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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
June 25, 2007
TEKTRONIX, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
OREGON
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
  001-04837
(Commission File Number)
  93-0343990
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
     
14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, Oregon

(Address of principal executive offices)
  97077
(Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (503) 627-7111
No Change
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
 

 


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ITEM 1.01 ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.
ITEM 2.03 CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT.
ITEM 3.02 UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 4.1
EXHIBIT 4.2
EXHIBIT 10.1
EXHIBIT 10.2
EXHIBIT 10.3
EXHIBIT 10.4
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ITEM 1.01 ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.
Purchase Agreement
     On June 25, 2007, Tektronix, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) under which it agreed to sell $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 1.625% Senior Convertible Notes due 2012 (the “Notes”) to Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”). The Company also granted the Initial Purchasers an option to purchase up to an additional $45.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes to cover over-allotments, if any. The Initial Purchasers exercised this option in full. The net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, after deducting the Initial Purchasers’ discount of $8,625,000 and the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, were approximately $336 million. The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants. Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to indemnify the Initial Purchasers against certain liabilities. A copy of the Purchase Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
     The closing of the sale of the Notes occurred on June 29, 2007. The Notes and the shares of the Company’s common stock, without par value (the “Common Stock”), issuable in certain circumstances upon conversion of the Notes, as described below and as more fully set forth in the Indenture (as defined below), have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Company offered and sold the Notes to the Initial Purchasers in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. The Initial Purchasers then sold the Notes to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Company relied on these exemptions from registration based in part on representations made by the Initial Purchasers in the Purchase Agreement.
     The Initial Purchasers have engaged in, and may in the future engage in, investment banking, commercial banking and other commercial dealings in the ordinary course of business with the Company. They have received customary fees and commissions for these transactions.
Indenture
     On June 29, 2007, the Company entered into an indenture (the “Indenture”) with U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), regarding the Notes. A copy of the Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. The Company maintains various banking relationships with the Trustee in the ordinary course of business, including unsecured bank credit facilities. The Trustee receives customary fees in connection therewith.
     Conversion; Repurchase. The Notes will be convertible only under certain circumstances, as described below, at an initial conversion rate of 25.1538 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to a conversion price of approximately $39.76 per share), subject to adjustment. Upon conversion of a Note, in lieu of shares of Common Stock, a holder will receive cash in an amount equal to the lesser of $1,000 and the conversion value of the Note (determined in accordance with the terms of the Indenture) and, if the conversion value is greater than $1,000, payment of the excess value, at the Company’s

 


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option, in the form of cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and Common Stock. Holders may convert their Notes prior to the close of business on the second business day before the maturity date based on the applicable conversion rate only under the following circumstances:
    during any calendar quarter beginning after September 30, 2007 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the closing price of the Common Stock for at least 20 trading days in the 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is more than 130% of the applicable conversion price per share, which is $1,000 divided by the then applicable conversion rate;
 
    during any five business day period after any five consecutive trading day period in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each day of that period was less than 98% of the product of the closing price of the Common Stock on such day and the conversion rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes;
 
    if specified distributions to holders of the Common Stock are made, as set forth in the Indenture;
 
    if a fundamental change occurs (a “fundamental change” will be deemed to have occurred upon a change of control or a termination of trading, each as defined in the Indenture); or
 
    at any time beginning on June 15, 2012 and ending at the close of business on the second business day preceding the maturity date.
     The holders of the Notes who convert their Notes in connection with a fundamental change (as defined in the Indenture) may be entitled to a make-whole premium in the form of an increase in the conversion rate. Additionally, if a fundamental change occurs, holders of the Notes may require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes for cash at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the repurchase date.
     Interest Payments; Maturity Dates. The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 1.625% per year, payable semiannually in arrears in cash on January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on January 15, 2008. The Notes will mature on July 15, 2012.
     Ranking. The Notes are the Company’s unsecured and unsubordinated obligations and rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company’s existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all of the Company’s existing and future subordinated indebtedness. The Notes effectively rank junior to all of the Company’s existing and future secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness and to all liabilities of the Company’s subsidiaries.
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agreements or instruments, occurring and continuing, either the Trustee or the holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes may declare the principal of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration immediately due and payable. In the case of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency relating to the Company or any significant subsidiary of the Company, the principal amount of the Notes and accrued interest automatically become due and payable.
Registration Rights Agreement
     In connection with the closing of the sale of the Notes, on June 29, 2007, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the Initial Purchasers (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). A copy of the Registration Rights Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.2 and is incorporated herein by reference.
     Under the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has agreed, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, to file a shelf registration statement with respect to the resale of the Notes and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes no later than 120 days after the original issuance of the Notes and to use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such shelf registration statement to become effective as promptly as practicable, but in no event later than 210 days after the original issuance of the Notes. The Company also has agreed to use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the shelf registration statement effective until the earliest of (1) the sale pursuant to the shelf registration statement of the Notes and all of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, (2) the date when such securities held by non-affiliates may be sold immediately without restriction pursuant to the volume limitation provisions of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or any successor provision, and (3) the date that is two years from the original issuance of the Notes, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement. Subject to certain exceptions and limitations as set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, additional interest will accrue on the Notes (i) if the shelf registration statement has not been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) within 120 days after the original issuance of the Notes, (ii) if the shelf registration statement has not become effective within 210 days after the original issuance of the Notes, (iii) if the shelf registration statement shall cease to be effective or fail to be usable without being succeeded within seven business days by a post-effective amendment or a report filed with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that cures the failure of the shelf registration statement to be effective or usable, or (iv) the use of the prospectus included in the shelf registration statement has been suspended for longer than the permitted period. Additional interest will not accrue if the Company is eligible for, and elects to utilize, the “automatic shelf” registration procedure on Form S-3 available to “well-known seasoned issuers” and files a shelf registration statement with the SEC no later than 150 days after the original issuance of the Notes, which shelf registration statement shall become effective upon filing. If a holder has converted some or all of its Notes into Common Stock, the holder will not be entitled to receive any additional interest with respect to such Common Stock or the principal amount of the Notes converted.
Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions
     In connection with the sale of the Notes, the Company entered into convertible note hedge transactions with respect to the Common Stock (the “Call Options”) with Merrill Lynch International and Citibank, N.A. (collectively, the “Hedge Dealers”). The Call Options cover,

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subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, 8,678,061 shares of Common Stock in the aggregate at exercise prices equal to approximately $39.76. The Company paid an aggregate amount of approximately $74.5 million for the Call Options. Copies of the Confirmations of OTC Convertible Note Hedge with each Hedge Dealer relating to the Call Options, which confirmations were entered into on June 25, 2007 and amended and restated on June 29, 2007 to reflect the exercise of the over-allotment option, are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.2 and 10.3 and are incorporated herein by reference.
     In connection with the sale of the Notes, the Company also entered into separate warrant transactions with Merrill Lynch Financial Markets, Inc. and Citibank, N.A. (collectively, the “Warrant Dealers”), whereby in reliance upon the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act, the Company sold to the Warrant Dealers warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase in the aggregate 8,678,061 shares of Common Stock, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, at an exercise price of approximately $49.26 per share of Common Stock. The Warrants may be exercised over a 100-day trading period commencing October 15, 2012. The Company received aggregate proceeds of approximately $44 million from the sale of the Warrants. Copies of the Confirmations of OTC Warrant Transaction with each Warrant Dealer relating to the Warrants, which confirmations were entered into on June 25, 2007 and amended and restated on June 29, 2007 to reflect the exercise of the over-allotment option, are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.4 and 10.5 and are incorporated herein by reference.
     The Call Options and the Warrants are separate contracts entered into by the Company with the Hedge Dealers and Warrant Dealers, are not part of the terms of the Notes and will not affect the holders’ rights under the Notes. The Call Options are intended to offset potential dilution upon conversion of the Notes in the event that the market value per share of the Common Stock at the time of exercise is greater than the exercise price of the Call Options, which is equal to the initial conversion price of the Notes and is subject to certain customary adjustments.
     If the market value per share of the Common Stock at the time of conversion of the Notes is above the exercise price of the applicable Call Options, the Call Options entitle the Company to receive from the Hedge Dealers net shares of Common Stock, cash or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, depending on the consideration paid by the Company upon conversion of the underlying Notes, based on the excess of the then current market price of the Common Stock over the exercise price of the Call Options. Additionally, if the market price of the Common Stock at the time of exercise of the applicable Warrants exceeds the exercise price of the Warrants, the Company will owe the Warrant Dealers net shares of Common Stock or cash, not offset by the Call Options, in an amount based on the excess of the then current market price of the Common Stock over the exercise price of the applicable Warrants.
     These transactions will generally have the effect on the Company of increasing the conversion price of the Notes to approximately $49.26 per share of Common Stock, representing an approximate 42.5 percent premium based on the last reported sale price of $34.57 per share on June 25, 2007.
General
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been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This report on Form 8-K does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offering would be unlawful.
     The foregoing descriptions do not purport to be complete descriptions of the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Indenture, the Notes, the rights of the holders of the Notes, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Confirmations of OTC Convertible Note Hedge or the Confirmations of OTC Warrant Transaction. Such descriptions are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full terms and provisions of the Purchase Agreement, the Indenture (including the form of Senior Convertible Note due 2012), the Registration Rights Agreement, the Confirmations of OTC Convertible Note Hedge and the Confirmations of OTC Warrant Transaction.
Private Share Repurchase
     Contemporaneously with the sale of the Notes, on June 29, 2007, the Company closed the repurchase of approximately $110 million worth of shares of Common Stock (3,181,900 shares of Common Stock at $34.57, the last reported sale price of the Common Stock on June 25, 2007) in privately negotiated transactions.
ITEM 2.03 CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT.
     The information required by Item 2.03 is contained in Item 1.01 and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 3.02 UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.
     The information required by Item 3.02 is contained in Item 1.01 and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.
(d)   Exhibits.
  4.1   Indenture related to the Senior Convertible Notes due 2012, dated as of June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (including form of 1.625% Senior Convertible Note due 2012)
 
  4.2   Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
 
  10.1   Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2007, among Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
 
  10.2   Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch International

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  10.3   Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Citibank, N.A.
 
  10.4   Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch Financial Markets, Inc.
 
  10.5   Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Citibank, N.A.

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: June 29, 2007
         
  TEKTRONIX, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON  
    James F. Dalton    
    Senior Vice President, General Counsel,
and Secretary 
 
 

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EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit No.   Description of Exhibit
 
   
4.1
  Indenture related to the Senior Convertible Notes due 2012, dated as of June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (including form of 1.625% Senior Convertible Note due 2012)
 
   
4.2
  Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
 
   
10.1
  Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2007, among Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
 
   
10.2
  Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch International
 
   
10.3
  Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Citibank, N.A.
 
   
10.4
  Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Merrill Lynch Financial Markets, Inc.
 
   
10.5
  Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction, dated June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and Citibank, N.A.

 

EX-4.1 2 v31548exv4w1.htm EXHIBIT 4.1 exv4w1
 

Exhibit 4.1
TEKTRONIX, INC.
And
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
 
INDENTURE
Dated as of June 29, 2007
 
1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012

 


 

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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
    1  
 
       
Section 1.01. Definitions
    1  
Section 1.02. Other Definitions
    8  
Section 1.03. Trust Indenture Act Provisions
    9  
 
       
ARTICLE 2 THE SECURITIES
    10  
 
       
Section 2.01. Form and Dating
    10  
Section 2.02. Execution and Authentication
    12  
Section 2.03. Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent
    12  
Section 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Money In Trust
    13  
Section 2.05. Conversion Agent To Hold Money In Trust
    14  
Section 2.06. Lists of Holders of Securities
    14  
Section 2.07. Transfer and Exchange
    14  
Section 2.08. Replacement Securities
    15  
Section 2.09. Outstanding Securities
    16  
Section 2.10. Treasury Securities
    16  
Section 2.11. Temporary Securities
    17  
Section 2.12. Cancellation
    17  
Section 2.13. Legend; Additional Transfer and Exchange Requirements
    17  
Section 2.14. CUSIP Numbers
    21  
Section 2.15. Calculations
    21  
Section 2.16. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
    22  
Section 2.17. Computation of Interest
    23  
 
       
ARTICLE 3 PURCHASE
    23  
 
       
Section 3.01. Purchase of Securities by the Company for Cash at Option of the Holder Upon a Fundamental Change
    23  
Section 3.02. Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice
    25  
Section 3.03. Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price
    26  
Section 3.04. Repayment to the Company
    27  
Section 3.05. Securities Purchased In Part
    27  
Section 3.06. Compliance With Securities Laws Upon Purchase of Securities
    27  
Section 3.07. Purchase of Securities In Open Market
    27  
 
       
ARTICLE 4 CONVERSION
    28  
 
       
Section 4.01. Conversion Privilege and Conversion Rate
    28  
Section 4.02. Conversion Procedure
    32  
Section 4.03. Fractional Shares
    33  
Section 4.04. Taxes on Conversion
    33  
Section 4.05. Company To Provide Common Stock
    33  
Section 4.06. Adjustment of Conversion Rate
    34  
Section 4.07. No Adjustment
    39  
Section 4.08. Notice of Adjustment
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Section 4.09. Notice of Certain Transactions
    40  
Section 4.10. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale on Conversion Privilege
    40  
Section 4.11. Trustee’s Disclaimer
    42  
Section 4.12. Settlement Upon Conversion
    43  
Section 4.13. Certain Conversions
    44  
 
       
ARTICLE 5 COVENANTS
    44  
 
       
Section 5.01. Payment of Securities
    44  
Section 5.02. Reports by Company
    45  
Section 5.03. Compliance Certificates
    45  
Section 5.04. Further Instruments and Acts
    45  
Section 5.05. Maintenance of Corporate Existence
    45  
Section 5.06. Rule 144A Information Requirement
    45  
Section 5.07. Stay, Extension And Usury Laws
    46  
Section 5.08. Payment of Additional Interest
    46  
Section 5.09. Maintenance of Office or Agency
    46  
 
       
ARTICLE 6 CONSOLIDATION; MERGER; SALE OF ASSETS
    47  
 
       
Section 6.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
    47  
Section 6.02. Successor Substituted
    48  
 
       
ARTICLE 7 DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
    48  
 
       
Section 7.01. Events of Default
    48  
Section 7.02. Acceleration
    50  
Section 7.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
    51  
Section 7.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
    52  
Section 7.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
    53  
Section 7.06. Application of Money Collected
    53  
Section 7.07. Limitation on Suits
    53  
Section 7.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert
    54  
Section 7.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies
    54  
Section 7.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative
    54  
Section 7.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver
    55  
Section 7.12. Control by Holders
    55  
Section 7.13. Waiver of Past Defaults
    55  
Section 7.14. Undertaking for Costs
    55  
Section 7.15. Remedies Subject to Applicable Law
    56  
 
       
ARTICLE 8 TRUSTEE
    56  
 
       
Section 8.01. Duties of Trustee
    56  
Section 8.02. Notice of Default
    57  
Section 8.03. Certain Rights of Trustee
    57  
Section 8.04. Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Dispositions of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof
    59  
Section 8.05. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections; etc.
    59  
Section 8.06. Money Held in Trust
    59  
Section 8.07. Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its Prior Claim
    59  
 
       
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Section 8.08. Conflicting Interests
    60  
Section 8.09. Trustee Eligibility
    60  
Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee
    60  
Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
    62  
Section 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
    62  
Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
    63  
Section 8.14. Reports By Trustee
    63  
 
       
ARTICLE 9 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
    63  
 
       
Section 9.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
    63  
Section 9.02. Application of Trust Money
    64  
Section 9.03. Reinstatement
    64  
 
       
ARTICLE 10 AMENDMENTS; SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
    65  
 
       
Section 10.01. Without Consent of Holders
    65  
Section 10.02. With Consent of Holders
    66  
Section 10.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures and Agreements
    67  
Section 10.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures
    67  
Section 10.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
    67  
Section 10.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
    67  
Section 10.07. Notice of Supplemental Indentures
    67  
 
       
ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS
    68  
 
       
Section 11.01. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
    68  
Section 11.02. Notices
    68  
Section 11.03. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders
    69  
Section 11.04. Compliance Certificates and Opinions
    70  
Section 11.05. Acts of Holders
    70  
Section 11.06. Benefits of Indenture
    71  
Section 11.07. Legal Holidays
    72  
Section 11.08. Governing Law
    72  
Section 11.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements
    72  
Section 11.10. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders
    72  
Section 11.11. Successors and Assigns
    72  
Section 11.12. Multiple Counterparts
    72  
Section 11.13. Separability Clause
    72  
Section 11.14. Schedules and Exhibits
    73  
Section 11.15. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
    73  
Section 11.16. Waiver of Jury Trial
    73  
Section 11.17. Force Majeure
    73  
 
       
EXHIBIT A Form of Security
    A-1  
 
       
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*
         
TIA   Indenture
Section                                           Section(s)
Section 310(a)(1)
    8.09  
(a)(2)
    8.09  
(a)(3)
    N.A. **
(a)(4)
    N.A.  
(a)(5)
    8.09  
(b)
    8.08  
(c)
    N.A.  
Section 311(a)
    8.13  
(b)
    8.05  
(c)
    N.A.  
Section 312(a)
    2.06  
(b)
    11.03  
(c)
    11.03  
Section 313(a)
    8.14 (a)
(b)(1)
    N.A.  
(b)(2)
    8.14 (a)
(c)
    8.14 (a)
(d)
    8.14 (b)
Section 314(a)
    5.02  
(b)
    N.A.  
(c)(1)
    11.04  
(c)(2)
    11.04  
(c)(3)
    N.A.  
(d)
    N.A.  
(e)
    11.04  
(f)
    N.A.  
Section 315(a)
    8.01 (b)
315(b)
    8.02  
315(c)
    8.01 (a)
315(d)
    8.01 (c)
315(d)(2)
    8.01 (c)
315(d)(3)
    8.01 (c)
315(e)
    7.14  
Section 316(a)(last sentence)
    2.10  
316(a)(1)
    7.12, 7.13  
316(a)(2)
    N.A.  
316(b)
    7.08  
316(c)
    11.05 (e)
Section 317(a)
    7.03, 7.04 (a)
317(b)
    2.04  
Section 318(a)
    11.01  
318(c)
    11.01  
 
*   This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Indenture.
 
**   N.A. means Not Applicable.
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     THIS INDENTURE, dated as of June 29, 2007, is between Tektronix, Inc., a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Oregon (the “Company”), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).
     In consideration of the purchase of the Securities (as defined herein) by the Holders thereof, the parties hereto agree as follows for the benefit of one another and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company’s 1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
     Section 1.01. Definitions.
     “Additional Interest” has the meaning specified in the Registration Rights Agreement. All references herein to interest accrued or payable as of any date shall include any Additional Interest accrued or payable as of such date as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement.
     “Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified person, any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any person means the power to direct the management and policies of such person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
     “Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.
     “Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any conversion, transfer or exchange of beneficial ownership interests in a Global Security, the rules and procedures of the Depositary, to the extent applicable to such conversion, transfer or exchange.
     “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy” or any other law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up, liquidation, reorganization or relief of debtors, whether in effect on the date hereof or hereafter.
     “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of such board, or any equivalent body in a limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity serving substantially the same function as a board of directors of a corporation.
     “Board Resolution” means, with respect to any Person, a duly adopted resolution (or other similar action) of the Board of Directors of such Person or a duly authorized committee thereof, as applicable.
     “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to close.

 


 

     “Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity of such Person, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.
     “Cash” or “cash” means such coin or currency of the United States as at any time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
     “Certificated Security” means a Security that is in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A but that does not include the information or the schedule called for by footnote 1 thereof.
     “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
     (1) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a person shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all shares that such person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock representing 50% or more of the total voting power of all outstanding Voting Stock; or
     (2) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, another person or the Company sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets to any person other than any such transaction where immediately after such transaction the person or persons that “beneficially owned” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) immediately prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly, Voting Stock representing a majority of the total voting power of all outstanding Voting Stock, “beneficially own or owns” (as so determined), directly or indirectly, Voting Stock representing a majority of the total voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of the surviving or transferee person; or
     (3) during any consecutive two-year period, the Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors; or
     (4) the adoption of a plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, it will not constitute a Change of Control if 100% of the consideration for the Company’s Common Stock (excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights) in the transaction or transactions constituting the Change of Control consists of common stock and any associated rights listed on a United States national securities exchange or quoted on a national automated dealer quotation system, or which will be so traded or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with the Change of Control, and as a result of such transaction or transactions the Securities become convertible solely into such common stock.
     “Closing Price” means, with respect to the Company’s Common Stock or any other securities on any Trading Day, the reported last sale price per share (or, if no last sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices per share or, if more than one in either case, the

 


 

average of the average bid and the average ask prices per share) on such date reported by the New York Stock Exchange, or, if the Company’s Common Stock or such securities are not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported by the principal national securities exchange on which the Company’s Common Stock or such securities are listed, or if no such prices are available, the Closing Price per share shall be the fair value of a share of Common Stock or other security as reasonably determined by the Board of Directors (which determination shall be conclusive and shall be evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee).
     “Common Stock” means the Company’s common stock, without par value, or any successor common stock thereto.
     “Company” means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Company.
     “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, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, its Chief Operating Officer, its Chief Financial Officer or a Vice President (regardless of Vice Presidential designation), and by any one of its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, any other Vice President (regardless of Vice Presidential designation), its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
     “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who was (a) a member of such Board of Directors on the date of this Indenture or (b) nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the continuing directors who were members of such board at the time of such nomination or election.
     “Conversion Date” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 4.02(a).
     “Conversion Price” per share of Common Stock as of any time means the result obtained by dividing (i) $1,000 by (ii) the then applicable Conversion Rate, rounded to the nearest cent.
     “Conversion Rate” means initially 25.1538 shares of Common Stock for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities, as adjusted from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.
     “Conversion Reference Period” means:
     (1) for Securities that are converted during the two-month period prior to the Final Maturity Date of the Securities, the 40 consecutive Trading Days commencing on the 42nd Scheduled Trading Day preceding the Final Maturity Date, subject to any extension due to a Market Disruption Event; and
     (2) in all other instances, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on the third Trading Day following the Conversion Date.

 


 

     “Conversion Value” means the average of the Daily Conversion Values for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days of the Conversion Reference Period.
     “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time the trust created by this Indenture shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution of this Indenture is located at U.S. Bank National Association, Corporate Trust Services, 555 SW Oak Street, PD — OR — P6TD, Portland, OR 97204, Attention: Tektronix, Inc. Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012, or at any other time at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company.
     “Daily Conversion Value” means, with respect to any Trading Day, an amount equal to the product of (i) the applicable Conversion Rate and (ii) the Volume Weighted Average Price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day.
     “Daily Share Amount” means, for each Trading Day during the Conversion Reference Period and each $1,000 principal amount of Securities surrendered for conversion, a number of shares of Common Stock (but in no event less than zero) determined by the following formula:
(VWAP x CR) - $1,000
VWAP x 40
          where
         
 
  VWAP =   the Volume Weighted Average Price per share of Common Stock for such Trading Day
 
       
 
  CR =   the applicable Conversion Rate
     “Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from time to time.
     “Final Maturity Date” means July 15, 2012.
     “Fundamental Change” means the occurrence of a Change of Control or a Termination of Trading.
     “Fundamental Change Effective Date” means the date on which any Fundamental Change becomes effective.
     “Fundamental Change Purchase Price” of any Security, means 100% of the principal amount of the Security to be purchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Purchase Date as defined in Section 3.01(a).
     “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America 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 and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect from time to time.
     “Global Security” means a Security in global form that is in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A and that includes the legend called for in footnote 1 thereof and the related schedule and which is deposited with the Depositary or its custodian and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee.
     “Holder” or “Holder of a Security” means the person in whose name a Security is registered on the Registrar’s books.
     “Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, obligations (other than nonrecourse obligations) of such Person for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments.
     “Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed (including all exhibits and schedules thereto) and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including the provisions of the TIA that are automatically deemed to be part of this Indenture by operation of the TIA.
     “Initial Purchasers” means Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; and Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
     “Interest Payment Date” means January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing January 15, 2008.
     “Issue Date” means the date of this Indenture.
     “Market Disruption Event” means the occurrence or existence for more than one half hour period in the aggregate on any scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the New York Stock Exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to the Common Stock, and such suspension or limitation occurs or exists at any time before 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such day.
     “Note” means an individual Security.
     “Officer” means the Chairman, any Vice Chairman, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
     “Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by an Officer of the Company and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, and delivered to, the Trustee; provided, however, that for purposes of Section 5.03, “Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by the

 


 

principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal operating officer, principal accounting officer or treasurer of the Company.
     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel for the Company and which opinion shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.
     “Overallotment Option” means the option of the Initial Purchasers to purchase up to an additional $45,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Securities under the purchase agreement between the Company and the Initial Purchasers dated June 25, 2007.
     “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
     “Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2007, among the Company and the Initial Purchasers, as amended and supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.
     “Regular Record Date” means, with respect to each Interest Payment Date, the January 1 or July 1, as the case may be, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.
     “Restricted Global Security” means a Global Security that is a Restricted Security.
     “Restricted Security” means a Security required to bear the restrictive legends called for in footnotes 2 and 3 set forth in the form of Security annexed as Exhibit A.
     “Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any successor to such Rule.
     “Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act or any successor to such Rule.
     “Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a trading day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted for trading on any exchange or market, a Business Day.
     “SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
     “Securities” means the $300,000,000 (or if the Initial Purchasers exercise the Overallotment Option in full, $345,000,000) aggregate principal amount of 1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012, or any $1,000 principal amount thereof (each a “Security”), as amended or supplemented from time to time, that are issued under this Indenture.
     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from time to time.
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     “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.16.
     “Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any installment of interest or principal on any Security, the date on which such payment of interest or principal shall become due and payable.
     “Significant Subsidiary” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X.
     “Subsidiary” means, in respect of any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency within the control of such Person to satisfy) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person, (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
     “Termination of Trading” shall be deemed to have occurred if the Company’s Common Stock (or other common stock into which the Securities are then convertible) is not listed on a United States national securities exchange or approved for quotation and trading on a national automated dealer quotation system or established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States or ceases to be so traded or quoted in contemplation of a delisting or withdrawal of approval.
     “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder as in effect on the date of this Indenture, except to the extent that the Trust Indenture Act or any amendment thereto expressly provides for application of the Trust Indenture Act as in effect on another date.
     “Trading Day” means any day on which (i) there is no Market Disruption Event and (ii) the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading, or, if the Common Stock is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, any day on which the principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed is open for trading, or, if the Common Stock is not listed on a national securities exchange, any Business Day. A “Trading Day” only includes those days that have a closing time of 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then standard closing time for regular trading on the relevant exchange or trading system.
     “Trading Price” of the Securities on any date of determination means, solely for the purposes of Article 4, the average of the secondary market bid quotations obtained by the Trustee for $5.0 million principal amount of Securities at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three nationally recognized securities dealers the Company selects, which may include the Initial Purchasers; provided that if three such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Trustee, but two such bids are obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Trustee, that one bid shall be used. If the Trustee cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $5.0 million principal amount of Securities from a nationally recognized securities dealer or, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, the bid quotations are not indicative of the secondary market value of

 


 

the Securities, then, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Securities will be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of the Closing Price of the Company’s Common Stock and the then applicable Conversion Rate.
     “Trustee” means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter means the successor.
     “Trust Officer” means, with respect to the Trustee, any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
     “Vice President” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”
     “Volume Weighted Average Price” per share of Common Stock on any Trading Day means such price as displayed on Bloomberg (or any successor service) page TEK.N <equity> VAP in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on such Trading Day; or, if such price is not available, the Volume Weighted Average Price means the market value per share of the Common Stock on such day as determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company.
     “Voting Stock” of any Person means Capital Stock of the class or classes pursuant to which the holders of such Capital Stock have the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such Person (irrespective of whether or not at the time Capital Stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency).
     Section 1.02. Other Definitions.
         
Term   Defined in Section
“Act”
    11.05  
“Additional Shares”
    4.01  
“Agent Members”
    2.01  
“Business Combination”
    4.10  
“Cash Percentage”
    4.12  
“Conversion Agent”
    2.03  
“Conversion Date”
    4.02  
“DTC”
    2.01  
“Defaulted Interest”
    2.16  
“Depositary”
    2.01  
“Distribution Notice”
    4.01  
“Event of Default”
    7.01  
“ex-dividend date”
    4.01  
“Expiration Time”
    4.06  

 


 

         
Term   Defined in Section
“Fundamental Change Purchase Date”
    3.01  
“Fundamental Change Purchase Notice”
    3.01  
“in connection with”
    4.01  
“Issuer Fundamental Change Notice”
    3.01  
“Legend”
    2.13  
“Make Whole Premium”
    4.01  
“Notice of Default”
    7.01  
“Outstanding”
    2.09  
“Paying Agent”
    2.03  
“Primary Registrar”
    2.03  
“QIB”
    2.01  
“Registrar”
    2.03  
“Remaining Shares”
    4.12  
“Special Interest”
    7.02  
“Special Payment Date”
    2.16  
“Spin-Off”
    4.06  
“Stock Price”
    4.01  
     Section 1.03. Trust Indenture Act Provisions.
     Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, that provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA term used in this Indenture has the following meaning:
     “Obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company or any other obligor on the Securities.
     All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by any SEC rule and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.
     Section 1.04. Rules of Construction.
     For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
     (1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
     (2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
     (3) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular;
     (4) the term “merger” includes a statutory share exchange and the term “merged” has a correlative meaning;
     (5) the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter;

 


 

     (6) the terms “include”, “including”, and similar terms should be construed as if followed by the phrase “without limitation”;
     (7) references to agreements and other instruments include subsequent amendments thereto; and
     (8) all “Article”, “Exhibit” and “Section” references are to Articles, Exhibits and Sections, respectively, of or to this Indenture unless otherwise specified herein, and the terms “herein,” “hereof” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
ARTICLE 2
THE SECURITIES
     Section 2.01. Form and Dating.
     The Securities and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, which Exhibit is incorporated in and made part of this Indenture. The Securities may include such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends, endorsements or changes as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required by the Trustee, the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed or quoted, or to conform to usage, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Securities are subject. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
     (a) Restricted Global Securities. All of the Securities are initially being offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers as defined in Rule 144A (collectively, “QIBs” or individually, each a “QIB”) in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act and shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Restricted Global Securities, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the securities represented thereby with the Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, as custodian for the depositary, The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”, and such depositary, or any successor thereto, being hereinafter referred to as the “Depositary”), and registered in the name of its nominee, Cede & Co. (or any successor thereto), for the accounts of participants in the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Restricted Global Securities may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Securities Custodian as hereinafter provided, subject in each case to compliance with the Applicable Procedures.
     (b) Global Securities In General. The Global Security shall represent such of the outstanding Securities as shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and

 


 

that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges, purchases or conversions of such Securities.
     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 under the Global Security, and the Depositary (including, for this purpose, its nominee) may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall (1) 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 (2) impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.
     (c) Book Entry Provisions. The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.01(c), authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Securities that (1) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, (2) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary’s instructions and (3) shall bear legends substantially to the following effect:
     “UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), 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. THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.”

 


 

     Section 2.02. Execution and Authentication.
     (a) The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $300,000,000, or if the Initial Purchasers exercise the Overallotment Option in full, $345,000,000, aggregate principal amount, except as provided in Sections 2.08 and 2.09.
     (b) The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by one of its Officers. The signatures of any of the Officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
     (c) Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
     (d) 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 officer, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
     (e) The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery Securities for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of up to $300,000,000, or if the Initial Purchasers exercise the Overallotment Option in full, $345,000,000, upon receipt of a Company Order. The Company Order shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated, shall provide that all such Securities will be represented by a Global Security and the date on which each original issue of Securities is to be authenticated.
     (f) The Trustee shall act as the initial authenticating agent. Thereafter, the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent shall have the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.
     (g) The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and any integral multiple thereof.
     Section 2.03. Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent.
     (a) The Company shall maintain one or more offices or agencies where Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (each, a “Registrar”), one or more offices or agencies where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment (each, a “Paying Agent”), one or more offices or agencies where Securities may be presented for conversion (each, a “Conversion Agent”) and one or more offices or agencies where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company will at all times maintain a Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar and an

 


 

office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. One of the Registrars (the “Primary Registrar”) shall keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. At the option of the Company, any payment of cash may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders.
     (b) The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this Indenture, provided that the Agent may be an Affiliate of the Trustee. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of any Agent not a party to this Indenture. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, or agent for service of notices and demands in any place required by this Indenture, or fails to give the foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent (except for the purposes of Article 9).
     (c) The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as Paying Agent, Registrar, Securities Custodian and Conversion Agent, and designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as the office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes and as the office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served.
     Section 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Money In Trust.
     Unless otherwise specified herein, prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the payment of principal of, or interest on, any Securities, the Company shall deposit a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due. A Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders of Securities or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, or interest on, the Securities, and shall notify the Trustee of any failure by the Company (or any other obligor on the Securities) to make any such payment. If the Company or an Affiliate of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall, before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due date of the principal of, or interest on, any Securities, segregate the money and hold it as a separate trust fund for the benefit of Holders. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee, and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of any Default, upon written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to pay forthwith to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. Upon doing so, the Paying Agent (other than the Company) shall have no further liability for the 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 or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal or interest has become due and payable shall promptly be paid to the Company or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being

 


 

required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), and mail to each such Holder, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification, publication and mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will promptly be repaid to the Company.
     Section 2.05. Conversion Agent To Hold Money In Trust.
     The Company shall require each Conversion Agent (that is not the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Conversion Agent will hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all cash and shares of Common Stock delivered by the Company to the Conversion Agent for the delivery of amounts due upon conversion, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such delivery.
     While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Conversion Agent to deliver all cash and shares of Common Stock delivered by the Company to it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary) shall have no further liability in respect of such amounts. If the Company or a Subsidiary acts as Conversion Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all cash and shares of Common Stock held by it as Conversion Agent. Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings relating to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Conversion Agent for the Securities.
     Section 2.06. Lists of Holders of Securities.
     The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders of Securities. The Company shall furnish or cause the Registrar to furnish to the Trustee (a) semiannually, not more than 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 30 days after receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content to that in subsection (a) hereof as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Primary Registrar, no such list need be furnished.
     Section 2.07. Transfer and Exchange.
     (a) Subject to compliance with any applicable additional requirements contained in Section 2.13, when a Security is presented to a Registrar with a request to register a transfer thereof or to exchange such Security for an equal principal amount of Securities of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such transactions are met; provided, however, that every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by an assignment form and, if applicable, a transfer certificate each in the form included in Exhibit A, and completed in a manner satisfactory to the Registrar and duly executed by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, upon surrender of any Security for registration of transfer or exchange

 


 

at an office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 2.03, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Securities of a like aggregate principal amount at the Registrar’s request. Any exchange or transfer shall be without charge, except that the Company or the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto; provided that this sentence shall not apply to any exchange pursuant to Section 2.11, 2.13(a), 4.02(d) or 10.06.
     (b) Neither the Company, any Registrar nor the Trustee shall be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Securities or portions thereof in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered and not withdrawn by the Holder thereof (except, in the case of the purchase of a Security in part, the portion thereof not to be purchased).
     (c) All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
     (d) Any Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 2.03 shall provide to the Trustee such information as the Trustee may reasonably require in connection with the delivery by such Registrar of Securities upon transfer or exchange of Securities.
     (e) Each Holder of a Security agrees to indemnify the Company and the Trustee against any liability that may result from the registration of transfer, exchange or assignment of such Holder’s Security in violation of any provision of this Indenture and/or applicable United States federal or state securities law.
     (f) The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Agent Members or other beneficial owners of interests in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
     Section 2.08. Replacement Securities.
     (a) If (1) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or (2) 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 and the Trustee, such security or indemnity, in each case, as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon a Company Request the Trustee 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.
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converted pursuant to Article 4, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay, purchase or convert such Security, as the case may be.
     (c) Upon the issuance of any new Securities under this Section 2.08, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of counsel and the Trustee) in connection therewith.
     (d) Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 2.08 in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
     (e) The provisions of this Section 2.08 are (to the extent lawful) 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 2.09. Outstanding Securities.
     (a) Securities outstanding (“Outstanding”) at any time are all Securities authenticated by the Trustee, except for those canceled by it, those purchased pursuant to Article 3, those converted pursuant to Article 4, those delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or surrendered for transfer or exchange and those described in this Section 2.09 as not Outstanding.
     (b) If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.08, such replaced Security ceases to be Outstanding unless the Company receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser.
     (c) If a Paying Agent holds in respect of the Outstanding Securities on a Fundamental Change Purchase Date or the Final Maturity Date money sufficient to pay the principal of and accrued interest on Securities (or portions thereof) payable on that date, then on and after such Fundamental Change Purchase Date or Final Maturity Date, as the case may be, such Securities (or portions thereof, as the case may be) shall cease to be Outstanding and interest on them shall cease to accrue.
     (d) Subject to the restrictions contained in Section 2.10, a Security does not cease to be Outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.
     Section 2.10. Treasury Securities.
     In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, notice, direction, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor on the Securities or by any Subsidiary of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded, except that, for purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, notice, direction, waiver or consent, only Securities which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.

 


 

     Section 2.11. Temporary Securities.
     Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company with the consent of the Trustee considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver definitive Securities in exchange for temporary Securities representing an equal principal amount of Securities. The temporary Securities will be exchanged for definitive Securities in accordance with Sections 2.07 and 2.13 hereof. Until so exchanged, temporary Securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.
     Section 2.12. Cancellation.
     The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for transfer, exchange, purchase, payment or conversion. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel, in accordance with its standard procedures, all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, purchase, payment, conversion or cancellation and shall dispose of the cancelled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures or deliver the canceled Securities to the Company upon request. All Securities which are purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the Final Maturity Date pursuant to Article 3 shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company may not hold or resell such Securities or issue any new Securities to replace any such Securities or any Securities that any Holder has converted pursuant to Article 4. The Trustee shall maintain a record of all canceled Securities. The Trustee shall provide the Company a list of all Securities that have been canceled from time to time as requested by the Company in writing.
     Section 2.13. Legend; Additional Transfer and Exchange Requirements.
     (a) If Securities are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Securities subject to restrictions on transfer and bearing the legends set forth on the forms of Securities attached as Exhibit A (collectively, the “Legend”), or if a request is made to remove the Legend on a Security, the Securities so issued shall bear the Legend, or the Legend shall not be removed, as the case may be, unless there is delivered to the Company and the Registrar such satisfactory evidence, which shall include an Opinion of Counsel if requested by the Company or such Registrar, as may be reasonably required by the Company and the Registrar, that neither the Legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of Rule 144A or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or that such Securities are not “restricted” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act; provided that no such evidence need be supplied in connection with the sale of such Security pursuant to a registration statement that is effective at the time of such sale. Upon (1) provision of such satisfactory evidence if requested or (2) notification by the Company to the Trustee and Registrar of the sale of such Security pursuant to a registration statement that is effective at the time of such sale, the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver a Security that does not bear the Legend. If the Legend is removed from the face of a

 


 

Security and the Security is subsequently held by an Affiliate of the Company, the Legend shall be reinstated.
     (b) A Global Security may not be transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person other than the Depositary or a nominee or any successor thereof, and no such transfer to any such other Person may be registered; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any transfer of a Security that is issued in exchange for a Global Security but is not itself a Global Security. No transfer of a Security to any Person shall be effective under this Indenture or the Securities unless and until such Security has been registered in the name of such Person. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the Securities, transfers of a Global Security, in whole or in part, shall be made only in accordance with this Section 2.13.
     (c) Subject to Section 2.13(b) and in compliance with Section 2.13(d), every Security shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer provided in the Legend. Whenever any Restricted Security other than a Restricted Global Security is presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or in exchange for a Security registered in a name other than that of the Holder, such Security must be accompanied by a certificate in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A, dated the date of such surrender and signed by the Holder of such Security, as to compliance with such restrictions on transfer. The Registrar shall not be required to accept for such registration of transfer or exchange any Security not so accompanied by a properly completed certificate.
     (d) The restrictions imposed by the Legend upon the transferability of any Security shall cease and terminate when such Security has been sold pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or transferred in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto) or, if earlier, upon the expiration of the holding period applicable to sales thereof under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision). Any Security as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or shall have terminated may, upon a surrender of such Security for exchange to the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.13 (accompanied, in the event that such restrictions on transfer have terminated by reason of a transfer in compliance with Rule 144 or any successor provision, by, if requested by the Company or the Registrar, an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Registrar and addressed to the Company and the Registrar, to the effect that the transfer of such Security has been made in compliance with Rule 144 or such successor provision), be exchanged for a new Security, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the restrictive Legend. The Company shall inform the Trustee of the effective date of any registration statement registering the offer and sale of the Securities under the Securities Act. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the aforementioned Opinion of Counsel or registration statement.
     As used in Sections 2.13(c) and (d), the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer, hypothecation or other disposition of any Security.
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     (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for purposes of this Indenture.
     (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the Securities, a Global Security shall not be exchanged in whole or in part for a Security registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part shall be registered in the name of any Person other than the Depositary or one or more nominees thereof; provided that a Global Security may be exchanged for Securities registered in the names of any person designated by the Depositary in the event that (A) the Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or such Depositary has ceased to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act, and in either case a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after receiving such notice or becoming aware that the Depositary has ceased to be a “clearing agency” or (B) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Securities. Any Global Security exchanged pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be so exchanged as directed by the Depositary. Any Security issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be a Global Security; provided, however, that any such Security so issued that is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be a Global Security.
     (3) Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof that are not issued as a Global Security shall be issued in definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons, shall have a principal amount equal to that of such Global Security or portion thereof to be so exchanged, shall be registered in such names and be in such authorized denominations as the Depositary shall designate and shall bear the applicable legends provided for herein. Any Global Security to be exchanged in whole shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee or the Registrar. With regard to any Global Security to be exchanged in part, either such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or, if the Trustee is acting as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee with respect to such Global Security, the principal amount thereof shall be reduced, by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Trustee. Upon any such surrender or adjustment, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver the Security issuable on such exchange to or upon the order of the Depositary or an authorized representative thereof.
     (4) Subject to clause (6) of this Section 2.13(e), the registered Holder may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Securities.
     (5) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in clause (2) of this Section 2.13(e), the Company will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Certificated Securities in definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons.

 


 

     (6) Neither Agent Members nor any other Persons on whose behalf Agent Members may act shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security registered in the name of the Depositary or any nominee thereof, or under any such Global Security, and the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and holder of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or impair, as between the Depositary, its Agent Members and any other Person on whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the operation of customary practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of any Security.
     (7) At such time as all interests in a Global Security have been converted, cancelled or exchanged for Securities in certificated form, such Global Security shall, upon receipt thereof, be cancelled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, subject to Section 2.12 of this Indenture. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Security is converted, canceled or exchanged for Securities in certificated form, the principal amount of such Global Security shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, be appropriately reduced, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security, by the Trustee or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction.
     (f) Until the expiration of the holding period applicable to sales thereof under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto), any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Security shall bear a legend in substantially the following form, unless such Common Stock has been sold pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act (and which continues to be effective at the time of such transfer) or transferred in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto), or such Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of Securities that have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto), or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing with written notice thereof to the transfer agent:
THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

 


 

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SHARES PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THE SHARES (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SHARES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (D) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
     Any such Common Stock as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms or as to which the conditions for removal of the foregoing legend set forth therein have been satisfied may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this section.
     Section 2.14. CUSIP Numbers.
     The Company in issuing the Securities may use one or more “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such purchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.
     Section 2.15. Calculations.
     Except as otherwise specifically stated herein or in the Securities, all calculations to be made in respect of the Securities shall be the obligation of the Company. All calculations made by the Company or its agent as contemplated pursuant to the terms hereof and of the Securities shall be made in good faith and be final and binding on the Holders absent manifest error. The

 


 

Company shall provide a schedule of calculations to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon the accuracy of the calculations by the Company without independent verification. The Trustee shall forward calculations made by the Company to any holder of Securities upon request.
     Section 2.16. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
     Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on the Stated Maturity of such interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name the Security is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest payment.
     Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on the Stated Maturity of such interest, 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 shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the date (not less than 20 days after such notice) of the proposed payment (the “Special Payment Date”), and on the date of payment 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 prior to the Special Payment Date, 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 prior to the date of the Special Payment Date 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. Unless the Company issues a press release to the same effect, 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 its address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date or notify in such other manner as the Trustee determines, including in accordance with any Applicable Procedures. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Payment Date therefor having been so mailed or otherwise conveyed, 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 paragraph (b).
     (b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any national securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by this Indenture not inconsistent with the requirements of 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 2.16, 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 2.17. Computation of Interest.
     Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE 3
PURCHASE
     Section 3.01. Purchase of Securities by the Company for Cash at Option of the Holder Upon a Fundamental Change.
     (a) If a Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Final Maturity Date, each Holder of a Security shall have the right, at the option of the Holder, to require the Company to purchase for cash in whole or in part (in principal amounts of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof) the Securities of such Holder at the Fundamental Change Purchase Price on the date specified by the Company that is not less than 30 days and not more than 45 days after the Issuer Fundamental Change Notice (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Date”).
     (b) Not later than 30 days after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall mail a written notice of the Fundamental Change and of the resulting purchase right to the Trustee, Paying Agent and to each Holder of record of Securities (an “Issuer Fundamental Change Notice”). The Issuer Fundamental Change Notice shall include the form of a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice (defined below) to be completed by the Holder and shall state:
     (1) the events causing such Fundamental Change;
     (2) the date (or expected date) of such Fundamental Change;
     (3) the last date by which the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice must be delivered to elect the purchase option pursuant to this Section 3.01;
     (4) the Fundamental Change Purchase Date;
     (5) the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;
     (6) the Holder’s right to require the Company to purchase the Securities;

 


 

     (7) the name and address of each Paying Agent and Conversion Agent;
     (8) the then effective Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from such Fundamental Change;
     (9) the procedures that the Holder must follow to exercise rights under Article 4 of this Indenture and that the Securities as to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been given may be converted into Common Stock pursuant to Article 4 of this Indenture only to the extent that the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
     (10) the procedures that the Holder must follow to exercise rights under this Section 3.01;
     (11) the procedures for withdrawing a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice;
     (12) that, unless the Company fails to pay such Fundamental Change Purchase Price, Securities covered by any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice will cease to be outstanding and interest will cease to accrue on and after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date; and
     (13) the CUSIP number of the Securities.
     At the Company’s written request, the Trustee shall give such Issuer Fundamental Change Notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided that, in all cases, the text of such Issuer Fundamental Change Notice shall be prepared by the Company. In connection with the delivery of the Issuer Fundamental Change Notice to the Holders, the Company shall publish a notice containing substantially the same information that is required in the Issuer Fundamental Change Notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of New York or publish information on a website of the Company or through such other public medium the Company may use at that time. If any of the Securities is in the form of a Global Security, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the Applicable Procedures relating to the purchase of Global Securities.
     The Trustee shall be under no obligation to ascertain the occurrence of a Fundamental Change or to give notice with respect thereto. The Trustee may conclusively assume, in absence of written notice to the contrary from the Company, that no Fundamental Change has occurred.
     (c) A Holder may exercise its rights specified in Section 3.01(a) upon delivery of a written notice (which shall be in substantially the form set forth in the form of Security attached as Exhibit A under the heading “Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” and which may be delivered by letter, overnight courier, hand delivery, facsimile transmission or in any other written form and, in the case of Global Securities, may be delivered electronically or by other means in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures) of the exercise of such rights (a “Fundamental Change Purchase Notice”) to the Paying Agent at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, subject to extension to comply with applicable law.

 


 

     (1) The Fundamental Change Purchase Notice shall state: (A) if the Securities are in certificated form, the certificate numbers of the Securities which the Holder will deliver to be purchased (or, if the Security is held in global form, any other items required to comply with the Applicable Procedures), (B) the portion of the principal amount of the Securities which the Holder will deliver to be purchased, which portion must be a principal amount of $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof and (C) that such Security shall be purchased as of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in the Securities and in this Indenture.
     (2) The delivery of a Security for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been timely delivered to any Paying Agent and not validly withdrawn prior to, on or after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (together with all necessary endorsements) at the office of such Paying Agent shall be a condition to the receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price therefore.
     (3) The Company shall only be obliged to purchase, pursuant to this Section 3.01, a portion of a Security if the principal amount of such portion is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to the purchase of all of a Security also apply to the purchase of such portion of such Security.
     (4) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to a Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice contemplated by this Section 3.01(c) shall have the right to withdraw such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in whole or in a portion thereof that is a principal amount of $1,000 or in an integral multiple thereof at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.02(b).
     (5) A Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or written withdrawal thereof.
     (6) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the case of Global Securities, any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be delivered or withdrawn and such Securities may be surrendered or delivered for purchase in accordance with the Applicable Procedures as in effect from time to time.
     Section 3.02. Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice.
     (a) Upon receipt by any Paying Agent of a properly completed Fundamental Change Purchase Notice from a Holder, the Holder of the Security in respect of which such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice was given shall (unless such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn as specified in Section 3.02(b)) thereafter be entitled to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to such Security. Such Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder promptly following the later of (1) the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (provided that the conditions in Section 3.01 have been satisfied) or (2) the time of delivery of such Security to a Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 3.01(c). Securities in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been

 


 

given by the Holder thereof may not be converted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 on or after the date of the delivery of such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice unless such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has first been validly withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.02(b) with respect to the Securities to be converted.
     (b) A Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be withdrawn by means of a written notice (which may be delivered by mail, overnight courier, hand delivery, facsimile transmission or in any other written form and, in the case of Global Securities, may be delivered electronically or by other means in accordance with the Applicable Procedures) of withdrawal delivered by the Holder to a Paying Agent prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, specifying (1) the principal amount of the Security or portion thereof (which must be a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, (2) if the Securities are in certificated form, the certificate numbers of the Security being withdrawn in whole or in part and (3) the portion of the principal amount of the Security that will remain subject to the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, which portion must be a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof.
     Section 3.03. Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price.
     (a) On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or if the Company or an Affiliate of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.04) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if deposited on or after such Fundamental Change Purchase Date), sufficient to pay the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all the Securities or portions thereof that are to be purchased as of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
     (b) If the Paying Agent holds on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date in accordance with the terms hereof an amount of money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of any Security (or portion thereof) for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been tendered and not withdrawn in accordance with this Indenture then, immediately following the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date, whether or not the Security is delivered to the Paying Agent, such Security shall cease to be outstanding, interest on such Security, shall cease to accrue, and the rights of the Holder of such Security shall terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price upon delivery of the Security as aforesaid).
     (c) The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Securities with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in compliance with this Indenture.
     (d) If a Fundamental Change Purchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then interest on the Securities payable on such Interest Payment Date will be payable to the Holders in whose names the Securities are registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date.

 


 

     Section 3.04. Repayment to the Company.
     To the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 3.03 exceeds the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the Securities or portions thereof that the Company is obligated to purchase, then promptly after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date the Trustee or a Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall return any such excess cash to the Company, or if such money is then held by the Company in trust, it shall be discharged from the trust.
     Section 3.05. Securities Purchased In Part.
     Any Security that is to be purchased only in part shall be surrendered at the office of a Paying Agent, and promptly after the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, as the case may be, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of such authorized denomination or denominations as may be requested by such Holder (which must be equal to $1,000 principal amount or any integral multiple thereof), in aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the Security so surrendered that is not purchased.
     Section 3.06. Compliance With Securities Laws Upon Purchase of Securities.
     In connection with any offer to purchase Securities under Section 3.01, the Company shall (a) comply with the provisions of the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act which may then be applicable, (b) file the related Schedule TO (or any successor or similar schedule, form or report) if required under the Exchange Act, and (c) otherwise comply with all federal and state securities laws in connection with such offer to purchase or purchase of Securities, all so as to permit the rights of the Holders and obligations of the Company under Sections 3.01 through 3.04 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified therein. To the extent that compliance with any such laws, rules and regulations would result in a conflict with any of the terms hereof, this Indenture is hereby modified to the extent required for the Company to comply with such laws, rules and regulations.
     Section 3.07. Purchase of Securities In Open Market.
     The Company may purchase Securities in the open market or by tender at any price or pursuant to private agreements. The Company shall surrender any Security purchased by the Company pursuant to this Article 3 to the Trustee for cancellation. Any Securities surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation may not be reissued or resold by the Company and will be canceled promptly in accordance with Section 2.12.

 


 

ARTICLE 4
CONVERSION
     Section 4.01. Conversion Privilege and Conversion Rate.
     (a) Any Security or portion thereof that is an integral multiple of $1,000 principal amount may be converted by the Holder thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Article 4. Upon conversion, Holders shall be entitled to receive the amount of cash and, if applicable, shares of Common Stock determined in the manner provided in Section 4.12. Securities may be converted prior to the close of business on the second Business Day preceding the Final Maturity Date at the Conversion Rate in effect at the time of such conversion only under the following circumstances:
     (1) on any Business Day in any calendar quarter of the Company commencing at any time after September 30, 2007, and only during such calendar quarter, if, as of the last day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter, the Closing Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days in the period of 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last Trading Day of such preceding calendar quarter was more than 130% of the applicable Conversion Price on the last day of such preceding calendar quarter;
     (2) on any Business Day during the five Business Day period after any five consecutive Trading Day period in which the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, as determined by the Trustee following a request by a Holder in accordance with the procedures described in Section 4.01(d)(ii), for each Trading Day of that period was less than 98% of the product of the Closing Price of the Common Stock on such day and the then applicable Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Securities.
     (3) if the Company distributes to all holders of Common Stock any rights entitling them to purchase, for a period expiring within 45 days of distribution, Common Stock, or securities convertible into Common Stock, at less than, or having a conversion price per share less than, the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the declaration date for such distribution;
     (4) if the Company distributes to all holders of Common Stock assets, cash, debt securities or rights to purchase the Company’s securities, which distribution has a per share value as determined by the Board of Directors exceeding 15% of the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the declaration date for such distribution;
     (5) if a Fundamental Change occurs; or
     (6) at any time during the period beginning on June 15, 2012 and ending at the close of business on the second Business Day preceding the Final Maturity Date.
     (b) In the case of a distribution contemplated by clauses (3) and (4) of Section 4.01(a), the Company shall notify Holders and the Trustee at least 35 days prior to the ex-

 


 

dividend date (defined below) for such distribution (the “Distribution Notice”). Once the Company has given the Distribution Notice, Holders may surrender their Securities for conversion at any time until the earlier of the close of business on the Business Day prior to the ex-dividend date or the Company’s announcement that such distribution will not take place. In the event of a distribution contemplated by clauses (3) and (4) of Section 4.01(a), Holders may not convert the Securities if the Holders will otherwise participate in such distribution on an as converted basis. The “ex-dividend date” is the first date upon which a sale of the Common Stock does not automatically transfer the right to receive the relevant distribution from the seller of the Common Stock to its buyer. The Company will provide written notice to the Conversion Agent as soon as reasonably practicable of any anticipated or actual event or transaction that will cause or causes the Securities to become convertible pursuant to clauses (3) or (4) of Section 4.01(a).
     (c) In the case of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide notice thereof to the Holders of Securities and the Trustee at least 15 days prior to the date that is anticipated to be the Fundamental Change Effective Date of any Fundamental Change that the Company knows or reasonably should know will occur. If the Company does not know, and should not reasonably know, that a Fundamental Change will occur until a date that is within 15 days before the anticipated Fundamental Change Effective Date, the Company will notify the Holders of Securities and the Trustee promptly after the Company has knowledge of the Fundamental Change. Holders may surrender Securities for conversion at any time beginning 15 days before the date that is anticipated to be the Fundamental Change Effective Date and until the Trading Day prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
     (d) (i) For each calendar quarter of the Company, beginning with the calendar quarter ending September 30, 2007, the Company will determine, on the first Business Day following the last Trading Day of such calendar quarter, whether the Securities are convertible pursuant to clause (1) of Section 4.01(a), and, if so, will notify the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (to the extent the Trustee is not also serving as the Conversion Agent) in writing.
     (ii) The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price of the Securities unless the Company has requested such determination and the Company shall have no obligation to make such request unless a Holder of the Securities provides the Company with reasonable evidence that the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Securities would be less than 98% of the product of the Closing Price of the Common Stock and the then applicable Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Securities. At such time, the Company shall instruct the Trustee to determine the Trading Price of the Securities beginning on the next Trading Day and on each successive Trading Day until the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of the Securities is greater than 98% of the product of the Closing Price of the Common Stock and the then applicable Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of the Securities.
     (e) The conversion rights pursuant to this Article 4 shall commence on the Issue Date of the Securities and expire at the close of business on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date, but shall be exercisable only during the time periods specified with respect to each circumstance pursuant to which the Securities become convertible, subject, in the case of conversion of any Global Security, to any Applicable Procedures.

 


 

     (f) Securities in respect of which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered, if otherwise convertible pursuant to this Article 4, may not be surrendered for conversion pursuant to this Article 4 prior to a valid withdrawal of such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, in accordance with the provisions of Article 3.
     (g) Provisions of this Indenture that apply to conversion of all of a Security also apply to conversion of a portion of a Security.
     (h) The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted in certain instances as provided in Section 4.01(i) and Section 4.06.
     (i) If a Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Final Maturity Date as a result of a transaction described in clauses (1), (2) or (4) of the definition of the term “Change of Control” (giving effect to the last paragraph of such definition) and a Holder elects to convert its Securities “in connection with” such transaction, the Company shall pay a “Make Whole Premium” by increasing the applicable Conversion Rate for the Securities surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock as provided in this Section 4.01(i) (the “Additional Shares”). A conversion of Securities shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” such a transaction if the notice of conversion is received by the Conversion Agent from and including the Fundamental Change Effective Date and prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
     The number of Additional Shares per $1,000 principal amount of Securities constituting the Make Whole Premium shall be determined by reference to the table below and shall be based on the date on which the Fundamental Change Effective Date occurs and the price (the “Stock Price”) paid, or deemed to be paid, per share of Common Stock in such transaction. If holders of Common Stock receive only cash in the Fundamental Change transaction, the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share of Common Stock. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock for each of the ten consecutive Trading Days prior to but excluding the Fundamental Change Effective Date.
     The following table sets forth the Additional Share amounts, if any, by which the applicable Conversion Rate shall be increased for each Stock Price and Fundamental Change Effective Date.

 


 

Make Whole Premium (Increase in Applicable Conversion Rate)
Fundamental Change Effective Date
                                                         
            Effective Date
    Stock Price   June 29, 2007   July 15, 2008   July 15, 2009   July 15, 2010   July 15, 2011   July 15, 2012
 
  $ 34.57       3.7731       3.7731       3.7731       3.7731       3.7731       3.7731  
 
  $ 36.00       3.3391       3.3632       3.3446       3.2550       3.0158       2.6240  
 
  $ 40.00       2.4148       2.3557       2.2409       2.0295       1.6132       0.0000  
 
  $ 50.00       1.1909       1.0731       0.9097       0.6764       0.3402       0.0000  
 
  $ 60.00       0.6730       0.5700       0.4432       0.2878       0.1199       0.0000  
 
  $ 70.00       0.4201       0.3442       0.2568       0.1649       0.0765       0.0000  
 
  $ 80.00       0.2886       0.2351       0.1759       0.1144       0.0571       0.0000  
 
  $ 100.00       0.1572       0.1270       0.0960       0.0640       0.0331       0.0000  
 
  $ 120.00       0.0894       0.0717       0.0540       0.0355       0.0178       0.0000  
 
     If the actual Stock Price or Fundamental Change Effective Date is not set forth in the table above, then:
     (i) if the actual Stock Price on the Fundamental Change Effective Date is between two Stock Price amounts in the table or the actual Fundamental Change Effective Date is between two Fundamental Change Effective Dates in the table, the Additional Share amounts will be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the Additional Share amounts set forth for the higher and lower Stock Prices and the two Fundamental Change Effective Dates on the table, as applicable, based on a 365-day year;
     (ii) if the actual Stock Price on the Fundamental Change Effective Date exceeds $120.00 per share of Common Stock, subject to adjustment as set forth herein, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate shall be made; and
     (iii) if the actual Stock Price on the Fundamental Change Effective Date is less than $34.57 per share of Common Stock, subject to adjustment as set forth herein, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate shall be made.
     The Stock Prices set forth in the first column of the table above will be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Securities is adjusted pursuant to Section 4.06 hereof. The adjusted Stock Prices will equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to the adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Share amounts set forth in the table above will be adjusted in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 4.06 hereof.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate exceed 28.9268 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, subject to adjustment in the manner set forth in subsections (a) through (e) of Section 4.06 hereof.

 


 

     Section 4.02. Conversion Procedure.
     (a) To convert a Security, a Holder must (1) complete and manually sign the conversion notice on the back of the Security (which shall be substantially in the form set forth in the form of Security attached as Exhibit A under the heading “Conversion Notice”) and deliver such notice to the Conversion Agent, (2) surrender the Security to the Conversion Agent, (3) furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Conversion Agent, (4) pay an amount equal to the interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date if and as required by Section 4.02(c) and (5) pay all transfer or similar taxes, if required pursuant to Section 4.04. The date on which the Holder of a Security satisfies all of the foregoing requirements is the “Conversion Date” with respect to such Security. Upon the conversion of a Security, the Company shall deliver the amounts determined in accordance with Section 4.12 which shall be owing upon such conversion on the third Business Day following the last Trading Day of such Conversion Reference Period. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the case of Global Securities, Securities may be surrendered in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary as in effect from time to time.
     (b) A Holder shall not be entitled to any rights of a holder of Common Stock until such holder has converted its Securities and received upon conversion thereof shares of Common Stock. The person in whose name any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon such conversion, if any, shall become on the date any such certificate or certificates are delivered to such holder in accordance with the provisions of this Article 4, the holder of record of the shares represented thereby. Except as set forth in this Indenture, no payment or adjustment will be made for dividends or distributions declared or made on shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Security prior to the issuance of such shares of Common Stock.
     (c) Holders of Securities surrendered for conversion (in whole or in part) during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the opening of business on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date will receive the semiannual interest payable on such Securities on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion, and such interest shall be payable on the corresponding Interest Payment Date to the Holder of the Security as of the close of business on the Regular Record Date. Upon surrender of any such Securities for conversion after the close of business on such Regular Record Date, such Securities shall also be accompanied by payment by the Holders of such Securities in funds to the Conversion Agent acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such corresponding Interest Payment Date; provided that no such payment need be made: (1) in connection with a conversion following the Regular Record Date preceding the Final Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Purchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date , in which case accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Purchase Date shall be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the record holder as of the Regular Record Date. Each payment of cash interest on the Securities will include interest accrued for the period commencing on and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date (or, if no interest has been paid, the date the Securities are originally issued) through the day before the applicable interest payment date (or Fundamental Change Purchase Date); or (3) to the extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such

 


 

Security. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 4.02(c), no payment or adjustment will be made for accrued and unpaid interest on a converted Security. Accrued and unpaid interest shall be deemed paid in full, rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited. The Company shall not be required to convert any Securities which are surrendered for conversion without payment of interest as required by this Section 4.02(c).
     (d) In the case of any Security which is converted in part only, upon such conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, without service charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the unconverted portion of the principal amount of such Security.
     (e) Upon the Company’s determination that Holders are or will be entitled to convert their Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Article 4, the Company shall promptly issue a press release or otherwise publicly disclose this information and use its reasonable efforts to post such information on the Company’s website.
     Section 4.03. Fractional Shares.
     The Company will not issue fractional shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares that shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. In lieu of any fractional shares, the Company shall pay an amount in cash equal to the applicable portion of the arithmetic average of the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days of the Conversion Reference Period, rounding to the nearest whole cent.
     Section 4.04. Taxes on Conversion.
     The issue of stock certificates, if any, on conversion of Securities shall be made without charge to the converting Holder for any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax in respect of the issue thereof. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any such tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of stock in any name other than that of the Holder of any Security converted, and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any such stock certificate unless and until the Person or Persons requesting the issue thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
     Section 4.05. Company To Provide Common Stock.
     (a) The Company shall, prior to issuance of any Securities hereunder, and from time to time as may be necessary, reserve, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to permit the conversion of all outstanding Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
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nonassessable and shall be free from preemptive or similar rights and free of any lien or adverse claim as the result of any action by the Company.
     (c) The Company will endeavor promptly to comply with all federal and state securities laws regulating the offer and delivery of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Securities, if any, and will list or cause to have listed such shares of Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, or each national securities exchange or over the counter market or such other market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted.
     Section 4.06. Adjustment of Conversion Rate.
     The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company as follows:
     (a) If the Company issues Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on Common Stock to all holders of Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
     CR1 = CR0 x OS1/OS0
     where
     CR0 = the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment relating to such event
     CR1 = the new Conversion Rate in effect taking such event into account
     OS0 = the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such event
     OS1 = the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event.
     Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 4.06(a) shall become effective on the date that is immediately after (x) the ex-dividend date for such distribution or (y) the date on which such split or combination becomes effective, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution described in this clause Section 4.06(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the new Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
     (b) If the Company issues to all holders of Common Stock any rights, warrants, options or other securities entitling them for a period of not more than 45 days after the date of issuance thereof to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock, or if the Company issues to all holders of Common Stock securities convertible into Common Stock for a period of not more than 45 days after the date of issuance thereof, in either case at an exercise or a conversion price per share of Common Stock less than the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Business Day immediately preceding the time of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
     CR1 = CR0 x (OS0+X)/(OS0+Y)

 


 

     where
     CR0 = the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment relating to such event
     CR1 = the new Conversion Rate taking such event into account
     OS0 = the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such event
         
 
  X =   the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities
 
       
 
  Y =   the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient of (A) the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities divided by (B) the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Days prior to the Business Day immediately preceding the date of announcement for the issuance of such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities.
     For purposes of this Section 4.06(b), in determining whether any rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase, or exercise a conversion right for, Common Stock at less than the applicable Closing Price of the Common Stock, and in determining the aggregate exercise or conversion price payable for such Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, with the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 4.06(b) shall become effective on the ex-dividend date for the distribution. If any right, warrant, option, other security or convertible security described in this Section 4.06(b) is not exercised or converted prior to the expiration of the exercisability or convertibility thereof, the new Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such right, warrant, option, other security or convertible security had not been so issued.
     (c) If the Company distributes capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or property of the Company to all holders of Common Stock, excluding:
     (1) dividends, distributions, rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities referred to in Section 4.06(a) or (b) above,
     (2) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash, and
     (3) Spin-Offs described below in this Section 4.06(c),
     then the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
     CR1 = CR0 x SP0/(SP0-FMV)

 


 

     where
     CR0 = the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment relating to such event
     CR1 = the new Conversion Rate taking such event into account
     SP0 = the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the ex-dividend date for such distribution
     FMV = the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company) of the capital stock, evidences of indebtedness, assets or property distributed with respect to each outstanding share of Common Stock on the earlier of the record date or the ex-dividend date for such distribution.
     An adjustment to the Conversion Rate made pursuant to this paragraph shall be made successively whenever any such distribution is made and shall become effective on the ex-dividend date for such distribution.
     If the Company distributes to all holders of Common Stock capital stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a subsidiary or other business unit of the Company (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the close of business on the date fixed for determination of holders of Common Stock entitled to receive such distribution will be adjusted based on the following formula:
     CR1 = CR0 x (FMV0+MP0)/MP0
     where
     CR0 = the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment relating to such event
     CR1 = the new Conversion Rate taking such event into account
     FMV0 = the average of the Closing Prices of the capital stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of Common Stock applicable to one share of Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Days after the effective date of the Spin-Off
     MP0 = the average of the Closing Prices of the Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Days after the effective date of the Spin-Off.
     An adjustment to the Conversion Rate made pursuant to this paragraph will occur after the close of business on the 10th consecutive Trading Day after the effective date of the Spin-Off; provided that in respect of any conversion within the 10 consecutive Trading Days immediately following the effective date of any Spin-Off, references in this clause 4.06(c) with respect to 10 consecutive Trading Days shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of consecutive Trading Days as have elapsed.

 


 

     If any such dividend or distribution described in this Section 4.06(c) is declared but not paid or made, the new Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
     (d) If the Company pays or makes any dividend or distribution consisting exclusively of cash to all holders of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
             
 
  CR1 = CR0 X   SP0 - T    
 
         
 
    SP0 - C    
     where
         
 
  CR0 =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment relating to such event
 
       
 
  CR1 =   the new Conversion Rate taking such event into account
 
       
 
  SP0 =   the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the ex-dividend date for such distribution
 
       
 
  T =   the dividend threshold amount, which shall initially be $0.06 per fiscal quarter, adjusted as described below to take into account events that cause adjustments to the Conversion Rate and as further adjusted to account for any change in the frequency of payment of the Company’s regular dividend; provided that the dividend threshold amount shall be deemed to be zero if the dividend is not a regularly scheduled dividend
 
       
 
  C =   the amount in cash per share that the Company distributes to holders of its Common Stock.
     An adjustment to the Conversion Rate made pursuant to this Section 4.06(d) shall become effective on the ex-dividend date for such dividend or distribution. If any dividend or distribution described in this Section 4.06(d) is declared but not so paid or made, the new Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
     If the Company fails to pay a cash dividend or distribution for a period in which a regularly scheduled dividend has in prior periods been paid in accordance with past practice, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted using the formula in this Section 4.06(d), with the ex-dividend date being deemed to be the third trading day in the second month of the fiscal quarter in question, and “C” being deemed to be zero.
     Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted, the dividend threshold amount shall be adjusted by multiplying such dividend threshold amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate prior to adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate following such adjustment.

 


 

     (e) If the Company or any of its subsidiaries makes a payment in respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for Common Stock to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of Common Stock exceeds the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (the “Expiration Time”), the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
     CR1 = CR0 x (AC + (SP1 x OS1))/(SP1 x OS0)
     where
         
 
  CR0 =   the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the adjustment relating to such event
 
       
 
  CR1 =   the new Conversion Rate taking such event into account
 
       
 
  AC =   the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company) paid or payable for Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer
 
       
 
  OS0 =   the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires
 
       
 
  OS1 =   the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares pursuant to such tender or exchange offer)
     SP1 = the average of the Closing Prices of Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Days commencing on the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.
     If the application of the foregoing formula would result in a decrease in the Conversion Rate, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate will be made.
     Any adjustment to the Conversion Rate made pursuant to this Section 4.06(e) shall become effective on the date immediately following the determination of the average of the Closing Prices of Common Stock for purposes of SP1 above. If the Company or one of its subsidiaries is obligated to purchase Common Stock pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer but is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchase or all such purchases are rescinded, the new Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would be in effect if such tender or exchange offer had not been made.
     (f) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections (a) through (e) of this Section 4.06, the Conversion Rate shall not exceed 28.9268 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, other than on account of adjustments to the Conversion Rate in the manner set forth in subsections (a) through (e) of this Section 4.06.

 


 

     (g) In addition to the adjustments pursuant to clauses (a) through (e) above, the Company may, in its sole discretion, increase the Conversion Rate in order to avoid or diminish any U.S. federal income tax to holders of Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of capital shares (or rights to acquire Common Stock) or from any event treated as such for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Company may also, from time to time, to the extent permitted by applicable law, increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for any period if the Company has determined that such increase would be in the best interests of the Company. If the Company makes such determination, it will be conclusive and the Company will mail to holders of the Securities a notice of the increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect in accordance with applicable law.
     (h) If the Company has in effect a rights plan while any Securities remain outstanding, then, in lieu of any adjustment required pursuant to clauses (a) through (e) of this Section 4.06, Holders will receive, upon a conversion of Securities in respect of which the Company is required to deliver shares of Common Stock, in addition to such shares of Common Stock, rights under the Company’s stockholder rights agreement unless, prior to conversion, the rights have expired, terminated or been redeemed or unless the rights have separated from the Common Stock. If the rights provided for in the rights plan adopted by the Company have separated from the Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights agreement so that Holders would not be entitled to receive any rights in respect of Common Stock, if any, that the Company is required to deliver upon conversion of Securities, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company had distributed to all holders of Common Stock capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or property pursuant to Section 4.06(c) above, subject to readjustment upon the subsequent expiration, termination or redemption of the rights. Other than as specified above in this clause 4.06(h), there will not be any adjustment to the Conversion Rate as the result of issuance of any such rights, the distribution of separate certificates representing such rights, the exercise or redemption of such rights in accordance with any rights plan or the termination or invalidation of any such rights.
     (i) For purposes of this Section 4.06, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.
     Section 4.07. No Adjustment.
     (a) The Company shall not be required to make any adjustment to the Conversion Rate in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.06 if Holders of the Securities are permitted to participate, on an as-converted basis, in the transactions described in Section 4.06 (assuming for this purpose that each $1,000 principal amount of Securities were convertible solely into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate).
     (b) No adjustment in the Conversion Rate shall be required to be made unless the adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% of the Conversion Rate. If the adjustment is not made because the adjustment does not change the Conversion Rate by at least

 


 

1%, then the adjustment that is not made will be carried forward and taken into account in any future adjustment. All required calculations will be made to the nearest cent or 1/10,000th of a share, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all adjustments not previously made shall have effect with respect to any conversion of Securities in connection with a Fundamental Change and any conversion on or after June 15, 2012.
     (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in addition to the other events set forth herein on account of which no adjustment to the Conversion Rate shall be made, the applicable Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted for: (i) the issuance of any Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on securities of the Company and the investment of additional optional amounts in Common Stock under any plan; (ii) the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan, employee agreement or arrangement or program of the Company; (iii) the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right, or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security outstanding as of the date the Securities were first issued; (iv) a change in the par value of the Common Stock; (v) accumulated and unpaid dividends or distributions; and (vi) as a result of a tender offer solely to holders of fewer than 100 shares of Common Stock.
     (d) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 4.06 to the contrary, in no event shall the Conversion Rate be adjusted so that the Conversion Price would be less than $0.01.
     Section 4.08. Notice of Adjustment.
     Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee and any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Trust Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officer’s Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall mail such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to Holders within 20 Business Days after the effective date of such adjustment. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
     Section 4.09. Notice of Certain Transactions.
     In the event there is a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Company shall mail to Holders and file with the Trustee a notice stating the effective date. The Company shall mail such notice at least 20 days before such proposed effective date. Failure to mail such notice or any defect therein shall not affect the validity of any transaction referred to in this Section 4.09.

 


 

     Section 4.10. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale on Conversion Privilege.
     (a) If any of the following events occur (each, a “Business Combination”), namely:
     (1) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock, other than (A) a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or (B) as a result of a subdivision or combination,
     (2) a consolidation, merger or combination of the Company with another Person, or
     (3) a sale, lease or other transfer to another Person of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries. For purposes of the foregoing, the transfer (by lease, assignment, sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of transactions) of all or substantially all the assets of one or more of the Company’s Subsidiaries, the capital stock of which constitute all or substantially all the assets of the Company to a Person other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all the assets of the Company.
     (4) any statutory share exchange of the Company with another Person,
in each case as a result of which holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) with respect to or in exchange for Common Stock, the Company or the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture (which shall comply with the TIA as in force at the date of execution of such supplemental indenture if such supplemental indenture is then required to so comply) providing that from and after the effective date of such Business Combination, upon conversion of Securities, the settlement of the Conversion Value in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.12 shall be based on, and each Remaining Share, if any, deliverable in respect of any such settlement shall consist of, the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) which holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive in respect of each share of Common Stock upon such Business Combination. In the event holders of Common Stock have the opportunity to elect the form of consideration to be received in such Business Combination, the Company shall make adequate provision whereby the Holders of the Securities shall have a reasonable opportunity to determine the form of consideration into which all of the Securities, treated as a single class, shall be convertible from and after the effective date of such Business Combination. Such determination shall be (i) based on the weighted average of elections made by Holders of the Securities who participate in such determination, (ii) subject to any limitations to which all of the holders of the Common Stock are subject, such as pro rata reductions applicable to any portion of the consideration payable in such Business Combination and (iii) conducted in such a manner as to be completed by the date which is the earlier of (a) the deadline for elections to be made by stockholders of the Company, and (b) two Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date of the Business Combination. The Company shall provide notice of the opportunity to determine the form of such consideration, as well as notice of the

 


 

determination made by Holders of the Securities (and the weighted average of elections), by issuing a press release or providing other notice deemed appropriate by the Company, and by providing a copy of such notice to the Trustee. In the event the effective date of the Business Combination is delayed more than 10 days beyond the initially anticipated effective date, Holders of the Securities shall be given the opportunity to make subsequent similar determinations in regard to such delayed effective date. Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments of the Conversion Rate and other appropriate numerical thresholds which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments of the Conversion Rate provided for in this Article 4. If, in the case of any such Business Combination, the stock or other securities and assets receivable thereupon by a holder of shares of Common Stock includes shares of stock or other securities and assets of a corporation other than the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such Business Combination, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other corporation and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Securities as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including to the extent practicable the provisions providing for the repurchase rights set forth in Article 3 hereof. The Company shall not become a party to any Business Combination unless its terms are materially consistent with the provisions of this Section 4.10. The above provisions of this Section 4.10 shall similarly apply to successive Business Combinations. None of the provisions of this Section 4.10 shall affect the right of a Holder of Securities to convert its Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Article 4 prior to the effective date of a Business Combination.
     If this Section 4.10(a) applies to any event or occurrence, Section 4.06 hereof shall not apply.
     (b) In the event the Company shall execute a supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 4.10, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee (1) an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefore and that all conditions precedent have been complied with and (2) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that all conditions precedent thereto and hereunder have been complied with and that the execution and delivery of the Supplemental Indenture is authorized or permitted under the Indenture, and shall promptly mail notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to all Holders. Failure to mail such notice or any defect therein shall not affect the validity of such transaction and such supplemental indenture.
     Section 4.11. Trustee’s Disclaimer.
     (a) The Trustee shall have no duty to determine when an adjustment under this Article 4 should be made, how it should be made or what such adjustment should be, but may accept as conclusive evidence of that fact or the correctness of any such adjustment, and shall be protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, including the Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.08. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of Securities, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for the Company’s failure to comply with any provisions of this Article 4, including, without limitation, whether or not a Supplemental Indenture is required to be executed.

 


 

     (b) The Trustee shall not be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to Section 4.10, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness thereof, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.10.
     Section 4.12. Settlement Upon Conversion.
     (a) Holders surrendering Securities for conversion shall be entitled to receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities surrendered for conversion: (A) cash in an amount equal to the lesser of (1) $1,000 and (2) the Conversion Value; and (B) if the Conversion Value is greater than $1,000, a number of shares of Common Stock (the “Remaining Shares”) equal to the sum of the Daily Share Amounts for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days in the Conversion Reference Period, appropriately adjusted to reflect events occurring during the Conversion Reference Period that would result in an adjustment to the Conversion Rate in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.06, subject to the Company’s right to deliver cash in lieu of all or a portion of such Remaining Shares as set forth in Section 4.12(b). The Company will deliver such cash and any shares of Common Stock, together with any cash payable for fractional shares, to such Holder in accordance with Section 4.02(a).
     (b) The Company may elect to pay cash to the Holders of Securities surrendered for conversion in lieu of all or a portion of the Remaining Shares otherwise issuable pursuant to Section 4.12(a). In such event, on any day prior to the first Trading Day of the applicable Conversion Reference Period, the Company may specify a percentage of the Daily Share Amount that will be settled in cash (the “Cash Percentage”). If the Company elects to specify a Cash Percentage, the amount of cash that the Company will deliver in respect of the Daily Share Amount for each Trading Day in the applicable Conversion Reference Period will equal the product of: (1) the Cash Percentage, (2) the Daily Share Amount for such Trading Day and (3) the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Company’s Common Stock on such Trading Day. The number of shares that the Company shall deliver in respect of the Daily Share Amount for each Trading Day in the applicable Conversion Reference Period will be a percentage of the Daily Share Amount equal to 100% minus the Cash Percentage. If the Company does not specify a Cash Percentage by the start of the applicable Conversion Reference Period, the Company shall settle 100% of the Daily Share Amount for each Trading Day in the applicable Conversion Reference Period with shares of Common Stock; provided, however, that the Company shall pay cash in lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with Section 4.03.
     (c) For the purposes of Sections 4.12(a) and (b), in the event that any of Conversion Value, Daily Conversion Value, Daily Share Amounts, or Volume Weighted Average Price is not calculable for all portions of the Conversion Reference Period, the Company’s Board of Directors shall in good faith determine the values necessary to calculate the Conversion Value, Daily Conversion Value, Daily Share Amounts, and Volume Weighted Average Price (which calculations shall be evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee).

 


 

     Section 4.13. Certain Conversions.
     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 4, in the event of a Fundamental Change in which the consideration is comprised entirely of cash, the Conversion Value will be calculated based solely on the amount of cash which holders of the Company’s Common Stock are entitled to receive in respect of each share of Common Stock upon such Fundamental Change. In such event, the Company will pay the Holders in cash, as promptly as practicable but in any event not later than the third Trading Day following the surrender of the Securities for conversion.
ARTICLE 5
COVENANTS
     Section 5.01. Payment of Securities.
     (a) The Company shall promptly make all payments in respect of the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the Securities and this Indenture. A payment of principal or interest shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Paying Agent (other than the Company) (or if the Company is the Paying Agent, the segregated account or separate trust fund maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 2.04) holds by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on that date money, deposited by or on behalf of the Company sufficient to make the payment. Accrued and unpaid interest on any Security that is payable (whether or not 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 at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose. The Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, pay interest in immediately available funds on overdue principal and interest at the annual rate borne by the Securities compounded semiannually, which interest shall accrue from the date such overdue amount was originally due to the day preceding the date payment of such amount, including interest thereon, has been made or duly provided for. All such interest shall be payable on demand.
     (b) Payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee) 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; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest on any Certificated Securities having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears in the Register; provided further that a Holder of a Certificated Security having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000 will be paid by wire transfer in immediately available funds at the election of such Holder if such Holder has provided wire transfer instructions to the Trustee at least 10 Business Days prior to the payment date. Any wire transfer instructions received by the Trustee will remain in effect until revoked by the Holder. In the case of a permanent Global Security, interest payable on any applicable payment date will be paid to the Depositary, with respect to that portion of such permanent Global Security held for its

 


 

account by Cede & Co. for the purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in respect of such permanent Global Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof.
     Section 5.02. Reports by Company.
     (a) The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 15 days after it is required to file them with the SEC, copies of all annual reports, quarterly reports and other documents that the Company files with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; provided that any such reports and documents filed with the SEC pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (or EDGAR) shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee. The Company also shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(a).
     (b) Delivery of such reports and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates). The Trustee may assume that any reports required to be filed under subsection (a) above have been filed with the SEC and shall have no obligation to verify any such filing.
     Section 5.03. Compliance Certificates.
     The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending May 31, 2008), an Officer’s Certificate as to the signer’s knowledge of the Company’s compliance with all conditions and covenants on its part contained in this Indenture and stating whether or not the signer knows of any Default or Event of Default. If such signer knows of such a Default or Event of Default, the Officer’s Certificate shall describe the Default or Event of Default and the efforts to remedy the same. For the purposes of this Section 5.03, compliance shall be determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
     Section 5.04. Further Instruments and Acts.
     Upon request of the Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
     Section 5.05. Maintenance of Corporate Existence.
     Subject to Article 6, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
     Section 5.06. Rule 144A Information Requirement.
     During the period prior to the expiration of the holding period applicable to sales thereof under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision), the Company covenants and agrees that it shall, during any period in which it is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) under

 


 

the Exchange Act, upon the request of any Holder or beneficial holder of the Securities, make available to such Holder or beneficial holder of Securities or any Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof which continue to be Restricted Securities in connection with any sale thereof and any prospective purchaser of Securities or such Common Stock designated by such Holder or beneficial holder, the information required pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act and it will take such further action as any Holder or beneficial holder of such Securities or such Common Stock may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder or beneficial holder to sell its Securities or Common Stock without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemption provided by Rule 144A, as such Rule may be amended from time to time. Whether a person is a beneficial holder shall be determined by the Company.
     Section 5.07. Stay, Extension And Usury Laws.
     The Company covenants (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or accrued but unpaid interest on the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture, and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
     Section 5.08. Payment of Additional Interest.
     If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable, (ii) the reason why such Additional Interest is payable and (iii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable. Unless and until a Trust Officer of the Trustee receives such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to such Additional Interest, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.
     Section 5.09. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
     The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment. The Company also will maintain an office or agency where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The office of the Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, will be such office or agency of the Company, unless the Company shall designate and maintain some other office or agency for one or more of such purposes. The Company will 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 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 office of the Trustee and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
     The Company may from time to time designate one or more other 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 will 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.
ARTICLE 6
CONSOLIDATION; MERGER; SALE OF ASSETS
     Section 6.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
     (a) The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not the Company is the surviving Person) any other entity and the Company shall not sell, convey, assign, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to any Person in a single transaction or series of related transactions, unless:
     (1) either (A) the Company shall be the surviving Person or (B) the surviving Person (if other than the Company) shall be a corporation or limited liability company organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall, in any such case, expressly assume by a supplemental indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the Securities and the performance and observance of every covenant of this Indenture to be performed or observed on the part of the Company;
     (2) after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
     (3) if the Company will not be the resulting or surviving Person, the Company shall have, at or prior to the effective date of such consolidation or merger or sale, conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease or other disposition, delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer complies with this Article 6.01 and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture complies with this Article, and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
     For purposes of the foregoing, the transfer (by lease, assignment, sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of transactions) of all or substantially all the assets of one or more Subsidiaries, the Capital Stock of which constitute all or substantially all the assets of the Company to a Person other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all the assets of the Company.

 


 

     Section 6.02. Successor Substituted.
     Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any sale, conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in accordance with Section 6.01, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such sale, conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE 7
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
     Section 7.01. Events of Default.
     (a) An “Event of Default” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
     (1) a default by the Company in the payment of the principal amount or Fundamental Change Purchase Price of any Security when the same becomes due and payable whether at the Final Maturity Date, upon purchase, acceleration or otherwise; or
     (2) a default by the Company in the payment of any interest (including Additional Interest) under the Securities, which default continues for 30 days after the date when due; or
     (3) a default by the Company in the delivery when due of all cash and any shares of Common Stock deliverable upon conversion of the Securities, which default continues for 15 days; or
     (4) failure by the Company to provide an Issuer Fundamental Change Notice within the time required to provide such notice as set forth in Section 3.01(b) hereof; or
     (5) the failure by the Company to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the Securities or this Indenture for a period of 60 days after receipt by the Company of a Notice of Default specifying such failure; or
     (6) default by the Company in the payment of principal by the end of any applicable grace period or resulting in acceleration of other Indebtedness of the Company for borrowed money where the aggregate principal amount with respect to which the default or acceleration has occurred exceeds $50 million and such acceleration has not been rescinded or annulled or such other Indebtedness has not been repaid within a period

 


 

of 30 days after receipt by the Company of a Notice of Default specifying the default, provided that if any such default is cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, then the Event of Default by reason thereof would not be deemed to have occurred; or
     (7) a court having jurisdiction in the premises enters (x) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or (y) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any Significant Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under any applicable federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or
     (8) (i) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary commences a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent; or
     (ii) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary consents to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary; or
     (iii) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary files a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state law; or
     (iv) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary consents to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of their property; or
     (v) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
     (vi) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due; or
     (vii) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary takes corporate action in furtherance of any such action described in this Section 7.01(a)(8).
     (b) Notwithstanding Section 7.01(a) no Event of Default under clauses (5) or (6) of Section 7.01(a) shall occur until the Trustee notifies the Company in writing, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding notify the Company

 


 

and the Trustee in writing, of the Default (a “Notice of Default”), and the Company does not cure the Default within the time specified in clauses (5) or (6), respectively, of Section 7.01(a), or obtain a waiver, after receipt of such notice. A notice given pursuant to this Section 7.01 shall be given by registered or certified mail, must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that the notice is a Notice of Default. When any Default under this Section 7.01 is cured, it ceases.
     (c) The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after becoming aware of the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default, written notice thereof.
     Section 7.02. Acceleration.
     If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (7) or (8) of Section 7.01(a)) shall occur and be continuing with respect to this Indenture, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding may, and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration on all Securities to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders of the Securities). Upon any such declaration, such principal and interest shall become due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in clause (7) or (8) of Section 7.01(a) occurs and is continuing, then all the Securities shall ipso facto become and be due and payable immediately in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Securities, together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date the Securities become due and payable, without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. Thereupon, the Trustee may, at its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce the rights of the Holders of the Securities by appropriate judicial proceedings.
     After a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Securities, but before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
     (a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
     (1) 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,
     (2) all overdue interest on all Outstanding Securities,
     (3) the principal of any Outstanding Securities which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities, and
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     (b) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; and
     (c) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of principal of and interest on the Securities which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 7.13. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent elected by the Company, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the failure by the Company to comply with the provisions of Section 5.02 of this Indenture shall, for the first 60 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive special interest (“Special Interest”) on the Securities at an annual rate equal to 0.25% of the principal amount of the Securities. Such Special Interest shall be paid semi-annually in arrears, with the first semi-annual payment due on the first Interest Payment Date following the date on which such Special Interest began to accrue on the Securities. Special Interest shall accrue on all Outstanding Securities from and including the date on which an Event of Default relating to a failure to comply with the provisions of Section 5.02 shall first occur to but not including the 60th day thereafter (or such earlier date on which such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived). On such 60th day (or earlier, if the Event of Default relating to the failure to comply with Section 5.02 is cured or waived prior to such 60th day), such Special Interest shall cease to accrue and, if the Event of Default relating to the failure to comply with Section 5.02 shall not have been cured or waived prior to such 60th day, the Securities shall be subject to acceleration as provided in this Section 7.02. The provisions of this paragraph shall not affect the rights of holders in the event of the occurrence of any other Event of Default. In the event the Company shall not elect to pay Special Interest upon an Event of Default resulting from the failure of the Company to comply with the provisions of Section 5.02, the Securities shall be subject to acceleration as provided above in this Section 7.02.
     If the Company shall elect to pay Special Interest in connection with an Event of Default relating to its failure to comply with the requirements of Section 5.02, (1) the Company shall notify all Holders and the Trustee and Paying Agent of such election on or before the close of business on the date on which such Event of Default shall first occur, and (2) all references herein to interest accrued or payable as of any date shall include any Special Interest accrued or payable as of such date as provided in this Section 7.02.
     Section 7.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
     The Company covenants that if:
     (a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
     (b) default is made in the payment of the principal of any Security at the Stated Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest,

 


 

with interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the rate borne by the Securities; and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
     If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, 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 by such appropriate private or judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce such rights, 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 to enforce any other proper remedy, subject however to Section 7.12. No recovery of any such judgment upon any property of the Company shall affect or impair any rights, powers or remedies of the Trustee or the Holders.
     Section 7.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
     In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
     (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
     (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,

 


 

disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 8.07.
     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 7.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
     All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
     Section 7.06. Application of Money Collected.
     Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 or otherwise on behalf of the Holders or the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 or through any proceeding or any arrangement or restructuring in anticipation or in lieu of any proceeding contemplated by this Article 7 shall be applied, subject to applicable law, in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
     FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 8.07;
     SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities for principal and interest, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest; and
     THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Company, provided that all sums due and owing to the Holders and the Trustee have been paid in full as required by this Indenture.
     Section 7.07. Limitation on Suits.
     No Holder of any Securities shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or the Securities, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
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     (b) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as trustee hereunder;
     (c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
     (d) the Trustee for 15 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer (and if requested, provision) of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
     (e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 15-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture or any Security, except in the manner provided in this Indenture and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders).
     Section 7.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert.
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder of a Security to receive payment of the principal amount, interest, Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if any, Additional Interest, if any, or Special Interest, if any, in respect of the Securities held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Securities and this Indenture (whether upon repurchase or otherwise), and to convert such Security in accordance with Article 4, and to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective due dates or for the right to convert in accordance with Article 4, is absolute and unconditional and shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of the Holder.
     Section 7.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
     If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, any other obligor on the Securities, the Trustee and the Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
     Section 7.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
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extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
     Section 7.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
     No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article 7 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
     Section 7.12. Control by Holders.
     The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, provided that:
     (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, expose the Trustee to personal liability, or be unduly prejudicial to Holders not joining therein; and
     (b) subject to the provisions of Section 315 of the TIA, the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
     Section 7.13. Waiver of Past Defaults.
     Subject to Sections 7.08, the Holders of a majority in 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 an uncured Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or any accrued but unpaid interest on any Security, an uncured failure by the Company to convert any Securities into Common Stock and cash, as applicable, or any Default or Event of Default in respect of any provision of this Indenture or the Securities which, under Section 10.02, cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected. When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is cured and ceases to exist.
     Section 7.14. Undertaking for Costs.
     All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses

 


 

made by such party litigant, but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on, any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of purchase pursuant to Article 3 hereof, on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date).
     Section 7.15. Remedies Subject to Applicable Law.
     All rights, remedies and powers provided by this Article 7 may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provision of law in the premises, and all the provisions of this Indenture are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of law which may be controlling in the premises and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render this Indenture invalid, unenforceable or not entitled to be recorded, registered or filed under the provisions of any applicable law.
ARTICLE 8
TRUSTEE
     Section 8.01. Duties of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of TIA Sections 315(a) through 315(d):
     (a) if a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs;
     (b) except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default:
     (1) the Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no covenants or obligations shall be implied in this Indenture that are adverse to the Trustee; and
     (2) in the absence of bad faith or willful misconduct 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. However, in the case of certificates or opinions specifically required by any provision hereof to be furnished to it, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
     (c) the Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
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     (2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
     (3) 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 of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Indenture;
     (d) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it;
     (e) whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) and (f) of this Section 8.01; and
     (f) the Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money or assets received by it except as the Trustee may agree with the Company. Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other assets except to the extent required by law.
     Section 8.02. Notice of Default.
     Within 30 days after a Trust Officer of the Trustee receives written notice of the occurrence of any Default, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders and any other Persons entitled to receive reports pursuant to Section 313(c) of the TIA, 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; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security or the failure to deliver amounts owing upon conversion of a Security in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a trust committee of Trust Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders.
     Section 8.03. Certain Rights of Trustee.
     Subject to the provisions of Section 8.01 hereof and TIA Sections 315(a) through 315(d):
     (a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon receipt by it of 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 any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
     (c) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and any advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon 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 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;
     (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 other than any liabilities arising out of the negligence, bad faith 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, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or document but the Trustee in its discretion may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may 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 at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;
     (g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
     (h) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities unless either (i) a Trust Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or (ii) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company or by any Holder of Securities;
     (i) 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; and
     (j) the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties of the Trustee.

 


 

     Section 8.04. 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 statements made by it in any Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 to be supplied to the Company will be true and accurate subject to the qualifications set forth therein. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
     Section 8.05. Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections; etc.
     The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, 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 and, subject to TIA Sections 310 and 311, 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.
     Section 8.06. 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 mandatory provisions of law.
     Section 8.07. 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, such compensation as the parties shall agree in writing from time to time for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) 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 the Trustee 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 any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its own negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The Company also covenants and agrees to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any claim, loss, liability, damage, tax, assessment or other governmental charge (other than taxes applicable to the Trustee’s compensation hereunder) or expense incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including enforcement of this Section 8.07 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 or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The obligations of the Company under this Section 8.07 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute an additional obligation hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee. To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section 8.07, the Trustee shall have a prior claim to Holders of Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities.
     Section 8.08. Conflicting Interests.
     The Trustee shall comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the TIA.
     Section 8.09. Trustee Eligibility.
     There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as trustee under TIA Section 310(a) and which shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000, to the extent there is an institution eligible and willing to serve. If the Trustee does not have a Corporate Trust Office in The City of New York, the Trustee may appoint an agent in The City of New York reasonably acceptable to the Company to conduct any activities which the Trustee may be required under this Indenture to conduct in The City of New York. If such Trustee publishes 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 8.09, 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 8.09, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article 8.
     Section 8.10. 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 8 shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee under Section 8.11.
     (b) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any time resign by giving written notice thereof to the Company no later than 20 Business Days prior to the proposed date of resignation. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument executed by authority of the Board of Directors of the Company, 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 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, 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 and prescribe a successor trustee.
     (c) The Trustee may be removed at any time for any cause or for no cause by an Act of the Holders of not less than a majority in 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 TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months,
     (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 8.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
     (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 7.14, the Holder of any Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
     (e) If the Trustee shall 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, shall promptly appoint a successor trustee and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If, within 60 days after such removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, the Company has not appointed a successor Trustee, a successor trustee shall be appointed by the Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee. Such successor trustee so appointed shall forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment become the successor trustee. 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 Trustee or the Holder of any Security who has been a bona fide Holder for at least six months may, subject to Section 7.14, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition at the expense of the Company 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 register of the Registrar. Each notice shall include the name of the successor trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office or agent hereunder.

 


 

     Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
     (a) Every successor trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee as if originally named as Trustee hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges pursuant to Section 8.07 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 transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers.
     (b) No successor trustee with respect to the Securities shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 8.11 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible to act as trustee under the provisions of TIA Section 310(a) and this Article 8 and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and have a Corporate Trust Office or an agent selected in accordance with Section 8.09.
     (c) Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in this Section 8.11, 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 appointment, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 8.10. If the Company fails to give such notice within 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 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
     Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the trust created by this Indenture) shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under TIA Section 310(a) and this Article 8 and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and have a Corporate Trust Office or an agent selected in accordance with Section 8.09, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
     In case 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; and, in case at that 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 the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
     Section 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
     If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or other obligor under the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the TIA 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 TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated therein.
     Section 8.14. Reports By Trustee.
     (a) Within 60 days after January 15 of each year commencing with the first January 15 after the issuance of Securities, the Trustee, if so required under the TIA, shall transmit by mail to all Holders, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), a brief report dated as of such January 15 in accordance with and with respect to the matters required by TIA Section 313(a). The Trustee shall also transmit by mail to all Holders, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), a brief report in accordance with and with respect to the matters required by TIA Section 313(b)(2).
     (b) A copy of each report transmitted to Holders pursuant to this Section 8.14 shall, at the time of such transmission, be mailed to the Company and filed with each national securities exchange, if any, upon which the Securities are listed and also with the SEC. The Company will notify the Trustee promptly if the Securities are listed on any national securities exchange.
ARTICLE 9
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
     Section 9.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
     This Indenture shall cease to be of further force and effect (except as to any surviving rights of conversion, registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for and except as further provided below), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when either:
     (1) all 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 2.08 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Company as provided in Section 2.04) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 


 

     (2) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable, whether on the Final Maturity Date or a Fundamental Change Purchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise,

provided, that
     (i) the Company has deposited with the Trustee, a Paying Agent (other than the Company or any of its Affiliates) or a Conversion Agent, if applicable, immediately available funds or immediately available funds and shares of Common Stock, in trust for the purpose of and in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge all indebtedness and obligations related to such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest (including Additional Interest, if any) to the date of such deposit or for the payment of amounts due upon conversion;
     (ii) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
     (iii) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
     (b) Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company with respect to the Trustee under Section 8.07 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (2) of Section 9.01(a), the provisions of Sections 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.13 and 5.01 and this Article 9 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge until the Securities have been paid in full.
     Section 9.02. Application of Trust Money.
     Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 2.04, all United States dollars deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01 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 and interest on, the Securities for whose payment such United States dollars have been deposited with the Trustee.
     Section 9.03. Reinstatement.
     If the Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Conversion Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 9.02 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 9.01 until such time as the Trustee, such Paying Agent or such Conversion Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 9.02; provided, however, that if the Company has made any payment of the principal of or interest on any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to

 


 

receive any such payment from the money held by the Trustee, such Paying Agent or such Conversion Agent.
ARTICLE 10
AMENDMENTS; SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
     Section 10.01. Without Consent of Holders.
     (a) The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities without notice to or consent of any Holder of a Security for the purpose of:
     (1) evidencing a successor to the Company and the assumption by that successor of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities;
     (2) adding to the Company’s covenants for the benefit of the Holders or surrendering any right or power conferred upon the Company;
     (3) securing the Company’s obligations in respect of the Securities;
     (4) evidencing and providing for the acceptance of the appointment of a successor trustee in accordance with Article 8;
     (5) complying with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA, as contemplated by this Indenture or otherwise;
     (6) providing for conversion rights of Holders if any reclassification or change of Common Stock or any consolidation, merger or sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s property and assets occurs or otherwise complying with the provisions of this Indenture in the event of a merger, consolidation or transfer of assets (including the provisions of Section 4.10 and Article 6);
     (7) adding guarantees with respect to the Securities;
     (8) increasing the Conversion Rate in accordance with the terms of the Securities;
     (9) curing any ambiguity, omission or inconsistency in this Indenture or correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained in this Indenture;
     (10) making any change that will not adversely affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect.

 


 

     Section 10.02. With Consent of Holders.
     (a) The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture and the Securities with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities. However, without the written consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or supplement may not:
     (1) alter the manner of calculation or rate of accrual of interest on any Security, reduce the rate of interest on any Security or extend the time of payment of any installment of interest on any Security;
     (2) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of any Security;
     (3) make any of the Securities payable in money or securities other than that stated in the Securities;
     (4) reduce the principal amount or Fundamental Change Purchase Price payable with respect to any of the Securities;
     (5) make any change that adversely affects the rights of a Holder to convert any of the Securities in any material respect;
     (6) make any change that adversely affects the rights of Holders to require the Company to purchase Securities at the option of Holders in any material respect;
     (7) change the provisions in this Indenture that relate to modifying or amending this Indenture or waiving any past Default; or
     (8) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to any Security or with respect to the conversion of any Security.
     (b) Without limiting the provisions of Section 10.02(a) hereof, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may, on behalf of all the Holders of all Securities, (i) waive compliance by the Company with the restrictive provisions of this Indenture, and (ii) waive any past Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and its consequences, except an uncured failure to pay when due the principal amount, accrued and unpaid interest, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if any and as applicable, or to deliver amounts due upon conversion, with respect to the Securities, or in respect of any provision which under this Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security affected.
     (c) Upon the written request of the Company accompanied by a copy of Board Resolutions authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid, if required, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture.

 


 

     (d) It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 10.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
     Section 10.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures and Agreements.
     In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture, agreement, instrument or waiver permitted by this Article 10 or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be provided with, in addition to the documents required by Section 11.04, and (subject to TIA Sections 315(a) through 315(d) and Section 8.03(a) hereof) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officer’s Certificate stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture, agreement or instrument is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. 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 or otherwise.
     Section 10.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
     Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article 10, 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 10.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
     Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article 10 shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in effect.
     Section 10.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
     Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article 10 may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
     Section 10.07. Notice of Supplemental Indentures.
     Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02, the Company shall give notice thereof to the Holders of each Outstanding Security affected, in the manner provided for in Section 11.02, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

 


 

ARTICLE 11
MISCELLANEOUS
     Section 11.01. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
     If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with any provision of the TIA or another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the TIA, the provision or requirement of the TIA shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the TIA 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 11.02. Notices.
     Any demand, authorization notice, request, consent or communication shall be given in writing and mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or delivered by recognized overnight courier addressed as follows or transmitted by facsimile transmission (confirmed by delivery in person or mail by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by guaranteed overnight courier) to the following facsimile numbers:
If to the Company, to:
Tektronix, Inc.
14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077
Attention: Treasurer
Telephone No.: (503) 627-4622
Facsimile No.: (503) 527-6108
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee
by the Company, with a copy to:
Stoel Rives LLP
900 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 2600
Portland, OR 97204
Attention: Peggy Noto
Telephone No. (503) 224-3380
if to the Trustee, to:
U.S. Bank National Association
Corporate Trust Services
555 SW Oak Street, PD – OR – P6TD
Portland, OR 97204

 


 

Attention: Tektronix, Inc. Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012
Facsimile No.: (503) 275-5738
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Holders
or the Company or any other obligor on the Securities by the Trustee.
Such notices or communications shall be effective when received.
     The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
     Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, 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 its address as it appears in the register kept by the Primary Registrar, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice or by any other manner deemed acceptable to the Trustee. In any case where notice 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.
     If the Company mails any notice to a Holder of a Security, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent.
     Section 11.03. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.
     Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities, and the Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 312(b). The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall have the protection of TIA 312(c). Further, every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee or any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders in accordance with TIA Section 312, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under TIA Section 312.

 


 

     Section 11.04. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
     (a) Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture and as may be requested by the Trustee, the Company and any other obligor on the Securities (if applicable) shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture (including any covenant compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to the proposed action have been complied with, and an Opinion of Counsel in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Trustee 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 certificates 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.
     (b) Every certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
     (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or individual or firm signing such opinion has read and understands such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
     (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
     (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual or such firm, he or it has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or it to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual or such firm, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
     Section 11.05. Acts of Holders.
     (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders 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 and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section 11.05.

 


 

     (b) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the register maintained by the Primary Registrar.
     (c) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the 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 Conversion Agent, or the Company or any other obligor of the Securities in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
     (d) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution 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.
     (e) 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 such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), any such record date shall be the record date specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not more than 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and no later than the date such first solicitation is completed.
     (f) If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for 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; 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 such record date.
     (g) For purposes of this Indenture, any action by the Holders which may be taken in writing may be taken by electronic means or as otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
     Section 11.06. Benefits of Indenture.
     Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person (other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, any Paying Agent and the Holders) any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 


 

     Section 11.07. Legal Holidays.
     In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date or Final Maturity Date of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal 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 such Interest Payment Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date or Final Maturity Date, and no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date or Final Maturity Date, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.
     Section 11.08. Governing Law.
     THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
     Section 11.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.
     This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
     Section 11.10. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders.
     No director, officer, employee, stockholder, incorporator or agent of the Company, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities, the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each holder of the Securities by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.
     Section 11.11. Successors and Assigns.
     All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
     Section 11.12. Multiple Counterparts.
     The parties may sign multiple counterparts of this Indenture. Each signed counterpart shall be deemed an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
     Section 11.13. 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 11.14. 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 11.15. 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 11.16. Waiver of Jury Trial.
     EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
     Section 11.17. Force Majeure.
     In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 


 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands as of the date and year first above written.
         
  Very truly yours,

TEKTRONIX, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON  
    Name:   James F. Dalton  
    Title:   Senior Vice President,
General Counsel, and Secretary
 
 
  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
 
 
  By:   /s/ CHERYL NELSON  
    Name:   Cheryl Nelson  
    Title:   Vice President  
 

 


 

Exhibit A
[FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY]
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), 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. THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.1
THE NOTES AND THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS NOTE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS NOTE, THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.2
BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS NOTE (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS NOTE) (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG
 
1   This paragraph should be included only if the Security is a Global Security.
 
2   This paragraph should be included only if the Security is a Restricted Security.

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AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (D) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM, AND IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, TO REQUIRE THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS NOTE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.3
Tektronix, Inc.
1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012
     
     No. A-1
  CUSIP:
     Tektronix, Inc., an Oregon corporation, promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, the principal sum [set forth on the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached hereto] [of [          ] United States Dollars] on July 15, 2012.
     This Note shall bear interest as specified on the other side of this Note. This Note is convertible as specified on the other side of this Note. The aggregate principal amount of outstanding Securities represented hereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges, purchases or conversions of such Securities.
     Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.
Dated: June 29, 2007
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
 
3   This paragraph should be included only if the Security is a Restricted Subsidiary.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
         
  TEKTRONIX, INC.
 
 
  By:      
    Name:      
    Title:      
 
Dated:
Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication:
This is one of the Securities referred to in
the within-mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
         
     
By:        
  Authorized Officer     
       

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF SECURITY]
Tektronix, Inc.
1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012
     1. Interest
     Tektronix, Inc., an Oregon corporation (the “Company”, which term shall include any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate of 1.625% per annum. The Company shall pay interest semiannually on January 15 and July 15 of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing January 15, 2008. Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date shall include interest accrued from and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date (or if none, from and including June 29, 2007) to but excluding the relevant Interest Payment Date. Cash interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. Any payment required to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such day and without any interest in respect of the delay. The Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, pay interest in immediately available funds on overdue principal and interest at the rate of 1.625% per annum, compounded semiannually, which interest shall accrue from the date such overdue amount was originally due to the day preceding the date payment of such amount, including interest thereon, has been made or duly provided for.
     Any reference herein to interest accrued or payable as of any date shall include any Additional Interest accrued or payable on such date as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement and to any Special Interest that may be payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.02 of the Indenture.
     2. Method of Payment
     The Company shall pay interest on this Note (except defaulted interest) to the person who is the Holder of this Note at the close of business on January 1 or July 1, as the case may be (each, a “Regular Record Date”) next preceding the related Interest Payment Date. The Holder must surrender this Note to a Paying Agent to collect payment of principal. The Company will pay principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
     3. Paying Agent, Registrar and Conversion Agent
     Initially, U.S. Bank National Association (the “Trustee”, which term shall include any successor trustee under the Indenture hereinafter referred to) will act as Paying Agent, Registrar and Conversion Agent. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or Conversion Agent without notice to the Holder. The Company or any of its Affiliates may, subject to certain limitations set forth in the Indenture, act as Paying Agent.

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     4. Indenture
     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as its 1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012 (the “Securities”), issued under an Indenture dated as of June 29, 2007 (together with any supplemental indentures thereto, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee. The terms of this Note include those stated in the Indenture and those required by or made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture. This Note is subject to all such terms, and the Holder of this Note is referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Securities are limited to $300,000,000, or if the Initial Purchasers exercise the Overallotment Option in full, $345,000,000, aggregate principal amount. The Indenture does not limit other debt of the Company, secured or unsecured.
     Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
     5. Purchase of Securities at Option of Holder Upon a Fundamental Change
     Upon a Fundamental Change, at the option of the Holder and subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company shall become obligated to purchase for cash all or any part specified by the Holder (so long as the principal amount of such part is $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000) of the Securities held by such Holder on the date specified by the Company in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of the Indenture. The purchase price of any Securities so purchased shall equal 100% of the principal amount thereof together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Purchase Date. If the Fundamental Change Purchase Date falls on a day that is after the Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, interest, accrued and unpaid hereon to, but not including, the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date, will be paid to the Holder in whose name such Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date.
     6. Conversion
     Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Indenture and upon the occurrence of the events specified in the Indenture, the Holder may surrender for conversion all or any portion of this Note that is in an integral multiple of $1,000. Upon conversion, the Holder shall be entitled to receive the consideration specified in the Indenture. No fractional share of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of a Note. Instead, the Company shall pay a cash adjustment as provided in the Indenture. The initial Conversion Rate of the Securities shall be 25.1538 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Securities, subject to adjustment in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of the Indenture. If a Holder converts all or any portion of this Note in connection with the occurrence of certain Fundamental Change transactions, the Conversion Rate shall be increased in the manner and to the extent described in Section 4.01(i) of the Indenture.
     Securities surrendered for conversion (in whole or in part) during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the opening of business on the next succeeding

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Interest Payment Date shall be accompanied by payment by the Holders of such Securities in funds to the Conversion Agent acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such corresponding Interest Payment Date; provided that no such payment need be made: (1) in connection with a conversion following the Regular Record Date preceding the Final Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Purchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date; or (3) to the extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note.
     A Note in respect of which a Holder has submitted a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be converted only if such Holder validly withdraws such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
     7. Denominations, Transfer, Exchange
     The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 principal amount. A Holder may register the transfer of or exchange Securities in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any taxes or other governmental charges that may be imposed in relation thereto by law or permitted by the Indenture.
     8. Persons Deemed Owners
     The Holder of a Note may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
     9. Unclaimed Money
     If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and any Paying Agent will pay the money back to the Company, subject to the provisions of the Indenture. After that, Holders entitled to money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors.
     10. Amendment, Supplement and Waiver
     Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Securities may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, and an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequence or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Securities may be waived subject to certain exceptions with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding. Without the consent of or notice to any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Securities to, among other things, (x) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency or (y) make any other change that does not adversely affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect.

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     11. Successor Entity
     When a successor corporation assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under the Securities and the Indenture in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the predecessor corporation (except in certain circumstances specified in the Indenture) shall be released from those obligations.
     12. Defaults and Remedies
     An Event of Default shall occur upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 7.01(a) of the Indenture. Subject to the provisions of the penultimate paragraph of Section 7.02(c) of the Indenture, if an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing with respect to the Securities (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (7) or (8) of Section 7.01(a) of the Indenture), the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding may, and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on all Securities to be due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders of the Securities). Upon any such declaration, such principal and interest shall become due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in clause (7) or (8) of Section 7.01(a) of the Indenture occurs and is continuing, then all the Securities shall ipso facto become and be due and payable immediately in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Securities, together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date the Securities become due and payable, without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.
     The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul an acceleration and its consequences if: (a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay (1) 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, (2) all overdue interest on all Outstanding Securities, (3) the principal of any Outstanding Securities which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Securities, and (4) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Securities; (b) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; and (c) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of principal of and interest on the Securities which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
     Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may require indemnity satisfactory to it before it enforces the Indenture or the Securities. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, withhold from Holders notice of any continuing Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest or to deliver amounts owing upon conversion) if and so long as it determines that withholding

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notice is in their interests. The Company is required to file periodic certificates with the Trustee as to the Company’s compliance with the Indenture and knowledge or status of any Default.
     13. Trustee Dealings With the Company
     U.S. Bank National Association, the initial Trustee under the Indenture, or any of its Affiliates, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from and perform services for the Company or an Affiliate of the Company, and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company, as if it were not the Trustee.
     14. No Recourse Against Others
     No director, officer, employee, stockholder, incorporator or agent of the Company, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities, the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each holder of the Securities by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.
     15. Authentication
     This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee or an authenticating agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.
     16. Abbreviations and Definitions
     Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of the Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian) and UGMA (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
     All terms defined in the Indenture and used in this Note but not specifically defined herein are defined in the Indenture and are used herein as so defined.
     17. Indenture to Control; Governing Law
     In the case of any conflict between the provisions of this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control. This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflicts of laws principles thereof.
     The Company will furnish to any Holder, upon written request and without charge, a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to: Tektronix, Inc., 14200 SW Karl Braun Drive P.O. Box 500 Beaverton, OR 97077, Attention: Treasurer, Facsimile No. (503) 527-6108, Telephone No. (503) 627-4622.

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ASSIGNMENT FORM
     To assign this Note, fill in the form below:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to
 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
 
 
 
 
 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint
 
agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
         
 
      Your Signature:
 
       
Date:
       
 
       
 
      (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
 
*   Signature guaranteed by:
By:                                         
 
*   The signature must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature guaranty programs: (i) the Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) the Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP); or (iv) such other guaranty program acceptable to the Trustee.

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CONVERSION NOTICE
     To convert this Note into Common Stock of the Company, check the box: o
To convert only part of this Note, state the principal amount to be converted (must be $1,000 or a integral multiple of $1,000): $___.
If you want the stock certificate made out in another person’s name, fill in the form below:
 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
 
 
 
 
 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
         
 
      Your Signature:
 
       
Date:
       
 
       
 
      (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
*   Signature guaranteed by:
By:                                         
 
*   The signature must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature guaranty programs: (i) the Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MSP); (iii) the Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP); or (iv) such other guaranty program acceptable to the Trustee.

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FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE PURCHASE NOTICE
To: Tektronix, Inc.
     The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from Tektronix, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and requests and instructs the Company to purchase the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note at the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, such date, to the registered Holder hereof.
         
Date:
       
 
       
 
      Signature(s)
 
       
 
     
Signature(s) must be guaranteed by a qualified guarantor institution with membership in an approved signature guarantee program pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 
       
 
       
 
      Signature Guaranty
Principal amount to be repurchased (in an
integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all):
 
NOTICE:   The signature to the foregoing Election must correspond to the Name as written upon the face of this Note in every particular, without any alteration or change whatsoever.

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR REGISTRATION
OF TRANSFER OF RESTRICTED SECURITIES
Re: 1.625% Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012 (the “Securities”) of Tektronix, Inc.
This certificate relates to $___principal amount of Securities owned in (check applicable box) o book-entry or o definitive form by ___(the “Transferor”).
     The Transferor has requested a Registrar or the Trustee to exchange or register the transfer of such Securities.
     In connection with such request and in respect of each such Note, the Transferor does hereby certify that the Transferor is familiar with transfer restrictions relating to the Securities as provided in Section 2.13 of the Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association , as trustee (the “Indenture”), and the transfer of such Note is being made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) (check applicable box), or the transfer or exchange, as the case may be, of such Note does not require registration under the Securities Act because (check applicable box):
o   Such Note is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.
 
o   Such Note is being acquired for the Transferor’s own account, without transfer.
 
o   Such Note is being transferred to the Company or a Subsidiary (as defined in the Indenture) of the Company.
 
o   Such Note is being transferred to a person the Transferor reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A or any successor provision thereto (“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act) that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a “qualified institutional buyer”, in each case to whom notice has been given that the transfer is being made in reliance on such Rule 144A, and in each case in reliance on Rule 144A.
 
o   Such Note is being transferred pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144 (or any successor thereto) (“Rule 144”) under the Securities Act.
 
o   Such Note is being transferred to a non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act (or any successor thereto).
 
o   Such Note is being transferred pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act (other than an exemption referred to above) and as a result of which such Note will, upon such transfer, cease to be a “restricted security” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

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     The Transferor acknowledges and agrees that, if the transferee will hold any such Securities in the form of beneficial interests in a Global Note which is a “restricted security” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, then such transfer can only be made pursuant to (i) Rule 144A under the Securities Act and such transferee must be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A) or (ii) Regulation S under the Securities Act.
         
Date:
       
 
       
 
      (Insert Name of Transferor)

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF SECURITIES
          The initial outstanding principal amount of this Global Note is $___.
     The following exchanges, purchases or conversions of a part of this Global Security have been made:
             
        Notation Stating and    
    Authorized   Explaining Change    
    Signatory of   in Principal Amount   Principal Amount
Date   Securities Custodian   Recorded   of this Global Note
             

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EX-4.2 3 v31548exv4w2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2 exv4w2
 

Exhibit 4.2
 
Registration Rights Agreement
Dated as of June 29, 2007
among
Tektronix, Inc.
and
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
and
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
 

 


 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
          This Registration Rights Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made and entered into this 29th day of June, 2007, between Tektronix, Inc., an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citibank Global Markets Inc. (the “Initial Purchasers”).
          This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated June 25, 2007, between the Company and the Initial Purchasers, which provides for the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount ($345,000,000 aggregate principal amount if the Initial Purchasers exercise their over-allotment option in full) of the Company’s 1.625% Senior Convertible Notes due 2012 (the “Notes” and together with the shares of Common Stock of the Company into which the Notes are convertible, the “Securities”). In order to induce the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to provide to the Initial Purchasers and its direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.
          In consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree as follows:
          1. Definitions.
          As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized defined terms shall have the following meanings:
     “1933 Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.
     “1934 Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of l934, as amended from time to time.
     “1939 Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.
     “Additional Interest” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4 herein.
     “Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
     “Closing Date” shall mean the Initial Closing Time as defined in the Purchase Agreement.
     “Common Stock” shall mean any shares of common stock, without par value, of the Company and any other shares of common stock as may constitute “Common Stock” for purposes of the Indenture.
     “Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall also include the Company’s successors.

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     “Depositary” shall mean The Depository Trust Company, or any other depositary appointed by the Company, provided, however, that such depositary must have an address in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York.
     “Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(b) herein.
     “Holder” shall mean an Initial Purchaser, for so long as it owns any Registrable Securities, and each of its successors, assigns and direct and indirect transferees who become owners, beneficial or otherwise, of Registrable Securities under the Indenture.
     “Indenture” shall mean the Indenture relating to the Securities, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, as the same may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
     “Initial Purchasers” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
     “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(f) herein.
     “Majority Holders” shall mean the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Registrable Securities; provided that, for purposes of this definition, (1) a Holder of shares of Common Stock that constitute Registrable Securities which were issued upon conversion of the Notes shall be deemed to hold an aggregate principal amount at maturity of Registrable Securities (in addition to the principal amount at maturity of any Registrable Securities held by such Holder) equal to the principal amount at maturity of Registrable Securities which were converted into such shares of Common Stock and (2) such Registrable Securities which were converted into such shares of Common Stock shall be deemed to be outstanding; provided further, that whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities is required hereunder, Registrable Securities held by the Company or any Affiliate (as defined in the Indenture) of the Company shall be disregarded in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage amount.
     “Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
     “Offering Memorandum” shall mean the offering memorandum of the Company, dated June 25, 2007, related to the Securities.
     “Person” shall mean an individual, partnership (general or limited), corporation, limited liability company, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
     “Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in a Shelf Registration Statement, including any preliminary prospectus, and any such prospectus as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, including any such prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities

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covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, and by all other amendments and supplements to a prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and in each case including all materials incorporated by reference therein.
     “Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
     “Questionnaire” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d) herein.
     “Registrable Securities” shall mean all or any of the Securities; provided, however, that any such Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities at the earliest of when (i) a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Securities shall have been declared effective or otherwise become effective under the 1933 Act and such Securities shall have been disposed of pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement, (ii) such Securities have been sold to the public pursuant to Rule 144 or may be sold or transferred pursuant to Rule l44(k) (or any similar provision then in force, but not Rule 144A) under the 1933 Act by holders who are not “affiliates” of the Company, or (iii) such Securities shall have ceased to be outstanding.
     “Registration Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4 herein.
     “Registration Expenses” shall mean any and all expenses incident to performance of or compliance by the Company with this Agreement, whether or not a Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective, including without limitation: (i) all SEC, stock exchange or National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”) registration and filing fees, including, if applicable, the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of any “qualified independent underwriter” (and its counsel) that is required to be retained by any holder of Registrable Securities in accordance with the rules and regulations of the NASD, (ii) all fees and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with compliance with state securities or blue sky laws and compliance with the rules of the NASD (including reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel for any underwriters or Holders in connection with blue sky qualification of any of the Registrable Securities and any filings with the NASD), (iii) all expenses of the Company in preparing or assisting in preparing, word processing, printing and distributing any Shelf Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any amendments or supplements thereto, any securities sales agreements and other documents relating to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, (iv) all fees and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the listing, if any, of any of the Registrable Securities on any securities exchange or exchanges, (v) all rating agency fees incurred by the Company, if any, (vi) the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and of the independent public accountants of the Company, including the expenses of any special audits or “comfort” letters required by or incident to such performance and compliance, (vii) the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of the Trustee, and any escrow agent or custodian, (viii) the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of a single counsel to the Holders (the “Holders’ Counsel”) in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, and (ix) any fees and expenses of any special experts retained by the Company in connection with any Shelf Registration Statement, but excluding any underwriting discounts and commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or

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disposition of Registrable Securities by a Holder and the fees and expenses of any counsel to the Holders, except as provided for in clause (viii) above.
     “SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency or government body performing the functions currently performed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
     “Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
     “Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof.
     “Shelf Registration Statement” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.1 of this Agreement which covers all of the Registrable Securities on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the 1933 Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein, all exhibits thereto and all materials incorporated by reference therein.
     “Suspension Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5 herein.
     “Trustee” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities under the Indenture.
     “Underwriter” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).
     “Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act.
          2. Registration Under the 1933 Act.
          2.1 Shelf Registration.
               (a) The Company shall, at its cost, no later than 120 days after the Closing Date, file with the SEC, and thereafter shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective as promptly as practicable but no later than 210 days after the Closing Date, a Shelf Registration Statement relating to the offer and sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders that have provided the information pursuant to Section 2.1(d); provided, however, that in the event the Company is eligible for, and elects to utilize, the “automatic shelf” registration procedure on Form S-3 available to Well-Known Seasoned Issuers, the only obligation of the Company under this Section 2.1(a) shall be to file a Shelf Registration Statement with the SEC no later than 150 days after the Closing Date, provided that such Shelf Registration Statement becomes immediately effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462 under the 1933 Act, as such rule may be amended from time to time.
               (b) The Company shall, at its cost, use its commercially reasonable efforts, subject to Section 2.5, to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the Prospectus forming part thereof to be usable by Holders for the period (the

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“Effectiveness Period”) beginning upon the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement until the earliest to occur of (1) the sale pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement of the Registrable Securities, (2) the date when the Holders, other than Holders that are “affiliates” (as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act) of the Company, are able to sell all such Registrable Securities immediately without restriction pursuant to the volume limitation provisions of Rule 144 under the 1933 Act or any successor Rule thereto or otherwise and (3) the date that is two years from the Closing Date.
               (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide that (i) any Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any Prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, (ii) any Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (iii) any Prospectus forming part of any Shelf Registration Statement, and any supplement to such Prospectus (as amended or supplemented from time to time), does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
               (d) Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no Holder of Registrable Securities may include any of its Registrable Securities in the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement unless the Holder furnishes to the Company a fully completed notice and questionnaire in the form attached as Annex A to the Offering Memorandum (the “Questionnaire”) and such other information in writing as the Company may reasonably request in writing for use in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus included therein and in any application to be filed with or under state securities laws. At least 30 days prior to the filing of the Shelf Registration Statement, the Company will provide notice (which notice may be by means of a press release) to the Holders of its intention to file the Shelf Registration Statement. In order to be named as a selling securityholder in the Prospectus at the time of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, each Holder must, before the filing of the Shelf Registration Statement and no later than the 20th day after being notified of the Company’s intention to file, furnish the completed Questionnaire and such other information that the Company may reasonably request in writing, if any, to the Company in writing and the Company shall include the information from the completed Questionnaire and such other information, if any, in the Shelf Registration Statement and the Prospectus in a manner so that upon effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement the Holder will be permitted to deliver the Prospectus to purchasers of the Holder’s Registrable Securities. From and after the date that the Shelf Registration Statement is first declared effective by the SEC or otherwise becomes effective, upon receipt of a completed Questionnaire and such other information that the Company may reasonably request in writing, if any, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file (i) within 20 business days any amendments or supplements to the Shelf Registration Statement or (ii) within 10 business days any report filed with the SEC under the 1934 Act, if the Company is permitted to do so pursuant to the 1933 Act and the regulations thereunder, necessary for such Holder to be named as a selling securityholder in the Prospectus contained therein to permit such Holder to deliver the Prospectus to purchasers of the Holder’s Registrable Securities (subject to the Company’s right to suspend the Shelf Registration

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Statement as described in Section 2.5 below); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to file more than one of the documents listed in clauses (i) and (ii) of this paragraph (d) in any calendar quarter for all such Holders. Holders that do not deliver a completed written Questionnaire and such other information, as provided for in this Section 2.1(d), will not be named as selling securityholders in the Prospectus. Each Holder named as a selling securityholder in the Prospectus agrees to promptly furnish to the Company all information required to be disclosed in order to make information previously furnished to the Company by the Holder not materially misleading and any other information regarding such Holder and the distribution of such Holder’s Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing.
               (e) During the Effectiveness Period, each Holder agrees not to sell any Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement without delivering, or causing to be delivered, a Prospectus to the purchaser thereof.
               (f) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities that are registered under the Shelf Registration Statement at such time or the approval of Holders’ Counsel or the consent of the managing underwriter in connection with any underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, and each Holder represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company and any such underwriter, it will not during the Effectiveness Period make any offer relating to the Securities (which, for the avoidance of doubt, will not include any shares of Common Stock which are not Securities within the meaning of this Agreement) that would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the 1933 Act (any such issuer free writing prospectus relating to any such offer made by the Company during the Effectiveness Period, an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”), or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act, required to be filed with the SEC. The Company represents that any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus and that any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when taken together with the information in the Shelf Registration Statement and the Prospectus, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
          The Company will not permit any securities other than Registrable Securities to be included in the Shelf Registration Statement. The Company agrees to supplement or amend the Shelf Registration Statement if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company if required by the 1933 Act, or to the extent the Company does not reasonably object, as reasonably requested in writing by any Holder with respect to information relating to such Holder, and to furnish to the Holders of Registrable Securities that are covered under such Shelf Registration Statement copies of any such supplement or amendment promptly after its being used or filed with the SEC in such amounts as they may reasonably request.
          2.2 Expenses. The Company shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with the registration pursuant to Section 2.1. Each Holder shall pay all underwriting

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discounts and commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.
          2.3 Effectiveness. (a) The Company will be deemed not to have used its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to become, or to remain, effective during the requisite period (subject to Section 2.5) if the Company voluntarily takes any action that would, or voluntarily omits to take any action which omission would, result in any such Shelf Registration Statement not being declared effective or in the Holders of Registrable Securities covered thereby not being able to offer and sell such Registrable Securities during that period as and to the extent contemplated hereby, unless such action or omission is required by applicable law.
               (b) A Shelf Registration Statement will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC or has become automatically effective under the 1933 Act; provided, however, that if, after it has been declared or become effective, the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court, such Shelf Registration Statement will be deemed not to have become effective during the period of such interference, until the offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement may legally resume.
          2.4 Interest. In the event that (a) a Shelf Registration Statement is not filed with the SEC on or before the 120th calendar day following the Closing Date, (b) a Shelf Registration Statement is not declared effective or otherwise becomes effective on or prior to the 210th calendar day following the Closing Date, (c) after effectiveness, subject to Section 2.5, the Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective or fails to be usable by the Holders without being succeeded within seven business days by a post-effective amendment or a report filed with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act that immediately cures the failure to be effective or usable, or (d) the Prospectus is unusable by the Holders for any reason, and the Suspension Period (as defined in Section 2.5 hereof) exceeds the number of days set forth in Section 2.5 (each such event being a “Registration Default”), additional interest (“Additional Interest”) will accrue at a rate per annum of one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the principal amount of the Registrable Securities for the first 90 day period from the day following the Registration Default, and thereafter at a rate per annum of one-half of one percent (0.50%) of the principal amount of the Registrable Securities; provided that in no event shall Additional Interest accrue at a rate per annum exceeding one half of one percent (0.50%) of the issue price of the Registrable Securities; provided further that no Additional Interest shall accrue after the second anniversary of the Closing Date; provided further that Additional Interest shall not accrue under clause (a) above in the event that the Company is eligible for, and elects to utilize, the “automatic shelf” registration procedure on Form S-3 available to Well-Known Seasoned Issuers and files a Shelf Registration Statement with the SEC no later than 150 days after the Closing Date, which Shelf Registration Statement shall become immediately effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462 under the 1933 Act, as such rule may be amended from time to time; provided further that Additional Interest shall not accrue under clause (c) and (d) above with respect to any Holder that (x) does not submit a properly completed Questionnaire, and (y) is not named as a selling securityholder in the Shelf Registration Statement. Upon the cure of all Registration Defaults then continuing, the accrual of Additional Interest will automatically cease and the interest rate borne by the

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Registrable Securities will revert to the original interest rate at such time. Additional Interest shall be computed based on the actual number of days elapsed in each 90-day period in which the Shelf Registration Statement or the Prospectus is not effective or is unusable. Holders who have converted Securities into Common Stock will not be entitled to receive any Additional Interest with respect to such Common Stock or the issue price of the Securities converted.
          The Company shall notify the Trustee within five business days after each and every date on which an event occurs in respect of which Additional Interest is required to be paid. Additional Interest shall be paid by depositing with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders of Registrable Securities, on or before the applicable semiannual interest payment date, in immediately available funds in sums sufficient to pay the Additional Interest then due. The Additional Interest due shall be payable in arrears on each interest payment date to the record Holder of Registrable Securities entitled to receive the interest payment to be paid on such date as set forth in the Indenture. Each obligation to pay Additional Interest shall be deemed to accrue from and including the day following the Registration Default to but excluding the day on which the Registration Default is cured.
          A Registration Default under clause (a) above shall be cured on the date that the Registration Statement is filed with the SEC. A Registration Default under clause (b) above shall be cured on the date that the Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC or deemed to become automatically effective under the 1933 Act. A Registration Default under clauses (c) or (d) above shall be cured on the date an amended Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC or deemed to become automatically effective under the 1933 Act, or the Company otherwise declares the Shelf Registration Statement and the Prospectus useable, as applicable. The Company will have no liabilities for monetary damages other than the Additional Interest with respect to any Registration Default.
          2.5 Suspension. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Company may suspend the use of any Prospectus, without incurring or accruing any obligation to pay Additional Interest pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof or being deemed in violation of any other provision hereof, for a period or periods (each, a “Suspension Period”) not to exceed an aggregate 45 calendar days in any three-month period, or an aggregate of 90 calendar days in any twelve-month period, if management of the Company shall have determined in good faith that because of valid business reasons (not including avoidance of the Company’s obligations hereunder), including without limitation proposed or pending corporate developments and similar events or because of filings with the SEC, it is in the best interests of the Company to suspend such use, and prior to suspending such use the Company provides the Holders with written notice of such suspension, which notice need not specify the nature of the event giving rise to such suspension; provided, however, that such Suspension Period may be extended to an aggregate of 60 calendar days in any three-month period, or an aggregate of 120 calendar days in any twelve-month period, if the Company in good faith determines that such extension is in the best interests of the Company because (x) the Company is in possession of material, nonpublic information concerning an acquisition, merger, recapitalization, consolidation, reorganization, financing or other material transaction by or of the Company or concerning pending or threatened litigation, and (y) disclosure of such information would be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole. Each Holder shall keep confidential any

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communications received by it from the Company regarding the suspension of the use of the Prospectus, except as required by applicable law.
          3. Registration Procedures.
          In connection with the obligations of the Company with respect to the Shelf Registration, the Company shall, subject to the rights of the Company to invoke and maintain a Suspension Period in accordance with Section 2.5 without being in violation of any of the provisions hereunder:
               (a) prepare and file with the SEC a Shelf Registration Statement, within the relevant time period specified in Section 2, on the appropriate form under the 1933 Act, which form (i) shall be selected by the Company, (ii) shall be available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the selling Holders thereof, (iii) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include or incorporate by reference all financial statements required by the SEC to be filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein, and (iv) shall comply in all respects with the applicable requirements of Regulation S-T under the 1933 Act, if any, and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Shelf Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective in accordance with Section 2 hereof;
               (b) prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Shelf Registration Statement as may be necessary under applicable law to keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective for the Effectiveness Period, subject to Section 2.5; and cause each Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement, and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (or any similar provision then in force) under the 1933 Act and comply during the Effectiveness Period with the provisions of the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder required to enable the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution by the selling Holders thereof;
               (c) (i) notify each Holder of Registrable Securities (which notification may be effected by issuing a press release) of the filing of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to the Registrable Securities; (ii) furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities that has provided the information required by Section 2.1(d) and to each underwriter of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if any, without charge, electronic copies of each Prospectus, including each preliminary Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto and such other documents as such Holder or underwriter may reasonably request, including financial statements and schedules and, if the Holder so requests, all exhibits in order to facilitate the unrestricted sale or other disposition of the Registrable Securities; and (iii) subject to Section 2.5 hereof and to any notice by the Company in accordance with Section 3(e) hereof of the existence of any fact of the kind described in Sections 3(e)(ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) hereof, hereby consent to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of Registrable Securities that has provided the information required by Section 2.1(d) in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities;

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               (d) use commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify the Registrable Securities for exemptions under all applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions as any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement and each underwriter of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities shall reasonably request, and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable each such Holder and underwriter to consummate the disposition in each such jurisdiction of such Registrable Securities owned by such Holder; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 3(d), or (ii) take any action which would subject it to general service of process or taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject;
               (e) notify promptly each Holder of Registrable Securities under a Shelf Registration Statement that has provided the information required by Section 2.1(d) and, if requested by such Holder, confirm such advice in writing promptly (i) when a Shelf Registration Statement has become effective and when any post-effective amendments thereto have become effective, (ii) of any request by the SEC or any state securities authority for post-effective amendments and supplements to a Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus or for additional information relating thereto after the Shelf Registration Statement has become effective, (iii) of the issuance by the SEC or any state securities authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iv) of the happening of any event or the discovery of any facts during the period a Shelf Registration Statement is effective which makes any statement made in such Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus untrue in any material respect or which requires the making of any changes in such Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus in order to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and (vi) of any determination by the Company that a post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement would be appropriate, other than a post-effective amendment solely to add selling Holders;
               (f) furnish to Holders’ Counsel on behalf of the Holders of Registrable Securities (i) copies of any comment letters received from the SEC with respect to a Shelf Registration Statement, and, if requested, with respect to any documents incorporated therein and (ii) any other request by the SEC or any state securities authority for amendments or supplements to a Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus or for additional information with respect to the Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus;
               (g) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement at the earliest practicable moment and provide prompt notice to each Holder of the withdrawal of such order;
               (h) furnish, upon request, to each Holder of Registrable Securities that has provided the information required by Section 2.1(d), and each underwriter, if any, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each Shelf Registration Statement and any post-effective

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amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules (without documents incorporated therein by reference and all exhibits thereto, unless requested);
               (i) if electronic global certificates for the Registrable Securities are not then available, cooperate with the selling Holders of Registrable Securities to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends (other than as required by applicable law); and enable such Registrable Securities to be in such denominations (consistent with the provisions of the Indenture) and registered in such names as the selling Holders or the underwriters, if any, may reasonably request at least three business days prior to the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities;
               (j) upon the occurrence of any event or the discovery of any facts, each as contemplated by Sections 3(e)(ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) hereof, as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of such an event, use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of the Registrable Securities, such Prospectus will not contain at the time of such delivery any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or will remain so qualified. At such time as such public disclosure is otherwise made or the Company determines that such disclosure is not necessary, in each case to correct any misstatement of a material fact or to include any omitted material fact, the Company agrees promptly to notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement of such determination and to furnish each Holder such number of copies of the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, as such Holder may reasonably request;
               (k) no less than three business days after the filing of any Shelf Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any amendment to a Shelf Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to a Prospectus (other than amendments and supplements that do nothing more than name Holders and provide information with respect thereto), provide copies of such document to the Trustee on behalf of such Holders, and make representatives of the Company, as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders’ Counsel, available for discussion of such document;
               (l) obtain CUSIP numbers for all Registrable Securities not later than the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement and provide the Trustee with printed certificates for the Registrable Securities in a form eligible for deposit with the Depositary;
               (m) (i) cause the Indenture to be qualified under the 1939 Act in connection with the registration of the Registrable Securities, (ii) cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for the Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the 1939 Act, and (iii) execute, and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes, and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable the Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner;

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               (n) subject to the last paragraph of this Section 3(n), enter into such customary agreements (including, if requested, an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all other customary and appropriate actions, if any, as the Majority Holders shall reasonably request in writing in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities, including, but not limited to:
          (i) if an underwriting agreement is entered into, obtain opinions of counsel to the Company and updates thereof addressed to each selling Holder and the underwriters covering the matters set forth in the opinions of such counsel delivered at the Closing Date as are customarily covered in legal opinions in connection with an underwritten offering of securities;
          (ii) if an underwriting agreement is entered into, obtain “comfort” letters and updates thereof from the Company’s independent certified public accountants (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public accountants of any subsidiary of the Company or of any business acquired by the Company for which financial statements are, or are required to be, included in the Shelf Registration Statement) addressed to the underwriters, and use reasonable efforts to have such letter addressed to the selling Holders of Registrable Securities (to the extent consistent with Statement on Auditing Standards No. 72 of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), such letters to be substantially in the form of, and covering the matters covered in, the comfort letter delivered on the Closing Date;
          (iii) if an underwriting agreement is entered into, cause the same to set forth indemnification provisions and procedures substantially equivalent to the indemnification provisions and procedures set forth in Section 4 hereof with respect to the underwriters and all other parties to be indemnified pursuant to said Section or, at the request of any underwriters, in the form customarily provided to such underwriters in similar types of transactions; and
          (iv) deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested and as are customarily delivered in similar offerings to the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold and the managing underwriters, if any.
The above shall be done only in connection with any underwritten offering of not less than one half of the Registrable Securities using such Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to an underwriting or similar agreement as and to the extent required thereunder, and as reasonably requested by the Majority Holders thereto; provided, however, that, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event will an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities be made without the prior written agreement of the Company, which may be withheld in the Company’s sole discretion; provided further, that, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event will the Company be required to pay the costs and expenses of, or to participate in the marketing or “road show” presentations of, any underwritten offering of Registrable Securities;

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               (o) if reasonably requested in connection with a disposition of Registrable Securities, make available for inspection during business hours by representatives of the Holders of the Registrable Securities, any underwriters participating in any disposition pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement and any counsel or accountant retained by any of the foregoing, all appropriate financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company reasonably requested in writing by any such persons, and cause the respective officers, directors, employees, and any other agents of the Company to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, underwriter, special counsel or accountant in connection with a Shelf Registration Statement, and make such representatives of the Company available for discussion of such documents as shall be reasonably requested by the Initial Purchasers, in each case as is customary for “due diligence” investigations; provided that, to the extent the Company, in its reasonable discretion, agrees to disclose material non-public information, such persons shall first agree in writing with the Company that any such non-public information shall be kept confidential by such persons and shall be used solely for the purposes of exercising rights under this Agreement and such person shall not engage in trading any securities of the Company until such material non-public information becomes properly publicly available, unless (i) disclosure of such information is required by court or administrative order or is necessary to respond to inquiries of regulatory authorities, (ii) disclosure of such information is required by law (including any disclosure requirements pursuant to federal securities laws in connection with the filing of any Shelf Registration Statement or the use of any Prospectus referred to in this Agreement upon a customary opinion of counsel for such persons delivered and reasonably satisfactory to the Company), (iii) such information becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or failure to safeguard by any such person, (iv) such information becomes available to any such person from a source other than the Company and such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement, or (v) such non-public information ceases to be material; provided further, that, the foregoing inspection and information gathering shall, to the greatest extent possible, be coordinated on behalf of all the Holders and the other parties entitled thereto by Holders’ Counsel;
               (p) if requested in writing by any selling Holder of Registrable Securities that has provided the information required by Section 2.1(d), a reasonable time prior to filing the Shelf Registration Statement, any Prospectus forming a part thereof, any amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to such Prospectus (other than amendments and supplements that do nothing more than name Holders and provide information with respect thereto), (i) provide copies of such document to the Holders of Registrable Securities that have provided the information required by Section 2.1(d), to Holders’ Counsel and to the underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if any, (ii) make such changes in any such document prior to the filing thereof as Holders’ Counsel or the underwriter or underwriters reasonably agree should be included therein and provide to the Company in writing for inclusion therein within three business days of delivery of such copies, (iii) if requested by any selling Holder of Registrable Securities that has provided the information required by Section 2.1(d), not file any such document in a form (A) to which the Majority Holders, Holders’ Counsel or any underwriter shall not have previously been advised and furnished a copy of or (B) to which the Majority Holders, Holders’ Counsel or any underwriter shall reasonably object within three business days of delivery of such copies, and (iv) make the representatives of the Company available for discussion of such document as shall be reasonably requested in writing by the Holders of Registrable Securities, Holders’ Counsel or any

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underwriter; provided, however, that the foregoing discussion shall be coordinated on behalf of the parties entitled thereto by the Holders’ Counsel;
               (q) if requested by any selling Holder or the underwriters, if any, incorporate in the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus, pursuant to a supplement or post-effective amendment if necessary, such information as such selling Holder or underwriter, if any, may reasonable request in writing to have included therein with respect to the name or names of such selling Holder, the number of shares of Common Stock or principal amount of Securities owned by such Holder, the plan of distribution of the Registrable Securities (as required by Item 508 of Regulation S-K), the principal amount of Securities or number of shares of Common Stock being sold, the purchase price being paid therefor, and any other terms of the offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering;
               (r) use commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Registrable Securities to be listed on any securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system on which similar debt securities issued by the Company are then listed if requested by the Majority Holders, or if requested by the underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if any;
               (s) [intentionally deleted];
               (t) otherwise comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering at least 12 months which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act and Rule 158 thereunder; and
               (u) cooperate and assist in any filings required to be made with the NASD and in the performance of any due diligence investigation by any underwriter and its counsel (including any “qualified independent underwriter” that is required to be retained in accordance with the rules and regulations of the NASD).
          Without limiting the provisions of Section 2.1(d), the Company may (as a condition to such Holder’s participation in the Shelf Registration) require each Holder of Registrable Securities to furnish to the Company such information regarding the Holder and the proposed distribution by such Holder of such Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing.
          Each Holder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event or the discovery of any facts, each of the kind described in Section 3(e)(ii), (iii), (iv), (v) or (vi) hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Prospectus included in the Shelf Registration Statement until such Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 3(j) hereof or written notice from the Company that the Shelf Registration Statement is again effective and no amendment or supplement is needed, and, if so directed by the Company, such Holder will deliver to the Company (at its expense) all copies in such Holder’s possession, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities current at the time of receipt of such notice.

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          If any of the Registrable Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the underwriter or underwriters and manager or managers that will manage such offering will be selected by the Majority Holders of such Registrable Securities included in such offering and shall be acceptable to the Company. No Holder of Registrable Securities may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder’s Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.
          4. Indemnification; Contribution.
               (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Initial Purchasers, each Holder, each Person who participates as an underwriter, if any (any such Person being an “Underwriter”) and each Person, if any, who controls any such Holder or Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:
               (i) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Shelf Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) pursuant to which Registrable Securities were registered under the 1933 Act, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
               (ii) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission; provided that (subject to Section 4(d) below) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company; and
               (iii) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by any indemnified party), reasonably incurred and documented in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under subparagraph (i) or (ii) above;

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provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of (A) any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of the Initial Purchasers, any Holder or Underwriter, if any, expressly for use in a Shelf Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), any Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), (B) use of a Prospectus during a period when use of such Prospectus has been validly suspended pursuant to Section 2.5 hereof, provided that such Holder has received prior notice of such suspension, (C) failure of such Holder to deliver a prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, as required by applicable laws, provided that the Company shall have delivered to such Holder such Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, or (D) the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of any such party seeking indemnification.
               (b) Each Holder, severally, but not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Initial Purchasers, each Underwriter, if any, and the other selling Holders, and each of their respective directors and officers, and each Person, if any, who controls the Company, the Initial Purchasers, any Underwriter or any other selling Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in Section 4(a) hereof, as incurred and documented, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Shelf Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any Prospectus included therein (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information with respect to such Holder furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for use in the Shelf Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or such Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus; provided, however, that no such Holder shall be liable for any claims hereunder in excess of the amount of net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement.
               (c) Each indemnified party shall give notice as promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying party of any action or proceeding commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. In case any such action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the Company of the commencement thereof, the Company shall be entitled to participate therein and to assume the defense thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding includes both an indemnified party and the Company, and such indemnified party reasonably concludes that there may be legal defenses available to it or other indemnified parties that are different from or in addition to those available to the Company, or if the Company fails to assume the defense of the action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding, in either case in a timely manner, then such indemnified party may employ separate counsel to represent or defend it in any such action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding and the Company will pay the reasonable fees and disbursements of such counsel; provided, further, that the Company will not be required to pay the fees and disbursements of

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more than one counsel for all indemnified parties (and one separate local counsel). In any action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding the defense of which the Company assumes, the indemnified party will have the right to participate in such litigation and to retain its own counsel at such indemnified party’s own expense. No indemnifying party shall (i) without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 4 (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (A) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (B) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party or (ii) be liable for any settlement of any such action effected without its prior written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld).
               (d) Notwithstanding clause (ii) of Section 4(c), if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 4(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.
               (e) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 4 is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Holders and the Initial Purchasers on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
          The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Holders and the Initial Purchasers on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company, or by the Holders or the Initial Purchasers and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
          The Company, the Holders and the Initial Purchasers agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 4 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 4. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred and documented by an indemnified party and referred to

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above in this Section 4 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
          Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 4, no Initial Purchaser shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities sold by it were offered exceeds the amount of any damages which such Initial Purchaser has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
          No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
          For purposes of this Section 4, each Person, if any, who controls the Initial Purchasers or any Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Initial Purchasers or the Holder, and each director of the Company, and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company. The obligations of the Company, the Initial Purchasers and the Holders pursuant to this Section 4 shall be in addition to any liability that such party may otherwise have.
          5. Miscellaneous.
          5.1 Rule 144 and Rule 144A. During the Effectiveness Period, for so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act, the Company covenants that it will file the reports required to be filed by it under Section 13 of 15(d) of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder. If during the Effectiveness Period the Company ceases to be so required to file such reports, the Company covenants that it will upon the request of any Holder of Registrable Securities (a) make publicly available such information as is necessary to permit sales pursuant to Rule 144 under the 1933 Act, (b) deliver such information to a prospective purchaser as is necessary to permit sales pursuant to Rule 144A under the 1933 Act and it will take such further action as any Holder of Registrable Securities may reasonably request for such purpose, and (c) take such further action that is reasonable in the circumstances, in each case, to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell its Registrable Securities without registration under the 1933 Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by (i) Rule 144 under the 1933 Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, (ii) Rule 144A under the 1933 Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or (iii) any similar rules or regulations hereafter adopted by the SEC. During the Effectiveness Period, upon the request of any Holder of Registrable Securities, the Company will deliver to such Holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

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          5.2 No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not entered into and the Company shall not, after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement which is inconsistent in any material respect with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. The rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not and will not for the term of this Agreement in any way conflict with the rights granted to the holders of any of the Company’s other issued and outstanding securities under any such agreements.
          5.3 No Adverse Actions Affecting Registration Rights. Subject to the rights of the Company to invoke and maintain a Suspension Period, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, intentionally take any action with respect to the Registrable Securities as a class that would adversely affect the ability of the Holders of Registrable Securities to include such Registrable Securities in a registration undertaken pursuant to this Agreement.
          5.4 Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company has obtained the written consent of Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities (with Holders of Notes that constitute Registrable Securities deemed to be the Holders, for purposes of this Section 5.4, of the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock into which such Registrable Securities are or could be convertible on the date that consent would be required) affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or departure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended by a written agreement between the Company and the Initial Purchasers, without the consent of the Holders of the Registrable Securities, in order to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein, provided that no such amendment shall adversely affect in any material respect the interest of the Holders of Registrable Securities. Each Holder of Registrable Securities outstanding at the time of any amendment, modification, waiver or consent pursuant to this Section 5.4, shall be bound by such amendment, modification, waiver or consent, whether or not any notice or writing indicating such amendment, modification, waiver or consent is delivered to such Holder.
          5.5 Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand delivery, registered first-class mail, facsimile, or any courier guaranteeing overnight delivery (a) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company in a Questionnaire or by means of a notice given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.5, which address initially is the address set forth in the Purchase Agreement with respect to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representative of the Initial Purchasers (the “Representative”); and (b) if to the Company, initially at the Company’s address set forth in the Purchase Agreement, and thereafter at such other address of which notice is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.5.
          All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; two business days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged, if sent by facsimile; and on the next business day if timely delivered to an overnight courier.

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          Copies of all such notices, demands, or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the person giving the same to the Trustee under the Indenture, at the address specified in such Indenture.
          5.6 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors, assigns and transferees of each of the parties, including, without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders; provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms of the Purchase Agreement or the Indenture. If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities, in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all of the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities such person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement, including the restrictions on resale set forth in this Agreement and, if applicable, the Purchase Agreement, and such person shall be entitled to receive the benefits hereof.
          5.7 Third Party Beneficiaries. The Initial Purchasers (even if the Initial Purchasers are not Holders of Registrable Securities) shall be third party beneficiaries to the agreements made hereunder between the Company, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent they deem such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect their rights or the rights of Holders hereunder. Each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be a third party beneficiary to the agreements made hereunder between the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent it deems such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect its rights hereunder.
          5.8 Specific Enforcement. Without limiting the remedies available to the Initial Purchasers and the Holders, the Company acknowledges that any failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Section 2.1 hereof may result in material irreparable injury to the Initial Purchasers or the Holders for which there is no adequate remedy at law, that it may not be possible to measure damages for such injuries precisely and that, in the event of any such failure, the Initial Purchasers or any Holder may seek such relief as may be required to specifically enforce the Company’s obligations under Section 2.1 hereof.
          5.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
          5.10 Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
          5.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS

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PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
          5.12 Severability. In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby.
          5.13 Entire Agreement. This Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein with respect to the registration rights granted by the Company with respect to the Registrable Securities. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.
             
    TEKTRONIX, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON    
 
           
 
      Name: James F. Dalton    
 
      Title: Senior Vice President,
          General Counsel, and Secretary
   

Registration Rights Agreement


 

Confirmed and accepted as
  of the date first above written:
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE,
FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
             
By:
  /s/ PATRICK R. FANNON
 
       
 
  Name: Patrick Fannon
 
  Title: Vice President  
As Representative of the Initial Purchasers
listed on Schedule A to the Purchase Agreement

Registration Rights Agreement

EX-10.1 4 v31548exv10w1.htm EXHIBIT 10.1 exv10w1
 

Exhibit 10.1
 
TEKTRONIX, INC.
(an Oregon corporation)
Convertible Senior Notes due 2012
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Dated: June 25, 2007
 

 


 

TEKTRONIX, INC.
(An Oregon corporation)
$300,000,000
Convertible Senior Notes due 2012
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
June 25, 2007
MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
          Incorporated
As Representative of the several
     Initial Purchasers named in Schedule A attached hereto
c/o Merrill Lynch & Co.
        Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
               Incorporated
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     Tektronix, Inc., an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (the “Initial Purchasers”) with respect to the issue and sale by the Company and the purchase by the Initial Purchasers of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 (the “Initial Securities”), and with respect to the grant by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of the option described in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any part of an additional $45,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 (the “Option Securities” and together with the Initial Securities, the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to an indenture to be dated as of June 29, 2007 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
     The Securities are convertible, subject to certain conditions as described in the Final Offering Memorandum (as defined below), prior to maturity (unless previously redeemed or otherwise purchased) into cash or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, no par value, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) in accordance with the terms of the Securities and the Indenture. Securities issued in book-entry form will be issued to Cede & Co. as nominee of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) pursuant to a letter agreement, to be dated as of the Initial Closing Time (as defined in Section 2(c)) (the “DTC Agreement”), among the Company, the Trustee and DTC.
     The Company understands that the Initial Purchasers propose to make an offering of the Securities on the terms and in the manner set forth herein and agrees that the Initial Purchasers may resell, subject to the conditions set forth herein, all or a portion of the Securities to purchasers (“Subsequent Purchasers”) at any time after this Agreement has been executed and

 


 

delivered. The Securities are to be sold to the Initial Purchasers and resold by the Initial Purchasers without being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), in reliance upon exemptions therefrom. Pursuant to the terms of the Securities and the Indenture, investors that acquire Securities may only resell or otherwise transfer such Securities if such Securities are hereafter registered under the 1933 Act or if an exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act is available (including the exemption afforded by Rule 144A (“Rule 144A”) of the rules and regulations promulgated under the 1933 Act by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)). On or prior to the Initial Closing Time, the Company will enter into an agreement with the Initial Purchasers (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which, subject to the conditions set forth therein, the Company will be required to file and use its commercially reasonable best efforts to have declared effective a registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) under the 1933 Act to register resales of the Securities and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof.
     Section 1. Representations and Warranties by the Company.
     (a) Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to the Initial Purchasers, as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Time referred to in Section 2(c) hereof, and agrees with the Initial Purchasers, as follows:
     (i) Disclosure Package and Offering Memorandum. The Company has prepared and delivered to the Initial Purchasers copies of a preliminary offering memorandum dated June 25, 2007 (the “Preliminary Offering Memorandum”) and has prepared and will deliver to the Initial Purchasers copies of a final offering memorandum dated June 25, 2007 (the “Final Offering Memorandum”), each for use by the Initial Purchasers in connection with its solicitation of purchases of, or offering of, the Securities. “Offering Memorandum” means, with respect to any date or time referred to in this Agreement, the most recent offering memorandum (whether the Preliminary Offering Memorandum or the Final Offering Memorandum, or any amendment or supplement to either such document), including exhibits thereto and any documents incorporated therein by reference, which has been prepared and delivered by the Company to the Initial Purchasers in connection with its solicitation of purchases of, or offering of, the Securities. All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other information which is “contained,” “included” or “stated” in the Offering Memorandum (or other references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other information which are incorporated by reference in the Offering Memorandum; and all references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Offering Memorandum shall be deemed to mean and include the filing of any document under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) which is incorporated by reference in the Offering Memorandum.
          As of the Applicable Time (as defined below), neither (x) the Offering Memorandum as of the Applicable Time as supplemented by the final pricing term sheet, in the form attached hereto as Schedule B (the “Pricing Supplement”), that has been prepared and delivered by the Company to the Initial Purchasers in connection with its solicitation of offers to purchase Securities, all considered together (collectively, the

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“Disclosure Package”), nor (y) any individual Supplemental Offering Materials (as defined below), when considered together with the Disclosure Package, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
          “Applicable Time” means [7:00] a.m. (Eastern time) June 26, 2007 or such other time as agreed by the Company and Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as the representative of the Initial Purchasers (the “Representative”).
          “Supplemental Offering Materials” means any “written communication” (within the meaning of the rules and regulations under the 1933 Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company at the Company’s direction or used or referred to by the Company, that constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities other than the Offering Memorandum or amendments or supplements thereto (including the Pricing Supplement), including, without limitation, any road show relating to the Securities that constitutes such a written communication.
          As of its issue date and as of each Closing Time, the Final Offering Memorandum will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
          The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package or the Final Offering Memorandum made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Initial Purchasers expressly for use therein.
     (ii) Incorporated Documents. The Offering Memorandum as delivered from time to time shall incorporate by reference the most recent Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K filed with the Commission and each Quarterly Report of the Company on Form 10-Q and each Current Report of the Company on Form 8-K filed with the Commission since the end of the fiscal year to which such Annual Report relates. The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Offering Memorandum at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “1934 Act Regulations”).
     (iii) Independent Accountants. The accountants who certified the financial statements and supporting schedules included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum are independent public accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “1933 Act Regulations”).

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     (iv) Financial Statements. The financial statements, together with the related schedules and notes, included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, present fairly the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified; said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The supporting schedules, if any, included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, present fairly in accordance with GAAP the information required to be stated therein. The selected financial data and the summary financial information included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum present fairly the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum.
     (v) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, except as otherwise stated therein, (A) there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”), (B) there have been no transactions entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, and (C) except for regular dividends on the Common Stock, no par value, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock.
     (vi) Valid Existence of the Company. The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation under the laws of the state of Oregon and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement; and the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
     (vii) Good Standing of Designated Subsidiaries. Each significant subsidiary of the Company (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X) (each a “Designated Subsidiary” and, collectively, the “Designated Subsidiaries”) has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such

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qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; except as otherwise disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each Designated Subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim or equity; none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Designated Subsidiaries was issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights of any securityholder of such Designated Subsidiary.
     (viii) Capitalization and Other Capital Stock Matters. The total shareholders’ equity of the Company is as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum in the column entitled “Actual” under the caption “Capitalization” as of the respective dates set forth therein, and the actual, authorized, issued and outstanding number of shares of Common Stock of the Company is as set forth in the section entitled “Description of Capital Stock” in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum as of the date set forth therein, and there have been no changes to such amounts (except for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to this Agreement, pursuant to reservations, agreements, employee benefit plans referred to in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum or pursuant to the exercise of convertible securities or options referred to in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum). The Common Stock conforms in all material respects to the description thereof set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum. All of the outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and have been issued in compliance with federal and state securities laws. Upon issuance and delivery of the Securities in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture, the Securities will be convertible at the option of the holder thereof into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the Securities and the Indenture; the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance upon such conversion by all necessary corporate action and such shares, when issued upon such conversion in accordance with the terms of the Securities, will be validly issued and will be fully paid and non-assessable; no holder of such shares will be subject to personal liability by reason of being such a holder; and the issuance of such shares upon such conversion will not be subject to the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the Company. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock were issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those accurately described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, set forth or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, accurately and fairly describes such plans, arrangements, options and rights in all material respects.

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     (ix) Stock Exchange Listing. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the 1934 Act and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), and the Company has taken no action designed to, or likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the 1934 Act or delisting the Common Stock from the NYSE, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or the NYSE is contemplating terminating such registration or listing.
     (x) Corporate Power. The Company has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver (1) this Agreement, (2) the Securities, (3) the Indenture, (4) the Registration Rights Agreement, (5) the confirmation (the “Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation”) between the Company and Merrill Lynch International relating to the OTC convertible note hedge as described in the Final Offering Memorandum, and (6) the confirmation (the “Warrant Transaction Confirmation”) between the Company and Merrill Lynch International relating to the OTC warrant transaction described in the Final Offering Memorandum (the documents described in the foregoing clauses (1) through (6), collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby has been duly and validly taken.
     (xi) Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
     (xii) Authorization of the Indenture. The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
     (xiii) Authorization of Certain Other Documents. The Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation and the Warrant Transaction Confirmation have been duly authorized by, and will each constitute a valid and binding agreement of, the Company, each enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
     (xiv) Authorization of the Registration Rights Agreement. The Registration Rights Agreement has been duly authorized by the Company and, at the Initial Closing Time, will be duly executed and delivered by, and will constitute a valid and binding agreement of, the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without

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limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, by general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and, as to rights of indemnification, and contribution, by principles of public policy or applicable law.
     (xv) Authorization of the Securities. The Securities have been duly authorized and, at the applicable Closing Time, will have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated, issued and delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor as provided in this Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers) reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and will be in the form contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture.
     (xvi) Description of Transaction Documents and Capital Stock. The description of the Transaction Documents and the rights, preferences and privileges of the capital stock of the Company, including the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities, contained in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, are accurate in all material respects.
     (xvii) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its charter or by-laws or (B) in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”) except (in the case of this clause (B)) for such defaults that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents and any other agreement or instrument entered into or issued or to be entered into or issued by the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum (including the issuance and sale of the Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments except for such conflicts, breaches or defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or

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encumbrances that, singly or in the aggregate, would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their assets, properties or operations. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
     (xviii) Absence of Labor Dispute. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or any of its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, manufacturers, customers or contractors, which, in either case, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
     (xix) Absence of Proceedings. Except as described in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or which would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the properties or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder. The aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their respective property or assets is the subject which are not described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
     (xx) Absence of Manipulation. Neither the Company nor any affiliate, as such term is defined in Rule 501(b) under the 1933 Act (“Affiliate”), of the Company has taken, nor will the Company or any Affiliate of the Company take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed to or which has constituted or which would be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.
     (xxi) Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on the business now operated by them, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice or is

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otherwise aware of any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or of any facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of the Company or any of its subsidiaries therein, and which infringement or conflict (if the subject of any unfavorable decision, ruling or finding) or invalidity or inadequacy, singly or in the aggregate, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
     (xxii) Absence of Further Requirements. Subject to compliance by the Initial Purchasers with the representations and warranties of the Initial Purchasers and the procedures set forth in Section 6 hereof, no filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency is necessary or required for the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or for the due execution, delivery or performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company, except (A) such as have been already obtained or will be made on or prior to the Initial Closing Time and (B) as may be required under the securities or blue sky laws of the various states in which the Securities will be offered or sold and the 1933 Act with respect to the registration of the resale of the Securities under the 1933 Act pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
     (xxiii) Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, except where the failure so to possess would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
     (xxiv) Title to Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real property owned by the Company and its subsidiaries and good title to all other properties owned by them, in each case, free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (a) are described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum or (b) do not, singly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in the Disclosure

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Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or any subsidiary thereof to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.
     (xxv) Environmental Laws. Except as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum and except such matters as would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos-containing materials or mold (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) the Company and its subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (D) there are no events or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or Environmental Laws.
     (xxvi) Accounting Controls and Disclosure Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as described in the Disclosure Package or Final Offering Memorandum, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (1) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (2) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company and its subsidiaries employ disclosure

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controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act Regulations) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.
     (xxvii) Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or (except to the extent that such failure would not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect) any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.
     (xxviii) Payment of Taxes. All United States federal income tax returns of the Company and its subsidiaries required by law to be filed have been filed and all taxes shown by such returns or otherwise assessed, which are due and payable, have been paid, except assessments against which appeals have been or will be promptly taken and as to which adequate reserves have been provided. The United States federal income tax returns of the Company through the fiscal year ended May 28, 2005, have been settled and no assessment in connection therewith has been made against the Company. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all other tax returns that are required to have been filed by them pursuant to applicable foreign, state, local or other law except insofar as the failure to file such returns would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, and has paid all taxes due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company and its subsidiaries, except for such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been provided. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company in respect of any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally determined are adequate to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income tax for any years not finally determined, except to the extent of any inadequacy that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
     (xxix) Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries carry or are entitled to the benefits of insurance, with financially sound and reputable insurers, in such amounts and covering such risks as is generally maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar business, and all such insurance is in full force and effect. The Company has no reason to believe that it or any subsidiary will not be able (A) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (B) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither of the Company nor any subsidiary has in the immediately preceding three years been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied.

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     (xxx) Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any statistical and market-related data included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum are based on or derived from information that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.
     (xxxi) Investment Company Act. The Company is not required, and upon the issuance and sale of the offered Securities as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Memorandum, will not be required, to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
     (xxxii) Registration Rights. There are no persons with registration rights or other similar rights to have any securities registered by the Company under the 1933 Act, other than with respect to the registration of the resale of the Securities under the 1933 Act pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
     (xxxiii) Similar Offerings. Neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates has, directly or indirectly, solicited any offer to buy, sold or offered to sell or otherwise negotiated in respect of, or will solicit any offer to buy, sell or offer to sell or otherwise negotiate in respect of, in the United States or to any United States citizen or resident, any security which is or would be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the offered Securities to be registered under the 1933 Act.
     (xxxiv) Rule 144A Eligibility. The Securities are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A and will not be, at each Closing Time, of the same class as securities listed on a national securities exchange registered under Section 6 of the 1934 Act, or quoted in a U.S. automated interdealer quotation system.
     (xxxv) No General Solicitation. None of the Company, its Affiliates or any person acting on its or any of their behalf (other than the Initial Purchasers, as to whom the Company makes no representation) has engaged or will engage, in connection with the offering of the offered Securities, in any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) under the 1933 Act.
     (xxxvi) No Registration Required. Subject to compliance by the Initial Purchasers with the representations and warranties of the Initial Purchasers and the procedures set forth in Section 6 hereof, it is not necessary in connection with the offer, sale and delivery of the offered Securities to the Initial Purchasers and to each Subsequent Purchaser in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Offering Memorandum to register the Securities under the 1933 Act or to qualify the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “1939 Act”).
     (xxxvii) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, Affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by the Company or by such director, officer, agent (in its capacity as an agent of the Company), employee, Affiliate or other

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person of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA and the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, its Affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
     (xxxviii) Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
     (xxxix) OFAC. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, Affiliate or person acting on behalf of the Company is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
     (xl) Solvency. The Company is, and immediately after each Closing Time and immediately upon consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Offering Memorandum will be, Solvent. As used herein, the term “Solvent” means, with respect to an entity, on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair market value of the assets of such entity is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including the probable amount of contingent liabilities) of such entity, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of the entity is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities of such entity on its debt as they become absolute and mature, (c) the entity is able to realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities (including the probable amount of contingent liabilities) as they mature, and (d) the entity does not have unreasonably small capital.
     (xli) ERISA Compliance. The Company and its subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder

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(collectively, “ERISA”)) established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or their “ERISA Affiliates” (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a member. No “reportable event” (as defined under Section 403 of ERISA) for which reporting has not been waived under applicable regulations has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates. No “employee benefit plan” subject to Title IV of ERISA established or maintained by the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401 of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification.
     (b) Officer’s Certificates. Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 5(c) of this Agreement to the Initial Purchasers or to counsel for the Initial Purchasers shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Initial Purchasers as to the matters covered thereby.
     Section 2. Sale and Delivery to Initial Purchasers; Closing.
     (a) Initial Securities. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to the Initial Purchasers, and the Initial Purchasers, agree to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of 97.5% of the principal amount thereof, $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Initial Securities.
     (b) Option Securities. In addition, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an option to the Initial Purchasers to purchase up to an additional $45,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Option Securities at a purchase price of 97.5% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest from the Initial Closing Time to, but excluding, the Option Closing Time. The option hereby granted will expire 13 days after the date hereof and may be exercised at any time (but not more than once) upon notice by the Representative to the Company setting forth the number of Option Securities as to which the Initial Purchasers are then exercising the option and the time and date of payment and delivery for such Option Securities. Any such time and date of delivery (the “Option Closing Time”) shall be determined by the Representative but shall not be later than seven (7) full business days

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after the exercise of said option, nor in any event prior to the Initial Closing Time, as hereinafter defined.
     (c) Payment. Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of a global certificate for, the Initial Securities shall be made at the office of Shearman & Sterling LLP, 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company, at 9:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on the fourth business day after the date hereof, or such other time not later than ten business days after such date as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company (such time and date of payment and delivery being herein called the “Initial Closing Time” and the Initial Closing Time and the Option Closing Time, each being the applicable “Closing Time”).
     In addition, in the event that the Initial Purchasers have exercised the option to purchase all or any of the Option Securities, payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of one or more global certificates for, such Option Securities shall be made at the above-mentioned offices, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by Representative and the Company, on the Option Closing Time as specified in the notice from the Representative to the Company.
     Payment shall be made to the Company by wire transfer of immediately available funds to a bank account designated by the Company, against delivery to the Initial Purchasers of a global certificate for the Securities to be purchased by them.
     (d) Denominations; Registration. Global certificates for the Initial Securities and the Option Securities, if any, shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, and shall be in such denominations ($1,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) as the Representative may request in writing at least one full business day before the Initial Closing Time or the Option Closing Time, as the case may be. The global certificates representing the Initial Securities and the Option Securities, if any, shall be made available for examination and packaging by the Representative in The City of New York not later than 10:00 A.M. on the last business day prior to the Initial Closing Time or the Option Closing Time, as the case may be.
     Section 3. Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with the Initial Purchasers as follows:
     (a) Offering Memorandum. The Company, as promptly as possible, will furnish to the Initial Purchasers, without charge, such number of copies of the Offering Memorandum and any amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein as the Initial Purchasers may reasonably request.
     (b) Notice and Effect of Material Events. The Company will immediately notify the Initial Purchasers, and confirm such notice in writing, of (x) any filing made by the Company of information relating to the offering of the Securities with any securities exchange or any other regulatory body in the United States or any other jurisdiction, and (y) prior to the completion of the placement of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers as evidenced by a notice in writing from the Initial Purchasers to the Company, any material changes in or affecting the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise which (i) make any statement in the Disclosure

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Package, any Offering Memorandum or any Supplemental Offering Materials false or misleading or (ii) are not disclosed in the Disclosure Package or the Offering Memorandum. In such event or if during such time any event shall occur as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of any of the Company, its counsel, the Initial Purchasers or counsel for the Initial Purchasers, to amend or supplement the Offering Memorandum in order that the Offering Memorandum not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing, the Company will forthwith amend or supplement the Offering Memorandum by preparing and furnishing to the Initial Purchasers an amendment or amendments of, or a supplement or supplements to, the Offering Memorandum (in form and substance satisfactory in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Initial Purchasers) so that, as so amended or supplemented, the Offering Memorandum will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a Subsequent Purchaser, not misleading.
     (c) Amendment and Supplements to the Offering Memorandum; Preparation of Pricing Supplement; Supplemental Offering Materials. The Company will advise the Initial Purchasers promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Offering Memorandum and will not effect such amendment or supplement without the consent of the Representative. Neither the consent of the Representative, nor the Initial Purchasers’ delivery of any such amendment or supplement, shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 5 hereof. The Company will prepare the Pricing Supplement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Initial Purchasers, and shall furnish prior to the Applicable Time to the Initial Purchasers, without charge, as many copies of the Pricing Supplement as the Initial Purchasers may reasonably request. The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtained or obtains the prior consent of the Representative, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities by means of any Supplemental Offering Materials; and each of the Initial Purchasers represents and agrees that, except if it obtained or obtains the prior consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities by means of any Supplemental Offering Materials; in each case other than by means of the Pricing Supplement.
     (d) Qualification of Securities for Offer and Sale. The Company will use its best efforts, in cooperation with the Initial Purchasers to qualify the Securities and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions as the Representative may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect as long as required for the sale of the Securities; provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to file any general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.
     (e) DTC. The Company will cooperate with the Initial Purchasers and use its best efforts to permit the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of DTC.
     (f) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities in the manner specified in the Offering Memorandum under “Use of Proceeds.”

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     (g) Restriction on Sale of Securities. During a period of 90 days from the date of the Final Offering Memorandum (the “Lock Up Period”), the Company will not, without the prior written consent of Merrill Lynch, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, pledge, sell, or contract to sell any Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or repayable with Common Stock, whether owned at the date of the Final Offering Memorandum or thereafter acquired by the Company or with respect to which the Company has or acquires the power of disposition (collectively, “Relevant Securities”); (ii) sell any option or contract to purchase any Relevant Securities; (iii) purchase any option or contract to sell any Relevant Securities; (iv) grant any option, right or warrant for the sale of any Relevant Securities; (v) lend or otherwise dispose of any Relevant Securities; (vi) transfer any Relevant Securities or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or repayable with Relevant Securities; (vii) file or request or demand that we file a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to any sales of any shares of Relevant Securities; or (viii) enter into any swap or other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of Relevant Securities whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of our shares of common stock or other securities, in cash or otherwise; provided, however, that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to (A) the purchase of call options and the sale of warrants described in this Final Offering Memorandum, and any transactions in the Company’s securities contemplated thereby; (B) the acquisition of Common Stock by directors and employees of the Company upon the conversion of outstanding stock units and the exercise of stock options; (C) sales of shares of Common Stock pursuant to any 10b5-1 plans in effect on the date of the Final Offering Memorandum; (D) issuances of Common Stock (in an amount not to exceed 5% of the Common Stock then issued and outstanding) in connection with a merger, acquisition or other business combination, or (E) the issuance to the Company’s directors and employees of stock options, stock units and stock pursuant to the Company’s existing stock plans, employee benefit plans and director compensation plans; and provided, further, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may file a registration statement with the SEC on Form S-8 for securities to be issued under the Company’s stock plans and may also register on Form S-4 shares that the Company may issue in connection with the acquisition of another business.
     (h) PORTAL Designation. The Company will use its best efforts to permit the Securities to be designated PORTAL securities in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”) relating to trading in the PORTAL Market.
     (i) Listing on Securities Exchange. The Company will use its best efforts to cause all shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
     (j) Reporting Requirements. Until the offering of the Securities is complete, the Company will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act within the time periods required by the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations.

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     Section 4. Payment of Expenses.
     (a) Expenses. The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (i) the preparation, printing, and delivery to the Initial Purchasers and any filing of the Disclosure Package or any Offering Memorandum (including financial statements and any schedules or exhibits and any document incorporated therein by reference) and of each amendment or supplement thereto or of any Supplemental Offering Material, (ii) the preparation, printing and delivery to the Initial Purchasers of this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Indenture and such other documents as may be required in connection with the offering, purchase, sale, issuance or delivery of the Securities, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the global certificates for the Securities to the Initial Purchasers and the certificates for the Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof, including any transfer taxes, any stamp or other duties payable upon the sale, issuance and delivery of the Securities to the Initial Purchasers, the issuance and delivery of the Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof and any charges of DTC in connection therewith, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel, accountants and other advisors, (v) the qualification of the Securities and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof under securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(d) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel (not to exceed $5,000) for the Initial Purchasers in connection therewith and in connection with the preparation of the Blue Sky Survey, any supplement thereto, (vi) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities, (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the Securities including, without limitation, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Company and any such consultants, and the cost of aircraft and other transportation chartered in connection with the road show, (viii) any fees payable in connection with the rating of the Securities, (ix) any fees and expenses payable in connection with the initial and continued designation of the Securities as PORTAL securities under the PORTAL Market Rules pursuant to NASD Rule 5322, (x) any fees of the NASD in connection with the Securities, and (xi) the fees and expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the Common Stock.
     (b) Termination of Agreement. If this Agreement is terminated by the Initial Purchasers in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 or Section 10(a)(i) hereof, the Company shall reimburse the Initial Purchasers for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Initial Purchasers.
     Section 5. Conditions of Initial Purchasers’ Obligations. The obligations of the Initial Purchasers hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 1 hereof or in certificates of any officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:

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     (a) Opinion of Counsel for Company. At each Closing Time, the Initial Purchasers shall have received the opinion, dated as of such Closing Time, of Stoel Rives LLP, counsel for the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to counsel for the Initial Purchasers, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A hereto.
     (b) Opinion of Counsel for Initial Purchasers. At each Closing Time, the Initial Purchasers shall have received the favorable opinion, dated as of Closing Time, of Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel for the Initial Purchasers. In giving such opinion such counsel may rely, as to all matters governed by the laws of jurisdictions other than the law of the State of New York, the federal law of the United States and General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, upon the opinions of counsel satisfactory to the Initial Purchasers. Such counsel may also state that, insofar as such opinion involves factual matters, they have relied, to the extent they deem proper, upon certificates of officers of the Company and its subsidiaries and certificates of public officials.
     (c) Officers’ Certificate. At each Closing Time, there shall not have been, since the date hereof or since the date as of which information is given in the Final Offering Memorandum (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), any Material Adverse Effect, and the Initial Purchasers shall have received a certificate of the President or a Vice President of the Company and of the chief financial officer, chief accounting officer or treasurer of the Company, dated as of such Closing Time, to the effect that (i) there has been no Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the representations and warranties in Section 1 hereof are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of such Closing Time, and (iii) the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such Closing Time.
     (d) Accountants’ Comfort Letter. At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Initial Purchasers shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP a letter dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Initial Purchasers, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to Initial Purchasers with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum.
     (e) Bring-down Comfort Letter. At each Closing Time, the Initial Purchasers shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP a letter, dated as of such Closing Time, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to subsection (d) of this Section, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to such Closing Time and that the Offering Memorandum referred to shall be the Final Offering Memorandum.
     (f) PORTAL. At the Initial Closing Time, the Securities shall have been designated for trading on PORTAL.
     (g) Lock-up Agreements. On the date of this Agreement, the Initial Purchasers shall have received “lock-up letters,” in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, from the named executive officers and directors of the Company, and such letters shall be in full force and effect at each Closing Time.

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     (h) Indenture and Registration Rights Agreement. At or prior to the Initial Closing Time, the Company and the Trustee shall have executed and delivered the Indenture, and the Company shall have executed and delivered the Registration Rights Agreement, each in a form satisfactory to the Initial Purchasers.
     (i) Approval of Listing. At the Initial Closing Time, the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities shall have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.
     (j) Execution and Delivery of Certain Transaction Documents. At or prior to the Initial Closing Time, the Company shall have executed and delivered the Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation and the Warrant Transaction Confirmation.
     (k) Additional Documents. At each Closing Time, counsel for the Initial Purchasers shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Initial Purchasers and counsel for the Initial Purchasers.
     (l) Termination of Agreement. If any condition specified in this Section shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Initial Purchasers by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to each Closing Time, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 and except that Sections 1, 7, 8 and 9 shall survive any such termination and remain in full force and effect.
     Section 6. Subsequent Offers and Resales of the Securities.
     (a) Offer and Sale Procedures. The Initial Purchasers and the Company hereby establish and agree to observe the following procedures in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities:
     (i) Offers and Sales. Offers and sales of the Securities shall only be made to persons whom the offeror or seller reasonably believes to be qualified institutional buyers, as defined in Rule 144A under the 1933 Act (“Qualified Institutional Buyers”).
     (ii) No General Solicitation. No general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Rule 502(c) under the 1933 Act) will be used in the United States in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities.
     (iii) Purchases by Non-Bank Fiduciaries. In the case of a non-bank Subsequent Purchaser of a Security acting as a fiduciary for one or more third parties, each third party shall, in the judgment of the Initial Purchasers, be a Qualified Institutional Buyer.

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     (iv) Subsequent Purchaser Notification. The Initial Purchasers will take reasonable steps to inform, and cause each of its U.S. Affiliates to take reasonable steps to inform, persons acquiring Securities from the Initial Purchasers or affiliate, as the case may be, in the United States that the Securities (A) have not been and will not be registered under the 1933 Act, (B) are being sold to them without registration under the 1933 Act in reliance on Rule 144A or in accordance with another exemption from registration under the 1933 Act, as the case may be, and (C) may not be offered, sold or otherwise transferred except (1) to the Company, (2) outside the United States in accordance with Regulation S under the 1933 Act, or (3) inside the United States in accordance with (x) Rule 144A to a person whom the seller reasonably believes is a Qualified Institutional Buyer that is purchasing such Securities for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer to whom notice is given that the offer, sale or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A or (y) pursuant to another available exemption from registration under the 1933 Act.
     (v) Minimum Principal Amount. No sale of the Securities to any one Subsequent Purchaser will be for less than U.S. $1,000 principal amount and no Security will be issued in a smaller principal amount. If the Subsequent Purchaser is a non-bank fiduciary acting on behalf of others, each person for whom it is acting must purchase at least U.S. $1,000 principal amount of the Securities.
     (b) Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with the Initial Purchasers as follows:
     (i) Integration. The Company agrees that it will not and will cause its Affiliates not to, directly or indirectly, solicit any offer to buy, sell or make any offer or sale of, or otherwise negotiate in respect of, securities of the Company of any class if, as a result of the doctrine of “integration” referred to in Rule 502 under the 1933 Act, such offer or sale would render invalid (for the purpose of (i) the sale of the Securities by the Company to the Initial Purchasers, (ii) the resale of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers to Subsequent Purchasers or (iii) the resale of the Securities by such Subsequent Purchasers to others) the exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act provided by Section 4(2) thereof or by Rule 144A thereunder or otherwise.
     (ii) Rule 144A Information. The Company agrees that, in order to render the offered Securities eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the 1933 Act, while any of the offered Securities remain outstanding, it will make available, upon request, to any holder of offered Securities or prospective purchasers of Securities the information specified in Rule 144A(d)(4), unless the Company furnishes information to the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act.
     (iii) Restriction on Repurchases. Until the expiration of two years after the original issuance of the offered Securities, the Company will not, and will cause its Affiliates not to, resell any offered Securities which are “restricted securities” (as such term is defined under Rule 144(a)(3) under the 1933 Act), whether as beneficial owner or otherwise (except as agent acting as a securities broker on behalf of and for the account of customers in the ordinary course of business in unsolicited broker’s transactions).

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     (c) Qualified Institutional Buyer. Each of the Initial Purchasers represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Company that it is a Qualified Institutional Buyer and an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the 1933 Act (an “Accredited Investor”).
     Section 7. Indemnification.
     (a) Indemnification of Initial Purchasers. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Initial Purchasers, their affiliates, as such term is defined in Rule 501(b) under the 1933 Act (each, an “Affiliate”), their selling agents and each person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:
     (i) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Disclosure Package, the Final Offering Memorandum (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Supplemental Offering Materials, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
     (ii) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission; provided that (subject to Section 7(d) below) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company; and
     (iii) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Initial Purchasers), reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above;
provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Initial Purchasers expressly for use in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Disclosure Package, the Final Offering Memorandum (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or in any Supplemental Offering Materials.
     (b) Indemnification of Company. The Initial Purchasers severally agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of

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this Section, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in any preliminary offering memorandum, the Disclosure Package, the Final Offering Memorandum or any Supplemental Offering Materials in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Initial Purchasers expressly for use therein.
     (c) Actions against Parties; Notification. Each indemnified party shall give notice as promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying party of any action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability under this Section 7 to the extent it is not materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. In the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 7(a) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Representative, and, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 7(b) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Company. An indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action; provided, however, that counsel to the indemnifying party shall not (except with the consent of the indemnified party) also be counsel to the indemnified party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section or Section 8 hereof (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
     (d) Settlement without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 7(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.
     Section 8. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 7 hereof is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect

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the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers on the other hand from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Initial Purchasers on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
     The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the total underwriting discount received by the Initial Purchasers, bear to the aggregate initial offering price of the Securities.
     The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Initial Purchasers and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
     The Company and the Initial Purchasers agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
     Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, the Initial Purchasers shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities purchased and sold by it hereunder exceeds the amount of any damages which the Initial Purchasers have otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.
     No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
     For purposes of this Section, each person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act and the Initial Purchasers’ Affiliates and selling agents shall have the same rights to contribution as the Initial Purchasers, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15

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of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company.
     Section 9. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive. All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in certificates of officers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries submitted pursuant hereto shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of the Initial Purchasers or their Affiliates or selling agents, any person controlling the Initial Purchasers, their officers or directors or any person controlling the Company and (ii) delivery of and payment for the Securities.
     Section 10. Defaulting Initial Purchasers. If, at any Closing Time, any Initial Purchaser shall fail or refuse to purchase the principal amount of Securities agreed to be purchased by such Initial Purchaser hereunder, the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers shall be obligated to purchase the principal amount of Securities that the defaulting Initial Purchaser agreed but failed to purchase on such Closing Time in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the name of each non-defaulting Initial Purchaser in Schedule A hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all non-defaulting Initial Purchasers; provided, however, that the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers shall not be obligated to purchase any of the Securities at such Closing Time if the aggregate principal amount of Securities that the defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers agreed but failed to purchase on such date exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased at such Closing Time. If the foregoing maximum is exceeded, the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers, or those other initial purchasers satisfactory to the Company and the Representative who so agree, shall have the right, but shall not be obligated, to purchase, in such proportion as may be agreed upon among them, all the Securities to be purchased at such Closing Time. If the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers do not elect to purchase the Securities that the defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers agreed but failed to purchase on such Closing Time, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Initial Purchaser or the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses (for any non-defaulting Initial Purchaser) to the extent set forth in, and subject to the terms of, Section 4. As used in this Agreement, the term “Initial Purchaser” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context requires otherwise, any party not listed in Schedule A hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Securities that a defaulting Initial Purchaser agreed but failed to purchase. Any action taken under this Section 10 shall not relieve any defaulting Initial Purchaser from liability in respect of any default of such Initial Purchaser under this Agreement.
     Section 11. Termination of Agreement.
     (a) Termination; General. The Initial Purchasers may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the Company, at any time at or prior to each Closing Time (i) if there has been, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the date as of which information is given in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Disclosure Package or the Final Offering Memorandum (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise,

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whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or the international financial markets, any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Initial Purchasers, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities, or (iii) if trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, or if trading generally on the American Stock Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange or in the NASDAQ System has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by any of said exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or any other governmental authority, or (iv) a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, or (v) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities.
     (b) Liabilities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section, such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 hereof, and provided further that Sections 1, 7, 8 and 9 shall survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.
     Section 12. Tax Disclosure. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, immediately upon commencement of discussions with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, the Company (and each employee, representative or other agent of the Company) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to the Company relating to such tax treatment and tax structure. For purposes of the foregoing, the term “tax treatment” is the purported or claimed federal income tax treatment of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the term “tax structure” includes any fact that may be relevant to understanding the purported or claimed federal income tax treatment of the transactions contemplated hereby.
     Section 13. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Initial Purchasers shall be directed to the Representative at 4 World Financial Center, New York, New York 10080, attention of Gopal Garuda, Director, and notices to the Company shall be directed to it at 14200 S.W. Karl Braunn Drive, Beaverton, Oregon 97077, attention Secretary.
     Section 14. No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the offering price of the Securities and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers on the other hand, (b) in connection with the offering contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transaction, each of the Initial Purchasers is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, or its stockholders, creditors,

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employees or any other party, (c) the Initial Purchasers have not assumed, or will not assume, an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether the Initial Purchasers have advised or are currently advising the Company on other matters) and the Initial Purchasers have no obligation to the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (d) the Initial Purchasers and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of each of the Company, and (e) the Initial Purchasers have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering contemplated hereby and the Company has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company hereby waives any claims that the Company may have against the Initial Purchasers with respect to any breach of fiduciary duty in connection with this Offering.
     Section 15. Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Initial Purchasers, or any of them with respect to the subject matter hereof.
     Section 16. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Initial Purchasers and the Company and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the Initial Purchasers and the Company and their respective successors and the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Sections 7 and 8 and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Initial Purchasers and the Company and their respective successors, and said controlling persons and officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Securities from the Initial Purchasers shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.
     Section 17. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
     Section 18. TIME. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE OF THIS AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH HEREIN, SPECIFIED TIMES OF DAY REFER TO NEW YORK CITY TIME.
     Section 19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement.
     Section 20. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement between the Initial Purchasers and the Company in accordance with its terms.
         
  Very truly yours,

TEKTRONIX, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON    
    Name:   James F. Dalton   
    Title:   Senior Vice President, General
Counsel, and Secretary 
 
 
 
 
  SIGNATURE PAGE TO PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
 
 

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CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,
  as of the date first above written:
MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH
          INCORPORATED
         
By:
  /s/ PATRICK R. FANNON    
 
       
 
  Authorized Signatory    
For itself and as Representative
of the several Initial Purchasers
named on Schedule A hereto

 


 

SCHEDULE A
         
    Principal Amount of
Initial Purchasers   Securities
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
    195,000,000  
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    75,000,000  
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
    30,000,000  
Total
    300,000,000  
 
       

 


 

Schedule B
Tektronix, Inc.
(TEK/NYSE)
Offering Size: $300,000,000
Overallotment Option: $45,000,000
144A Senior Convertible Notes Due 2012 Terms:
Public Offering Price: $1,000.00 per note (100%)
Maturity: July 15, 2012
Interest Rate: 1.625% payable semiannually in arrears in cash
Last Sale (6/25/07): $34.57
Conversion Price: Approximately $39.76, subject to adjustment
Conversion Premium: 15.0%
Conversion Rate: 25.1538, subject to adjustment
Conversion Rate Cap: 28.9268, subject to adjustment
Conversion Trigger Price: $51.68
Interest Payment Dates: January 15 and July 15, beginning January 15, 2008
Redemption: None
Put Dates: None
Make Whole Premium upon a Fundamental Change: If a fundamental change occurs and a holder elects to convert in connection with such transaction, the conversion rate will be increased by a number of shares. The number of additional shares will be determined by reference to the following table and is based on the date on which such fundamental change becomes effective and the price paid per share of common stock on the effective date:
                                                         
        Effective Date
Stock Price   June 29, 2007       July 15, 2008   July 15, 2009   July 15, 2010   July 15, 2011   July 15, 2012
$ 34.57       3.7731           3.7731       3.7731       3.7731       3.7731       3.7731  
$ 36.00       3.3391    
 
    3.3632       3.3446       3.2550       3.0158       2.6240  
$ 40.00       2.4148    
 
    2.3557       2.2409       2.0295       1.6132       0.0000  
$ 50.00       1.1909    
 
    1.0731       0.9097       0.6764       0.3402       0.0000  
$ 60.00       0.6730    
 
    0.5700       0.4432       0.2878       0.1199       0.0000  
$ 70.00       0.4201    
 
    0.3442       0.2568       0.1649       0.0765       0.0000  
$ 80.00       0.2886    
 
    0.2351       0.1759       0.1144       0.0571       0.0000  
$ 100.00       0.1572    
 
    0.1270       0.0960       0.0640       0.0331       0.0000  
$ 120.00       0.0894    
 
    0.0717       0.0540       0.0355       0.0178       0.0000  
If the stock price on the effective date exceeds $120.00 per share, subject to adjustment, no adjustment to the applicable conversion rate will be made.
If the stock price on the effective date is less than $34.57 per share, subject to adjustment, no adjustment to the applicable conversion rate will be made.
Net Payment for Purchased Note Hedges Minus Sold Warrants: $26.6 million Shares Underlying Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant: Approximately 7.5 million

 


 

Exercise Price of Sold Warrant: 42.5% higher than closing stock price
Use of Proceeds and Capitalization: At May 26, 2007, on an as adjusted basis to reflect the sale of the notes (assuming the overallotment option is not exercised) and the issuer’s use of (1) $110.0 million of the net proceeds to repurchase approximately 3.2 million shares of common stock at the price of $34.57 per share and (2) $26.6 million of the net proceeds to fund the net cost of the convertible note hedge and warrant transactions, the issuer would have had cash, cash equivalents and short-term and long-term marketable investments of $513.3 million, total debt of $300 million, and total shareholders’ equity of $875.6 million. The issuer intends to use any remaining net proceeds to purchase additional common shares and for other general corporate purposes.
Trade Date: 6/25/07
Settlement Date (T+4): 6/29/07
144A CUSIP: 879131AG5
Joint-Bookrunners: Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Co-Manager: Citi
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This communication is intended for the sole use of the person to whom it is provided by us. This Offering is being conducted in the U.S. pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities Act 1933, as amended, and may therefore only be offered to QIBs. A written offering circular may be obtained from your Merrill Lynch sales representative, from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, 4 World Financial Center, FL 05, New York, NY 10080, or from your Goldman, Sachs sales representative, or from Goldman, Sachs & Co., 85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 Attention: Prospectus Department (212-902-1171).
This announcement and any offer if made subsequently is directed only at persons in member states of the European Economic Area who are “qualified investors” within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC) (“Qualified Investors”). Any person in the EEA who acquires the securities in any offer (an “investor”) or to whom any offer of the securities is made will be deemed to have represented and agreed that it is a Qualified Investor. Any investor will also be deemed to have represented and agreed that any securities acquired by it in the offer have not been acquired on behalf of persons in the EEA other than Qualified Investors or persons in the UK and other member states (where equivalent legislation exists) for whom the investor has authority to make decisions on a wholly discretionary basis, nor have the securities been acquired with a view to their offer or resale in the EEA to persons where this would result in a requirement for publication by the company, Merrill Lynch International (“MLI”) or any other manager of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the

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Prospectus Directive. The company, MLI and their affiliates, and others will rely upon the truth and accuracy of the foregoing representations and agreements.
This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation in such jurisdiction.
Any disclaimers or other notices that may appear below are not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded. Such disclaimers or other notices were automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent via Bloomberg or another email system.

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Exhibit A-1
FORM OF OPINION OF STOEL RIVES LLP
TO BE DELIVERED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 5(a)
[Provided as Separate Document]

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Exhibit B
FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT
     The undersigned, an executive officer or director of Tektronix, Inc., an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), understands that the Merrill Lynch & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”) propose to enter into a Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the Company, providing for the offering (the “Offering”), pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 of the Company. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
     In recognition of the benefit that the Offering will confer upon the undersigned as an officer or director of the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agrees that, during a period of 90 days from the date of the Final Offering Memorandum (the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned will not, for the benefit of Merrill Lynch, without the prior written consent of Merrill Lynch, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, pledge, sell, or contract to sell any shares of the Company’s Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such Common Stock, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition (collectively, “Lock-Up Securities”); (ii) sell any option or contract to purchase any Lock-Up Securities; (iii) purchase any option or contract to sell any Lock-Up Securities; (iv) grant any option, right or warrant for the sale of any Lock-Up Securities; (v) lend or otherwise dispose of any Lock-Up Securities; (vi) transfer any Lock-Up Securities or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or repayable with Lock-Up Securities; (vii) file or request or demand that the Company file a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to any sales of any Lock-Up Securities; or (viii) enter into any swap or other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of Lock-Up Securities whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of our shares of common stock or other securities, in cash or otherwise
     The foregoing restrictions shall not apply to: (1) the acquisition of Common Stock by directors and employees of the Company upon the conversion of stock units and the exercise of stock options; (2) sales of shares of Common Stock pursuant to any 10b5-1 plans in effect on the date of the Final Offering Memorandum, provided that such a 10b5-1 plan may be amended during the 90-day period specified in this letter as long as the number of shares that may be sold pursuant to the plan during the Lock-Up Period is not increased; (3) sales of up to (A) 15,000 additional shares of Common Stock by the undersigned or by a permissible transferee of the undersigned, if the undersigned is an executive officer, or (B) 5,000 additional shares of Common Stock by the undersigned or by a permissible transferee of the undersigned, if the undersigned is a director; (4) the transfer of Lock-Up Securities in connection with the exercise of stock options outstanding on the date hereof; and (5) any other transfers in connection with which (A) Merrill Lynch receives a signed lock-up agreement for the balance of the lock up period from each donee, trustee, distributee, or transferee, as the case may be, (B) any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value, (C) such transfers are not required during the

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Lock-Up Period to be reported in any public report or filing with the SEC, or otherwise, and (D) the undersigned does not otherwise voluntarily effect any public filing or report during the Lock-Up Period regarding such transfers, provided that any such transfer pursuant to clause (5) is:
(i) a bona fide gift or gifts; or
(ii) to any trust or limited liability company, the beneficiaries or members of which are exclusively the undersigned or a member of the immediate family of the undersigned, including grandchildren (to the extent consistent with the Securities Act and state securities laws).
     The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the Lock-Up Securities except in compliance with this letter agreement.
         
By:
       
 
       
Name:
       

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EX-10.2 5 v31548exv10w2.htm EXHIBIT 10.2 exv10w2
 

Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge
         
Date:   June 29, 2007
 
       
To:   Tektronix, Inc. (“Counterparty”)
 
       
 
  Attention:   Treasurer
 
  Telephone No.:   503-627-4622
 
  Facsimile No.:   502-627-6108
 
       
From:   Merrill Lynch International (“Dealer” or “MLI)
Dealer Reference: 078182396
Dear Sir / Madam:
     The purpose of this letter agreement (this “Confirmation) is to amend and restate the terms and conditions of the above-referenced transaction entered into among Counterparty, Dealer and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (the “Agent) on the Trade Date specified below (the “Transaction”). This Confirmation amends, restates and supersedes in its entirety the Confirmation in respect of the Transaction dated as of June 25, 2007. This Confirmation constitutes a “Confirmation” as referred to in the Agreement specified below.
     The definitions and provisions contained in the 2000 ISDA Definitions (the “Swap Definitions”) and the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (the “Equity Definitions” and, together with the Swap Definitions, the “Definitions), in each case as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. are incorporated into this Confirmation. In the event of any inconsistency between the Swap Definitions and the Equity Definitions, the Equity Definitions will govern, and in the event of any inconsistency between the Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern. References herein to a “Transaction” shall be deemed to be references to a “Share Option Transaction” for purposes of the Equity Definitions and a “Swap Transaction” for the purposes of the Swap Definitions.
     This Confirmation evidences a complete binding agreement between you and us as to the terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates. This Confirmation (notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein), shall be subject to, and form part of, an agreement in the 1992 form of the ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency Cross Border) (the “Master Agreement” or “Agreement) as if we had executed an agreement in such form (but without any Schedule and with the elections specified in the “ISDA Master Agreement” Section of this Confirmation) on the Trade Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of that Agreement and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will prevail for the purpose of this Transaction. The parties hereby agree that the Transaction evidenced by this Confirmation shall be the only Transaction subject to and governed by the Agreement.
     The parties acknowledge that this Confirmation is entered into on the date hereof with the understanding that the provisions of the Note Indenture (as defined below) that are referred to herein will conform to the descriptions thereof in the Offering Memorandum dated June 25, 2007 (the “Offering Memorandum”) relating to the Reference Notes (as defined below). The parties agree that in the event of any inconsistency between the Note Indenture as of the Effective Date and the Offering Memorandum, the parties will amend this Confirmation in good faith to preserve the intent of the parties.
     The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:

 


 

     General Terms:
     
Trade Date:
  June 25, 2007
 
   
Effective Date:
  The date of issuance of the Reference Notes.
 
   
Option Style:
  Modified American, as described in “Procedures for Exercise” below.
 
   
Option Type:
  Call
 
   
Seller:
  Dealer
 
   
Buyer:
  Counterparty
 
   
Shares:
  The shares of common stock, without par value, of Counterparty (Security Symbol: “TEK”) or such other securities or property into which the Reference Notes are convertible on the date of determination.
 
   
Premium:
   $59,616,000
 
   
Premium Payment Date:
  The Effective Date
 
   
Exchange:
  New York Stock Exchange
 
   
Related Exchange(s):
  All Exchanges
 
   
Reference Notes:
  The 100% Senior Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount, original principal amount USD 345,000,000.
 
   
Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes:
   80.00%. For the avoidance of doubt, the Calculation Agent shall, as it deems necessary, take into account the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes in determining or calculating any delivery or payment obligations hereunder, whether upon a Conversion Date (as defined below) or otherwise.
 
   
Note Indenture:
  The indenture, dated as of closing of the issuance of the Reference Notes, between Counterparty and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee relating to the Reference Notes, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time; provided that amendments, modifications or supplements adopted, or waivers obtained, of the kind specified under “Amendment Event” below and adopted or obtained, in each case, without Dealer’s consent, shall not be deemed part of the Note Indenture for purposes of this Confirmation. Certain defined terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Note Indenture.
 
   
Procedures for Exercise:
   
 
   
Potential Exercise Dates:
  As specified below under “Exercise Notice”.
 
   
Conversion Date:
  Each “conversion date” for any Reference Note pursuant to the terms of the Note Indenture occurring before the Expiration Date.
 
   
 
  The principal amount of Reference Notes converted on each Conversion Date shall be the “Conversion Amount” for such Conversion Date.
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  If the Conversion Amount for any Conversion Date is less than the aggregate principal amount of Reference Notes then outstanding, then the terms of this Transaction shall continue to apply, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, with respect to the remaining outstanding principal amount of the Reference Notes.
 
   
Exercise Period:
  The period from and excluding the Effective Date to and including the Expiration Date.
 
   
Expiration Date:
  The earliest of (i) the Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Indenture) of the Reference Notes, (ii) the first day on which none of such Reference Notes remain outstanding, whether by virtue of conversion, issuer repurchase or otherwise and (iii) the occurrence of an Additional Termination Event and designation of an Early Termination Date hereunder in respect of the termination of the Transaction in whole but not in part.
 
   
Exercise Notice:
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions, in order to exercise any Options hereunder, Buyer shall provide Seller with written notice (“Exercise Notice”) prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day prior to the first Trading Day in the Conversion Reference Period (all as defined in the Note Indenture) relating to the Reference Notes converted on the relevant Conversion Date of (i) the number of Reference Notes being converted on the relevant Conversion Date, (ii) the first Trading Day in the relevant Conversion Reference Period for the Reference Notes and (iii) the applicable Cash Percentage (as defined in the Note Indenture), if any; provided that with respect to Reference Notes converted during the period beginning on May 15, 2012 and ending on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Indenture) of the Reference Notes, the related Exercise Notice need not contain the information specified in clause (i) of this sentence and, in order to exercise any Options hereunder, Buyer shall deliver to Seller prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day (as defined in the Note Indenture) prior to such Final Maturity Date a written notice (“Supplemental Exercise Notice”) setting forth the number of Reference Notes converted during such period; provided further that the delivery by Buyer of an Exercise Notice after the Conversion Reference Period has commenced but prior to the close of business on the fifth Trading Day of such Conversion Reference Period shall be effective, in which case the Settlement Method shall be Net Share Settlement but without regard to subsection (ii) of the definition of Net Share Settlement and subject to adjustments to the Net Share Settlement Amount as specified below.
 
   
Seller’s Telephone Number and Telex and/or Facsimile Number and Contact Details for purpose of Giving Notice:
  Address: Merrill Lynch International
Merrill Lynch Financial Centre
2 King Edward Street
London EC1A 1HQ
Attention: Manager, Fixed Income Settlements Facsimile No.: +44 207 995 2004
Telephone No.: +44 207 995 3769
 
   
Settlement Terms:
   
 
   
Settlement Method Election:
  Net Share Settlement or Net Cash Settlement consistent with Buyer’s election with respect to the Reference Notes converted on the applicable Conversion Date; provided that Net Share Settlement shall apply in the event that Buyer elects to deliver any Shares in connection with the applicable Conversion Date;
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  and provided further that it shall be a condition for Buyer’s right to elect Net Cash Settlement or settlement pursuant to clause (ii) of Net Share Settlement that Buyer delivers to Seller with the related Exercise Notice a representation signed by Buyer that Buyer has publicly disclosed all material information necessary for Buyer to be able to purchase or sell Shares in compliance with applicable securities laws.
 
   
Electing Party:
  Buyer
 
   
Settlement Date:
  Subject to the delivery of an Exercise Notice to the Seller, on the third (3rd) Business Day (as defined in the Note Indenture) following the final Trading Day (as defined in the Note Indenture) in the applicable Conversion Reference Period in respect of the relevant Conversion Date.
 
   
Net Share Settlement:
  In lieu of the obligations set forth in Sections 8.1 and 9.1 of the Equity Definitions, Seller shall deliver to Buyer on the related Settlement Date (i) a number of Shares equal to the related Net Share Settlement Amount, provided that in the event that the number of Shares calculated comprises any fractional Share, only whole Shares shall be delivered and an amount equal to the value of such fractional Share shall be payable by Seller to Buyer in cash and (ii) an amount in cash equal to (x) the cash amount, if any, paid by Buyer in excess of the principal amount of the applicable Reference Notes for such Conversion Date pursuant to Section 4.12 of the Note Indenture multiplied by (y) the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, provided that the delivery obligation set forth in clause (i) and (ii) of this paragraph shall be determined excluding any Shares or cash that Counterparty is obligated to deliver to holders of the applicable Reference Notes as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from (a) a discretionary adjustment to the Conversion Rate by Counterparty or (b) an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as a result of a fundamental change as described in Section 4.01(i) of the Note Indenture. The provisions of Sections 9.1(c), 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11 and 9.12 of the Equity Definitions shall apply to any delivery of Shares hereunder, provided that the Representation and Agreement in Section 9.11 of the Equity Definitions shall be modified by excluding any representations therein relating to restrictions, obligations, limitations or requirements under applicable securities laws as a result of the fact that Buyer is the issuer of the Shares.
 
   
Net Cash Settlement:
  In lieu of the obligations set forth in Section 8.1 of the Equity Definitions, on the Settlement Date Seller shall deliver to Buyer an amount in cash equal to the related Net Cash Settlement Amount.
 
   
Net Share Settlement Amount:
  For each Conversion Date, the number of Shares equal to the Shares delivered by Buyer for such Conversion Date as required under the Note Indenture multiplied by the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, provided that if an Exercise Notice with respect to such Conversion Date has not been delivered to the Seller prior to the first Trading Day of the Conversion Reference Period applicable to such Conversion Date, the Net Share Settlement Amount for such Conversion Date shall be adjusted by the Calculation Agent to account for the consequences of the reduced number of Trading Days from the delivery of the Exercise Notice to the end of the applicable Conversion Reference Period with respect to such Conversion Date. No reduction of the Net Share Settlement Amount shall reduce the Net Share Settlement Amount below zero.
 
   
Net Cash Settlement Amount:
  For each Conversion Date, an amount equal to the cash delivered by the Buyer in excess of the principal amount of the applicable Reference Notes for such Conversion Date pursuant to Section 4.12 of the Note Indenture multiplied
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  by the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, provided that such cash amount shall be determined excluding any cash that Counterparty is obligated to deliver to holders of the applicable Reference Notes as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from (i) a discretionary adjustment to the Conversion Rate by Counterparty or (ii) an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as a result of a fundamental change as described in Section 4.01(i) of the Note Indenture.
 
   
Adjustments:
   
 
   
Method of Adjustment:
  Calculation Agent Adjustment; provided that the terms of this Transaction shall be adjusted in a manner consistent with adjustments of the Conversion Rate of the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture; provided further (without limitation of the provisions set forth above under “Net Share Settlement” and “Net Cash Settlement Amount”) that no adjustment in respect of any Potential Adjustment Event or Extraordinary Event shall be made hereunder as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from (i) a discretionary adjustment to the Conversion Rate by Counterparty or (ii) an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as a result of a fundamental change as described in Section 4.01(i) of the Note Indenture.
 
   
Potential Adjustment Event:
  Notwithstanding Section 11.2(e) of the Equity Definitions, a “Potential Adjustment Event” means, subject to the preceding paragraph, the occurrence of an event or condition that would result in an adjustment of the Conversion Rate of the Reference Notes pursuant to the Note Indenture.
 
   
Extraordinary Events:
   
 
   
Merger Events:
  Notwithstanding Section 12.1(b) of the Equity Definitions, a “Merger Event” means the occurrence of any event or condition to which Section 4.10 of the Note Indenture applies.
 
   
Consequences for Merger Events:
   
 
   
           Share-for-Share:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
           Share-for-Other:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
           Share-for-Combined:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
Tender Offer:
  Applicable, subject to “Consequences of Tender Offers” below. Notwithstanding Section 12.1(d) of the Equity Definitions, “Tender Offer” means the occurrence of any event or condition set forth in Section 4.06(e) of the Note Indenture.
 
   
Consequences of Tender Offers:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting:
  Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination), provided Buyer shall determine whether payment shall be settled in cash or Shares. In addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it will also
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  constitute a Delisting if the Exchange is located in the United States and the Shares are not immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Global Market or the NASDAQ Global Select Market (or their respective successors); if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall thereafter be deemed to be the Exchange.
 
   
Additional Disruption Events:
   
 
   
           Change in Law:
  Applicable
 
   
           Failure to Deliver:
  Applicable. If there is inability in the market to deliver Shares due to illiquidity on a day that would have been a Settlement Date, then the Settlement Date shall be the first succeeding Exchange Business Day on which there is no such inability to deliver, but in no such event shall the Settlement Date be later than the date that is two (2) Exchange Business Days immediately following what would have been the Settlement Date but for such inability to deliver.
 
   
           Insolvency Filing:
  Applicable
 
   
           Hedging Disruption:
  Applicable
 
   
           Increased Cost of Hedging:
  Not Applicable
 
   
           Loss of Stock Borrow:
  Not Applicable
 
   
           Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:
  Not Applicable
 
   
           Hedging Party:
  Seller
 
   
           Determining Party:
  Seller
 
   
Non-Reliance:
  Applicable
 
   
Agreements and Acknowledgments Regarding Hedging Activities:
  Applicable
 
   
Additional Acknowledgments:
  Applicable
Additional Agreements, Representations and Covenants of Buyer, Etc.:
1.   Buyer hereby represents and warrants to Seller, on each day from the Trade Date to and including the earlier of (i) July 27, 2007 and (ii) the date by which Seller is able to initially complete a hedge of its position relating to this Transaction, that:
  a.   it will effect (and cause any “affiliated purchaser” (as defined in Rule 10b-18 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act)) to effect) any purchases, direct or indirect (including by means of any cash-settled or other derivative instrument), of Shares or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Shares solely through Agent
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      in a manner that would not cause any purchases by Seller of its hedge in connection with this Transaction not to comply with applicable securities laws;
 
  b.   it will not engage in, or be engaged in, any “distribution,” as such term is defined in Regulation M promulgated under the Exchange Act, other than a distribution meeting the requirements of the exceptions set forth in sections 101(b)(10) and 102(b)(7) of Regulation M (it being understood that Buyer makes no representation pursuant to this clause in respect of any action or inaction taken by Seller or any initial purchaser of the Reference Notes); and
 
  c.   Buyer has publicly disclosed all material information necessary for Buyer to be able to purchase or sell Shares in compliance with applicable federal securities laws.
2.   If Buyer would be obligated to pay cash (other than payment of the Premium) to, or receive cash from, Seller pursuant to the terms of this Agreement for any reason without having had the right (other than pursuant to this paragraph (2)) to elect to deliver or receive Shares in satisfaction of such payment obligation, then Buyer may elect (by giving notice to Seller no later than 8 a.m. New York time on the Exchange Business Day immediately following the date of occurrence of the event giving rise to such payment obligation) that such payment obligation shall be satisfied by the delivery of a number of Shares (or, if the Shares have been converted into other securities or property in connection with an Extraordinary Event, a number or amount of such other securities or property as a holder of Shares would be entitled to receive upon the consummation or closing of such Extraordinary Event) having a cash value equal to the amount of such payment obligation. Such number or amount of Shares or other securities or property to be delivered shall be determined by the Calculation Agent to be the number of Shares or number or amount of such other securities or property that could be purchased or sold, as applicable, over a reasonable period of time with the cash equivalent of such payment obligation). Settlement relating to any delivery of Shares or other securities or property pursuant to this paragraph (2) shall occur within a reasonable period of time. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Agreement to the contrary, the aggregate number of Shares that Counterparty may be required to deliver to Dealer under this Transaction shall not exceed 10,413,674 Shares, as adjusted by the Calculation Agent to account for any subdivision, stock-split, stock combination, reclassification, certain distributions, dividends and payments to holders of Buyer’s common stock or similar dilutive or anti-dilutive events with respect to the Shares.
 
3.   Notwithstanding any provision in the Note Indenture, this Confirmation or the Agreement to the contrary, each of the “Applicable Conversion Rate” (as such term is defined in the Note Indenture), the Shares and cash amounts owed pursuant to Net Share Settlement, the Net Cash Settlement Amount and any other amount hereunder determined by reference to the Applicable Conversion Rate shall be determined without regard to any provisions in the Note Indenture allowing Counterparty to unilaterally increase the “Applicable Conversion Rate” or any adjustments resulting from a fundamental change.
 
4.   Counterparty is not, and after giving effect to the Transaction contemplated hereby, will not be, an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
5.   As of the Trade Date and each date on which a payment or delivery is made by Counterparty hereunder, (i) the assets of Counterparty at their fair valuation exceed the liabilities of Counterparty, including contingent liabilities; (ii) the capital of Counterparty is adequate to conduct its business; and (iii) Counterparty has the ability to pay its debts and other obligations as such obligations mature and does not intend to, or believe that it will, incur debt or other obligations beyond its ability to pay as such obligations mature.
 
6.   The representations and warranties set forth in Section 1 of the Purchase Agreement (as defined below) are hereby deemed to be repeated to Dealer as if set forth herein.
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Additional Termination Events:
The occurrence of any of the following shall be an Additional Termination Event for purposes of this Transaction:
1.   Amendment Event. If an Amendment Event (as defined below) occurs, Dealer shall have the right to designate an Early Termination Date pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Agreement and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no payments shall be required hereunder in connection with such Amendment Event.
 
    Amendment Event” means that the Counterparty, without Dealer’s consent, amends, modifies, supplements or obtains a waiver of (a) any term of the Note Indenture (as in effect prior to such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver) or the Reference Notes relating to the principal amount, coupon, maturity, repurchase obligation of the Counterparty or redemption right of the Counterparty, (b) any term relating to conversion of the Reference Notes, including, without limitation, any changes to the conversion price, conversion settlement dates or conversion conditions or (c) any term that would require consent of the holders of 100% of the principal amount of the Reference Notes to amend; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that an adjustment to the Conversion Rate in accordance with the terms of the Note Indenture (as in effect prior to any amendment, modification, supplement or waiver to which Dealer has not given its consent) shall not constitute an Amendment Event;
 
2.   Repayment Event. If a Repayment Event (as defined below) occurs, Dealer shall have the right to designate an Early Termination Date pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Agreement with respect to this Transaction only to the extent of the principal amount of Reference Notes that cease to be outstanding as a result of such Repayment Event and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no payments shall be required hereunder in connection with such Repayment Event.
 
    Repayment Event” means that (a) any Reference Notes are repurchased (whether in connection with or as a result of a fundamental change or change of control, howsoever defined, or for any other reason) by the Counterparty, (b) any Reference Notes are delivered to the Counterparty in exchange for delivery of any property or assets of the Counterparty or any of its subsidiaries (howsoever described), other than as a result of and in connection with a Conversion Date, (c) any principal of any of the Reference Notes is repaid prior to the Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Indenture) (whether following acceleration of the Reference Notes or otherwise), provided that no payments of cash made in respect of the conversion of a Reference Note shall be deemed a payment of principal under this clause (c), (d) any Reference Notes are exchanged by or for the benefit of the holders thereof for any other securities of the Counterparty or any of its Affiliates (or any other property, or any combination thereof) pursuant to any exchange offer or similar transaction or (e) any of the Reference Notes is surrendered by Counterparty to the trustee for cancellation, other than registration of a transfer of such Reference Notes or as a result of and in connection with a Conversion Date; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that a conversion of the Reference Notes pursuant to the Note Indenture shall not constitute a Repayment Event.
 
3.   Initial Purchase Event. If an Initial Purchase Event (as defined below) occurs, this Transaction shall terminate automatically in its entirety and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, only the payments specified below shall be required hereunder in connection with such Initial Purchase Event.
 
    Initial Purchase Event” means that the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement among the Counterparty, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., dated as of June 25, 2007 (the “Purchase Agreement”) shall fail to close for any reason by the closing date for the offering of the Reference Notes as specified in the Purchase Agreement.
 
    If an Initial Purchase Event occurs for any reason other than a breach of the Purchase Agreement by the Initial Purchaser, then all payments previously made hereunder shall be returned to the person making such payment, including the Premium (if paid), less an amount equal to the product of (a) 6,942,449 Shares, (b) 0.50 and (c) an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the closing price of the Shares on the Trade Date over the closing price of the Shares on the date of the Initial Purchase Event (the “Break
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    Expense”); provided that any negative amount shall be replaced by zero and provided further that to the extent the Premium has not been paid, Buyer shall promptly pay Seller the Break Expense. Seller and Buyer agree that actual damages would be difficult to ascertain under these circumstances and that the amount of liquidated damages resulting from the determination in the preceding sentence is a good faith estimate of such damages and not a penalty.
 
    If an Initial Purchase Event occurs due to a breach of the Purchase Agreement by the Initial Purchaser, then all payments previously made hereunder, including the Premium, promptly shall be returned to the person making such payment and no payments shall be required hereunder in connection with such Initial Purchase Event.
Staggered Settlement:
If Seller determines reasonably and in good faith that the number of Shares required to be delivered to Buyer hereunder on any Settlement Date would exceed 8.0% of all outstanding Shares, then Seller may, by notice to Buyer on or prior to such Settlement Date (a “Nominal Settlement Date), elect to deliver the Shares owed by it pursuant to Net Share Settlement (the “Share Delivery Obligation”) on two or more dates (each, a “Staggered Settlement Date) or at two or more times on the Nominal Settlement Date as follows:
1.   in such notice, Seller will specify to Buyer the related Staggered Settlement Dates (the first of which will be such Nominal Settlement Date and the last of which will be no later than twenty (20) Trading Days following such Nominal Settlement Date) or delivery times and how it will allocate the Shares it is required to deliver hereunder among the Staggered Settlement Dates or delivery times;
 
2.   the aggregate number of Shares that Seller will deliver to Buyer hereunder on all such Staggered Settlement Dates or delivery times will equal the number of Shares that Seller would otherwise be required to deliver on such Nominal Settlement Date; and
 
3.   the Net Share Settlement terms will apply on each Staggered Settlement Date, except that the Shares comprising such Share Delivery Obligation will be allocated among such Staggered Settlement Dates or delivery times as specified by Seller in the notice referred to in clause (1) above.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, solely in connection with a Staggered Settlement Date, Seller shall be entitled to deliver Shares to Buyer from time to time prior to the date on which Seller would be obligated to deliver them to Buyer pursuant to Net Share Settlement terms set forth above, and Buyer agrees to credit all such early deliveries against Seller’s obligations hereunder in the direct order in which such obligations arise. No such early delivery of Shares will accelerate or otherwise affect any of Buyer’s obligations to Seller hereunder.
Disposition of Hedge Shares:
Counterparty hereby agrees that if, in the reasonable and good faith judgment of Seller based on the advice of nationally recognized outside counsel, the Shares acquired by Seller for the purpose of hedging its obligations pursuant to the Transaction (the “Hedge Shares”) cannot be sold in the U.S. public market by Seller without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Counterparty shall, at its election: (i) in order to allow Seller to sell the Hedge Shares in a registered offering, make available to Seller an effective registration statement under the Securities Act to cover the resale of such Hedge Shares and (a) enter into an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Seller, substantially in the form of an underwriting agreement for a registered offering, (b) provide accountant’s “comfort” letters in customary form for registered offerings of equity securities, (c) provide disclosure opinions of nationally recognized outside counsel to Counterparty reasonably acceptable to Seller, (d) provide other customary opinions, certificates and closing documents customary in form for registered offerings of equity securities and (e) afford Seller a reasonable opportunity to conduct a “due diligence” investigation with respect to Counterparty customary in scope for underwritten offerings of equity securities; provided, however, that if Seller, in its sole reasonable discretion, is not satisfied with access to due diligence materials, the results of its due diligence investigation, or the procedures and documentation for the registered offering referred to above, then clause (ii) or clause (iii) of this Section shall apply at the election of
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Counterparty; (ii) in order to allow Seller to sell the Hedge Shares in a private placement, enter into a private placement agreement substantially similar to private placement purchase agreements customary for private placements of equity securities, in form and substance satisfactory to Seller, including customary representations, covenants, blue sky and other governmental filings and/or registrations, indemnities to Seller, due diligence rights (for Seller or any designated buyer of the Hedge Shares from Seller), opinions and certificates and such other documentation as is customary for private placements agreements, all reasonably acceptable to Seller (in which case, the Calculation Agent shall make any adjustments to the terms of the Transaction that are necessary to compensate Seller for any discount from the public market price of the Shares incurred on the sale of Hedge Shares in a private placement); or (iii) purchase the Hedge Shares from Seller at the VWAP Price on such Exchange Business Days, and in the amounts, requested by Seller. “VWAP Price” means, on any Exchange Business Day, the per Share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page TEK.N <equity> VAP (or any successor thereto) in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Exchange Business Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one Share on such Exchange Business Day, as determined by the Calculation Agent using a volume-weighted method).
Repurchase Notices:
Counterparty shall, on any day on which Counterparty effects any repurchase of Shares, promptly give Seller a written notice of such repurchase (a “Repurchase Notice) on such day if following such repurchase, the Notice Percentage as determined on such day is (i) greater than 8.02% and (ii) greater by 0.5% than the Notice Percentage included in the immediately preceding Repurchase Notice (or, in the case of the first such Repurchase Notice, greater than the Notice Percentage as of the date hereof). In the event that Counterparty fails to provide Seller with a Repurchase Notice on the day and in the manner specified in this section, then Counterparty agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Seller, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and controlling persons (Seller and each such person being an “Indemnified Party) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject under applicable securities laws, including without limitation, Section 16 of the Exchange Act, relating to or arising out of such failure. If for any reason the foregoing indemnification is unavailable to any Indemnified Party or insufficient to hold harmless any Indemnified Party, then Counterparty shall contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability. In addition, Counterparty will reimburse any Indemnified Party for all reasonable and documented expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) as they are incurred (after notice to Counterparty) in connection with the investigation of, preparation for or defense or settlement of any pending or threatened claim or any action, suit or proceeding arising therefrom, whether or not such Indemnified Party is a party thereto and whether or not such claim, action, suit or proceeding is initiated or brought by or on behalf of Counterparty. This indemnity shall survive the completion of the Transaction contemplated by this Confirmation and any assignment and delegation of the Transaction made pursuant to this Confirmation or the Agreement shall inure to the benefit of any permitted assignee of Seller. Counterparty will not be liable under this Indemnity provision to the extent that any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense is found in a final judgment by a court to have resulted from Dealer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The “Notice Percentage” as of any day is the fraction, expressed as a percentage, (i) the numerator of which is the product of (a) the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, (b) the number of outstanding Reference Notes and (c) a number of Shares per Reference Note equal to the Conversion Rate (as defined in the Note Indenture) and (ii) the denominator of which is the number of Shares outstanding on such day.
Conversion Rate Adjustment Notices
In connection with any adjustments to the Conversion Rate under the terms of the Note Indenture, Counterparty shall provide to Dealer a copy of the notice of adjustment required to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.08 of the Note Indenture concurrently with filing of such notice with the Trustee.
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Compliance with
Securities Laws:
  Each party acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Transaction to it is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) thereof. Accordingly, Buyer represents and warrants to Seller that (i) it has the financial ability to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Transaction and is able to bear a total loss of its investment, (ii) it is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act and (iii) the disposition of the Transaction is restricted under this Confirmation, the Securities Act and state securities laws.
 
   
 
  Buyer further represents:
 
   
 
  (a) Buyer is not entering into this Transaction to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares);
 
   
 
  (b) Buyer acknowledges that as of the date hereof and without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, Seller is not making any representations or warranties with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under FASB Statements 149 or 150, EITF Issue No. 00-19 (or any successor issue statements) or under FASB’s Liabilities & Equity Project.
 
   
Account Details:
  Account for payments to Buyer:      To be advised
 
   
 
  Account for payment to Seller:        To be advised
 
   
 
  Accounts for deliveries of Shares:   To be advised
 
   
Bankruptcy Rights:
  In the event of Buyer’s bankruptcy, Seller’s rights in connection with this Transaction shall not exceed those rights held by common shareholders. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties acknowledge and agree that Seller’s rights with respect to any other claim arising from this Transaction prior to Buyer’s bankruptcy shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be otherwise abridged or modified in connection herewith.
 
   
Set-Off:
  Each party waives any and all rights it may have to set-off, whether arising under any agreement, applicable law or otherwise.
 
   
Collateral:
  None.
 
   
Transfer:
  Buyer shall have the right to assign its rights and delegate its obligations hereunder with respect to any portion of this Transaction, subject to Seller’s consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld; provided that such assignment or transfer shall be subject to receipt by Seller of opinions and documents reasonably satisfactory to Seller and effected on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Seller with respect to any legal and regulatory requirements relevant to the Seller; provided further that Buyer shall not be released from its obligation to deliver any Exercise Notice or its obligations pursuant to “Disposition of Hedge Shares”, “Repurchase Notices” or “Conversion Rate Adjustment Notices” above.
 
   
 
  If, as determined in Seller’s sole discretion, the “beneficial ownership” of it and those of its affiliates which are subject to aggregation (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder) could be deemed to exceed 8% of Counterparty’s outstanding Shares, Seller may, without Counterparty’s consent, transfer or assign all or any part of its rights or obligations under this Transaction to reduce such “beneficial ownership” to 7.5% to any third party with a rating for its (or, if applicable, its Credit Support Provider’s) long term, unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of AA or better by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service or its successor (“S&P”), or Aa3 or better by Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) or, if either S&P or Moody’s ceases to rate such
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  debt, at least an equivalent rating or better by a substitute rating agency mutually agreed by Company and Seller. If after Seller’s commercially reasonable efforts, Seller is unable to effect such a transfer or assignment on pricing terms reasonably acceptable to Seller and within a time period reasonably acceptable to Seller of a sufficient number of Options to reduce Seller’s “beneficial ownership” (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder) to 7.5% of Counterparty’s outstanding Shares or less, Seller may designate any Exchange Business Day as an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion (the “Terminated Portion”) of this Transaction, such that its “beneficial ownership” following such partial termination will be equal to or less than 7.5%. In the event that Seller so designates an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion of this Transaction, a payment shall be made pursuant to Section 6 of the Agreement as if (i) an Early Termination Date had been designated in respect of a Transaction having terms identical to this Transaction and a Number of Options equal to the Terminated Portion, (ii) Counterparty shall be the sole Affected Party with respect to such partial termination and (iii) such Transaction shall be the only Terminated Transaction. In circumstances in which the foregoing provisions relating to Seller’s right to transfer or assign its rights or obligations under the Transaction are not applicable, Seller may transfer any of its rights or delegate its obligations under this Transaction with the prior written consent of Buyer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
 
   
Regulation:
  Seller is regulated by The Securities and Futures Authority Limited
Matters Relating to Agent:
1.   Agent will be responsible for the operational aspects of the Transactions effected through it, such as record keeping, reporting, and confirming Transactions to Buyer and Seller;
 
2.   Unless Buyer is a “major U.S. institutional investor,” as defined in Rule 15a-6 of the Exchange Act, neither Buyer nor Seller will contact the other without the direct involvement of Agent;
 
3.   Agent’s sole role under this Agreement and with respect to any Transaction is as an agent of Buyer and Seller on a disclosed basis and Agent shall have no responsibility or liability to Buyer or Seller hereunder except for gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of its duties as agent. Agent is authorized to act as agent for Buyer, but only to the extent expressly required to satisfy the requirements of Rule 15a-6 under the Exchange Act in respect of the Options described hereunder. Agent shall have no authority to act as agent for Buyer generally or with respect to transactions or other matters governed by this Agreement, except to the extent expressly required to satisfy the requirements of Rule 15a-6 or in accordance with express instructions from Buyer.
ISDA Master Agreement:
With respect to the Agreement, Seller and Counterparty each agree as follows:
Specified Entity” means in relation to Seller and in relation to Counterparty for purposes of this Transaction: Not applicable.
The definition of “Specified Transaction” in Section 14 of this Agreement is hereby amended by adding the text “commodity transaction, credit derivative transaction, repurchase or reverse purchase transaction, securities lending transaction, futures transaction, prime brokerage or margin lending transaction” after the words “foreign exchange transaction” in the sixth line thereof and by replacing the words “any other similar transaction” in the eighth line thereof with the text “any other transaction between the parties”. “Specified Transaction” shall exclude any default
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under a Specified Transaction if caused solely by the general unavailability of the currency in which payments under such Specified Transaction are denominated due to exchange controls or other governmental action.
The “Cross Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller and will not apply to Counterparty.
The “Credit Event Upon Merger” provisions of Section 5(b)(iv) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller and will not apply to Counterparty.
The “Automatic Early Termination” provision of Section 6(a) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller or to Counterparty.
Payments on Early Termination. For the purpose of Section 6(e) of the Agreement: (i) Loss shall apply; and (ii) the Second Method shall apply.
Termination Currency” means USD.
Tax Representations.
(a)   Payer Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(e) of the Agreement, each party represents to the other party that it is not required by any applicable law, as modified by the practice of any relevant governmental revenue authority, of any Relevant Jurisdiction to make any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax from any payment (other than interest under Section 2(e), 6(d)(ii), or 6(e) of the Agreement) to be made by it to the other party under the Agreement. In making this representation, each party may rely on (i) the accuracy of any representations made by the other party pursuant to Section 3(f) of the Agreement, (ii) the satisfaction of the agreement contained in Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and the accuracy and effectiveness of any document provided by the other party pursuant to Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and (iii) the satisfaction of the agreement of the other party contained in Section 4(d) of the Agreement; provided that it will not be a breach of this representation where reliance is placed on clause (ii) above and the other party does not deliver a form or document under Section 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement by reason of material prejudice to its legal or commercial position.
 
(b)   Payee Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(f) of the Agreement, each party makes the following representations to the other party:
(i) Dealer represents that it is a company organized under the laws of England and Wales.
(ii) Dealer represents that it is a “non-withholding foreign partnership” for United States Federal income tax purposes and each partner of Dealer is a “non-U.S. branch of a foreign person” for purposes of section 1.1441-4(a)(3)(ii) of the United States Treasury Regulations and a “foreign person” for purposes of section 1.6041-4(a)(4) of the United States Treasury Regulations.
(iii) Dealer represents that no partner of Dealer is (i) a bank that has entered into this Agreement in the ordinary course of its trade or business of making loans, as described in section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), (ii) a 10% shareholder of Counterparty within the meaning of Code section 871(h)(3)(B), or (iii) a controlled foreign corporation with respect to Counterparty within the meaning of Code section 881(c)(3)(C).
(iv) Counterparty represents that it is a corporation incorporated in Oregon.
Delivery Requirements. For the purpose of Sections 4(a)(i) and (ii) of the Agreement, each party agrees to deliver the following documents:
(a)   Tax forms, documents or certificates to be delivered are:
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    Dealer agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Counterparty), execute, and deliver to Counterparty, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 IMY and all required attachments, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Counterparty; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such Form previously provided by Dealer has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
    Counterparty agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Dealer), execute, and deliver to Dealer, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8 BEN, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Dealer; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such form(s) previously provided by Counterparty has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
(b)   Other documents to be delivered:
             
            Covered by
Party Required to           Section 3(d)
Deliver Document   Document Required to be Delivered   When Required   Representation
Counterparty
  Evidence of the authority and true signatures of each official or representative signing this Confirmation   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
 
           
Counterparty
  Certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors or equivalent document authorizing the execution and delivery of this Confirmation and such other certificates as Seller shall reasonably request   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
 
           
Seller
  Guarantee of its Credit Support Provider, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   No
Additional Notice Requirements. Counterparty hereby agrees to promptly deliver to Seller a copy of all notices and other communications required or permitted to be given to the holders of any Reference Notes pursuant to the terms of the Note Indenture on the dates so required or permitted in the Note Indenture and all other notices given and other communications made by Counterparty in respect of the Reference Notes to holders of any Reference Notes. Counterparty further covenants to Seller that it shall promptly notify Seller of each Conversion Date, Amendment Event (including in such notice a detailed description of any such amendment) and Repayment Event (identifying in such notice the nature of such Repayment Event and the principal amount at maturity of Reference Notes being paid).
Addresses for Notices. For the purpose of Section 12(a) of the Agreement:
Address for notices or communications to Seller for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:   Merrill Lynch International
 
      Merrill Lynch Financial Centre
 
      2 King Edward Street
 
      London EC1A 1HQ
 
       
 
  Attention:   Manager, Fixed Income Settlements
 
  Facsimile No.:   44 207 995 2004
 
  Telephone No.:   44 207 995 3769
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Additionally, a copy of all notices pursuant to Sections 5, 6, and 7 as well as any changes to Counterparty’s address, telephone number or facsimile number should be sent to:
         
 
  Address:   GMI Counsel
 
      Merrill Lynch World Headquarters
 
      4 World Financial Center
 
      New York, New York 10080
 
       
 
  Attention:   Global Equity Derivatives
 
  Facsimile No.:   212-449-6576
 
  Telephone No.:   212-449-6309
Address for notices or communications to Counterparty for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:   14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
      Beaverton, OR 97077
 
       
 
  Attention:   Treasurer
 
  Facsimile No.:   503-627-6108
 
  Telephone No.:   503-627-4622
In addition, in the case of notices or communications relating to Section 5, 6, 11 or 13 of this Agreement, a second copy of any such notice or communication shall be addressed to the attention of Counterparty’ General Counsel as follows:
         
 
  Address:   14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
      Beaverton, OR 97077
 
       
 
  Attention:   General Counsel
 
  Facsimile No.:   503-627-7474
 
  Telephone No.:   503-627-6777
Process Agent. For the purpose of Section 13(c) of the Agreement, Seller appoints as its Process Agent:
         
 
  Address:   Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
 
      222 Broadway, 16th Floor
 
      New York, New York 10038
 
       
 
  Attention:   Litigation Department
 
       
    Counterparty does not appoint a Process Agent.
     
Multibranch Party.
  For the purpose of Section 10(c) of the Agreement: Neither Seller nor Counterparty is a Multibranch Party.
 
   
Calculation Agent.
  “Calculation Agent” means Dealer, acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.
Credit Support Document.
Seller: Guarantee of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Counterparty: Not Applicable
Credit Support Provider.
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With respect to Seller: Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
With respect to Counterparty: Not Applicable.
Governing Law. This Confirmation will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Submission to Jurisdiction. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding by the other party against it relating to the Transaction to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, sitting in New York County, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof.
Waiver of Jury Trial. Each party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Transaction. Each party (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of the other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of such a suit, action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other party have been induced to enter into this Transaction, as applicable, by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications provided herein.
Netting of Payments. The provisions of Section 2(c) of the Agreement shall not be applicable to this Transaction.
Basic Representations. Section 3(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended by the deletion of “and” at the end of Section 3(a)(iv); the substitution of a semicolon for the period at the end of Section 3(a)(v) and the addition of Sections 3(a)(vi), as follows:
Eligible Contract Participant; Line of Business. Each party agrees and represents that it is an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1a(12) of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (CEA), this Agreement and the Transaction thereunder are subject to individual negotiation by the parties and have not been executed or traded on a “trading facility” as defined in Section 1a(33) of the CEA, and it has entered into this Confirmation and this Transaction in connection with its business or a line of business (including financial intermediation), or the financing of its business.
Acknowledgements:
(a)   The parties acknowledge and agree that there are no other representations, agreements or other undertakings of the parties in relation to this Transaction, except as set forth in the Agreement or this Confirmation.
 
(b)   The parties hereto intend for:
  (i)   Seller to be a “financial institution” as defined in Section 101(22) of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code) and this Transaction to be a “securities contract” as defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “swap agreement” as defined in Section 101(53C) of the Bankruptcy Code, qualifying for the protections of, among other sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362 (b)(17), 546(e), 546(g), 555 and 560 of the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (ii)   a party’s right to liquidate this Transaction and to exercise any other remedies upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under the Agreement with respect to the other party to constitute a “contractual right” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (iii)   all payments for, under or in connection with this Transaction, all payments for the Shares and the transfer of such Shares to constitute “settlement payments” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code.
Amendment of Section 6(d)(ii). Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement is modified by deleting the words “on the day”
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in the second line thereof and substituting therefore “on the day that is three Local Business Days after the day.” Section 6(d)(ii) is further modified by deleting the words “two Local Business Days” in the fourth line thereof and substituting therefore “three Local Business Days.”
Consent to Recording. Each party consents to the recording of the telephone conversations of trading and marketing personnel of the parties and their Affiliates in connection with this Confirmation. To the extent that one party records telephone conversations (the “Recording Party”) and the other party does not (the “Non-Recording Party”), the Recording Party shall in the event of any dispute, make a complete and unedited copy of such party’s tape of the entire day’s conversations with the Non-Recording Party’s personnel available to the Non-Recording Party. The Recording Party’s tapes may be used by either party in any forum in which a dispute is sought to be resolved and the Recording Party will retain tapes for a consistent period of time in accordance with the Recording Party’s policy unless one party notifies the other that a particular transaction is under review and warrants further retention.
Disclosure. Each party hereby acknowledges and agrees that Seller has authorized Counterparty to disclose this Transaction and any related hedging transaction between the parties if and to the extent that Counterparty reasonably determines (after consultation with Seller) that such disclosure is required by law or by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or any securities exchange. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective from the date of commencement of discussions concerning the Transaction, Counterparty and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to Counterparty relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.
Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Confirmation, or the application thereof to any party or circumstance, shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part for any reason, the remaining terms, provisions, covenants, and conditions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Confirmation had been executed with the invalid or unenforceable provision eliminated, so long as this Confirmation as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter of this Confirmation and the deletion of such portion of this Confirmation will not substantially impair the respective benefits or expectations of parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that this severability provision shall not be applicable if any provision of Section 2, 5, 6 or 13 of the Agreement (or any definition or provision in Section 14 to the extent that it relates to, or is used in or in connection with any such Section) shall be so held to be invalid or unenforceable.
Affected Parties. For purposes of Section 6(e) of the Agreement, each party shall be deemed to be an Affected Party in connection with Illegality and any Tax Event.
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing the company of this Confirmation enclosed for that purpose and returning it to us.
                 
    Very truly yours,    
 
               
    MERRILL LYNCH INTERNATIONAL    
 
               
 
               
    By:   /s/ RHONDA GARGUILO    
             
    Name:   Rhonda Garguilo    
    Title:   Vice President    
        Structured Products Documentation    
Confirmed as of the date first above written:
             
TEKTRONIX, INC.    
 
           
By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON    
         
Name:   James F. Dalton    
Title:   Senior Vice President,    
 
      General Counsel, and Secretary    
 
           
 
           
Acknowledged and agreed as to matters to the Agent:
             
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATE,    
Solely in its capacity as Agent hereunder    
 
           
 
           
By:   /s/ ANGELINA LOPES    
         
Name:   Angelina Lopes    
Title:   Derivatives Documentation    
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EXHIBIT A
GUARANTEE OF MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.
     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (“ML & Co.”), hereby unconditionally guarantees to Tektronix, Inc. (the “Company”), the due and punctual payment of any and all amounts payable by Merrill Lynch International, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales (“ML”), under the terms of the Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge between the Company and ML (ML as Seller), amended and restated as of June 29, 2007 (the “Confirmation”), including, in case of default, interest on any amount due, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether on the scheduled payment dates, at maturity, upon declaration of termination or otherwise, according to the terms thereof. In case of the failure of ML punctually to make any such payment, ML & Co. hereby agrees to make such payment, or cause such payment to be made, promptly upon demand made by the Company to ML & Co.; provided, however that delay by the Company in giving such demand shall in no event affect ML & Co.’s obligations under this Guarantee. This Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect or shall be reinstated (as the case may be) if at any time any payment guaranteed hereunder, in whole or in part, is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Company upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of ML or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
     ML & Co. hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Confirmation; the absence of any action to enforce the same; any waiver or consent by the Company concerning any provisions thereof; the rendering of any judgment against ML or any action to enforce the same; or any other circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a guarantor or a defense of a guarantor. ML covenants that this guarantee will not be discharged except by complete payment of the amounts payable under the Confirmation. This Guarantee shall continue to be effective if ML merges or consolidates with or into another entity, loses its separate legal identity or ceases to exist.
     ML & Co. hereby waives diligence; presentment; protest; notice of protest, acceleration, and dishonor; filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of ML; all demands whatsoever, except as noted in the first paragraph hereof; and any right to require a proceeding first against ML.
     ML & Co. hereby certifies and warrants that this Guarantee constitutes the valid obligation of ML & Co. and complies with all applicable laws.
     This Guarantee shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
     This Guarantee may be terminated at any time by notice by ML & Co. to the Company given in accordance with the notice provisions of the Confirmation, effective upon receipt of such notice by the Company or such later date as may be specified in such notice; provided, however, that this Guarantee shall continue in full force and effect with respect to any obligation of ML under the Confirmation.
     This Guarantee becomes effective concurrent with the effectiveness of the Confirmation, according to its terms.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ML & Co. has caused this Guarantee to be executed in its corporate name by its duly authorized representative.
                 
    MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.    
 
               
 
               
    By:   /s/ JOAN E. TIMOLDI    
             
    Name:   Joan E. Timoldi    
    Title:   Designated Signatory    
    Date:   June 28, 2007    

EX-10.3 6 v31548exv10w3.htm EXHIBIT 10.3 exv10w3
 

Exhibit 10.3
EXECUTION COPY
(CITIGROUP LOGO)
Confirmation of OTC Convertible Note Hedge
         
Date:   June 29, 2007
 
       
To:   Tektronix, Inc. (“Counterparty”)
 
  Attention:   Treasurer
 
  Telephone No.:   503-627-4622
 
  Facsimile No.:   502-627-6108
 
       
From:   Citibank, N.A. (“Dealer)
Dealer Reference:
Dear Sir / Madam:
     The purpose of this letter agreement (this “Confirmation) is to amend and restate the terms and conditions of the above-referenced transaction entered into among Counterparty and Dealer on the Trade Date specified below (the “Transaction”). This Confirmation amends, restates and supersedes in its entirety the Confirmation in respect of the Transaction dated as of June 25, 2007. This Confirmation constitutes a “Confirmation” as referred to in the Agreement specified below.
     The definitions and provisions contained in the 2000 ISDA Definitions (the “Swap Definitions”) and the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (the “Equity Definitions” and, together with the Swap Definitions, the “Definitions), in each case as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. are incorporated into this Confirmation. In the event of any inconsistency between the Swap Definitions and the Equity Definitions, the Equity Definitions will govern, and in the event of any inconsistency between the Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern. References herein to a “Transaction” shall be deemed to be references to a “Share Option Transaction” for purposes of the Equity Definitions and a “Swap Transaction” for the purposes of the Swap Definitions.
     This Confirmation evidences a complete binding agreement between you and us as to the terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates. This Confirmation (notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein), shall be subject to, and form part of, an agreement in the 1992 form of the ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency Cross Border) (the “Master Agreement” or “Agreement) as if we had executed an agreement in such form (but without any Schedule and with the elections specified in the “ISDA Master Agreement” Section of this Confirmation) on the Trade Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of that Agreement and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will prevail for the purpose of this Transaction. The parties hereby agree that the Transaction evidenced by this Confirmation shall be the only Transaction subject to and governed by the Agreement.
     The parties acknowledge that this Confirmation is entered into on the date hereof with the understanding that the provisions of the Note Indenture (as defined below) that are referred to herein will conform to the descriptions thereof in the Offering Memorandum dated June 25, 2007 (the “Offering Memorandum”) relating to the Reference Notes (as defined below). The parties agree that in the event of any inconsistency between the Note Indenture as of the Effective Date and the Offering Memorandum, the parties will amend this Confirmation in good faith to preserve the intent of the parties.
     The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:

 


 

     General Terms:
     
Trade Date:
  June 25, 2007
 
   
Effective Date:
  The date of issuance of the Reference Notes.
 
   
Option Style:
  Modified American, as described in “Procedures for Exercise” below.
 
   
Option Type:
  Call
 
   
Seller:
  Dealer
 
   
Buyer:
  Counterparty
 
   
Shares:
  The shares of common stock, without par value, of Counterparty (Security Symbol: “TEK”) or such other securities or property into which the Reference Notes are convertible on the date of determination.
 
   
Premium:
   $14,904,000.00
 
   
Premium Payment Date:
  The Effective Date
 
   
Exchange:
  New York Stock Exchange
 
   
Related Exchange(s):
  All Exchanges
 
   
Reference Notes:
  The 100% Senior Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount, original principal amount USD 345,000,000.
 
   
Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes:
   20.00%. For the avoidance of doubt, the Calculation Agent shall, as it deems necessary, take into account the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes in determining or calculating any delivery or payment obligations hereunder, whether upon a Conversion Date (as defined below) or otherwise.
 
   
Note Indenture:
  The indenture, dated as of closing of the issuance of the Reference Notes, between Counterparty and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee relating to the Reference Notes, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time; provided that amendments, modifications or supplements adopted, or waivers obtained, of the kind specified under “Amendment Event” below and adopted or obtained, in each case, without Dealer’s consent, shall not be deemed part of the Note Indenture for purposes of this Confirmation. Certain defined terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Note Indenture.
 
   
Procedures for Exercise:
   
 
   
Potential Exercise Dates:
  As specified below under “Exercise Notice”.
 
   
Conversion Date:
  Each “conversion date” for any Reference Note pursuant to the terms of the
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  Note Indenture occurring before the Expiration Date.
 
   
 
  The principal amount of Reference Notes converted on each Conversion Date shall be the “Conversion Amount” for such Conversion Date.
 
   
 
  If the Conversion Amount for any Conversion Date is less than the aggregate principal amount of Reference Notes then outstanding, then the terms of this Transaction shall continue to apply, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, with respect to the remaining outstanding principal amount of the Reference Notes.
 
   
Exercise Period:
  The period from and excluding the Effective Date to and including the Expiration Date.
 
   
Expiration Date:
  The earliest of (i) the Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Indenture) of the Reference Notes, (ii) the first day on which none of such Reference Notes remain outstanding, whether by virtue of conversion, issuer repurchase or otherwise and (iii) the occurrence of an Additional Termination Event and designation of an Early Termination Date hereunder in respect of the termination of the Transaction in whole but not in part.
 
   
Exercise Notice:
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions, in order to exercise any Options hereunder, Buyer shall provide Seller with written notice (“Exercise Notice”) prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day prior to the first Trading Day in the Conversion Reference Period (all as defined in the Note Indenture) relating to the Reference Notes converted on the relevant Conversion Date of (i) the number of Reference Notes being converted on the relevant Conversion Date, (ii) the first Trading Day in the relevant Conversion Reference Period for the Reference Notes and (iii) the applicable Cash Percentage (as defined in the Note Indenture), if any; provided that with respect to Reference Notes converted during the period beginning on May 15, 2012 and ending on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Indenture) of the Reference Notes, the related Exercise Notice need not contain the information specified in clause (i) of this sentence and, in order to exercise any Options hereunder, Buyer shall deliver to Seller prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day (as defined in the Note Indenture) prior to such Final Maturity Date a written notice (“Supplemental Exercise Notice”) setting forth the number of Reference Notes converted during such period; provided further that the delivery by Buyer of an Exercise Notice after the Conversion Reference Period has commenced but prior to the close of business on the fifth Trading Day of such Conversion Reference Period shall be effective, in which case the Settlement Method shall be Net Share Settlement but without regard to subsection (ii) of the definition of Net Share Settlement and subject to adjustments to the Net Share Settlement Amount as specified below.
 
   
Seller’s Telephone Number and Telex and/or Facsimile Number and Contact Details for purpose of Giving Notice:
  Citibank, N.A.
250 West Street
10th Floor
New York, New York 10013
Attention: Director Derivatives Operations
Facsimile No.: 212 723 2956
 
   
Settlement Terms:
   
 
Settlement Method Election:
  Net Share Settlement or Net Cash Settlement consistent with Buyer’s election
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  with respect to the Reference Notes converted on the applicable Conversion Date; provided that Net Share Settlement shall apply in the event that Buyer elects to deliver any Shares in connection with the applicable Conversion Date; and provided further that it shall be a condition for Buyer’s right to elect Net Cash Settlement or settlement pursuant to clause (ii) of Net Share Settlement that Buyer delivers to Seller with the related Exercise Notice a representation signed by Buyer that Buyer has publicly disclosed all material information necessary for Buyer to be able to purchase or sell Shares in compliance with applicable securities laws.
 
   
Electing Party:
  Buyer
 
   
Settlement Date:
  Subject to the delivery of an Exercise Notice to the Seller, on the third (3rd) Business Day (as defined in the Note Indenture) following the final Trading Day (as defined in the Note Indenture) in the applicable Conversion Reference Period in respect of the relevant Conversion Date.
 
   
Net Share Settlement:
  In lieu of the obligations set forth in Sections 8.1 and 9.1 of the Equity Definitions, Seller shall deliver to Buyer on the related Settlement Date (i) a number of Shares equal to the related Net Share Settlement Amount, provided that in the event that the number of Shares calculated comprises any fractional Share, only whole Shares shall be delivered and an amount equal to the value of such fractional Share shall be payable by Seller to Buyer in cash and (ii) an amount in cash equal to(x) the cash amount, if any, paid by Buyer in excess of the principal amount of the applicable Reference Notes for such Conversion Date pursuant to Section 4.12 of the Note Indenture multiplied by (y) the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, provided that the delivery obligation set forth in clause (i) and (ii) of this paragraph shall be determined excluding any Shares or cash that Counterparty is obligated to deliver to holders of the applicable Reference Notes as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from (a) a discretionary adjustment to the Conversion Rate by Counterparty or (b) an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as a result of a fundamental change as described in Section 4.01(i) of the Note Indenture. The provisions of Sections 9.1(c), 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11 and 9.12 of the Equity Definitions shall apply to any delivery of Shares hereunder, provided that the Representation and Agreement in Section 9.11 of the Equity Definitions shall be modified by excluding any representations therein relating to restrictions, obligations, limitations or requirements under applicable securities laws as a result of the fact that Buyer is the issuer of the Shares.
 
   
Net Cash Settlement:
  In lieu of the obligations set forth in Section 8.1 of the Equity Definitions, on the Settlement Date Seller shall deliver to Buyer an amount in cash equal to the related Net Cash Settlement Amount.
 
   
Net Share Settlement Amount:
  For each Conversion Date, the number of Shares equal to the Shares delivered by Buyer for such Conversion Date as required under the Note Indenture multiplied by the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, provided that if an Exercise Notice with respect to such Conversion Date has not been delivered to the Seller prior to the first Trading Day of the Conversion Reference Period applicable to such Conversion Date, the Net Share Settlement Amount for such Conversion Date shall be adjusted by the Calculation Agent to account for the consequences of the reduced number of Trading Days from the delivery of the Exercise Notice to the end of the applicable Conversion Reference Period with respect to such Conversion Date. No reduction of the Net Share Settlement Amount shall reduce the Net Share Settlement Amount below zero.
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Net Cash Settlement Amount:
  For each Conversion Date, an amount equal to the cash delivered by the Buyer in excess of the principal amount of the applicable Reference Notes for such Conversion Date pursuant to Section 4.12 of the Note Indenture multiplied by the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, provided that such cash amount shall be determined excluding any cash that Counterparty is obligated to deliver to holders of the applicable Reference Notes as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from (i) a discretionary adjustment to the Conversion Rate by Counterparty or (ii) an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as a result of a fundamental change as described in Section 4.01(i) of the Note Indenture.
 
   
Adjustments:
   
 
   
Method of Adjustment:
  Calculation Agent Adjustment; provided that the terms of this Transaction shall be adjusted in a manner consistent with adjustments of the Conversion Rate of the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture; provided further (without limitation of the provisions set forth above under “Net Share Settlement” and “Net Cash Settlement Amount”) that no adjustment in respect of any Potential Adjustment Event or Extraordinary Event shall be made hereunder as a result of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate resulting from (i) a discretionary adjustment to the Conversion Rate by Counterparty or (ii) an adjustment to the Conversion Rate as a result of a fundamental change as described in Section 4.01(i) of the Note Indenture.
 
   
Potential Adjustment Event:
  Notwithstanding Section 11.2(e) of the Equity Definitions, a “Potential Adjustment Event” means, subject to the preceding paragraph, the occurrence of an event or condition that would result in an adjustment of the Conversion Rate of the Reference Notes pursuant to the Note Indenture.
 
   
Extraordinary Events:
   
 
   
Merger Events:
  Notwithstanding Section 12.1(b) of the Equity Definitions, a “Merger Event” means the occurrence of any event or condition to which Section 4.10 of the Note Indenture applies.
 
   
Consequences for Merger Events:
   
 
   
           Share-for-Share:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
           Share-for-Other:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
           Share-for-Combined:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
 
   
Tender Offer:
  Applicable, subject to “Consequences of Tender Offers” below. Notwithstanding Section 12.1(d) of the Equity Definitions, “Tender Offer” means the occurrence of any event or condition set forth in Section 4.06(e) of the Note Indenture.
 
   
Consequences of Tender Offers:
  The Transaction will be adjusted consistent with the Reference Notes as provided in the Note Indenture.
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Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting:
  Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination), provided Buyer shall determine whether payment shall be settled in cash or Shares. In addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it will also constitute a Delisting if the Exchange is located in the United States and the Shares are not immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Global Market or the NASDAQ Global Select Market (or their respective successors); if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall thereafter be deemed to be the Exchange.
 
   
Additional Disruption Events:
   
 
   
           Change in Law:
  Applicable
 
   
           Failure to Deliver:
  Applicable. If there is inability in the market to deliver Shares due to illiquidity on a day that would have been a Settlement Date, then the Settlement Date shall be the first succeeding Exchange Business Day on which there is no such inability to deliver, but in no such event shall the Settlement Date be later than the date that is two (2) Exchange Business Days immediately following what would have been the Settlement Date but for such inability to deliver.
 
   
           Insolvency Filing:
  Applicable
 
   
           Hedging Disruption:
  Applicable
 
   
           Increased Cost of Hedging:
  Not Applicable
 
   
           Loss of Stock Borrow:
  Not Applicable
 
   
           Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:
  Not Applicable
 
   
           Hedging Party:
  Seller
 
   
           Determining Party:
  Seller
 
   
Non-Reliance:
  Applicable
 
   
Agreements and Acknowledgments Regarding Hedging Activities:
  Applicable
 
   
Additional Acknowledgments:
  Applicable
Additional Agreements, Representations and Covenants of Buyer, Etc.:
1.   Buyer hereby represents and warrants to Seller, on each day from the Trade Date to and including the
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    earlier of (i) July 27, 2007 and (ii) the date by which Seller is able to initially complete a hedge of its position relating to this Transaction, that:
  a.   it will effect (and cause any “affiliated purchaser” (as defined in Rule 10b-18 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act)) to effect) any purchases, direct or indirect (including by means of any cash-settled or other derivative instrument), of Shares or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Shares solely through Dealer in a manner that would not cause any purchases by Seller of its hedge in connection with this Transaction not to comply with applicable securities laws;
 
  b.   it will not engage in, or be engaged in, any “distribution,” as such term is defined in Regulation M promulgated under the Exchange Act, other than a distribution meeting the requirements of the exceptions set forth in sections 101(b)(10) and 102(b)(7) of Regulation M (it being understood that Buyer makes no representation pursuant to this clause in respect of any action or inaction taken by Seller or any initial purchaser of the Reference Notes); and
 
  c.   Buyer has publicly disclosed all material information necessary for Buyer to be able to purchase or sell Shares in compliance with applicable federal securities laws.
2.   If Buyer would be obligated to pay cash (other than payment of the Premium) to, or receive cash from, Seller pursuant to the terms of this Agreement for any reason without having had the right (other than pursuant to this paragraph (2)) to elect to deliver or receive Shares in satisfaction of such payment obligation, then Buyer may elect (by giving notice to Seller no later than 8 a.m. New York time on the Exchange Business Day immediately following the date of occurrence of the event giving rise to such payment obligation) that such payment obligation shall be satisfied by the delivery of a number of Shares (or, if the Shares have been converted into other securities or property in connection with an Extraordinary Event, a number or amount of such other securities or property as a holder of Shares would be entitled to receive upon the consummation or closing of such Extraordinary Event) having a cash value equal to the amount of such payment obligation. Such number or amount of Shares or other securities or property to be delivered shall be determined by the Calculation Agent to be the number of Shares or number or amount of such other securities or property that could be purchased or sold, as applicable, over a reasonable period of time with the cash equivalent of such payment obligation). Settlement relating to any delivery of Shares or other securities or property pursuant to this paragraph (2) shall occur within a reasonable period of time. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Agreement to the contrary, the aggregate number of Shares that Counterparty may be required to deliver to Dealer under this Transaction shall not exceed 2,603,418 Shares, as adjusted by the Calculation Agent to account for any subdivision, stock-split, stock combination, reclassification, certain distributions, dividends and payments to holders of Buyer’s common stock or similar dilutive or anti-dilutive events with respect to the Shares.
 
3.   Notwithstanding any provision in the Note Indenture, this Confirmation or the Agreement to the contrary, each of the “Applicable Conversion Rate” (as such term is defined in the Note Indenture), the Shares and cash amounts owed pursuant to Net Share Settlement, the Net Cash Settlement Amount and any other amount hereunder determined by reference to the Applicable Conversion Rate shall be determined without regard to any provisions in the Note Indenture allowing Counterparty to unilaterally increase the “Applicable Conversion Rate” or any adjustments resulting from a fundamental change.
 
4.   Counterparty is not, and after giving effect to the Transaction contemplated hereby, will not be, an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
5.   As of the Trade Date and each date on which a payment or delivery is made by Counterparty hereunder, (i) the assets of Counterparty at their fair valuation exceed the liabilities of Counterparty, including contingent liabilities; (ii) the capital of Counterparty is adequate to conduct its business; and (iii) Counterparty has the ability to pay its debts and other obligations as such obligations mature and does not intend to, or believe that it will, incur debt or other obligations beyond its ability to pay as such obligations mature.
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6.   The representations and warranties set forth in Section 1 of the Purchase Agreement (as defined below) are hereby deemed to be repeated to Dealer as if set forth herein.
Additional Termination Events:
The occurrence of any of the following shall be an Additional Termination Event for purposes of this Transaction:
1.   Amendment Event. If an Amendment Event (as defined below) occurs, Dealer shall have the right to designate an Early Termination Date pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Agreement and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no payments shall be required hereunder in connection with such Amendment Event.
 
    Amendment Event” means that the Counterparty, without Dealer’s consent, amends, modifies, supplements or obtains a waiver of (a) any term of the Note Indenture (as in effect prior to such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver) or the Reference Notes relating to the principal amount, coupon, maturity, repurchase obligation of the Counterparty or redemption right of the Counterparty, (b) any term relating to conversion of the Reference Notes, including, without limitation, any changes to the conversion price, conversion settlement dates or conversion conditions or (c) any term that would require consent of the holders of 100% of the principal amount of the Reference Notes to amend; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that an adjustment to the Conversion Rate in accordance with the terms of the Note Indenture (as in effect prior to any amendment, modification, supplement or waiver to which Dealer has not given its consent) shall not constitute an Amendment Event;
 
2.   Repayment Event. If a Repayment Event (as defined below) occurs, Dealer shall have the right to designate an Early Termination Date pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Agreement with respect to this Transaction only to the extent of the principal amount of Reference Notes that cease to be outstanding as a result of such Repayment Event and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no payments shall be required hereunder in connection with such Repayment Event.
 
    Repayment Event” means that (a) any Reference Notes are repurchased (whether in connection with or as a result of a fundamental change or change of control, howsoever defined, or for any other reason) by the Counterparty, (b) any Reference Notes are delivered to the Counterparty in exchange for delivery of any property or assets of the Counterparty or any of its subsidiaries (howsoever described), other than as a result of and in connection with a Conversion Date, (c) any principal of any of the Reference Notes is repaid prior to the Final Maturity Date (as defined in the Note Indenture) (whether following acceleration of the Reference Notes or otherwise), provided that no payments of cash made in respect of the conversion of a Reference Note shall be deemed a payment of principal under this clause (c), (d) any Reference Notes are exchanged by or for the benefit of the holders thereof for any other securities of the Counterparty or any of its Affiliates (or any other property, or any combination thereof) pursuant to any exchange offer or similar transaction or (e) any of the Reference Notes is surrendered by Counterparty to the trustee for cancellation, other than registration of a transfer of such Reference Notes or as a result of and in connection with a Conversion Date; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that a conversion of the Reference Notes pursuant to the Note Indenture shall not constitute a Repayment Event.
 
3.   Initial Purchase Event. If an Initial Purchase Event (as defined below) occurs, this Transaction shall terminate automatically in its entirety and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, only the payments specified below shall be required hereunder in connection with such Initial Purchase Event.
 
    Initial Purchase Event” means that the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement among the Counterparty, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., dated as of June 25, 2007 (the “Purchase Agreement”) shall fail to close for any reason by the closing date for the offering of the Reference Notes as specified in the Purchase Agreement.
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    If an Initial Purchase Event occurs for any reason other than a breach of the Purchase Agreement by the Initial Purchaser, then all payments previously made hereunder shall be returned to the person making such payment, including the Premium (if paid), less an amount equal the product of (a) 1,735,612 Shares, (b) 0.50 and (c) an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the closing price of the Shares on the Trade Date over the closing price of the Shares on the date of the Initial Purchase Event (the “Break Expense”); provided that any negative amount shall be replaced by zero and provided further that to the extent the Premium has not been paid, Buyer shall promptly pay Seller the Break Expense. Seller and Buyer agree that actual damages would be difficult to ascertain under these circumstances and that the amount of liquidated damages resulting from the determination in the preceding sentence is a good faith estimate of such damages and not a penalty.
 
    If an Initial Purchase Event occurs due to a breach of the Purchase Agreement by the Initial Purchaser, then all payments previously made hereunder, including the Premium, promptly shall be returned to the person making such payment and no payments shall be required hereunder in connection with such Initial Purchase Event.
Staggered Settlement:
If Seller determines reasonably and in good faith that the number of Shares required to be delivered to Buyer hereunder on any Settlement Date would exceed 8.0% of all outstanding Shares, then Seller may, by notice to Buyer on or prior to such Settlement Date (a “Nominal Settlement Date), elect to deliver the Shares owed by it pursuant to Net Share Settlement (the “Share Delivery Obligation”) on two or more dates (each, a “Staggered Settlement Date) or at two or more times on the Nominal Settlement Date as follows:
1.   in such notice, Seller will specify to Buyer the related Staggered Settlement Dates (the first of which will be such Nominal Settlement Date and the last of which will be no later than twenty (20) Trading Days following such Nominal Settlement Date) or delivery times and how it will allocate the Shares it is required to deliver hereunder among the Staggered Settlement Dates or delivery times;
 
2.   the aggregate number of Shares that Seller will deliver to Buyer hereunder on all such Staggered Settlement Dates or delivery times will equal the number of Shares that Seller would otherwise be required to deliver on such Nominal Settlement Date; and
 
3.   the Net Share Settlement terms will apply on each Staggered Settlement Date, except that the Shares comprising such Share Delivery Obligation will be allocated among such Staggered Settlement Dates or delivery times as specified by Seller in the notice referred to in clause (1) above.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, solely in connection with a Staggered Settlement Date, Seller shall be entitled to deliver Shares to Buyer from time to time prior to the date on which Seller would be obligated to deliver them to Buyer pursuant to Net Share Settlement terms set forth above, and Buyer agrees to credit all such early deliveries against Seller’s obligations hereunder in the direct order in which such obligations arise. No such early delivery of Shares will accelerate or otherwise affect any of Buyer’s obligations to Seller hereunder.
Disposition of Hedge Shares:
Counterparty hereby agrees that if, in the reasonable and good faith judgment of Seller based on the advice of nationally recognized outside counsel, the Shares acquired by Seller for the purpose of hedging its obligations pursuant to the Transaction (the “Hedge Shares”) cannot be sold in the U.S. public market by Seller without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Counterparty shall, at its election: (i) in order to allow Seller to sell the Hedge Shares in a registered offering, make available to Seller an effective registration statement under the Securities Act to cover the resale of such Hedge Shares and (a) enter into an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Seller, substantially in the form of an underwriting agreement for a registered offering, (b) provide accountant’s “comfort” letters in customary form for registered offerings of equity securities, (c) provide disclosure opinions of nationally recognized outside counsel to Counterparty
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reasonably acceptable to Seller, (d) provide other customary opinions, certificates and closing documents customary in form for registered offerings of equity securities and (e) afford Seller a reasonable opportunity to conduct a “due diligence” investigation with respect to Counterparty customary in scope for underwritten offerings of equity securities; provided, however, that if Seller, in its sole reasonable discretion, is not satisfied with access to due diligence materials, the results of its due diligence investigation, or the procedures and documentation for the registered offering referred to above, then clause (ii) or clause (iii) of this Section shall apply at the election of Counterparty; (ii) in order to allow Seller to sell the Hedge Shares in a private placement, enter into a private placement agreement substantially similar to private placement purchase agreements customary for private placements of equity securities, in form and substance satisfactory to Seller, including customary representations, covenants, blue sky and other governmental filings and/or registrations, indemnities to Seller, due diligence rights (for Seller or any designated buyer of the Hedge Shares from Seller), opinions and certificates and such other documentation as is customary for private placements agreements, all reasonably acceptable to Seller (in which case, the Calculation Agent shall make any adjustments to the terms of the Transaction that are necessary to compensate Seller for any discount from the public market price of the Shares incurred on the sale of Hedge Shares in a private placement); or (iii) purchase the Hedge Shares from Seller at the VWAP Price on such Exchange Business Days, and in the amounts, requested by Seller. “VWAP Price” means, on any Exchange Business Day, the per Share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page TEK.N <equity> VAP (or any successor thereto) in respect of the period from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Exchange Business Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one Share on such Exchange Business Day, as determined by the Calculation Agent using a volume-weighted method).
Repurchase Notices:
Counterparty shall, on any day on which Counterparty effects any repurchase of Shares, promptly give Seller a written notice of such repurchase (a “Repurchase Notice) on such day if following such repurchase, the Notice Percentage as determined on such day is (i) greater than 6% and (ii) greater by 0.5% than the Notice Percentage included in the immediately preceding Repurchase Notice (or, in the case of the first such Repurchase Notice, greater than the Notice Percentage as of the date hereof). In the event that Counterparty fails to provide Seller with a Repurchase Notice on the day and in the manner specified in this section, then Counterparty agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Seller, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and controlling persons (Seller and each such person being an “Indemnified Party) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject under applicable securities laws, including without limitation, Section 16 of the Exchange Act, relating to or arising out of such failure. If for any reason the foregoing indemnification is unavailable to any Indemnified Party or insufficient to hold harmless any Indemnified Party, then Counterparty shall contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability. In addition, Counterparty will reimburse any Indemnified Party for all reasonable and documented expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) as they are incurred (after notice to Counterparty) in connection with the investigation of, preparation for or defense or settlement of any pending or threatened claim or any action, suit or proceeding arising therefrom, whether or not such Indemnified Party is a party thereto and whether or not such claim, action, suit or proceeding is initiated or brought by or on behalf of Counterparty. This indemnity shall survive the completion of the Transaction contemplated by this Confirmation and any assignment and delegation of the Transaction made pursuant to this Confirmation or the Agreement shall inure to the benefit of any permitted assignee of Seller. Counterparty will not be liable under this Indemnity provision to the extent that any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense is found in a final judgment by a court to have resulted from Dealer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The “Notice Percentage” as of any day is the fraction, expressed as a percentage, (i) the numerator of which is the product of (a) the Applicable Portion of the Reference Notes, (b) the number of outstanding Reference Notes and (c) a number of Shares per Reference Note equal to the Conversion Rate (as defined in the Note Indenture) and (ii) the denominator of which is the number of Shares outstanding on such day.
Conversion Rate Adjustment Notices
In connection with any adjustments to the Conversion Rate under the terms of the Note Indenture, Counterparty
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shall provide to Dealer a copy of the notice of adjustment required to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.08 of the Note Indenture concurrently with filing of such notice with the Trustee.
     
Compliance with
Securities Laws:
  Each party acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Transaction to it is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) thereof. Accordingly, Buyer represents and warrants to Seller that (i) it has the financial ability to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Transaction and is able to bear a total loss of its investment, (ii) it is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act and (iii) the disposition of the Transaction is restricted under this Confirmation, the Securities Act and state securities laws.
 
   
 
  Buyer further represents:
 
   
 
  (a) Buyer is not entering into this Transaction to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares);
 
   
 
  (b) Buyer acknowledges that as of the date hereof and without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, Seller is not making any representations or warranties with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under FASB Statements 149 or 150, EITF Issue No. 00-19 (or any successor issue statements) or under FASB’s Liabilities & Equity Project.
 
   
Account Details:
  Account for payments to Buyer:      To be advised
 
   
 
  Account for payment to Seller:
 
   
 
  Citibank N.A., New York
 
  Swift Code: CITIUS33 ABA: 021000089
 
  A/C 00167679
 
   
 
  Accounts for deliveries of Shares: To be advised
 
   
Bankruptcy Rights:
  In the event of Buyer’s bankruptcy, Seller’s rights in connection with this Transaction shall not exceed those rights held by common shareholders. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties acknowledge and agree that Seller’s rights with respect to any other claim arising from this Transaction prior to Buyer’s bankruptcy shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be otherwise abridged or modified in connection herewith.
 
   
Set-Off:
  Each party waives any and all rights it may have to set-off, whether arising under any agreement, applicable law or otherwise.
 
   
Collateral:
  None.
 
   
Transfer:
  Buyer shall have the right to assign its rights and delegate its obligations hereunder with respect to any portion of this Transaction, subject to Seller’s consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld; provided that such assignment or transfer shall be subject to receipt by Seller of opinions and documents reasonably satisfactory to Seller and effected on terms
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  reasonably satisfactory to the Seller with respect to any legal and regulatory requirements relevant to the Seller; provided further that Buyer shall not be released from its obligation to deliver any Exercise Notice or its obligations pursuant to “Disposition of Hedge Shares”, “Repurchase Notices” or “Conversion Rate Adjustment Notices” above.
 
   
 
  If, as determined in Seller’s sole discretion, the “beneficial ownership” of it and those of its affiliates which are subject to aggregation (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder) could be deemed to exceed 8% of Counterparty’s outstanding Shares, Seller may, without Counterparty’s consent, transfer or assign all or any part of its rights or obligations under this Transaction to reduce such “beneficial ownership” to 7.5% to any third party with a rating for its (or, if applicable, its Credit Support Provider’s) long term, unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of AA or better by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service or its successor (“S&P”), or Aa3 or better by Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) or, if either S&P or Moody’s ceases to rate such debt, at least an equivalent rating or better by a substitute rating agency mutually agreed by Company and Seller. If after Seller’s commercially reasonable efforts, Seller is unable to effect such a transfer or assignment on pricing terms reasonably acceptable to Seller and within a time period reasonably acceptable to Seller of a sufficient number of Options to reduce Seller’s “beneficial ownership” (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act and rules promulgated thereunder) to 7.5% of Counterparty’s outstanding Shares or less, Seller may designate any Exchange Business Day as an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion (the “Terminated Portion”) of this Transaction, such that its “beneficial ownership” following such partial termination will be equal to or less than 7.5%. In the event that Seller so designates an Early Termination Date with respect to a portion of this Transaction, a payment shall be made pursuant to Section 6 of the Agreement as if (i) an Early Termination Date had been designated in respect of a Transaction having terms identical to this Transaction and a Number of Options equal to the Terminated Portion, (ii) Counterparty shall be the sole Affected Party with respect to such partial termination and (iii) such Transaction shall be the only Terminated Transaction. In circumstances in which the foregoing provisions relating to Seller’s right to transfer or assign its rights or obligations under the Transaction are not applicable, Seller may transfer any of its rights or delegate its obligations under this Transaction with the prior written consent of Buyer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
 
   
 
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Agreement to the contrary, Seller shall be entitled to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to make or receive cash payments and transfer of Shares and other related rights to one or more entities that are wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by Citigroup Inc., or any successor thereto (each, a “Citibank Affiliate”); provided that Buyer shall have recourse to Seller in the event of the failure by a Citibank Affiliate to perform any of such obligations hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, recourse to Seller shall be limited to recoupment of Buyer’s monetary damages and Buyer hereby waives any right to seek specific performance by Seller of its obligations hereunder. Such failure after any applicable grace period shall be an Additional Termination Event with the Transaction to which the failure relates as the sole Affected Transaction and Seller as the sole Affected Party.
ISDA Master Agreement:
With respect to the Agreement, Seller and Counterparty each agree as follows:
Specified Entity” means in relation to Seller and in relation to Counterparty for purposes of this Transaction: Not applicable.
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The definition of “Specified Transaction” in Section 14 of this Agreement is hereby amended by adding the text “commodity transaction, credit derivative transaction, repurchase or reverse purchase transaction, securities lending transaction, futures transaction, prime brokerage or margin lending transaction” after the words “foreign exchange transaction” in the sixth line thereof and by replacing the words “any other similar transaction” in the eighth line thereof with the text “any other transaction between the parties”. “Specified Transaction” shall exclude any default under a Specified Transaction if caused solely by the general unavailability of the currency in which payments under such Specified Transaction are denominated due to exchange controls or other governmental action.
The “Cross Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller and will not apply to Counterparty.
The “Credit Event Upon Merger” provisions of Section 5(b)(iv) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller and will not apply to Counterparty.
The “Automatic Early Termination” provision of Section 6(a) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller or to Counterparty.
Payments on Early Termination. For the purpose of Section 6(e) of the Agreement: (i) Loss shall apply; and (ii) the Second Method shall apply.
Termination Currency” means USD.
Tax Representations.
(a)   Payer Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(e) of the Agreement, each party represents to the other party that it is not required by any applicable law, as modified by the practice of any relevant governmental revenue authority, of any Relevant Jurisdiction to make any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax from any payment (other than interest under Section 2(e), 6(d)(ii), or 6(e) of the Agreement) to be made by it to the other party under the Agreement. In making this representation, each party may rely on (i) the accuracy of any representations made by the other party pursuant to Section 3(f) of the Agreement, (ii) the satisfaction of the agreement contained in Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and the accuracy and effectiveness of any document provided by the other party pursuant to Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and (iii) the satisfaction of the agreement of the other party contained in Section 4(d) of the Agreement; provided that it will not be a breach of this representation where reliance is placed on clause (ii) above and the other party does not deliver a form or document under Section 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement by reason of material prejudice to its legal or commercial position.
 
(b)   Payee Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(f) of the Agreement, each party makes the following representations to the other party:
(i) It is a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States and its U.S. taxpayer identification number is 13-5266470. It is “exempt” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation sections 1.6041-3(p) and 1.6049-4(c) from information reporting on Form 1099 and backup withholding.
(ii) Counterparty represents that it is a corporation incorporated in Oregon.
Delivery Requirements. For the purpose of Sections 4(a)(i) and (ii) of the Agreement, each party agrees to deliver the following documents:
(a)   Tax forms, documents or certificates to be delivered are:
 
    Dealer agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Counterparty), execute,
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    and deliver to Counterparty, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 IMY and all required attachments, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Counterparty; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such Form previously provided by Dealer has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
    Counterparty agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Dealer), execute, and deliver to Dealer, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8 BEN, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Dealer; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such form(s) previously provided by Counterparty has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
(b)   Other documents to be delivered:
             
            Covered by
Party Required to           Section 3(d)
Deliver Document   Document Required to be Delivered   When Required   Representation
Counterparty
  Evidence of the authority and true signatures of each official or representative signing this Confirmation   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
 
           
Counterparty
  Certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors or equivalent document authorizing the execution and delivery of this Confirmation and such other certificates as Seller shall reasonably request   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
Additional Notice Requirements. Counterparty hereby agrees to promptly deliver to Seller a copy of all notices and other communications required or permitted to be given to the holders of any Reference Notes pursuant to the terms of the Note Indenture on the dates so required or permitted in the Note Indenture and all other notices given and other communications made by Counterparty in respect of the Reference Notes to holders of any Reference Notes. Counterparty further covenants to Seller that it shall promptly notify Seller of each Conversion Date, Amendment Event (including in such notice a detailed description of any such amendment) and Repayment Event (identifying in such notice the nature of such Repayment Event and the principal amount at maturity of Reference Notes being paid).
Addresses for Notices. For the purpose of Section 12(a) of the Agreement:
Address for notices or communications to Seller for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:   Citibank
 
      250 West Street
 
      10th Floor
 
      New York, New York 10013
 
  Attention:   Director Derivatives Operations
 
  Facsimile No.:   212-723-2956
Additionally, a copy of all notices pursuant to Sections 5, 6, and 7 as well as any changes to Counterparty’s address, telephone number or facsimile number should be sent to:
         
 
  Address:   Legal Department
 
      77 Water Street
 
      9th Floor
 
      New York, New York 10004
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  Attention:   Department Head
 
  Facsimile No.:   212-657-1452
Address for notices or communications to Counterparty for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:   14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
      Beaverton, OR 97077
 
  Attention:   Treasurer
 
  Facsimile No.:   503-627-6108
 
  Telephone No.:   503-627-4622
In addition, in the case of notices or communications relating to Section 5, 6, 11 or 13 of this Agreement, a second copy of any such notice or communication shall be addressed to the attention of Counterparty’ General Counsel as follows:
         
 
  Address:   14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
      Beaverton, OR 97077
 
  Attention:   General Counsel
 
  Facsimile No.:   503-627-7474
 
  Telephone No.:   503-627-6777
     
Multibranch Party.
  For the purpose of Section 10(c) of the Agreement: Neither Seller nor Counterparty is a Multibranch Party.
 
   
Calculation Agent.
  “Calculation Agent” means Dealer, acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.
Credit Support Document.
Seller: Not Applicable
Counterparty: Not Applicable
Credit Support Provider.
With respect to Seller: Not Applicable
With respect to Counterparty: Not Applicable.
Governing Law. This Confirmation will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Submission to Jurisdiction. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding by the other party against it relating to the Transaction to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, sitting in New York County, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof.
Waiver of Jury Trial. Each party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Transaction. Each party (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of the other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of such a suit, action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii)
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acknowledges that it and the other party have been induced to enter into this Transaction, as applicable, by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications provided herein.
Netting of Payments. The provisions of Section 2(c) of the Agreement shall not be applicable to this Transaction.
Basic Representations. Section 3(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended by the deletion of “and” at the end of Section 3(a)(iv); the substitution of a semicolon for the period at the end of Section 3(a)(v) and the addition of Sections 3(a)(vi), as follows:
Eligible Contract Participant; Line of Business. Each party agrees and represents that it is an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1a(12) of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (CEA), this Agreement and the Transaction thereunder are subject to individual negotiation by the parties and have not been executed or traded on a “trading facility” as defined in Section 1a(33) of the CEA, and it has entered into this Confirmation and this Transaction in connection with its business or a line of business (including financial intermediation), or the financing of its business.
Acknowledgements:
(a)   The parties acknowledge and agree that there are no other representations, agreements or other undertakings of the parties in relation to this Transaction, except as set forth in the Agreement or this Confirmation.
 
(b)   The parties hereto intend for:
  (i)   Seller to be a “financial institution” as defined in Section 101(22) of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code) and this Transaction to be a “securities contract” as defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “swap agreement” as defined in Section 101(53C) of the Bankruptcy Code, qualifying for the protections of, among other sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362 (b)(17), 546(e), 546(g), 555 and 560 of the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (ii)   a party’s right to liquidate this Transaction and to exercise any other remedies upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under the Agreement with respect to the other party to constitute a “contractual right” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (iii)   all payments for, under or in connection with this Transaction, all payments for the Shares and the transfer of such Shares to constitute “settlement payments” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code.
Amendment of Section 6(d)(ii). Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement is modified by deleting the words “on the day” in the second line thereof and substituting therefore “on the day that is three Local Business Days after the day.” Section 6(d)(ii) is further modified by deleting the words “two Local Business Days” in the fourth line thereof and substituting therefore “three Local Business Days.”
Consent to Recording. Each party consents to the recording of the telephone conversations of trading and marketing personnel of the parties and their Affiliates in connection with this Confirmation. To the extent that one party records telephone conversations (the “Recording Party”) and the other party does not (the “Non-Recording Party”), the Recording Party shall in the event of any dispute, make a complete and unedited copy of such party’s tape of the entire day’s conversations with the Non-Recording Party’s personnel available to the Non-Recording Party. The Recording Party’s tapes may be used by either party in any forum in which a dispute is sought to be resolved and the Recording Party will retain tapes for a consistent period of time in accordance with the Recording Party’s policy unless one party notifies the other that a particular transaction is under review and warrants further retention.
Disclosure. Each party hereby acknowledges and agrees that Seller has authorized Counterparty to disclose this Transaction and any related hedging transaction between the parties if and to the extent that Counterparty reasonably
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determines (after consultation with Seller) that such disclosure is required by law or by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or any securities exchange. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective from the date of commencement of discussions concerning the Transaction, Counterparty and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to Counterparty relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.
Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Confirmation, or the application thereof to any party or circumstance, shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part for any reason, the remaining terms, provisions, covenants, and conditions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Confirmation had been executed with the invalid or unenforceable provision eliminated, so long as this Confirmation as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter of this Confirmation and the deletion of such portion of this Confirmation will not substantially impair the respective benefits or expectations of parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that this severability provision shall not be applicable if any provision of Section 2, 5, 6 or 13 of the Agreement (or any definition or provision in Section 14 to the extent that it relates to, or is used in or in connection with any such Section) shall be so held to be invalid or unenforceable.
Affected Parties. For purposes of Section 6(e) of the Agreement, each party shall be deemed to be an Affected Party in connection with Illegality and any Tax Event.
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing the copy of this Confirmation enclosed for that purpose and returning it to us.
                 
    Very truly yours,    
 
           
    CITIBANK, N.A.    
 
           
 
           
    By:   /s/ JASON SHREDNICK    
             
    Name:   Jason Shrednick    
    Title:   Authorized Signatory    
Confirmed as of the date first above written:
             
TEKTRONIX, INC.    
 
           
By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON    
         
Name:   James F. Dalton    
Title:   Senior Vice President,    
 
      General Counsel, and Secretary    
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EX-10.4 7 v31548exv10w4.htm EXHIBIT 10.4 exv10w4
 

Exhibit 10.4
Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction
     
Date:
  June 29, 2007
 
   
To:
  Tektronix, Inc. (“Counterparty)
Attention: Treasurer
Telephone No.: 503-627-4622
Facsimile No.: 503-627-6108
     
From:
  Merrill Lynch Financial Markets, Inc. (“Dealer” or “MLFM”)
 
   
 
  4 World Financial Center 5th Floor
 
  New York, New York 10080
Attention: Corporate Derivatives
 
  Facsimile No.: (212) 738-1069
 
  Telephone No.: (212) 449-6763
MLFM Reference: 078182399
Dear Sir / Madam:
     The purpose of this letter agreement (this “Confirmation”) is to amend and restate the terms and conditions of the above-referenced transaction entered into among Counterparty, Dealer and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (the “Agent”) on the Trade Date specified below (the “Transaction”). This Confirmation amends, restated and supersedes in its entirety the Confirmation in respect of the Transaction dated as of June 25, 2007. This Confirmation constitutes a “Confirmation” as referred to in the Agreement specified below.
     The definitions and provisions contained in the 2000 ISDA Definitions (the “Swap Definitions”) and the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (the “Equity Definitions” and, together with the Swap Definitions, the “Definitions), in each case as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., are incorporated into this Confirmation. In the event of any inconsistency between the Swap Definitions and the Equity Definitions, the Equity Definitions will govern, and in the event of any inconsistency between the Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern. References herein to a “Transaction” shall be deemed to be references to a “Share Option Transaction” for the purposes of the Equity Definitions and to a “Swap Transaction” for the purposes of the Swap Definitions. For purposes of this Transaction, “Warrant Style”, “Warrant Type”, “Number of Warrants” and “Warrant Entitlement” (each as defined below) shall be used herein as if such terms were referred to as “Option Style”, “Option Type”, “Number of Options” and “Option Entitlement”, respectively, in the Definitions.
     This Confirmation evidences a complete binding agreement between you and us as to the terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates. This Confirmation (notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein), shall be subject to, and form part of, an agreement in the 1992 form of the ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency Cross Border) (the “Master Agreement” or “Agreement”) as if we had executed an agreement in such form (but without any Schedule and with elections specified in the “ISDA Master Agreement” Section of this Confirmation) on the Trade Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of that Agreement and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will prevail for the purpose of this Transaction. The parties hereby agree that the Transaction evidenced by this Confirmation shall be the only Transaction subject to and governed by the Agreement.
     The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:
General Terms:
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Trade Date:
  June 25, 2007
 
   
Effective Date:
  June 29, 2007, subject to cancellation of the OTC Warrant Transaction prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such date by the Counterparty. In the event of such cancellation, any payments previously made hereunder, including the Premium, shall be returned to the person making such payment. In addition, Counterparty shall reimburse Dealer for any costs or expenses (including market losses) relating to the unwinding of its hedging activities in connection with the Transaction (including any loss or cost incurred as a result of its terminating, liquidating, obtaining or reestablishing any hedge or related trading position).
 
   
Warrant Style:
  European, subject to “Procedures for Exercise” below.
 
   
Warrant Type:
  Call
 
   
Seller:
  Counterparty
 
   
Buyer:
  Dealer
 
   
Shares:
  Shares of common stock, without par value, of Counterparty (Security Symbol: “TEK”).
 
   
Number of Warrants:
   6,942,449
 
   
Daily Number of Warrants:
  For any day, the unexercised Number of Warrants on such day divided by the remaining number of Expiration Dates (including such day) and rounded down to the nearest whole number, with the balance of the Number of Warrants exercised on the final Expiration Date.
 
   
Warrant Entitlement:
  One (1) Share per Warrant
 
   
Strike Price:
   $ 49.2623
 
   
Premium:
   $35,190,000.00
 
   
Premium Payment Date:
  The Effective Date; provided no cancellation of the Transaction has occurred prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such date by the Counterparty.
 
   
Exchange:
  New York Stock Exchange
 
   
Related Exchange(s):
  All Exchanges
 
   
Full Exchange Business Day:
  A Scheduled Trading Day that has a scheduled closing time for its regular trading session at 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then standard closing time for regular trading on the Exchange and is not a Disrupted Day.
 
   
Procedures for
Exercise:
   
 
   
Expiration Time:
   11:59 p.m. (New York City time).
 
   
Expiration Dates:
  The 100 consecutive Full Exchange Business Days beginning on and including October 15, 2012 each shall be the Expiration Date for a number of Warrants equal to the Daily Number of Warrants on such date. Notwithstanding the
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  foregoing and anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions or in the definition of “Full Exchange Business Day,” if a Market Disruption Event occurs on any Expiration Date (the “Relevant Day”), the Calculation Agent may determine that such Expiration Date, while not a Full Exchange Business Day, is a Disrupted Day only in part, in which case the Calculation Agent shall make adjustments to the Daily Number of Warrants for the Relevant Day and shall designate an additional Expiration Date following the last previously scheduled Expiration Date as the Expiration Date for a number of Warrants equal to the difference between the Daily Number of Warrants determined for the Relevant Day without such adjustment, and the Daily Number of Warrants for such date as adjusted pursuant to this paragraph. Section 6.6 of the Equity Definitions shall not apply to any Valuation Date occurring on an Expiration Date.
 
   
Exercise Dates:
  Each Expiration Date shall be an Exercise Date for a number of Warrants equal to the Daily Number of Warrants for such date.
 
   
Automatic Exercise:
  Applicable, and means that the Daily Number of Warrants for the corresponding Expiration Date will be deemed to be automatically exercised at the Expiration Time on such Expiration Date unless Buyer notifies Seller (by telephone or in writing) prior to the Expiration Time on such Expiration Date that it does not wish Automatic Exercise to occur, in which case Automatic Exercise will not apply to such Expiration Date.
         
Counterparty’s Telephone
  Address:    14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
Number and Telex and/or
       Beaverton, OR 97077
Facsimile Number and
       
Contact Details for
  Attention:    Treasurer
purpose of Giving Notice:
  Facsimile No.:    503-627-6108
 
  Telephone No.:    503-627-4622
     
Valuation:
   
 
   
Valuation Dates:
  Each Exercise Date
 
   
Settlement Terms:
   
 
   
Cash Settlement:
  Applicable; provided that it shall be a condition of Counterparty’s right to elect Cash Settlement that on the date of the Cash Settlement election, none of Counterparty, its directors, executive officers, or any person controlling, or exercising influence over, its decision to elect Cash Settlement is in possession of any material non-public information with respect to Counterparty or the Shares. If Counterparty elects to settle the Transaction by Cash Settlement, Counterparty represents and agrees that:
 
   
 
  (i) Counterparty is not, on the date of the Cash Settlement election, and will not be, on any day during the period from and including the first Expiration Date to and including the final Expiration Date, engaged in a distribution, as such term is used in Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”); and
 
   
 
  (ii) during the period from and including the first Expiration Date to and including the final Expiration Date, without the prior written consent of Dealer, the Counterparty shall not, and shall cause its affiliates and affiliated purchasers (each as defined in Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act) not to, directly or
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  indirectly (including, without limitation, by means of a derivative instrument) purchase, offer to purchase, place any bid or limit order that would effect a purchase of, or commence any tender offer relating to, any Shares (or equivalent interest, including a unit of beneficial interest in a trust or limited partnership or a depository share) or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Shares.
 
   
Settlement Currency:
  USD
 
   
Settlement Price:
  For each Valuation Date, the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Shares (“VWAP”) calculated from 9:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., as observed under the heading Bloomberg “VWAP” on Bloomberg page TEK.N <equity> VAP (or any successor thereto) (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one Share on such Valuation Date, as determined by the Calculation Agent); provided that if the scheduled weekday closing time of the Exchange for any Valuation Date is later than 4:00 p.m. (without regard to after hours or any other trading outside of the regular trading session hours) the VWAP shall be calculated for such Valuation Date from 9:45 a.m. until 15 minutes prior to such later closing time of the Exchange.

Section 6.3(a) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing clause (ii) in its entirety with “(ii) an Exchange Disruption, or” and inserting immediately following clause (iii) the phrase “; in each case that the Calculation Agent determines is material.”
 
   
Cash Settlement Payment
Date:
  With respect to each Valuation Date, three (3) Currency Business Days after the final Valuation Date.
 
   
Settlement Method Election:
  Applicable; provided that references in Section 7.1 of the Equity Definitions to “Physical Settlement” shall be replaced by references to “Net Physical Settlement.”
 
   
Electing Party:
  Counterparty
 
   
Settlement Method Election
Date:
  Ten (10) Business Days prior to the first Expiration Date
 
   
Default Settlement Method:
  Net Physical Settlement.
 
   
Net Physical Settlement:
  In the event that the Counterparty elects to settle this Transaction by Net Physical Settlement, subject to “Conditions of Net Physical Settlement” below, Counterparty shall deliver to Dealer on the Settlement Date a number of Shares (the “Delivered Shares”) equal to the Share Delivery Quantity, provided that in the event that the number of Shares calculated comprises any fractional Share, only whole Shares shall be delivered and an amount in cash equal to the value of such fractional share shall be payable by the Counterparty to Dealer in lieu of such fractional Share.
 
   
Share Delivery Quantity:
  For each Exercise Date, a number of Shares, as calculated by the Calculation Agent, equal to the Net Physical Settlement Amount for such Exercise Date divided by the Settlement Price on the Valuation Date in respect of such Settlement Date plus an amount in cash in lieu of any fractional shares (based on the applicable Settlement Price).
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Net Physical Settlement
Amount:
  For any Exercise Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Number of Warrants being exercised on the relevant Exercise Date, (ii) the Strike Price Differential for such Exercise Date and (iii) the Warrant Entitlement.
 
   
Strike Price Differential:
  For any Valuation Date, (i) if the Settlement Price is greater than the Strike Price, an amount equal to the excess of such Settlement Price over the Strike Price for such Valuation Date or (ii) if such Settlement Price is less than or equal to the Strike Price, zero.
 
   
Settlement Date:
  Settlement with respect to each Exercise Date shall occur on the third (3rd) Full Exchange Business Day following the final Valuation Date, provided that Dealer shall have the right to request by prior written notice to Counterparty a Settlement Date with respect to any Exercise Date and the related Share Delivery Quantity that is three (3) Full Exchange Business Days following such Exercise Date. Such request shall not unreasonably be denied.
 
   
Conditions to Net Physical Settlement:
  If, in connection with or six months following delivery of Shares hereunder, Dealer notifies the Counterparty that Dealer has reasonably determined after advice from counsel that there is a considered risk that such Shares are subject to restrictions on transfer in the hands of Dealer pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), then Counterparty shall either (i) deliver Shares that are covered by an effective registration statement of Counterparty for immediate resale by Dealer or (ii) agree to deliver additional Shares so that the value of such Shares as determined by the Calculation Agent to reflect an appropriate liquidity discount, equals the value of the number of Shares that would otherwise be deliverable if such Shares were freely tradable upon receipt by Dealer.
(A) If Counterparty elects to deliver Shares as described in above clause (i), then promptly following such notification from Dealer
(a) Counterparty shall afford Dealer a reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Counterparty that is customary in scope for underwritten offerings of equity securities that yields a result reasonably satisfactory to Dealer;
(b) Counterparty shall promptly make available to Dealer an effective registration statement for immediate resale (the “Registration Statement”) in form and content reasonably satisfactory to Dealer and filed pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, and such prospectuses as Dealer may reasonably request to comply with the applicable prospectus delivery requirements (the “Prospectus”) for the resale by Dealer of such number of Shares as Dealer shall reasonably specify in accordance with this paragraph, such Registration Statement to be effective and Prospectus to be current until the earliest of the date on which (1) all Delivered Shares have been sold by Dealer, (2) Dealer has advised Counterparty that it no longer requires that such Registration Statement be effective, (3) all remaining Delivered Shares could be sold by Dealer without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Registration Period”) or (4) Counterparty has provided a legal opinion in form and substance satisfactory to Dealer (with customary assumptions and exceptions) that the Shares issuable upon exercise of these Warrants will be freely tradable under the Securities Act upon delivery to Dealer and not subject to any legend
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restricting transferability. It is understood that the Registration Statement and Prospectus will cover a number of Shares equal to the aggregate number of Shares (if any) reasonably estimated by Dealer to be potentially deliverable by Counterparty in connection with Net Physical Settlement hereunder (not to exceed the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount) and shall be subject to the same suspension of sales during “blackout dates” as provided in the following paragraph. Clause (B)(c) below shall apply mutatis mutandis in the event of any blackout dates occurring during Dealer’s selling efforts during the Registration Period; and
(c) Counterparty will enter into a registration rights agreement with Dealer in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Dealer, which agreement will contain among other things, customary representations and warranties and indemnification, restrictions on sales during “blackout dates” as provided for in the registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) entered into by Counterparty on or about the date hereof, provide for delivery of comfort letters and opinions of counsel and other rights relating to the registration of a number of Shares equal to the number of Delivered Shares and other Shares deliverable hereunder up to the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
(B) If Counterparty elects to deliver Shares as described in above clause (ii), then promptly following such notification from Dealer
(a) Counterparty shall afford Dealer and any potential institutional purchaser of any Shares identified by Dealer a reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Counterparty that is customary in scope for private placements of equity securities subject to execution of any customary confidentiality agreements;
(b) Counterparty shall enter into an agreement (a “Private Placement Agreement”) with Dealer on commercially reasonable terms in connection with the private placement of such Shares (including any additional Shares pursuant to clause (c) below) by Counterparty to Dealer or an affiliate and the private resale of such shares by Dealer or such affiliate, substantially similar to private placement purchase agreements customary for private placements of equity securities, in form and substance commercially reasonably satisfactory to Dealer and Counterparty, which Private Placement Agreement shall include provisions relating to the indemnification of, and contribution in connection with the liability of, Dealer and its affiliates, shall provide for the payment by Counterparty of all expenses in connection with such resale, including all reasonable and documented fees and expenses of counsel for Dealer, shall contain representations, warranties and agreements of Counterparty reasonably necessary or advisable to establish and maintain the availability of an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act for such resales, and shall use reasonable best efforts to provide for the delivery of accountants’ “comfort letters” to Dealer or such affiliate with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the offering memorandum prepared for the resale of such Shares;
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(c) Dealer shall sell the Delivered Shares in a commercially reasonable manner until the amount received by Dealer for the sale of the Shares (the “Proceeds Amount”) is equal to the Net Physical Settlement Amount. Any remaining Delivered Shares shall be returned to Counterparty. If the Proceeds Amount is less than the Net Physical Settlement Amount, Counterparty shall promptly deliver upon notice from Dealer additional Shares to Dealer until the dollar amount from the sale of such Shares by Dealer equals the difference between the Net Physical Settlement Amount and the Proceeds Amount. In no event shall Counterparty be required to deliver to Dealer a number of Shares greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
(C) Notwithstanding the foregoing: (I) if Counterparty has elected to deliver Shares as described in clause (i) above and either (a) Counterparty does not provide for the sale of the Shares under the Registration Statement as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement or (b) some Shares cannot be registered under the Registration Statement due to Rule 415(a)(4) under the Securities Act, then the provisions of sub-paragraph (B) shall apply to the extent Counterparty has not satisfied its obligations hereunder by the delivery of Shares pursuant to sub-paragraph (A). (II) If sub-paragraph (B) is applicable and Counterparty fails to satisfy its obligations under such sub-paragraph (B), then Counterparty may deliver unregistered Shares of equivalent value to the Net Physical Settlement Amount (or, if applicable, the unsatisfied portion thereof). The value of any unregistered Shares so delivered shall be discounted to reflect an appropriate liquidity discount (determined by Dealer in a commercially reasonable manner, taking into account Dealer’s policies and determinations with respect to any transfer restrictions that Dealer deems it advisable to observe in connection with sales of such Shares). (III) If some or all of the Delivered Shares cannot be used to close out stock loans in the shares of Counterparty entered into to establish or maintain short positions by Dealer in connection with this Transaction without a prospectus being required by applicable law to be delivered to such lender, then the value of any such Delivered Shares shall reflect the cost (determined by Dealer in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) to Dealer of trading Shares in order to close out its hedge position if any, in all cases for purposes of calculating the Delivered Shares. In no event shall Counterparty be required to top-up the delivery in cash.
     
Limitations on Net
Physical Settlement by
Counterparty:
  Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Agreement to the contrary, the number of Shares that may be delivered at settlement by Counterparty shall not exceed 10,413,674 at any time (“Maximum Deliverable Share Amount), as adjusted by Calculation Agent to account for any subdivision, stock-split, stock combination, reclassification, certain distributions, dividends and payments to holders of Counterparty’s common stock or similar dilutive or anti-dilutive event with respect to the Shares.
 
   
 
  Counterparty represents and warrants that the number of Available Shares as of the Trade Date is greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount. Counterparty covenants and agrees that (i) Counterparty shall not take any action of corporate governance or otherwise to reduce the number of Available Shares below the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount and (ii) Counterparty shall use its reasonable efforts to cause the number of Available Shares at all times to be greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
 
   
 
  For this purpose, “Available Shares” means the number of Shares Counterparty
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  currently has authorized (but not issued and outstanding) less the maximum number of Shares that may be required to be issued by Counterparty in connection with stock options, convertibles, and other commitments of Counterparty that may require the issuance or delivery of Shares in connection therewith.
 
   
Dividends:
   
 
   
Dividends:
  If at any time during the period from and including the Trade Date, to but excluding the final Expiration Date, an ex-dividend date for a cash dividend occurs with respect to the Shares (an “Ex-Dividend Date”), and that dividend is different from the Regular Dividend on a per Share basis, then the Calculation Agent will, adjust the Strike Price, the Number of Warrants, the Daily Number of Warrants, the Warrant Entitlement and any other variable to preserve the fair value of the Warrant after taking into account such dividend.
 
   
Regular Dividend:
  Initially USD $0.06 per Share per quarter in respect of the Shares. In the event that, in any quarter, a regular quarterly Ex-Dividend Date occurs for which the amount of the corresponding cash dividend is different (the “New Dividend Amount”) from the Regular Dividend or no Ex-Dividend Date occurs (in which case the New Dividend Amount shall be zero), then following the adjustment by the Calculation Agent pursuant to “Dividends” above, the Regular Dividend shall equal the New Dividend Amount.
 
   
Extraordinary Dividends:
  Any dividend other than Regular Dividends. For the avoidance of doubt, if more than one Ex-Dividend Date occurs in a quarter, the Calculation Agent shall designate any cash dividend other than a Regular Dividend as an Extraordinary Dividend and will, in , adjust the Strike Price, the Number of Warrants, the Daily Number of Warrants, the Warrant Entitlement and any other variable to preserve the fair value of the Warrant after taking into account such dividend.
 
   
Extraordinary Events:
   
 
   
Consequences of Merger Events:
  (a) Share-for-Share: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)
 
   
 
  (b) Share-for-Other: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)
 
   
 
  (c) Share-for-Combined: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)
 
   
Tender Offer:
  Applicable
 
   
Consequences of Tender Offers:
  (a) Share-for-Share: Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment
 
   
 
  (b) Share-for-Other: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)
 
   
 
  (b) Share-for-Combined: Component Adjustment
 
   
 
  With respect to any Extraordinary Events hereunder, upon the occurrence of Cancellation and Payment in whole or in part, the parties agree that the amount to
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  be paid, in accordance with the Equity Definitions, shall constitute a Transaction Early Termination Amount, subject to satisfaction by the payment or delivery of Shares or cash as set forth in the Early Termination section below.
 
   
Nationalization,
Insolvency or Delisting:
  Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination) (subject to satisfaction by payment or delivery of Shares or cash as set forth in “Early Termination” below). In addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it will also constitute a Delisting if the Shares are not listed on a United States national securities exchange or approved for quotation and trading on a national automated dealer quotation system or established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States or ceases to be so traded or quoted in contemplation of a delisting or withdrawal of approval; if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall thereafter be deemed to be the Exchange.
 
   
Determining Party:
  Dealer
 
   
Additional Disruption
Events:
   
 
   
Change in Law:
  Applicable
 
   
Failure to Deliver:
  Not Applicable
 
   
Insolvency Filing:
  Applicable
 
   
Hedging Disruption:
  Applicable
 
   
Increased Cost of Hedging:
  Not Applicable
 
   
Loss of Stock Borrow:
  Applicable. Section 12.9(b)(iv) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the text from and including “(A)” to and including “(B)” and by deleting the words “in each case”.
 
   
Maximum Stock Loan Rate:
   0.60%
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Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:
  Applicable; provided that it shall be a condition to Counterparty’s right to make the election described in clause (C) of Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions that on the date of such election, none of Counterparty, its directors, executive officers, or any person controlling, or exercising influence over, its decision to make such election is in possession of any material non-public information with respect to Counterparty or the Shares; and provided further that, if Counterparty timely makes the election described in clause (A) or (B) of Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions, Counterparty shall thereafter remain entitled, subject to the foregoing condition, to terminate the Transaction pursuant to Section 12.9(b)(v)(C) of the Equity Definitions upon ten Scheduled Trading Days’ notice to Dealer. Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the text from and including “(X)” to and including “(Y)”.
 
   
Initial Stock Loan Rate:
   0.25%
 
   
Hedging Party:
  Dealer
 
   
Determining Party:
  Dealer
 
   
Non-Reliance:
  Applicable
 
   
Agreements and
   
 
   
Acknowledgments Regarding
   
Hedging Activities:
  Applicable
 
   
Additional Acknowledgments:
  Applicable
 
   
Other Provisions:
   
 
   
Additional Agreements:
  If Counterparty would be obligated to pay cash to Dealer pursuant to the terms of this Confirmation or the Agreement for any reason without having had the right (other than pursuant to this paragraph) to elect to deliver Shares in satisfaction of such payment obligation, then Counterparty may elect to deliver to Dealer a number of Shares (whether registered or unregistered) having a cash value equal to the amount of such payment obligation. Such number of Shares to be delivered shall be the number of Shares, determined by the Calculation Agent, sufficient for Dealer to realize the cash equivalent of such payment obligation from proceeds of the sale of such number of Shares over a reasonable period of time taking into account any applicable discount (determined in a commercially reasonable manner) to reflect any restrictions on transfer as well as the market value of the Shares. Settlement relating to any delivery of Shares pursuant to this paragraph shall occur within a reasonable period of time. The number of Shares delivered pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount and shall be subject to the provisions under “Early Termination” hereof regarding Proceeds Amount and the provisions set forth in subsection (c) under “Additional Agreements, Representations and Covenants of Counterparty, Etc.” below.
 
   
Early Termination:
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, upon the designation of an Early Termination Date or the occurrence of Cancellation and Payment in whole or in part hereunder, Counterparty’s payment obligation in respect of this Transaction (which shall, in the case of an Early Termination Date be determined in
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  accordance with Second Method and Loss) (the “Transaction Early Termination Amount”) may, at the option of Counterparty, be satisfied by the delivery of a number of Shares equal to the Transaction Early Termination Amount divided by the Termination Price (“Early Termination Stock Settlement”); provided, however, that Counterparty must notify Dealer of its election of Early Termination Stock Settlement by the close of business on the day that is two Exchange Business Days following the day that the notice designating the Early Termination Date, or notice that an Extraordinary Event has resulted in the cancellation or termination of the Transaction in whole or in part, is effective. “Termination Price” means the market value per Share on the Early Termination Date, as determined by the Calculation Agent in a commercially reasonable manner taking into account any applicable discount to reflect any restrictions on transfer.
 
   
 
  A number of Shares calculated as being due in respect of any Early Termination Stock Settlement will be deliverable on the third Clearance System Business Day following the date that notice specifying the number of Shares deliverable is effective; provided that, if Counterparty is delivering Shares as a result of a Merger Event, the Settlement Date for such delivery will be immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger Event and the Shares will be deemed delivered at such time such that Dealer will be a holder of the Shares prior to such effective time. Section 6(d)(i) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following words after the word “paid” in the fifth line thereof: “or any delivery is to be made, as applicable.”
 
   
 
  On or prior to the Early Termination Date or date on which notice that an Extraordinary Event has resulted in the cancellation or termination of the Transaction in whole or in part is effective, as applicable, if Early Termination Stock Settlement is elected and if so requested by Dealer upon advice of counsel, Counterparty shall (subject to its right to make the election described in the immediately succeeding paragraph) enter into a registration rights agreement with Dealer in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Dealer which agreement will contain among other things, customary representations and warranties and indemnification, restrictions on sales during “blackout dates” as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement and shall satisfy the conditions contained therein and Counterparty shall file and diligently pursue to effectiveness a Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. If and when such Registration Statement shall have been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Counterparty shall have made available to Dealer such Prospectuses as Dealer may reasonably request to comply with the applicable prospectus delivery requirements for the resale by Dealer of such number of Shares as Dealer shall specify (or, if greater, the number of Shares that Counterparty shall specify). Such Registration Statement shall be effective and Prospectus shall be current until the earliest of the date on which (i) all Shares delivered by Counterparty in connection with an Early Termination Date have been sold, (ii) Dealer has advised Counterparty that it no longer requires that such Registration Statement be effective or (iii) all remaining Shares could be sold by Dealer without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Termination Registration Period). It is understood that the Registration Statement and Prospectus will cover a number of Shares equal to the Number of Shares plus the aggregate number of Shares (if any) reasonably estimated by Dealer to be potentially deliverable by Counterparty in connection with Early Termination Stock Settlement hereunder, but in no event exceeding the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount. On each day during the Termination Registration Period Counterparty shall represent that each of its filings under the
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  Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other applicable securities laws that are required to be filed have been filed and that, as of the respective dates thereof and as of the date of this representation, they do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
 
   
 
  If Counterparty elects not to deliver Shares subject to an effective Registration Statement (or if some or all of the Shares delivered cannot be used to close out stock loans in the shares of Counterparty entered into to establish or maintain short positions by Dealer in connection with this Transaction without a prospectus being required by applicable law to be delivered to such lender), the provisions of sub-paragraphs (B) and (C) set forth above under “Conditions to Net Physical Settlement” shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if the Net Physical Settlement Amount were the Transaction Early Termination Amount. In no event shall Counterparty be required to deliver to Dealer a number of Shares greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
 
   
Compliance With Securities Laws:
  Each party acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Transaction to it is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) thereof. Accordingly, each party represents and warrants to the other party that (i) it has the financial ability to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Transaction and is able to bear a total loss of its investment, (ii) it is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act and (iii) the disposition of the Transaction is restricted under this Confirmation, the Securities Act and state securities laws.
 
   
 
  Counterparty further represents and warrants that:
 
   
 
  (a) Counterparty is not entering into this Transaction to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares);
 
   
 
  (b) Counterparty represents and acknowledges that as of the date hereof and without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, Dealer is not making any representations or warranties with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under FASB Statements 149 or 150, EITF Issue No. 00-19 (or any successor issue statements) or under FASB’s Liabilities & Equity Project;
 
   
 
  (c) Counterparty is not, and after giving effect to the Transaction contemplated hereby, will not be, an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
 
   
 
  (d) As of the Trade Date and each date on which a payment or delivery is made by Counterparty hereunder, (i) the assets of Counterparty at their fair valuation exceed the liabilities of Counterparty, including contingent liabilities; (ii) the capital of Counterparty is adequate to conduct its business; and (iii) Counterparty has the ability to pay its debts and other obligations as such obligations mature and does not intend to, or believe that it will, incur debt or other obligations beyond its ability to pay as such obligations mature.
 
   
Account Details:
  Account for payments to Counterparty:
          To be advised
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  Account for payments to Dealer:
          To be advised
 
   
 
  Account for delivery of Shares to Dealer:
          To be advised.
 
   
Agreement Regarding Shares:
  Counterparty agrees that, in respect of any Shares delivered to Dealer, such Shares shall be, upon such delivery, duly and validly authorized, issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable and subject to no adverse claims of any other party. The issuance of such Shares does not and will not require the consent, approval, authorization, registration or qualification of any government authority, except such as shall have been obtained on or before the delivery date of any Shares or as may be required in connection with any Registration Statement filed with respect to any Shares.
 
   
Bankruptcy Rights:
  In the event of Counterparty’s bankruptcy, Dealer’s rights in connection with this Transaction shall not exceed those rights held by common shareholders. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties acknowledge and agree that Dealer’s rights with respect to any other claim arising from this Transaction prior to Counterparty’s bankruptcy shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be otherwise abridged or modified in connection herewith.
 
   
Set-Off:
  Each party waives any and all rights it may have to set-off, whether arising under any agreement, applicable law or otherwise.
 
   
Transfer:
  Neither party may transfer its rights or delegate its obligations under this Transaction without the prior written consent of the other party, except that Dealer, after payment in full of the Premium, may assign its rights and delegate its obligations hereunder, in whole or in part, to any other person (an “Assignee”) without the prior consent of the Counterparty, effective (the “Transfer Effective Date”) upon delivery to Counterparty of an executed acceptance and assumption by the Assignee (an “Assumption”) of the transferred obligations of Dealer under this Transaction (the “Transferred Obligations”). Notwithstanding any other provision in this Confirmation to the contrary requiring or allowing Dealer to purchase, sell, receive or deliver any Shares or other securities to or from Counterparty, Dealer may designate any of its affiliates to purchase, sell, receive or deliver such Shares or other securities and otherwise to perform Dealer’s obligations in respect of this Transaction and any such designee may assume such obligations. Dealer shall be discharged of its obligations to Counterparty to the extent of any such performance.
 
   
Indemnity:
  Seller agrees to indemnify Dealer, its Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, agents and controlling parties (each such person being an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities, joint and several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject because of a breach of any representation or covenant hereunder, in the Agreement or any other agreement relating to the Agreement or Transaction and will reimburse Indemnified Party for all reasonable expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) as they are incurred in connection with the investigation of, preparation for, or defense of, any pending or threatened claim or any action or proceeding arising therefrom, whether or not such Indemnified Party is a party thereto. Seller will not be liable under the foregoing Indemnity provision to the extent that any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense is found in a final judgment by a court to have resulted from Dealer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
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Additional Agreements, Representations and Covenants of Counterparty, Etc.:
(a)   Counterparty hereby represents and warrants to Dealer, on each day from the Trade Date to and including the earlier of (i) July 29, 2007 (ii) the date by which Dealer is able to initially complete a hedge of its position created by this Transaction, that:
  (1)   it will not, and will not permit any person or entity subject to its control to, bid for or purchase Shares during such period except pursuant to transactions or arrangements which have been approved by Dealer or an affiliate of Dealer; and
 
  (2)   it has publicly disclosed all material information necessary for it to be able to purchase or sell Shares in compliance with applicable federal securities laws.
(b)   No collateral shall be required by either party for any reason in connection with this Transaction.
 
(c)   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Dealer shall not be entitled to exercise any Warrant or receive any Shares deliverable hereunder, and Automatic Exercise shall not apply with respect to any Warrant to the extent (but only to the extent) that after such receipt of any Shares upon the exercise of such Warrant or otherwise hereunder Dealer, or its ultimate parent entity would, directly or indirectly, be the beneficial owner (as such term is defined for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) at any time of more than 8.0 percent of the class of the Counterparty’s outstanding equity securities that is comprised of the Shares (an “Excess Share Owner”).
 
    Dealer shall provide prior notice to Counterparty if the exercise of any Warrant or delivery of Shares hereunder would cause Dealer to become directly or indirectly, an Excess Share Owner; provided that the failure of Dealer to provide such notice shall not alter the effectiveness of the provisions set forth in the preceding sentence and any purported exercise or delivery in violation of such provisions shall be void and have no effect. If any delivery owed to Dealer hereunder is not made, in whole or in part, as a result of this provision, Counterparty’s obligation to make such delivery shall not be extinguished and Counterparty shall make such delivery as promptly as practicable after Dealer gives notice that such delivery would not result in Dealer being an Excess Share Owner.
 
    If Dealer is not entitled to exercise any Warrant because such exercise would cause Dealer to become, directly or indirectly, an Excess Share Owner and Dealer thereafter disposes of Shares owned by it or any action is taken that would then permit Dealer to exercise such Warrant without such exercise causing it to become, directly or indirectly, an Excess Share Owner, then Dealer shall provide notice of the taking of such action to Counterparty and such Warrant shall then become exercisable by Dealer to the extent such Warrant is otherwise or had otherwise become exercisable hereunder. In such event, the Expiration Date with respect to such Warrant shall be the date on which Counterparty receives such notice from Dealer, and the related Settlement Date shall be as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of such notice but no more than three (3) Exchange Business Days thereafter (but in no event shall the Settlement Date occur prior to the date on which it would have otherwise occurred but for the provisions of this subsection); provided that the related Net Physical Settlement Amount shall be the same as the Net Physical Settlement Amount but for the provisions of this subsection. In addition, within 30 calendar days of any Settlement Date, Counterparty shall use its reasonable efforts to refrain from activities that could reasonably be expected to result in Dealer’s ownership of Shares exceeding 10% of all issued and outstanding Shares.
Matters Relating to Agent:
1.   Agent will be responsible for the operational aspects of the Transactions effected through it, such as record keeping, reporting, and confirming Transactions to Counterparty and Dealer;
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2.   Unless Counterparty is a “major U.S. institutional investor,” as defined in Rule 15a-6 of the Exchange Act, neither Counterparty nor Dealer will contact the other without the direct involvement of Agent;
3.   Agent’s sole role under this Agreement and with respect to any Transaction is as an agent of Counterparty and Dealer on a disclosed basis and Agent shall have no responsibility or liability to Counterparty or Dealer hereunder except for gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of its duties as agent. Agent is authorized to act as agent for Dealer, but only to the extent expressly required to satisfy the requirements of Rule 15a-6 under the Exchange Act in respect of the Options described hereunder. Agent shall have no authority to act as agent for Counterparty generally or with respect to transactions or other matters governed by this Agreement, except to the extent expressly required to satisfy the requirements of Rule 15a-6 or in accordance with express instructions from Counterparty.
Certain Important Information:
MLFM is an OTC Derivatives Dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Applicable SEC rules require us to provide you with the following information regarding SEC regulation of OTC Derivatives Dealers: MLFM is exempt from the provisions of the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 (SIPA), including membership in the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). Therefore, your Merrill Lynch account is not covered by SIPA protection. Except as otherwise agreed in writing by you and us, MLFM may repledge and otherwise use in its business collateral you have pledged to MLFM under the Agreement. Collateral you have pledged to MLFM will not be subject to the requirements of Securities Exchange Act Rules: 8c-1 and 15c2-1 regarding hypothecation of collateral; 15c3-2 regarding free credit balances; or 15c3-3 regarding custody of securities and calculations of a reserve formula applicable to a fully regulated SEC registered broker or dealer. In the event of MLFM’s failure (by insolvency or otherwise), you would likely be considered to be an unsecured creditor of MLFM as to any collateral pledged to MLFM under the Agreement.
MLFM is incorporated in Delaware and is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of ML&Co. MLFM has entered into this transaction as principal through Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as its agent. The time of this Transaction shall be notified to the Counterparty upon request.
ISDA Master Agreement:
With respect to the Agreement, Dealer and Counterparty each agree as follows:
Specified Entity” means in relation to Seller and in relation to Counterparty for purposes of this Transaction: Not applicable.
The definition of “Specified Transaction” in Section 14 of this Agreement is hereby amended by adding the text “commodity transaction, credit derivative transaction, repurchase or reverse purchase transaction, securities lending transaction, futures transaction, prime brokerage or margin lending transaction” after the words “foreign exchange transaction” in the sixth line thereof and by replacing the words “any other similar transaction” in the eighth line thereof with the text “any other transaction between the parties”. “Specified Transaction” shall exclude any default under a Specified Transaction if caused solely by the general unavailability of the currency in which payments under such Specified Transaction are denominated due to exchange controls or other governmental action.
The “Cross Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller and will apply to Counterparty.
“Threshold Amount” means, with respect to Counterparty, $50,000,000
The “Credit Event Upon Merger” provisions of Section 5(b)(iv) of the Agreement will not apply to Dealer or to Counterparty.
Additional Termination Event.
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The occurrence of any of the following shall constitute an Additional Termination Event with respect to which the Transaction shall be the sole Affected Transaction and Issuer shall be the sole Affected Party; provided that with respect to any Additional Termination Event, Dealer may choose to treat part of the Transaction as the sole Affected Transaction, and, upon the termination of the Affected Transaction, a Transaction with terms identical to those set forth herein except with a Number of Warrants equal to the unaffected number of Warrants shall be treated for all purposes as the Transaction, which shall remain in full force and effect:
     (i) within the period commencing on the Trade Date and ending on the second anniversary of the Premium Payment Date, Buyer reasonably determines that it is advisable to terminate a portion of the Transaction so that Buyer’s related hedging activities will comply with applicable securities laws, rules or regulations;
     (ii) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a person shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all             shares that such person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of voting stock representing 50% or more of the total voting power of all outstanding voting stock of the Issuer;
     (iii) the Issuer consolidates with, or merges with or into, another person or the Issuer sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets to any person, other than any such transaction where immediately after such transaction the person or persons that “beneficially owned” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) immediately prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly, voting stock representing a majority of the total voting power of all outstanding voting stock of the Issuer, “beneficially own or owns” (as so determined), directly or indirectly, voting stock representing a majority of the total voting power of the outstanding voting stock of the surviving or transferee person;
     (iv) during any consecutive two-year period, the Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the board of directors of the Issuer. “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the board of directors of the Issuer who was (a) a member of such board of directors on the Effective Date or (b) nominated for election or elected to such board of directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such board at the time of such nomination or election; or
     (v) the adoption of a plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Issuer.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction set forth in clause (ii), (iii) or (iv) above will not constitute an Additional Termination Event if 100% of the consideration for the Shares (excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights) in such transaction or transactions consists of common stock and any associated rights listed on a United States national securities exchange or quoted on a national automated dealer quotation system, or which will be so traded or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions otherwise constituting an Additional Termination Event under clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv) above.
The “Automatic Early Termination” provision of Section 6(a) of the Agreement will not apply to Dealer or to Counterparty.
Payments on Early Termination. For the purpose of Section 6(e) of the Agreement: (i) Loss shall apply; and (ii) the Second Method shall apply.
Termination Currency” means USD.
Tax Representations.
(I)   Payer Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(e) of the Agreement, each party represents to the other party that it is not required by any applicable law, as modified by the practice of any relevant governmental revenue authority, of any Relevant Jurisdiction to make any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax from any payment (other than interest under Section 2(e), 6(d)(ii), or 6(e) of the Agreement) to be made by it to the other party under the Agreement. In making this representation, each
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    party may rely on (i) the accuracy of any representations made by the other party pursuant to Section 3(f) of the Agreement, (ii) the satisfaction of the agreement contained in Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and the accuracy and effectiveness of any document provided by the other party pursuant to Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and (iii) the satisfaction of the agreement of the other party contained in Section 4(d) of the Agreement; provided that it will not be a breach of this representation where reliance is placed on clause (ii) above and the other party does not deliver a form or document under Section 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement by reason of material prejudice to its legal or commercial position.
 
(II)   Payee Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(f) of the Agreement, each party makes the following representations to the other party:
  (i)   Dealer represents that it is a company incorporated in Delaware.
 
  (ii)   Counterparty represents that it is a corporation incorporated in Oregon.
    Delivery Requirements. For the purpose of Sections 4(a)(i) and (ii) of the Agreement, each party agrees to deliver the following documents:
 
(a)   Tax forms, documents or certificates to be delivered are:
 
    Dealer agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Counterparty), execute, and deliver to Counterparty, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 and all required attachments, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Counterparty; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such Form previously provided by Dealer has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
    Counterparty agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Dealer), execute, and deliver to Dealer, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8 BEN, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Dealer; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such form(s) previously provided by Counterparty has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
(b)   Other documents to be delivered:
             
            Covered by
Party Required to           Section 3(d)
Deliver Document   Document Required to be Delivered   When Required   Representation
Counterparty
  Evidence of the authority and true signatures of each official or representative signing this Confirmation   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
 
           
Counterparty
  Certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors or equivalent document authorizing the execution and delivery of this Confirmation and such other certificate or certificates as Dealer shall reasonably request   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
 
           
Dealer
  Guarantee of its Credit Support Provider,   Upon or before   No
 
  substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto   execution and delivery of this Confirmation    
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Addresses for Notices: For the purpose of Section 12(a) of the Agreement:
Address for notices or communications to MLFM for all purposes:
     
Address:
   Merrill Lynch Financial Markets, Inc.
 
   4 World Financial Center, 17th Floor
 
   New York, New York 10080
 
   Merrill Lynch Financial Centre
Attention:
   Manager of Equity Documentation
Facsimile No.:
   (917) 778-0835
Telephone No.:
   (212) 449-1951
Address for notices or communications to Counterparty for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:    14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
       Beaverton, OR 97077
 
  Attention:    Treasurer
 
  Facsimile No.:    503-627-6108
 
  Telephone No.:    503-627-4622
In addition, in the case of notices or communications relating to Section 5, 6, 11 or 13 of this Agreement, a second copy of any such notice or communication shall be addressed to the attention of Counterparty’s General Counsel as follows:
         
 
  Address:    14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
       Beaverton, OR 97077
 
  Attention:    General Counsel
 
  Facsimile No.:    503-627-7474
 
  Telephone No.:    503-627-6777
Multibranch Party. For the purpose of Section 10(c) of the Agreement: Neither Dealer nor Counterparty is a Multibranch Party.
Calculation Agent. “Calculation Agent” means Dealer, acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.
Credit Support Document.
Dealer: Guarantee of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A
Counterparty: Not Applicable
Credit Support Provider.
With respect to Dealer: Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
With respect to Counterparty: Not Applicable.
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Governing Law. This Confirmation will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Submission to Jurisdiction. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding by the other party against it relating to the Transaction to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, sitting in New York County, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof.
Waiver of Jury Trial. Each party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Transaction. Each party (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of the other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of such a suit, action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other party have been induced to enter into this Transaction, as applicable, by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications provided herein.
Netting of Payments. The provisions of Section 2(c) of the Agreement shall not be applicable to this Transaction.
Basic Representations. Section 3(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended by the deletion of “and” at the end of Section 3(a)(iv); the substitution of a semicolon for the period at the end of Section 3(a)(v) and the addition of Sections 3(a)(vi), as follows:
Eligible Contract Participant; Line of Business. Each party agrees and represents that it is an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1 (a)(12) of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (CEA), this Agreement and the Transaction thereunder are subject to individual negotiation by the parties and have not been executed or traded on a “trading facility” as defined in Section 1(a)(33) of the CEA, and it has entered into this Confirmation and this Transaction in connection with its business or a line of business (including financial intermediation), or the financing of its business.
Acknowledgements:
(a)   The parties acknowledge and agree that there are no other representations, agreements or other undertakings of the parties in relation to this Transaction, except as set forth in the Agreement or this Confirmation.
(b) The parties hereto intend for:
  (i)   Buyer to be a “financial institution” as defined in Section 101(22) of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code) and this Transaction to be a “securities contract” as defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “swap agreement” as defined in Section 101(53C) of the Bankruptcy Code, qualifying for the protections of, among other sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362 (b)(17), 546(e), 546(g), 555 and 560 of the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (ii)   a party’s right to liquidate this Transaction and to exercise any other remedies upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under the Agreement with respect to the other party to constitute a “contractual right” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (iii)   all payments for, under or in connection with this Transaction, all payments for the Shares and the transfer of such Shares to constitute “settlement payments” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code.
(c)   The parties acknowledge and agree that in the event of an Early Termination Date as a result of an Event of Default that is within Counterparty’s control, the amount payable under the Agreement will be a cash amount calculated as described therein and that any delivery specified in this Transaction will no longer be required.
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Amendment of Section 6(d)(ii). Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement is modified by deleting the words “on the day” in the second line thereof and substituting therefor “on the day that is three Local Business Days after the day”. Section 6(d)(ii) is further modified by deleting the words “two Local Business Days” in the fourth line thereof and substituting therefor “three Local Business Days.”
Consent to Recording. Each party consents to the recording of the telephone conversations of trading and marketing personnel of the parties and their Affiliates in connection with this Confirmation. To the extent that one party records telephone conversations (the “Recording Party”) and the other party does not (the “Non-Recording Party”), the Recording Party shall in the event of any dispute, make a complete and unedited copy of such party’s tape of the entire day’s conversations with the Non-Recording Party’s personnel available to the Non-Recording Party. The Recording Party’s tapes may be used by either party in any forum in which a dispute is sought to be resolved and the Recording Party will retain tapes for a consistent period of time in accordance with the Recording Party’s policy unless one party notifies the other that a particular transaction is under review and warrants further retention.
Disclosure. Each party hereby acknowledges and agrees that Dealer has authorized Counterparty to disclose this Transaction and any related hedging transaction between the parties if and to the extent that Counterparty reasonably determines (after consultation with Dealer) that such disclosure is required by law or by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or any securities exchange. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective from the date of commencement of discussions concerning the Transaction, Counterparty and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to Counterparty relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.
Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Confirmation, or the application thereof to any party or circumstance, shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part for any reason, the remaining terms, provisions, covenants, and conditions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Confirmation had been executed with the invalid or unenforceable provision eliminated, so long as this Confirmation as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter of this Confirmation and the deletion of such portion of this Confirmation will not substantially impair the respective benefits or expectations of parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that this severability provision shall not be applicable if any provision of Section 2, 5, 6 or 13 of the Agreement (or any definition or provision in Section 14 to the extent that it relates to, or is used in or in connection with any such Section) shall be so held to be invalid or unenforceable.
Affected Parties. For purposes of Section 6(e) of the Agreement, each party shall be deemed to be an Affected Party in connection with Illegality and any Tax Event.
[Signatures follow on separate page]
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing the company of this Confirmation enclosed for that purpose and returning it to us.
                 
    Very truly yours,    
 
               
    MERRILL LYNCH INTERNATIONAL    
 
               
 
               
    By:   /s/ FRAN JACOBSON    
             
    Name:   Fran Jacobson    
    Title:   Vice President    
        Equity Derivatives Documentation    
Confirmed as of the date first above written:
             
TEKTRONIX, INC.    
 
           
By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON    
         
Name:   James F. Dalton    
Title:   Senior Vice President,    
 
      General Counsel, and Secretary    
 
           
 
           
Acknowledged and agreed as to matters to the Agent:
             
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATE,    
Solely in its capacity as Agent hereunder    
 
           
 
           
By:   /s/ ANGELINA LOPES    
         
Name:   Angelina Lopes    
Title:   Derivatives Documentation    
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EXHIBIT A
GUARANTEE OF MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.
     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (“ML & Co.”), hereby unconditionally guarantees to Tektronix, Inc. (the “Company”), the due and punctual payment of any and all amounts payable by Merrill Lynch Financial Markets, Inc., a company incorporated in Delaware (“ML”), under the terms of the Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction between the Company and ML (ML as Buyer), amended and restated as of June 29, 2007 (the “Confirmation”), including, in case of default, interest on any amount due, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether on the scheduled payment dates, at maturity, upon declaration of termination or otherwise, according to the terms thereof. In case of the failure of ML punctually to make any such payment, ML & Co. hereby agrees to make such payment, or cause such payment to be made, promptly upon demand made by the Company to ML & Co.; provided, however that delay by the Company in giving such demand shall in no event affect ML & Co.’s obligations under this Guarantee. This Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect or shall be reinstated (as the case may be) if at any time any payment guaranteed hereunder, in whole or in part, is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Company upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of ML or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
     ML & Co. hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Confirmation; the absence of any action to enforce the same; any waiver or consent by the Company concerning any provisions thereof; the rendering of any judgment against ML or any action to enforce the same; or any other circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a guarantor or a defense of a guarantor. ML covenants that this guarantee will not be discharged except by complete payment of the amounts payable under the Confirmation. This Guarantee shall continue to be effective if ML merges or consolidates with or into another entity, loses its separate legal identity or ceases to exist.
     ML & Co. hereby waives diligence; presentment; protest; notice of protest, acceleration, and dishonor; filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of ML; all demands whatsoever, except as noted in the first paragraph hereof; and any right to require a proceeding first against ML.
     ML & Co. hereby certifies and warrants that this Guarantee constitutes the valid obligation of ML & Co. and complies with all applicable laws.
     This Guarantee shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
     This Guarantee may be terminated at any time by notice by ML & Co. to the Company given in accordance with the notice provisions of the Confirmation, effective upon receipt of such notice by the Company or such later date as may be specified in such notice; provided, however, that this Guarantee shall continue in full force and effect with respect to any obligation of ML under the Confirmation.
     This Guarantee becomes effective concurrent with the effectiveness of the Confirmation, according to its terms.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ML & Co. has caused this Guarantee to be executed in its corporate name by its duly authorized representative.
                 
    MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.    
 
               
 
               
    By:   /s/ JOAN E. TIMOLDI    
             
    Name:   Joan E. Timoldi    
    Title:   Designated Signatory    
    Date:   June 28, 2007    
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EX-10.5 8 v31548exv10w5.htm EXHIBIT 10.5 exv10w5
 

Exhibit 10.5
(CITIGROUP LOGO)
Confirmation of OTC Warrant Transaction
     
Date:
   June 29, 2007
To:
   Tektronix, Inc. (“Counterparty)
 
   Attention: Treasurer
 
   Telephone No.: 503-627-4622
 
   Facsimile No.: 503-627-6108
 
   
From:
   Citibank N.A. (“Dealer” or “Citibank”)
 
   250 West Street
 
   10th Floor
 
   New York, New York 10013
 
   Attention: Director Derivatives Operations
 
   Facsimile No.: 212 723 2956
Reference:
Dear Sir / Madam:
     The purpose of this letter agreement (this “Confirmation”) is to amend and restate the terms and conditions of the above-referenced transaction entered into among Counterparty and Dealer on the Trade Date specified below (the “Transaction). This Confirmation amends, restated and supersedes in its entirety the Confirmation in respect of the Transaction dated as of June 25, 2007. This Confirmation constitutes a “Confirmation” as referred to in the Agreement specified below.
     The definitions and provisions contained in the 2000 ISDA Definitions (the “Swap Definitions”) and the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (the “Equity Definitions” and, together with the Swap Definitions, the “Definitions), in each case as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., are incorporated into this Confirmation. In the event of any inconsistency between the Swap Definitions and the Equity Definitions, the Equity Definitions will govern, and in the event of any inconsistency between the Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern. References herein to a “Transaction” shall be deemed to be references to a “Share Option Transaction” for the purposes of the Equity Definitions and to a “Swap Transaction” for the purposes of the Swap Definitions. For purposes of this Transaction, “Warrant Style”, “Warrant Type”, “Number of Warrants” and “Warrant Entitlement” (each as defined below) shall be used herein as if such terms were referred to as “Option Style”, “Option Type”, “Number of Options” and “Option Entitlement”, respectively, in the Definitions.
     This Confirmation evidences a complete binding agreement between you and us as to the terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates. This Confirmation (notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein), shall be subject to, and form part of, an agreement in the 1992 form of the ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency Cross Border) (the “Master Agreement” or “Agreement”) as if we had executed an agreement in such form (but without any Schedule and with elections specified in the “ISDA Master Agreement” Section of this Confirmation) on the Trade Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of that Agreement and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will prevail for the purpose of this Transaction. The parties hereby agree that the Transaction evidenced by this Confirmation shall be the only Transaction subject to and governed by the Agreement.
     The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:
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EXECUTION COPY
General Terms:
     
Trade Date:
  June 25, 2007
 
   
Effective Date:
  June 29, 2007, subject to cancellation of the OTC Warrant Transaction prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such date by the Counterparty. In the event of such cancellation, any payments previously made hereunder, including the Premium, shall be returned to the person making such payment. In addition, Counterparty shall reimburse Dealer for any costs or expenses (including market losses) relating to the unwinding of its hedging activities in connection with the Transaction (including any loss or cost incurred as a result of its terminating, liquidating, obtaining or reestablishing any hedge or related trading position).
 
   
Warrant Style:
  European, subject to “Procedures for Exercise” below.
 
   
Warrant Type:
  Call
 
   
Seller:
  Counterparty
 
   
Buyer:
  Dealer
 
   
Shares:
  Shares of common stock, without par value, of Counterparty (Security Symbol: “TEK”).
 
   
Number of Warrants:
   1,735,612
 
   
Daily Number of Warrants:
  For any day, the unexercised Number of Warrants on such day divided by the remaining number of Expiration Dates (including such day) and rounded down to the nearest whole number, with the balance of the Number of Warrants exercised on the final Expiration Date.
 
   
Warrant Entitlement:
  One (1) Share per Warrant
 
   
Strike Price:
   $ 49.2623
 
   
Premium:
   $8,797,500
 
   
Premium Payment Date:
  The Effective Date; provided no cancellation of the Transaction has occurred prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such date by the Counterparty.
 
   
Exchange:
  New York Stock Exchange
 
   
Related Exchange(s):
  All Exchanges
 
   
Full Exchange Business Day:
  A Scheduled Trading Day that has a scheduled closing time for its regular trading session at 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then standard closing time for regular trading on the Exchange and is not a Disrupted Day.
 
   
Procedures for Exercise:
   
 
   
Expiration Time:
   11:59 p.m. (New York City time).
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Expiration Dates:   The 100 consecutive Full Exchange Business Days beginning on and including October 15, 2012 each shall be the Expiration Date for a number of Warrants equal to the Daily Number of Warrants on such date. Notwithstanding the foregoing and anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions or in the definition of “Full Exchange Business Day,” if a Market Disruption Event occurs on any Expiration Date (the “Relevant Day”), the Calculation Agent may determine that such Expiration Date, while not a Full Exchange Business Day, is a Disrupted Day only in part, in which case the Calculation Agent shall make adjustments to the Daily Number of Warrants for the Relevant Day and shall designate an additional Expiration Date following the last previously scheduled Expiration Date as the Expiration Date for a number of Warrants equal to the difference between the Daily Number of Warrants determined for the Relevant Day without such adjustment, and the Daily Number of Warrants for such date as adjusted pursuant to this paragraph. Section 6.6 of the Equity Definitions shall not apply to any Valuation Date occurring on an Expiration Date.
 
           
Exercise Dates:   Each Expiration Date shall be an Exercise Date for a number of Warrants equal to the Daily Number of Warrants for such date.
 
           
Automatic Exercise:   Applicable, and means that the Daily Number of Warrants for the corresponding Expiration Date will be deemed to be automatically exercised at the Expiration Time on such Expiration Date unless Buyer notifies Seller (by telephone or in writing) prior to the Expiration Time on such Expiration Date that it does not wish Automatic Exercise to occur, in which case Automatic Exercise will not apply to such Expiration Date.
 
           
Counterparty’s Telephone
      Address:    14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
Number and Telex and/or
           Beaverton, OR 97077
Facsimile Number and
      Attention:    Treasurer
Contact Details for
      Facsimile No.:    503-627-6108
purpose of Giving Notice:
      Telephone No.:    503-627-4622
 
           
Valuation:
           
 
           
Valuation Dates:   Each Exercise Date
 
           
Settlement Terms:
           
 
           
Cash Settlement:   Applicable; provided that it shall be a condition of Counterparty’s right to elect Cash Settlement that on the date of the Cash Settlement election, none of Counterparty, its directors, executive officers, or any person controlling, or exercising influence over, its decision to elect Cash Settlement is in possession of any material non-public information with respect to Counterparty or the Shares. If Counterparty elects to settle the Transaction by Cash Settlement, Counterparty represents and agrees that:
 
           
    (i) Counterparty is not, on the date of the Cash Settlement election, and will not be, on any day during the period from and including the first Expiration Date to and including the final Expiration Date, engaged in a distribution, as such term is used in Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”); and
 
           
    (ii) during the period from and including the first Expiration Date to and
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  including the final Expiration Date, without the prior written consent of Dealer, the Counterparty shall not, and shall cause its affiliates and affiliated purchasers (each as defined in Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act) not to, directly or indirectly (including, without limitation, by means of a derivative instrument) purchase, offer to purchase, place any bid or limit order that would effect a purchase of, or commence any tender offer relating to, any Shares (or equivalent interest, including a unit of beneficial interest in a trust or limited partnership or a depository share) or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Shares.
 
   
Settlement Currency:
  USD
 
   
Settlement Price:
  For each Valuation Date, the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Shares (“VWAP”) calculated from 9:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., as observed under the heading Bloomberg “VWAP” on Bloomberg page TEK.N <equity> VAP (or any successor thereto) (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one Share on such Valuation Date, as determined by the Calculation Agent); provided that if the scheduled weekday closing time of the Exchange for any Valuation Date is later than 4:00 p.m. (without regard to after hours or any other trading outside of the regular trading session hours) the VWAP shall be calculated for such Valuation Date from 9:45 a.m. until 15 minutes prior to such later closing time of the Exchange.

Section 6.3(a) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing clause (ii) in its entirety with “(ii) an Exchange Disruption, or” and inserting immediately following clause (iii) the phrase “; in each case that the Calculation Agent determines is material.”
 
   
Cash Settlement Payment
Date:
  With respect to each Valuation Date, three (3) Currency Business Days after the final Valuation Date.
 
   
Settlement Method Election:
  Applicable; provided that references in Section 7.1 of the Equity Definitions to “Physical Settlement” shall be replaced by references to “Net Physical Settlement.”
 
   
Electing Party:
  Counterparty
 
   
Settlement Method Election
Date:
  Ten (10) Business Days prior to the first Expiration Date
 
   
Default Settlement Method:
  Net Physical Settlement.
 
   
Net Physical Settlement:
  In the event that the Counterparty elects to settle this Transaction by Net Physical Settlement, subject to “Conditions of Net Physical Settlement” below, Counterparty shall deliver to Dealer on the Settlement Date a number of Shares (the “Delivered Shares”) equal to the Share Delivery Quantity, provided that in the event that the number of Shares calculated comprises any fractional Share, only whole Shares shall be delivered and an amount in cash equal to the value of such fractional share shall be payable by the Counterparty to Dealer in lieu of such fractional Share.
 
   
Share Delivery Quantity:
  For each Exercise Date, a number of Shares, as calculated by the Calculation Agent, equal to the Net Physical Settlement Amount for such Exercise Date
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    divided by the Settlement Price on the Valuation Date in respect of such Settlement Date plus an amount in cash in lieu of any fractional shares (based on the applicable Settlement Price).
 
       
Net Physical Settlement
Amount:
  For any Exercise Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Number of Warrants being exercised on the relevant Exercise Date, (ii) the Strike Price Differential for such Exercise Date and (iii) the Warrant Entitlement.
 
       
Strike Price Differential:   For any Valuation Date, (i) if the Settlement Price is greater than the Strike Price, an amount equal to the excess of such Settlement Price over the Strike Price for such Valuation Date or (ii) if such Settlement Price is less than or equal to the Strike Price, zero.
 
       
Settlement Date:   Settlement with respect to each Exercise Date shall occur on the third (3rd) Full Exchange Business Day following the final Valuation Date, provided that Dealer shall have the right to request by prior written notice to Counterparty a Settlement Date with respect to any Exercise Date and the related Share Delivery Quantity that is three (3) Full Exchange Business Days following such Exercise Date. Such request shall not unreasonably be denied.
 
       
Conditions to Net Physical Settlement:   If, in connection with or six months following delivery of Shares hereunder, Dealer notifies the Counterparty that Dealer has reasonably determined after advice from counsel that there is a considered risk that such Shares are subject to restrictions on transfer in the hands of Dealer pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), then Counterparty shall either (i) deliver Shares that are covered by an effective registration statement of Counterparty for immediate resale by Dealer or (ii) agree to deliver additional Shares so that the value of such Shares as determined by the Calculation Agent to reflect an appropriate liquidity discount, equals the value of the number of Shares that would otherwise be deliverable if such Shares were freely tradable upon receipt by Dealer.
 
       
    (A) If Counterparty elects to deliver Shares as described in above clause (i), then promptly following such notification from Dealer
 
       
 
      (a) Counterparty shall afford Dealer a reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Counterparty that is customary in scope for underwritten offerings of equity securities that yields a result reasonably satisfactory to Dealer;
 
       
 
      (b) Counterparty shall promptly make available to Dealer an effective registration statement for immediate resale (the “Registration Statement”) in form and content reasonably satisfactory to Dealer and filed pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, and such prospectuses as Dealer may reasonably request to comply with the applicable prospectus delivery requirements (the “Prospectus”) for the resale by Dealer of such number of Shares as Dealer shall reasonably specify in accordance with this paragraph, such Registration Statement to be effective and Prospectus to be current until the earliest of the date on which (1) all Delivered Shares have been sold by Dealer, (2) Dealer has advised Counterparty that it no longer requires that such Registration Statement be effective, (3) all remaining Delivered Shares could be sold by Dealer without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Registration Period”) or (4) Counterparty has provided a legal opinion in form and substance satisfactory to Dealer
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      (with customary assumptions and exceptions) that the Shares issuable upon exercise of these Warrants will be freely tradable under the Securities Act upon delivery to Dealer and not subject to any legend restricting transferability. It is understood that the Registration Statement and Prospectus will cover a number of Shares equal to the aggregate number of Shares (if any) reasonably estimated by Dealer to be potentially deliverable by Counterparty in connection with Net Physical Settlement hereunder (not to exceed the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount) and shall be subject to the same suspension of sales during “blackout dates” as provided in the following paragraph. Clause (B)(c) below shall apply mutatis mutandis in the event of any blackout dates occurring during Dealer’s selling efforts during the Registration Period; and
 
       
 
      (c) Counterparty will enter into a registration rights agreement with Dealer in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Dealer, which agreement will contain among other things, customary representations and warranties and indemnification, restrictions on sales during “blackout dates” as provided for in the registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) entered into by Counterparty on or about the date hereof, provide for delivery of comfort letters and opinions of counsel and other rights relating to the registration of a number of Shares equal to the number of Delivered Shares and other Shares deliverable hereunder up to the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
 
       
    (B) If Counterparty elects to deliver Shares as described in above clause (ii), then promptly following such notification from Dealer
 
       
 
      (a) Counterparty shall afford Dealer and any potential institutional purchaser of any Shares identified by Dealer a reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Counterparty that is customary in scope for private placements of equity securities subject to execution of any customary confidentiality agreements;
 
       
 
      (b) Counterparty shall enter into an agreement (a “Private Placement Agreement”) with Dealer on commercially reasonable terms in connection with the private placement of such Shares (including any additional Shares pursuant to clause (c) below) by Counterparty to Dealer or an affiliate and the private resale of such shares by Dealer or such affiliate, substantially similar to private placement purchase agreements customary for private placements of equity securities, in form and substance commercially reasonably satisfactory to Dealer and Counterparty, which Private Placement Agreement shall include provisions relating to the indemnification of, and contribution in connection with the liability of, Dealer and its affiliates, shall provide for the payment by Counterparty of all expenses in connection with such resale, including all reasonable and documented fees and expenses of counsel for Dealer, shall contain representations, warranties and agreements of Counterparty reasonably necessary or advisable to establish and maintain the availability of an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act for such resales, and shall use reasonable best efforts to provide for the delivery of accountants’ “comfort letters” to Dealer or such affiliate with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated
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      by reference into the offering memorandum prepared for the resale of such Shares;
 
       
 
      (c) Dealer shall sell the Delivered Shares in a commercially reasonable manner until the amount received by Dealer for the sale of the Shares (the “Proceeds Amount”) is equal to the Net Physical Settlement Amount. Any remaining Delivered Shares shall be returned to Counterparty. If the Proceeds Amount is less than the Net Physical Settlement Amount, Counterparty shall promptly deliver upon notice from Dealer additional Shares to Dealer until the dollar amount from the sale of such Shares by Dealer equals the difference between the Net Physical Settlement Amount and the Proceeds Amount. In no event shall Counterparty be required to deliver to Dealer a number of Shares greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
 
       
    (C) Notwithstanding the foregoing: (I) if Counterparty has elected to deliver Shares as described in clause (i) above and either (a) Counterparty does not provide for the sale of the Shares under the Registration Statement as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement or (b) some Shares cannot be registered under the Registration Statement due to Rule 415(a)(4) under the Securities Act, then the provisions of sub-paragraph (B) shall apply to the extent Counterparty has not satisfied its obligations hereunder by the delivery of Shares pursuant to sub-paragraph (A). (II) If sub-paragraph (B) is applicable and Counterparty fails to satisfy its obligations under such sub-paragraph (B), then Counterparty may deliver unregistered Shares of equivalent value to the Net Physical Settlement Amount (or, if applicable, the unsatisfied portion thereof). The value of any unregistered Shares so delivered shall be discounted to reflect an appropriate liquidity discount (determined by Dealer in a commercially reasonable manner, taking into account Dealer’s policies and determinations with respect to any transfer restrictions that Dealer deems it advisable to observe in connection with sales of such Shares). (III) If some or all of the Delivered Shares cannot be used to close out stock loans in the shares of Counterparty entered into to establish or maintain short positions by Dealer in connection with this Transaction without a prospectus being required by applicable law to be delivered to such lender, then the value of any such Delivered Shares shall reflect the cost (determined by Dealer in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) to Dealer of trading Shares in order to close out its hedge position if any, in all cases for purposes of calculating the Delivered Shares. In no event shall Counterparty be required to top-up the delivery in cash.
 
       
Limitations on Net
Physical Settlement by
Counterparty:
  Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Agreement to the contrary, the number of Shares that may be delivered at settlement by Counterparty shall not exceed 2,603,418 at any time (“Maximum Deliverable Share Amount), as adjusted by Calculation Agent to account for any subdivision, stock-split, stock combination, reclassification, certain distributions, dividends and payments to holders of Counterparty’s common stock or similar dilutive or anti-dilutive event with respect to the Shares.
 
       
    Counterparty represents and warrants that the number of Available Shares as of the Trade Date is greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount. Counterparty covenants and agrees that (i) Counterparty shall not take any action of corporate governance or otherwise to reduce the number of Available Shares below the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount and (ii) Counterparty shall use its reasonable efforts to cause the number of Available Shares at all times to be greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
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  For this purpose, “Available Shares” means the number of Shares Counterparty currently has authorized (but not issued and outstanding) less the maximum number of Shares that may be required to be issued by Counterparty in connection with stock options, convertibles, and other commitments of Counterparty that may require the issuance or delivery of Shares in connection therewith.
 
   
Dividends:
   
 
   
Dividends:
  If at any time during the period from and including the Trade Date, to but excluding the final Expiration Date, an ex-dividend date for a cash dividend occurs with respect to the Shares (an “Ex-Dividend Date”), and that dividend is different from the Regular Dividend on a per Share basis, then the Calculation Agent will adjust the Strike Price, the Number of Warrants, the Daily Number of Warrants, the Warrant Entitlement and any other variable to preserve the fair value of the Warrant after taking into account such dividend.
 
   
Regular Dividend:
  Initially USD $0.06 per Share per quarter in respect of the Shares. In the event that, in any quarter, a regular quarterly Ex-Dividend Date occurs for which the amount of the corresponding cash dividend is different (the “New Dividend Amount”) from the Regular Dividend or no Ex-Dividend Date occurs (in which case the New Dividend Amount shall be zero), then following the adjustment by the Calculation Agent pursuant to “Dividends” above, the Regular Dividend shall equal the New Dividend Amount.
 
   
Extraordinary Dividends:
  Any dividend other than Regular Dividends. For the avoidance of doubt, if more than one Ex-Dividend Date occurs in a quarter, the Calculation Agent shall designate any cash dividend other than a Regular Dividend as an Extraordinary Dividend and will adjust the Strike Price, the Number of Warrants, the Daily Number of Warrants, the Warrant Entitlement and any other variable to preserve the fair value of the Warrant after taking into account such dividend.
 
   
Extraordinary Events:
   
 
   
Consequences of Merger Events:
  (a) Share-for-Share: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)

(b) Share-for-Other: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)

(c) Share-for-Combined: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)
 
   
Tender Offer:
  Applicable
 
   
Consequences of Tender Offers:
  (a) Share-for-Share: Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment
 
   
 
  (b) Share-for-Other: Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination)
 
   
 
  (b) Share-for-Combined: Component Adjustment
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  With respect to any Extraordinary Events hereunder, upon the occurrence of Cancellation and Payment in whole or in part, the parties agree that the amount to be paid, in accordance with the Equity Definitions, shall constitute a Transaction Early Termination Amount, subject to satisfaction by the payment or delivery of Shares or cash as set forth in the Early Termination section below.
 
   
Nationalization,
Insolvency or Delisting:
  Cancellation and Payment (Calculation Agent Determination) (subject to satisfaction by payment or delivery of Shares or cash as set forth in “Early Termination” below). In addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it will also constitute a Delisting if the Shares are not listed on a United States national securities exchange or approved for quotation and trading on a national automated dealer quotation system or established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States or ceases to be so traded or quoted in contemplation of a delisting or withdrawal of approval; if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall thereafter be deemed to be the Exchange.
 
   
Determining Party:
  Dealer
 
   
Additional Disruption
Events:
   
 
   
Change in Law:
  Applicable
 
   
Failure to Deliver:
  Not Applicable
 
   
Insolvency Filing:
  Applicable
 
   
Hedging Disruption:
  Applicable
 
   
Increased Cost of Hedging:
  Not Applicable
 
   
Loss of Stock Borrow:
  Applicable. Section 12.9(b)(iv) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the text from and including “(A)” to and including “(B)” and by deleting the words “in each case”.
 
   
Maximum Stock Loan Rate:
   0.60%
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Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:
  Applicable; provided that it shall be a condition to Counterparty’s right to make the election described in clause (C) of Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions that on the date of such election, none of Counterparty, its directors, executive officers, or any person controlling, or exercising influence over, its decision to make such election is in possession of any material non-public information with respect to Counterparty or the Shares; and provided further that, if Counterparty timely makes the election described in clause (A) or (B) of Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions, Counterparty shall thereafter remain entitled, subject to the foregoing condition, to terminate the Transaction pursuant to Section 12.9(b)(v)(C) of the Equity Definitions upon ten Scheduled Trading Days’ notice to Dealer. Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the text from and including “(X)” to and including “(Y)”.
 
   
Initial Stock Loan Rate:
   0.25%
 
   
Hedging Party:
  Dealer
 
   
Determining Party:
  Dealer
 
   
Non-Reliance:
  Applicable
 
   
Agreements and
   
Acknowledgments Regarding
   
Hedging Activities:
  Applicable
 
   
Additional Acknowledgments:
  Applicable
 
   
Other Provisions:
   
 
   
Additional Agreements:
  If Counterparty would be obligated to pay cash to Dealer pursuant to the terms of this Confirmation or the Agreement for any reason without having had the right (other than pursuant to this paragraph) to elect to deliver Shares in satisfaction of such payment obligation, then Counterparty may elect to deliver to Dealer a number of Shares (whether registered or unregistered) having a cash value equal to the amount of such payment obligation. Such number of Shares to be delivered shall be the number of Shares, determined by the Calculation Agent, sufficient for Dealer to realize the cash equivalent of such payment obligation from proceeds of the sale of such number of Shares over a reasonable period of time taking into account any applicable discount (determined in a commercially reasonable manner) to reflect any restrictions on transfer as well as the market value of the Shares. Settlement relating to any delivery of Shares pursuant to this paragraph shall occur within a reasonable period of time. The number of Shares delivered pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount and shall be subject to the provisions under “Early Termination” hereof regarding Proceeds Amount and the provisions set forth in subsection (c) under “Additional Agreements, Representations and Covenants of Counterparty, Etc.” below.
 
   
Early Termination:
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, upon the designation of an Early Termination Date or the occurrence of Cancellation and Payment in whole or in part hereunder, Counterparty’s payment obligation in respect of this Transaction (which shall, in the case of an Early Termination Date be determined in
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  accordance with Second Method and Loss) (the “Transaction Early Termination Amount”) may, at the option of Counterparty, be satisfied by the delivery of a number of Shares equal to the Transaction Early Termination Amount divided by the Termination Price (“Early Termination Stock Settlement”); provided, however, that Counterparty must notify Dealer of its election of Early Termination Stock Settlement by the close of business on the day that is two Exchange Business Days following the day that the notice designating the Early Termination Date, or notice that an Extraordinary Event has resulted in the cancellation or termination of the Transaction in whole or in part, is effective. “Termination Price” means the market value per Share on the Early Termination Date, as determined by the Calculation Agent in a commercially reasonable manner taking into account any applicable discount to reflect any restrictions on transfer.
 
   
 
  A number of Shares calculated as being due in respect of any Early Termination Stock Settlement will be deliverable on the third Clearance System Business Day following the date that notice specifying the number of Shares deliverable is effective; provided that, if Counterparty is delivering Shares as a result of a Merger Event, the Settlement Date for such delivery will be immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger Event and the Shares will be deemed delivered at such time such that Dealer will be a holder of the Shares prior to such effective time. Section 6(d)(i) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following words after the word “paid” in the fifth line thereof: “or any delivery is to be made, as applicable.”
 
   
 
  On or prior to the Early Termination Date or date on which notice that an Extraordinary Event has resulted in the cancellation or termination of the Transaction in whole or in part is effective, as applicable, if Early Termination Stock Settlement is elected and if so requested by Dealer upon advice of counsel, Counterparty shall (subject to its right to make the election described in the immediately succeeding paragraph) enter into a registration rights agreement with Dealer in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Dealer which agreement will contain among other things, customary representations and warranties and indemnification, restrictions on sales during “blackout dates” as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement and shall satisfy the conditions contained therein and Counterparty shall file and diligently pursue to effectiveness a Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. If and when such Registration Statement shall have been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Counterparty shall have made available to Dealer such Prospectuses as Dealer may reasonably request to comply with the applicable prospectus delivery requirements for the resale by Dealer of such number of Shares as Dealer shall specify (or, if greater, the number of Shares that Counterparty shall specify). Such Registration Statement shall be effective and Prospectus shall be current until the earliest of the date on which (i) all Shares delivered by Counterparty in connection with an Early Termination Date have been sold, (ii) Dealer has advised Counterparty that it no longer requires that such Registration Statement be effective or (iii) all remaining Shares could be sold by Dealer without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (the “Termination Registration Period). It is understood that the Registration Statement and Prospectus will cover a number of Shares equal to the Number of Shares plus the aggregate number of Shares (if any) reasonably estimated by Dealer to be potentially deliverable by Counterparty in connection with Early Termination Stock Settlement hereunder, but in no event exceeding the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount. On each day during the Termination Registration Period Counterparty shall represent that each of its filings under the
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  Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other applicable securities laws that are required to be filed have been filed and that, as of the respective dates thereof and as of the date of this representation, they do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
 
   
 
  If Counterparty elects not to deliver Shares subject to an effective Registration Statement (or if some or all of the Shares delivered cannot be used to close out stock loans in the shares of Counterparty entered into to establish or maintain short positions by Dealer in connection with this Transaction without a prospectus being required by applicable law to be delivered to such lender), the provisions of sub-paragraphs (B) and (C) set forth above under “Conditions to Net Physical Settlement” shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if the Net Physical Settlement Amount were the Transaction Early Termination Amount. In no event shall Counterparty be required to deliver to Dealer a number of Shares greater than the Maximum Deliverable Share Amount.
 
   
Compliance With Securities Laws:
  Each party acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Transaction to it is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) thereof. Accordingly, each party represents and warrants to the other party that (i) it has the financial ability to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Transaction and is able to bear a total loss of its investment, (ii) it is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act and (iii) the disposition of the Transaction is restricted under this Confirmation, the Securities Act and state securities laws.
 
   
 
  Counterparty further represents and warrants that:
 
   
 
  (a) Counterparty is not entering into this Transaction to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares);
 
   
 
  (b) Counterparty represents and acknowledges that as of the date hereof and without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, Dealer is not making any representations or warranties with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under FASB Statements 149 or 150, EITF Issue No. 00-19 (or any successor issue statements) or under FASB’s Liabilities & Equity Project;
 
   
 
  (c) Counterparty is not, and after giving effect to the Transaction contemplated hereby, will not be, an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
 
   
 
  (d) As of the Trade Date and each date on which a payment or delivery is made by Counterparty hereunder, (i) the assets of Counterparty at their fair valuation exceed the liabilities of Counterparty, including contingent liabilities; (ii) the capital of Counterparty is adequate to conduct its business; and (iii) Counterparty has the ability to pay its debts and other obligations as such obligations mature and does not intend to, or believe that it will, incur debt or other obligations beyond its ability to pay as such obligations mature.
 
   
Account Details:
  Account for payments to Counterparty:
 
            To be advised
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  Account for payments to Dealer:
 
       Citibank N.A., New York
 
       Swift Code: CITIUS33
 
       ABA: 021000089
 
       A/C 00167679
 
   
 
  Account for delivery of Shares to Dealer:
 
       To be advised.
 
   
Agreement Regarding Shares:
  Counterparty agrees that, in respect of any Shares delivered to Dealer, such Shares shall be, upon such delivery, duly and validly authorized, issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable and subject to no adverse claims of any other party. The issuance of such Shares does not and will not require the consent, approval, authorization, registration or qualification of any government authority, except such as shall have been obtained on or before the delivery date of any Shares or as may be required in connection with any Registration Statement filed with respect to any Shares.
 
   
Bankruptcy Rights:
  In the event of Counterparty’s bankruptcy, Dealer’s rights in connection with this Transaction shall not exceed those rights held by common shareholders. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties acknowledge and agree that Dealer’s rights with respect to any other claim arising from this Transaction prior to Counterparty’s bankruptcy shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be otherwise abridged or modified in connection herewith.
 
   
Set-Off:
  Each party waives any and all rights it may have to set-off, whether arising under any agreement, applicable law or otherwise.
 
   
Transfer:
  Neither party may transfer its rights or delegate its obligations under this Transaction without the prior written consent of the other party, except that Dealer, after payment in full of the Premium, may assign its rights and delegate its obligations hereunder, in whole or in part, to any other person (an “Assignee”) without the prior consent of the Counterparty, effective (the “Transfer Effective Date”) upon delivery to Counterparty of an executed acceptance and assumption by the Assignee (an “Assumption”) of the transferred obligations of Dealer under this Transaction (the “Transferred Obligations”). Notwithstanding any other provision in this Confirmation to the contrary requiring or allowing Dealer to purchase, sell, receive or deliver any Shares or other securities to or from Counterparty, Dealer may designate any of its affiliates to purchase, sell, receive or deliver such Shares or other securities and otherwise to perform Dealer’s obligations in respect of this Transaction and any such designee may assume such obligations. Dealer shall be discharged of its obligations to Counterparty to the extent of any such performance.
 
   
 
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Agreement to the contrary, Buyer shall be entitled to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to make or receive cash payments and transfer of Shares and other related rights to one or more entities that are wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by Citigroup Inc., or any successor thereto (each, a “Citibank Affiliate”); provided that Seller shall have recourse to Buyer in the event of the failure by a Citibank Affiliate to perform any of such obligations hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, recourse to Buyer shall be limited to recoupment of Seller’s monetary damages and Seller hereby waives any right to seek specific performance by Buyer of its obligations
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  hereunder. Such failure after any applicable grace period shall be an Additional Termination Event with the Transaction to which the failure relates as the sole Affected Transaction and Buyer as the sole Affected Party.
 
   
Indemnity:
  Seller agrees to indemnify Dealer, its Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, agents and controlling parties (each such person being an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities, joint and several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject because of a breach of any representation or covenant hereunder, in the Agreement or any other agreement relating to the Agreement or Transaction and will reimburse Indemnified Party for all reasonable expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) as they are incurred in connection with the investigation of, preparation for, or defense of, any pending or threatened claim or any action or proceeding arising therefrom, whether or not such Indemnified Party is a party thereto. Seller will not be liable under the foregoing Indemnity provision to the extent that any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense is found in a final judgment by a court to have resulted from Dealer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Additional Agreements, Representations and Covenants of Counterparty, Etc.:
(a)   Counterparty hereby represents and warrants to Dealer, on each day from the Trade Date to and including the earlier of (i) July 29, 2007 (ii) the date by which Dealer is able to initially complete a hedge of its position created by this Transaction, that:
  (1)   it will not, and will not permit any person or entity subject to its control to, bid for or purchase Shares during such period except pursuant to transactions or arrangements which have been approved by Dealer or an affiliate of Dealer; and
 
  (2)   it has publicly disclosed all material information necessary for it to be able to purchase or sell Shares in compliance with applicable federal securities laws.
(b)   No collateral shall be required by either party for any reason in connection with this Transaction.
 
(c)   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Dealer shall not be entitled to exercise any Warrant or receive any Shares deliverable hereunder, and Automatic Exercise shall not apply with respect to any Warrant to the extent (but only to the extent) that after such receipt of any Shares upon the exercise of such Warrant or otherwise hereunder Dealer, or its ultimate parent entity would, directly or indirectly, be the beneficial owner (as such term is defined for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) at any time of more than 8.0 percent of the class of the Counterparty’s outstanding equity securities that is comprised of the Shares (an “Excess Share Owner”).
 
    Dealer shall provide prior notice to Counterparty if the exercise of any Warrant or delivery of Shares hereunder would cause Dealer to become directly or indirectly, an Excess Share Owner; provided that the failure of Dealer to provide such notice shall not alter the effectiveness of the provisions set forth in the preceding sentence and any purported exercise or delivery in violation of such provisions shall be void and have no effect. If any delivery owed to Dealer hereunder is not made, in whole or in part, as a result of this provision, Counterparty’s obligation to make such delivery shall not be extinguished and Counterparty shall make such delivery as promptly as practicable after Dealer gives notice that such delivery would not result in Dealer being an Excess Share Owner.
 
    If Dealer is not entitled to exercise any Warrant because such exercise would cause Dealer to become, directly or indirectly, an Excess Share Owner and Dealer thereafter disposes of Shares owned by it or any action is taken that would then permit Dealer to exercise such Warrant without such exercise causing it to
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    become, directly or indirectly, an Excess Share Owner, then Dealer shall provide notice of the taking of such action to Counterparty and such Warrant shall then become exercisable by Dealer to the extent such Warrant is otherwise or had otherwise become exercisable hereunder. In such event, the Expiration Date with respect to such Warrant shall be the date on which Counterparty receives such notice from Dealer, and the related Settlement Date shall be as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of such notice but no more than three (3) Exchange Business Days thereafter (but in no event shall the Settlement Date occur prior to the date on which it would have otherwise occurred but for the provisions of this subsection); provided that the related Net Physical Settlement Amount shall be the same as the Net Physical Settlement Amount but for the provisions of this subsection. In addition, within 30 calendar days of any Settlement Date, Counterparty shall use its reasonable efforts to refrain from activities that could reasonably be expected to result in Dealer’s ownership of Shares exceeding 10% of all issued and outstanding Shares.
ISDA Master Agreement:
With respect to the Agreement, Dealer and Counterparty each agree as follows:
Specified Entity” means in relation to Seller and in relation to Counterparty for purposes of this Transaction: Not applicable.
The definition of “Specified Transaction” in Section 14 of this Agreement is hereby amended by adding the text “commodity transaction, credit derivative transaction, repurchase or reverse purchase transaction, securities lending transaction, futures transaction, prime brokerage or margin lending transaction” after the words “foreign exchange transaction” in the sixth line thereof and by replacing the words “any other similar transaction” in the eighth line thereof with the text “any other transaction between the parties”. “Specified Transaction” shall exclude any default under a Specified Transaction if caused solely by the general unavailability of the currency in which payments under such Specified Transaction are denominated due to exchange controls or other governmental action.
The “Cross Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement will not apply to Seller and will apply to Counterparty.
“Threshold Amount” means, with respect to Counterparty, $50,000,000.
The “Credit Event Upon Merger” provisions of Section 5(b)(iv) of the Agreement will not apply to Dealer or to Counterparty.
Additional Termination Event.
The occurrence of any of the following shall constitute an Additional Termination Event with respect to which the Transaction shall be the sole Affected Transaction and Issuer shall be the sole Affected Party; provided that with respect to any Additional Termination Event, Dealer may choose to treat part of the Transaction as the sole Affected Transaction, and, upon the termination of the Affected Transaction, a Transaction with terms identical to those set forth herein except with a Number of Warrants equal to the unaffected number of Warrants shall be treated for all purposes as the Transaction, which shall remain in full force and effect:
     (i) within the period commencing on the Trade Date and ending on the second anniversary of the Premium Payment Date, Buyer reasonably determines that it is advisable to terminate a portion of the Transaction so that Buyer’s related hedging activities will comply with applicable securities laws, rules or regulations;
     (ii) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a person shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all shares that such person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of voting stock representing 50% or more of the total voting power of all outstanding voting stock of the Issuer;
     (iii) the Issuer consolidates with, or merges with or into, another person or the Issuer sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets to any person, other than
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any such transaction where immediately after such transaction the person or persons that “beneficially owned” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) immediately prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly, voting stock representing a majority of the total voting power of all outstanding voting stock of the Issuer, “beneficially own or owns” (as so determined), directly or indirectly, voting stock representing a majority of the total voting power of the outstanding voting stock of the surviving or transferee person;
     (iv) during any consecutive two-year period, the Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the board of directors of the Issuer. “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the board of directors of the Issuer who was (a) a member of such board of directors on the Effective Date or (b) nominated for election or elected to such board of directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such board at the time of such nomination or election; or
     (v) the adoption of a plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Issuer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction set forth in clause (ii), (iii) or (iv) above will not constitute an Additional Termination Event if 100% of the consideration for the Shares (excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights) in such transaction or transactions consists of common stock and any associated rights listed on a United States national securities exchange or quoted on a national automated dealer quotation system, or which will be so traded or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions otherwise constituting an Additional Termination Event under clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv) above.
The “Automatic Early Termination” provision of Section 6(a) of the Agreement will not apply to Dealer or to Counterparty.
Payments on Early Termination. For the purpose of Section 6(e) of the Agreement: (i) Loss shall apply; and (ii) the Second Method shall apply.
Termination Currency” means USD.
Tax Representations.
(I)   Payer Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(e) of the Agreement, each party represents to the other party that it is not required by any applicable law, as modified by the practice of any relevant governmental revenue authority, of any Relevant Jurisdiction to make any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax from any payment (other than interest under Section 2(e), 6(d)(ii), or 6(e) of the Agreement) to be made by it to the other party under the Agreement. In making this representation, each party may rely on (i) the accuracy of any representations made by the other party pursuant to Section 3(f) of the Agreement, (ii) the satisfaction of the agreement contained in Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and the accuracy and effectiveness of any document provided by the other party pursuant to Section 4(a)(i) or 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement, and (iii) the satisfaction of the agreement of the other party contained in Section 4(d) of the Agreement; provided that it will not be a breach of this representation where reliance is placed on clause (ii) above and the other party does not deliver a form or document under Section 4(a)(iii) of the Agreement by reason of material prejudice to its legal or commercial position.
(II)   Payee Representations. For the purpose of Section 3(f) of the Agreement, each party makes the following representations to the other party:
(i) Dealer represents that it is a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States and its U.S. taxpayer identification number is 13-5266470. It is “exempt” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation sections 1.6041-3(p) and 1.6049-4(c) from information reporting on Form 1099 and backup withholding.
(ii) Counterparty represents that it is a corporation incorporated in Oregon.
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    Delivery Requirements. For the purpose of Sections 4(a)(i) and (ii) of the Agreement, each party agrees to deliver the following documents:
 
(a)   Tax forms, documents or certificates to be delivered are:
 
    Dealer agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Counterparty), execute, and deliver to Counterparty, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 and all required attachments, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Counterparty; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such Form previously provided by Dealer has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
    Counterparty agrees to complete (accurately and in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Dealer), execute, and deliver to Dealer, United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8 BEN, or any successor of such form(s): (i) before the first payment date under this agreement; (ii) promptly upon reasonable demand by Dealer; and (iii) promptly upon learning that any such form(s) previously provided by Counterparty has become obsolete or incorrect.
 
(b)   Other documents to be delivered:
             
            Covered by
Party Required to           Section 3(d)
Deliver Document   Document Required to be Delivered   When Required   Representation
Counterparty
  Evidence of the authority and true signatures of each official or representative signing this Confirmation   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
 
           
Counterparty
  Certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors or equivalent document authorizing the execution and delivery of this Confirmation and such other certificate or certificates as Dealer shall reasonably request   Upon or before execution and delivery of this Confirmation   Yes
Addresses for Notices: For the purpose of Section 12(a) of the Agreement:
Address for notices or communications to Citibank for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:    250 West Street
 
       10th Floor
 
       New York, New York 10013
 
  Attention:    Director Derivatives Operations
 
  Facsimile No.:    212 723 2956
In addition, in the case of notices or communications relating to Section 5, 6, 11 or 13 of the ISDA Master Agreement, a second copy of any such notice or communication shall be addressed to the attention of Party A’s legal department as follows:
         
 
  Address:    Legal Department
 
       77 Water Street
 
       9th Floor
 
       New York, New York 10004
 
  Attention:    Department Head
 
  Facsimile No.:    212 657 1452
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Address for notices or communications to Counterparty for all purposes:
         
 
  Address:    14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
       Beaverton, OR 97077
 
  Attention:    Treasurer
 
  Facsimile No.:    503-627-6108
 
  Telephone No.:    503-627-4622
In addition, in the case of notices or communications relating to Section 5, 6, 11 or 13 of this Agreement, a second copy of any such notice or communication shall be addressed to the attention of Counterparty’s General Counsel as follows:
         
 
  Address:    14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
 
       Beaverton, OR 97077
 
  Attention:    General Counsel
 
  Facsimile No.:    503-627-7474
 
  Telephone No.:    503-627-6777
Multibranch Party. For the purpose of Section 10(c) of the Agreement: Neither Dealer nor Counterparty is a Multibranch Party.
Calculation Agent. “Calculation Agent” means Dealer, acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.
Credit Support Document.
Dealer: Not Applicable
Counterparty: Not Applicable
Credit Support Provider.
With respect to Dealer: Not Applicable.
With respect to Counterparty: Not Applicable.
Governing Law. This Confirmation will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Submission to Jurisdiction. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding by the other party against it relating to the Transaction to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, sitting in New York County, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof.
Waiver of Jury Trial. Each party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Transaction. Each party (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney of the other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of such a suit, action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other party have been induced to enter into this Transaction, as applicable, by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications provided herein.
Netting of Payments. The provisions of Section 2(c) of the Agreement shall not be applicable to this Transaction.
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Basic Representations. Section 3(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended by the deletion of “and” at the end of Section 3(a)(iv); the substitution of a semicolon for the period at the end of Section 3(a)(v) and the addition of Sections 3(a)(vi), as follows:
Eligible Contract Participant; Line of Business. Each party agrees and represents that it is an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1 (a)(12) of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (CEA), this Agreement and the Transaction thereunder are subject to individual negotiation by the parties and have not been executed or traded on a “trading facility” as defined in Section 1(a)(33) of the CEA, and it has entered into this Confirmation and this Transaction in connection with its business or a line of business (including financial intermediation), or the financing of its business.
Acknowledgements:
(a)   The parties acknowledge and agree that there are no other representations, agreements or other undertakings of the parties in relation to this Transaction, except as set forth in the Agreement or this Confirmation.
 
(b)   The parties hereto intend for:
  (i)   Buyer to be a “financial institution” as defined in Section 101(22) of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code) and this Transaction to be a “securities contract” as defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “swap agreement” as defined in Section 101(53C) of the Bankruptcy Code, qualifying for the protections of, among other sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362 (b)(17), 546(e), 546(g), 555 and 560 of the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (ii)   a party’s right to liquidate this Transaction and to exercise any other remedies upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under the Agreement with respect to the other party to constitute a “contractual right” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code;
 
  (iii)   all payments for, under or in connection with this Transaction, all payments for the Shares and the transfer of such Shares to constitute “settlement payments” as defined in the Bankruptcy Code.
(c)   The parties acknowledge and agree that in the event of an Early Termination Date as a result of an Event of Default that is within Counterparty’s control, the amount payable under the Agreement will be a cash amount calculated as described therein and that any delivery specified in this Transaction will no longer be required.
Amendment of Section 6(d)(ii). Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement is modified by deleting the words “on the day” in the second line thereof and substituting therefor “on the day that is three Local Business Days after the day”. Section 6(d)(ii) is further modified by deleting the words “two Local Business Days” in the fourth line thereof and substituting therefor “three Local Business Days.”
Consent to Recording. Each party consents to the recording of the telephone conversations of trading and marketing personnel of the parties and their Affiliates in connection with this Confirmation. To the extent that one party records telephone conversations (the “Recording Party”) and the other party does not (the “Non-Recording Party”), the Recording Party shall in the event of any dispute, make a complete and unedited copy of such party’s tape of the entire day’s conversations with the Non-Recording Party’s personnel available to the Non-Recording Party. The Recording Party’s tapes may be used by either party in any forum in which a dispute is sought to be resolved and the Recording Party will retain tapes for a consistent period of time in accordance with the Recording Party’s policy unless one party notifies the other that a particular transaction is under review and warrants further retention.
Disclosure. Each party hereby acknowledges and agrees that Dealer has authorized Counterparty to disclose this Transaction and any related hedging transaction between the parties if and to the extent that Counterparty reasonably
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determines (after consultation with Dealer) that such disclosure is required by law or by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or any securities exchange. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective from the date of commencement of discussions concerning the Transaction, Counterparty and each of its employees, representatives, or other agents may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the Transaction and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to Counterparty relating to such tax treatment and tax structure.
Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Confirmation, or the application thereof to any party or circumstance, shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part for any reason, the remaining terms, provisions, covenants, and conditions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Confirmation had been executed with the invalid or unenforceable provision eliminated, so long as this Confirmation as so modified continues to express, without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter of this Confirmation and the deletion of such portion of this Confirmation will not substantially impair the respective benefits or expectations of parties to this Agreement; provided, however, that this severability provision shall not be applicable if any provision of Section 2, 5, 6 or 13 of the Agreement (or any definition or provision in Section 14 to the extent that it relates to, or is used in or in connection with any such Section) shall be so held to be invalid or unenforceable.
Affected Parties. For purposes of Section 6(e) of the Agreement, each party shall be deemed to be an Affected Party in connection with Illegality and any Tax Event.
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing the copy of this Confirmation enclosed for that purpose and returning it to us.
                 
    Very truly yours,    
 
           
    CITIBANK, N.A.    
 
           
 
           
    By:   /s/ JASON SHREDNICK    
             
    Name:   Jason Shrednick    
    Title:   Authorized Signatory    
Confirmed as of the date first above written:
             
TEKTRONIX, INC.    
 
           
By:   /s/ JAMES F. DALTON    
         
Name:   James F. Dalton    
Title:   Senior Vice President,    
 
      General Counsel, and Secretary    
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