Meetings. The Board of Directors may adopt by
resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of
stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent
with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board of Directors, the
chairman of any meeting of stockholders shall have the right and authority to
prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in
the judgment of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the
meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board of
Directors or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without
limitation, the following: (i) the establishment of an agenda or order of
business for the meeting;
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(ii) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of
those present; (iii) limitations on attendance at or participation in the
meeting to stockholders of record of the Corporation, their duly authorized and
constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall
determine; (iv) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for
the commencement thereof; and (v) limitations on the time allotted to questions
or comments by participants. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board of
Directors or the chairman of the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be
required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.
Section 8. Stockholders Entitled to Vote. The Secretary shall prepare
and make, at least ten (10) days before every meeting of stockholders, a
complete list of the holders of all classes of the Corporation's capital stock
entitled to vote thereat, arranged in alphabetical order and showing the address
of each stockholder and the number of shares owned by each stockholder. Such
list shall be open at the principal place of business of the Corporation for
said ten (10) days, to the examination of any stockholder, and shall be produced
and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and
subject to the inspection of any stockholder who may be present.
Section 9. Voting. Each stockholder entitled to vote at any meeting of
stockholders shall be entitled to one vote (or such other lesser or greater
number as shall be provided for in or pursuant to the Certificate of
Incorporation) for each such share held by such stockholder which has voting
power upon the matter in question. Each stockholder may vote either in person or
by proxy, but no proxy shall be voted on or acted on after three years from its
date, unless said proxy provides for a longer period.
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Except where the transfer books of the Corporation shall have been closed or a
date shall have been fixed as a record date for the determination of its
stockholders entitled to vote, as hereinafter provided, no share of stock shall
be voted on at any stockholders' meeting which shall have been transferred on
the books of the Corporation within twenty (20) days preceding the date of such
meeting. At stockholders meetings whereat directors are to be elected, directors
shall be elected by a plurality vote of the stockholders present in person or by
proxy and entitled to vote thereat on the election of directors. At all meetings
of stockholders all matters, except as otherwise provided by these By-Laws,
statute or in the Certificate of Incorporation, shall be determined by a
majority vote of the stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to
vote thereat. Voting need not be by written ballot unless a majority of the
stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at such
stockholders meeting shall so determine. Where a separate vote by a class or
classes is required to vote on a matter, the affirmative vote of the majority of
shares of such class or classes present in person or represented by proxy at the
meeting shall be the act of such class, unless otherwise provided by law, by the
Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws.
Section 10. Record Date. The Board of Directors is authorized to fix in
advance a date not exceeding sixty (60) days nor less than ten (10) days
preceding the date of any meeting of stockholders, or the date for the payment
of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any
change or conversion or exchange of capital stock shall go into effect, or a
date in connection with obtaining the consent of stockholders for any purposes,
as a record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to notice
of, and to vote at, any such meeting, and any adjournment thereof, or
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entitled to receive payment of any such dividend, or to any such allotment of
rights, or to exercise the rights in respect of any such change, conversion or
exchange of capital stock, or to give such consent, and, in such case, such
stockholders and only such stockholders as shall be stockholders of record on
the date so fixed shall be entitled to such notice of, and to vote at, such
meeting, and any adjournment thereof, or to receive payment of such dividend, or
to receive such allotment of rights, or to exercise such rights, or to give such
consent, as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any stock on the
books of the Corporation, after such record date fixed as aforesaid. If no
record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, (i) the record date for any
meeting of stockholders, whether such meeting is called by resolution of the
Board of Directors, by the President or at the request of the holders of a
majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereat,
shall be the close of business on the day occurring three (3) days prior to the
day on which notice of such meeting is given or, if notice is waived, at the
close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is
held, and (ii) the record date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for
the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange
of capital stock shall go into effect, shall be at the close of business on the
day on which the Board of Directors adopts resolutions taking such action.
Section 11. Action Without a Meeting. Any action required or permitted
to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be taken
without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in
writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of
outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be
necessary to authorize or take such action at
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a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted.
Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less
than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not
consented in writing.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS.
Section 1. Number. The number of directors which shall constitute the
whole Board of Directors shall be five (5).
Section 2. General. The business, property and affairs of the
Corporation shall be managed by, and shall be under the direction of, the Board
of Directors, except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation.
Section 3. Election; Term. Each director shall hold office until such
director's successor is elected and qualified or until such director's earlier
resignation or removal.
Section 4. Removal; Resignation. A director or the entire Board of
Directors may be removed with or without cause by the holders of a majority of
the shares of capital stock entitled to vote, either by written consent or at
any meeting of the stockholders, and the office of such director shall forthwith
become vacant. Whenever holders of any class or classes of capital stock of the
Corporation or series thereof are entitled, pursuant to the Certificate of
Incorporation, to elect one or more directors, the provisions of the preceding
sentence in respect of the removal without cause of a director or directors so
elected, shall apply to the vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of
that class, classes or series and not to the outstanding shares as a whole.
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Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in
writing to the Board of Directors or to the President and Secretary of the
Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein,
and if no time be specified, at the time of its receipt by a member of the Board
of Directors, the President or Secretary. The acceptance of a resignation shall
not be necessary to make it effective, unless so specified therein.
Section 5. Vacancies. Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors
may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, even if less than a
quorum, or a sole remaining director provided that any director holding such
position not as a result of a vote of stockholders shall stand for election at
the next stockholders meeting.
Section 6. Annual Meeting and Regular Meetings. The Board of Directors
shall hold an annual meeting for the purpose of organization and the transaction
of any business immediately after the annual meeting of the stockholders,
provided a quorum of the Board of Directors is present. Other regular meetings
may be held at such times as may be determined from time to time by resolution
of the Board of Directors.
Section 7. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors
may be called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or by the President or
by any two directors at any time.
Section 8. Place of Meeting. Meetings of the Board of Directors may be
held at the principal office of the Corporation, or at such place as shall be
stated in the notice of such meeting. Notice of any special meeting, and, except
as the Board of Directors may otherwise determine by resolution, notice of any
regular meeting also, shall be mailed to each director addressed to such
director at such director's residence or usual
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place of business at least two days before the day on which the meeting is to be
held, or if sent to such director at such place by telegraph, cable, facsimile
or e-mail or delivered personally or by telephone, not later than the day before
the day on which the meeting is to be held. No notice of the annual meeting of
the Board of Directors shall be required if it is held immediately after the
annual meeting of the stockholders and if a quorum is present.
Section 9. Business Transacted. Any business may be transacted and any
corporate action may be taken at any regular or special meeting of the Board of
Directors at which a quorum shall be present, whether such business or proposed
action be stated in the notice of such meeting or not, unless special notice of
such business or proposed action shall be required by statute.
Section 10. Quorum. A majority of the Board of Directors at any time in
office shall constitute a quorum. At all meetings of the Board of Directors a
quorum is required. The vote of a majority of the members present at any such
meeting shall be the act of the Board of Directors unless the act of a greater
number is specifically required by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation or
these By-Laws.
Section 11. Organization of Meetings. At all meetings of the Board of
Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, if any, or if none or in the
Chairman of the Board of Directors' absence or inability to act, the President,
or in the President's absence or inability to act, any Vice-President who is a
member of the Board of Directors, or in such Vice-President's absence or
inability to act, a chairman chosen by the Board of Directors, shall preside.
The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as
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secretary at all meetings of the Board of Directors when present, and, in the
Secretary's absence, the presiding officer may appoint any person to act as
secretary.
Section 12. Director Compensation. The directors shall not receive any
stated salary for their services as directors, but by resolution of the Board of
Directors an annual retainer may be provided and a fixed fee and expenses of
attendance may be allowed for attendance at each meeting. Nothing herein
contained shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other
capacity, as an officer, agent or otherwise, and receiving compensation
therefor.
Section 13. Action Without A Meeting. The Board of Directors or any
committee designated by the Board of Directors shall, except as otherwise
provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, have power
to act in the following manner: A resolution in writing, signed by all of the
members of the Board of Directors, or such committee, shall be deemed to be
action by the Board of Directors or such committee to the effect therein
expressed with the same force and effect as if the same had been duly passed by
the same vote at a duly convened meeting of the Board of Directors or such
committee, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Corporation to
record any such resolution in the minutes of proceedings of the Board of
Directors or such committee.
Section 14. Telephone Meeting. Members of the Board of Directors, or
any committee designated by the Board of Directors, shall, except as otherwise
provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, have the
power to participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors, or any committee,
by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means
of which all persons participating in the
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meeting can hear each other, and such participation shall constitute presence in
person at the meeting.
ARTICLE IV
COMMITTEES.
Section 1. Executive Committee. The Board of Directors may, by
resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board of Directors, designate two
or more of their number to constitute an Executive Committee to hold office
during the pleasure of the Board of Directors, which Committee shall, during the
intervals between meetings of the Board of Directors, have and exercise all of
the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and
affairs of the Corporation, subject only to such restrictions or limitations as
the Board of Directors may from time to time specify or as contained in the
Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, or as limited by the DGCL, and
shall have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all
papers which may require it.
Any member of the Executive Committee may be removed from the
Executive Committee at any time, with or without cause, by a resolution of a
majority of the whole Board of Directors.
Any person ceasing to be a director shall cease to be a member
of the Executive Committee.
Any vacancy in the Executive Committee occurring from any
cause whatsoever may be filled from among the directors by a resolution of a
majority of the whole Board of Directors.
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Section 2. Other Committees. Other committees may be established by
resolutions passed by a majority of the Board of Directors and members of each
such committee may be appointed by the Board of Directors or the Executive
Committee to hold office for such time as determined by the Board of Directors
and each such committee shall have such powers and perform such duties as may
from time to time be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or the Executive
Committee. Each such committee shall have at least one member who is also a
member of the Board of Directors.
Any member of such a committee may be removed at any time,
with or without cause, by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee. Any
vacancy in a committee occurring from any cause whatsoever may be filled by the
Board of Directors or the Executive Committee.
Section 3. Resignation. Any member of a committee may resign at any
time. Such resignation shall be made in writing and shall take effect at the
time specified therein, or, if no time be specified, at the time of its receipt
by the President or Secretary. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be
necessary to make it effective unless so specified therein.
Section 4. Quorum. A majority of the members of a committee shall
constitute a quorum. The act of a majority of the members of a committee present
at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of such committee.
The members of a committee shall act only as a committee, and the individual
members thereof shall have no powers as such.
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Section 5. Books and Records. Each committee shall keep a record of its
acts and proceedings, and shall report the same to the Board of Directors when
and as required by the Board of Directors.
Section 6. Place of Meeting. A committee may hold its meetings at the
principal office of the Corporation, or at any other place which a majority of
the committee may at any time agree upon. Each committee may make such rules as
it may deem expedient for the regulation and carrying on of its meetings and
proceedings. Any notice of a meeting of a committee may be given by the
Secretary or by the chairman of the committee and shall be sufficiently given if
mailed to each member at such member's residence or usual place of business at
least two days before the day on which the meeting is to be held, or if sent to
such member at such place by telegraph or cable, or delivered personally or by
telephone not later than the day before the day on which the meeting is to be
held.
Section 7. Committee Member Compensation. The members of any committee
shall be entitled to such compensation as may be allowed them by resolution of
the Board of Directors.
Section 8. Committee Limits. Notwithstanding any other provision in
these By-Laws, no committee (including the Executive Committee) shall have the
power to repeal or modify these By-Laws, remove members of the Board of
Directors or authorize indemnification of members of the Board of Directors.
Section 9. Temporary Committee Members. If an Executive Committee or
other committee meeting is called and sufficient committee members are not
present to conduct the business of the meeting, the committee members who are
present at such
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meeting may appoint a person or persons to act as the missing committee
member(s), each a temporary member, for that particular meeting, and the
member(s) so appointed shall have the authority to act as though they were a
committee member for such meeting, provided that if a missing committee member
is also on the Board of Directors the temporary member replacing such board
member must also be on the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE V
OFFICERS.
Section 1. Numbers and Titles. The officers of the Corporation shall be
a President, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and such
other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section
3 of this Article V. The Board of Directors in its discretion may also elect a
Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Section 2. Election; Term of Office; Qualifications. Unless the Board
of Directors passes a resolution stating otherwise, each officer shall hold
office until his or her successor has been elected and qualified or until his or
her earlier resignation or removal. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, if
any, and the President shall be directors of the Corporation, and should either
one of them cease to be a director, such person shall likewise cease to hold
such office. More than two offices may be held by the same person unless the
Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws provide otherwise.
Section 3. Other Officers. Other officers, including one or more
assistant secretaries or assistant treasurers, may from time to time be
appointed by the Board of Directors, and the Officers of the Corporation shall
have such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Board
of Directors in the management of the
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Corporation or the officer or committee of the Board of Directors appointing
them and as pertaining to their respective positions.
Section 4. Removal. Any officer of the Corporation may be removed from
office, with or without cause, by a vote of a majority of the Board of
Directors.
Section 5. Resignation. Any officer of the Corporation may resign at
any time. Such resignation shall be in writing and shall take effect at the time
specified therein, and if no time be specified, at the time of its receipt by
the President or Secretary. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be
necessary in order to make it effective, unless so specified therein.
Section 6. Vacancies. A vacancy in any office arising from any cause
shall be filled by the Board of Directors at any special or regular meeting of
the Board of Directors.
Section 7. Compensation. The compensation of the officers shall be
fixed by the Board of Directors, or by any committee of the Board of Directors
upon whom power in that regard may be conferred by the Board of Directors.
Section 8. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board of
Directors shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors at which he or
she shall be present.
Section 9. President. The President shall, when present, preside at all
meetings of the stockholders, and, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, at meetings of the Board of Directors. The President shall have
power to call special meetings of the stockholders or of the Board of Directors
or of the Executive Committee at any time. The President shall be the chief
executive and operating officer of the Corporation, and shall have the general
charge and direction of the business affairs
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and property of the Corporation, and of its several officers, and shall have and
exercise all such powers and discharge such duties as usually pertain to the
office of President or are assigned to the President by the Board of Directors
or are provided by law.
Section 10. Vice Presidents. The Vice Presidents, or any of them,
shall, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, at the request of the
President or in the President's absence, or in case of the President's inability
to perform the President's duties from any cause, perform the duties of the
President, and, when so acting, shall have all the powers of, and be subject to
all restrictions upon, the President. The Vice Presidents shall also perform
such other duties as may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, and the
Board of Directors may determine the order of priority among them.
Section 11. Secretary. The Secretary shall perform such duties as are
incident to the office of Secretary, or as may from time to time be assigned to
the Secretary by the Board of Directors, or as are prescribed by these By-Laws
including, but not limited to:
(a) keeping or causing to be kept, at the principal place of
business of the Corporation or such other place as the Board of Directors may
order, a book of minutes of all meetings and actions of the Board of Directors,
committees of the Board of Directors and stockholders. Such books shall state
the time and place of holding such meetings, whether such meetings were regular
or special, and, if special, how authorized, the notice thereof given, the names
of those present at meetings of the Board of Directors and committees thereof,
the number of shares present or represented at stockholders' meetings and the
proceedings thereof;
(b) keeping or causing to be kept, at the principal place of
business of the Corporation or at the office of the Corporation's transfer agent
or registrar, a share
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register, or a duplicate share register, showing the names of all stockholders
and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number
and date of certificates issued for the same and the number and date of
cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation;
(c) giving or causing to be given, or cause to be given,
notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors
required by these By-Laws or by law to be given, and keeping the seal of the
Corporation, if one be adopted, in safe custody, and having such other powers
and performing such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors,
the Chairman of the Board (if any), the President and these By-Laws; and
(d) affixing the seal of the Corporation, if one be adopted,
to contracts of the Corporation.
Section 12. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall perform such duties and have
powers as are usually incident to the office of Treasurer including but not
limited to:
(a) having custody of the Corporation's funds and securities;
(b) keeping full and accurate account of receipts and
disbursements;
(c) depositing all monies and valuable effects in the name and
to the credit of the Corporation in such depository or depositories as may be
designated by the Board of Directors; and
(d) performing such other duties as may be prescribed by the
Board of Directors or the President.
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ARTICLE VI
CAPITAL STOCK.
Section 1. Certificates of Shares. Certificates of capital stock shall
be in such form as shall be approved by the Board of Directors. Every holder of
capital stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate or
certificates representing the number of shares of capital stock in the
Corporation owned by such holder. The certificates shall be numbered in the
order of their issue, and shall be signed by the President or one of the Vice
Presidents, and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an
Assistant Treasurer, and the seal of the Corporation, if one be adopted, or a
facsimile thereof shall be impressed or affixed or reproduced thereon, provided,
however, that where such certificates are signed by a transfer agent or an
assistant transfer agent or by a transfer clerk acting on behalf of the
Corporation and a registrar, the signature of any such President, Vice
President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer may
be facsimile. In case any officer or officers who shall have signed, or whose
facsimile signature or signatures shall have been used on, any such certificate
or certificates shall cease to be such officer or officers of the Corporation,
whether because of death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate or
certificates shall have been delivered by the Corporation, such certificate or
certificates may nevertheless be issued and delivered by the Corporation with
the same effect as though the person or persons who signed such certificate or
certificates, or whose facsimile signature or signatures shall have been used
thereon have not ceased to be such officer or officers of the Corporation.
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If the Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class
of capital stock or more than one series of any class, the powers, designations,
preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of
each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications or restrictions of
such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the
face or back of the certificate or certificates which the Corporation shall
issue to represent such class or series of capital stock, provided that, except
as otherwise provided by law, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may
be set forth on the face or back of the certificate or certificates which the
Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of capital stock a
statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder
who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights of each class of capital stock
or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such
preferences and/or rights.
Section 2. Stock Book. The name of each person owning a share of the
capital stock of the Corporation shall be entered on the books of the
Corporation together with the number of shares held by each such stockholder,
the numbers of the certificates covering such shares and the dates of issue of
such certificates. The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be transferable
on the books of the Corporation by the holders thereof in person, or by their
duly authorized attorneys or legal representatives, on surrender and
cancellation of certificates for a like number of shares, accompanied by an
assignment of power of transfer endorsed thereon or attached thereto, duly
executed, and with such proof of the authenticity of the signature as the
Corporation or its agents may reasonably require. A record shall be made of each
transfer.
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The Board of Directors may make other and further rules and
regulations concerning the transfer and registration of certificates for stock
and may appoint a transfer agent or registrar or both and may require all
certificates of stock to bear the signature of either or both.
Section 3. Lost Certificates. The Corporation may issue a new
certificate of stock, in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it,
alleged to have been lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated, and the Corporation
may, in its discretion, require the owner of the lost, stolen, destroyed or
mutilated certificate, or such owner's legal representatives, to give the
Corporation a bond with such surety or sureties as it may require, to indemnify
it against any claim that may be made against it by reason of the issue of such
new certificate and against all other liability in the premises.
ARTICLE VII
DIVIDENDS, SURPLUS, ETC.
The Board of Directors shall have power to fix and vary the
amount to be set aside or reserved as working capital of the Corporation, or as
reserves, or for other proper purposes of the Corporation, and, subject to the
requirements of the Certificate of Incorporation, to determine whether any part
of the surplus or net profits of the Corporation, if any, shall be declared as
dividends and paid to the stockholders of the Corporation, and to fix the date
or dates for the payment of dividends.
ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Section 1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall
commence on the first day of January and end on the thirty-first day of
December.
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Section 2. Seal. The Corporation may have a corporate seal and the
corporate seal shall be in such form as approved by the Board of Directors and
may be altered at its pleasure. The corporate seal may be used by causing it or
a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner
reproduced.
Section 3. Notices. Except as otherwise expressly provided, any notice
required by these By-Laws to be given shall be sufficient if given by depositing
the same in a post-office or letter box in a sealed postpaid wrapper addressed
to the person entitled thereto at their address, as the same appears upon the
books of the Corporation, or by telegraphing or cabling the same to such person
at such address; and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time it is
mailed, telegraphed or cabled.
Section 4. Waiver of Notice. Any stockholder, director or committee
member may at any time, by writing, telegraph, cable, facsimile or e-mail, waive
any notice required to be given under these By-Laws, and if any stockholder,
director or committee member shall be present at any meeting their presence
shall constitute a waiver of such notice unless such stockholder, director or
committee member attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the
beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting
is not lawfully called or convened.
Section 5. Checks; Notes. All checks, drafts or other orders for the
payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of
the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, agent or agents of
the Corporation in such manner as shall from time to time be designated by
resolution of the Board of Directors.
Section 6. Deposit of Funds. All funds of the Corporation shall be
deposited from time to time to the credit of the Corporation in such bank or
banks, trust companies
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or other depositories as the Board of Directors may select, and, for the purpose
of such deposit, checks, drafts, warrants and other orders for the payment of
money which are payable to the order of the Corporation may be endorsed for
deposit, assigned and delivered by any officer of the Corporation or by such
agents of the Corporation as the Board of Directors or the President may
authorize for that purpose.
Section 7. Power to Act. Except as otherwise ordered by the Board of
Directors or the Executive Committee, the President or any Vice President shall
have full power and authority on behalf of the Corporation to attend and to act
and to vote at any meeting of the stockholders of any corporation of which the
Corporation is a stockholder and to execute a proxy to any other person to
represent the Corporation at any such meeting, and at any such meeting the
President or the Treasurer or the holder of any such proxy, as the case may be,
shall possess and may exercise any and all rights and powers incident to
ownership of such stock and which, as owner thereof, the Corporation might have
possessed and exercised if present. The Board of Directors or the Executive
Committee may from time to time confer like powers upon any other person or
persons.
Section 8. Indemnification.
(a) The Corporation shall, to the maximum extent permitted
from time to time under the law, indemnify every person who is or was a party or
is or was threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or
officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the
Corporation as a director, officer or fiduciary of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise.
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(b) Expenses incurred by a director or officer of the
Corporation in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be
paid by the Corporation upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such
director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined
that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in
this Section 8. Such expenses incurred by other employees and agents of the
Corporation and other persons eligible for indemnification under this Section 8
may be paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Board of Directors
deems appropriate.
(c) No amendment, modification or repeal of this Section 8 or
any provision hereof shall in any manner terminate, reduce or impair the right
of any past, present or future director or officer of the Corporation or other
persons eligible for indemnification under this Section 8 to be indemnified by
the Corporation, nor the obligation of the Corporation to indemnify any such
director or officer or other persons eligible for indemnification under this
Section 8, under and in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8 as in
effect immediately prior to such amendment, modification or repeal with respect
to claims arising, in whole or in part, from a state of facts extant on the date
of, or relating to matters occurring prior to, such amendment, modification or
repeal, regardless of when such claims may arise or be asserted.
Section 9. Interested Directors; Quorum. No contract or transaction
between the Corporation and one or more of its directors or officers, or between
the Corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association or other
organization in which one or more of its directors or officers are directors or
officers, or have a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for
this reason, or solely because the director or officer is
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present at or participates in the meeting of the Board of Directors or committee
thereof which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because his or
her or their votes are counted for such purpose, if: (1) the material facts as
to his or her relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are
disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors or a committee of the Board of
Directors and the Board of Directors or such committee in good faith authorizes
the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the
disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a
quorum; or (2) the material facts as to his or her relationship or interest and
as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the stockholders
entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically
approved in good faith by vote of the stockholders; or (3) the contract or
transaction is fair as to the Corporation as of the time it is authorized,
approved or ratified, by the Board of Directors, such committee or the
stockholders. Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the
presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or of such committee
which authorizes the contract or transaction.
ARTICLE IX
Section 1. Books and Records. All books and records provided for by
statute shall be open to inspection of the stockholders from time to time and to
the extent expressly provided by statute. The Directors may examine such books
and records at all reasonable times.
Section 2. Amendments. These By-Laws may be altered, amended or
repealed, or new By-Laws may be adopted by, the Board of Directors (if such
power is conferred to the Board of Directors by, and subject to any restrictions
or limitations set
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forth in, the Certificate of Incorporation) at any regular meeting of the
stockholders or of the Board of Directors or at any special meeting of the
stockholders or of the Board of Directors if notice of such alteration,
amendment, repeal or adoption of new By-Laws is contained in the notice of such
special meeting. Notwithstanding this Article IX, Section 2, the stockholders
entitled to vote may adopt additional By-Laws and may amend or repeal any
By-Laws whether or not adopted by them.
The undersigned, duly authorized officer of the Corporation, hereby
certifies that the foregoing By-Laws were adopted as of _______, 2001.
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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EX-99.T3C
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h90985a1ex99-t3c.txt
FORM OF INDENTURE
EXHIBIT T3C
PCI Chemicals Canada COMPANY,
as the Issuer
PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
Imperial West Chemical Co.,
Kemwater North America Co.,
Pioneer AmericaS llc,
Pioneer (East), Inc.,
Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc.,
Pioneer Licensing, Inc.,
and
KWT, Inc.,
as Guarantors
and
WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
------------------------
INDENTURE
Dated as of [o], 2001
-----------------------
$150,000,000
10% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
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ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF
GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.........................................................................2
"Act"...........................................................................................2
"Additional Amounts"............................................................................3
"Adjusted Net Assets"...........................................................................3
"Affiliate".....................................................................................3
"Agent Members".................................................................................3
"Allowed Other Secured Claim"...................................................................3
"Allowed Secured Tax Claim".....................................................................3
"Asset Sale"....................................................................................3
"Asset Sale Offer"..............................................................................4
"Asset Sale Offer Amount".......................................................................4
"Asset Sale Offer Period".......................................................................4
"Asset Sale Purchase Date"......................................................................4
"Asset Sale Purchase Price".....................................................................4
"Attributable Indebtedness".....................................................................4
"Bankruptcy Code"...............................................................................5
"Bankruptcy Court"..............................................................................5
"Bankruptcy Law"................................................................................5
"Board of Directors"............................................................................5
"Board Resolution"..............................................................................5
"Business Day"..................................................................................5
"Canadian Act of Bankruptcy"....................................................................5
"Canadian Bankruptcy Law".......................................................................6
"Canadian Security Agreements"..................................................................6
"Capital Stock".................................................................................7
"Capitalized Lease Obligation"..................................................................7
"Cash Equivalents"..............................................................................7
"Change of Control".............................................................................7
"Change of Control Date"........................................................................8
"Change of Control Offer".......................................................................8
"Change of Control Payment Date"................................................................8
"Change of Control Purchase Price"..............................................................8
"Chapter 11 Cases"..............................................................................8
"Closing Date"..................................................................................8
"Collateral"....................................................................................8
"Collateral Agent"..............................................................................8
"Collateral Proceeds"...........................................................................9
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"Commencement Date".............................................................................9
"Commission"....................................................................................9
"Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement"...................................................9
"Company".......................................................................................9
"Company Request"...............................................................................9
"Confirmation Order"............................................................................9
"Consolidated Cash Flow Available for Fixed Charges"............................................9
"Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio"......................................................9
"Consolidated Income Tax Expense"..............................................................10
"Consolidated Interest Expense"................................................................10
"Consolidated Net Income"......................................................................10
"Consolidated Net Worth".......................................................................11
"Corporate Trust Office".......................................................................11
"covenant defeasance"..........................................................................11
"Custodian"....................................................................................11
"Default"......................................................................................11
"Defaulted Interest"...........................................................................11
"defeasance"...................................................................................11
"Defeasance Redemption Date"...................................................................11
"Defeased Securities"..........................................................................11
"Depositary"...................................................................................11
"Direction"....................................................................................11
"Effective Plan Date"..........................................................................11
"Eligible Investments".........................................................................11
"Environmental Claim"..........................................................................12
"Environmental Law"............................................................................12
"Event of Default".............................................................................12
"Exchange Act".................................................................................12
"Excluded Holder"..............................................................................12
"Existing Indebtedness"........................................................................12
"Exit Facility"................................................................................12
"Fair Market Value"............................................................................13
"Final Order"..................................................................................13
"Fiscal Quarter"...............................................................................13
"Fiscal Year"..................................................................................13
"Funding Guarantor"............................................................................13
"GAAP".........................................................................................13
"Global Security"..............................................................................13
"Guaranties"...................................................................................13
"Guarantor"....................................................................................13
"Guaranty".....................................................................................14
"Guaranteed Obligations".......................................................................14
"Hazardous Materials"..........................................................................14
"Hedging Obligations"..........................................................................14
"Holder".......................................................................................14
"including"....................................................................................14
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"incur"........................................................................................14
"Indebtedness".................................................................................15
"Indenture Documents"..........................................................................15
"Indenture Obligations"........................................................................16
"Indenture Obligor"............................................................................16
"Independent Director".........................................................................16
"Insurance Proceeds"...........................................................................16
"Intercreditor Collateral Account".............................................................16
"Interest Payment Date"........................................................................16
"Investment"...................................................................................16
"judgment currency"............................................................................17
"Lien".........................................................................................17
"Material Adverse Effect"......................................................................17
"Maturity".....................................................................................17
"MEIP".........................................................................................17
"Moody's"......................................................................................17
"Mortgage".....................................................................................17
"Mortgaged Property"...........................................................................18
"Net Award"....................................................................................18
"Net Income"...................................................................................18
"Net Offering Proceeds"........................................................................18
"Net Proceeds".................................................................................18
"New Common Stock".............................................................................18
"New Debt".....................................................................................18
"New Other Secured Notes"......................................................................18
"New Other Secured Notes And Claims"...........................................................18
"New Tranche A Note Holders"...................................................................18
"New Tranche A Notes"..........................................................................18
"New Tranche A Notes Indenture"................................................................19
"New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee"........................................................19
"New Tranche A Notes Issuer"...................................................................19
"Obligor"......................................................................................19
"Obligor Subsidiary"...........................................................................19
"Officers' Certificate"........................................................................19
"Old Debt".....................................................................................19
"Opinion of Counsel"...........................................................................19
"Opinion of Independent Counsel"...............................................................20
"Organizational Documents".....................................................................20
"Outstanding"..................................................................................20
"Paying Agent".................................................................................21
"PCI"..........................................................................................21
"Permitted Investments"........................................................................21
"Permitted Issuance"...........................................................................21
"Permitted Liens"..............................................................................22
"Person".......................................................................................23
"Physical Securities"..........................................................................23
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"Pioneer Companies"............................................................................23
"Plan of Reorganization".......................................................................23
"Post Petition Interest".......................................................................23
"Power of Attorney"............................................................................23
"Predecessor Security".........................................................................23
"Qualified Equity Offering"....................................................................23
"Quebec Mortgage and Security Agreement".......................................................24
"Redemption Date"..............................................................................24
"Redemption Price".............................................................................24
"Refinancing"..................................................................................24
is defined in Section 1008 hereof..............................................................24
"Refinancing Indebtedness".....................................................................24
is defined in Section 1008 hereof..............................................................24
"Registration Rights Agreement"................................................................24
"Regular Record Date"..........................................................................24
"Related Business".............................................................................24
"Release"......................................................................................24
"Restoration"..................................................................................24
"Restricted Payment"...........................................................................24
"S&P"..........................................................................................24
"Safety and Health Laws".......................................................................24
"Sale and Leaseback Transaction"...............................................................25
"Securities"...................................................................................25
"Securities Act"...............................................................................25
"Security Agreement Supplement"................................................................25
"Security Documents"...........................................................................25
"Security Register"............................................................................25
"Security Registrar"...........................................................................25
"Senior Indebtedness"..........................................................................25
"Special Record Date"..........................................................................25
"Stated Maturity"..............................................................................25
"Subordinated Indebtedness"....................................................................25
"Subordinated Obligations".....................................................................26
"Subsidiary"...................................................................................26
"Taxes"........................................................................................26
"Tranche A Documents"..........................................................................26
"Transaction Documents"........................................................................26
"Trust Indenture Act"..........................................................................27
"Trust Moneys".................................................................................27
"Trustee"......................................................................................27
"UCC"..........................................................................................27
"U.S. Government Obligations"..................................................................27
"Voting Stock".................................................................................27
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary"......................................................................27
Section 102. [Intentionally omitted]............................................................28
Section 103. Compliance Certificates and Opinions...............................................28
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Section 104. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.............................................28
Section 105. Acts of Holders....................................................................29
Section 106. Notices, etc., to Trustee, the Company and any Indenture Obligor or Obligor
Subsidiary....................................................................31
Section 107. Notice to Holders; Waiver..........................................................31
Section 108. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act..................................................32
Section 109. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...........................................32
Section 110. Successors and Assigns.............................................................32
Section 111. Separability Clause................................................................32
Section 112. Benefits of Indenture..............................................................32
Section 113. Governing Law......................................................................33
Section 114. Legal Holidays.....................................................................33
Section 115. Schedules and Exhibits.............................................................33
Section 116. Counterparts.......................................................................33
Section 117. Communication by Holders with other Holders........................................33
Section 118. No Recourse against Others.........................................................33
Section 119. Article Applicable to Paying Agents................................................34
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally....................................................................34
Section 202. Legends............................................................................34
Section 203. Form of Face of Security...........................................................35
Section 204. Form of Reverse of Securities......................................................37
Section 205. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication....................................43
Section 206. Form of Guaranty of Each of the Guarantors.........................................43
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Title and Terms....................................................................45
Section 302. Denominations......................................................................46
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.....................................46
Section 304. Temporary Securities...............................................................47
Section 305. Registration of Transfer and Exchange..............................................48
Section 306. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Security..........................................49
Section 307. [Intentionally omitted.]...........................................................50
Section 308. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities...................................50
Section 309. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.....................................51
Section 310. Persons Deemed Owners..............................................................52
Section 311. Cancellation.......................................................................52
Section 312. Computation of Interest; Interest Act (Canada).....................................53
Section 313. Deposit of Moneys..................................................................53
Section 314. CUSIP Number.......................................................................53
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ARTICLE FOUR
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 401. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.......................53
Section 402. Defeasance and Discharge...........................................................53
Section 403. Covenant Defeasance................................................................54
Section 404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance....................................54
Section 405. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other
Miscellaneous Provisions......................................................57
Section 406. Reinstatement......................................................................57
Section 407. Repayment of the Company...........................................................58
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default..................................................................58
Section 502. Acceleration.......................................................................61
Section 503. Other Remedies.....................................................................62
Section 504. Waiver of Past Defaults............................................................63
Section 505. Control by Majority................................................................63
Section 506. Limitation on Suits................................................................63
Section 507. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment...............................................64
Section 508. Collection Suit by Trustee.........................................................64
Section 509. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim...................................................65
Section 510. Priorities.........................................................................65
Section 511. Undertaking for Costs..............................................................66
Section 512. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws............................................66
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Notice of Defaults.................................................................67
Section 602. Certain Rights of Trustee..........................................................67
Section 603. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Dispositions of Securities or Application of
Proceeds Thereof..............................................................68
Section 604. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections; etc...........................69
Section 605. Money Held in Trust................................................................69
Section 606. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim....................69
Section 607. Conflicting Interests..............................................................70
Section 608. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility............................................70
Section 609. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee..........................71
Section 610. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.............................................72
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Section 611. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business........................73
Section 612. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company..................................74
Section 613. Certain Duties and Responsibilities................................................74
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders..........................75
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders..........75
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.................................................................76
Section 704. Reports by Company and Guarantors..................................................76
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER,
CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. When Indenture Obligors May Merge, Etc.............................................78
Section 802. Successor Substituted..............................................................80
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures and Agreements without Consent of Holders..................80
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures and Agreements with Consent of Holders.....................82
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures and Agreements................................84
Section 904. Revocation Effect of Supplemental Indentures.......................................85
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act................................................85
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.................................85
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.........................................85
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency....................................................85
Section 1003. Compliance Certificate.............................................................86
Section 1004. Taxes..............................................................................87
Section 1005. Jurisdiction, Service of Process and Venue Immunity; Judgment Currency.............87
Section 1006. Limitation on Restricted Payments..................................................89
Section 1007. Limitations on Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.........................90
Section 1008. Limitations on Indebtedness........................................................90
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Section 1009. Asset Sales........................................................................93
Section 1010. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions......................................96
Section 1011. Limitation on Transactions With Affiliates.........................................96
Section 1012. Limitation on Liens................................................................97
Section 1013. Corporate Existence; Corporate Separateness........................................99
Section 1014. Change of Control..................................................................99
Section 1015. Maintenance of Properties.........................................................102
Section 1016. Maintenance of Insurance..........................................................102
Section 1017. Stock Pledges.....................................................................102
Section 1018. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust...................................103
Section 1019. [Redemption of Securities with proceeds of Qualified Equity Offering..............104
Section 1020. Limitation on Ownership of Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Stock..........................104
Section 1021. Impairment of Security Interest...................................................105
Section 1022. Amendment to Certain Agreements...................................................105
Section 1023. Plan of Reorganization............................................................105
Section 1024. Nature of Business, Organizational Documents and Capital Structure and New
Subsidiaries; Books and Records..............................................106
Section 1025. Compliance with Laws and Environmental and Safety and Health Matters..............106
Section 1026. Authorizations....................................................................107
Section 1027. Further Assurances................................................................107
Section 1028. Fiscal Year.......................................................................107
Section 1029. Additional Amounts................................................................107
Section 1030. Pension Transfer Agreement........................................................109
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Rights of Redemption..............................................................109
Section 1102. Applicability of Article..........................................................110
Section 1103. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.............................................110
Section 1104. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.................................110
Section 1105. Notice of Redemption..............................................................110
Section 1106. Deposit of Redemption Price.......................................................111
Section 1107. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.............................................112
Section 1108. Securities Redeemed or Purchased in Part..........................................112
Section 1109. Asset Sale Offers.................................................................112
ARTICLE TWELVE
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 1201. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture...........................................115
Section 1202. Application of Trust Money........................................................116
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
GUARANTY
Section 1301. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability.................................................117
Section 1302. Guaranty Absolute.................................................................118
Section 1303. Right to Demand Full Performance..................................................119
Section 1304. Waivers and Acknowledgments.......................................................119
Section 1305. The Guarantors Remain Obligated in Event the Company is No Longer Obligated to
Discharge Indenture Obligations..............................................120
Section 1306. Subrogation.......................................................................121
Section 1307. Subordination.....................................................................121
Section 1308. Continuing Guaranty; Assignments..................................................122
Section 1309. Guaranty Is in Addition to Other Security.........................................123
Section 1310. Contribution......................................................................123
Section 1311. Trustee's Duties; Notice to Trustee...............................................123
Section 1312. Release of Guaranty...............................................................123
Section 1313. Execution of Guaranty.............................................................124
Section 1314. Payment Permitted by Each of the Guarantors if no Default.........................124
Section 1315. Notice to Trustee by Each of the Guarantors.......................................124
Section 1316. Additional Guaranties.............................................................124
Section 1317. No Suspension of Remedies.........................................................125
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS OF INDENTURE
Section 1401. Conditions Precedent to the Effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization, etc......125
Section 1402. Implementation of Plan of Reorganization..........................................125
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
SECURITY
Section 1501. Security..........................................................................125
Section 1502. Recording; Priority; Opinions, Etc................................................126
Section 1503. Release of Collateral.............................................................127
Section 1504. Trust Indenture Act Requirements..................................................127
Section 1505. Suits to Protect Collateral.......................................................128
Section 1506. Determinations Relating to Collateral.............................................128
Section 1507. Trust Moneys......................................................................129
Section 1508. Power of Attorney for Collateral in Quebec........................................130
SCHEDULE 1 Existing Indebtedness
SCHEDULE 2 Existing Investments
EXHIBIT A Form of Mortgage
EXHIBIT B Form of Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement
EXHIBIT C Form of Global Security
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Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939
and Indenture, dated as of [o], 2001
Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section
--------------- ---------
Section 310(a)(1)........................................ 608
(a)(2)............................................ 608
(a)(3)............................................ N.A.
(a)(4)............................................ N.A.
(a)(5)............................................ 607
(b)............................................... 607, 609
(c)............................................... N.A.
Section 311(a)........................................... 612
(b)............................................... 612
(c)............................................... N.A.
Section 312(a)........................................... 701, 702
(b)............................................... 117, 702
(c)............................................... 117, 702
Section 313(a)........................................... 703
(b)(1)............................................ 703
(b)(2)............................................ 703
(c)............................................... 703
(d)............................................... 703
Section 314(a)........................................... 704, 1003
(b)............................................... 1502
(c)(1)............................................ 103
(c)(2)............................................ 103
(c)(3)............................................ N.A.
(d)............................................... 103, 1503, 1504, 1507
(e)............................................... 103
(f)............................................... N.A.
Section 315(a)........................................... 602, 613, 903
(b)............................................... 601, 602, 903
(c)............................................... 602, 903
(d)............................................... 602, 903
(e)............................................... 511
Section 316(a)(last sentence)............................ 101
("Outstanding")
(a)(1)(A)................................................ 502, 505
(a)(1)(B)......................................... 504
(a)(2)............................................ N.A.
(b)............................................... 507
(c)............................................... 105
Section 317(a)(1)........................................ 508
(a)(2)............................................ 509
(b)............................................... 1018
Section 318(a)........................................... 310
N.A. means not applicable.
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of this Indenture.
INDENTURE, dated as of [o], 2001, (the "Indenture") among PCI
Chemicals Canada company, an unlimited liability company organized and existing
under the laws of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada (the "Company"), each
Guarantor (as hereinafter defined) from time to time a party hereto (the Company
and the Guarantors party to this Indenture, and their respective assigns and
affiliates, shall be referred to herein as the "Pioneer Companies") and WELLS
FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
1. The Pioneer Companies are successors to the debtors that commenced the
Chapter 11 Cases (as hereinafter defined) and the initial Holders of the
Securities on the date hereof (as each such term is hereinafter defined), prior
to the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization (as hereinafter defined),
together beneficially hold the Old Debt (as hereinafter defined).
2. Pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization and the implementation thereof
and upon the Plan of Reorganization becoming effective, the applicable Pioneer
Companies are willing and required (among other things) to remain indebted to
certain holders of the Old Debt by accepting the New Debt and to issue the New
Common Stock (as each such term is hereinafter defined) in exchange for the
cancellation and the extinguishment of the Old Debt by such holders.
3. Such holders of the Old Debt are willing and required to accept the New
Debt and the New Common Stock upon such cancellation and extinguishment.
4. The New Debt comprises indebtedness represented by the New Tranche A
Notes (as hereinafter defined) and the Securities, and the Pioneer Companies and
the Trustee, on behalf of the holders of the Old Debt, wish to enter into this
Indenture to consummate that part of the exchange of Old Debt for New Debt that
relates to the issuance by the Company of the Securities (guaranteed by the
Guarantors jointly and severally) and to govern (for the benefit of such Holders
or any other Holders) the indebtedness assumed and incurred hereby.
5. In accordance with the Plan of Reorganization and the implementation
thereof, the Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of 10% Senior
Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2008 (the "Securities"), of substantially the tenor
and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide therefor the Company has duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture and the Securities. The
Securities are referred to in the Plan of Reorganization as the "New Tranche B
Notes".
6. Each Guarantor has duly authorized the issuance of its Guaranty (as
hereinafter defined) of the Securities, of substantially the tenor hereinafter
set forth, and to provide therefor, each Guarantor has duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Indenture and its Guaranty.
7. This Indenture is subject to, and shall be governed by, the provisions
of the Trust Indenture Act (as hereinafter defined) that are required to be part
of and to govern indentures qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
8. All things necessary have been done to make (i) the Securities, when
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly
issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company, (ii) their
respective Guaranties (as hereinafter defined), when executed and delivered by
each of the Guarantors, the valid obligation of such Guarantor, and (iii) this
Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and each of the Guarantors in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of
the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is covenanted and agreed, for the
benefit of each other and for the equal and proportionate benefit of the Holders
of the Securities issued under this Indenture, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF
GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;
(d) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to
any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(e) all references to $, US$, dollars or United States dollars
shall refer to the lawful currency of the United States of America.
"Act" is defined in Section 105 hereof.
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"Additional Amounts" is defined in Section 1029 hereof.
"Adjusted Net Assets" means, with respect to any Guarantor, at
any date, the lesser of the amount by which (x) the Fair Market Value of the
property of such Guarantor exceeds the total amount of liabilities, including,
without limitation, contingent liabilities (after giving effect to all other
fixed and contingent liabilities incurred or assumed on such date, but excluding
liabilities under the Guaranty), of such Guarantor at such date and (y) the
present Fair Market Value of assets of such Guarantor at such date exceeds the
amount that shall be required to pay the probable liability of such Guarantor on
its debts (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent liabilities
incurred or assumed on such date but excluding debt in respect of its Guaranty),
as they become absolute and matured.
"Affiliate", with respect to any specified Person, (i) any
other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct
or indirect common control with such specified Person, (ii) any director or
controlling shareholder of such other Person, or (iii) any senior officer of
such specified Person or such other Person. For purposes of this definition,
"control" (including with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling,"
"controlled by" and "under common control with"), as used with respect to any
Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise; provided,
however, that beneficial ownership of 5% or more of the voting equity securities
(or of warrants or other rights to acquire such voting equity securities) of a
Person shall be deemed to be control; and provided, further, that,
notwithstanding the first proviso to this definition of "Affiliate", creditors
of the debtors in the Chapter 11 Cases receiving New Common Stock that
beneficially own at any time 20% or less of the voting securities of any Obligor
or Obligor Subsidiary shall not be "Affiliates" of such Obligor or Obligor
Subsidiary.
"Agent Members" is defined in Section 306 hereof.
"Allowed Other Secured Claim" has the meaning given to it in
the Plan of Reorganization.
"Allowed Secured Tax Claim" has the meaning given to it in the
Plan of Reorganization.
"Asset Sale" means, with respect to any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary, the sale (including Sale and Leaseback Transactions), lease,
conveyance, transfer or other disposition (including, without limitation, by way
of merger or consolidation, and whether indirectly or directly or by operation
of law or otherwise) to any Person, other than any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary, of any of such Obligor's or such Obligor Subsidiary's assets
(including, without limitation, (x) any sale, lease, conveyance, transfer or
other disposition of Capital Stock of any Obligor Subsidiary, and (y) any sale,
lease, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of any non-cash consideration
received by any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary from any prior
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transaction or series of related transactions that constituted an Asset Sale
hereunder), whether owned on the date hereof or subsequently acquired, in one
transaction or a series of related transactions; provided, however, that the
following will not constitute an Asset Sale: (i) transactions (other than
transactions described in clause (y) above), including Sale and Leaseback
Transactions, in any calendar year with aggregate cash and/or Fair Market Value
of any other consideration received (including, without limitation, the
unconditional assumption of Indebtedness) of less than $1,000,000; (ii) a
transaction or series of related transactions that results in a Change of
Control; (iii) any sale of assets of any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary or
merger permitted pursuant to Article Eight hereof; (iv) any sale or other
disposition of inventory, property (whether real, personal or mixed) or
equipment that has become worn out, obsolete or damaged or otherwise unsuitable
or no longer needed for use in connection with the business of any Obligor or
any Obligor Subsidiary, as the case may be, in the good faith determination of
the Boards of Directors of PCI and the Company and so certified to the Trustee
(provided, that, no certification to the Trustee shall be required in respect of
such sales or dispositions with aggregate cash and/or fair market value of any
non-cash consideration received in respect of such sales or dispositions being
equal to or less than $100,000 in any calendar year); (v) any sale of inventory
to customers in the ordinary and customary course of business; (vi) sales of
cash and cash equivalents in the ordinary course of business, (vii) sales of
assets Net Proceeds from which are used within 180 days of such sale to purchase
assets of similar value and quality and business utility to those assets sold,
provided that the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds outstanding and pending
reinvestment pursuant to this clause (vii) shall not exceed $10,000,000 at any
time; (viii) transfers resulting from any casualty or condemnation of property
or assets; and (ix) the sale or discount of overdue accounts receivable in the
ordinary course of business, in connection with the compromise or collection
thereof.
"Asset Sale Offer" is defined in Section 1009 hereof.
"Asset Sale Offer Amount" is defined in Section 1109 hereof.
"Asset Sale Offer Period" is defined in Section 1109 hereof.
"Asset Sale Purchase Date" is defined in Section 1109 hereof.
"Asset Sale Purchase Price" is defined in Section 1009 hereof.
"Attributable Indebtedness" means, with respect to any Sale
and Leaseback Transaction, as at the time of determination, the greater of (i)
the Fair Market Value of the property subject to such transaction, and (ii) the
present value (discounted at a rate equivalent to the Company's then current
weighted average cost of funds for borrowed money, compounded on a semi-annual
basis) of the total net obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the
remaining term of the lease (or the lease back in the case of a lease and
leaseback transaction) included in such arrangement (including any period for
which such lease has been extended). As used in the preceding sentence, the
"total net obligations of the lessee for rental payments" under any lease (or
any lease back in the case of a lease and leaseback transaction) for any such
period means the sum
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of rental and other payments required to be paid (including any step-up in
interest rate of any financing) with respect to such period by the lessee
thereunder excluding any amounts required to be paid by such lessee on account
of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates or
similar charges. In the case of any lease (or any lease back in the case of a
lease and leaseback transaction) which is terminable by the lessee upon payment
of a penalty, such net amount of rent also includes the amount of such penalty,
but no rent will be considered as required to be paid under such lease
subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated.
"Bankruptcy Code" means Title 11 of the United States Code, as
amended, or any similar United States federal or state law relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or
relief of debtors or any amendment to, succession to or change in any such law.
"Bankruptcy Court" means the United States Bankruptcy Court
for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, having jurisdiction over
the Chapter 11 Cases, or if such court ceases to exercise jurisdiction over the
Chapter 11 Cases, such other court or adjunct thereof that exercises
jurisdiction over the Chapter 11 Cases in lieu of the United States Bankruptcy
Court for such district.
"Bankruptcy Law" means the Bankruptcy Code, Canadian
Bankruptcy Law or any law of any other country or jurisdiction relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or
relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means, in respect of any Person, its
Board of Directors or equivalent body or any committee thereof duly authorized
to act on behalf of such Board of Directors or equivalent body in respect of
such matters as are referred to herein as requiring such action on behalf of
such Board of Directors or equivalent body.
"Board Resolution" of any corporation, limited liability
company or other entity means a copy of a resolution or limited liability
company corporate action or other equivalent action certified by the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary or equivalent officer of such corporation, limited
liability company or other entity to have been duly adopted by the Board of
Directors of such corporation, limited liability company or other entity, as the
case may be, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day which is neither a Saturday or
Sunday nor a legal holiday on which banking institutions and trust companies in
The City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located
are authorized or required by law or executive order to be closed.
"Canadian Act of Bankruptcy" means, with respect to any
Person:
(1) an admission in writing by such Person of its inability to
pay its debts generally as they become due;
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(2) a general assignment by such Person for the benefit of its
creditors pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada);
(3) such Person becoming subject to any bankruptcy proceedings
in Canada which it is not contesting in good faith, diligently and by
appropriate means or which continue undischarged, unstayed or
undismissed for a period of 30 days;
(4) any application under any Canadian Bankruptcy Law to any
tribunal or authority for the purpose of suspending payment or
performance of any of the liabilities of such Person;
(5) a petition or application by such Person under any
Canadian Bankruptcy Law to any tribunal or authority for the
appointment of an administrator, receiver, trustee or intervenor for it
or for any substantial part of such Person's property;
(6) the commencement against such Person of any proceedings
(including a notice of intention or a proposal under the Bankruptcy and
Insolvency Act (Canada)) or any Canadian Bankruptcy Law, statute,
regulation or decree whether now or hereafter in effect in Canada,
relating to it or its debt, or to any reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, dissolution or liquidation involving such Person, which
proceedings are not being contested in good faith, diligently and by
appropriate means or which continue undischarged, unstayed or
undismissed for a period of 30 days;
(7) the bankruptcy of such Person within the meaning of the
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), or any successor or equivalent
legislation; or
(8) any act by such Person signifying its consent to, approval
of, or acquiescence in any bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency
proceeding in Canada under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency
or relief of debtors or any proceeding for the appointment of a
receiver or trustee for itself or for any substantial part of its
property where such receiver or trustee remains undischarged for a
period of 30 days.
"Canadian Bankruptcy Law" means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Act (Canada), the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), the Winding-Up
and Restructuring Act (Canada), or any similar Canadian federal or provincial
law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding-up, liquidation,
reorganization or relief of debtors, each as amended or changed.
"Canadian Security Agreements" means any general security
agreement and deed of hypothec charging all of the personal and movable property
of PCI Chemicals Canada Company and any other Obligor having property, assets or
any place of business or office in Canada, including, without limitation, the
Quebec Mortgage and Security Agreement, a deed of hypothec charging all of the
immovable property of PCI
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Chemicals Canada Company located in the province of Quebec and deeds of mortgage
charging all the real property of PCI Chemicals Canada Company located in the
provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick.
"Capital Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any common
stock, preferred stock and any other capital stock of such Person and shares,
interests, participations or other ownership interest (however designated), of
any Person and any rights (other than debt securities convertible into, or
exchangeable for, capital stock or such other ownership interests), warrants,
options or other rights to purchase any of the foregoing, including each class
of common stock and preferred stock of such Person if such Person is a
corporation and each general and/or limited partnership interest of such Person
if such Person is a partnership and/or limited liability company interest of
such Person if such Person is a limited liability company.
"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means Indebtedness represented
by obligations under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial
reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP and the amount of such Indebtedness
shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations determined in accordance
with GAAP.
"Cash Equivalents" means, (i) any evidence of Indebtedness
with a maturity of one year or less from the date of acquisition issued or
directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any
agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of
the United States of America is pledged in support thereof); (ii) certificates
of deposit or acceptances with a maturity of one year or less from the date of
acquisition of any financial institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve
System having combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less
than $250,000,000; (iii) commercial paper with a maturity of one year or less
from the date of acquisition issued by a corporation that is not an Affiliate of
the Company organized under the laws of any state of the United States of
America or the District of Columbia and rated at least "A-1" by S&P or at least
"P-1" by Moody's or at least an equivalent rating category of another nationally
recognized securities rating agency; (iv) any money market deposit accounts
issued or offered by a domestic commercial bank having capital and surplus in
excess of $250,000,000; and (v) repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase
agreements relating to marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally
guaranteed by the government of the United States of America or issued by any
agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of
America, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition;
provided that the terms of such agreements comply with the guidelines set forth
in the Federal Financial Agreements of Depository Institutions With Securities
Dealers and Others, as adopted by the Comptroller of the Currency on October 31,
1985.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the
following: (i) a "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Sections
14(d)(2) and 13(d)(3), respectively, of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the
"beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of at least
35% of the outstanding voting power of the fully diluted Voting Stock of PCI or
the Company, (ii) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or
dissolution of PCI or the Company, taken individually or on a
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consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries, (iii) the merger or consolidation of
PCI or the Company with or into another corporation with the effect that the
stockholders of PCI or the Company immediately prior to such merger or
consolidation cease to be the "beneficial owners" (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act) of 35% or more of the combined voting power of the
securities of the surviving corporation of such merger or the corporation
resulting from such merger or consolidation ordinarily (and apart from rights
arising under special circumstances) having the right to vote in the election of
directors outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation, or (iv)
during any period of two consecutive calendar years, individuals who at the
beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors of PCI (together
with any new directors whose election by the Board of Directors of PCI, or whose
nomination for election by the shareholders of PCI, was approved by a vote of a
majority of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the
beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was
previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the
directors of PCI then in office. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change of
Control shall not be deemed to have occurred under clause (iii) above solely as
a result of a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into PCI provided
that such merger or consolidation is permitted under Article Eight of this
Indenture.
"Change of Control Date" is defined in Section 1014 hereof.
"Change of Control Offer" is defined in Section 1014 hereof.
"Change of Control Payment Date" is defined in Section 1014
hereof.
"Change of Control Purchase Price" is defined in Section 1014
hereof.
"Chapter 11 Cases" means each and all of the cases under
Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code commenced by Pioneer Companies, Inc., Pioneer
Corporation of America, Imperial West Chemical Co., Kemwater North America Co.,
PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada Inc., Pioneer Americas, Inc.,
Pioneer (East), Inc., Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., Pioneer Licensing, Inc.
and KWT, Inc., and styled In re Pioneer Companies, Inc. et al, Chapter 11 Case
No. 01-38259-H3-11 Jointly Administered.
"Closing Date" means the date of consummation of the initial
offering of the Securities.
"Collateral" means all of the property and assets of each
Obligor and Obligor Subsidiary now existing or hereafter acquired which secures
the Securities (other than collateral subject to the Lien of the Exit Facility)
and as otherwise defined in the Security Documents [DEFINITION TO BE CONFORMED
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF COLLATERAL IN SECURITY DOCUMENTS].
"Collateral Agent" means Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National
Association, as collateral agent under the Common Security and Intercreditor
Agreement, and any successor thereto.
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"Collateral Proceeds" has the meaning specified in Section
1009 hereof.
"Commencement Date" is defined in Section 1109 hereof.
"Commission" means the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or
if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement" means the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of [o] 2001, by and among the
Indenture Obligors and others, the New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee (for
itself and for the benefit of the New Tranche A Note Holders), the Collateral
Agent, the Trustee (for itself and for the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities), substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto, and as may
be amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time
to time.
"Company" is defined in the preamble hereto, and includes each
other successor thereto.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request
or order signed in the name of the Company by any one of its Chairman of the
Board of Directors, its President or a Vice President (regardless of vice
presidential designation), and by any one of its Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Confirmation Order" means the order of the Bankruptcy Court
confirming the Plan of Reorganization pursuant to Section 1129 of the Bankruptcy
Code.
"Consolidated Cash Flow Available for Fixed Charges" of any
Person means for any period the Consolidated Net Income for such period
increased by the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person for
such period, plus (ii) Consolidated Income Tax Expense of such Person for such
period, plus (iii) the consolidated depreciation and amortization expenses
included in the income statement of such Person for such period, plus (iv) other
non-cash charges of such Person for such period deducted from consolidated
revenues in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, minus (v)
non-cash items of such Person for such period increasing consolidated revenues
in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period.
"Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio"of any Person means
for any period the ratio of (i) Consolidated Cash Flow Available for Fixed
Charges of such Person for such period to (ii) the sum of (A) Consolidated
Interest Expense of such Person for such Period, plus (B) the annual interest
expense (including the amortization of debt discount) with respect to any
Indebtedness proposed to be incurred by such Person or its Subsidiaries, plus
(C) the annual interest expense (including the amortization of debt discount)
with respect to any other Indebtedness incurred by such Person or its
Subsidiaries since the end of such period to the extent not included in clause
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(ii)(A) above, minus (D) Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person to the
extent included in clause (ii)(A) with respect to any Indebtedness that will no
longer be outstanding as a result of the incurrence of the Indebtedness proposed
to be incurred; provided, however, that in making such computation, the
Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person attributable to interest on any
Indebtedness bearing a floating interest rate shall be computed on a pro forma
basis as if the rate in effect on the date of computation had been the
applicable rate for the entire period; provided, further, that in the event such
Person or its Subsidiaries has made Asset Sales or acquisitions of assets which
are permitted pursuant to the terms and provisions of this Indenture (including
acquisitions of other Persons by merger, consolidation or purchase of Capital
Stock) during or after such period, such computation shall be made on a pro
forma basis as if the Asset Sales or acquisitions had taken place on the first
day of such period.
"Consolidated Income Tax Expense" of any Person means for any
period the consolidated provision for income taxes of such Person for such
period calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" for any Person, means for any
period the consolidated interest expense included in a consolidated income
statement (without deduction of interest income) of such Person for such period
calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without
limitation or duplication (or, to the extent not so included, with the addition
of), (i) the amortization of debt discounts, (ii) any payments of fees with
respect to letters of credit, bankers acceptances or similar facilities, (iii)
fees with respect to interest rate swap or similar agreements, or foreign
currency hedge, exchange or similar agreements, and (iv) the portion of any
rental obligations allocable to interest expense.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, for any period, and as to any
Person, the aggregate Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such
period determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that (i) the Net Income of
any Person which is not a Subsidiary of such Person but which is consolidated
with such Person or is accounted for by such Person by the equity method of
accounting will be included only to the extent of the amount of cash dividends
or cash distributions paid to such Person or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such
Person, (ii) the Net Income of any Subsidiary of such Person that is subject to
restrictions, direct or indirect, on the payment of dividends or the making of
distributions to such Person will be excluded to the extent of such
restrictions, (iii) the Net Income of any Subsidiary less than 80% of whose
securities having the right (apart from the right under special circumstances)
to vote in the election of directors are owned by PCI, the Company or their
respective Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries will be included only to the extent of the
amount of cash dividends or cash distributions actually paid by such Subsidiary
to PCI, the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company or PCI, (iv) all
extraordinary gains and losses, and any gain or loss realized upon the
termination of any employee pension benefit plan, in respect of dispositions of
assets other than in the ordinary course of business and any one-time increase
or decrease to Net Income which is required to be recorded because of the
adoption of new accounting policies, practices or standards required by GAAP
(together, in each case, with any provision for taxes) will be excluded, and (v)
all amounts of "other income, net"
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classified as such on one or more lines of such Person's statement of
operations, in accordance with GAAP, net of applicable income taxes, will be
excluded from such Person's aggregate Net Income.
"Consolidated Net Worth" means, for any Person, the total of
the amounts shown on the balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries,
determined on a consolidated basis without duplication in accordance with GAAP,
as of the end of the most recent Fiscal Quarter of such Person ending at least
forty-five (45) days prior to the taking of any action for the purpose of which
the determination is being made, as (i) the amount of Capital Stock plus (ii)
the amount of surplus and retained earnings (or, in the case of a surplus or
retained earnings deficit, minus the amount of such deficit).
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee or an
affiliate or agent thereof at which at any particular time the corporate trust
business for the purposes of this Indenture shall be principally administered,
which office at the date of execution of this Indenture is located at Sixth
Street and Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479, Attention: Corporate
Trust Services.
"covenant defeasance" is defined in Section 403 hereof.
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator
or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage
of any time or both would be, an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" is defined in Section 309 hereof.
"defeasance" is defined in Section 402 hereof.
"Defeasance Redemption Date" is defined in Section 404 hereof.
"Defeased Securities" is defined in Section 401 hereof.
"Depositary" means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees
and their respective successors.
"Direction" is defined in Section 105 hereof.
"Effective Plan Date" means the first Business Day on which
the conditions specified in Section 10.1 of the Plan of Reorganization have been
satisfied or waived.
"Eligible Investments" means, (i) securities issued or
directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any
agency or instrumentality thereof or Canada or any province thereof (provided
that the full faith and credit of the United States of America or Canada, as the
case may be, is pledged in support thereof) having maturities of not more than
90 days from the date of acquisition, (ii) time deposits
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and certificates of deposit with maturities of not more than 90 days from the
date of acquisition of any commercial banking institution that is a member of
the Federal Reserve System or is a Schedule 1 Canadian Bank, in either case
having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 and whose debt has a rating
at the time of any such investment of at least "A-1" or the equivalent thereof
by S&P or at least "P-1" or the equivalent thereof by Moody's, or any Lender,
(iii) fully secured repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven
days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (i) entered into
with any bank or financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in
clause (ii) above, (iv) commercial paper issued by the parent corporation of any
commercial banking institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System or
is a Schedule 1 Canadian Bank, in either case having capital and surplus in
excess of $500,000,000 and commercial paper or master notes of issuers rated at
the time of any such investment at least "A-1" or the equivalent thereof by S&P
or at least "P-1" or the equivalent thereof by Moody's, and in each case
maturing within 270 days after the date of acquisition, and (v) any shares in an
open-end mutual fund organized by a bank or financial institution having
combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000 investing solely in
investments permitted by the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iv).
"Environmental Claim" means any claim, assertion, demand,
notice of violation, suit, administrative or judicial proceeding, regulatory
action, investigation, information request or order involving any Hazardous
Materials, Environmental Law, noise or odor pollution or any injury or threat of
injury to human health, property or the environment.
"Environmental Law" means all international, national,
provincial, regional, federal, state, local and municipal statutes, laws
(including principles of common and decisional law), regulations, by-laws,
policies, guidelines, directives, standards, rules, orders, decrees, judgments,
ordinances, permits, certificates, licenses, registrations, approvals, or
requirements or authorizations of any governmental or administrative authority
relating to the environment, natural resources, safety or health of humans or
other organisms, including the manufacture, distribution in commerce, and use or
Release of Hazardous Materials.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five
of this Indenture.
"Exchange Act" means the United States Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
"Excluded Holder" is defined in Section 1029(a) hereof.
"Existing Indebtedness" means all Indebtedness (other than the
Securities outstanding) of the Obligors existing as of the Effective Plan Date
after giving effect to the Plan of Reorganization and listed on Schedule 1
hereto.
"Exit Facility" means the Credit Agreement, dated as of [o],
2001, between [o], as borrower, and [o], as lender, administrative agent and
collateral agent
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thereunder, as may be amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise
modified from time to time., and all agreements and instruments related thereto
and contemplated thereby, each dated as of [o], 2001 (including any security
agreement entered in connection therewith), as each such agreement or instrument
may be amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from
time to time..
"Fair Market Value" means, with respect to any asset or
property, the price which could be negotiated in an arm's-length transaction,
for cash, between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither of whom is under
undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction. Fair Market Value will
be determined by a majority of the members of the Boards of Directors of PCI and
the Company and a majority of the disinterested members of the Boards of
Directors of PCI and the Company, if any, acting in good faith, and will be
evidenced by a duly and properly adopted resolution of such Boards of Directors.
"Final Order" has the meaning given to it in the Plan of
Reorganization.
"Fiscal Quarter" means any fiscal quarter of a Fiscal Year.
"Fiscal Year" means, with respect to any Obligor, any period
of twelve consecutive months ending on December 31; references to a Fiscal Year
with a numbering corresponding to any calendar year refer to the fiscal year
ending on the 31st of December during such calendar year.
"Funding Guarantor" is defined in Section 1310 hereof.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set
forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession, which are in effect from time to time.
"Global Security" means a security that evidences all of the
Securities and bears the legend set forth in Section 202.
"Guaranties" means each Guaranty taken together with each
other Guaranty.
"Guarantor" means, collectively, Pioneer Companies, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, Imperial West Chemical Co., a Nevada corporation, Kemwater
North America Co., a Delaware corporation, Pioneer Americas LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, Pioneer (East), Inc., a Delaware corporation, Pioneer
Water Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Pioneer Licensing, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, and KWT, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and each other
guarantor of the Company that becomes a guarantor pursuant to this Indenture,
and "Guarantor" shall mean any one of such guarantors.
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"Guaranty" means the guaranty by any Guarantor of the
Company's Indenture Obligations pursuant to a guaranty given in accordance with
this Indenture, including, without limitation, the Guaranties by the Guarantors
included in Article Thirteen of this Indenture and any Guaranty delivered
pursuant to Section 1317 hereof.
"Guaranteed Obligations" is defined in Section 1301 hereof.
"Hazardous Materials" means all pollutants, contaminants,
hazardous substances, hazardous chemicals, hazardous wastes, hazardous
materials, residual hazardous materials, medical and biochemical wastes, special
wastes, toxic substances, petroleum (including crude oil) and petroleum-derived
substances, wastes and additives, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls,
ozone-depleting substances, methane, radioactive materials (including source,
special nuclear and by-product materials as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 2011 et
seq. (whether or not 42 U.S.C. Section 2011 et seq. would apply in respect of
any Obligor incorporated or organized outside of the United States)) and all
other compounds, elements, materials and substances in any form or condition
(including products) regulated, restricted or addressed by or under
Environmental Laws.
"Hedging Obligations" means the obligations of any Person or
entity pursuant to any swap or cap agreement, exchange agreement, collar
agreement, option, futures or forward hedging contract, derivative instrument or
other similar agreement or any arrangement designed to protect such Person or
entity against fluctuations in interest rates or foreign exchange rates or the
price of raw materials and other chemical products used or produced in the
Company's business or the business of any other Obligor, as the case may be.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered
in the Security Register.
"including" means including without limiting the generality of
any description preceding such term, and, for purposes of this Indenture, the
parties hereto agree that the rule of ejusdem generis shall not be applicable to
limit a general statement, which is followed by or referable to an enumeration
of specific matters, to matters similar to the matters specifically mentioned.
"incur" has the meaning given to it in Section 1008 hereof;
provided that (i) with respect to any Indebtedness of any Subsidiary of PCI or
the Company that is owing to PCI or the Company, or another such Subsidiary, any
disposition, pledge or transfer of such Indebtedness to any Person (other than
PCI or the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of PCI or the Company) shall be
deemed to be an incurrence of such Indebtedness and, (ii) with respect to any
Indebtedness of PCI or the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or PCI that is
owing to another such Subsidiary, any transaction pursuant to which a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to which such Indebtedness is owing ceases to be a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary shall be deemed to be an incurrence of such
Indebtedness; and provided, further that any Indebtedness of a Person existing
at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of PCI or the Company shall be
deemed to be
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incurred by such Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary. The term
"incurrence" has a corresponding meaning.
"Indebtedness" of any Person means, without duplication, all
liabilities with respect to: (i) indebtedness for money borrowed for the
deferred purchase price of property or services or which is evidenced by a bond,
debenture, note or other similar instrument or agreement, but excluding trade
credit evidenced by any such instrument or agreement incurred in the ordinary
course of business and payable on usual and customary terms, or Indebtedness of
any partnership of which such Person is a partner; (ii) reimbursement
obligations, letters of credit and bankers' acceptances; (iii) indebtedness with
respect to Hedging Obligations; (iv) Capitalized Lease Obligations; (v)
indebtedness, secured or unsecured, created or arising in connection with the
acquisition or improvement of any property or asset or the acquisition of any
business; (vi) all indebtedness secured by or for which the obligee has an
existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by any Lien upon property
owned by such Person and all indebtedness secured in the manner specified in
this clause even if such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment
thereof; (vii) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising under any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property
acquired by such Person or otherwise representing the deferred and unpaid
balance of the purchase price of any such property, including all indebtedness
created or arising in the manner specified in this clause even though the rights
and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of
default are limited to repossession or sale of such property; (viii) guaranties,
direct or indirect, of any Indebtedness of other Persons referred to in clauses
(i) through (vii) above, or of dividends or leases, taxes or other obligations
of other Persons, excluding any guaranty arising out of the endorsement of
negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business; (ix)
contingent obligations in respect of, or to purchase or otherwise acquire or be
responsible or liable for, through the purchase of products or services,
irrespective of whether such products are delivered or such services are
rendered, or otherwise, any such indebtedness referred to in clauses (i) through
(vii) above; (x) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, arising under any
surety, performance or maintenance bond; and (xi) all preferred stock or other
redeemable stock of such Person valued at the greater of its voluntary or
involuntary maximum fixed repurchase price plus accrued and unpaid dividends. As
used herein, Indebtedness with respect to any Hedging Obligation means, with
respect to any specified Person on any date, the net amount (if any) that would
be payable by such specified Person upon the liquidation, close-out or early
termination on such date of such Hedging Obligation. For purposes of the
foregoing, any settlement amount payable upon the liquidation, close-out or
early termination of a Hedging Obligation shall be calculated by PCI and the
Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner on the basis that
such liquidation, close-out or early termination results from an event of
default or other similar event with respect to such specified Person. Any
reference in this definition to indebtedness shall be deemed to include any
renewals, extensions and refundings of any such indebtedness or any indebtedness
issued in exchange for such indebtedness.
"Indenture Documents" means this Indenture, the Securities,
the Guaranties, the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement, each Mortgage
(upon
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execution and delivery thereof), the other Security Documents and each other
agreement, document or instrument delivered in connection herewith and
therewith, whether or not specifically mentioned herein or therein.
"Indenture Obligations" means the obligations (monetary or
otherwise) of the Company and each other Obligor and their respective Obligor
Subsidiaries under this Indenture, the Securities and the other Indenture
Documents, to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest when due and payable,
and all other amounts due or to become due under or in connection with this
Indenture (including, without limitation, all sums due to the Trustee pursuant
to Section 606 hereof), the Securities and the other Indenture Documents, and
the performance of all other obligations to the Trustee and the Holders under
this Indenture, the Securities and the other Indenture Documents, according to
the terms hereof and thereof.
"Indenture Obligor" means the Company, as issuer of the
Securities, each of the Guarantors and each other obligor under this Indenture,
excluding the Trustee.
"Independent Director" means, in relation to any Person, a
director other than a director (i) who (apart from being a director of the
Person or any of its Subsidiaries) is an employee, insider, associate or
Affiliate of the Person or any of its Subsidiaries or has held any such position
during the previous year, or (ii) who is a director, an employee, insider,
associate or Affiliate of another party to the transaction in question.
"Insurance Proceeds" has the meaning given to it in the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
"Intercreditor Collateral Account" means the Collateral
Account as defined in the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an
installment of interest on the Securities.
"Investment" means any direct or indirect advance, loan, other
extension of credit or capital contribution (by means of any transfer of cash or
other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account
or use of others) to, purchase or acquire Capital Stock, bonds, notes,
debentures or other securities of, or purchase or acquire all or a substantial
part of the business, Capital Stock or other evidence of beneficial ownership
of, or any other investment in or guaranty of any Indebtedness of, any Person or
any other item that would be classified as an investment on a balance sheet
prepared in accordance with GAAP. Investments do not include advances to
customers and suppliers in the ordinary course of business on commercially
reasonable terms. If any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary sells or otherwise
disposes of any Capital Stock of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of any
Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary such that, after giving effect to any such sale or
disposition, such Person is no longer such a Subsidiary of the Obligor or
Obligor Subsidiary, the Company shall be
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deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition
equal to the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary not sold
or disposed of.
"judgment currency" is defined in Section 1005 hereof.
"Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest,
hypothec, prior claim, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any lease in the nature
thereof).
"Material Adverse Effect" means (i) any material adverse
effect on the business, assets, debt service capacity, liabilities (including
environmental liabilities), financial condition, operations or prospects of the
Obligors and the Obligor Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) any material
adverse effect upon the ability of the Company or any other Obligor to timely
perform its respective material obligations under the Indenture Documents, the
New Tranche A Notes Indenture (and each of the guaranties thereunder), the New
Tranche A Notes or the Registration Rights Agreement, or (iii) any impairment of
the legality, validity or enforceability of this Indenture, any other Indenture
Document, the New Tranche A Notes Indenture (and each of the guaranties
thereunder), the New Tranche A Notes or the Registration Rights Agreement, or
any material impairment of the rights, remedies or benefits available, as the
case may be, to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Holders under this
Indenture, or under any other Indenture Document, to the Collateral Agent, the
New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee or the New Tranche A Note Holders under
the Security Documents, the New Tranche A Notes Indenture (and each of the
guaranties thereunder), the New Tranche A Notes or the Registration Rights
Agreement.
"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security means the
date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein
provided or as provided in this Indenture, whether at Stated Maturity, the Asset
Sale Purchase Date, the Change of Control Payment Date or the Redemption Date
and whether by declaration of acceleration, Change of Control, call for
redemption or otherwise.
"MEIP" means an equity incentive plan which shall become
effective on the Effective Plan Date or as soon as reasonably practicable
thereafter, substantially in the form contained in the Plan Supplement (as such
term is defined in the Plan of Reorganization).
"Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or any
successor rating agency.
"Mortgage" means each mortgage, deed of trust, or similar
security instrument, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached to this
Indenture, which from time to time affects any property (including real property
or immovable property situated in the United States or in any Canadian province)
that secures PCI's, the Company's or any other Obligor's obligations under this
Indenture (including the Guaranties), the Securities, the New Tranche A Notes
Indenture (including the guaranties thereunder), the
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New Tranche A Notes and each other Indenture Document, as such instruments may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Mortgaged Property" has the meaning given to it in the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
"Net Award" has the meaning given to it in the Common Security
and Intercreditor Agreement.
"Net Income" means, for any period for any Person, the net
income of such Person determined in accordance with GAAP.
["Net Offering Proceeds" means the aggregate cash proceeds of
a Qualified Equity Offering, or of one or more such Qualified Equity Offerings
together, net of the direct, reasonable and customary costs (such as reasonable
legal, accounting and underwriting discounts/sales commissions) relating to such
Qualified Equity Offering, or one or more such Qualified Equity Offerings
together.]
"Net Proceeds" means the aggregate cash proceeds received by
any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary in respect of any Asset Sale (including
any non-cash consideration received by any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary
from any Asset Sale that is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for
cash within 45 days after the relevant Asset Sale), net of (i) the direct costs
relating to such Asset Sale (including, without limitation, reasonable legal,
accounting and investment banking fees and sales commissions), (ii) any taxes
paid or payable as a result thereof, (iii) all amounts required to be applied to
the repayment of, or representing the amount of permanent reductions in the
commitments relating to, Indebtedness (other than the Securities) secured by a
Lien on the asset or assets the subject of such Asset Sale which Lien is
permitted pursuant hereto, and (iv) any reserve for adjustment in respect of the
sale price of such asset or assets required by GAAP.
"New Common Stock" means the common stock of PCI authorized by
and issued pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization.
"New Debt" means the New Tranche A Notes and the Securities.
"New Other Secured Notes" has the meaning given it in the Plan
of Reorganization.
"New Other Secured Notes And Claims" means the Allowed Other
Secured Claims reinstated pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code and Plan of
Reorganization and the New Other Secured Notes.
"New Tranche A Note Holders" shall mean holders of the New
Tranche A Notes.
"New Tranche A Notes" means indebtedness of the New Tranche A
Notes Issuer in an aggregate principal amount of $50,000,000, as such
indebtedness is
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continued and incurred by the New Tranche A Issuer in accordance with the terms
of the New Tranche A Notes Indenture.
"New Tranche A Notes Indenture" means the indenture, dated as
of [o], 2001, by and among Pioneer Americas LLC, as issuer, the guarantors party
thereto and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as indenture
trustee, pursuant to which the New Tranche A Notes are issued, as may be
amended, supplemented, amended and restated, or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee" means the indenture
trustee under the New Tranche A Notes Indenture.
"New Tranche A Notes Issuer" means Pioneer Americas LLC, as
the issuer under the New Tranche A Notes Indenture.
"Obligor" means the Company, each of the Guarantors and any
Person (other than the New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee, the Collateral
Agent, the Trustee, any Lender or any Holder) obligated under any Indenture
Document.
"Obligor Subsidiary" means, in respect of an Obligor or an
Indenture Obligor, any Subsidiary of such Obligor or Indenture Obligor, as the
case may be.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, Vice Chairman, the President or a Vice President
(regardless of vice presidential designation), and by the Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the relevant
Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Old Debt" means indebtedness under (i) those certain
$175,000,000 9.25% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due October 2007 issued by
PCI Chemicals Canada Inc. pursuant to that certain Indenture, dated as of
October 30, 1997, among PCI Chemicals Canada Inc., the Guarantors (as such term
is defined therein) and the United States Trust Company of New York ("USTC"), in
its capacity as trustee and as collateral agent, (ii) that certain Term Loan
Agreement, dated as of October 30, 1997, among Pioneer Corporation of America,
the Lenders (as such term is defined therein), certain other parties and BNY
Asset Solutions LLC, in its capacity as administrative agent, (iii) those
certain $200,000,000 9.25% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due June 2007 issued
by Pioneer Corporation of America pursuant to that certain Indenture, dated as
of June 17, 1997 among Pioneer Corporation of America, the Guarantors (as such
term is defined therein) and USTC, in its capacity as trustee, and (iv) that
certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of June 17, 1997, among Pioneer
Corporation of America, the Lenders (as such term is defined therein), certain
other parties and BNY Asset Solutions LLC, in its capacity as administrative
agent.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel in
form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, who shall be counsel for the
relevant Obligor or
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Obligor Subsidiary, as the case may be, and who shall be reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Independent Counsel" means a written opinion of
counsel in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee issued by someone who
is not an employee or consultant of the relevant Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary,
as the case may be, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"Organizational Documents" means, in respect of any Obligor or
other Person, its certificate of incorporation and its by-laws (or equivalent
constitutive documents) and all shareholder agreements, voting trusts and
similar arrangements to which such Obligor or other Person is a party applicable
to any of authorized shares, or other units or forms, of its Capital Stock.
"Outstanding" when used with respect to Securities means, as
of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited
with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust
or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders; provided that if
such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(c) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 402
and 403 hereof, with respect to which the Company has effected
defeasance or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Four; and
(d) Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there
shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that
such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands the
Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company, any Guarantor, or any other Obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company, any Guarantor, or such other Obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
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establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so
to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company,
any guarantor or any other Obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company, any Guarantor or such other Obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf
of the Company.
"PCI" means Pioneer Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
in its capacities as the parent of the Company and a Guarantor.
"Permitted Investments" means (i) any Eligible Investment,
(ii) any Investment in the Company or any other Obligor, (iii) Investments in
existence on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 2 hereto, (iv) Indebtedness
permitted pursuant to clause (vi) of Section 1008 herein, (v) other investments
by any Obligor after the date hereof in joint ventures, corporations, limited
liability companies, partnerships or Obligor Subsidiaries engaged in a Related
Business that do not at any one time outstanding exceed $5,000,000, (vi)
promissory notes and other non-cash consideration received by the Obligors or
the Obligor Subsidiaries in connection with Asset Sales permitted hereunder,
(vii) Investments by PCI or the Company in Hedging Obligations permitted
hereunder, (viii) investments (including debt obligations and Capital Stock)
received by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with the bankruptcy or
reorganization of suppliers and customers and in settlement of delinquent
obligations of, and other disputes with customers and suppliers arising in the
ordinary course of business, in each case of the Company or its Subsidiaries,
(ix) other Investments (including loans and advances to officers or employees of
the Company or its Subsidiaries) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $250,000
at any one time outstanding).
"Permitted Issuance" means (i) the issuance by PCI of shares
of Capital Stock as dividends on issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the
same class of PCI or pursuant to any dividend reinvestment plan, (ii) the
issuance by PCI of options or other equity securities of PCI to outside
directors, members of management or employees of PCI or any Subsidiary of PCI,
[(iii) the issuance of securities as interest or dividends on pay-in-kind debt
or preferred equity securities in accordance with the terms permitted hereunder
and under the other Indenture Documents,] (iv) the issuance to PCI or any of its
Subsidiaries (or any director, with respect to such director's qualifying
shares) by any of PCI's Subsidiaries of any of their respective Capital Stock,
in each case with respect to this clause (iv) to the extent such Capital Stock
issued to PCI or such Subsidiary is pledged to the Trustee pursuant to the
applicable Indenture Document, [(v) the issuance by PCI of shares of its Capital
Stock in connection with an acquisition permitted under this Indenture,] (vi)
cash payments made in lieu of fractional shares of PCI's Capital Stock in
connection with an acquisition referred to in clause (v) above in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $250,000 during the term of this Indenture, and (vii) the
issuance by PCI of additional shares of Capital Stock of PCI to infuse
additional capital into PCI and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $5,000,000 during the term of this Indenture.
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"Permitted Liens" means as of any particular time, any one or
more of the following:
(i) Liens for taxes, rates and assessments not yet past due
or, if past due, the validity of which is being contested in good faith
by the Obligors and the Obligor Subsidiaries by appropriate proceedings
promptly instituted and diligently conducted and against which such
Obligors and Obligor Subsidiaries have established appropriate reserves
in accordance with GAAP;
(ii) the Lien of any judgment rendered for an amount and for a
period not resulting in an Event of Default which is being contested in
good faith by the Obligors and the Obligor Subsidiaries by appropriate
proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted and against
which the Obligors and the Obligor Subsidiaries have established
appropriate reserves in accordance with GAAP and which does not have a
Material Adverse Effect;
(iii) other than in connection with Indebtedness, any Lien
arising in the ordinary course of business (a) to secure payments of
workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, pension or other social
security or retirement benefits, or to secure the performance of bids,
tenders, leases, progress payments, contracts (other than for the
payment of money) or to secure public or statutory obligations of any
Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary, or to secure surety or appeal bonds to
which any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary is a party, (b) imposed by law
dealing with materialmen's, mechanics', workmen's, repairmen's,
warehousemen's, landlords', vendors' or carriers' Liens created by law,
or deposits or pledges which are not yet due or, if due, the validity
of which is being contested in good faith by the Obligors and the
Obligor Subsidiaries by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and
diligently conducted and against which the Obligors and the Obligor
Subsidiaries have established appropriate reserves in accordance with
GAAP, and (c) rights of financial institutions to setoff and chargeback
arising by operation of law;
(iv) servitudes, licenses, easements, encumbrances,
restrictions, rights-of-way and rights in the nature of easements or
similar charges, minor title defects and irregularities which shall not
in the aggregate materially adversely impair the use of the subject
property by any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary;
(v) zoning and building by-laws and ordinances, municipal
by-laws and regulations, and restrictive covenants, which do not
materially interfere with the use of the subject property by any
Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary as such property is used as of the
date hereof;
(vi) liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising
as a matter of law to secure the payment of customs duties in
connection with the importation of goods by the Obligor or the Obligor
Subsidiaries;
(vii) deposits to secure statutory obligations in the form of
excise taxes;
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(viii) liens arising from precautionary UCC financing
statement filings in respect of operating leases or consignment
arrangements entered to by the Company or its Subsidiaries with a
supplier of goods in the ordinary course of business which liens are
customarily filed as precautionary liens by such supplier of goods in
the ordinary course of its business; and
(ix) any extension, renewal, substitution or replacement (or
successive extensions, renewals, substitutions or replacements), as a
whole or in part, of any of the Liens referred to in clauses (i)
through (viii) of this definition or the Indebtedness secured thereby;
provided that (a) such extension, renewal, substitution or replacement
Lien is limited to that portion of the property or assets, now owned or
hereafter acquired, that secured the Lien prior to such extension,
renewal, substitution or replacement Lien and (b) the Indebtedness
secured by such Lien (assuming all available amounts were borrowed) at
such time is not increased.
"Person" means any natural person, corporation, partnership,
firm, association, trust, government, governmental agency, limited liability
company or any other entity, whether acting in an individual, fiduciary or other
capacity.
"Physical Securities" means permanent certificated Securities
in registered form in substantially the form set forth in Article Two.
"Pioneer Companies" is defined in the preamble of this
Indenture.
"Plan of Reorganization" means the Debtor's Amended Joint Plan
of Reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, dated September 21,
2001, filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas,
Houston Division, Case No. 01-38259-H3-11, on behalf of Pioneer Companies, Inc.,
Pioneer Corporation of America, Imperial West Chemical Co., Kemwater North
America Co., PCI Chemicals Canada Inc./PCI Chimie Canada Inc., Pioneer Americas,
Inc., Pioneer (East), Inc., Pioneer Water Technologies, Inc., Pioneer Licensing,
Inc., and KWT, Inc.
"Post Petition Interest" is defined in Section 1307 hereof.
"Power of Attorney" is defined in Section 1508 hereof.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 308 hereof in exchange for a
mutilated Security or in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be
deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen
Security.
["Qualified Equity Offering" means an offer and sale of common
stock (which is Capital Stock) of PCI made on a primary basis by PCI pursuant to
a registration statement that has been declared effective by the Commission
pursuant to the Securities Act (other than a registration statement on Form S-8
or otherwise relating to equity
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securities issuable under any employee benefit plan of such Indenture Obligor),
or an offer and sale of common stock (which is Capital Stock) of PCI which may
be made pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act, in
each case, only to the extent permitted pursuant to clause (vii) of the
definition of "Permitted Issuance."]
"Quebec Mortgage and Security Agreement" means a deed of
hypothec executed by an authorized representative of the Company in respect of
Collateral located in Quebec, as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to
be redeemed pursuant to any provision in this Indenture, means the date fixed
for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to
be redeemed pursuant to any provision in this Indenture, means the price at
which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"Refinancing" is defined in Section 1008 hereof.
"Refinancing Indebtedness" is defined in Section 1008 hereof.
"Registration Rights Agreement" has the meaning given to it in
the Plan of Reorganization.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date means each [May 15 and November 15] (whether or not a Business
Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"Related Business" means the manufacture or distribution of
chlorine, caustic soda, bleach, hydrochloric acid, and other chlorides and
aluminum sulfate, and in lines of business reasonably related thereto.
"Release" means any release, discharge, deposit, pumping,
pouring, emptying, injecting, escaping, leaching, migrating, dumping, seepage,
spill, leak, flow, discharge, disposal or emission.
"Restoration" has the meaning set forth in the Common Security
and Intercreditor Agreement.
"Restricted Payment" is defined in Section 1006 hereof.
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, a division of The
McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. or any successor rating agency.
"Safety and Health Laws" means all national, federal, state,
provincial, regional, municipal or local statutes, laws, ordinances, codes,
rules, regulations, by-laws,
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policies, guidelines, directives, judgments, orders or decrees regulating,
relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning employee
health and/or safety.
"Sale and Leaseback Transaction" with respect to any Person,
means any arrangement with another Person for the leasing of any real or
tangible personal property, which property has been or is to be sold or
transferred or initially leased by such Person to such other Person in
contemplation of such leasing (including a lease and leaseback transaction).
"Securities" means any of the securities, as defined in the
fifth paragraph of the recitals hereof, that are authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the United States Securities Act of
1933, as amended from time to time.
"Security Agreement Supplement" has the meaning given to it in
the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
"Security Documents" means (i) each Mortgage, (ii) the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) the Canadian Security Agreements,
and (iv) all security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, pledges, collateral
assignments, UCC filings, financing statements and registrations or any other
instrument evidencing or creating any security interest in favor of the
Collateral Agent in all or any portion of the Collateral, in each case as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Security Register" has the meaning specified in Section 305
hereof.
"Security Registrar" has the meaning specified in Section 305
hereof.
"Senior Indebtedness" means [o].
"Special Record Date", for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest, means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 309 hereof.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security
as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
interest is due and payable.
"Subordinated Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of any Obligor
or Obligor Subsidiary as to which the payment of principal of, premium, if any,
interest and other payment obligations in respect of such Indebtedness shall be
subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Securities (including the
Guaranties) to at least the following extent: (i) no payments of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on, or otherwise due in respect of, such
Indebtedness may be permitted for so long as any default in the payment of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities exists; (ii) in the
event that any other Default that with the passing of time or the giving of
notice, or both, would constitute an Event of Default exists with respect to the
Securities, upon notice by Holders of 25% or more of the aggregate principal
amount of the Securities to the
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Trustee, the Trustee shall have the right to give notice to the Company and the
holders of such Indebtedness (or trustees or agents therefor) of a payment
blockage, and thereafter no payments of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on or otherwise due in respect of such Indebtedness may be made for a
period of 179 days from the date of such notice; and (iii) such Indebtedness may
not (x) provide for payments of principal of such Indebtedness at the stated
maturity thereof or by way of a sinking fund applicable thereto or by way of any
mandatory redemption, defeasance, retirement or repurchase thereof by such
Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary (including any redemption, retirement or
repurchase which is contingent upon events of circumstances, but excluding any
retirement required by virtue of acceleration of such Indebtedness upon an event
of default thereunder), in each case prior to the final Stated Maturity of the
Securities, or (y) permit redemption or other retirement (including pursuant to
an offer to purchase made by such Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary) of such other
Indebtedness at the option of the holder thereof prior to the final Stated
Maturity of the Securities.
"Subordinated Obligations" is defined in Section 1307 hereof.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any
corporation of which the outstanding Capital Stock having at least a majority of
the votes entitled to be cast in the election of directors, under ordinary
circumstances, is at the time owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person and
one or more of its Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person's Subsidiaries
or (ii) any other Person of which at least a majority of voting interest, under
ordinary circumstances, is at the time owned, directly or indirectly, by such
Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person's
Subsidiaries, whether or not such corporation or other Person is incorporated or
organized in or under the laws of the United States of America or any state
thereof.
"Taxes" is defined in Section 1029 hereof.
"Tranche A Documents" means collectively, the New Tranche A
Notes Indenture (including the guaranties thereunder), the New Tranche A Notes,
the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement, each Mortgage (upon execution
and delivery thereof), the other Security Documents and each other agreement,
document or instrument delivered in connection therewith, whether or not
specifically mentioned herein or therein, each as amended, supplemented, amended
and restated or otherwise modified from time to time as permitted in accordance
with their respective terms.
"Transaction Documents" means the various documents,
instruments and agreements, implementing the Plan of Reorganization other than
the Indenture Documents (except for the Security Documents which shall also be
"Transaction Documents"), including the Tranche A Documents, the Amended PCI
Certificate of Incorporation (as such term is defined in the Plan of
Reorganization), the Amended PCI Bylaws (as such term is defined in the Plan of
Reorganization), the amended by-laws and certificates of incorporation of each
of the Subsidiaries of PCI and of the Company, the Exit Facility, the MEIP, the
New Common Stock, the New Other Secured Notes and Claims, the Registration
Rights Agreement (as
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such term is defined in the Plan of Reorganization), the documents relating to
the Canadian Corporate Reorganization (as such term is defined in the New
Tranche A Notes Indenture) and all other agreements, documents, instruments,
certificates, filings, consents, approvals, Board of Directors resolutions and
opinions executed, delivered or furnished pursuant to or in connection with the
implementation of the Plan of Reorganization, each as amended, supplemented,
amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time as permitted in
accordance with their respective terms.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the United States Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.
"Trust Moneys" means all cash or Eligible Investments received
by the Collateral Agent, (i) in exchange for the release of property from the
Lien of any of the Security Documents, or (ii) as compensation for or proceeds
of the sale of all or any part of the Collateral taken by eminent domain or
purchased by, or sold pursuant to any order of, a governmental authority or
otherwise disposed of, or (iii) as proceeds of insurance upon any, all or part
of the Collateral (other than any liability insurance proceeds payable to the
Collateral Agent for any loss, liability or expense incurred by it), or (iv) as
proceeds of any other sale or other disposition of all or any part of the
Collateral by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent or any collection, recovery,
receipt, appropriation or other realization of or from all or any part of the
Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents or otherwise, or (v) for
application under the Indenture as provided in the Indenture or any Security
Document, or whose disposition is not otherwise specifically provided for in the
Indenture or in any Security Document.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "trustee" in the
preamble of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter "Trustee"
shall mean such successor trustee.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time
to time in the State of New York.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means securities that are (i)
direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its
full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by, and acting as an agency or instrumentality of, the United States
of America, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith
and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case
under clause (i) or (ii) above, are not callable or redeemable at the option of
the issuer thereof.
"Voting Stock" of any Person means Capital Stock of such
Person which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors (or
Persons performing similar functions) of such Person, whether at all times or
only so long as no senior class of securities has such voting power by reason of
any contingency.
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, a
Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other
ownership interests of which (other than capital stock constituting directors'
qualifying shares or
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interests held by directors or shares or interests required to be held by
foreign nationals, to the extent mandated by applicable law) are owned by such
Person or by one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
Section 102. [Intentionally omitted].
Section 103. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by any Indenture Obligor to
the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, such
Indenture Obligor shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that all conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture (including any covenants
compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with, except that, in the case of any such application or request as to
which the furnishing of such documents, certificates and/or opinions is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to
compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall
include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinion contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
such individual has made such examination or investigation as is reasonably
necessary to enable such individual to express an informed opinion as to whether
or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 104. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified
by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
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Any certificate or opinion of an officer of any Obligor may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion
of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of any
Obligor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of any Obligor, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. Opinions
of Counsel required to be delivered to the Trustee may have qualifications
customary for opinions of the type required and counsel delivering such Opinions
of Counsel may rely on certificates of the relevant Obligor or government or
other officials customary for opinions of the type required, including
certificates certifying as to matters of fact, including that various financial
covenants have been complied with.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
Section 105. Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act (as such term is defined below) provided by this
Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by
one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in
person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the
Trustee if made in the manner provided in this Section. The fact and date of the
execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing or the authority of
the Person executing the same may also be proved in any other manner which the
Trustee deems sufficient in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee
may determine.
(b) The ownership of Securities shall be evidenced by the
Security Register.
(c) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or Act by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security or the Holder of every Security issued upon the
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, suffered or omitted to be done by the Trustee, any Paying Agent
or any Indenture Obligor or its respective Obligor Subsidiary in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
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(d) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the
Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance
a record date for the determination of such Holders entitled to give, make or
take such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. Notwithstanding
Section 316(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, any such record date shall be the
record date specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a
date not more than 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally
in connection therewith and no later than the date such solicitation is
completed.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Holder,
including the Depositary that is a Holder of a Global Security, may make, give
or take, by a proxy, or proxies, duly appointed in writing, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or
permitted in this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders and the
Depositary that is a Holder of a Global Security may provide its proxy or
proxies to the beneficial owners of interest in any such Global Security.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon receipt by the Trustee of
(i) any notice of default pursuant to Section 704(d), (ii) any declaration of
acceleration, or any rescission and annulment of any such declaration pursuant
to Section 502 or (iii) any direction given pursuant to Section 505 (any such
notice, declaration, rescission and annulment, or direction being referred to
herein as a "Direction"), a record date shall automatically and without any
other action by any Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders
entitled to join in such Direction, which record date shall be the close of
business on the day the Trustee receives such Direction. The Holders on such
record date (or their duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to join in such Direction whether or not such Holders remain Holders
after such record date; provided that unless such Direction shall have become
effective by virtue of Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount
of the Securities then Outstanding (or their duly appointed agents) having
joined therein on or prior to the 90th day after such record date, such
Direction shall automatically and without any action by any Person be cancelled
and be of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder
(or a duly appointed agent thereof) from giving, before or after the expiration
of such 90-day period, a Direction contrary to, or different from, or, after the
expiration of such period, identical to, a Direction that has been canceled
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record
date in respect thereof shall be set pursuant to this paragraph.
If such a record date is fixed (pursuant to the immediately
preceding paragraph), such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act may be made, given or taken before or after such
record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such
record date shall be deemed to be Holders for purposes of determining whether
Holders of the requisite proportion of Securities then Outstanding have
authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for this purpose the
Securities then Outstanding shall be computed as of such record date;
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provided that no such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed
effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture not later than six months after the record date.
(e) If at any time a request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act to be made, given or taken by
the Holders is required pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee
shall solicit the direction of the Holders of such aggregate principal amount of
the Securities then Outstanding as are specified in the applicable provisions of
this Indenture and, if not so specified, the Holders of a majority of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding.
Section 106. Notices, etc., to Trustee, the Company and any
Indenture Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted
by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by any Indenture Obligor
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, telecopied, hand
delivered, or delivered by recognized overnight courier, to the Trustee at Sixth
Street and Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479, Attention: Corporate
Trust Services; telecopy: [o], or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Holders or any Indenture Obligor by the Trustee; or
(b) any Indenture Obligor, shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing (including telecopy) and mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, telecopied, hand delivered, or delivered by recognized
overnight courier, to the Company addressed to it at c/o Pioneer Companies,
Inc., 700 Louisiana Street, Suite 4300, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Kent R.
Stephenson; telecopy: (713) 225-6475, or at any other address previously
furnished by the Company in writing to the Trustee.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, election or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be
in the English language, except that any published notice may be in the official
language of the country of publication.
Section 107. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any
event by the Indenture Obligors or the Trustee, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, or delivered by recognized overnight
courier, to each Holder affected by such event at his address as it appears in
the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the
earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where
notice
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to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Any notice when mailed
to a Holder in the aforesaid manner shall be conclusively deemed to have been
received by such Holder whether or not actually received by such Holder. Where
this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of
notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee but such filing shall not be a
condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or
by reason of any other cause, it shall be impracticable to mail notice of any
event as required by any provision of this Indenture, then any method of giving
such notice as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed
to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Section 108. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with
any provision of the Trust Indenture Act or another provision which is required
or deemed to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act, the provision or requirement of the Trust Indenture Act shall
control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision
of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter
provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be
excluded, as the case may be.
Section 109. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of
Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 110. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company
and each of the other Indenture Obligors shall bind their respective successors
and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 111. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section 112. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities or the
Guaranties, express or implied, shall give to any Person (other than the parties
hereto, their successors
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hereunder, any Paying Agent and the Holders) any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 113. Governing Law.
This Indenture, the Securities and the Guaranties shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New
York.
Section 114. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date
or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities)
payment of interest, principal, or premium, if any, need not be made on such
date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force
and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity and no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the
period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.
Section 115. Schedules and Exhibits.
All schedules and exhibits attached hereto are by this
reference made a part hereof with the same effect as if herein set forth in
full.
Section 116. 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.
Section 117. Communication by Holders with other Holders.
Holders may communicate pursuant to Section 312(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act with other Holders with respect to their rights under this
Indenture or the Securities. Each Indenture Obligor, the Trustee, the Security
Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
Section 118. No Recourse against Others.
A director, officer, employee or stockholder (or other holder
of an ownership interest), as such, of any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary shall
not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities
or this Indenture, or for any obligation of any Guarantor under the Guaranties
or this Indenture. By accepting a Security, each Holder shall waive and release
all such liability. The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration
for the issue of the Securities.
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Section 119. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee
shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting under this
Indenture, the term "Trustee" (unless the context otherwise requires) shall be
construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as
fully, for all intents and purposes, as if such Paying Agent were named in
addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that this Section 119
shall not apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such
Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities, the Guaranties and the Trustee's certificate
of authentication shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article
Two, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture and may have such
letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange, any Organizational Document or governing instrument or
applicable law or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
Any portion of the text of any Security may be set forth on the reverse thereof,
with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Security.
The Securities shall be initially issued in the form of one
permanent Global Security, substantially in the form set forth in this Article
Two. The Global Security shall be deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for
the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as
hereinafter provided.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in
any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the
Securities may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Section 202. Legends.
Every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:
UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, TO PCI
CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY OR ITS AGENT
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FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY OR SUCH OTHER
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO.), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE
REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
TRANSFER OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS
IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO., OR TO A
SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S NOMINEE.
Section 203. Form of Face of Security.
The form of the face of the Securities shall be substantially
as follows:
PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY
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10% SENIOR SECURED GUARANTEED NOTES DUE 2008
CUSIP No:
No. __________ $150,000,000
PCI Chemicals Canada company, a unlimited liability company
organized and existing under the laws of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada
(herein called the "Company," which term includes any successor Person under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of One Hundred And Fifty
Million United States dollars ($150,000,000) on [o], 2008, at the office or
agency of the Company referred to below, and to pay interest thereon from the
date of original issuance, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to
which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually on June 1, and
December 1, in each year, commencing [June 1, 2002], and at Maturity thereof, at
the rate of 10% per annum (subject to adjustment as provided below), in United
States dollars, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for.
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The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid
to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest, which shall be May 15, or November 15 (whether or not a
Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Any such interest not so punctually paid, or duly provided for, and interest on
such Defaulted Interest at the interest rate borne by the Securities, to the
extent lawful, shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular
Record Date, and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one
or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by
the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Securities not less
than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
Payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
this Security shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for that purpose in The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public and private debts against surrender of this Security in the case of any
payment due at the Maturity of the principal thereof (other than any payment of
interest that first becomes payable on a day other than an Interest Payment
Date); provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of
the Company by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as
such address shall appear on the Security Register; provided, further, that if
this Security is a Global Security, payment may be made pursuant to the rules
and procedures of the Depositary as permitted in said Indenture. Interest shall
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Security is entitled to the benefits of Guaranties by
each of the Guarantors of the punctual payment when due of the Indenture
Obligations made in favor of the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders. Such
Guaranties shall be senior obligations of each Guarantor, and shall rank pari
passu with all existing and future Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor, and
senior to all Subordinated Indebtedness of such Guarantor. Such Guaranties shall
be secured by Collateral. Reference is hereby made to Article Thirteen of the
Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights,
duties and obligations under the Guaranties of each of the Guarantors.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been duly
executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof or by the
authenticating agent appointed as provided in the Indenture by manual signature,
this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to
be duly executed by the manual or facsimile signature of its authorized officers
and its corporate seal to be affixed or reproduced hereon.
Dated: PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY
By
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Attest:
[SEAL]
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Secretary
Section 204. Form of Reverse of Securities.
The form of the reverse of the Securities shall be
substantially as follows:
The Holder, by becoming holder of this Security, shall be
bound by the terms and conditions of the Indenture and shall be automatically
deemed to have ratified and consented to the granting by the Trustee and the
Holders to the Collateral Agent of the irrevocable Power of Attorney constituted
in the Indenture.
The Holder agrees (i) with the Trustee and the other Holders
that it will not, without the prior consent of the Trustee and the other
Holders, take or obtain any Lien on any property of the Company to secure the
obligations of the Company hereunder, except for the benefit of the Collateral
Agent or as may otherwise be required by law, and (ii) that, notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 32 of the Special Corporate Powers Act (Quebec), the
Collateral Agent may, as the Person holding the Power of Attorney of the Trustee
and the Holders, acquire any title of indebtedness secured by any hypothec in
its favor related to this Security or the Indenture or any other document
contemplated hereunder.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities
of the Company designated as its 10% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2008
(herein called the "Securities"), limited (except as otherwise provided in the
Indenture referred to below) in aggregate principal amount to $150,000,000,
which may be issued under an indenture (the "Indenture") dated as of [o], 2001,
among the Company, each Guarantor from time to time a party thereto, and Wells
Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as trustee (herein called the
"Trustee," which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties,
obligations and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the
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Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the
Securities and the Guaranties are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time
of (a) the entire Indebtedness on the Securities, and (b) certain restrictive
covenants and related Defaults and Events of Default, in each case upon
compliance or noncompliance with certain conditions set forth therein.
The Securities shall be senior obligations of the Company, and
shall rank pari passu with all existing and future Senior Indebtedness of the
Company, and senior to all Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company.
The Securities shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to
[o], 2005. On or after that date, the Securities shall be redeemable by the
Company, in whole or in part, on not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty
(60) days' prior notice, mailed by first-class mail to the Holders' registered
addresses, in cash, in amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 at
the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount), if redeemed in the 12-month period commencing [o] in the year indicated
below:
Year Redemption Price
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2005 105.00%
2006 102.50%
2007 100.00%
in each case together with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date
(subject to the right of Holders of record on relevant record dates to receive
interest due on an Interest Payment Date). If less than all of the Securities
are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed pro
rata, by lot or by a method that complies with applicable legal and securities
exchange requirements, if any, and that the Trustee in its sole discretion
considers fair and appropriate.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder may
require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of such Holder's Securities.
The Company shall apply 100% of the aggregate amount of Net
Proceeds from each and every Asset Sale, subject to the certain provisions under
the Indenture, the New Tranche A Notes Indenture and the provisions of the
Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement, if applicable, to pro rata prepay
the New Tranche A Notes then outstanding and the Securities then Outstanding, on
or prior to the 10th day following the date on which such Net Proceeds are
received by the Company or any Guarantor, or any Subsidiary thereof, at a price
equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest thereon to
the date of prepayment.
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In the case of any redemption of Securities, interest
installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall
be payable to the Holders of such Securities of record as of the close of
business on the relevant record date referred to on the face hereof. Securities
(or portions thereof) for whose redemption and payment provision is made in
accordance with the Indenture shall cease to bear interest from and after the
date of redemption.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a
new Security or Securities for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in
the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the
principal amount of all the Securities may be declared due and payable in the
manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions (including
certain amendments permitted without the consent of any Holders and certain
amendments permitted only with the consent of all Holders) as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Obligors and the rights of the Holders under the Indenture or the other
Indenture Documents at any time by the Obligors and the Trustee with the consent
of the Holders of a majority of aggregate principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities, (i) to
waive compliance by the Obligors with certain provisions of the Indenture, the
Guaranties or the other Indenture Documents, and (ii) to waive certain past
Defaults under the Indenture and the Guaranties and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by or on behalf of the Holder of this Security shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or
in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or
waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of any
Indenture Obligor upon the Securities (in the event such other Obligor is
obligated to make payments in respect of the Securities), which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this
Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.
The Securities may be issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
the Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder
surrendering the same.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in
the Security Register upon surrender of
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this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the
Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York,
duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by the
Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate
principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange or redemption of Securities but the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Prior to and at the time of due presentment of this Security
for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is
overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
In order to secure the due and punctual payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities when and as the
same shall become due and payable, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at
maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise, and interest on
the overdue principal of and interest thereon (to the extent permitted by law),
if any, on the Securities, and performance of all other obligations of the
Company to the Holders or the Trustee under this Indenture and the Securities,
the Obligors have entered into the Security Documents with the Collateral Agent.
The Securities shall be secured by Liens on and security interests in the
Collateral subject to pari passu Liens and security interests and other
permitted encumbrances as described further in the Security Documents.
Each Holder, by accepting a Security, agrees to all of the
terms and provisions of the Security Documents as the same may be amended from
time to time pursuant to the respective provisions thereof and of the Indenture.
Each Holder acknowledges that a release of any of the
Collateral or any Lien strictly in accordance with the terms and provisions of
the Security Documents and the terms and provisions of the Indenture will not be
deemed for any purpose to be an impairment of the security under the Indenture.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request
and without charge a copy of the Indenture and the Security Documents.
[This Security is a Global Security and is subject to the
provisions of the Indenture relating to Global Securities, including the
limitation in Section 305 thereof on transfer and exchanges of Global
Securities.](1)
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(1) Applicable only to a Global Security.
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This Security and the Indenture shall be governed and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the
Indenture and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to
them in the Indenture.
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[FORM OF TRANSFER NOTICE]
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered Holder hereby
sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
Insert Taxpayer Identification No.
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Please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee
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the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting
and appointing
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attorney to transfer said Security on the books of the Company with full power
of substitution in the premises.
Date:
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NOTICE: The signature to this assignment
must correspond with the name as written
upon the face of the within-mentioned
instrument in every particular, without
alteration or any change whatsoever.
OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
A. Purchase pursuant Section 1014 (Change of Control Offer)
If you wish to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 1014 of the Indenture, check the Box: [ ].
If you wish to have a portion of this Security purchased by
the Company pursuant to Section 1014 of the Indenture, state the amount (in
authorized denominations): $___________________
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B. Purchase pursuant Section 1109 (Asset Sale Offer)
If you wish to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 1109 of the Indenture, check the Box: [ ].
If you wish to have a portion of this Security purchased by
the Company pursuant to Section 1109 of the Indenture, state the amount (in
authorized denominations): $___________________
Date:
Your signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security)
Signature Guarantee:
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Section 205. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
This is one of the 10% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due
2008 referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory
Section 206. Form of Guaranty of Each of the Guarantors.
The form of Guaranty shall be set forth on the Securities
substantially as follows:
GUARANTIES
For value received, each of the undersigned hereby
unconditionally guaranties, jointly and severally, to the Holder of this
Security the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on this
Security in the amounts and at the time when due and interest on the overdue
principal and interest, if any, of this Security, if
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lawful, and the payment or performance of all other obligations of the Company
under the Indenture or the Securities, to the Holder of this Security and the
Trustee, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of this
Security and Article Thirteen of the Indenture. This Guaranty shall not become
effective until the Trustee duly manually executes the certificate of
authentication on this Security.
PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
IMPERIAL WEST CHEMICAL CO.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
KEMWATER NORTH AMERICA CO.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
PIONEER AMERICAS LLC
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
PIONEER (EAST), INC.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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PIONEER WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
PIONEER LICENSING, INC.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
KWT, INC.
Attest By
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. Title and Terms.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $150,000,000 in
principal amount of Securities, except for Securities authenticated and
delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Securities pursuant to Sections 303, 304, 305, 306, 308, 906, 1009, 1014
or 1108 hereof.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "10%
Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2008" of the Company. The Stated Maturity of
the principal amount of the Securities shall be [o], 2008, and the Securities
shall each bear interest at the rate of 10% per annum from the Closing Date or
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid, as
the case may be, payable on [June 1, 2002] and semiannually thereafter on June 1
and December 1, in each year, until the principal thereof is paid or duly made
available for payment.
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The principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Global
Security shall be payable to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be,
as the sole registered owner and the sole Holder of the Global Security
represented thereby. The principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for such purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, interest
may be paid by check mailed to the addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as
such addresses shall appear on the Security Register.
The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article
Eleven.
At the election of the Company, the entire Indebtedness on the
Securities or certain of the Company's obligations and covenants and certain
Events of Default thereunder may be defeased as provided in Article Four.
Section 302. Denominations.
The Securities shall be issuable only in fully registered form
without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof.
Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by
one of its Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents
under its corporate seal reproduced thereon and attested to by its Secretary or
one of its Assistant Secretaries.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices on the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, in compliance with Section 103
hereof, and the Trustee, in accordance with such Company Order, shall
authenticate and deliver such Securities as provided in this Indenture and not
otherwise. Each such Company Order shall specify the amount of Securities to be
authenticated and the date on which the Securities are to be authenticated or
such other information as the Trustee shall reasonably request.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for
herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized
signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security
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shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold
by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for
cancellation as provided in Section 311 and in compliance with Section 103, for
all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
In case the Company or any Guarantor, pursuant to and in
accordance with the provisions of Article Eight, shall be consolidated, merged
with or into any other Person or shall sell, assign, convey, transfer or lease
substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, and the successor
Person resulting from such consolidation, or surviving such merger, or into
which the Company or such Guarantor shall have been merged, or the Person which
shall have received a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer or lease as
aforesaid, shall have executed an indenture supplemental hereto with the Trustee
pursuant to Article Eight, any of the Securities authenticated or delivered
prior to such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer or
lease may, from time to time, at the request of the successor Person, be
exchanged for other Securities executed in the name of the successor Person with
such changes in phraseology and form as may be appropriate, but otherwise in
substance of like tenor as the Securities surrendered for such exchange and of
like principal amount and the Trustee, upon Company Request of the successor
Person and in compliance with Section 103, shall authenticate and deliver
Securities as specified in such request for the purpose of such exchange. If
Securities shall at any time be authenticated and delivered in any new name of a
successor Person pursuant to this Section in exchange or substitution for or
upon registration of transfer of any Securities, such successor Person, at the
option of the Holders but without expense to them, shall provide for the
exchange of all Securities at the time Outstanding for Securities authenticated
and delivered in such new name.
The Trustee (at the expense of the Company) may appoint an
authenticating agent reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate
Securities on behalf of the Trustee. Unless limited by the terms of such
appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as any Security Registrar or Paying Agent to deal with the Company
and its Affiliates.
Section 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company
may execute, and upon Company Order and in compliance with Section 103, the
Trustee, in accordance with the terms of Section 303, shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by
their execution of such Securities (but which do not affect the rights or duties
of the Trustee).
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After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary
Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender of the
temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for such
purpose pursuant to Section 1002 hereof, without charge to the Holder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized
denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so
exchanged the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
Section 305. Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, or such other office as the Trustee may designate, a
register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or
agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 hereof being herein sometimes
referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as the Security Registrar may prescribe, the Company shall provide
for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee
or an agent thereof or of the Company shall initially be the "Security
Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities
as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at
the office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002 hereof,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, in accordance with Section 303,
shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series of any authorized
denomination or denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.
Any Holder of the Global Security shall, by acceptance of such
Global Security, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global
Security may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by the
Holder of such Global Security (or its agent) and that ownership of a beneficial
interest in the Security shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for
other Securities of any authorized denomination or denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, in accordance with Section 303,
shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities of the same series which the
Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing
the same Indebtedness, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture,
as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
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Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer, or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or
the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly
executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any
registration of transfer or exchange or redemption of Securities, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all documentary, stamp or
similar issue or transfer taxes or other governmental charges that may be
imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 303, 304, 305, 306, 308,
906, 1009, 1014 or 1108 hereof not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (a) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Security during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the date of selection of Securities for redemption under
Section 1104 hereof and ending at the close of business on the day of the
mailing of a notice of redemption in respect of any such Securities selected for
redemption, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
Securities being redeemed in part.
Section 306. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Security.
(a) The Global Security shall (i) be registered in the name of
the Depositary for such Global Security or the nominee of such Depositary, (ii)
be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for such Depositary, (iii) constitute a
single Security for all purposes of this Indenture, and (iv) bear legends as set
forth in Section 202 hereof.
Members of, or participants in, the Depositary ("Agent
Members") shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global
Security held on their behalf by the Depositary, or the Trustee as its
custodian, or under the Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the
absolute owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the
Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any
written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary
or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of
customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a beneficial holder
of any Security as if such person were a Holder.
(b) Transfers of the Global Security shall be limited to
transfers of such Global Security in whole, but not in part, to the Depositary,
its successors or their respective nominees. Interests of beneficial owners in
the Global Security may be transferred in accordance with the rules and
procedures of the Depositary. Beneficial owners may obtain Physical Securities
in exchange for their beneficial interests in the Global Security upon request
in accordance with the Depositary's and the Security Registrar's procedures. In
addition, Physical Securities shall be transferred to all
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beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in the Global
Security if (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
unable to continue as Depositary for the Global Security and a successor
depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice, or
(ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Security
Registrar has received a request from the Depositary.
(c) In connection with any transfer of a portion of the
beneficial interests in the Global Security to beneficial owners pursuant to
subsection (b) of this Section, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its
books and records the date of such transfer and a decrease in the principal
amount of the Global Security in an amount equal to the principal amount of the
beneficial interest in the Global Security to be transferred, and the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more
Physical Securities of like tenor and amount.
(d) In connection with the transfer of the entire Global
Security to beneficial owners pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section, the
Global Security shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee, in accordance with Section 303, shall
authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depositary
in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global Security, an equal
aggregate principal amount of Physical Securities of authorized denominations.
(e) The registered Holder of the Global Security may grant
proxies and otherwise authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons
that may hold interests in the Global Security through Agent Members, to take
any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the
Securities.
Section 307. [Intentionally omitted.]
Section 308. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If (a) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee,
or (b) the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and there is delivered to the
Company, each Guarantor and the Trustee, such security or indemnity, in each
case, as may be required by them to keep each of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee that such
Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute,
and upon its written request, in compliance with Section 103, the Trustee, in
accordance with Section 303, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for any
such mutilated Security or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a replacement Security of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a replacement Security, pay such Security.
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Upon the issuance of any replacement Securities under this
Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to pay all
documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes or other governmental
charges that may be imposed in relation thereof and any other expenses
(including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Security issued pursuant to this Section in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company and the Guarantors, whether or
not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 309. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the
Person in whose name that Security is registered at the close of business on the
Regular Record Date for such interest (or, if no business is conducted by the
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office on such Regular Record Date, at 5:00 P.M.
New York City time on such Regular Record Date).
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date and interest
on such defaulted interest at the then applicable interest rate borne by the
Securities, to the extent lawful (such defaulted interest and interest thereon
herein collectively called "Defaulted Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on the Regular Record Date and such Defaulted Interest may
be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in subsection
(a) or (b) below:
(a) the Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities are registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which date shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall
notify the Trustee in writing and in compliance with Section 103 of the amount
of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the date (not
less than 30 days after such notice) of the proposed payment, and at the same
time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or
shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior
to the date of the proposed payment (such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in
this subsection provided). Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days
and not less than 10 days
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prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the
receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall
promptly notify the Company in writing of such Special Record Date. In the name
and at the expense of the Company, the Trustee shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor
to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at his address as it
appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest
shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities are registered on
such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following subsection (b).
(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, if, after written notice given by the Company to the
Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this subsection, such payment shall
be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 310. Persons Deemed Owners.
The Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Security is
registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 309 hereof) interest on
such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Security is overdue, and neither the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee nor any
agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
Section 311. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, purchase, redemption,
registration of transfer or exchange shall be delivered to the Trustee and, if
not already canceled, shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company and any
Guarantor may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company or such
Guarantor may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided
in this Section except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be destroyed and certification of their
destruction delivered to the Company. The Trustee shall provide the Company a
list of all Securities that have been canceled from time to time as requested by
the Company.
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Section 312. Computation of Interest; Interest Act (Canada).
Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months. For purposes of the Interest Act (Canada),
any amount of interest or fees calculated on the basis of a period comprising
360, 365 or 366 days and expressed as an annual rate is equal to the said rate
of interest or fees multiplied by the actual number of days comprised within the
calendar year divided by 360, 365 or 366 days, as the case may be.
Section 313. Deposit of Moneys.
Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each Interest
Payment Date and at Maturity, the Company, in accordance with Section 1018,
shall have deposited with the Trustee or a Paying Agent in immediately available
funds money sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due on such Interest
Payment Date or at Maturity, as the case may be, in a timely manner which
permits the Trustee or such Paying Agent to remit payment to the Holders on such
Interest Payment Date or at Maturity, as the case may be.
Section 314. CUSIP Number.
The Company in issuing the Securities may use a "CUSIP"
number(s) and if so used, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP number(s) in notices
of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders, provided that any such
notice may state that no representation is made by the Trustee as to the
correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number(s) printed in the notice or on the
Securities and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Securities. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee
of any changes in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE FOUR
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 401. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance.
The Company may, at its and PCI's option by Board Resolution
of their respective Board of Directors, at any time, with respect to the
Securities, elect to have either Section 402 or Section 403 hereof be applied to
all of the Outstanding Securities (the "Defeased Securities"), upon compliance
with the conditions set forth below in this Article Four.
Section 402. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 401 hereof of the
option applicable to this Section 402, the Company, each of the Guarantors and
any other Indenture Obligor upon the Securities, if any, shall be deemed to have
been discharged from its obligations with respect to the Defeased Securities on
the date the conditions set
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forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "defeasance"). For this purpose, such
defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged
the entire Indebtedness represented by the Defeased Securities, which shall
thereafter be deemed to be "Outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 405
hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in (a) and (b)
below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and
this Indenture, including obligations to the Trustee, if any (and the Trustee,
at the expense of the Company and upon written request in compliance with
Section 103, shall execute proper instruments reasonably acceptable to it in
form and substance acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of
Holders of Defeased Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described
in Section 404 hereof and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in
respect of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on such Securities
when such payments are due, (b) the Company's obligations with respect to such
Defeased Securities under Sections 304, 305, 308, 1002 and 1018 hereof, (c) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder
including, without limitation, the Trustee's rights under Sections 606, 1303 and
1305 hereof and the Company's obligations in connection therewith, and (d) this
Article Four. Subject to compliance with this Article Four, the Company may
exercise its option under this Section 402 notwithstanding the prior exercise of
its option under Sections 403 hereof with respect to the Securities.
Section 403. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 401 hereof of the
option applicable to this Section 403, the Company and each Guarantor shall be
released from its obligations under any covenant or provision contained or
referred to in Sections 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011,
1012, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1025 and 1317 hereof with respect to
the Defeased Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth below are
satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"), and the Defeased Securities
shall thereafter be deemed to be not "Outstanding" for the purposes of any
direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the
consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall
continue to be deemed "Outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For this
purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Defeased
Securities, the Company and each Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall
have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in
any such Section or Article, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any
reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or Article or by reason of any
reference in any such Section or Article to any other provision herein or in any
other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an
Event of Default under Section 501(2) or (3) hereof but, except as specified
above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Defeased Securities shall be
unaffected thereby.
Section 404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of
either Section 402 or Section 403 hereof to the Defeased Securities:
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(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 608 hereof who shall agree to comply with the
provisions of this Article Four applicable to it) as trust funds in
trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, (a) United States dollars in an amount, or
(b) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of
principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their
terms shall provide, not later than one day before the due date of any
payment, money in an amount, or (c) a combination thereof, sufficient,
in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants or a nationally recognized investment banking firm
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee,
to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or
other qualifying trustee), to pay and discharge, the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on the Defeased Securities on the Stated
Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest
(such date being referred to as the "Defeasance Redemption Date"), if
when exercising under Section 401 hereof either its option applicable
to Section 402 hereof or its option applicable to Section 403 hereof,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an irrevocable notice
to redeem all of the Outstanding Securities on the Defeasance
Redemption Date); provided that the Trustee shall have been irrevocably
instructed to apply such United States dollars or the proceeds of such
U.S. Government Obligations to said payments with respect to the
Securities.
(2) In the case of an election under Section 402 hereof, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Independent
Counsel from the United States of America and an Opinion of Independent
Counsel from Canada, stating that (a) in the case of the Opinion of
Independent Counsel from the United States of America, the Company has
received a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, and in the case of
the Opinion of Independent Counsel from Canada, the Company has
received a ruling from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, or (b)
since the date of this Indenture, there has been a change in the
applicable federal income tax law, including, in the case of the
Opinion of Independent Counsel from the United States of America, by
means of a Revenue Ruling published by the Internal Revenue Service,
and in the case of the Opinion of Independent Counsel from Canada, a
published ruling from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, in either
case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Independent
Counsel from the United States of America or Canada, as applicable,
shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities will not
recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. Federal income tax and Canadian
federal or provincial income tax purposes as a result of such
defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such defeasance had not occurred.
(3) In the case of an election under Section 403 hereof, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Independent
Counsel in the United States of America or Canada, as applicable, to
the effect that the Holders
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of the Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss
for U.S. Federal income tax, Canadian federal or provincial income tax
or certain other tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance
and will be subject to U.S. Federal income tax or Canadian federal or
provincial income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at
the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance
had not occurred.
(4) No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of such deposit or insofar as Sections 501(10),
(11) or (12) hereof are concerned, at any time during the period ending
on the 91st day after the date of deposit.
(5) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a Default under, any material
agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the
Company or any Guarantor is a party or by which it is bound.
(6) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
of Independent Counsel to the effect that after the 91st day following
the deposit, the trust funds will not be treated as a preference under
any applicable Bankruptcy Law.
(7) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such deposit shall not cause the Trustee
or the trust so created to be subject to the United States Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended from time to time.
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the
Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities or
any Guaranty over the other creditors of the Company or any Guarantor
with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding
creditors of the Company, any Guarantor or others.
(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Independent Counsel, each
stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either
the defeasance under Section 402 hereof or the covenant defeasance
under Section 403 hereof (as the case may be) have been complied with
as contemplated by this Section 404.
Opinions of Counsel or Opinions of Independent Counsel may
have qualifications customary for opinions of the type required and counsel
delivering such opinions may rely on certificates of the Company or any other
relevant Obligor or government or other officials customary for opinions of the
type required, including certificates certifying as to matters of fact,
including that various financial covenants have been complied with.
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Section 405. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations
to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1018 hereof, all United States dollars and U.S. Government Obligations
(including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying
trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 405, the "Trustee") pursuant
to Section 404 hereof in respect of the Defeased Securities shall be held in
trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such
Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent), as the
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to
become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest but
such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any
tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government
Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 404 hereof or the principal and
interest received in respect thereof.
Anything in this Article Four to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any United States dollars or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as
provided in Section 404 hereof which, in the unqualified opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be
deposited to effect defeasance or covenant defeasance after application of the
appropriate defeasance option.
Section 406. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any United
States dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 402 or
403 hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court
or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the Company's and each Guarantor's obligations under this
Indenture and the Securities (including, without limitation, the provisions of
Article Thirteen hereof) shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit
had occurred pursuant to Section 402 or 403 hereof, as the case may be, until
such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such United
States dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 402 or
403 hereof, as the case may be; provided, however, that if the Company makes any
payment to the Trustee or Paying Agent of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any Security following the reinstatement of its obligations, the
Trustee or Paying Agent shall promptly pay any such amount to the Holders of the
Securities and the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or
Paying Agent.
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Section 407. Repayment of the Company.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium,
if any, or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal, interest or premium, if any, has become due and payable, shall
be paid to the Company on its written request or (if then held by the Company)
shall be discharged from such trust. The Holder of such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease, provided, however, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in the New York Times and The
Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed
and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty
(30) days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining shall promptly be repaid to the Company.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default.
An "Event of Default" shall occur if:
(1) (a) The Company shall default in the payment of any
principal of any Security when the same becomes due, whether by
acceleration, at maturity, upon redemption, in connection with a Change
of Control or an Asset Sale, or otherwise, (b) the Company shall fail
to pay any interest, fee or penalty on the Securities, or any other
amount payable hereunder, within ten (10) days after any such interest
or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof, or (c)
any other Obligor shall default (and such default shall continue
unremedied for a period of ten (10) days) in the payment when due of
any fee with respect to any Security or any monetary Indenture
Obligation (other than those covered by clauses (a) or (b) hereof);
(2) Any Indenture Obligor (including the Company) fails to
observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement on the part of
such Indenture Obligor to be observed or performed pursuant to Section
1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1020 or
Article Eight hereof;
(3) Any Obligor (including the Company) fails to duly observe
or perform any other covenant, condition or agreement in, to and under
this Indenture or any other Indenture Document executed by it and such
failure continues for a period of 30 days after notice thereof shall
have been given to the Company by the Trustee or shall have been given
by the Holders of at least 25%
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of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding to
the Company and the Trustee, in either case, specifying such default
and demanding that it be remedied;
(4) Any Obligor (including the Company) denies, disaffirms or
repudiate its obligations under this Indenture (including the
Guaranties of the Securities), the Securities, any other Indenture
Documents, the New Tranche A Notes Indenture (including any guaranties
thereunder), the New Tranche A Notes or the Registration Rights
Agreement, or any material provision of any Indenture Document, the New
Tranche A Notes Indenture (including any guaranties thereunder), the
New Tranche A Notes or the Registration Rights Agreement shall cease to
be valid or binding or any Obligor shall so assert in writing;
(5) a default occurs (a) in the payment when due, whether by
acceleration or otherwise, of any amount (including principal, premium
or interest) in respect of Indebtedness of any Obligor (including the
Company), including Indebtedness under the New Tranche A Notes
Indenture and in respect of the New Tranche A Notes but not including
the Indebtedness described in and covered by clause (1) of this Section
501 (subject only to any applicable grace period pursuant to the terms
of such Indebtedness), having a principal amount equal to or in excess
of $500,000 in respect of an individual Indebtedness or having
principal amounts equal to or in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate
in respect of more than one individual Indebtedness taken as a whole,
or (b) a default shall occur in the performance or observance of any
obligation or condition with respect to such Indebtedness if the effect
of such default is to accelerate the maturity of any such Indebtedness
or such default shall continue unremedied for any applicable period of
time sufficient to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness,
or any trustee or agent for such holders, to cause such Indebtedness to
become due and payable prior to its expressed maturity, or (c) a
default or an event of default shall occur in the performance or
observance of any obligation or condition of any agreement (including
any Transaction Document) to which any Obligor is party or by which it
is bound and such default or event of default could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(6) a final judgment is, or final judgments are, entered by a
court or courts of competent jurisdiction against any Obligor or any
Obligor Subsidiary of such Obligor and such judgment or judgments
remain undischarged, unbonded or unstayed for a period of thirty (30)
days, provided that the aggregate of all such judgments equals or
exceeds $1,000,000 or any such individual judgment exceeds $500,000
(other than, in each case, any judgment as to which and only to the
extent that, a reputable insurance company has acknowledged, whether
subject to its customary reservation of rights or otherwise, coverage
of such claim in writing);
(7) issuance of a notice of Lien, levy, assessment, injunction
or attachment (other than pursuant to the Security Documents) against
the property
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of any Obligor having an aggregate value in excess of $1,000,000 which
is not stayed or lifted within thirty (30) days;
(8) any representation, warranty or certification of any
Obligor (including the Company) made or deemed to be made hereunder or
in any other Indenture Document executed by it, or pursuant to or in
respect of the New Tranche A Notes Indenture (and each of the
guaranties thereunder) or the New Tranche A Notes or in any other
writing or certificate furnished by or on behalf of any Obligor
(including the Company) for the purposes of or in connection with this
Indenture, such other Indenture Document or pursuant to or in respect
of the New Tranche A Notes Indenture (and each of the guaranties
thereunder) or the New Tranche A Notes is or shall be incorrect when
made or deemed made in any material respect;
(9) (a) any of the Security Documents ceases to give the
Collateral Agent a valid and perfected Lien of the priority required
thereby or the rights, powers and privileges purported to be created
thereby (other than in accordance with their respective terms or if
released by the Trustee, at the direction of all of the Holders in
accordance with the terms hereof), or (b) any of the Security Documents
is declared null and void, or (c) any Obligor denies any of its
obligations under any of the Security Documents or (d) any Collateral
becomes subject to any Lien other than the Liens created or permitted
by the Security Documents or the Indenture, or (e) any Collateral (or
part thereof) is seized or taken by any governmental agency or
authority, which taking or seizure could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect;
(10) any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary, pursuant to or
within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(a) commences a voluntary case,
(b) consents to the entry of an order for relief against
it in an involuntary case in which it is a debtor,
(c) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or
for all or substantially all of its property,
(d) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors, or
(e) admits in writing its inability to pay debts as the
same become due;
(11) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or
decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
(a) is for relief against any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary in an involuntary case in which it is a debtor,
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(b) appoints a Custodian of any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of their respective
property, or
(c) orders the liquidation of any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary,
and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for
sixty (60) days;
(12) any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary commits or suffers
to occur a Canadian Act of Bankruptcy; or
(13) the Guaranty of any Guarantor for any reason ceases to
be, or is asserted by any Guarantor or the Company not to be, in full
force and effect or enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to
the extent contemplated in the Guaranty.
Section 502. Acceleration.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default
specified in clauses (10), (11) and (12) of Section 501 hereof) occurs and is
continuing for any reason, whether voluntary or involuntary, then, subject to
the provisions of the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee,
by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding, by written notice to the
Company and the Trustee, may declare the unpaid principal of, premium, if any,
and any accrued interest on all the Securities to be immediately due and
payable. Upon such declaration, the principal, premium, if any, and interest on
the Securities shall become automatically and immediately due and payable,
without further notice, demand or presentment. If an Event of Default specified
in clause (10), (11) or (12) of Section 501 hereof occurs, such an amount shall
ipso facto automatically be and become immediately due and payable, without any
declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, and such
amount shall be dealt with in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of
the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement. Other than in respect of (i) a
continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any Security held by a non-consenting Holder, or
(ii) a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified
or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security then Outstanding,
or (iii) any continuing Default or Event of Default in respect of any matter
involving the release of Collateral (not otherwise permitted by terms of the
Indenture Documents), which shall not be waived without the consent of the
Holder of each then Outstanding Security, Holders of a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding (or, in the case of the
failure to make a Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 1014 hereof,
two-thirds of the aggregate principal amount of Securities then Outstanding) by
written notice to the Trustee, may rescind an acceleration and its consequences
if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if:
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(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
(i) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee under this
Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts
due to the Trustee under Section 606;
(ii) all overdue interest on all Securities;
(iii) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities
which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities;
and
(iv) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Securities; and
(b) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of
principal of the Securities which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 504 hereof. No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right
consequent thereon provided in Section 504 hereof.
Section 503. Other Remedies.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee
may, in accordance with the provisions of the Common Security and Intercreditor
Agreement, pursue any available remedy (under this Indenture or otherwise) to
collect the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities
or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Securities or this
Indenture.
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding pursuant to the
provisions of the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement even if it does
not possess any of the Securities or does not produce any of them in the
proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any
right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or
remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last
paragraph of Section 308, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved
to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right
or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy,
including such other rights and remedies of the Holders as set forth in the
Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
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Section 504. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities then Outstanding (or, in the case of the failure by the Company
to make a Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 1014 hereof, two-thirds of
the Holders of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then
Outstanding), by notice to the Trustee, may waive an existing Default or Event
of Default and its consequences, except in respect of (i) a continuing Default
or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any Security held by a non-consenting Holder, or (ii) a covenant or
provision hereof which under Article Nine, cannot be modified or amended without
the consent of the Holder of each Security then Outstanding, or (iii) any
continuing Default or Event of Default in respect of any matter involving the
release of Collateral (not otherwise permitted by terms of the Indenture
Documents), which shall not be waived without the consent of the Holder of each
then Outstanding Security. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to
exist and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been
cured for every purpose of this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 505. Control by Majority.
The Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities then Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee
or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the
Securities by this Indenture or the Security Documents; provided, that the
Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this
Indenture, that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights
of other Holders, or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability and the
Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not
inconsistent with such direction.
Section 506. Limitation on Suits.
A Holder may pursue a remedy with respect to this Indenture or
the Securities only if:
(1) such Holder gives to the Trustee written notice of a
continuing Event of Default;
(2) the Holders of at least 25% of principal amount of the
Securities then Outstanding make a written request to the Trustee to
pursue the remedy;
(3) such Holder or Holders offer and, if requested, provide to
the Trustee indemnity satisfactory in form and substance to the Trustee
against any loss, liability or expense;
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(4) the Trustee does not comply with the request within ten
(10) days after receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested,
the provision of the indemnity; and
(5) during such ten (10) day period the Holders of a majority
of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding do
not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request.
A Holder may not use this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights
of another Holder or to obtain, or seek to obtain, a preference or priority over
another Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture or under the
Securities, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and
common benefit of all Holders of the Securities. For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Holder and the
Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in
equity.
Section 507. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder
of a Security to receive payment of principal, or premium, if any, and interest
on the Security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Security
(or, in the case of redemption or repurchase, on the Redemption Date or
repurchase date), or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or
after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the
consent of the Holder.
Section 508. Collection Suit by Trustee.
If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(1) or (2)
hereof occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment
in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against any Obligor or any
Obligor Subsidiary for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and
interest remaining unpaid on the Securities and interest on overdue principal
and, to the extent lawful, premium and interest and such further amount as shall
be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, subject to Article Thirteen.
If any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary fails to pay such amounts
forthwith upon the demand of the Trustee pursuant to the immediately preceding
paragraph, the 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, may enforce
the same against such Obligor, and may collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to
be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of such Obligor
wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee
may, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights
of the Holders under this Indenture (including the Guaranties of the Securities)
and the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement by such appropriate private
or judicial proceedings as the
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Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce such rights, including,
without limitation, seeking recourse against any Guarantor pursuant to the terms
of any Guaranty, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
herein or therein, or to enforce any other proper remedy, subject however to
Section 505 hereof.
Section 509. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and
the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to any Obligor or any
Obligor Subsidiary, their creditors or their property. The Trustee shall be
entitled and empowered, subject to Article Thirteen, to collect, receive and
distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee
shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to
the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 606 hereof. To the extent that the payment
of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 606
hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding 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, money, securities and other properties which
the Holders of the Securities may be entitled to receive in such proceeding
whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or
otherwise. 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 the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
Section 510. Priorities.
If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article
Five, it shall pay out the money in the following order:
First: to (i) the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for
amounts due under Section 606 hereof, including payment of all
compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made,
by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection and (ii) the
Collateral Agent, pursuant to the terms of the Common Security and
Intercreditor Agreement;
Second: to (i) Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the
Securities for principal, premium, if any, and interest ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on the Securities for
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principal, premium, if any, and interest respectively, and (ii) subject
to the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement, to the New Tranche
A Notes Indenture Trustee for obligations under the New Tranche A Notes
Indenture and the New Tranche A Notes, including amounts of principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on such obligations;
Third: without duplication, to Holders for any other Indenture
Obligations owing to the Holders under this Indenture or the
Securities; and
Fourth: to the Company or to such party as a court of
competent jurisdiction shall direct.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Holders.
Section 511. Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing
by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit
and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due
regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party
litigant. This Section does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a
Holder pursuant to Section 507 hereof or a suit by Holders of more than 10% of
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding or any suit
instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any Security on or after the respective Stated
Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or
repurchase, on or after the Redemption Date or repurchase date).
Section 512. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
Each Indenture Obligor 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 or
extension law or any usury or other law wherever enacted, now or at any time
hereafter in force, which would prohibit or forgive such Indenture Obligor from
paying all or any portion of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities contemplated herein or in the Securities or which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture. Each Indenture Obligor (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall
suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had
been enacted.
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Notice of Defaults.
Within thirty (30) days after the receipt of written notice
from the Company of the occurrence of any Default pursuant to Section 704(d),
the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, notice of such Default hereunder known to the
Trustee unless such Default shall have been cured or waived.
Section 602. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of
the Trust Indenture Act and Section 613 hereof:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of Indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and, in
each case, accompanied by the documents required by Section 103, and any
resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board
Resolution;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any written
advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder or under any Security Document in good faith and in reliance
thereon in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture or any Security Document
at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
might be incurred therein or thereby in compliance with such request or
direction;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture or any Security
Document other than any liabilities arising out of the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of the Trustee;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion,
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report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond,
debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or document unless requested in
writing to do so by the Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding; provided that the Trustee
in its discretion may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may deem fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such
further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books,
records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder or under any Security Document either
directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or
attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(h) no provision of this Indenture or any Security Document
shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers;
(i) notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein
or in any Security Document, under no circumstances shall the Trustee be
required to take possession of or maintain an action to foreclose upon any
Mortgaged Property;
(j) delivery of reports, information and documents to the
Trustee under Section 704 is for informational purposes only 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 obligor's compliance with any of their covenants
hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer's
Certificates);
(k) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any
Event of Default unless the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof
at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references this
Indentures; and
(l) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and
benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be
indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each
of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed
to act hereunder.
Section 603. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals,
Dispositions of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except
the Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements
of the Company and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities, except that the Trustee represents that it is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the
Securities and perform its obligations hereunder and that the
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statements made by it in a Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1, if any,
supplied to the Company are true and accurate in all material respects subject
to the qualifications set forth therein. The Trustee shall not be accountable
for the use or application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds
thereof.
Section 604. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities;
Collections; etc.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar or any other
agent of the Company and their respective Affiliates, in its individual or any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities, with the same
rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such other agent or such Affiliates and, subject to Sections 310
and 311 of the Trust Indenture Act may otherwise deal with the Company and
receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Company with the same
rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such other agent or such Affiliate.
Section 605. Money Held in Trust.
All moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or
applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they
were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by applicable provisions of law. Except for funds or securities
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Article Four, the Trustee may invest all
moneys received by the Trustee, until used or applied as herein provided, in
Cash Equivalents in accordance with the written directions of the Company in
compliance with Section 103. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses
incurred in connection with any investments made in accordance with this Section
605, except to the extent that such losses are attributable to the Trustee's
gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct as determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction pursuant to a final non-appealable judgment. With respect
to any losses on investments made under this Section 605, the Company is liable
for the full extent of any such loss. The Trustee shall be under no liability
for interest or any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed
with the Company.
Section 606. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and
Its Prior Claim.
The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from
time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for
all services rendered by it hereunder (which shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust)
and the Company covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, upon its request, for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in accordance
with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents
and other persons not regularly in its employ), except to the extent any such
expense, disbursement or advance arises directly from the Trustee's gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct as determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction pursuant to a final
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non-appealable judgment. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss,
liability, tax, assessment or other governmental charge (other than taxes
applicable to the Trustee's compensation hereunder) or expense incurred without
gross negligence or bad faith on such Trustee's part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or any
Security Document or the trusts hereunder and such Trustee's duties hereunder,
including enforcement of this Section 606 and also including any liability which
the Trustee may incur as a result of failure to withhold, pay or report any tax,
assessment or other governmental charge, and the costs and expenses of defending
itself against or investigating any claim of liability in the premises. The
obligations of the Company under this Section to compensate and indemnify the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall
constitute an additional obligation hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture, or the resignation or removal of any Trustee.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section
606, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Securities on all money or
property held or collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except
money or property held in trust to pay principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on particular Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(10), (11) or (12),
the expenses and the compensation for the services shall be preferred over the
status of Holders in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law and are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.
Any Trustee hereunder shall not be liable for the acts or
omission of any successor Trustee hereunder.
Section 607. Conflicting Interests.
The Trustee shall comply with the provisions of Section 310(b)
of the Trust Indenture Act. If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting
interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either
eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by,
and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
Section 608. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
eligible to act as trustee under Section 310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act
and which shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or
which shall be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company that has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, to the extent there is an
institution eligible and willing to serve. If the Trustee does not have an
office in The City of New York, the Trustee may appoint an agent in The City of
New York reasonably acceptable to PCI and the Company to conduct any activities
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which the Trustee may be required under this Indenture to conduct in The City of
New York. If the Trustee does not have an office in The City of New York or has
not appointed an agent in The City of New York, the Trustee shall be a
participant in the Depository Trust Company and its FAST distribution systems.
If such corporation published reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of federal, state, territorial or District of
Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to
be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article Six.
Section 609. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to this Article Six shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee under
Section 610 hereof.
(b) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter
appointed, may at any time resign by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly
appoint a successor trustee by written instrument executed by authority of its
Board of Directors, a copy of which shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee
and a copy to the successor trustee. If an instrument of acceptance by a
successor trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within thirty
(30) days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee
may, or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least
six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper,
appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by an Act of the
Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions
of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section
608 hereof and shall fail to resign after written request
therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
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(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall
be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the
Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee, its
property or its affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
then, in any case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution of its Board of
Directors, may remove the Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 511 hereof, the
Holder of any Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated
Holders, 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, prescribe or remove the
Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution of its Board of Directors, shall
promptly appoint a successor trustee. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor trustee shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding, delivered to PCI,
the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor trustee so appointed shall,
forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor trustee
and supersede the successor trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor
trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of the
Securities and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, the
Holder of any Security who has been a bona fide Holder for at least six months
may, subject to Section 511 hereof, on behalf of himself and all other similarly
situated Holders, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor trustee by mailing
written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the
Holders of Securities as their names and addresses appear in the Security
Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor trustee and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office or agent hereunder.
Section 610. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor trustee appointed hereunder shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Obligors and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee as if originally named
as Trustee hereunder; provided, however, that on the written request of the
Company in compliance with Section 103 or the successor trustee, upon payment of
its charges then unpaid, such retiring Trustee shall pay over to the successor
trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and
deliver an instrument
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transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, each Indenture Obligor
shall execute any and all instruments to more fully and certainly vest in and
confirm in such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any Trustee
ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a Lien upon all property or funds
held or collected by such Trustee or such successor trustee to secure any
amounts then due such Trustee pursuant to the provisions of Section 606 hereof.
No successor trustee with respect to the Securities shall
accept appointment as provided in this Section 610 unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible to act as trustee under the
provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act and this Article Six and
shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or which shall
be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company that has a combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,000,000 and have a Corporate Trust Office or an agent
selected in accordance with Section 608 hereof.
Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as
provided in this Section 610, the Company shall give notice thereof to the
Holders of the Securities, by mailing such notice to such Holders at their
addresses as they shall appear on the Security Register. If the acceptance of
appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the
notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice
called for by Section 609 hereof. If the Company fails to give such notice
within ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee,
the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the
Company.
Section 611. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business.
Any legal Person into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any legal Person resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any legal Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, provided that such legal Person shall be eligible under Section
310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act and this Article Six and shall have a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or which shall be a wholly-owned
subsidiary of a company that has a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and have a Corporate Trust Office or an agent selected in accordance
with Section 608 hereof without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
If at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to
the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Securities shall have been
authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver such
Securities so authenticated. If at such time any of the Securities shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such
Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of
such successor trustee. In all such cases provided for under this paragraph,
such
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certificate shall have the full force which it has anywhere in the Securities or
in this Indenture, unless the certificate of the Trustee shall have stipulated
that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor
Trustee or to authenticate Securities in the name of any predecessor Trustee
shall only apply to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation.
Section 612. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Company (or other Indenture Obligor under the Guaranties and the Securities),
the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other
obligor). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Section
311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent indicated therein.
Section 613. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) (a)
Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and
only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee
may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture, but in the
case of any such certificates or opinions which by any
provision 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 shall not be required to
verify the contents thereof.
(b) In case 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 their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own affairs.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained,
the Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own gross
negligence action, its own gross negligence failure to act, or its
willful misconduct, except that:
(i) this clause (c) does not limit the effect of clause
(a) of this Section 613;
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(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an officer of the Trustee,
unless it is proven that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance
with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 502, 504
or 505.
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders.
The Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee
(a) semiannually, not more than ten (10) days after each
Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require,
of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular Record Date; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of any such request, a list
of similar form and content as of a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior
to the time such list is furnished;
provided, however, that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Security
Registrar, no such list need be furnished.
Section 702. Preservation of Information; Disclosure of Names
and Addresses of Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most
recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names
and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and
the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
in accordance with Section 312
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of the Trust Indenture Act, regardless of the source from which such information
was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of
mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 312 of the Trust
Indenture Act.
Section 703. Reports by Trustee.
Within sixty (60) days after May 15 of each year commencing
with the first May 15 after the Closing Date, the Trustee shall transmit by mail
to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, as
provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated as
of such May 15 in accordance with and to the extent required by Section 313(a)
of the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee shall also comply with Section 313(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act.
Commencing at the time this Indenture is qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act, a copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders
shall be filed with the Commission and each stock exchange on which the
Securities are listed of which the Company has notified the Trustee in writing.
The Company shall notify the Trustee when Securities are listed on any stock
exchange.
Section 704. Reports by Company and Guarantors.
PCI and the Company will furnish, or will cause to be
furnished, to the Trustee copies of the following financial statements, reports,
notices and information and shall perform, or cause to be performed, such other
covenants as are set forth below.
(a) Annual Audited Financial Statements. Deliver, within
ninety (90) days after each Fiscal Year, a copy of the annual audited financial
statements of PCI, the Company and their respective Subsidiaries, as well as of
any of the Guarantors as are required to file their annual audited financial
statements with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, prepared on a consolidated basis
and in conformity with GAAP and certified by an independent certified public
accountant who shall be satisfactory to the Trustee, together with (i) a
certificate from such accountant to the effect that, in making the examination
necessary for the signing of such annual audit report, such accountant has not
become aware of any Default or Event of Default that has occurred and is
continuing and that relates to financial or other accounting matters or the
covenants set forth in Article Ten or, if such accountant has become aware of
any such event, describing it, and (ii) if prepared in connection with the
annual audit report, the annual operating statements of PCI, the Company and
such Subsidiaries prepared on a consolidating basis and in conformity with GAAP
applied in a manner consistent with the audit report referred to in preceding
clause (a)(i) of this Section 704, signed by PCI's, the Company's and such other
Guarantor's chief financial officer or assistant treasurer.
(b) Quarterly Financial Statements. Deliver, within forty-five
(45) days after the end of each Fiscal Quarter, a copy of the unaudited
financial statements of PCI, the Company and their respective Subsidiaries, as
well as of any Guarantors as are required to file their quarterly financial
statements with the Commission pursuant to the
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Securities Act or the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder,
prepared on a consolidating and consolidated basis and in conformity with GAAP
and applied in a manner consistent with the audit report referred to in
preceding clause (a)(i) of this Section 704, signed by PCI's, the Company's and
such other Guarantor's chief financial officer and consisting of at least a
balance sheet as at the close of such Fiscal Quarter and an income statement and
cash flow statement for such Fiscal Quarter compared, in each case, to the
actual results for the same period during the prior Fiscal Year and to the
Company's budget delivered pursuant to clause (c) below for the current Fiscal
Year.
(c) (i) File, or caused to be filed, all applicable periodic
reports and other reports and documents pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder, within the time limits
or periods specified therein, and remain, and cause each other applicable
Obligor and applicable Obligor Subsidiary to remain, a company reporting to the
Commission under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and such rules and
regulations or part of a group of consolidated companies, one or more whom
reports or report to the Commission in such manner, and (ii) within five (5)
days of such filing or report having been made, (x) transmit by mail to Holders
of Securities, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register,
without cost to such Holders, and (y) file with the Trustee copies of each
filing and report made by any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary, or any third
party with respect to any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary with or to any
securities exchange or the Commission or any Securities Commission in Canada,
including any registration statements and all amendments thereto filed with
respect to the Securities, or as required pursuant to this Indenture or any
other document relating thereto.
(d) Give prompt notice of the occurrence of (i) a Default or
an Event of Default or (ii) a material default (or of any default of the nature
specified in Section 501(1), whether or not in respect of any Indebtedness
incurred hereunder or permitted hereby) by any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary
under any material note, indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease or other
material similar agreement to which any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary, as
the case may be, is a party or by which it is bound (including any of the
Indenture Documents or Transaction Documents).
(e) Give notice of the entry of any judgment or decree, or
judgments or decrees, against any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary, if the
amount of such individual judgment or decree equals or exceeds $500,000 or the
aggregate amount of all such judgments and decrees equals or exceeds $1,000,000.
(f) Subject to Section 1008, deliver copies of any material
amendments, waivers or consents, notices of breach or default, notices relating
to the exercise or nonexercise of any remedy available to any Person, notices of
indemnity or other material claims, and written materials relating to the
exercise of any rights derived from or arising in connection with, any
Indebtedness of any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary and other written
communications of a material nature, including any communications by any Obligor
or Obligor Subsidiary in connection with the Indenture Documents other than any
such notice or other written materials already sent to the
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Holders or the Trustee pursuant to any other Section of this Indenture (in each
case such copies shall be furnished promptly).
(g) Deliver any statement, report, notice and/or information
required to be delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to any of the Security
Documents at the same time as delivery thereof to the Collateral Agent.
(h) Provide any information required to be provided pursuant
to other provisions of this Indenture, and such other reports or information
from time to time requested by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder.
The Trustee has no duty to review any financial or other reports for purposes of
determining compliance with this or any other provisions of this Indenture.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER,
CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 801. When Indenture Obligors May Merge, Etc.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it cause or permit any
of its Obligor Subsidiaries to, consolidate with or merge into, or sell, assign,
convey, lease or transfer all or substantially all of its assets and those of
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to, any Person (except that any Indenture
Obligor (other than PCI or the Company) or any Obligor Subsidiary of such
Indenture Obligor (other than the Company) may be merged with or into (x) the
Company, if the Company shall be the surviving corporation, or (y) any other
such Obligor Subsidiary), unless each of the following conditions in this
Section 801 is satisfied:
(a) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person expressly
assumes all the obligations of such Indenture Obligor or of the
relevant Obligor Subsidiary under this Indenture and each other
Indenture Document to which such Indenture Obligor or Obligor
Subsidiary is a party pursuant to amendments thereto in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee;
(b) such resulting, surviving or transferee Person is
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America,
a state thereof or the District of Columbia or, in the case of an
assignee or transferee of the assets of the Company, under the laws of
Canada or one of Canada's provinces or territories;
(c) at the time of the occurrence of such transaction and
after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, such
Person could incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (assuming a market
rate of interest with respect to such additional Indebtedness);
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(d) (x) at the time of the occurrence of such transaction and
after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, the
Consolidated Net Worth of such Person is greater than the Consolidated
Net Worth of the Obligors and the Obligor Subsidiaries, taken together,
immediately prior to such transaction, and (y) the New Tranche A Notes
Indenture Trustee, the New Tranche A Note Holders, the Trustee and the
Holders of the Securities shall have received an opinion of a
nationally recognized investment banking firm not affiliated to any
Person involved in any such merger or consolidation relating to
fairness and confirming that the position of the New Tranche A Note
Holders and the Holders of the Securities will not in any way be less
favorable than it was immediately prior to any such merger or
consolidation as a result of such merger or consolidation;
(e) each Guarantor, to the extent applicable, will acknowledge
and confirm in writing that its Guaranty hereunder will apply to such
Person's obligations under this Indenture, the Securities, each other
Indenture Document and its guaranty under the New Tranche A Notes
Indenture and the New Tranche A Notes will apply to such Person's
obligations under the New Tranche A Notes Indenture and the New Tranche
A Notes;
(f) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to
such transaction and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an
obligation of any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary or of such Person as a
result of such transaction as having been incurred by such Obligor or
such Obligor Subsidiary or such Person, as the case may be, at the time
of such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing; and
(g) the Company shall have received an Opinion of Independent
Counsel in Canada to the effect that (x) any payment of interest or
principal on the Securities by the Company to a Holder will, after the
amalgamation, consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, conveyance,
transfer, lease or other disposition of assets, be exempt from Canadian
withholding tax, if the Holder is or is deemed to be a non-resident of
Canada, deals at arm's length with the resulting, surviving or
transferee Person for purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada) at the
time of making the payment, and (y) no other taxes on income (including
taxable capital gains) will be payable under the Income Tax Act
(Canada) by a Holder of the Securities who is or who is deemed to be a
non-resident of Canada in respect of the acquisition, ownership or
disposition of the Securities, including the receipt of principal
thereof, or premium, if any, or interest, thereon, provided that such
Holder does not use or hold, and is not deemed to use or hold, the
Securities in carrying on a business in Canada for purposes of the
Income Tax Act (Canada) and, in the case of a Holder of Securities who
carries on an insurance business in Canada and elsewhere, the
Securities are not effectively connected with its Canadian insurance
business.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, prior to the consummation of any
proposed transaction pursuant to this Section 801, an Officers' Certificate to
the foregoing effect
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and an Opinion of Counsel, stating that the proposed transaction and such
amendments comply with this Indenture. The provisions of this Section 801 will
not apply to any transaction (including any Asset Sale made in accordance with
Section 1009 with respect to any Guarantor) if the Guaranty of such Guarantor is
released in connection with such transaction in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Indenture and the other Indenture Documents.
Section 802. Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment,
conveyance, transfer or disposition of all or substantially all of the
properties and assets of any Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary in accordance with
Section 801 hereof, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into
which such Obligor or Obligor Subsidiary is merged or the successor Person to
which such sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition is made
shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power
of, PCI, the Company or a Guarantor, as the case may be, under this Indenture,
the Securities, its Guaranty, and/or the other Indenture Documents, as the case
may be, with the same effect as if such successor had been named as PCI, the
Company or a Guarantor, as the case may be, herein, in the Securities, the
Guaranty, and such other Indenture Documents, as the case may be. When a
successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under this Indenture,
the Securities, a Guaranty, and/or other Indenture Documents, as the case may
be, the predecessor shall be released from those obligations; provided that in
the case of a transfer by lease, the predecessor shall not be released from the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or any other
Indenture Obligations relating to, this Indenture, the Securities, each
Guaranty, or the other Indenture Documents, as the case may be.
Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing, any consolidation
or merger, or any sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer or disposition of
properties or assets under this Article Eight shall be subject to the provisions
of Section 1014 and Section 1109 hereof.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures and Agreements without
Consent of Holders.
(a) Without the consent of any Holders, the Indenture Obligors
and their respective Obligor Subsidiaries (if a party to the applicable document
or instrument), when authorized by Board Resolutions of such Obligor's or
Obligor Subsidiary's Board of Directors, and the Trustee, subject to Section 903
hereof, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto or agreements or other instruments with respect to any
Guaranty, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the
following purposes:
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(i) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency herein or
therein;
(ii) to provide for the assumption pursuant to Article Eight
of the Company's and/or a Guarantor's obligations to the Holders in the
case of a merger, consolidation or sale of assets;
(iii) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to
or in place of certificated Securities;
(iv) to make any change herein or therein that does not
adversely affect the rights hereunder or thereunder of any Holder;
(v) to comply with requirements of the Commission in order to
effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act;
(vi) to add a Guarantor pursuant to the requirements of
Section 1317 hereof;
(vii) to evidence and provide the acceptance of the
appointment of a successor trustee hereunder;
(viii) to provide additional collateral for the Securities or
the Guaranties or other Indebtedness permitted to be secured by the
Collateral, and in connection therewith (and only in such limited
respect), to modify covenants, to provide additional indemnity to the
Trustee, and to modify other provisions of this Indenture, the
Securities and the Guaranties that relate solely to such additional
collateral or that will or may be impacted by the providing of such
collateral, and to enter into agreements, documents or other
instruments to effect the foregoing, including, without limitation,
intercreditor and collateral agency agreements relating to Liens on
such collateral on a pari passu basis in favor of the Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders;
(ix) to add to the covenants of any Indenture Obligor or any
other obligor upon the Securities for the benefit of the Holders, or to
surrender any right or power herein or therein conferred upon such
Indenture Obligor or any other obligor upon the Securities herein or
therein, in the Securities or in any Guaranty; or
(x) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of
the Holders of all Securities.
(b) Without the consent of any Holders, the Trustee, on behalf
of the Holders, at any time and from time to time, may enter, subject to the
provisions of the relevant Indenture Documents (other than the Indenture), into
one or more amendments, supplements or other modifications to such other
Indenture Document, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee for any of
the following purposes:
(i) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency therein;
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(ii) to provide for the assumption pursuant to Article Eight
of the Company's and/or a Guarantor's obligations to the Holders in the
case of a merger, consolidation or sale of assets;
(iii) to make any change therein that does not adversely
affect the rights hereunder or thereunder of any Holder;
(iv) to effectuate and evidence the succession of another
entity to any Obligor and the assumption by any successor of the
covenants of such Obligor, under the Indenture Documents to which such
Obligor is a party;
(v) to evidence and provide the acceptance of the appointment
of a successor trustee hereunder;
(vi) to provide additional collateral for the Securities or
the Guaranties or other Indebtedness permitted to be secured by the
Collateral, and in connection therewith (and only in such limited
respect), to modify covenants, to provide additional indemnity to the
Trustee, and to modify other provisions of this Indenture, the
Securities and the Guaranties that relate solely to such additional
collateral or that will or may be impacted by the providing of such
additional collateral, and to enter into agreements, documents or other
instruments to effect the foregoing, including, without limitation,
intercreditor and collateral agency agreements relating to Liens on
such collateral on a pari passu basis in favor of the Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders; or
(vii) to add to the covenants of any Obligor or any other
obligor upon the Securities for the benefit of the Holders, or to
surrender any right or power therein conferred upon such Obligor or any
other obligor upon the Securities therein; or
(viii) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit
of the Holders of all Securities.
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures and Agreements with
Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding, by Act of
said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, each Indenture Obligor
and each of its respective Obligor Subsidiaries (if a party thereto), when
authorized by Board Resolutions of such Indenture Obligor's or such Obligor
Subsidiary's Board of Directors, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto or agreements or other instruments with respect
to any Guaranty or any other Indenture Documents (subject, in the case of such
other Indenture Documents to the applicable provisions of such Indenture
Documents) in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders under this Indenture, the Securities, any Guaranty or any other
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Indenture Documents, as the case may be; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture, agreement or instrument shall, without the consent of
the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(i) reduce the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of
Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any amendment,
supplement or waiver (or compliance with certain provisions of this
Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
provided for in this Indenture and/or such other Indenture Document, as
applicable;
(ii) reduce the rate of, or change the time for payment of,
any premium, if any, or interest (including Defaulted Interest),
payable on any Security, or change the place of payment where, or the
coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium, if any, or
interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for
the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date);
(iii) reduce the principal of or change the Stated Maturity of
any Security, or alter the optional redemption provisions, or alter the
price at which the Company shall offer to purchase such Securities
pursuant to Sections 1014 or 1109 hereof;
(iv) make any Security payable in money other than that stated
in the Security;
(v) make any change in Sections 504 or 507 hereof;
(vi) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, including
any such obligation arising under Sections 1009, 1014 or Section 1109
hereof (except a rescission of acceleration of the Securities pursuant
to Section 502 hereof by the Holders of at least a majority of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding (or in
the case of the failure to make a Change of Control Offer, two-third of
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding) and
a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);
(vii) waive a purchase payment required to be made under
Sections 1009, 1014 or 1109 or a payment under Article Thirteen hereof
with respect to any Security;
(viii) affect the ranking of the Securities;
(ix) affect adversely the interests, rights or obligations of
the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, unless consented to by the Trustee
or the Collateral Agent, as applicable;
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(x) release (x) any Guarantor from its obligations under its
Guaranty, or (y) any Collateral other than pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture, such Guaranty or the applicable Security Document; or
(xi) make any change in the provisions of this Section 902.
Further, no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holders of all of the Securities then Outstanding, permit the
creation of any Lien prior to or pari passu with the Lien of the Security
Documents with respect to any of the Collateral, or terminate the Liens of the
Security Documents, on any Collateral or deprive any Holder of the security
afforded by the Lien of the Security Documents, except to the extent expressly
permitted by this Indenture, the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement or
any of the Security Documents.
Upon the written request of the Indenture Obligors and their
respective Obligor Subsidiaries (if parties thereto), accompanied by a copy of
Board Resolutions of their respective Boards of Directors, authorizing the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, Guaranty or Indenture Document,
and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of
the consent of Holders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall, subject to Section 903
hereof, join with the Indenture Obligors and such Obligor Subsidiaries in the
execution of such supplemental indenture, Guaranty or Indenture Document.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or
Guaranty or agreement or instrument relating to any Guaranty or any other
Indenture Document, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the
substance thereof.
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures and
Agreements.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by,
any supplemental indenture, agreement or instrument permitted by this Article
Nine or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a) through
315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act and Section 602 hereof) shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers' Certificate
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture, agreement or
instrument is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, that no consent is
required or that all requisite consents have been received and that such
supplemental indenture, agreement or instrument constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Indenture Obligors and Obligor Subsidiaries or their
respective successors, as the case may be, enforceable against such entity in
accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions. The Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture, agreement
or instrument which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture, any Guaranty or otherwise.
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Section 904. Revocation Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Until a supplemental indenture, amendment or waiver becomes
effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by
the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security
that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder's Security, even if
notation of consent is not made on any Security.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this
Article Nine, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes and
every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article
Nine shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in
effect.
Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article Nine may bear a notation in
form satisfactory to the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities so
modified as to conform to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and each Guarantor and authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company shall duly and punctually pay the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of
the Securities and this Indenture.
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company shall maintain (or cause to be maintained) an
office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment.
The Company also shall maintain (or cause to be maintained) in The City of New
York, State of New York an office or agency where Securities may be surrendered
for registration or transfer, redemption or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture
may be served. Such office or agency shall be initially at the Corporate Trust
Office. This office or agency shall accept delivery of Securities as described
in Section 201, Section 305 and Section 309 hereof. The
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Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location and any
change in the location of any such offices or agencies. If at any time the
Company shall fail to maintain (or cause to be maintained) any such required
offices or agencies 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 described above and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may from time to time designate one or more
additional offices or agencies (in or outside of The City of New York) where the
Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes, and may
from time to time rescind such designation. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and any
change in the location of any such office or agency.
Section 1003. Compliance Certificate.
(a) Each of PCI and the Company shall deliver to the Trustee,
within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of PCI and the
Company, an Officers' Certificate stating that a review of the activities of
each Obligor and each Obligor Subsidiary during the period in respect of which
the financial statements have been furnished pursuant to Section 704(a) hereof,
and the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing
officers with a view to determining whether each has kept, observed, performed
and fulfilled its Indenture Obligations under this Indenture and the other
Indenture Documents, and further stating, as to each such officer signing such
certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge each has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and
the other Indenture Documents to which it is a party and is not in default in
the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions
hereof or thereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred,
describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have
knowledge and what action each is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto).
(b) Each of PCI and the Company shall deliver to the Trustee,
within forty-five (45) days after the end of the first three quarters of each
fiscal year, an Officers' Certificate stating that a review of the activities of
each Obligor and each Obligor Subsidiary during the period in respect of which
the financial statements have been furnished pursuant to Section 704(b) hereof,
and the preceding Fiscal Quarter has been made under the supervision of the
signing officers with a view to determining whether each has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled its Indenture Obligations under this Indenture and the
other Indenture Documents, and further stating, as to each such officer signing
such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge each has kept,
observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this
Indenture and the other Indenture Documents to which it is a party and is not in
default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and
conditions hereof or thereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred, describing all such
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Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or
Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action each is
taking or proposes to take with respect thereto).
(c) [Intentionally omitted.]
(d) Each Indenture Obligor shall, so long as any of the
Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon any Officer
becoming aware of (i) any Default or Event of Default, or (ii) a default by any
Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary under any material note, indenture, loan
agreement, mortgage, lease, deed or other material similar agreement to which
any Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary, as appropriate, is a party or by which it
is bound (including any of the Indenture Documents and Transaction Documents),
an Officers' Certificate specifying such Default, Event of Default or such other
default or event of default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to
take with respect thereto.
Section 1004. Taxes.
Each Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, pay prior to delinquency (a) all federal, state, local,
foreign, provincial and other material Taxes, assessments and governmental
levies upon it, its income and its properties, and (b) all lawful claims for
labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon
the property of the Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries,
except, in each case, as are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings diligently conducted by the Indenture Obligors and in respect of
which appropriate reserves are being maintained in accordance with GAAP.
Section 1005. Jurisdiction, Service of Process and Venue
Immunity; Judgment Currency.
(a) Each Indenture Obligor irrevocably agrees that any suit,
action or proceeding with respect to this Indenture or any other Indenture
Document or any judgment entered by any court in respect thereof may be brought
in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in
the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County (including
its Appellate Division), or in any other appellate court in the State of New
York, as the party commencing such suit, action or proceeding may elect in its
sole discretion, and each Indenture Obligor hereby irrevocably submits to the
exclusive jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of any such suit, action,
proceeding or judgment. Each Indenture Obligor further submits, for the purpose
of any suit, action, proceeding or judgment brought or rendered against any
Collateral or other property, to the appropriate courts of the jurisdiction
where such Collateral or other property may be found.
(b) Each Indenture Obligor agrees that service of all writs,
process and summonses in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any
Federal or state court located in The City of New York may be made upon CT
Corporation, presently located at 111 Eight Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, New
York 10011, U.S.A. (the "U.S. Process Agent"), and each Indenture Obligor hereby
confirms and agrees that the U.S. Process
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Agent has been duly and irrevocably appointed as its agent and true and lawful
attorney-in-fact in its name, place and stead to accept such service of any and
all such writs, process and summonses, and agrees that the failure of the U.S.
Process Agent to give any notice of any such service of process to the
applicable Indenture Obligor shall not impair or affect the validity of such
service or of any judgment based thereon. Each Indenture Obligor hereby further
irrevocably consents to the service of process in any suit, action or proceeding
in such courts by the mailing thereof by registered or certified mail, postage
prepaid, at its address set forth in Section 106 hereof or by personal service
within or without the jurisdiction of its domicile.
(c) Nothing herein shall in any way be deemed to limit the
ability of the Trustee or the Holders to serve any such writs, process or
summonses in any other manner permitted by applicable law or to obtain
jurisdiction over any Indenture Obligor in such other jurisdictions, and in such
manner, as may be permitted by applicable law.
(d) Each Indenture Obligor hereby irrevocably waives, to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection that it may now or
hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any suit, action or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this Indenture or any other Indenture Document
brought in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, in
the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York or in the
courts of the jurisdiction of its domicile or in the courts of the jurisdiction
where any Collateral or other property of such Person may be found, and hereby
further irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has
been brought in an inconvenient forum.
(e) To the extent that any Indenture Obligor may be or become
entitled, in any judicial proceeding which may at any time be commenced with
respect to this Indenture or any other Indenture Document, to claim for itself
or the Collateral or its other property or revenues any immunity from suit,
court jurisdiction, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution
of a judgment, execution of a judgment or from any other legal process or remedy
relating to its obligations under this Indenture or any other Indenture
Document, and to the extent that there may be attributed such an immunity
(whether or not claimed), such Indenture Obligor hereby irrevocably agrees not
to claim and hereby irrevocably waives such immunity to the fullest extent
permitted by the laws of the state of New York.
(f) This is an international debt transaction in which the
specification of United States dollars and payment in The City of New York is of
the essence, and the obligation of the Indenture Obligors under this Indenture
and the other Indenture Documents to make payment to (or for the account of) the
Trustee and the Holders in dollars shall not be discharged or satisfied by any
tender or recovery pursuant to any judgment expressed in or converted into any
other currency or in another place except to the extent that such tender or
recovery results in the effective receipt by the Trustee and the Holders in The
City of New York of the full amounts of dollars payable to the Trustee and the
Holders under this Indenture and the other Indenture Documents. If for the
purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due
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hereunder in dollars into another currency (in this Section 1005 called the
"judgment currency"), the rate of exchange that shall be applied shall be that
at which in accordance with normal banking procedures dollars could be purchased
in The City of New York with the judgment currency on the Business Day next
preceding the day on which such judgment is rendered. The obligation of each
Indenture Obligor in respect of any such sum due from it to the Trustee and the
Holders under this Indenture or any other Indenture Document shall,
notwithstanding the rate of exchange actually applied in rendering such
judgment, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following
receipt by the Trustee or the Holders, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged
to be due under this Indenture or any other Indenture Document, as the case may
be, in the judgment currency the Trustee or the Holders, as the case may be, may
in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase and transfer dollars to
The City of New York with the amount of the judgment currency so adjudged to be
due, and each Indenture Obligor hereby, as a separate obligation and
notwithstanding any such judgment, agrees to indemnify the Trustee and the
Holders against, and to pay the Trustee and the Holders on demand, in dollars,
the amount (if any) by which the sum adjusted to be due to the Trustee or the
Holders, as the case may be, in dollars under this Indenture or any other
Indenture Document exceeds the amount of the dollars so purchased and
transferred.
Section 1006. Limitation on Restricted Payments.
No Indenture Obligor will, nor will it cause, permit or suffer
any of its Obligor Subsidiaries to, (a) declare or pay any dividends or make any
other distributions (including through mergers, liquidations or other
transactions but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the issuance of New
Common Stock pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization) on any class of Capital
Stock of any Indenture Obligor or its Obligor Subsidiaries (other than dividends
or distributions payable to PCI or by a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of PCI or of the
Company on account of its Capital Stock held by PCI or the Company or another
Subsidiary of PCI or the Company or payable or paid in shares of Capital Stock
of the Company other than preferred stock or redeemable stock), (b) make any
payment on account of, or set apart money for a sinking or other analogous fund
for, the purchase, redemption or other retirement of such Capital Stock, (c)
purchase, defease, redeem or otherwise retire any Subordinated Indebtedness
(other than with the proceeds of the issuance of Capital Stock of PCI which is
permitted to be issued pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or with the
proceeds of Subordinated Indebtedness which is permitted to be incurred pursuant
to the terms of this Indenture), or (d) make any Investment, either directly or
indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of any Indenture
Obligor or its Obligor Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing being called
"Restricted Payments"). Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Obligor may make (i)
Permitted Issuances, (ii) Restricted Payments made pursuant to the Transaction
Documents, (iii) Permitted Investments, and (iv) regularly scheduled payments on
Subordinated Indebtedness which is permitted to be incurred pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture.
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Section 1007. Limitations on Payment Restrictions Affecting
Subsidiaries.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or
suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of
any kind on the ability of any such Obligor Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends or
make any other distribution to any Indenture Obligor or its Obligor Subsidiaries
on its Capital Stock, (b) pay any Indebtedness owed to any Indenture Obligor or
such other Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to any Indenture Obligor or
such other Subsidiary, or (d) transfer any of its property or assets to any
Indenture Obligor or such other Subsidiary, except:
(i) consensual encumbrances or restrictions contained in or
created pursuant to any Indenture Documents or the Transaction
Documents;
(ii) any restriction, with respect to a Subsidiary of any
Indenture Obligor that is not a Subsidiary of such Indenture Obligor on
the Closing Date, in existence at the time such entity becomes a
Subsidiary of such Indenture Obligor; provided that such encumbrance or
restriction is not created in anticipation of or in connection with
such entity becoming a Subsidiary of the Company and is not applicable
to any Person or the properties or assets of any Person other than a
Person that becomes a Subsidiary;
(iii) encumbrances or restrictions contained in any other
Indebtedness permitted to be incurred subsequent to the Closing Date
pursuant to the provisions of Section 1008 hereof, provided that any
such encumbrances or restrictions (except pursuant to the Exit Facility
or any refinancing thereof permitted pursuant to this Indenture) are
not more restrictive taken individually and as a whole (as determined
in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Company) than the
most restrictive of those provided for in the Indebtedness referred to
in clause (i) of this Section 1007;
(iv) any such encumbrance or restriction consisting of
customary nonassignment provisions in leases governing leasehold
interests to the extent such provisions restrict the transfer of the
lease;
(v) any restriction with respect to such a Subsidiary imposed
pursuant to an agreement entered into for the sale or disposition of
all or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such
Subsidiary in compliance with the Indenture pending the closing of such
sale or disposition; or
(vi) any encumbrance or restriction required or mandated by
applicable law.
Section 1008. Limitations on Indebtedness.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit its Obligor
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guaranty
or otherwise become liable
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with respect to, or become responsible for the payment of, contingently or
otherwise ("incur"), any Indebtedness. Notwithstanding the foregoing
limitations, the limitations of this Section 1008 shall not apply to the
incurrence of the following Indebtedness:
(i) Indebtedness of the Company evidenced by the Securities,
Indebtedness of any Guarantor evidenced by the Guaranties with respect
thereto and Indebtedness of the Company and of the Guarantors, as
evidenced by and in respect of all other Transaction Documents;
(ii) Indebtedness evidenced by the New Tranche A Notes and
Indebtedness of any guarantor under the New Tranche A Notes Indenture
evidenced by the guaranties with respect thereto;
(iii) Indebtedness of any Indenture Obligor or Obligor
Subsidiaries constituting Existing Indebtedness and any extension,
deferral, renewal, refinancing or refunding thereof, without increasing
the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness then outstanding
and covered thereby;
(iv) Indebtedness of PCI and the Company in respect of and in
accordance with the terms of, the Exit Facility; provided that,
notwithstanding the terms of the Exit Facility, the aggregate principal
amount of Indebtedness at any time outstanding under the Exit Facility
shall not exceed $65,000,000;
(v) Capitalized Lease Obligations of any Indenture Obligor or
its Obligor Subsidiaries, including Indebtedness in respect of
Capitalized Lease Obligations of any Indenture Obligor or its Obligor
Subsidiary secured by Liens that secure the payment of all or part of
the purchase price of assets or property acquired or constructed in the
ordinary course of business after the Closing Date; provided, however,
that the aggregate principal amount of such Capitalized Lease
Obligations, including such Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized
Lease Obligations of Indenture Obligors and all of their respective
Obligors Subsidiaries, does not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate
outstanding at any time;
(vi) Indebtedness of PCI or the Company to any of their
respective Subsidiaries or of any such Subsidiary to PCI, the Company
or another such Subsidiary (but only so long as such Indebtedness is
held by PCI, the Company or such Subsidiary);
(vii) Indebtedness[, not secured by or subject to any Lien,]
under Hedging Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of PCI's or
the Company's business; provided, however, [that if such Indebtedness
shall be secured by or subject to any Liens permitted under Section
1012, the aggregate Indebtedness at anyone time outstanding in respect
of all such Hedging Obligations which shall be secured by or subject to
such Liens [cash] shall not exceed $[o], and provided, further,] that
in the case of foreign currency exchange or similar agreements which
relate to other Indebtedness, such agreements do not increase the
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Indebtedness of any Indenture Obligor or its Obligor Subsidiaries
outstanding other than as a result of fluctuations in foreign currency
exchange rates, and in the case of interest rate protection agreements,
only if the notional principal amount of such interest rate protection
agreement does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness to
which such interest rate protection agreement relates;
(viii) Indebtedness, not secured by or subject to any Lien
[(except as shall, in the ordinary course of business, be backed by
cash)], in respect of performance, completion, guaranty, surety and
similar bonds, banker's acceptances, bills of exchange or letters of
credit provided or to be endorsed by PCI, the Company or any of their
respective Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(ix) Indebtedness, not secured by or subject to any Lien, in
respect of (i) any guaranty (not otherwise referred to above) provided
by PCI, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries in respect
of any other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder; provided,
however, that if such Indebtedness guaranteed is subordinated in right
of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Indenture Obligor thereof,
then such guaranty shall be subordinated to Indebtedness of such
guarantor to the same extent, (ii) indemnities in favor of Persons
issuing title insurance policies, (iii) indemnifications in the
Transaction Documents and in any agreements contemplated thereunder or
thereby and (iv) indemnities in the Organizational Documents of PCI and
its Subsidiaries;
(x) Indebtedness, not secured by or subject to any Lien, of a
Person which becomes a Subsidiary of the Company incurred and
outstanding on or prior to the date on which such Person was acquired
as a Subsidiary by the Company; provided that (i) on the date of such
acquisition and after giving effect thereto, the Consolidated Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company for the most recently ended four
full Fiscal Quarters for which internal financial statements are
available immediately preceding the date of such incurrence would have
been at least equal to 2.5:1.0 determined on a pro forma basis after
giving effect, in each case, to such acquisition which makes that
Person a Subsidiary of the Company, and (ii) immediately after giving
effect to the acquisition of such Person, no Default or Event of
Default shall occur and be continuing;
(xi) Indebtedness subject to Liens permitted by Section 1012
(including Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Sale and Leaseback
Transactions);
(xii) Indebtedness incurred in respect of New Other Secured
Notes and Claims;
(xiii) Subordinated Indebtedness, not secured by or subject to
any Lien, not to exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time
outstanding; provided that (i) on the date of incurrence of such
Subordinated Indebtedness and after giving effect thereto, the
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company for the most
recently ended four full Fiscal Quarters immediately
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preceding the date of such incurrence would have been at least equal to
2.5:1.0 determined on a pro forma basis, and (ii) immediately after
giving effect to such Indebtedness, no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing; or
(xiv) any refinancing, refunding, deferral, renewal or
extension (each, a "Refinancing") of any Indebtedness of any Obligor or
any Obligor Subsidiary permitted by subsections (ii), (iv), (x) and
(xii) (the "Refinancing Indebtedness"); provided, however, that (a)
such Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the aggregate principal
amount of the Indebtedness so refinanced, plus the amount of any
premium required to be paid in connection with such Refinancing in
accordance with the terms of such Indebtedness or the amount of any
premium reasonably determined by such Obligor as necessary to
accomplish such Refinancing, plus the amount of reasonable and
customary out-of-pocket fees and expenses payable in connection
therewith, (b) the Refinancing Indebtedness does not provide for any
mandatory redemption, amortization or sinking fund requirement in an
amount greater than or at a time prior to the amounts and times
specified in the Indebtedness being refinanced, refunded, deferred,
renewed or extended and (c) if the Indebtedness being refinanced,
refunded, deferred, renewed or extended is subordinated to the
Indebtedness of the Obligor or Obligor Subsidiaries under the
Securities, the Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to refinance, refund,
defer, renew or extend such Indebtedness is subordinated in right of
payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the
Holders as those contained in the documentation governing the
Indebtedness being so refinanced, refunded, deferred, renewed or
extended;
provided, however, that no Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to
this Section 1008 (except for the Exit Facility or any refinancing thereof
permitted under this Indenture) shall contain any terms that are more
restrictive on or to the obligor of such Indebtedness than those set forth in
this Indenture, whether taken individually or as a whole.
Section 1009. Asset Sales.
(a) No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, make any Asset Sale (other than to another Indenture
Obligor or such other Subsidiary) unless (i) such Indenture Obligor or such
Subsidiary receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal
to the Fair Market Value of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of, and at
least 85% of the consideration received by such Indenture Obligor or such
Subsidiary from such Asset Sale is in the form of cash (in Dollars) and no
portion thereof shall consist of inventory or accounts receivable or other
property that would become subject to a Lien held by any other creditor of such
Indenture Obligor or of any such Subsidiary other than the New Tranche A Note
Holders or the Holders of the Securities; provided, however, that the amount of
any cash equivalent or note or other obligation received by such Indenture
Obligor or such Subsidiary from the transferee in any such transaction that is
converted within 45 days by such Indenture Obligor or such Subsidiary into cash
shall be deemed upon such conversion to be cash for
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purposes of this provision; (ii) to the extent such Asset Sale involves
Collateral, (x) the consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding shall be obtained prior to
the consummation of such sale and (y) PCI or the Company shall cause the
aggregate cash proceeds received by such Indenture Obligor or such Subsidiary in
respect of such Asset Sale which are allocated to the Collateral, net of the
items set forth in clauses (i) through (iii) of the definition of Net Proceeds
(the "Collateral Proceeds"), to be deposited with the Collateral Agent in the
Intercreditor Collateral Account as and when received by such Indenture Obligor
or any such Subsidiary; and (iii) the Net Proceeds received by such Indenture
Obligor or such Subsidiary from any Asset Sale are applied in accordance with
the following paragraphs.
(b) The Company shall apply 100% of the aggregate amount of
Net Proceeds from each and every Asset Sale, subject to the provisions, if
applicable, of the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement, to the purchase
of Securities tendered to the Company for purchase, in each case then
Outstanding, on or prior to the tenth day following the date on which such Net
Proceeds are received by such Indenture Obligor or any such Subsidiary at a
price (the "Asset Sale Purchase Price") equal to 100% of the principal amount
thereof, plus accrued interest, and premium, if any, to the date of purchase
pursuant to an offer to purchase made by the Company (an "Asset Sale Offer")
with respect to the Securities, as the case may be.
(c) Until such time, if any, as the Net Proceeds from any
Asset Sale are applied in accordance with this covenant, such Net Proceeds shall
be segregated from the other assets of each Indenture Obligor and each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries and invested in cash or Eligible Investments.
(d) Any Asset Sale Offer shall be made substantially in
accordance with the procedures described under Section 1109 hereof. Each
Indenture Obligor shall cause a notice of any Asset Sale Offer to be mailed to
the Trustee and the Holders at their registered addresses not less than 30 days
nor more than 45 days before the purchase date.
In the case of a sale of Collateral, the notice of an Asset
Sale Offer shall contain the following additional information: (i) a description
of the interests to be released; (ii) the Fair Market Value of the released
interests as of a date no later than 60 days before the date of such notice; and
(iii) certification that the purchase price received is not less than the Fair
Market Value of such released interest as of the date of such release. Such
notice to the Trustee shall be accompanied by an Officers' Certificate setting
forth a statement to the effect that (x) an Indenture Obligor intends to make an
Asset Sale, and/or (y) there has occurred a destruction or condemnation in
respect of Collateral resulting in Insurance Proceeds or Net Awards which are
not required to be applied to effect a Restoration of the affected Collateral
under the applicable Security Document. The notice shall also be accompanied by
an Opinion of Counsel as to the Asset Sale Offer and satisfactory evidence from
a title company that the Liens of the Collateral Agent or the remaining
Collateral continue unimpaired as perfected first priority liens.
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Upon receiving notice of an Asset Sale Offer, Holders may
elect to tender their Securities in whole or in part in integral multiples of
$1,000 in exchange for cash. To the extent that Holders properly tender
Securities in an amount exceeding the Asset Sale Offer, Securities of tendering
Holders shall be repurchased on a pro rata basis (based on amounts tendered).
(e) In the event any Indenture Obligor is required to make an
Asset Sale Offer at a time when such Indenture Obligor is prohibited from making
such Offer, any other Indenture Obligor shall, on or prior to the date that such
Indenture Obligor is required to make an Asset Sale Offer, seek the consent of
the Holders and the New Tranche A Note Holders to repurchase Securities pursuant
to such Asset Sale Offer; provided, however, that the failure to make or
consummate the Asset Sale Offer as provided herein shall constitute an Event of
Default.
(f) The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with
the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, any other tender offer
rules under the Exchange Act and all other applicable U.S. Federal and state and
Canadian federal and provincial securities laws or regulations in connection
with any offer to repurchase and the repurchase of the Securities as described
above.
(g) No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it not permit any of
its Obligor Subsidiaries to, create or permit to exist or become effective any
consensual restriction, other than restrictions not more restrictive taken as a
whole (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of PCI) than those
in effect under the Exit Facility or any other Indebtedness permitted by Section
1008, that would materially impair the ability of any Indenture Obligor or any
of its Obligor Subsidiaries to comply with the provisions of this Section 1009.
(h) If at any time any non-cash consideration permitted by
this Section 1009 (other than any such consideration consisting of inventory,
accounts receivable and certain related assets securing or permitted to secure
the Exit Facility) is received by any Indenture Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary, as the case may be, in connection with any Asset Sale of assets
permitted by this Section 1009 which includes Collateral, such non-cash
consideration shall be made subject to the Lien of the Security Documents in the
manner contemplated in the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement to the
extent of the purchase price allocated to the Collateral. If and when any such
non-cash consideration received from any Asset Sale (whether or not relating to
Collateral) is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash, then
such conversion or disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale
hereunder and the Net Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with this
Section 1009 and this Indenture.
(i) All Insurance Proceeds and all Net Awards required to be
delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to any Security Document shall
constitute Trust Moneys and shall be delivered, or caused to be delivered by
each Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries, as the case may be,
to the Collateral Agent promptly after receipt by any Indenture Obligor or any
of its Obligor Subsidiaries and be deposited into the appropriate Intercreditor
Collateral Account and applied in accordance with the
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applicable provisions of the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
Insurance Proceeds and Net Awards so deposited that may be applied by each
Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries to effect a Restoration of
the affected Collateral under the applicable Security Document may be withdrawn
from the Intercreditor Collateral Account only in accordance with the applicable
provisions of the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement. Insurance
Proceeds and Net Awards so deposited that are not applied to effect a
Restoration of the affected Collateral under the applicable Security Document
may only be withdrawn in accordance with applicable provisions of the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 1010. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction unless
(a) at the time of the occurrence of such transaction and after giving effect to
such transaction and (x) in the case of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction which
is a Capitalized Lease Obligation, giving effect to the Indebtedness in respect
thereof, the Indenture Obligor and any of its Obligor Subsidiaries entering into
such transaction will remain in compliance with the clause (d) of Section 1008
and (y) in the case of any other Sale and Leaseback Transaction, giving effect
to the Attributable Indebtedness in respect thereof, the aggregate Attributed
Indebtedness of the Indenture Obligors and their Obligor Subsidiaries, taken as
a whole, does not exceed $1,000,000, (b) at the time of the occurrence of such
transaction, such Indenture Obligor or its Obligor Subsidiaries could incur
Indebtedness secured by a Lien on property in a principal amount equal to or
exceeding the Attributable Indebtedness in respect of such Sale and Leaseback
Transaction pursuant to Section 1012 hereof, and (c) the transfer of assets in
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is permitted by, and the Company shall apply
the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, Section 1009 hereof.
Section 1011. Limitation on Transactions With Affiliates.
(a) No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into any transaction with
or series of related transactions with or for the benefit of any of their
respective Affiliates, except on an arm's-length basis and if (x)(i) in the case
of any such transaction other than with any Indenture Obligor or Obligor
Subsidiary in which the aggregate rental value, remuneration or other
consideration (including the value of a loan), together with the aggregate
rental value, remuneration or other consideration (including the value of a
loan) of all such other transactions consummated in the year during which such
transaction is proposed to be consummated, is less than or equal to $750,000,
PCI and the Company shall deliver Board Resolutions of their respective Board of
Directors to the Trustee evidencing that the Board of Directors and the
Independent Directors of each of PCI and the Company that are disinterested
each, acting together in the first instance and separately in second, have (by a
majority vote) determined in good faith that the aggregate rental value,
remuneration or other consideration (including the value of any loan) inuring to
the benefit of such Affiliate from any such transaction is not greater than that
which would be charged to or extended by such Indenture Obligor or any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries, as the case may be, on an arm's-length basis for similar
properties, assets, rights, goods or services by or to a Person not affiliated
with any Indenture Obligor or any of its
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Obligor Subsidiaries, as the case may be, and (ii) in the case of any such
transaction in which the aggregate rental value, remuneration or other
consideration (including the value of any loan), together with the aggregate
rental value, remuneration or other consideration (including the value of any
loan) of all such other transactions consummated in the year during which such
transactions are proposed to be consummated, exceeds $750,000, PCI and the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee Board Resolutions as described in clause
(a)(x)(i) of this Section 1011 and an opinion of a nationally recognized
investment banking firm, not affiliated with any Indenture Obligor or any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries or the Affiliate which is party to such transaction, to the
effect that the aggregate rental price, remuneration or other consideration
(including the value of a loan) inuring to the benefit of such Affiliate from
any such transaction is not greater than that which would be charged to or
extended by such Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries, as the
case may be, on an arm's-length basis for similar properties, assets, rights,
goods or services by or to a Person not affiliated with such Indenture Obligor
or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries, as the case may be, and (y) all such
transactions referred to in clauses (a)(x)(i) and (a)(x)(ii) of this Section
1011 are entered into in good faith.
(b) The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not prohibit
(i) the execution and delivery of the Indenture Documents and the Transaction
Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein or
therein or the implementation of the Plan of Reorganization, (ii) any permitted
payment on, or with respect to, Capital Stock of PCI held by creditors of any
Indenture Obligor, (iii) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards
or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of,
employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by the
Board of Directors of PCI and the Company pursuant and consistent with the MEIP,
(iv) loans or advances to employees in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practices, not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate
principal amount outstanding at any time, or (v) the payment of fees and
compensation paid to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors,
employees or consultants of PCI, the Company or any of their respective
Subsidiaries, as determined by the Board of Directors of PCI, the Company or any
of their respective Subsidiaries in good faith.
Section 1012. Limitation on Liens.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon
any of their respective assets or properties now owned or acquired after the
Closing Date, or any income or profits therefrom, excluding, however, from the
operation of the foregoing any of the following:
(a) Liens (i) securing obligations owed in respect of Allowed
Secured Tax Claims and obligations owed in respect of Allowed Other Secured
Claims reinstated in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code and pursuant to the
Plan of Reorganization, (ii)
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securing the Indenture Obligations, (iii) on accounts receivable, inventory and
related general intangibles securing obligations under the Exit Facility, (iv)
securing the obligations under the Transaction Documents, and (v) securing
obligations under New Other Secured Notes (to the extent the corresponding
Allowed Other Secured Claims shall not have been reinstated) and any other Lien
granted by the Obligors as permitted by the Plan of Reorganization;
(b) Permitted Liens;
(c) Liens on assets or property of the Company, or on assets
or property of Subsidiaries of the Company, to secure the payment of all or a
part of the purchase price of assets or property acquired or constructed in the
ordinary course of business after the Closing Date; provided, however, that (i)
the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens does not
exceed the original cost or purchase price of the assets or property so acquired
(including the reasonable and customary costs of associated with the acquisition
of such acquired assets) or constructed, (ii) the Indebtedness secured by such
Liens is otherwise permitted to be incurred hereunder, (iii) such Liens do not
encumber any other assets or property of any Indenture Obligor or any of its
Obligor Subsidiaries, and (iv) the Indebtedness secured by such Liens may not be
created more than 100 days after the later of the acquisition, completion of
construction, repair, improvement, addition or commencement of full operation of
the property subject to such Liens;
(d) Liens on the assets or property permitted to be acquired
hereby by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date;
provided, however, that (i) such Liens existed on the date such asset or
property was acquired and were not incurred as a result of or in anticipation of
such acquisition and (ii) such Liens shall not extend to or cover any property
or assets of any Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries other than
the property or assets so acquired;
(e) Liens securing Indebtedness which is incurred to refinance
Indebtedness which has been secured by a Lien permitted hereunder and which is
permitted to be refinanced hereunder; provided, however, that such Liens do not
extend to or cover any assets or property of any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiaries not securing the Indebtedness so refinanced;
(f) Liens on assets or property of any Obligor or any Obligor
Subsidiary that is subject (and only subject) to a Sale and Leaseback
Transaction, provided, however, that the aggregate principal amount of
Attributable Indebtedness in respect of all Sale and Leaseback Transactions then
Outstanding shall not at the time such a Lien is incurred exceed $1,000,000;
(g) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention,
consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business in
accordance with past practices of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and
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(h) Liens arising out of barter transactions or arrangements
for the sale or purchase of goods or services entered into by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business in accordance with the
past practices of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
Section 1013. Corporate Existence; Corporate Separateness.
Subject to Article Eight, each Indenture Obligor shall do or
cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and
effect (a) its corporate existence and the corporate existence of each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries, in each case in accordance with their respective
Organizational Documents (as the same may, subject to Section 1024, be amended
from time to time) and (b) its (and its Subsidiaries) rights (charter and
statutory), licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal course
of its business; provided, however, that no Indenture Obligor shall be required
to preserve such corporate existence or such licenses, permits or approvals if
the failure to preserve the same could not reasonably be expected, individually
or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Each Indenture Obligor will, and will cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, satisfy customary corporate formalities, including the
holding of regular Board of Directors' and shareholders' meetings and the
maintenance of corporate offices and records. No Indenture Obligor nor any of
its respective Subsidiaries shall take any action, or conduct their respective
affairs in a manner, which is likely to result in the corporate existence of any
such Subsidiary being ignored by any court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 1014. Change of Control.
(a) Each Indenture Obligor will, and will cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, give reasonable notice to the Trustee and the Holders
of any proposed Change of Control prior to consummating, or permitting the
consummation of, such Change of Control.
(b) In the event of a Change of Control (the date of such
occurrence being the "Change of Control Date"), each Indenture Obligor shall
notify the Holders in writing of such occurrence and shall make an irrevocable
offer (the "Change of Control Offer") to purchase, on a Business Day not later
than 60 days following the Change of Control Date (the "Change of Control
Payment Date"), all Securities then Outstanding at a purchase price (the "Change
of Control Purchase Price") equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus
accrued and unpaid interest to the Change of Control Payment Date.
(c) Notice of a Change of Control Offer shall be mailed by the
Company to the Holders at their registered addresses not less than 30 days nor
more than 45 days before the Change of Control Payment Date. The Change of
Control Offer shall remain open for at least 20 Business Days and until 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day next preceding the Change of
Control Payment Date. Substantially simultaneously with mailing of the notice,
the Company shall cause a copy of such notice
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to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York.
(d) The notice, which governs the terms of the Change of
Control Offer, shall state:
(i) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to
this Section 1014 and that all Securities (or portions thereof)
tendered will be accepted for payment;
(ii) the Change of Control Purchase Price and the Change of
Control Payment Date;
(iii) that any Securities not surrendered or accepted for
payment shall continue to accrue interest, and premium, if any, in
accordance with the terms thereof and of this Indenture;
(iv) that, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the
Change of Control Purchase Price, any Securities accepted for payment
pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest,
or premium, if any, after the Change of Control Payment Date;
(v) that any Holder electing to have a Security purchased (in
whole or in part) pursuant to a Change of Control Offer shall be
required to surrender the Security, with the form entitled "Option of
Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Security completed, to
the Company, a depositary, if appointed by the Company, or a Paying
Agent at the address specified in the notice (or otherwise make
effective delivery of the Security pursuant to book-entry procedures
and the related rules of the applicable Depositary) at least five
Business Days before the Change of Control Payment Date;
(vi) that any Holder shall be entitled to withdraw its
election if the Company, depositary or a Paying Agent, as the case may
be, receives, not later than three (3) Business Days prior to the
Change of Control Payment Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile
transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the
principal amount of the Security the Holder delivered for purchase, the
certificate number of the Security and a statement that such Holder is
withdrawing his or her election to have such Security purchased;
(vii) that Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part
shall be issued Securities representing the unpurchased portion of the
Securities surrendered, which unpurchased portion must be equal to
$1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof;
(viii) the instructions that Holders must follow in order to
tender their Securities; and
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(ix) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such
Change of Control (including but not limited to information with
respect to pro forma financial information after giving effect to such
Change of Control and information regarding the Persons acquiring
control).
(e) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall:
(i) accept for payment the Securities, or portions thereof,
surrendered and properly tendered and not withdrawn, pursuant to the
Change of Control Offer;
(ii) deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the
Change of Control Purchase Price of all the Securities, or portions
thereof, so accepted; and
(iii) deliver to the Trustee the Securities so accepted
together with an Officers' Certificate stating that such Securities
have been accepted for payment by the Company.
The Paying Agent shall promptly mail or deliver to Holders of Securities so
accepted payment in an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price and
the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail to such Holders a new Security
equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Security
surrendered.
(f) Subject to applicable escheat laws, as provided in the
Securities, the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall, upon the Company's written
request in compliance with Section 103, return to the Company any cash that
remains unclaimed thereon held by them for the payment of the Change of Control
Purchase Price; provided, however, that (x) to the extent that the aggregate
amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to clause (ii) of paragraph (e)
above exceeds the aggregate Change of Control Purchase Price of the Securities
or portions thereof to be purchased, then the Trustee shall hold such excess for
the Company and (y) unless otherwise directed by the Company in writing,
promptly after the Business Day following the Change of Control Payment Date the
Trustee shall return any such excess to the Company.
(g) The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with
the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, any other tender offer
rules under the Exchange Act and all other applicable U.S. Federal and state and
Canadian federal and provincial securities laws or regulations in connection
with the offer to repurchase and the repurchase of the Securities as described
above.
(h) No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, create or permit to exist or become effective any restriction
(other than restrictions not more restrictive taken as a whole (as determined in
good faith by the Board of Directors of such Indenture Obligor) than those in
effect under Indebtedness under the New Tranche A Notes Indenture) that would
impair the ability of such Indenture Obligor to make a Change of Control Offer
to purchase the Securities or, if such Change of Control Offer is made, to pay
for the Securities tendered for purchase;
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provided, however, that the failure to make or consummate the Change of Control
Offer shall constitute an Event of Default.
Section 1015. Maintenance of Properties.
Each Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, maintain its properties and assets in normal working
order and condition as of the Closing Date (reasonable wear and tear excepted)
and make all repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, betterments and
improvements thereto, as shall be reasonably necessary for the proper conduct of
the business of Indenture Obligors and the Obligor Subsidiaries taken as a
whole[; provided that nothing herein shall prevent any Indenture Obligor or any
Obligor Subsidiary from discontinuing any maintenance of any such properties if
such discontinuance could not be reasonably be expected individually or in the
aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect].
Section 1016. Maintenance of Insurance.
Each Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, maintain property, liability, casualty, directors' and
officers (D&O) and other insurance (subject to the customary deductibles and
retentions) with reputable insurance companies in such amounts and against such
risks as is customarily carried by responsible companies engaged in similar
businesses and owning similar assets in the general areas in which the Indenture
Obligors and its Obligor Subsidiaries operate (which may include self-insurance
in comparable form to that maintained by such responsible companies) and each
Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its respective Subsidiaries to,
have the Trustee, for its benefit and for the benefit of Holders, named as loss
payee or additional insured, as the case may be, by endorsement to the policies
for such insurance.
Section 1017. Stock Pledges.
Each Indenture Obligor and each of its Obligor Subsidiaries in
existence as of the Closing Date (except for any such Obligor Subsidiary which
has no Subsidiaries) shall pledge the Capital Stock of its Subsidiaries owned by
it to secure the Indenture Obligations pro rata (and as further provided for in
the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement) and each Indenture Obligor
will, and will cause each existing Subsidiary to, pledge such Capital Stock of
any Subsidiary of any Indenture Obligor or such existing Obligor Subsidiary
formed after the Closing Date to secure the Indenture Obligations and will
execute and deliver to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent one or more
agreements pledging stock substantially in the form of the Security Agreement
Supplement providing for the pledge to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of
the Collateral Agent and of (x) the New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee (for
itself and the New Tranche A Note Holders), and (y) the Trustee (for itself and
the Holders of the Securities) of all the Capital Stock of such newly formed
Subsidiary held by such Indenture Obligor or such existing Obligor Subsidiary,
as the case maybe, and deliver to the Collateral Agent stock certificates
evidencing such Capital Stock (together with undated stock powers executed in
blank), which Capital Stock and stock powers will
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become "Collateral" for purposes of the Security Documents. This Section 1017
shall apply mutatis mutandis to any such newly formed Subsidiary.
Section 1018. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent,
it shall, on or before each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit
of the Holders entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal, premium,
if any, or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such
Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and shall promptly notify
the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
If the Company is not acting as Paying Agent, the Company
shall, before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each due date of the principal
of, premium, if any, or interest, on any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent
a sum in same day funds sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any, or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium, or interest and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of such
action or any failure so to act.
If the Company is not acting as Paying Agent, the Company
shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to
the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent
shall:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of, premium, if any, or interest on Securities in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(b) give the Trustee notice of any Default by the Company or
any Guarantor (or any other Indenture Obligor upon the Securities) in the making
of any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest;
(c) at any time during the continuance of any such Default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums
so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
(d) acknowledge, accept and agree to comply in all aspects
with the provisions of this Indenture relating to the duties, rights and
disabilities of such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order in compliance with Section 103 direct any Paying Agent to pay,
to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such
sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same terms as those upon which such sums
were held by the Company
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or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium,
if any, or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal, premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable shall
promptly be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust. The Holder of such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in the New York Times and The
Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed
and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty
(30) days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining shall promptly be repaid to the Company.
Section 1019. [Redemption of Securities with proceeds of
Qualified Equity Offering.
PCI may, but shall not be obliged to, make and consummate one
or more Qualified Equity Offerings. If the Net Offering Proceeds of one or more
such Qualified Equity Offerings, are greater than $35,000,000 (after giving
effect to any mandatory application of proceeds from each such Qualified Equity
Offering to repay the New Tranche A Notes in accordance with the New Tranche A
Notes Indenture) and no Indebtedness in respect of the New Tranche A Notes is
outstanding (including as a result of the proceeds of each such Qualified Equity
Offering being applied to repay the New Tranche A Notes in accordance with the
New Tranche A Notes Indenture), then PCI and the Company shall cause the Net
Offering Proceeds of such consummated Qualified Equity Offering, or one or more
such consummated Qualified Equity Offerings, that are in excess of $35,000,000
to be applied to redeem Outstanding Securities (and if such proceeds are not
sufficient to redeem all of the Securities then Outstanding, then to redeem the
then Outstanding Securities on a pro rata basis) and the provisions of Sections
1101 through to and including Section 1108 shall apply in respect of such
redemption as if the Company shall have exercised its right to redeem
Outstanding Securities pursuant to Article Eleven.]
Section 1020. Limitation on Ownership of Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary Stock.
No Indenture Obligor and no Obligor Subsidiary (a) shall, nor
shall it permit any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries to, transfer, convey, sell
or otherwise dispose of any Capital Stock of such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary to any
Person (other than to any Indenture Obligor, any of its Obligor Subsidiaries or
another such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary), unless (i) such transfer, conveyance,
sale or other disposition is of all the
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Capital Stock of such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary and (ii) the Net Proceeds from
such transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition are applied in
accordance with Section 1009 hereof, and (b) shall permit any Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of any Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries to issue
any of its Capital Stock (other than, if necessary, Capital Stock constituting
directors' qualifying shares or interests held by directors or shares or
interests required to be held by foreign nationals, to the extent mandated by
applicable law) to any Person other than to the any Indenture Obligor or a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any Indenture Obligor.
Section 1021. Impairment of Security Interest.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it cause or permit any
of its Obligor Subsidiaries to, take or omit to take any action which action or
omission might or would have the result of affecting or impairing the Liens and
security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Holders with respect to the Collateral and no Indenture Obligor shall grant, nor
shall it cause or permit any of its Obligor Subsidiaries to grant, to any
Person, or suffer any Person to have any interest whatsoever in the Collateral,
in each case other than as otherwise permitted by this Indenture, the New
Tranche A Notes Indenture, the New Tranche A Notes, the Securities and the
Security Documents.
No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it cause or permit any
of its Obligor Subsidiaries to, enter into any agreement or instrument that by
its terms requires that the proceeds received from any sale of Collateral be
applied to repay, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire any
Indebtedness of any Person, other than pursuant to this Indenture, the New
Tranche A Notes Indenture, the New Tranche A Notes, the Securities and the
Security Documents or any instrument governing Indebtedness permitted to be
secured by a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to Section 1012 hereof.
Section 1022. Amendment to Certain Agreements.
Except as expressly provided for in the Transaction Documents,
no Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it permit any of its Obligor Subsidiaries
to, amend, modify or supplement, or permit or consent to any amendment,
modification or supplement of, the Exit Facility, the New Other Secured Notes
And Claims and the Transaction Documents, except in each case to the extent such
amendment, modification or supplement could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
Section 1023. Plan of Reorganization.
Each Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, take all such steps and actions and to consummate all
transactions necessary to implement the Plan of Reorganization to the extent
such steps, actions and transactions are contemplated in the Plan of
Reorganization as occurring after the Closing Date and to the extent the Plan of
Reorganization contemplates that any Indenture Obligor or any Obligor Subsidiary
shall take such steps and actions or consummate such transactions.
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Section 1024. Nature of Business, Organizational Documents and
Capital Structure and New Subsidiaries; Books and Records.
(a) No Indenture Obligor shall, nor shall it cause or permit
any of its Obligor Subsidiaries to, (i) engage directly or indirectly in any
business activity other than in a Related Business, (ii) amend or modify any
material provision of its Organizational Documents except to the extent such
amendment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or
(iii) change its legal or capital structure or form any Subsidiary of any
Affiliate other than as otherwise permitted under Article Eight.
(b) Each Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, keep books and records which accurately reflect in all
material respects all of its business affairs and transactions and permit the
Trustee and each Holder or any of their respective representatives at all times
during normal business hours, or such other reasonable times, and upon
reasonable notice (unless a Default has occurred or the Trustee reasonably
suspects that a Default has occurred, in which case no prior notice shall be
required), to visit all of its or their offices, to inspect the properties of
each Indenture Obligor and each of its Obligor Subsidiaries, to inspect the
Collateral, to discuss its financial matters, its business, its assets, its
liabilities and its prospects with its officers and with its independent public
accountants (and each Indenture Obligor and each of its Obligor Subsidiaries
hereby authorizes such independent public accountants to discuss all such
matters with the Trustee and each Holder or such representatives whether or not
any representative of any Indenture Obligor or its Obligor Subsidiaries is
present and, so long as there shall not have occurred and be continuing a
Default, the Company shall be given a reasonable opportunity to be present) and
to examine, and photocopy extracts from, any of its books or other corporate
records including management letters prepared by independent accountants, in
each case for the purposes of monitoring each Indenture Obligor's compliance
with its obligations under the Indenture Documents to which it is a party. So
long as there shall not have occurred and be continuing a Default, the cost and
expense of each such visit shall be borne by the Trustee or such Holder, as the
case may be, except that the Trustee may make one such visit each Fiscal Year of
the Company at the cost and expense of the Company. If there shall have occurred
and be continuing a Default, and so long as the same shall be continuing, such
costs and expenses for all such visits (whether by the Trustee or any Holder)
shall be borne by the Company.
Section 1025. Compliance with Laws and Environmental and
Safety and Health Matters.
Each Indenture Obligor shall comply, and shall cause each of its Obligor
Subsidiaries to (a) comply, in all material respects with all applicable laws,
statutes, rules, regulations, by-laws, policies, guidelines, directives,
decrees, opinions or agency requirements or orders (including, without
limitation, Environmental Laws and Safety and Health Laws), and (b) notify the
Trustee promptly after becoming aware of any Environmental Claim, or any fact or
circumstance that could reasonably be expected to result in an Environmental
Claim or a violation of, or liability under, any laws, statutes, rules,
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regulations, by-laws, policies, guidelines, directives, decrees, opinions or
agency requirements or orders, including Environmental Laws and Safety and
Health Laws, that could reasonably be expected, individually or in the
aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 1026. Authorizations.
Each Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, make and keep in full force and effect all
authorizations from and registrations with governmental authorities and agencies
required for the validity or enforceability of the Indenture Documents.
Section 1027. Further Assurances.
(a) Promptly upon the request of the Trustee or any Holder
through the Trustee, each Indenture Obligor shall correct, and shall cause each
of its Obligor Subsidiaries promptly to correct, any material defect or error
that may be discovered in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation
of any Indenture Document, and (b) promptly upon the request by the Trustee or
Collateral Agent or any Holder through the Trustee or Collateral Agent, each
Indenture Obligor shall, and shall cause its Obligor Subsidiaries to, execute,
acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register
any and all such further acts, deeds, conveyances, pledge agreements, mortgages,
deeds of trusts, trust deeds, assignments, financing statements and
continuations thereof, termination statements, notices of assignment, transfers,
certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Trustee or Collateral
Agent or any Holder through the Trustee or Collateral Agent, may reasonably
require from time to time in order to (i) carry out more effectively the
purposes of the Indenture Documents, (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, subject any Indenture Obligor's or any of its Obligor
Subsidiaries' properties, assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or
hereafter intended to be covered by any of the Security Documents, (iii) perfect
and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Security
Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created thereunder, and (iv)
assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more
effectively unto the Holders the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to
be granted to the Holders under any Indenture Document or under any other
instrument executed in connection with any Indenture Document to which any
Indenture Obligor or any of its Obligor Subsidiaries is or is to be a party.
Section 1028. Fiscal Year.
Each of PCI and the Company will not change its Fiscal Year.
Section 1029. Additional Amounts.
(a) Any and all payments by the Company to or for the account
of any Holder hereunder, other than an Excluded Holder, shall be made free and
clear of, and without deduction, for any and all present or future income,
excise, stamp or franchise taxes and other taxes, fees, duties, levies, imposts,
deductions, charges or withholdings
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and all liabilities with respect thereto of any nature whatsoever imposed by any
taxing authority including, without limitation, any penalties, interest or
additions to tax with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each Holder,
taxes imposed on its net income or franchise taxes imposed in lieu of a tax on
net income, receipts by the jurisdiction under the laws of which a Holder is
organized or maintained or any political subdivision thereof (all such
nonexcluded taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings,
and liabilities being hereinafter referred to as "Taxes"). If the Company is
required by law to withhold or deduct any amount for or on account of Taxes from
any payment made under or with respect to the Securities, the Company shall pay
such additional amounts ("Additional Amounts") as may be necessary so that the
net amount received by each Holder (including Additional Amounts) after such
withholding or deduction will not be less than the amount the Holder would have
received if such Taxes had not been withheld or deducted; provided that no
Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to a payment made to a Holder
to the extent solely attributable to (i) such Holder not being treated as
dealing at arm's length with the Company within the meaning of the Income Tax
Act (Canada) at the time of making such payment, or (ii) such Holder's being
connected with Canada or any province or territory thereof otherwise than solely
by reason of the Holder's activity in connection with purchasing the Securities,
by the mere holding of Securities or by reason of the receipt of payments
thereunder (collectively, Persons described in clauses (i) and (ii) of this
Section 1029(a) are "Excluded Holders"). The Company will also (1) make such
withholding or deduction, and (2) remit the full amount deducted or withheld to
the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) The Company shall furnish to the Holders, within 30
calendar days after the date the payment of any Taxes is due pursuant to the
applicable law, certified copies of tax receipts evidencing such payment by the
Company. The Company shall upon written request of each Holder (other than an
Excluded Holder), reimburse each such Holder for the amount of (i) any Taxes so
levied or imposed and paid by such Holder as a result of payments made under or
with respect to the Securities, and (ii) any Taxes so levied or imposed with
respect to any reimbursement under foregoing clause (i) so that the net amount
received by such Holder (net of payments made under or with respect to the
Securities) after such reimbursement will not be less than the net amount the
Holder would have received if Taxes on such reimbursement had not been imposed;
provided, however, no reimbursement shall be made in respect of Taxes for which
no Additional Amounts would be payable by reason of clause (i) or (ii) of the
second preceding sentence of Section 1029(a).
(c) In addition, the Company agrees to pay any and all present
or future stamp or documentary taxes and any other excise or property taxes or
charges or similar levies which arise from any payment made under this
Indenture.
(d) At least 30 calendar days prior to each date on which any
payment under or with respect to the Securities is due and payable, if the
Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to such
payment, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating the fact that such Additional Amounts will be payable and the amounts so
payable and will set forth such other
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information necessary to enable the Trustee to pay such Additional Amounts to
Holders on the payment date. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in
any context, the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, or any
other amount payable under or with respect to any Securities, such mention shall
be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in
respect thereof. The Holders, by acceptance of a Note, and the Company agree
that the payment of any Additional Amounts by the Company shall be treated as
payments of interest.
(e) If the Company fails to pay any Taxes when due to the
appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit the required receipts or other
required documentary evidence, the Company shall indemnify the Holders for any
incremental Taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by any Holder,
other than an Excluded Holder, as a result of any such failure.
Section 1030. Pension Transfer Agreement.
The Company shall fulfill all of its obligations under the
Pension Transfer Agreement dated October 31, 1997, between the Company and ICI
Canada, in accordance with the terms thereof, that relate to the establishment,
funding, maintenance and operation of each Canadian Pension Plan to be
established therewith.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Rights of Redemption.
The Securities shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to
[o], 2005. On or after that date, the Securities shall be redeemable by the
Company, in whole or in part, on not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty
(60) days' prior notice, mailed by first-class mail to the Holders' registered
addresses, in cash, in amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 at
the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount), if redeemed in the 12-month period commencing [o] in the year indicated
below:
Year Redemption Price
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2005 105.00%
2006 102.50%
2007 100.00%
in each case together with accrued and unpaid interest, to the Redemption Date
(subject to the right of Holders of record on relevant record dates to receive
interest, due on an Interest Payment Date). If less than all of the Securities
are to be redeemed, the Trustee
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shall select the Securities to be redeemed pro rata, by lot or by any other
method the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate.
Securities may be redeemed or repurchased as set forth in
Sections 1009, 1014 and 1109 hereof. Any redemption pursuant to this Section
1101 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1102 through 1108
hereof.
Section 1102. Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company or
otherwise, as permitted or required by any provision of this Indenture, shall be
made in accordance with such provision and this Article Eleven.
Section 1103. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities pursuant
to Section 1101 hereof shall be evidenced by a Company Order and an Officers'
Certificate in compliance with Section 103. In case of any redemption at the
election of the Company, the Company shall, not less than forty-five (45) nor
more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company
(unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify
the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and of the
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed.
Section 1104. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be
Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the
particular Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed shall be selected not
more than thirty (30) days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption, pro rata, by lot or
such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and the amounts
to be redeemed may be equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security
Registrar (if other than the Company or the Trustee) in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected
for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context
otherwise requires, all provisions relating to redemption of Securities shall
relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to
the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 1105. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at his
address appearing in the Security Register.
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All notices of redemption shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the
principal amount of such Security to be redeemed and that after the Redemption
Date upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or new Securities in the
aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be
issued;
(e) that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered
to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;
(f) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that
(unless the Company shall default in payment of the Redemption Price) interest,
and premium, if any, thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(g) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(h) the paragraph of the Securities and/or Section of this
Indenture pursuant to which the Securities called for redemption are being
redeemed; and
(i) the CUSIP number, if any, relating to such Securities (as
to the accuracy of which the Trustee shall make no representation).
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the
election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's
written request in compliance with Section 103, by the Trustee in the name and
at the expense of PCI and the Company.
The notice, if mailed in the manner herein provided, shall be
conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives
such notice. In any case, failure to mail such notice, or any defect in any
notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of any Security designated for
redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.
Section 1106. Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any
Redemption Date and in accordance with Section 313, the Company shall deposit
with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1018 hereof) an
amount of money in same day funds
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sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and (except if the Redemption Date
shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on all the Securities or
portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date. When the Redemption Date
falls on an Interest Payment Date, payments of interest due on such date are to
be paid as provided hereunder as if no such redemption were occurring.
Section 1107. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the
Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and
payable at the Redemption Price therein specified and from and after such date
(unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and
accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender
of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such
Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price together with
accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of
interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to
the terms and the provisions of Section 309 hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal, and premium, if any,
shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by
such Security.
Section 1108. Securities Redeemed or Purchased in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed or purchased only in part
shall be surrendered to the Company at the office or agency maintained for such
purpose pursuant to Section 1002 hereof (with, if the Company, the Security
Registrar or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Security
Registrar or the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate in accordance with Section 303 and deliver to the
Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of
any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in an aggregate
principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered that is not redeemed or purchased.
Section 1109. Asset Sale Offers.
In the event that the Company shall commence an Asset Sale
Offer pursuant to Section 1009 hereof, it shall follow the procedures specified
below.
The Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for twenty (20)
Business Days after the date on which such Asset Sale Offer is commenced (the
"Commencement Date"), except to the extent required to be extended pursuant to
applicable law (as so extended, the "Asset Sale Offer Period"). No later than
one Business Day after the termination of the Asset Sale Offer Period (the
"Asset Sale Purchase Date"), the
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Company shall purchase the principal amount (the "Asset Sale Offer Amount") of
Securities required pursuant to Section 1009 hereof to be purchased in such
Asset Sale Offer and other pari passu Indebtedness that is required by its terms
to be purchased in such Asset Sale Offer or, if less than the Asset Sale Offer
Amount has been tendered, all Securities tendered in response to the Asset Sale
Offer.
If the Asset Sale Purchase Date is on or after a Regular
Record Date and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, or any accrued
interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Security is registered at
the close of business on such Regular Record Date, and no additional interest
shall be payable to Holders who tender Securities pursuant to the Asset Sale
Offer.
On the Commencement Date of any Asset Sale Offer, the Company
shall send or cause to be sent, by first class mail, a notice to each of the
Holders, with a copy to the Trustee. Such notice, which shall govern the terms
of the Asset Sale Offer, shall contain all instructions and materials necessary
to enable the Holders to tender Securities pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer and
shall state:
(1) that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to
Section 1009 hereof and this Section 1109 and the length of time the
Asset Sale Offer shall remain open;
(2) the Asset Sale Offer Amount, the Asset Sale Purchase Price
and the Asset Sale Purchase Date;
(3) that any Security not tendered or accepted for payment
shall continue to accrue interest, and premium, if any, in accordance
with this Indenture;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the
Asset Sale Purchase Price, all Securities accepted for payment pursuant
to the Asset Sale Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Asset
Sale Purchase Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have Securities purchased
pursuant to any Asset Sale Offer shall be required to surrender the
Security, with the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase"
on the reverse of the Security completed, to the Company, a depositary,
if appointed by the Company, or a Paying Agent at the address specified
in the notice prior to the close of business on the Business Day
preceding the Asset Sale Purchase Date;
(6) that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election
if the Company, Depositary or Paying Agent, as the case may be,
receives not later than the close of business on the Business Day
preceding the termination of the Asset Sale Offer Period, a telegram,
telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the
Holder, the principal amount of the Security the Holder delivered for
purchase, the certificate number on the Security and a statement that
such Holder is withdrawing his election to have the Security purchased;
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(7) that, if the aggregate principal amount of Securities
surrendered by Holders together with any other pari passu Indebtedness
that is required by its terms to be purchased in such Asset Sale Offer
exceeds the Asset Sale Offer Amount, the Company shall select the
Securities to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments
as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Securities in
denominations of $1,000, or integral multiples thereof, shall be
purchased); and
(8) that Holders whose Securities are purchased only in part
shall be issued new Securities equal in principal amount to the
unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered, which unpurchased
portion must be equal to $1,000 principal amount or an integral
multiples thereof.
On or before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each Asset
Sale Purchase Date, the Company shall irrevocably deposit with the Trustee or
Paying Agent in immediately available funds the aggregate Asset Sale Purchase
Price with respect to a principal amount of Securities equal to the Asset Sale
Offer Amount, together with accrued interest thereon, to be held for payment in
accordance with the terms of this Section 1109. On the Asset Sale Purchase Date,
the Company shall, (i) to the extent lawful, (i) accept for payment, on a pro
rata basis to the extent necessary, an aggregate principal amount equal to the
Asset Sale Offer Amount of Securities tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer,
or if less than the Asset Sale Offer Amount has been tendered, all Securities or
portions thereof tendered, (ii) deliver, or cause the Paying Agent or
depositary, as the case may be, to deliver to the Trustee the Securities so
accepted, and (iii) deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that
such Securities or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in
accordance with the terms of this Section 1109. The Company, a depositary or
Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall promptly (but in any case not later than
two (2) Business Days after the Asset Sale Purchase Date) mail or deliver to
each tendering Holder an amount equal to the Asset Sale Purchase Price with
respect to the Securities tendered by such Holder and accepted by the Company
for purchase, and the Company shall promptly issue a new Security, and the
Trustee shall authenticate in accordance with Section 303 and mail or deliver
such new Security, to such Holder, equal in principal amount to any unpurchased
portion of such Holder's Securities surrendered. Any Security not accepted in
the Asset Sale Offer shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the
Holder thereof. The Company shall publicly announce in a newspaper of general
circulation the results of the Asset Sale Offer on the Asset Sale Purchase Date.
The Asset Sale Offer shall be made by the Company in
compliance with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, the
requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, any other tender offer rules
under the Exchange Act and all other applicable U.S. Federal and state and
Canadian federal and provincial securities laws.
Subject to applicable escheat laws, as provided in the
Securities, the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as applicable, shall, upon the
Company's written request in compliance with Section 103, return to the Company
any cash that remains unclaimed held by them for the payment of the Asset Sale
Purchase Price; provided, however, that
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(x) to the extent that the aggregate amount of an Asset Sale Offer exceeds the
aggregate Asset Sale Purchase Price of the Securities or portions thereof to be
purchased, the Trustee shall hold such excess for the Company, and (y) unless
otherwise directed by the Company in writing in compliance with Section 103,
promptly after the Business Day following the Asset Sale Purchase Date the
Trustee shall return any such excess to the Company.
Other than as specifically provided in this Section 1109, each
purchase pursuant to this Section 1109 shall be made pursuant to the provisions
of Sections 1101 through 1108 hereof.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 1201. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as
to surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein
expressly provided for) and the Trustee, upon receipt of written demand, in
compliance with Section 103, and at the expense of the Company, shall execute
proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture,
when each of the following are satisfied:
(a) either
(1) all the Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid
as provided in Section 308 hereof, or (ii) all Securities for
whose payment United States dollars have theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the
Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged
from such trust, as provided in Section 1018 hereof) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(2) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable,
(ii) shall become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or (iii) are to be called for redemption
within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee
for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the
name, and at the expense, of the Company, and the Company or
any Guarantor, in the case of (2)(i), (ii) or (iii) above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount in
United States dollars sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants,
to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Securities
not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
the principal,
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premium, if any, and accrued interest at such Stated Maturity
or Redemption Date;
(b) the Company or any other Indenture Obligor has paid or
caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company and such other
Indenture Obligor, and has satisfied and/or paid in full all Indenture
Obligations hereunder; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
have been complied with, and (ii) such satisfaction and discharge shall not
result in a breach or violation of or constitute a default under, this Indenture
or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any
Indenture Obligor is a party or by which the Company or any Indenture Obligor is
bound.
Opinions of Counsel required to be delivered under this
Section may have qualifications customary for opinions of the type required and
counsel delivering such Opinions of Counsel may rely on certificates of the
Company or government or other officials customary for opinions of the type
required, including certificates certifying as to matters of fact, including
that various financial covenants have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 606
hereof and, if United States dollars shall have been deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (2) of subsection (a) of this Section, the obligations of
the Trustee under Section 1202 and the last paragraph of Section 1018 hereof
shall survive.
Section 1202. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1018 hereof, all United States dollars deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Section 1201 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with
the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities for whose
payment such United States dollars have been deposited with the Trustee.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any
tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the United States
dollars or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1201 or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee
or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of all
Outstanding Securities.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
GUARANTY
Section 1301. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability.
(a) (a) Each Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby
absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranties the punctual payment when
due, whether at scheduled maturity or on any date of a required or optional
prepayment or by acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Indenture Obligations
of the Company now or hereafter existing under or in respect of the Indenture
Documents (including, without limitation, any extensions, modifications,
substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all of the foregoing Indenture
Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether
for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities, contract causes of action,
costs, expenses or otherwise (such Indenture Obligations being the "Guaranteed
Obligations"), and agrees to pay any and all expenses (including, without
limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel incurred by the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent or the Holders in enforcing any rights under each Guaranty or
any other Indenture Document. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
each Guarantor's liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of
the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by the Company to the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent and the Holders under or in respect of the Indenture Documents
but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving the
Company.
(b) Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of this Guaranty,
the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and each Holder, hereby confirms that it is
the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty and the Indenture
Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or
conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code, the Uniform Fraudulent
Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign,
federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Indenture
Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention,
the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Holders and the Guarantors hereby
irrevocably agree that the Indenture Obligations of each Guarantor under this
Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in
the Indenture Obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty not constituting
a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
(c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
agrees that in the event any payment shall be required to be made to the
Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holders under this Guaranty or any other
guaranty, such Guarantor will contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by
law, such amounts to each other Guarantor and any other guarantor or surety so
as to maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent
and the Holders under or in respect of the Indenture Documents.
(d) It is specifically acknowledged and agreed that this
Guaranty has been delivered by each Guarantor free of any conditions whatsoever
and that no
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representations, warranties or promises have been made to any Guarantor
affecting its liabilities hereunder, and that the Trustee shall not be bound by
any representations, warranties or promises now or at any time hereafter made by
the Company to any Guarantor.
Section 1302. Guaranty Absolute.
Each Guarantor guaranties that the Guaranteed Obligations will
be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Indenture Documents,
regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any
jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent or any Holder with respect thereto. The obligations of each
Guarantor under or in respect of this Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed
Obligations or any other Obligations of any other Indenture Obligor under or in
respect of the Indenture Documents, and a separate action or actions may be
brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce this Guaranty,
irrespective of whether any action is brought against the Company, any other
Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries or whether the Company, any
other Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries is joined in any such
action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be
irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor
hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in
any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Indenture Document or
any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any
other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Indenture
Obligations of any other Obligor under or in respect of the Indenture Documents,
or any other amendment or waiver of, or any consent to departure from, any
Indenture Document, including, without limitation, any increase in the
Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to any
Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise;
(iii) any taking, exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral
or any other collateral, or any taking, release or amendment or waiver of, or
consent to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranteed
Obligations;
(iv) any manner of application of Collateral or any other collateral,
or proceeds thereof, to all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any manner
of sale or other disposition of any Collateral or any other collateral for all
or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Indenture Obligations of any
Obligor under the Indenture Documents or any other assets of any Obligor or any
of its Subsidiaries;
(v) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate structure
or existence of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vi) any failure of any of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any
Holder to disclose to any Obligor any information relating to the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or
prospects of any other
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Obligor now or hereafter known to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any
Holder (each Guarantor waiving any duty on the part of the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent or any Holder to disclose such information);
(vii) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver this
Guaranty, any Guaranty Supplement or any other guaranty or agreement or the
release or reduction of liability of any Guarantor or other guarantor or surety
with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; or
(viii) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any
statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by
the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder that might otherwise constitute
a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Obligor or any other guarantor or
surety.
This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated,
as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed
Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent, or any Holder or any other Person upon the insolvency,
bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or any other Indenture Obligor or
otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
Section 1303. Right to Demand Full Performance.
In the event of any demand for payment or performance by the
Trustee from any Guarantor hereunder, the Trustee or the Holders shall have the
right to demand its full claim and to receive all payments in respect thereof
until the Indenture Obligations have been paid in full and the Guarantors shall
continue to be jointly and severally liable hereunder for any balance which may
be owing to the Trustee or the Holders by the Company under this Indenture and
the Securities. The retention by the Trustee or the Holders of any security,
prior to the realization by the Trustee or the Holders of their rights to such
security upon foreclosure thereon, shall not, as between the Trustee and any
Guarantor, be considered as a purchase of such security, or as payment,
satisfaction or reduction of the Indenture Obligations due to the Trustee or the
Holders by the Company or any part thereof.
Section 1304. Waivers and Acknowledgments.
(a) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand for
performance, notice of nonperformance, default, acceleration, protest or
dishonor and any other notice with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations
and this Guaranty and any requirement that the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, or
any Holder protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien or any property subject
thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against any Obligor or any
Person or any Collateral.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives any right to revoke this Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is
continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether existing
now or in the future.
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(c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives, to the extent permitted by law, (i) any defense arising by reason of any
claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent, or any Holders that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases
or otherwise adversely affects the subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration,
contribution or indemnification rights of such Guarantor or other rights of such
Guarantor to proceed against any of the other Indenture Obligors, any other
guarantor or surety or any other Person or any Collateral, and (ii) any defense
based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of the
Indenture Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
(d) Each Guarantor acknowledges that the Trustee or the
Collateral Agent may, without notice to or demand upon such Guarantor and
without affecting the liability of such Guarantor under this Guaranty, foreclose
under any mortgage or other security interest by nonjudicial sale, and each
Guarantor hereby waives any defense to the recovery by the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent or the Holders against such Guarantor of any deficiency after
such nonjudicial sale and any defense or benefits that may be afforded by
applicable law.
(e) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
waives any duty on the part of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, or any Holder
to disclose to such Guarantor any matter, fact or thing relating to the
business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance,
properties or prospects of any other Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries now or
hereafter known by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, or any Holder.
(f) Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive
substantial direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements
contemplated by the Indenture Documents and that the waivers set forth in
Section 1302 and this Section 1304 are knowingly made in contemplation of such
benefits.
Section 1305. The Guarantors Remain Obligated in Event the
Company is No Longer Obligated to Discharge Indenture Obligations.
It is the express intention of the Trustee and the Guarantors
that if for any reason the Company has no legal existence, is or becomes under
no legal obligation to discharge the Indenture Obligations owing to the Trustee
or the Holders by the Company or if any of the Indenture Obligations owing by
the Company to the Trustee or the Holders become irrecoverable from the Company
by operation of law or for any reason whatsoever, this Guaranty and the
covenants, agreements and obligations of the Guarantors contained in this
Article Thirteen shall nevertheless be binding upon the Guarantors, as principal
debtor, until such time as all such Indenture Obligations have been paid in full
to the Trustee and all Indenture Obligations owing to the Trustee or the Holders
by the Company have been discharged, or such earlier time as Section 402 hereof
shall apply to the Securities and the Guarantors shall be responsible for the
payment thereof to the Trustee or the Holders upon demand.
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Section 1306. Subrogation.
Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees
not to exercise any rights that it may now have or hereafter acquire against the
Company, any other Obligor or any other insider guarantor that arise from the
existence, payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor's Obligations
under or in respect of this Guaranty or any other Indenture Document, including,
without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration,
contribution or indemnification and any right to participate in any claim or
remedy of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, or any Holder against the Company,
any other Obligor or any other insider guarantor or any Collateral, whether or
not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or
common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the
Company, any other Obligor or any other insider guarantor, directly or
indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner,
payment or security on account of such claim, remedy or right, unless and until
all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this
Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash. If any amount shall be paid to
any Guarantor in violation of the immediately preceding sentence at any time
prior to the latest of (a) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed
Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, and (b) the full
and complete payment and performance of the Indenture Obligations, such amount
shall be received and held in trust for the benefit of the Trustee, the
Collateral Agent, and the Holders, shall be segregated from other property and
funds of such Guarantor and shall forthwith be paid or delivered to the Trustee
in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement or assignment)
to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture Documents, or to be held as Collateral for any
Guaranteed Obligations or other amounts payable under this Guaranty thereafter
arising. If (i) any Guarantor shall make payment to the Trustee, the Collateral
Agent or any Holder of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) all
of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty
shall have been paid in full in cash, and (iii) the Indenture Obligations shall
have been paid and performed completely and fully, the Trustee, the Collateral
Agent, and the Holders will, at such Guarantor's request and expense, execute
and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and
without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by
subrogation to such Guarantor of an interest in the Guaranteed Obligations
resulting from such payment made by such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty.
Section 1307. Subordination.
Each Guarantor hereby subordinates any and all debts, liabilities and other
obligations owed to such Guarantor by each other Obligor (the "Subordinated
Obligations") to the Guaranteed Obligations to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Section 1307.
(a) Prohibited Payments, Etc. Except during the continuance of
any Event of Default (including the commencement and continuation of any
proceeding
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under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Obligor), each Guarantor may
receive regularly scheduled payments from any other Obligor on account of the
Subordinated Obligations. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any
Event of Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding
under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Obligor), unless the Holders of a
majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding
otherwise agree, no Guarantor shall demand, accept or take any action to collect
any payment on account of the Subordinated Obligations.
(b) Prior Payment of Guaranteed Obligations. In any proceeding
under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Obligor, each Guarantor agrees
that the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, and the Holders shall be entitled to
receive payment in full in cash of all Guaranteed Obligations (including all
interest and expenses accruing after the commencement of a proceeding under any
Bankruptcy Law, whether or not constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding
("Post Petition Interest")) before such Guarantor receives payment of any
Subordinated Obligations.
(c) Turn-Over. After the occurrence and during the continuance
of any Event of Default (including the commencement and continuation of any
proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Obligor), each
Guarantor shall, if the Trustee so requests, collect, enforce and receive
payments on account of the Subordinated Obligations as trustee for the Trustee,
the Collateral Agent, and the Holders and deliver such payments to the Trustee
on account of the Guaranteed Obligations (including all Post Petition Interest
as referred to in Section 1307(b)), together with any necessary endorsements or
other instruments of transfer, but without reducing or affecting in any manner
the liability of such Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guaranty.
Section 1308. Continuing Guaranty; Assignments. This Guaranty
is a continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the
latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all
other amounts payable under this Guaranty, and (ii) the payment and performance
in full of all the Indenture Obligations of all the Obligors under any Indenture
Document, (b) be binding upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns
permitted by this Indenture, and (c) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable
by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, and the Holders and their respective
successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause
(c) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or
any Holder may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights
under this Guaranty (including, without limitation, all or any portion of its
Securities held by it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall
thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to the
Trustee, the Collateral Agent, or such Holder herein or otherwise, in each case
as and to the extent provided in this Indenture. No Guarantor shall have the
right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior
written consent of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and each of the Holders.
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Section 1309. Guaranty Is in Addition to Other Security.
This Guaranty shall be in addition to and not in substitution
for any other guaranties or other security which the Trustee may now or
hereafter hold in respect of the Indenture Obligations owing to the Trustee or
the Holders by the Company and (except as may be required by law) the Trustee
shall be under no obligation to marshal in favor of each of the Guarantors any
other guaranties or other security or any moneys or other assets which the
Trustee may be entitled to receive or upon which the Trustee or the Holders may
have a claim.
Section 1310. Contribution.
In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among
the Guarantors, the Guarantors agree, inter se, that in the event any payment or
distribution is made by any Guarantor (a "Funding Guarantor") under its
Guaranty, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from all
other Guarantors in a pro rata amount based on the Adjusted Net Assets of each
Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and
expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging the Company's
obligations with respect to the Securities or any other Guarantor's obligation
with respect to its Guaranty.
Section 1311. Trustee's Duties; Notice to Trustee.
(a) Any provision in this Article Thirteen or elsewhere in
this Indenture allowing the Trustee to request any information or to take any
action authorized by, or on behalf of any Guarantor, shall be subject to Section
602(d) and shall be permissive and shall not be obligatory on the Trustee except
as the Holders may direct in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture or
where the failure of the Trustee to request any such information or to take any
such action arises from the Trustee's gross negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct.
(b) The Trustee shall not be required to inquire into the
existence, powers or capacities of the Company or any Guarantor or the officers,
directors or agents acting or purporting to act on their respective behalf.
Section 1312. Release of Guaranty.
Concurrently with the payment in full of all of the Indenture
Obligations, the Guarantors shall be released from and relieved of their
obligations under this Article Thirteen, except that this Section 1312 shall
survive such release of the Guarantors and the termination of this Indenture.
Upon the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and,
if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
transaction giving rise to the release of this Guaranty was made by the Company
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the Securities, the
Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the
release of the Guarantors from their obligations under this Guaranty. If any of
the Indenture Obligations are revived and reinstated after the termination of
this Guaranty, then all of the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty
shall be revived and reinstated as if
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this Guaranty had not been terminated until such time as the Indenture
Obligations are paid in full and each Guarantor shall enter into an amendment to
this Guaranty, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, evidencing such revival
and reinstatement.
Section 1313. Execution of Guaranty.
To evidence the Guaranty, each Guarantor hereby agrees to
execute the guaranty substantially in the form set forth in Section 206 hereof,
to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and
that this Indenture shall be executed on behalf of each Guarantor by its
Chairman of the Board, its President, or one of its Vice Presidents, under its
corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its
Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities
may be manual or facsimile.
If an officer whose signature is on this Indenture no longer
holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates a Security on which a
Guaranty is endorsed, such Guaranty shall be valid nevertheless.
Section 1314. Payment Permitted by Each of the Guarantors if
no Default.
Nothing contained in this Article Thirteen, elsewhere in this
Indenture or in any of the Securities shall affect the obligation of any
Guarantor to make, or prevent any Guarantor from making at any time, payments
pursuant to the Securities.
Section 1315. Notice to Trustee by Each of the Guarantors.
Each Guarantor shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee
of any fact known to such Guarantor which would prohibit the making of any
payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Guaranty. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Article Thirteen or any provision of this Indenture, the
Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which
would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice
thereof from any Guarantor. Prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the
Trustee shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist.
Section 1316. Additional Guaranties.
Each Subsidiary of an Indenture Obligor shall be a Guarantor
and, accordingly, if any Subsidiary of any Indenture Obligor shall be formed
after the Closing Date, such Indenture Obligor shall cause such Subsidiary to
execute and deliver to the Trustee a duly executed supplemental indenture,
pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall unconditionally guaranty, in accordance
with Article Thirteen hereof, all of PCI and the Company's obligations under the
Indenture and the Securities on the same terms as the other Guarantors, and such
guaranty shall rank pari passu with the senior Indebtedness of such Subsidiary.
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Section 1317. No Suspension of Remedies.
Nothing contained in this Article Thirteen shall limit the
right of the Trustee or the Holders of Securities to take any action to
accelerate the maturity of the Securities pursuant to the provisions described
under Article Five and as set forth in this Indenture or to pursue any rights or
remedies hereunder or under applicable law.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS OF INDENTURE
This Indenture shall become effective, and the issuance of the
Securities shall be made subject to, the prior or concurrent satisfaction of
each of the conditions set forth in this Article Fourteen.
Section 1401. Conditions Precedent to the Effectiveness of the
Plan of Reorganization, etc. All conditions precedent to the effectiveness of
the Plan of Reorganization shall have been satisfied or waived in accordance
with the terms of the Plan of Reorganization, the Confirmation Order shall have
become a Final Order and the Effective Plan Date shall have occurred.
Section 1402. Implementation of Plan of Reorganization. The
transactions contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization to have been consummated
on or before the Closing Date shall have been consummated on or before the
Closing Date in accordance with the terms of the Plan of Reorganization,
including the New Tranche A Notes Indenture and the other Indenture Documents
taking effect, and the granting of Liens securing the Collateral.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN
SECURITY
Section 1501. Security.
(a) In order to secure the due and punctual payment of
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Indenture Obligations when
and as the same shall become due and payable, whether on an Interest Payment
Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption, in connection with
an Change of Control or Asset Sale, or otherwise, and interest on the overdue
principal of, interest (to the extent permitted by law), and premium, if any, on
the Securities, and performance of all other obligations of the Company to the
Trustee or the Holders under this Indenture and each other Indenture Document
and of all obligations of the Guarantors under the Guaranty and each other
Indenture Document, the Company and the other Obligors have entered into the
applicable Security Documents to which each is a party. Each Indenture Obligor
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hereby acknowledges and agrees with each other Indenture Obligor, the Trustee,
and the Holders that such Indenture Obligor has secured valuable and fair
consideration and corporate and other benefit for entering into each Security
Document to which it is a party.
(b) Each Holder, by accepting a Security, consents and agrees
to all of the terms and provisions of the Security Documents and the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement, as the same may be amended from time to
time in accordance with the provisions of the Security Documents, the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement and this Indenture, and authorizes and
directs the Collateral Agent to act as mortgagee or secured party with respect
thereto or to act as collateral agent pursuant to the Common Security and
Intercreditor Agreement.
(c) As set forth in and governed by the Security Documents, as
among the Holders, the Collateral as now or hereafter constituted shall be held
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders without preference, priority or
distinction of any thereof over any other by reason of difference in time of
issuance, sale or otherwise, as security for the Securities.
(d) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee copies of all
documents delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents,
and shall do or cause to be done all such acts and things as may be necessary or
proper, or as may be required by the provisions of the Security Documents, to
assure and confirm to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent the security interest
in the Collateral contemplated hereby, by the Security Documents or any part
thereof, as from time to time constituted, so as to render the same available
for the security and benefit of this Indenture and of the Securities secured
thereby, according to the intent and purposes herein and therein expressed.
Section 1502. Recording; Priority; Opinions, Etc.
(a) Each Indenture Obligor will, and will cause each of its
Obligor Subsidiaries to, perform at its sole cost and expense any and all acts
and execute any and all documents (including, without limitation, the execution,
amendment or supplementation of any financing statement, continuation statement,
charge, registration or other statement) for filing under the provisions of the
UCC and the rules and regulations thereunder, applicable Canadian federal or
provincial statutes (including the Civil Code of Quebec) and the rules and
regulations thereunder, or any other statute, rule or regulation of any
applicable federal, state, provincial or local jurisdiction, including any
filings in local real estate land record offices, which are necessary or
advisable and shall do such other acts and execute such other documents as may
be required under any of the Security Documents to which it is a party, from
time to time, in order to grant and maintain valid and perfected Liens on the
Collateral relating to it in favor of the Collateral Agent in the priorities
expressed to be created by the Security Documents, subject only to Liens
permitted under the Security Documents to be senior or pari passu to the Liens
of the Collateral Agent, and to fully preserve and protect, and set-up against
third persons, the rights of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holder
under this
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Indenture and the other Indenture Documents. Each relevant Indenture Obligor
will, and will cause each of its Obligor Subsidiaries to, pay and satisfy
promptly all mortgage and financing and continuation statement recording and/or
filing fees or registration fees, charges and taxes relating to this Indenture,
the Security Documents and the other Indenture Documents, any amendments thereto
and any other instruments of further assurance.
(b) The Company shall, on each anniversary of the Closing Date
beginning in the year 2002 and upon each delivery of a Security Agreement
Supplement pursuant to Section 1017, furnish to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel, dated as of such date, either (a) to the effect that, in the opinion of
such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recordings,
registerings, filings, re-recordings, re-registerings and refilings of all
financing statements, continuation statements or other instruments of further
assurance as is necessary to maintain the Lien of each of the Security Documents
and reciting with respect to such Liens the details of such action or
referencing prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, and
stating that all financing statements and continuation statements and other
filings or registrations have been executed and filed that are necessary as of
such date, and during the succeeding twelve months, fully to preserve and
protect, and set-up against third persons, the rights of the Collateral Agent,
the Holders and the Trustee hereunder and under each of the Security Documents
with respect to the Liens, or (b) to the effect that, in the opinion of such
counsel, no such action is necessary to maintain the effectiveness of such
Liens.
Section 1503. Release of Collateral.
The Trustee shall not direct the Collateral Agent to release
Collateral from the Lien of the Security Documents unless such release is in
accordance with the provisions of the Security Documents and Section 314(d) of
the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 1504. Trust Indenture Act Requirements.
The release of any Collateral from any of the Security
Documents or the release of, in whole or in part, the Liens created by any of
the Security Documents, will not be deemed to impair the Lien of the Security
Documents in contravention of the provisions hereof if and to the extent the
Collateral or Liens are released pursuant to the terms of the Security
Documents. The Trustee and each of the Holders acknowledge that a release of
Collateral or Liens strictly in accordance with the terms of the Security
Documents and the terms hereof will not be deemed for any purpose to be an
impairment of the Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents in
contravention of the terms of this Indenture. Without limitation, the Company
and each other Indenture Obligor on the Securities shall cause Section 314(d) of
the Trust Indenture Act relating to the release of property or securities from
the Liens of the Security Documents to be complied with. Any certificate or
opinion required by Section 314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act may be made by an
officer of PCI, the Company or any Guarantor, as the case may be, except in
cases where Section 314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act requires that such
certificate or opinion be made by an independent person.
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Section 1505. Suits to Protect Collateral.
Subject to the provisions of the Common Security and
Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee, acting at the written direction of Holders
of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then
Outstanding, shall have power to institute and to maintain, or direct the
Collateral Agent to institute and maintain, such suits and proceedings as the
Trustee may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any
acts which may be unlawful or in violation of any of the Security Documents or
this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may deem expedient
to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders in the
Collateral (including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to
restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other
governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise
invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order
would impair the Liens of each Collateral Agent in the Collateral or be
prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or the Trustee). Nothing in this
Section 1505 shall prohibit, restrict or prevent the Holders, upon the vote or
consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then Outstanding, to institute such suits or proceedings
independently of the Trustee and/or the Collateral Agent.
Section 1506. Determinations Relating to Collateral.
In the event (a) the Trustee shall receive any written request
in compliance with Section 103 from PCI, the Company or any Guarantor under any
Security Document for consent or approval with respect to any matter or thing
relating to any Collateral or any Obligor's obligations with respect thereto, or
(b) there shall be due to or from the Trustee under the provisions of any
Security Document, any performance or the delivery of any instrument, or (c) the
Trustee shall become aware of any nonperformance by any Obligor of any covenant
or any breach of any representation or warranty of PCI, the Company or any
Guarantor set forth in any Security Document, then, in each such event, the
Trustee [may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders,
direct, on behalf of the Holders, the Collateral Agent to take all actions it
deems necessary or appropriate in order to (x) enforce any of the terms of the
Security Documents, and (y) collect and receive any and all amounts payable in
respect of the obligations of the Obligors hereunder. The Trustee shall have
power to institute and maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem
expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders
in the Collateral (including the power to institute and maintain suits and
proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or
other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or
otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment,
rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to
the interests of the Holders or to the Trustee). The Trustee] shall be entitled,
at the expense of the Company and subject to Sections 602(d) and (h) hereof, to
hire experts, consultants, agents and attorneys (including internal counsel) to
advise the Trustee on the manner in which the Trustee should respond to such
request or render any requested performance or response to such nonperformance
or breach. The Trustee shall be fully protected in the taking of any action
recommended or approved by any such expert, consultant, agent or attorney
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(including internal counsel) or agreed to by the Holders of a majority of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding pursuant to
Section 505 hereof.
Section 1507. Trust Moneys.
To the extent Trust Moneys consist of insurance proceeds or
condemnation or other taking awards, any such moneys which may be used to effect
a restoration of the affected Collateral shall be permitted to be withdrawn by
the Company and paid by the Collateral Agent in accordance with the Common
Security and Intercreditor Agreement. The Company shall deliver (a) an Officers'
Certificate certifying as to expenditures made or costs incurred, the necessity
or desirability in the conduct of the Company's business of the repaired,
rebuilt, or replaced property, and the Fair Market Value of such property as of
the date of the expenditures, (b) an Opinion of Counsel as to the validity and
perfection of the Collateral Agent's lien on the repaired or replaced Collateral
and (c) an architect's certificate as to the costs of such restoration and
compliance with law, all in accordance with the Common Security and
Intercreditor Agreement.
To the extent Trust Moneys consist of Collateral Proceeds, and
the Company intends to reinvest such proceeds in the Company or in one or more
Subsidiaries in a Related Business, such Trust Moneys shall be permitted to be
withdrawn by the Company upon delivery to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent
of (a) a Company Order regarding such withdrawal, (b) an Officers' Certificate
certifying compliance with the Indenture, (c) instruments granting the
Collateral Agent first priority Liens, for the benefit of the Trustee, for
itself and the Holders, and the New Tranche A Notes Indenture Trustee, for
itself and the New Tranche A Note Holders on the real or personal property
interests in which the Company or any Subsidiary have invested, and (d) an
Opinion of Counsel as to the instruments governing such Liens and security
interests, all in accordance with the Common Security and Intercreditor
Agreement.
Trust Moneys shall be permitted to be applied from time to
time (x) to the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities, or (y) to the extent otherwise permitted by the Indenture, to redeem
or repurchase Securities, including without limitation pursuant to a Change of
Control Offer or (to the extent such Trust Moneys constitute proceeds from Asset
Sales) an Asset Sale Offer, or (z) at the direction of PCI, the Company and each
Guarantor, to pay any other Indebtedness secured by liens in the Collateral (but
only to the extent such Trust Moneys constitute Collateral Proceeds). In each
case the Trustee and each Collateral Agent shall receive (a) resolutions of the
Boards of Directors of the PCI, the Company and each Guarantor directing such
application, (b) an Officers' Certificate, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel, and
the Collateral Agent shall receive cash equaling the accrued interest, if any,
required to be paid in connection with such payment or purchase. Trust Moneys
received by each Collateral Agent or the Trustee pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer
remaining after the completion of such Asset Sale Offer shall be permitted to be
withdrawn by the Company upon request of the Company in compliance with Section
103 and delivery of an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, all in
accordance with the Common Security and Intercreditor Agreement.
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Any release of Collateral, including Trust Moneys, will be
subject to the provisions of Section 314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act relating
to, among other things, the delivery of a certificate or an opinion of an
engineer, appraiser or other expert as to the Fair Market Value of Collateral
being released from the Liens of the Security Documents.
Section 1508. Power of Attorney for Collateral in Quebec.
For the purposes of the security on the Collateral located in
Quebec, the validity, publication or perfection of which is governed by the laws
of the province of Quebec, each of the Trustee and the Holders hereby
irrevocably grants to the Collateral Agent, for the purposes of holding, on
behalf of and for the benefit of all present and future Trustees and Holders,
the security constituted by the Company under the Quebec Mortgage and Security
Agreement, a power of attorney within the meaning of the Civil Code of Quebec
(the "Power of Attorney") for all present and future Trustees and Holders. The
Collateral Agent hereby accepts such Power of Attorney for the purposes of
holding such security created under the Quebec Mortgage and Security Agreement
on behalf of and for the benefit of all present and future Trustees and Holders.
To the extent that any such Person becomes a Trustee under this Indenture or a
Holder by accepting, purchasing or acquiring a Security becomes bound by the
terms and conditions of this Indenture, whether by assignment or otherwise, such
Person shall be automatically deemed to have ratified and consented to the
irrecovable granting by the Trustee and the Holders to the Collateral Agent of
the Power of Attorney constituted hereunder. Each Holder agrees (i) with the
other Holders that it will not, without the prior consent of the Trustee and the
other Holders, take or obtain any Lien on any property of the Company to secure
the Indenture Obligations of the Company hereunder or under the Securities,
except for the benefit of the Collateral Agent for and on behalf of, the Trustee
and the Holders, or as may otherwise be required by law; and (ii) that,
notwithstanding the provisions of Section 32 of the Special Corporate Powers Act
(Quebec), the Collateral Agent may, as a Person holding the Power of Attorney of
the Trustee and the Holders, acquire any title to indebtedness secured by any
hypothec in its favor related to this Indenture or the Securities or any other
document contemplated hereunder.
[signature pages follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY,
as Issuer
Attest
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Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
GUARANTORS: PIONEER COMPANIES, INC.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
IMPERIAL WEST CHEMICAL CO.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
KEMWATER NORTH AMERICA CO.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
PIONEER AMERICAS LLC
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
PIONEER (EAST), INC.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
PIONEER WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
PIONEER LICENSING, INC.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
KWT, INC.
Attest
--------------------------------
Name: By
Title: --------------------------------
Name:
Title:
SCHEDULE 1
[EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS]
[To be filed with Amendment to Form T-3]
SCHEDULE 2
[EXISTING INVESTMENTS]
[To be filed with Amendment to Form T-3]
EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF MORTGAGE]
[To be filed with Amendment to Form T-3]
EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF COMMON SECURITY AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT]
[To be filed with Amendment to Form T-3]
EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY]
[To be filed with Amendment to Form T-3]
EX-99.T3F
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET OF INDENTURE
Exhibit T3F
Cross reference sheet showing the location in the Indenture of the
provisions inserted therein pursuant to Section 310 through 318(a), inclusive,
of the 1939 Act.
Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section
----------- -------
Section 310(a)(1) ........... 608
(a)(2) ............... 608
(a)(3) ............... N.A.
(a)(4) ............... N.A.
(a)(5) ............... 607
(b) .................. 607, 609
(c) .................. N.A.
Section 311(a) .............. 612
(b) .................. 612
(c) .................. N.A.
Section 312(a) .............. 701, 702
(b) .................. 117, 702
(c) .................. 117, 702
Section 313(a) .............. 703
(b)(1) ............... 703
(b)(2) ............... 703
(c) .................. 703
(d) .................. 703
Section 314(a) .............. 704, 1003
(b) .................. 1502
(c)(1) ............... 103
(c)(2) ............... 103
(c)(3) ............... N.A.
(d) .................. 103, 1503, 1504, 1507
(e) .................. 103
(f) .................. N.A.
Section 315(a) .............. 602, 613, 903
(b) ................. 601, 602, 903
(c) ................. 602, 903
(d) ................. 602, 903
(e) .................. 511
Section 316(a)(last sentence) 101
("Outstanding")
(a)(1)(A) ................... 502, 505
(a)(1)(B) ............ 504
(a)(2) ............... N.A.
(b) .................. 507
(c) .................. 105
Section 317(a)(1) ........... 508
(a)(2) ............... 509
(b) .................. 1018
Section 318(a) .............. 310
N.A. means not applicable.________________________________
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FORM T-1 QUALIFYING WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA
EXHIBIT 25.1
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
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___ CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT
TO SECTION 305(b) (2)
WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
A U.S. NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION 41-1592157
(Jurisdiction of incorporation or (I.R.S. Employer
organization if not a U.S. national Identification No.)
bank)
SIXTH STREET AND MARQUETTE AVENUE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Stanley S. Stroup, General Counsel
WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
(612) 667-1234
(Agent for Service)
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PCI CHEMICALS CANADA COMPANY
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 76-0549506
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
700 LOUISIANA, SUITE 4300
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
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10% SENIOR SECURED GUARANTEED NOTES DUE 2008
(Title of the indenture securities)
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Item 1. General Information. Furnish the following information as to the
trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising
authority to which it is subject.
Comptroller of the Currency
Treasury Department
Washington, D.C.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Washington, D.C.
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Washington, D.C.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust
powers.
The trustee is authorized to exercise corporate trust
powers.
Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor. If the obligor is an affiliate of the
trustee, describe each such affiliation.
None with respect to the trustee.
No responses are included for Items 3-14 of this Form T-1 because the obligor is
not in default as provided under Item 13.
Item 15. Foreign Trustee. Not applicable.
Item 16. List of Exhibits. List below all exhibits filed as a part of
this Statement of Eligibility. Wells Fargo
Bank incorporates by reference into this
Form T-1 the exhibits attached hereto.
Exhibit 1. a. A copy of the Articles of Association of the
trustee now in effect.**
Exhibit 2. a. A copy of the certificate of authority of
the trustee to commence business issued June
28, 1872, by the Comptroller of the Currency
to The Northwestern National Bank of
Minneapolis.*
b. A copy of the certificate of the Comptroller
of the Currency dated January 2, 1934,
approving the consolidation of The
Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis
and The Minnesota Loan and Trust Company of
Minneapolis, with the surviving entity being
titled Northwestern National Bank and Trust
Company of Minneapolis.*
c. A copy of the certificate of the Acting
Comptroller of the Currency dated January
12, 1943, as to change of corporate title of
Northwestern National Bank and Trust Company
of Minneapolis to Northwestern National Bank
of Minneapolis.*
d. A copy of the letter dated May 12, 1983 from
the Regional Counsel, Comptroller of the
Currency, acknowledging receipt of notice of
name change effective May 1, 1983 from
Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis to
Norwest Bank Minneapolis, National
Association.*
e. A copy of the letter dated January 4, 1988
from the Administrator of National Banks for
the Comptroller of the Currency certifying
approval of consolidation and merger
effective January 1, 1988 of Norwest Bank
Minneapolis, National Association with
various other banks under the title of
"Norwest Bank Minnesota, National
Association."*
f. A copy of the letter dated July 10, 2000
from the Administrator of National Banks for
the Comptroller of the Currency certifying
approval of consolidation effective July 8,
2000 of Norwest Bank Minnesota, National
Association with various other banks under
the title of "Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota,
National Association."***
Exhibit 3. A copy of the authorization of the trustee to
exercise corporate trust powers issued January 2,
1934, by the Federal Reserve Board.*
Exhibit 4. Copy of By-laws of the trustee as now in effect.**
Exhibit 5. Not applicable.
Exhibit 6. The consent of the trustee required by Section 321(b)
of the Act.
Exhibit 7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the
trustee published pursuant to law or the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority.****
Exhibit 8. Not applicable.
Exhibit 9. Not applicable.
* Incorporated by reference to exhibit number 25 filed with
registration statement number 33-66026.
** Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to
the trustee's Form T-1 filed as exhibit 99.T3G to the Form T-3
dated July 13, 2000 of GB Property Funding Corp. file number
022-22473.
*** Incorporated by reference to exhibit number 2f to the
trustee's Form T-1 filed as exhibit 25.1 to the Current Report
Form 8-K dated September 8, 2000 of NRG Energy Inc. file
number 001-15891.
**** Incorporated by reference to exhibit 25.1 to the Current
Report Form T-3 dated September 10, 2001 of Loewen Group
International Inc. file number 022-22557.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the
trustee, Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, a national banking
association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of
Minneapolis and State of Minnesota on the 1ST day of November 2001.
WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
/s/ Timothy P.Mowdy
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Timothy P. Mowdy
Corporate Trust Officer
EXHIBIT 6
November 1, 2001
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, the undersigned hereby consents that reports of examination of the
undersigned made by Federal, State, Territorial, or District authorities
authorized to make such examination may be furnished by such authorities to the
Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request therefor.
Very truly yours,
WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
/s/ Timothy P. Mowdy
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Timothy P. Mowdy
Corporate Trust Officer